it, but admitting it could be him in the photo. we re in washington for the latest on the controversy that has capitol hill and the nation buzzing. early this thursday morning, buzzing. early this thursday morning, june 2nd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning to you top of the hour. good to have you with us this morning. i m erica hill. good morning, i m chris wragge. new england not known to be tornado alley. but can you believe these pictures from springfield, massachusetts. wednesday at least two twisters touched down in mass, wreaking havoc in nearly two dozen cities in town. in a part of the country that rarely sees this kind of damage. they do get a couple of tornadoes on average a year, but this damage is unprecedented. so you can imagine, too, this is not a place where you have tornado drills in school growing up. so what do you do when this happens? how prepared are folks? we want to get straight to that now. cbs news correspondent whit johnson
didn t send it but it could be his photo. we re in washington for the latest on the controversy that has capitol hill and the nation buzzing. early this thursday morning, june 2nd, 2011. good morning to you. at the top of the hour, good to have you with us. i m erica hill. good morning. i m chris wragge. new england not known to be tornado alley. can you believe these pictures from springfield, massachusetts, wednesday, two twisters touched down in massachusetts, wreaking havoc in two dozen cities and towns, an unbelievable picture. they do get a couple of tfrnds on average but this damage is unprecedented. so you can imagine this is not a place where you have tornado drills in schools growing up. what do you do when this happens? how prepared are folks? we want to get straight to that now. cbs news correspondent, whit johnson is in springfield this morning with the very latest for us. whit, good morning. erica, good morning to you. these tornadoes killed at least f
has capitol hill and the nation buzzing. early this thursday morning, buzzing. early this thursday morning, june 2nd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning to you top of the hour. good to have you with us this morning. i m erica hill. good morning, i m chris wragge. new england not known to be tornado alley. but can you believe these pictures from springfield, massachusetts. wednesday at least two twisters touched down in mass, wreaking havoc in nearly two dozen cities in town. in a part of the country that rarely sees this kind of damage. they do get a couple of tornadoes on average a year, but this damage is unprecedented. so you can imagine, too, this is not a place where you have tornado drills in school growing up. so what do you do when this happens? how prepared are folks? we want to get straight to that now. cbs news correspondent whit johnson is in springfield this morning with the very latest for us. whit, good morning. erica, good morning to y
two and three is what fell. amazing stuff. all that s left of it this morning, a little bit of sprinkle activity in parts of baltimore county and harford county, down into anne arundel county, the clouds on to have on the east, we re getting breaks in the clouds. west of the city, down around the district of columbia and everything else, still flooding conditions here and there. just trying to get rid of the water that fell yesterday. the ground is pretty saturated. how did your basement make out? mine flooded a little bit. didn t even hear the sump pump go off. oh, it just rained continuously. we re going into the summer season and everything else, make sure your such pumps work. we ll check the weather forecast in a minute. but now we want to see if any of the leftover water is affecting traffic. some of that flooding on area roadways has subsided. we are still seeing some areas with problems. old battle grove and new battle grove road, one area of flooding to wat
stranded drivers abandon vehicles. we have to put our vehicle on the side. and start walking. tonight the people that live the nightmare. debate over who is to blame. what has been done to clean up the mess. good evening, i am jennifer gilbert. and i am jeff barnd. nearly a foot of snow fell in a few hours last night. just in time for the evening commute. at least, three people died because of circumstances surrounding the storm. pasadena man walking on mountain road, early this morning, police say a truck with a plow hit him. and the truck drove off. the victim is identified as 77-year-old richard oles, truck is redford f350 pickup with a snow plow on the front. anyone with any information is asked to call police. attacks he driver died after a taxicab was stuck in the snow and caught fire in northwest baltimore. police say a 32-year-old man also suffered a fatal heart attack shoveling snow in westminster. slick streets lead to a collision between a tractor t