Killed. Eight others injured by falling trees. Downed pour lines have left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity this morning. Indra petersons is here with much more. What happened . It happened so quickly, indra. Thats the problem. We had fast moving systems. Six reports of damage from tornadoes alone. Severe weather system made its way from the ohio valley and eventually spread right into the northeast. Heavy wind and rain pummeled Central New York as severe storms sweep across the northeast spawning at least three tornadoes, destroying homes and killing at least five people, including one child. The powerful storms downed power lines, cracked utility poles and uprooted massive trees leaving over 400,000 people without electricity this morning. You cant even see out the windows it was raining so hard. Reporter in maryland the storm moved in quickly killing one child at a church camp who was trapped under a tree and injuring eight others as they ran for safety. Something
Get under way in this courtroom for a georgia father charged with murder and Child Cruelty after his son was left in his suv on a 92degree day. And right now, the closing bell has just rung ending a short but historic day at the New York Stock Exchange. The dow passing the 17,000 mark for the very first time. Hello, im jim sciutto reporting again today from washington. Wolf blitzer is off today. The first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength and speed as it barrels up the east coast on the busiest Holiday Travel week of the summer. Right now, hurricane arthur is churning off the coast of South Carolina. It is a category one storm with 90 mile an hour winds but forecasters expect arthur will become a cat 2 with 105 mile an hour winds before making landfall on North Carolinas outer banks. Thats expected to happen overnight. Dangerous conditions are possible along much of the east coast now just as millions of people hit the roads and airports for the july 4 weekend myself
Plus it has been 50 years since the british invasion. If you want to know what it was really like, who better to talk to than one of the fab four. The one and only ringo starr tells us all about it tonight. But first i need to show you something that is causing a whole lot of controversy. Ready for it . Here it is. The newspaperaine. And it simply reads, the [ bleep ] in the white house. If you have watched me over the past couple years, the past few years, you know how i feel about this. Although i think this word is toxic and used gratuitously at a often by far too many people of all different ethnic backgrounds, i do think it should be used if it is pertinent to a news story or the conversation. We cant talk about it without actually saying the word. Was it appropriate to be used in this way in a headline . Did this newspaper go too far . The writer of this article had a by the way is white and insisted on this headline, he will join me alive to defend himself. And then there are th
Situated along a highway from syria to baghdad increasing the possibility that militants could march from the west to seize the iraqi capital. Isis fighters are being helped by several sunni tribes opposed to the shiitedominated Iraqi Government. The militants also trying to sabotage the iraqi armys recruiting efforts. And Security Officials say suspected isis fighters shelled a recruiting station today, killing four and wounding dozens more. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in the neighboring country of jordan to discuss the threat and explore ways to contain it all. Our jim sciutto is traveling with the secretary. What is kerry saying about the severity of this crisis right now . Reporter well, hes extremely concerned. We just learned tonight that as we arrive in jordan, those isis militants are just 70 miles now from the jordanian border as they expand the land that they control inside iraq. Now as we met with secretary kerry a number of times on this trip, hes been repeating
Fathers office. P savidge wsavidge wh savid atlanta. Reporter a source close to us said there was a number of computers seized and that source says on one of those computers there was a search that specifically was looking for how long it takes for an animal to die in a hot car. That would seem like an electronic smoking gun, however, its quite clear to authorities they already felt that the fathers excuse or explanation that this was an accident was unraveling. They felt that because one look at the route he claims to have taken, the day that the baby dies begins here, when the father and son are seen at this restaurant and the father is seen placing the 22 month old baby into the backseat of his car into a child seat. They dont say how investigators saw that, television or eyewitness. The clear point here is that father and son are interacting, the father knows he has the child. And he is going to drive to work. Let me point out something. Those white buildings just in the distance,