They were struggling to push the ice and the hail off the field. Apocalypticlooking supercell spun tornadoes and ground the city to a halt. Hundredaway groom, days after the invitations go out, Rory Mick Elroy and caroline woz knee ak say i dont. Quite a difficult time for caroline and myself. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good morning. Im carol costello. Thanks so much for joining me. As we get set to fire up the back yard barbecues this holiday weekend, a huge beef recall now expands nationwide. A detroit Meat Packing Company and food safety inspectors say 1. 8 Million Pounds of ground beef could be contaminated with e. Coli. Already retailers in nine states across the midwest and the south are pulling a tainted meat from store shelves. That number could jump considerably. Cnn investigations correspondent chris frates joins us with more on this. Good morning, chris. Reporter good morning, carol. Its one of the biggest beef recalls of its kind i
Dramatic pictures from suburban maryland. This is what appears to be the aftermath of a tornado, and a handful of counties are still on alert for twisters. In pennsylvania, more storm damage. Car windows smashed by powerful hail. And out west in arizona, wildfires threatening a popular tourist area. Nearly 5,000 acres burning. Lets start now with chad myers. He is in the cnn weather center. Give us a sense of what is going on now, chad. Brianna, things are calm do you think. It started near schenectady, new york and storms moved through there south of albany. And then it moved through parts of pennsylvania. Showed those scary pictures of the windows missing off some of the cars. A storm right now moving over cape may. One moving offshore into virginia. A storm that was very large just to the south of d. C. , fredericksburg getting into the Chesapeake Bay. And one more cell probably if it stays together, maybe close to elisabeth city. The pictures we showed you with the tornado damage w
Southeast, up here towards the north of scranton, another big one through burkes county. Hit hard with the hail. All the storms are going in a curious direction, a direction we never see from the northeast to the southeast. Now theyre still moving to the southeast and a future of them towards hampton roads. There is the bridge tunnel there on the way up to the delmar, finally, things calmed down. I looked at the video. It is not that far from dover, delaware, to the southwest there almost near river view. We had a Helicopter Shot flown over during the hour with wolf blitzer. I could tell, the tops of the trees, there is the video there. The trees around it really indicate what happened. Some fell to the east, some to the north, some to the south. When that happens it is not a Straight Line wind. It is definitely some type of twisting and the tops of the trees were twisted off as well and the stump is still sticking there, even ten or 20 feet high. But all the tops of the trees complete
Planes to turn again, avoiding, narrowly avoiding disaster. Listen to what it sounded like. United 437, turn right heading 180 and maintain 300 there. Turn right immediately. United 601, stop your turn, climb, stop your turn for united 601. The fourth weve learned about just this week. Stop your turn, stop your turn. Embattled va secretary Eric Shinseki fighting to keep his job and promised to fix delays in care that may be costing veterans their lives. It could be a tough battle for the beleaguered exgeneral because some highprofile democrats now are demanding that he step down. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash. Reporter christine and john, va secretary Eric Shinseki was summoned to a closeddoor meeting on capitol hill yesterday afternoon, not to meet with a republican, but a frustrated democrat. And afterwards, shinseki told reporters that he has not offered the president his resignation. He said, you guys know me better than that. But his remaining support is tenuou
In the path of the other plane. Moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. 601, stop the turn right there, sir the. Stop your turn. Stop your climb and stop your turn. Reporter the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. The roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. 601, you know what happened there . Basely over the top of each other. Thats what it looked like from my perspective. I have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. Reporter this was the third incident with where where passenger planes got too close for comfort. A similar incident over Newark Airport and another over the Pacific Ocean near hawaii all involving passenger planes. All right, well, again the faa is investigating. For some perspective, the big picture here how often this happens in the skies, we know from faa numbers from 2012 that about 4,400 close or too close for comfort