What went wrong. Wild ride. A crashfilled indy 500 after a dangerous week on the track. Drivers colliding just seconds in. Cars ripped to shreds. Even an accident on pit road. And the winner of the indianapolis 500 is juan Pablo Montoya. And the heartpounding end to the greatest spectacle in racing. And good morning, america. From all of us on this memorial day, we want to join in honoring our troops this morning. Those who have sacrificed everything for our country. Thats right. In fact we want to take a live look there at Arlington National cemetery. President obama will be there later this morninglaying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. And bob woodruff will be here. Thousands forced to evacuate. Dozens rescued from raging water waters and abcs phillip mena is in one of the hardest hit areas, wimberley, texas. Reporter this was completely submerged. Floodwaters were this high and rushed with so much force that they ripped these homes right from their foundation. Oh my god. Oh my god. Reporter across texas and oklahoma deadly rain leading to catastrophic flooding. Stay back. Stay back. Reporter outside san antonio, this Jeep Cherokee getting washed down a river. Miraculously the driver was able to crawl out the window of the suv before it was completely submerged. Two others rescued by this black hawk helicopter near the blanco river. I kept calling them over and over and he was like i dont know if im going to make it. Reporter that river rising 26 feet in just one hour cresting at 40 feet triple its flood stage destroying this concrete bridge. In texas, over 2,000 people forced to evacuate have their homes. What we thought was a rescue boat coming down the river was a car. Reporter in oklahoma widespread flooding swamped homes and businesses. This little town has been hit hard before but this is nothing like ever. Reporter near tulsa, firefighters jason farley lost his life trying to help others. We suspect he drowned, got caught in a storm drain itself. Reporter in Oklahoma City record rainfall. Theyve had 28 inches so far this year. In all of 2014, just 4 inches. Outside houston, an ef1 tornado packing winds of 100 miles an hour touching down. Demolishing this apartment complex. Red cross shelters set up across the region to help those displaced. Search and rescue crews are out here this morning racing to find survivors before the next round of storms hit. George. Okay lets get more on that. Thank you, phillip. From rob marciano. These dangerous storms on the move. Well get another round today. The past two weeks, weve been seeing this Severe Weather and heavy rainfall and finally the ground couldnt take it anymore. This is blanco, texas, one of several bridges not only in texas but oklahoma that were destroyed and this one is concrete. Just downstream from that in wimberley were talking about the devastated homes there. The river gauge rose to 43 feet. A record by 7 feet and thats before the record gauge was broken because so it could have went higher. Thankfully its receding somewhat. More in the way of flood warnings. Oklahoma eastern half of the state in flood warning. Weve got another batch of rain coming today. Another 2 to 4 on top of the areas already flooded. That plus Severe Weather and talk more about that throughout the program. Thank you, rob. Thousand to a different kind of danger this memorial day. Deadly rip currents. One person drowning and dozens of others rescued from the heavy surf over the weekend. Abcs gio benitez is at the beach in far rockaway new york. Good morning gio. Reporter amy, good morning to you. Those people were just trying to enjoy the Holiday Weekend but right now if youre by the water, chances are a rip current warning is in effect right now. This morning, dangerous rip currents crippling waters from coast to coast. In florida on sunday more than 130 rescues, in Volusia County alone, one person drowning after he was pulled from the surf in Daytona Beach right in front of an unguarded lifeguard tower. Beachgoers trying to revive him. Trying to keep his head up and got him out and started doing chest compressions. Reporter rescuers in jacksonville spending the last two days combing waters by boat and helicopter. Looking for a missing 11yearold caught in the currents. The search has been called off. What they do have are warning signs which tell you not to go wading or swimming out here. Reporter waters across the country under a rip current advisory from gulf shores all the way to san diego so how do rip currents form . Watch when waves break fiercely at the shoreline, a stream of water moving away from the beach can form taking a swimmer with it. So what should you look for . If theres a change in the water color or a line of foam or seaweed. Those may be signs of a rip current and warning to stay out of the water. And the biggest mistake that some of those swimmers over the weekend made is that they were swimming near empty lifeguard stations. So you want to make sure that someone is on duty before you jump out into that water, amy. What else should people know about riptides gio . Reporter you want to make sure to swim parallel to the shore if youre caught in one. You dont want to swim against that current. You want to make sure youre swimming sideways until youre out of that rip current and then you can come to the shore. Okay gio, thanks very much. There are a few more hours left on this Holiday Weekend and today is the busiest memorial day day on the road in years. Millions will be jamming the highways and linsey davis on the road in westchester county, new york. Good morning, linsey. Reporter hey, good morning, george. You might want to wake up the kids and pack up the car right now. Look at this. Roads wide open although travel experts warn that the worst time for traffic on this memorial day monday is going to be smack dab in the middle of the day talking about the hours between 10 00 a. M. And 3 00 p. M. An estimated 33 million americans hitting the rooads. Some good news gas a dollar lower than where it was this time last year with the National Average hovering right around 2. 