Awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over here. Reporter the sound of debris waking them up. That c
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a monday night. And we begin with fastmoving developments out of texas. Stunning new details from that deadly shootout in waco. Dramatic images of the aftermath. Customers trapped inside as rival motorcycle gangs outside a bustling restaurant. Nine dead 18 injured, more than 150 charged tonight. The fbi now on the case this evening. And tonight, those innocent bystanders inside. Some hiding in a freezer until it was safe to come out. Abcs phillip mena on the ground in texas for us tonight. Reporter tonight, this dramatic video. Innocent bystanders watching a biker brawl unfold. In my nearly 35 years of law enforc this is the most violent and most gruesome scene that i have dealt with. Reporter sunday morning, hundreds of bikers from five gangs, including the notorious banditos, scimitars and cossacks, descend on waco. Heading to this busy shopping plaza, and the twin peaks restaurant. Which advertises bike nights posting on facebo
Nearly 100,000 more than weve been tracking. And new reporting from nbc news, the parents of more than 500 children separated by the Trump Administration cannot be found. Because they may have already been deported. Welcome to wednesday. It is meet the press daily. Im chuck todd and the clock is ticking. 13 days to go, more than 33 million votes have been cast and counting. The last debate is tomorrow. President trump has yet to put a noticeable dept in bidens lead after he expeneded it after the first debate. And right now were seeing two very different closing messages from these two campaigns to kick off this final stretch. The president stirring up views. He hit the trail in pennsylvania last night escalating this rhetoric around the idea joe biden is somehow a corrupt criminal who should be in jail. The president has been leaning on his administration to open a criminal investigation so he can say theres an investigation into the bide nlz. Based primarily it seems off the unverifi
To be married and we had three children. Of course, theres one. Another question for the panel . This question is for mrs. Olson and mrs. Snyder. I heard the toughest job is an army wife. How do you feel about that . Do you feel that . Or a marine wife. When he got home, we were married in three weeks after he got home. The war was still going on, he got to come home because of what he had been through, so thats why we were sent to camp leje e lejeune. We lived there on base for almost a year almost two years i think, we lived on base and it was one of the most fun times of my life. I could walk to the ocean, the grocery store, even though we lived in a what today they call a travel trailer. Thats what all the married marines lived in. I had to learn to cook on a camp stove, i had to pump up a little tank on the front of it. I had some wonderful times. I had marine friends and families, the whole base was family mostly and we had some lifelong friends we made there. Actually, it was a
I think that there needs to be a campaign of writing letters instead of all these emails because they can keep those lett letters instead of they cant keep the emails. Theyre in space. Letters are tangible. And reread them. Thats the wonderful part. And years and years from now, those soldiers can read them and think back. It is very necessary for people to write letters. At 5 00 a booth will open over by the statue where you can make a card to send to a current soldier. We have time for one more question. We have one more. I have to get through the maze. Thank you. What effect or what memories do you have from the rationing that went on during world war ii . I know my mother has talked about it briefly, but she doesnt talk very much about those memories. Well, as kids we didnt notice it so much except for a shortage of bubble gum. [ laughter ] it would pass very quickly if some store got it. Because we did have a farm and access to other farms we were able to get things that probably