The tornado hit early this morning while many were still sleeping and unclear if anyone is missing after the storm. Well follow developments from the live desk and bring you updates. And now to the latest in texas and oklahoma where more than a dozen people are still missing after storms swept away cars and homes, including two families with Young Children near austin. The Group Getting together for memorial day when the storm hit. The flash flooding wiped more than 300 homes right off their foundations twchlt of the People Killed in oklahoma include a firefighter trying to rescue others. Nbcs curt gregory will have an update on the rescue efforts coming up in our next half hour. This memorial day, president obama paid tribute to our Fallen Service members. He placed a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington National cemetery and then spoke at a ceremony and mentioned americans like wyatt martin of new mexico and a jamaican immigrant whose family settled in new york city. Even though they came from different backgrounds, they were connected to their commitment to a common cause. In december an ied struck their vehicle. They were the last two americans to give their lives during our combat mission in afghanistan. Sergeant first class Ramone Morris was on his fifth deployment when he was killed. Well the memorial day parade along constitution avenue is just wrapping up but Zachary Kiesch is live where it started. Whens it looking like out there . Reporter youre right. This is one of the Great Stories that we have an opportunity to tell every year. The selfless individuals that put on the uniforms and defend the freedoms of this country and you couldnt have ordered Better Weather out here today. It was absolutely beautiful. The people came out in thousands. It was a packed house. They got this thing start theed with the grand marshall of the parade. Not one or two people but generation veterans of world war ii. They will be looking back 70 years. That is a war that ended 70 years ago this summer and local flavor in here. The marching band from bilou high school out here doing their thing today. Did i mention the people out here just having a good time . Waving flags, hold and young. Just enjoying what this thing is all about. I had an opportunity to talk to tim holbrooke, the executive of the Veterans Center and what today is all about. Yeah. A couple hundred thousand people every year come on out for it. We love it because its a chance for a lot of them to really one of the few opportunities they have to personally thank our veterans and those serving in uniform today. Reporter now, we are on 7th and constitution now. The parade ended on 17th and constitution and just finished the final segment. A lot of people wrapping up here and calling it a day and will be back here at 5 00 for sights sounds and flavor from this years memorial day parade. Back to you in the studio. All right. What a great day out there. Emotional ceremony at the world war ii ceremony today honoring veterans of whats called the greatest generation. 12 veterans from all Service Branches laid wreaths at the memorial freedom mall. They remembered 400,000 of comrades who did not come home and 70 years since the end of world war ii. First at 4 00 the fbi is looking into a series of threats called in by someone claimed chemical weapons were on board airplanes. The threats are not deemed credible but out of an abundance of caution, norad launched two f15 fighter jets to escort this air france plane back into jfk airport. The fbi says the threats were made against ten flights in a series of calls made to police around the country. One of those came in to the Maryland State Police bar racks this morning making a bomb threat involving commercial airplanes. They immediately forwarded the information to fbi and the Fusion Center of the state. The fbi said theyre not aware of specific threats to flights out of bwi, reagan or dulles. He says it was a rice cooker not a Pressure Cooker. The man who owns a device detonated by the bomb squad on the National Mall last night says he runs a food truck and left a rice cooker in the car. U. S. Capitol police tell us the car was deemed suspicious because it was unoccupied. The device in plain view and there was an odor of gasoline coming from the vehicle. Our chris gordon spoke to the owner and has a report in the next hour of. The fbis looking for a man who robbed a will call bank and said he was carrying a bomb in his box. Now, this happened in hyattsville. Last friday he walks into the Capital One Bank on annapolis road. He passed a note 0 the teller demanding cash and telling the clerk about the bomb. He took the money but left the box. The bomb squad xrayed it and it was empty. And now to the weather. Very warm day with breezy sunshine and things will change by tomorrow we are hearing. Lets check in with Veronica Johnson in the weather center. Vj . Yeah. We slide back towards the higher temperatures higher humidity as well. When you take a look at today its been the best day. All in all what looks like out of the work week. We have some breezy sunshine today. As you mentioned, look at this. Current wind gusts just over 20 Miles Per Hour throughout the area. Higher there around pax river and seeing the winds out of south. Its a southerly wind. Nice toewsly and warm and blowing around the pollen today. Look at this the tree count moderate today. Mold spore count is moderate. Grasses is high and a chance for rain around here as well. The heat index values today fairly reasonable. We can deal with them. Over the next couple of days it is tough, too. Well talk about the uncomfortable factor over the next couple of days and the storm chances, as well. Next at 4 00 delusional weird, just some of the words used as a life is laid out in court. Plus a city on edge after a court clears a white Police Officer of killing two unarmed black men. Protests that went on all well the streets are a lot more calm and tensions running high in cleveland. More protests