street from where this happened. what did you see in the aftermath? well, we re less than a mile away. and we heard a thunder boom. at least we thought it was thunder but there was no more thunder. i looked out and the sky did look dark. thought there was a storm coming. it was an unusual type of thunder. i thought, if that s a blast, a bomb, it s like what i heard when i was in afghanistan and we couldn t possibly be having something like that happening here. but when it became evident that this was an explosion and approximately where it was, we first heard it was around the grand hyatt erawan hotel, my videographer and i and our news editor were near the location and also thought it was a thunder boom. we arrived on the scene and it was quickly evident that someone had set off a bomb intended to kill and mame a lot of people, eshl tourist.
as the death toll continues to rise. oh, no! take a look at this video. this is amazing. this frightening video recorded by a family in a home along the blanco river which surged more than 30 feet above flood stage. can you imagine just looking down from the second floor of your home to see the floodwaters rushing in? hundreds of homes were lost to the flooding. many cities remain in danger of flooding from rain-swollen rivers and that is leading to new evacuations. an hour to our south in wharton, texas, residents in 300 homes have been asked to evacuate due to the predicted rise of the colorado river there. here are the latest numbers. 23 people are confirmed dead in texas and oklahoma. nine people are still listed as missing. today texans are hurting. they re hurting here in san marcos, they re hurting in wimberley, they re hurting in houston, they re hurting across the state. let s begin our coverage in wimberley about three hours to our west. nbc s gabe gutierrez
just me and my kids. and you was just doing good just got on with the wrong people? it s sad. while mcmeans awaits her court date in one week, she s concerned about d angelo young s court appearance. my man in court today. i m trying to see waiting to see what happen. hopefully he get out so he can be with my kids. young appeared in court on a charge of domestic violence against mcmeans. he originally pled not guilty but suggested he might be willing to change his plea. if i have to get out that day i m willing to either plead geet and take some probation to get out and get back to my mame, fan. but young changed his mind. see, they tried to offer me probation, and no. i didn t take it today. so my lawyer was like, oh, if i was you i wouldn t take it because we re going to beat this case anyway. so you know, i went over here and sit in here for another week. you could have got out today? yeah, i could have got out today on probation. but i m not going to take probati
we know that they went after good targets but we don t know how effective they are. we won t know that until daylight. when you look at what s happening right now, is this going to be a couple days, a couple weeks? i m saying at least a week. that s just a guess. i have no real information on that. but the fact that they ve given it a name and said they re going to do whatever they can to restore the legitimate government, that s not going to happen in one night. can this military action help isis and al qaeda in yes, ma me? that s a very good point. colonel francona there, we appreciate his thoughts. we ll continue to follow this breaking news and bring you the latest developments. zain? more now on the other top stories. lufthansa says it s looking into
drums fe donald rumsfeld. if seems if that decision had gone a slightly different way, you would have been vice president and future president of the united states. that s possible. hey there, everyone. it s high noon here in the east. welcome to weekend with alex witt. breaking developments in the search for missing malaysia flight 370. more acoustic events have been reported in the hunt for the jet. an australian ship reported hearing signals after a chinese ship reported hearing two signals. i think the fact that we ve had two detections, two acoustic events in that location provides some promise, which requires a full investigation of the location. and in kuala lumpur, almost all of the chinese families of those on board the flight are returning to beijing. katie, good evening to you. what are officials saying about these acoustic signals? reporter: well, there s three separate acoustic signals they re hearing. one we talked about yesterday found on that chi