7 2. 75. Listen up those who try to extend this and squeeze every last drop out of your vacation travel experts also warn that traffic on tuesday is going to be a lot worse than many expect. Happy driving, george. Okay. Guess im glad im already here. Me too, george. We move on to the city of cleveland this morning. Its on edge angering in the streets of a white Police Officer was cleared in the Fatal Shooting of a black couple. Dozens of demonstrators were arrested and police are bracing for more and abcs alex perez is in cleveland with the latest. Good morning, alex. Reporter the cries for justice are far from over. Many here saying they will not let this verdict define this city. Find the defendant not guilty. Reporter two words sending crowds of protesters on to the streets. Over the weekend more than 70 demonstrators arrested. After a judge cleared cleveland Police OfficerMichael Brelo of manslaughter saturday determining his use of deadly force was reasonable in the shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and malissa williams. Its a tragedy because nobody is being held accountable. Reporter russell and williams were killed in 2012 after leading police on a nearly 25minute car chase involving more than 60 squad cars and 100 officers. Police say they thought they were being shot at. Several officers firing and brelo jumping on the hood firing 15 shots right into the windshield. I thought we would get shot and be killed. Reporter but investigators processing the scene discovering russell and williams were unarmed. On sunday in cleveland, calm. But some are bracing for more possible outrage as the city awaits a decision in the case of tamir rice. The 12yearold ohio boy who was holding a toy gun when he was shot and killed by police in 2014. The governor of ohio praising the citys response so far on this week. I think the people of cleveland have handled this i mean they should be so proud of themselves and we should look at cleveland as a model. Reporter and the Justice Department says they will be reviewing the judges decision. Brelo could still face administrative charges from the police department. Amy. All right, alex thanks for the latest on that. Wed like to welcome abcs tom llamas to the news desk with the mornings other top stories. You start with a scare at the u. S. Capitol. Good morning, amy and george. We begin with that dramatic scene playing out in the nations capital. The bomb squad blowing up a Pressure Cooker found in a car on the national mall. Thousands of people were gathering for a memorial day concert at the time. It appears police also pulled a propane tank from the vehicle. The driver was arrested but police insist there was no public no threat to the public. A body pulled from new yorks hudson river has been identified as missing kayaker vincent viafor. His fiancee remains behind bars. She tampered with his kayak and watched as he struggled to stay afloat after his insurance money. Her Attorney Says shes innocent. Nearly 700 people have been putting 12hour shifts to clean up that oil spill in the california coast. Officials say the hard work is paying off. Two beaches may open on june 4th. Meanwhile, take a look at this. Seaworld has rescued several oil soaked sea lions and birds. Animals have been coming into shore covered in oil as far as 50 miles away from the spill. New video of a small plane that crashed on to an atlanta highway bursting into flames and killing a family on their way to a college graduation. A Police Dash Cam captured the terrifying final moments. It killed his father, two sons and a fiancee of one of the sons. The crash is under investigation. A loss of power is being blamed for stranding six people on a roller coaster in cincinnati. The three adults and three children were stuck 35 feet in the air. Firefighters got all back to the ground safely and unhurt. Actress and comedian anne meara has died. She was onehalf of stiller and meara with her husband jerry stiller. But she had a thriving acting career as well on stage and tv meara had a recurring role on all my children and the king of queens. Just to name a few. She is also the mother of actor and director ben stiller and writer amy stiller. No word yet on the cause of death. Anne meara was 85 years old. Finally a gold glove catch at a Minor League Baseball game and it happened in the stands. Check this out, the batter loses his bat. It goes flying into the crowd but a guy grabs it onehanded. Watch the slomo here. He actually backhands it. His beer is also in his other hand. He did not spill a drop. Okay, he is wearing a harvard jacket to a Minor League Baseball game. Hes that guy but with those ninja skills he can wear whatever he wants. And the funniest part about all this, the guy does this he saves women and children by capturing that bat he has to give the bat back because its a minor league game. They dont have enough bats. Did he get the keep the beer . Yeah. He enjoyed that. Maybe a free one after that. Now to the greatest spectacle in racing it was a thrilling finish to the indianapolis 500 but not before some wild crashes and abcs t. J. Holmes is here with all the excite many. Good morning, t. J. Yeah when we talk about these cars flying around the track. We dont mean that in the literal sense. There was particular concern that we would see a number of these cars going airborne after a series of spectacular crashes during qualifying. But we