reporter: 107-year-old viola fletcher is one of three living survivors of the massacre. i don t remember what time it was. but it was at night. we scrambled around and got ready to get dressed and we left in what you call a covered wagon or was drawn by horses. horse and buggy. on our way out, with he could see people running. and people laying on the ground probably bleeding from being shot and killed and smelled smoke with houses burning. and heard the noise of airplanes flying. and so it was quite disturbing. reporter: no one has ever been charged with the murders of black residence or destruction of property in the tulsa race massacre. some black residents rebuilt with no help from the government or private insurance companies. but many others never returned to tulsa. and everybody says, hey, don t blame me for what happened long time ago. and what we re saying is that
west here from ft. smith, arkansas, to tulsa, to little rock. that s we ve had kerry sanders out there standing in the arkansas river for the last few days. it s pouring there this morning. a little more ryain in pennsylvania. look at this, thunderstorms over ft. smith. it s just adding insult to injury. you re going to get another round later today. that s why we have flash food watches here and areas up here. it s been a broken record for the last 12, 13 days. today looks like to be kieft end of it, maybe a tiny bit tomorrow. and by friday, we get a break. they need a break. bill, 500 tornadoes in 30 days what accounts for those? those are preliminary reports. we haven t gotten a confirmed number. we ve had as many as 200, 250 in one day. it s just one day. it s the cumulative effect. it s like we haven t been able
this area of northern oklahoma is by far the worse. 14 million people are in this flash flood watch and includes much of oklahoma, missouri and illinois because we re not done with the rainfall yet. that flash flood emergency for tulsa will continue to 5:45 this morning local time. here s a look at the close up. radar. we still have this squall line that s just now going through oklahoma city. it s already had three rounds of storms. this is the fourth for some areas. this one has some strong gusty winds with it. more the water issues we re dealing with. i m hearing some schools are closing because there s so many highways and roads closed and flooded throughout this region they want to keep everybody at home or as many people possible. this has to go back over the top of tulsa. i was looking at a little creek called the bird creek north of tulsa, snakes down north of the city. that just broke its record crest by two feet. it s up to 24 the feet. the old record was 22 feet. those recor
capital. many areas are similar to that, houston to tulsa. chicago not fun friday. a dangerous day, feels like 104. ayman is not here, he is training. i don t know what that looks like. was that an excuse? he said i can t come in tomorrow, i am training for the heat wave. i was like of course. why wouldn t you be training. still ahead, leo messi and highlights next from world sports. back in a moment. come with us to a new world deeper than the ocean as unfathomable as the universe a world that doesn t exist outside you, but within you where breakthrough science is replacing chemotherapy with immunotherapy where we can now attack the causes of disease not just the symptoms. where medicines once produced for all,
saturday, rain for you possibly throughout a period of your day. oklahoma city to tulsa, and then even dallas fort worth. houston just a little bit of rain. much of it stays further up towards your north. little rock looking at rainfall at your saturday afternoon and evening and then on sunday, mississippi. that red there by the way the 2 inches of rain so maybe some minor flash flood. obviously it s still cool out there for much of the country. the above average temperatures are in the yellow. many other areas are going to remain cool. highs today, 50s and 60s which sound great but even new york city, still ten degrees below average and as we head through the upcoming weekend, the warmth grows and we start to warm up finally in the great lakes region. look at minneapolis. remember they had last weekend about 15 inches of snow. monday, 66. that snow should be all gone by