Will. My commitment to the safety of the jewish people, security of israel and its right to exist as an independent jewish state is iron clad even when we disagree. That was part of president joe bidens speech yesterday at a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at the u. S. Capitol. He condemned a rise in antisemitism and violent protests over the war in gaza. We bring you more of his comments just ahead. Meanwhile, quite the split screen as former President Trump was in court yesterday facetoface with Stormy Daniels. Well go through her testimony and bring you expert legal analysis on the key moments. And also ahead an update from capitol hill where Speaker Mike Johnson continues to talk with the farright lawmakers who are threatening to remove him from leadership. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, may 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We have a busy morning, and we begin with the donald trump criminal trial. Stormy daniels is schedule
we expect some improvement in spots later on this evening. first, 14 million people at risk for really strong storms. winds gusting over 16 miles per hour. that could bring down some trees, power outages, power lines leading to power outages. some hail, few chances for tornadoes as well. the likely spots for the storms anywhere from minneapolis down to kobe, denver, colorado, dodge city. it brings you that orange shading, the yellow shading, those are the likely spots we re seeing strong storms. strong thunderstorms along the gulf coast states. we re seeing that now. where you see the green, departs to the south central states, that s where we re expecting the chance for some thunderstorms and heavy downpours. that could lead to flash flooding, some spots up to two inches. we ll end it here too. 31 million people are impacted by dangerous heat. we re looking at temperatures into the triple digits near 120 in some spots back to you.
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rainfall. you can see the area where the heaviest rainfall is. indicated by orange shading there. the rainfall came down in a short amount of time. the good news is, all the flood watches have been expired. and flood watches that include erie and south carolina that also have picked up rainfall as well. as we look at the radar right now, notice, we still have showers in the western part of north carolina. what does that mean today for the folks that had to evacuate yesterday? well, we re going to see poe steshlly more storms today. some of them we could pick up maybe a quarter to half-inch rainfall. it gives you an idea where the rain s going to be, certainly to the east of the charlotte, north carolina. it s not all bad out there. today, we are going to see cooler temperatures. it s a nice day out there. in fact, it s a new day in st. louis.
that is a very dangerous day out there. because this is a slow mover we are seeing areas of heavy rain continuing to fall on ground that is already saturated and picked up a foot of rain in the past couple much days. take a look at the forecast, this yellow orange shading, that means two, three, locally higher amount of rainfall through the weekend. we are looking at a flash flood potential. the flash flood washings are in effect from oklahoma, missouri and the state of i will louisiana i know. we ve seen the images coming out times and times again across parts of illinois and iowa. it is going to be another hot day, well into the 90s in texas and even up into sections in the northeast, right here in new york city it s the 90s again. jon: a lot of red on that map, maria. reporter: all thanks to the same storm. jon: thanks. jenna: thanks mahmoud rea. jonmaria. jon: new information before a string of letters laced with deadly poison are sent to public