for national unity and vowed to respect the rights of women. more on this election moments from now. tropical storm debby is causing problems for much of the gulf coast. a tornado triggered by the storm killed a woman in florida. flooding is a major threat with some areas getting drenched with up to 15 inches of rain. the latest track has debby slowly headed towards panama city, florida. it could make landfall by thursday. bad news just keeping coming for colorado residents. another new wildfire burning. the entire area of manitou springs, nearly 11,000 residents have been forced to evacuate. very sca. started with manitou avenue north of. we need them to leave when we ask them to leave. he was asleep, so i pounded on his door to get him out. prett scary. it s right there. orange. a lot of orange. crews have zero containment of the tire and are not expegting conditions to improve anytime soon. as we wait to hear the fate of the president s health care reform bill,
fires, cars tipped over, a police officer shot at. the shooter still at large this morning. where s the ticket? from the first time we hear from a baltimore woman who says she s the megawilliamillions winner. she can t present the ticket. sarah palin going rogue hitting the ta today show the same day katie couric hosts good morning america. biggest winner, first lady michelle obama opening up the oval office for a white house workout on the biggest loser show. we re asking, will the west wing help fatten up the show s ratings? we begin this morning at a small christian college in oakland, california. new cell phone video captures the chaos as a gunman systematically murders seven students. the cell phone video captures the gun shots and the terror as the bloodshed unfolds. we ll talk to the man who videotaped this. first, chilling new details are coming out this morning. oakland police chief howard jordan tells cnn the gunman killed his seven victims execution styl
endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingrich and president obama against mitt romney. president obama 11 points ahead of gingrich. among all voters. but, basically, dead even with romney. so, the nbc/ wall street journal poll maybe an electable issue for newt gingrich. you ve seen the democratic national committee go after romney left and right over everything. not so much about gingrich. but yesterday, this is interesting, jessica yellin
workers sprayed the reactors with chemicals to prevent radiation from spreading. there are increasing concerns the storm could carry contaminated material by air. the rains already caused radioactive water levels inside reactors to rise, prompting fears that water could spill out into the ocean. in fukushima s soma city, flooding forced roughly 80 evacuees to return to a familiar place. but there are little complaints. aikiko fujita, abc news, tokyo. just unbelievable. they have endured so much. let s take a look locally at your forecast. isolated tornados, 80 mile an hour winds and large hail in st. louis, chicago, and milwaukee. also severe around abilene, oklahoma city and joplin, missouri. rain in the pacific northwest, light snow in the cascades. and rockies. and the heat wave in the east continues. 95, baltimore, 93, atlanta,
think my grandmother is here. watching over us. reporter: but here in oklahoma, the search for survivors continues. a 3-year-old still missing here in piedmont. and missouri hit again by another round of violent storms. in sevilla, missouri, a tornado ripped through the subdivision, school buses crushed. and these scenes of splintered trees and shattered homes are just a bit of reminder of this rising death toll the past 24 hours and this deadly week that has passed. forecasters tell us we won t be out of the woods until at least friday. matt gutman, abc news, piedmont, missouri. that s the insult to injury that there s still more bad weather that could hit the same area. an awful week. here is your thursday forecast now. as we said, 80-mile-an-hour winds, hail, flash flooding, isolated tornados from alabama to the adirondacks. showers and thunderstorms from new orleans to tallahassee. showers from billings to cheyenne, and up to a foot of mountain snow in idaho. meanwhile, some