Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we begin with the deadly storms. Several tornadoes touching down. And this one, a short time ago. These pictures coming in from liota, kansas tonight. And in canadian texas, theyve now confirmed this tornado was an ef2. 33 million americans bracing for storms texas all the way up to new york and boston. And lets go back to that stunning image. Oh no that family in texas, a father watching as the flood waters burst through the front door. Rob marciano with the storm track. But first, abcs matt gutman at that home where the flood waters came rushing in. Matt . Reporter good evening, david. I want you to see something. A fourstory wall of water came bashing right through here so powerful that it washed that truck 5,500 pounds right into that tree. And tonight, here in texas and across the plains more Severe Weather ahead. Tonight, Severe Weather stretching from the plains all the way to maine. Water rescues nort
And erica grow tracking the commute. But again that commute is going to be a hot one yet again. Ac is going to be on. Today and tomorrow are going to be the last bit of real hot days at least within this seven day forecast. And now were going to see some changes arrive. So i think its a welcome king. Especially by sunday night. Lets take a look at the allergy report. This might look different on monday into tuesday with some more rain headed our way. Just some isolated showers and storms this afternoon. The grass, yeah pretty high Everything Else is moderate. We are going to be looking at showers and storms again this afternoon. 75 degrees. And winds out of the south later on today. Heres your planner. Near 90 degrees well track the showers and storms coming up. Heres larry. Allyson thanks. So today, will begin work on the arlington Memorial Bridge right now. So we want the let you know of some possible alternates for you this morning. So you can bypass the delays again the 14th street
Possibly could. Noneunatak. Nunatak . Nunatak. Correct. And he spells it right but they both go home winners. The Scripps National spelling bee ends in a tie. Captioning funded by cbs ning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, may 29th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating banking laws and lying to the fbi. The indictment says hastert paid hush money to keep an unnamed person quiet about, quote, prior misconduct. Hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007 and he was the longest serving Republican House speaker. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. This is coming as a shock to many here on capitol hill. According to the indictment hastert who is now 73 withdrew 2 million in very small increments to stay under the Bank Regulators and lied to investigators to keep one person quiet. A car s
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Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we begin with the deadly storms. Several tornadoes touching down. And this one, a short time ago. These pictures coming in from liotta, kansas, tonight. And in canadian, texas, theyve now confirmed this tornado was an ef2 winds up to 135 miles an hour. 33 million americans bracing for storms texas, all the way up to new york and boston. And lets go back to that stunning image. Oh, no that family in texas, a father watching as the ferocious flood waters burst through the front door. Meteorologist rob marciano with the storm track at this hour. But first, abcs matt gutman at that home where those flood waters came rushing in. Matt . Reporter good evening, david. The scene here still apocalyptic right off the blanco river. But i want you to see something. A fourstory wall of water came bashing right through here, so powerful that it washed that truck, 5,500 pounds, right into that tree. And tonight here in texas