will open in illinois and the outcome of this primary could be critical. total chaos. and a deadly shooting at a jewish school in france triggering fears of a possible copycat attack in this country. police in new york and other cities on high alert. once again, severe weather overnight. this time in texas, a tornado touching down right near san antonio. take a look at that. reports of significant damage this morning. this is part of a slow-moving line of storms stretching from texas all the way to minnesota. those storms also bringing some really heavy rain to oklahoma. take a look at your screen. don t do this at home, folks. don t drive through that stuff. floods in tulsa and other parts of eastern oklahoma. you re lucky, buddy. you re lucky that you could get out of your car and get out of that next one. flash flooding into tomorrow. someone always tries. i guess you underestimate how deep it is. and how much it s moving. one minute past the hour. he was 17 ye
cat attacks in the united states. increased security at american jewish institutions from san francisco to washington, d.c. and new york following a deadly shooting today outside a jewish school in southern france. french president nichololas sary said the shooting was an obvious antisemitic attack. the new york police department said special attention is now being paid to synagogues. do we have a significant jewish population in this city, and we have to take that into account. we know that we re at the top of the terrorist target list, so we are concerned about the so-called copy cat syndrome. mary snow is following this story from outside central synagogue here in new york city. mary, what sort of extra security is there? reporter: well, erin, you ve seen a visible police presence outside of this synagogue and several others that we pass in the city today. the police commissioner is saying basically he s stepped up uniformed police outside more than 50 locations thro
it s going to be hilarious. stay home. deep on cnn. stay with us. the countdown to the republican caucuses. the first contest over who will face president obama in november. we ll take you live to des moines. and a corporation bows to public pressure. verizon convenience fee, fuhgedaboudit. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we start with iowa and the republican presidential race. there are just three days now until the first votes are cast, which means plenty of action this weekend in places like goblin goat and bloomers. a taste of what potential voters are hearing. we are just a few days, you know, before, before an important election. some people say, why does iowa have so much clout? it s a small state, and it has such great meaning, because it s sending a message around the country. a week ago we in last place. so right now people are thinking my whole emphasis on brain science coming in directly from dealing see that ambush, dealing with the real probl
the 20-year-old man allegedly targeted the dallas home of former president george w. bush. along with targets in california and new york. joining me now, the new york commissioner ray kelly. commissioner kelly, this is pretty worrying, isn t it? it certainly is cause for concern for those of us here in new york. we see ourselves at the top of the terrorist target list and this sort of reaffirms that. the fact that new york was mentioned twice in the complaint, yes. it is a matter of concern for us. would you say that the risk now to cities like new york and america is greater than it was in 2001, for example? i think the risk has been pretty consistent. we look at three levels of risk. we see al qaeda central, we see the surrogates, that s al qaeda
pretty worrying, isn t it? it certainly is cause for concern for those of us here in new york. we see ourselves at the top of the terrorist target list and this sort of reaffirms that. the fact that new york was mentioned twice in the complaint, yes. it is a matter of concern for us. would you say that the risk now to cities like new york and america is greater than it was in 2001, for example? i think the risk has been pretty consistent. we look at three levels of risk. we see al qaeda central, we see the surrogates, that s al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and we see home grown terrorists. this is sort of a manifestation of that last category,ial though this individual appear at this juncture to have acted alone. he come from saudi arabia. he is here on a student visa and he talked rather openly about