Guardsman posted this haunting image on facebook as floodwaters overcame his truck write, all i wanted to do was go home. In houston, the San Jacinto River is spilling over its banks. The brazos river doing the same. Several thousand inmates from prisons moved to higher ground. Heres whats the overflowing rivers looked like from the air. Really rough weather. And today its overcast right now, but theyre trying to make the best of it. This guy is pulling out his jet skis hoping to do some business. This gentleman has the umbrellas coming up. There are people down the beach and beach chairs that way. You see people in the water behind me. Hoping for some salvation out of this weekend. They are expecting more rain but thats going to be primarily in the texas area. Janet shamlian in myrtle beach, South Carolina, thanks for that. When can we expect this Severe Weather to let up. Lets bring in meteorologist Bonnie Schneider. What can you tell us . This storm has really been a slow mover. The
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pauley good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im jane pauley, and this is our western edition. The memorial day weekend is off to a rough start in parts of texas. Over the past 24 hours, more than a foot and a half of rain has left homes and roads under water. At least one person has died. Several others are missing. Theres also a tropical system threatening beach communities from georgia to the carolinas this weekend. But we begin with don champion in bastrop county, texas. Time for extraction. Reporter for the last 24 hours, rescue choppers have been plucking desperate people off rooftops of homes and submerged cars in several texas towns. Near austin, there have been at least 75 people rescued. In brenham, rain poured down in nuckets, more than 18 inches in a days time. Quicklyrising waters washed out roads and washed cars away. 21yearold Darren Mitchell posted this haunting facebook photo as water topped the r
Weekend. Nice to be with you. Good sunday. Good to be with you as well. Im leland vittert. Im shannon bream. Welcome to americas election headquarters from washington. A moving display of patriotism on wheels. Right now Rolling Thunder is roaring through the Nations Capital. A wave of hundreds of thousands of bikes rumbling from the pentagon to the National Mall. It is the 29th year for the event to make sure our prisoners of war and those missing in action are always remembered. Now it honors all who defend our country in this election year. The rally is taking on a bit of a political tone. Donald trump is set to address the crowd in about an hour. Well bring you trumps remarks live right here. This weekend americans from every state in the union are honoring the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. In new york sail hers are celebrating fleet week. A wave of ships sailed into new york harbor for days of events. They can take a bite out of the big apple, but its also a
A bus driver caught in the act. Driving on the highway while watching a program on his smartphone. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the scare at the cincinnati zoo. A 4yearold boy plunging into the gorilla enclosure. Tonight, we have the dramatic video that shows the boy in the clutches of a 400pound silverback gorilla. Zoo workers forced to shoot the gorilla to save the boy. At the zoo a growing memorial for the animal. While protesters are outraged over the use of lethal force over a tranquilizer. Marci gonzalez on the zoo defending its actions. Oh, my god okay, everybody back up. Reporter tonight, a young boy recovering after coming face to face with a 400pound gorilla. Mommy loves you. Im right here. Reporter for more than ten minutes, onlookers, including the boys mother, watch in horror after Authorities Say the boy crawled through a barrier, making his way through the bushes and plunging ten feet into the moat below. A child has fa
Big day. You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glowinthedark on this. Jon republicans are already talking about alterations or starting from scratch. Senator rand paul says he is a no vote for now because the house measure doesnt go far enough. I want to be supportive, i want to repeal obamacare, but i dont want to have to vote for a federal program that will be hundreds of billions of dollars paid to Insurance Companies. Im all for capitalism, but im not a big fan of crony capitalism. Melissa just this morning, new jobs numbers, 211,000 across the u. S. Last month. We have live Fox Team Coverage. We begin with john roberts. Nothing from the white house yet on the jobs report. We understand the Labor Department will release something very shortly. The president not at the white house today, not in new york city either. He is spending the weekend, including today, at his golf course out in new jersey. The president tweeting just a short time ago, rath