A 31-year-old habitual offender in Harris County remains free from jail on five felony bonds, even though he picked up new criminal charges and violated his bond conditions.
thousands homeless and picking up the pieces. the scariest thing i have ever been through, thought we were going to die. right there, right there. reporter: unrelenting tornado twisters. think i m still in shock. reporter: ripping across businesses, schools, homes and spirits. this is power, destruction. reporter: north carolina the worst hit, dozens killed state-wide. lost a mother, grandmother and a dad. reporter: the storms began in oklahoma thursday, the rampage continued for days, getting worse along the way with more than 200 tornadoes killing people in a half-dozen states from arkansas to virginia. word really can t describe this. right over there. reporter: in gloucester county, virginia, rashad matthews escaped just in time. when the tornado touched
yesterday. all that water is running into the poe to mac river. it is sort of of a very brian colory. in fact, a couple feet above flood stage from little falls to alexandria, to point of rocks. they are flooded out now. that s why you have had these rescues this morning. so there are people tag bike strips up c & o canal. along the toe path it s srpbl run very high. central virginia, surpb montana in the first. and the part part of the day, reporting at near 50. over the last 12 hours, just a few high clouds coming through. it is setting in the west now. a few high clouds with us from time to time. live picture from our city camera. sunrise less than a half hour away. by 9:00, upper 50s near 60. blustery wind as we reach low to mid 70s. pollen count will be up. tom, starting to load up. a few brake lots as again beltway from north. h.a.v. hropd open. not about. travel lanes are open frederick toward rockville. one more stop this go round. pretty picture. 14th street on t
i m craig melvin. joe krebs is off. it is monday, april 18th. a calm weather day after some severe left some pretty nasty defree and a lot of flooding in some areas as we just heard. very familiar with that marble quarry site. i bike through that area a lot. that is certainly prone to flooding. many low-lying areas are flooded out this morning because of all of that run-off. at the time of high tide, at 9:00 this morning they will see more high water as well. about two feet above normal. high tide about 9:00. here what we ve got just a partly cloudy sky. we have temperatures that are a bit chilly. in fact, down to the low to mid-40s in a few locations to near 50 degrees. it s 52 at reagan national. near the bay in the upper 50s. and in the northern neck of virginia. many weather watchers there reporting temperatures there around 50 degrees. a few sprinkles in pennsylvania overnight. those dissipated. just a few clouds coming through over the jefferson memorial, potomac rive
and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m natalie morales sitting in for meredith vieira today. that ferocious storm system may be gone but it will be a long time for people to recover. at least 45 people were killed across six states in the worst twister outbreak in a generation. as many as 35 tornadoes touched down in north carolina alone. that s the hardest hit state. north carolina s governor declared a state of emergency. she says that her tour of the damaged areas nearly left her in tears. we ll speak to her live in a few minutes. and the tragedy could have been worse because a twister slammed into a lowe s home improvement store in sanford, north carolina, but more than 100 employees and customers raced to the back of the store just in the nick of time. we ll meet three of them including an assistant manager who risked his life to save others. also ahead, an interview with lane garrison. he starred on prison break and then