Attorney. Im christi paul. And im joe johns. Youre in the cnn news room. New this morning, strong storms affecting major portions of texas and even up into the midwest states send people at a circus running towards the exits. Eye witness video shows the moments inside the tent. Water is seen pouring from the top of it. A trapeze performance artist comes to a screeching halt. We have the details on this one. Good morning this is not the way you want to get your weekend started off. A few folks out there going out for a friday evening performance. 30 minutes into the show theyre sent running for the exits there are some of the moments before water started to pour into the tent itself. The footage actually captures some of the tense moments inside the tent. I want you to listen as people started realizing that just something wasnt right. Stop crying, dont cry. So again, several nervous folks inside the tent and they will nowhere to go many of the folks trying to evacuate the tent. You can see the weather still major rain coming down outside of the circus. Earlier this morning we had an opportunity to speak to one of the circusgoers. She described what it was like inside. The hail started. Which was a very scary sound. Honestly. And i dont want to minimize on those weather is a scary thing, i know some people that were home during all of this and they were scared as well. But it just people decided maybe they shouldnt be in the tent and when they did. They started moving. Now fortunately nobody was injured out there. It was really just more of a scary moment there. Hearing from weather experts this morning. They said wind gusts of over 61 Miles Per Hour reported at a nearby airport. In a Community South of houston there. There were about four isolated tornadoes as part of the system in Southeast Texas and the threat remains this morning, christi, so very important folks as they get ready to head out for the weekend, not only in parts of texas, but mainly in the southeast continue to track the weather because the threat of Severe Weather does continue into today. It is not pretty. Paolo sandoval thank you so much. The same storm created some big problems on the roads, a look at the cars stuck here and passengers stranded in flash floodwaters, this too, in houston. Some good old folks there were even helping each other move cars to higher ground. You can always find some kind people which is helpful. Lots and lots of rain around. A bad weather caused passengers to be stranded on a tarmac for hours. United Airlines Flight left kansas city it was diverted to Colorado Springs due to lightning. In denver and with no air conditioning only crackers for food. Passengers of course outraged. Turn to their phones. Capturing it all on video. Heres our affiliate kdro with more. The operation is required to formulate plan to start getting people off the airplane. That is and they are sticking to that. That plan not fast enough. No fresh air, no air conditioning. And only a few crackers for food. Passengers coming close to a riot at one point. Instead of rioting, they recorded. We only have three dates and they are not in the mood to be dealing with us. They dont have to do anything with us. Until weve been on out here for three hours. My sister and i taking her to visit an aunt. And this was probably our last vacation together. And this is the memory we have. Desperate to get out, but couldnt. Basically if we exited the plane any time in that six hours we would be stranded. Colorado springs airport says it was a mixup. Theres been a little bit of a miscommunication between the pilots and the passengers stating that the Colorado Springs airport was not allowing them to taxi to the gate. That is not true. Turning what was supposed to be a dream vacation and to them its just business but to the people on the plane, it was our heart. We werent flying out of boredom. We had something to do. Into an hourslong nightmare. Thanks to greg miller from our affiliate kdro for that report. And republic airways, the subsidiary of United Airlines released a statement to us regarding this incident. They said quote there was no known Lightning Strike only lightning the area at the time when the plane has apparently been exaggerated. Not yet been confirmed and the flight followed faa procedure. This was one of numerous flights diverted to cos because of the storms. Its not just the airline its the airport as well and some collaboration thats going to help those people. And people dont know who to be angry at a lot of times. You dont know who it is thats holding you up. Right. So im wondering, ivan cabrera, here with us where are the dicey spots today . Same areas, people are glg to get hit with the torrential downpours, the same low thats responsible for bringing the snow to colorado are the same ones look at the thunderstorms that blew up over texas here. I want to take you back as far as what the radar was looking at friday at 5 30 watch the thunderstorms as they move through houston. Youll be able to see a bow ring here that is indicative of strong damaging winds, rolling through houston at the time of the tent situation there. And i must say you have to have contingency planes if youre having an event in the middle of weather here. This was not a surprise. We knew we were going to have some dicey weather across texas yesterday so thats that. And there goes the storm as it pushes east. That low is still spinning in place. So the same areas are going to get hit. You see all of these tornado reports and hail reports here. Were going to continue to see a line from dallas all the way to the north. But take a look at the rainfall thats fallen as well this is the other part of the story. Not only Severe Weather but torrential downpours, five to ten inches of rainfall have fallen in the last of five days. So we still have flood warnings across the gulf coast. As far as the Severe Weather. It extends because the low is not moving from Corpus Christi to austin to dallas. And heading up into wichita. Not expecting tornadic outbreaks here possibly a few isolated tornadoes. The main threat will be heavy downpours of flooding rain and the possibility of damaging winds with hail. So were under the gun once again. Thanks for the heads up. Appreciate it. President obama is telling the senate enough is enough. That its time to stop playing politics and confirm Loretta Lynch as the attorney general. Theres no reason for it. Nobody can describe a reason for it. Beyond political gamesmanship in the senate. On an issue thats completely unrelated to her. This is the top Law Enforcement job in the country. Sunlen serfaty is live at the white house with the story. Sun sunlen how are republicans responding to the president s words. Republicans are pushing back. Theyre pinning the holdup on the democrats in the senate. A big part of the holdup over lynchs nomination and confirmation is because her nomination has been tangled into a separate unrelated issue of a bill on antiHuman Trafficking. