by one. let s turn to cnn meteorologist chad myers with the latest. boy, what a concern there. that story there had a good ending but there are other stories that did not. this storm started yesterday afternoon about noon. then there was another storm around 3:00 and all of this weather focused right on colorado city. there was a flash flood, a second later on and some were caught off guard. this is the front yard. reporter: dramatic video this morning showing a massive and deadly flash flood. ripping through a small town on the arizona/utah border. you can hear the screams from shocked residents. stunned by the rushing water. whoa! what s happening right now? reporter: the cause, heavy rain falling in the mountains above a canyon town, causing the river to rise rapidly, catching onlookers off guard. it s starting to slide. reporter: watch this video of
donald trump is an entert n entertainer. i am a leader. tomorrow is the cnn republican presidential debate. i hear they re all going after me. whatever. i ve watched jeb bush/donald trump food fight. nobody cares. a massive and deadly flash flood. rescue crews racing to save a family from a car, moments from being swept away. at least eight people are dead. several more are missing. two massive wildfires burning in northern california. as tens of thousands evacuate. as it came down, there was fire everywhere. we are really in a battle with nature. nature is more powerful than we are. this is new day with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira.
the crowd in dallas seemed to love it. reporter: just hours away from the cnn gop debate, the front-runner, shrugging off mounting attacks from his rivals. i hear they re all going after me. whatever. whatever. reporter: donald trump boasting about his 13-point lead to a crowd of 18,000. we are killing it. reporter: and none of his competitors were off limits. carly s giving me a little bit of a hard time even though her poll numbers are horrible. ben carson, nice man, i think he s in second place. jeb bush, governor of florida. you have a sitting senator in florida, marco rubio and the poll comes out the other day, trump is leading in florida. reporter: again, striking a heavy on style, light on substance approach. the billionaire candidate neglected to talk policy monday night. instead, claiming success with women voters. i m surging with women. i have such respect for women. reporter: though he also highlighted his controversial
optimistic. i am positive about where we are going but i find myself and you understand, just sometimes it sort of overwhelms you. the vice president also opened up about how vulnerable he still is to breaking down over the loss of his son. i went out to denver and landed at a military base and met a whole group of military families. all of a sudden it was going great and a guy in the back yells, major beau biden, bronze star, sir, served with him in iraq. and all of a sudden, i lost it. joining me now, cnn national political reporter maeve reston and with me in new york, the draft biden movement, a democratic strategist. ladies, wonderful having you both on. nomi, sitting with me, let me
of their cell phones. anger wins big time. take a look at the new cnn/orc poll and you can see that rings true. donald trump now clearly the front-runner. bush lags behind by double digits, and then come the rest. some of them anti-establishment candidates. trump s staying power is worrying many conservatives though like erick erickson who again this morning called for happy warriors on this red state blog. he writes, quote, right now the right is at each other s threats screaming one way or the other about trump and angry. where are the happy warriors on the right. where is the laugh at the lunacy? it appears no one is listen because trump is gold at the moment. with me now to talk about this, cnn national political reporter, may have been reston and cnn politics senior reporter steven collinson. welcome to both of you. hi, carol. thank you. hi.