from new mexico to nebraska, more than 20 million people are under high wind warnings or advisories. cnn s natasha chen has more on the dangerous weather that s proving deadly. reporter: it s been a dangerous weekend for holiday travelers. in arizona, rescue teams have now found the bodies of two children who disappeared after their vehicle was swept away in a flooded creek. a third child remains missing. the county sheriff s office says they were part of a group of nine people, two adults and four children were rescued earlier. deputies say they were in a military-style vehicle friday afternoon that submerged in the basin area. another rescue team saved six people in san diego, california. they were in a van driving down a flooded road near fashion valley mall on friday. the swift water rescue team as seen in this video using a raft to get everyone out of the van. take a look at this semi-truck in colorado springs. this is the moment high winds knocked it over as the truck sat on th
look at how the political dialogue has really lowered the standard for tip offs, this guy s social media posts, death to soros, death to socialists. somehow all the markers are there but we treat it differently. that s right. the bar has changed. i think we re going to have a discussion in the next couple of days. as well as we should. when you see a van driving around the street with people in cross hairs, maybe that should trigger us to do something about it. up next, much more breaking on today s news. what we re learning about bomb suspect ceaser, sayoc, and the more than dozen explosive devices intended for cnn and president trump s political targets. and in a few moments president obama is expected to speak. you re watching nbc. ate to sevee ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart.
a busy street in toronto. the incident is believed to be deliberate. the suspect is a 25-year-old named alek minassian. the video that you see there appears to show a stand off near the scene. the individual appears to be pointing an object at a responding police officer. diego witnessed the attack. i am so sorry what you saw. i know you tried to help people. you were there, you lived near there. you left the gym and what did you see? i was actually on my way to the gym. as we were getting closer, the van was coming south on i m sorry, i am still emotional. we just see the van driving down
served as senior counterterrorism advisor to former vice president dick cheney. it s striking to me how similar this attack was two things that we have seen in the past like nice france, which was so horrific last summer. a van driving down the sidewalk, a busy pedestrian area and it s working with a vehicle trying to hit as many people as possible. the terrorists have found the perfect weapon that requires no training. i think there s a bigger point here in the sense that western society, europe, united states can t play perfect defense. we can to stop all vehicles and we can t stop all crowds. what we have to do is maintain our offense of posture, stay focused on the sanctuaries. this is why the strategy to stabilize syria, to finish off isis as a state is so important. that s why the broader strategy, we are at war in a global war against islamic extremism.
who s been reporting out a lot of this information pertaining to the scene here in barcelona, what we ve been learning. for people, evan, who are just joining us, let s explain what has happened, you know, evening time in spain, starting with this van. reporter: right, exactly. this was a sunny day. it s the height of the tourist season there in barcelona, solarium wso, las ramblas was crowded and you have a lot of people who at this hour were just walking down this beautiful pedestrian walkway when this van driving, according to eye-witnesses, about 50 miles an hour just appeared to be mowing down people intentionally, swerving, going side to side, and mowing down people. now, we now know the number of dead and injured there has risen, but probably we re going to see even more, a bigger increase in those numbers simply because of what we were talking about, a crowded walkway with a lot of people who were just had no idea this was happening. as a result of this, we also are told fr