very carefully. back to you, t.j. jean is out there. we appreciate having you out there with us. we ll check in with jean a little later. now we re checking in with kerry mcguinne mcguinness. we re having rain in several areas. this area of low pressure is not going to move a whole lot over the next couple of days. it s stuck way up here across the dakotas, but there is a frontal system to the south. the leading edge of this, warm air ahead of it, we ve got cool air behind it and this is going to be the trigger mechanism for additional rainfall across the central and lower mississippi river valley. now, what can we expect as far as the river floods are concerned? here s what s going to happen as we look through time. these are the river stages above flood stage, how many feet above flood stage we are. natchez and baton rouge, we re not really looking at anything right now in new orleans, but we
yesterday. what exactly is ahead for the former head of imf. also, today, this, folks, is our last day. today is doomsday. you might have heard about did. so far so good, but we re told the apocalypse should be starting today. the radio networks have spent millions of dollars to warn you that the end is here. we re here at the beginning of this cnn saturday morning. it might be our last. let s all try our best to make it a good one. it s saturday, may 21st. up front, let s start with a breaking story we re getting out of kabul, afghanistan. at least one or more suicide bombers have attacked a hospital there. at least six people have been killed, another 26 are hurt. the taliban is claiming responsibility along with a far higher death toll than afghanistan authorities are confirming. we will take you back live to kabul in just a few moments with the latest on this still developing story. this morning s bomb attack in kabul coincides with a warning from david petraeus. in it
probably going to try to find is some they are going to maybe take the trigger mechanism, president obama suggested and put some kind of trigger, probably not a strong one to say if we don t hit balance by a certain point, certain things happen automatically. it would be a huge mistake for the country to mess around with the debt ceiling. i don t think john boehner wants to do it and i hope he s not forced to do it. he clearly doesn t want to do it but it also clearly seems to have new members and possibly new senators like rand paul who do not understand it and don t understand the risk they are dealing with in even talking about maybe we won t raise the debt ceiling, what that can do to markets around the world. we ve never seen this happen before. debt ceilings pass clean or tagged on to a bill already moving. they ve never been used as something that will carry some other giant piece of legislation like this. right, usually the opposition
mention this because of the fire danger. fire danger because the humidity is very low, the temperatures have been fairly warm, and anything that could spark a fire is going to be carried along very quickly because of these very high wind gusts. let s tell you about what happens in our forecast. this is the severe weather season. we did see the damaging winds that moved across central florida over the last 48 and 72 hours. well, here comes a frontal system that in the next 24 to 48 hours is going to be the trigger mechanism for some of those thunderstorms in what is typically known as tornado alley. generally speaking, a portion of the midwest to the south central united states. but then as we head towards monday and tuesday, it s going to be this warm sector. this is where we start to get that return flow from the gulf. as a result, the atmosphere becomes more buoyant. as it does that and this frontal system moves in, we re going to expect this collision of air masses, and that could p
of al qaeda affiliates and this afternoon we had confirmation of a routine intelligence committee hearing the woman who is being considered for the deputy director of national intelligence, the number two intelligence official in the united states confirmed that there was real concern at the end of last year and this was given to the obama administration about the instability in egypt but what was not understood was the trigger mechanism in this case and as we discussed about a week ago when this all started unfolding in egypts, one thing the intelligence community does, they try and game out the situation. they look at the options before them. they look for the trigger points or the red flags that will indicate a situation on the ground is going in a direction. so what the economy was told today is that certainly there was real concern in the u.s. intelligence community about the stability in egypt but they did not know what the spark would be to set it on fire.