Good evening on this memorial day. David is off. Im amy robach. And we begin tonight with deadly storms in the south. Tornado, historic flooding. Eight states at risk of Severe Weather. The deadly twister along the mexican border. At least 16 killed. The images tonight. A car thrown against a home standing on end. In texas, the driver rescued after being swept away in his suv. At least five dead a dozen missing. The flooded river rising 26 feet in an hour. Radar showing Severe Weather building across the planes. At least 15 tornadoes reported today. The governor declaring a disaster. Abcs phillip mena starts us off in texas tonight. Phillip, good evening. Reporter amy, these homes look as if they were hit by a tornado. In fact all this destruction caused by massive and deadly flooding. Thats a huge tornado. Oh, my god. Reporter tonight, millions under threat from tornadoes, time for us to back up. Reporter high winds and more catastrophic flooding. On the texas mexico border, just two
Was billed as a protest. That was before six police spherdz were arrested yesterday in connection with the death of freddie gray and charged with a number of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. The speed of the arrests after a week of rioting in baltimore seemed to stunt city, and certainly changed the tone of the rally today to something that felt more like a celebration. We have two reports from baltimore tonight beginning with mark albert. No justice no peace reporter the march began with hundreds and grew to a demonstration of several thousand. Parents even brought their Young Children as police and National Guard calmly watched. Eugene puryear told us he is guardedly optimistic after the surprise arrest of six officers. We still have to go through the trield. We have to get convictions so it wont be a full victory until they bang that gaffe expel say guilty. Reporter after grays arrest police and prosecutors said officers ignored his pleas for medical help. He suffered seve
A motorcycle apparently hit that car and we are going to pan over and show you the distance. It went over the car. It crashed into a group of pedestrians waiting for the traffic light to cross. There is a family involved. Several people were injured including two children. One person has died as a result of this crash. We are going to show you some closeup videotapes to get an idea of how much damage was done here. This all unfolded late this afternoon as people were coming back on the mall. This mall is now across from the metro station so its a busy station. The bake was going west on east west highway when it struck that car making a left turn. We hope to get more details coming up in an hour or so as to who exactly was involved with there. But a horrific accident here on memorial day weekend. And right now, a section of east west highway going west near the ball is closed down. The weather this Holiday Weekend is off to a great start. Lets find out from first alert meteorologist ho
Live at the scene with more on the victims, including that child. Hank, what have you learned . Well, the childs name has not yet been released nor has the familys name been released. There were several members of his family with him. The accident happened here on east west highway by the entrance to the mall of prince georges, which is behind me here. That car was right in the middle of the road trying to make a left hand turn. The motorcycle was going westbound, ran right into it, flew over the car. The young child who was killed was standing with family members at the curve, waiting to cross the street. This man saw the crash. Got on the motorcycle, was coming down, and the woman cut him off. He flipped. Watch him fly up in the air and he flipped. At the time, i didnt see there were other people on the ground. I saw the one guy. Police werent sure how many people were standing on the corner when the motorcycle slammed into the pavement and into the crowd. The belongings spread acros
Starting off on our beautiful michael son camera. By this afternoon temperatures are going to warm up by 20 degrees. Another day with southerly winds at 13 Miles Per Hour right now. So breezy at times. High pressure to the east feeling the srl winds setting the stage for showers and storms this afternoon. Ill track them for you coming up. In the meantime grab the umbrella and your high today 88. Larry, over to you. Thanks. Metro riders off to a good start. The trains and buses running on schedule. Its in lanham where we have an issue this morning. Two lanes blocked on the outer loop of the beltway. Our Traffic Camera shows the delays in that area. That is the situation here. You see police on the scene traffic being able to get by. Looks like one lane closed at this point but still expect some delays out in that area. Sky 9 is over the scene of a fatal accident, this out in greenbelt where we have two right lanes blocked, traffic getting by on the lefthand side so were asking drivers t