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has linked the two issues. He says that they wont go on to a vote to lynch until they hold a vote on the Human Trafficking bill first. The problem there is that bill includes some controversial language on abortion that a lot of democrats are unhappy with. So this is we see many republicans now move to saying its the democrats here that are actually standing in the way. Well i think were doing just what the democrats did when they were in charge. That is leave lined up a series of issues were going to deal with and right now, the issue thats right in front of us is the bill the democrats have supported. And that is the trafficking, the illegal trafficking bill in human beings. Theyre supporters of it and theyre filibustering that bill. There are some signs of progress on this bill on capitol hill. Democratic and republican sources tell us that they are moving towards a compromise in order to tweak the language. That abortion language that might make it more amenable to democrats. Thats allimportant in the context of Loretta Lynch if theyre able to get the compromise the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said hell hold a vote on the trafficking bill early next week. That could potentially pave the way for a vote on Loretta Lynch. 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And arranged for two henchmen codefendants to set fire to his former colleagues office and kill his former colleague, in a bitter dispute over power and control. He was going to have him beaten and put him in the hospital for a knew months and pay 20,000 to have him killed. Lets talk to moschettos attorney randy zellen. Thank you so much for being with us. I want to run through some of the evidence here. That theyre talking about. Police are alleging that he they found about 100 weapons hidden in a room behind a switchactivated book shelf. That included hand grenades highcapacity magazines, knives. How is he explaining this . Well first of all, lets remove the word evidence from the discussion. Because merely holding a press conference is not evidence. What i know about the case so far is ive been handed pieces of paper that basically say somebody told me that somebody did something that somebody said something. On a particular day. None of anything in this case has any evidentiary value and this is the fundamental notion my client is presumed innocent as you look at him, as everybody looks at him on that screen it doesnt matter what anyone says he is presumed to be innocent. So what what is he telling you about the fact well what can you tell us . I should say, because i know theres a privilege there that we cant and wouldnt try to get into. But he gave cash and black prescription pads to an undercover agent. Once again at this stage of the proceedings, that is a completely unsubstantiated allegation. As far as this case goes criminal cases, whether they be highprofile cases or not, they have stages they have lives. Right now, the most important thing that we set out to accomplish was to have my client walk out of the courtroom with me. Which hes done. And that was first and foremost. Now what we work on doing is getting him back to work. Hes got patients to see. This man, while he was in a detention cell the only thing that he cared about were his patients. And amazingly, his patients were flooding the office with calls, making sure that he was okay. The next thing we do is we get him back to work. Then we start tearing apart this case and looking for the e word looking for the evidence. What are you going to be looking at as you tear apart this case . Its impossible to say. We look under every rock. Every haystack theres nothing that we dont look for. We have a team assembled. Were going to go through every allegation. Were going to go through everything in this case. So i cannot tell you, because theres no recipe theres no script. Every case stands on its own. Every client is an individual human being. Every fact pattern is different. And thats the way we approach it. The uniqueness of every case and everything that goes into it. Mr. Zelin, you said his patients had been coming forward to defend him and they want to go see him. Can he practice while this is pending . Yes. Right now as i know and as the world is concerned, this man is a wellrespected top, amazing cardiologist and he wants to work his Patients Want him to work and theres nothing stopping him from doing what he is amazingly talented at. Which is hes got peoples hearts in their hand thats whey does and thats what he will be doing. Attorney randy zelin. We appreciate you being here with us, thank you. Christi, the gop courting voters in New Hampshire. Jeb bush and the other top contenders for the white house in 2016 in the Granite State for a leadership summit. How the candidates are faring, coming up next. My cut hurts. Mine hurt more. Mine stopped hurting faster neosporin plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. Neosporin plus pain relief kills the germs. Fights the pain. Meet the worlds newest Energy Superpower. Surprised . In fact, america is now the worlds number one natural gas producer. 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Senator rand paul on stage, right after the his speech on the second day of the summit some other big names that are also going to take the stage. Among them texas senator ted cruz wisconsin Governor Scott walker. It comes a day after contenders tried to grab the spotlight or put some of the rhetoric to a field test. Lets bring in cnns athena jones. Whats senator paul been saying so far . Good morning, joe, he said a lot on the stage. He bashed president obama on immigration, on his executive actions on immigration. Quoting monescu, saying when the executive starts legislating, a form of tyranny ensues. Now president ial candidate Hillary Clinton and the handling of the situation in benghazi. He said her dereliction of duty should disqualify her from holding any higher office. But he also talked about what the party needs to do to find a nominee who could win. Lets play that sound. We have a decision we need t