can report everything stayed grounded yesterday and we had a fantastic race. And the winner of the indianapolis 500 is juan Pablo Montoya. Reporter an adrenaline activating nailbiting finish. Juan Pablo Montoya celebrating inside his car winning the indy 500 for the second time in his career. Oh my god. It was awesome. Reporter but it was a rough start for the 39yearold. His back fender even flying off early in the race and he only led a total of nine of the 200 laps. This is not a piece you can run without. Reporter the 500mile race heart pounding from the start to the finish. Countless crashes on the track, even on pit road. Oh a crash. Reporter just 12 seconds in composite colliding. Later on that same turn one car ripped to shreds. Im okay. Im okay. Reporter here in the green car ed carpenter spinning out of control. This his second wreck in just seven days. Carpenter first going airborne during last weeks preliminaries along with three other drivers including James Hinchcliffe who was critically injured after this fireball wreck missing the 500 instagramming from his hospital bed sunday kills me not being there. Its always great coming to the indianapolis 500 regardless of what the week was like but the week was crazy. Reporter off the track a starstudded affair David Letterman making a postretirement trip. Mcdreamy himself Patrick Dempsey starting the race waving the green flag but back on the track for montoya, a day he will never forget. Well guy, the cars are using new aerodynamic kits which can maybe have an impact on some of the crashes. Also indy allowed to make adjustments so they could speed up the cars after the crashes they made the adjustmentsing ba the other direction so it slowed the cars down from going from 230 to 225 so not much of an adjustment but a few Miles Per Hour here or there can make a difference. Okay t. J. Thanks very much. And today we honor americans who gave their lives for their country. There youre looking at Arlington National cemetery. Its memorial day morning and the final resting place for so many who served. Tonight bob woodruff is hosting a twohour special on pbs about what happens when the troops return to their families called the home front and bob here with a preview. Good morning. We dont hear the story enough and there is something brandnew really about the families engaged in the current wars. Iraq and afghanistan. They have lasted longer than any other war in our history which Means Service members go to war, then home then back again while their kids and their spouses are trying to adjust. We got a very rare opportunity to meet them and tell their stories. Its definitely true the whole family serves. Youre asking kids to move frequently. Youre asking kids and spouses to be without their other spouse for long periods of time. The deployments of the last 14 years have really been tough on families. This is the first generation of military kids that has grown up experiencing mom or dad being gone for multiple deployments. And were working hard to understand what the implications of this lifestyle is for children. But were not likely to really fully understand until, you know they grow. We are engaged in the longest sustained combat operation in the history of our country and it is being done for the first time in our history with an all volunteer professional military force. And that does take a great toll on our families. Its been a struggle. I mean every day you wake up. You know that the person you love is in harms way and theres a lot of praying going on. Bob joins us now. You know you gave a preview of it right there. Youve got these multiple redeployments for families. Youll take a real deep look for what it means for the kids. Yeah but theres never been solid studies about it. The data is not completely out. More than 1 years which is true but relatively brandnew but in the previous wars you didnt have any of your kids until after you came back from the war. Now you have the kids because voluntary and back and forth. As i said before these kids are certainly affected by it because theyre just seeing their dad or mom overseas. So many of us are so removed from the reality of this war. The number of people serving less than 0. 5 of americans. Its less than 1 . More like 0. 4 yeah of americans serving so we got to get that thinger. One of the reasons for the piece were doing. Make sure those of us in the civilian world get to those those in the military because youll realize were all pretty much the same. Bob woodruff thanks for coming in. The damage from those severe storms and rob marciano. Talk about the flooding earlier but there was s reporter there was Severe Weather that came along and several reports of tornados. The transformers down, trees down over 100 Severe Weather report and a couple of dozen of those were tornados. Plains kansas strong tornado did mild damage luckily in a fairly rural area. This is where we expect severe storms to pop. Another peels of energy come into texas. San antonio houston damaging winds and possibility of tornados. Select stills brought for you by inside out rated pg. Reporter thats the first ive heard of that one that looks kind of cute. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows theres no precipitation to start out memorial day. Lots of sunshine across the region and of course the shore will be crowded on the beach later on were looking at a good beach day. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, 87 is todays high, sunny breezy and warmer and humid. Hot and humid 90. Hot and humid wednesday, 90. 86 thunderstorms thursday. Valley. Guys. That time of year. Thank you. So much still to come on gma. New clues in the brutal mansion murder. 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