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another source tells nbc news that congressman michael mccaul, also from texas and the chairman of the house homeland security committee, is strongly considering a run. but a major whoops moment for a third lone star state republican. the twitter account for governor greg abbott s office tweeted out this since deleted congratulations to the astros for advancing in the playoffs. tiny little caveat here, they didn t. the royals staged an epic late comeback to steal the game away. jinxed. and as for a former texas governor rick perry is apparently spending his post-presidential campaign days traveling cross-country in a 1972 chevelle, in style. the vice president hasn t declared, but if he does the tonight show s jimmy fallon knows just where to put him. cnn just announced the candidates podium positions and they re base on their polling numbers which means hillary clinton, who is polling first is in the middle. bernie sanders and martin
tonight on all in. an alarming number of shootings this holiday weekend. nine people are dead, and 3 in 32 shootings in baltimore s most violent weekend in over a decade. meanwhile, tensions flared in cleveland in the wake of the acquittal of two cops who shot and killed two cleveland residents. and the doj steps in to overhaul the police department. today, may 26th, 2015, marks a new way of policing in the city of cleveland. plus, the 500-year flood in texas. as the water receded we ll start to tow cars. to get those roads open again. a flash flood emergency in houston as the search for survivors continues and the state surveys the damage. you cannot candy coat it. this is absolutely massive. we ll go live to texas for the latest. then bernie s running. why bernie s got more support for graham, jindal, fiorina, kasich, and santorum combined. i sit down with filmmaker martin smith to discuss his
tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see above normal water temperatures at the surface. if those water temperatures are also above normal with depth, then that starts to have some power. there s this sort of energy that s kind of burbling, right, getting hotter and hotter and send the patterns across the world. you get started quickly enough, you get feedback where the changes in the ocean impact the surface winds in a way that can reinforce the ocean warming so you can kind of lock into the pattern. that what gives you the predictability. there s been talk about the california drought, texas has been suffering a drought for a hill. how common is it places find themselves in drought and punctuated by intense flooding? this is, i say it s exceptional just how extreme we ve gone into this heavy rain. parts of oklahoma have had 20 inches or manufacture of rain. extremely heavy rain events as
open. houston is back open for business. school will be in session again tomorrow. and houston maybe can get back to normal tomorrow. back to you, chris. all right, nbc news reporter charles hadlock, appreciate it. thank you. joining us to talk about if the severe weather in texas is indicator of el nino, its return, radley horton, scientist at columbia university earth institute. so, i saw this news then i saw a bunch of people saying this is another indicator we may be in store for an el nino this year. i had seen people writing about a month or two ago saying we re getting some indications. what is el nino? and how do we know if it s coming? el nino is a global phenomenon, it s basically a situation where the upper ocean changes, the upper atmosphere changes all around the globe. it s almost like ringing a bell and the effect of ringing that bell changes in global energy are a shift in wind patterns, it moves the jet stream all over the globe. it turns places like indonesia and