thank you very much. i m brooke baldwin. i want to pass along a quick note on an announcement from mitt romney. the former republican governor of massachusetts will lay out his plan to put americans to work. he ll do that a little later this hour in nevada. we, of course, will bring that to you live. first shall we re working right now to get more details on this deadly shooting that happened earlier today in nevada. here s what we know right now. a man reportedly entered this ihop restaurant, we re talking approximate carson city, nevada, shot three people dead, wounded six others and then turned the gun on himself and shot himself. last we heard, the shooter is not dead. but is not expected to survive. a police spokesperson says at least two of the people killed in that restaurant were military members and they were there in uniform. no identity kret on that gunman. we re making calls and if we get someone on the line, we ll have it live on cnn. i want to move to texas wh
that s more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. it s more than the heat. it s more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though it s 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-related deaths per year, compared to 62 in tornados, and lightning, 44, and flooding 74. i know people are making fun of the weather men outthere, oh, come on, it s summer and hot. no, this is a ridiculously hot year. guess what happened all summer long and all spring long? there were thunderstorms all the way through here. there were massive amounts of flooding. we showed you pictures for weeks about the flooding. now that flooding is evaporating. it was in the ground, and corn is growing, and the
right there. the bone of the skull grows into the implant and it becomes a part of the skull. that s absolutely fascinating. you can see he s pinning it on there. what s the procedure to put that thing on? what he does, he puts four screws on, just as you see here. that s it. he s showing us exactly what he does when he does this surgery. unbelievable. we wish her the very best. thanks, elizabeth. a programming note, sunday night on cnn, senator ted kennedy s son, patrick kennedy, comes clean with dr. sanjay gupta about addiction, what he learned from his father and his new dream of curing brain disease. patrick kennedy coming clean. cnn sunday night. well, we are closely monitoring the flooding disaster along the mississippi river. a live report from morgan city, louisiana. network all across. we re adding new cell sites.
assaulting a hotel house maid. she can t go back to work. she has no idea what her future is going to be in any respect. so aside from what took place in the hotel room, the trauma what has taken place in her life is extraordinary. the mississippi river is heading for historic crest at vicksberg over the next 24 hours. it is expected to peak a foot above the 1927 record across mississippi and louisiana. and 9,000 people have had to abandon their homes already. but this man plans to to stay put. do you have a plan b y i mean, if for some reason, the levees broke, what would you do? hook my gps up and leave out on the levee, that s it. well, it s very peaceful. yeah, very quiet. that s why i m getting a vacation right now, really. syrian newspaper reports the country s president admits that security forces have made mistakes in response to anti-government demonstrations. bashir al assad did not specify what those mistakes were, but the president is facing internati
i don t know if he still feels the same now, given the things that have changed. but back then he said he was hoping that like his brother, maybe he would get an opportunity to fly a space station flight down the road. i imagine that s probably at least still in the back of his mind. carol? well, you can understand why gabrielle giffords wants him to fly this mission. i mean, she knows her husband, and knows his love of space travel. so, you can certainly understand that. yeah. you know, the way it s always been described to me, carol, it s quote, magical there. and i can t relate to it. you probably can t. but that s what the astronauts all say. it s awfully, awfully difficult to not want to go back again. john zarrella, many thanks. live in miami this morning. cnn s sanjay gupta takes a closer look at giffords injuries and her recovery. don t miss sanjay gupta reports, saving gabby, right here on cnn sunday night, may 8th at 7:00 eastern. is franklin graham, billy