are planned after a Police Officer acquitted in the shooting death of an africanamerican couple. Dozens of people arraigned today, all related to the violent protests that followed the veekt. The officer was accused of shooting the couple in the car, even after they were subdued. Clevelands mayor is encouraging people to speak out but insists they remain peaceful. Police in new orleans are investigating the murder of a Housing Authority officer, the 45yearold officer was driving his patrol car sunday morning and shot and killed. The carrolled two blocks before hitting a curb and stopping. They say he was on an assignment to secure a construction site and was with the department for just two years. He is the first Housing Authority of new orleans officer to be killed in the line of duty. He was a self styled cleric who suffered grandiose delusions and kicked out of a motorcycle gang for being too weird. Thats just some of the testimony coming out of the in inquest into a siege in australia at a cafe. In december the man took 18 people hostage at a cafe in sydney and didnt end until police stormed the building. He and two others were killed but during the standoff he made strange demands and given an isis flag. Investigators say he was driven by ego, not ideology. Indeed the Islamic Community in australia did not accept him. Surmising the activities were about him and not islam. Almost consumed in own self importance. At the time of the siege, he was already facing charges related to the murder of his exwife. And the inquest is looking into why he was set free on bail. She wrote a letter to the president and now is going viral. A virginia girls message of peace and the response she got from the commander in chief. Plus a local group thats touching hearts and changing lives. And how their Mission Began years ago. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or get 300 back and free dvr service for 1 year, with a 2 year agreement. Hurry, offer ends june 8th. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v now to a Northern Virginia mom trying to turn local kids into the next bill gates. Thats right. Pushing them to get their Creative Ideas and find a way to take those ideas and give back. Yeah. As angie goff reports, it starts when the korean war ended in 1953. One womans act of kindness after the korean war ended continues to change lives around washington. When the woman saw children on the streets left homeless and hungry she opened an orphanage. She was able to save more than 100 young souls and inspired a granddaughters promise. And i told her that one day im going to carry your legacy of kindness and helping others and be just like you and just give back. Reporter for helen yi finding that perfect cause was like writing a good song. It took time. But five years ago, it happened. When her daughter taylor turned 13. I said that i wanted to have all my friends donate to a local charity of their choice instead of giving me presents. Reporter it turned a birthday wish into touching heart, a way for kids to create a Service Projects and give back. Recently eighth grader jillian organized an art gallery. This allowed them to buy 300 new duffel bags for foster kids in the area. In the beginning this was just for some Community Service hours but by the end it became a different experience and i loved it. Reporter nate owen put together a mindcraft tournament to buy chickens for this orphanage in kenya and learned skills for sponsors and how to budget. We raised so much that we had leftover money and bought a cow which is huge in kenya. We may not think that big but its a huge thing for hem. Reporter recently touching heart launched kids on a mission in an Elementary School with hopes to go county wide. And the Asian American chamber of commerce named them Nonprofit Organization of the year. Thats a huge honor and i think as an Asian American im just proud to represent the Asian Community and to show them that we too, can make a difference. Reporter a difference that a community and grandmother can be proud of. You know i just think that there is a feeling whenever we do give that we always remember her. And i think that shes never forgotten, you know in the work that we do. And over the years touching heart has helped more than 3,000 kids. Their next big event is joy of giving Golf Tournament with daryl green. Thats on monday june 1st in aldi virginia. If the weather is half as good as today, theyll be fine on the course. We lucked out with the weekend, didnt we . That we d. Beginning to end, stunning. You know not too bad i think in terms of the humidity. But were going to see humidity change during the overnight period. The humidity will start creeping upward a bit and the temperatures higher tomorrow. Lets take a look around the area. This is Chesapeake Bay bridge and what we see, traffic flowing smoothly just like this. Even if you were stuck in traffic today, not bad. The humidity isnt high. Its been pretty manageable today. Lets check on temperatures across the area and check on ocean city too. We have been in the low to mid80s across a lot of neighborhoods today. Fredericksburg. Right inside the beltway. Potomac, too. Friends up i95 and 70s there. Upper 70s, lower 70s. Ocean city at 72 degrees. Nice there with the southerly wind blowing. We have a gust over 20 around 25 Miles Per Hour at times today. The wind will settle down but well keep that southerly wind and that means warm overnight for us. Your evening, under mostly clear sky, dropping to about 70 degrees by 11 00 p. M. For mostly clear to partly cloudy sky tomorrow and then conditions arent going to be changing. What it feels like heres the uncomfortable scale for you from pleasant conditions today, i think tomorrow we pass the sticky and go right up to uncomfortable. The morning may be sticky but uncomfortable and yes this week we could have a couple of oppressive days thrown in. We have an area of High Pressure in the water and theres the heat pump for us. Warm conditions here. To the north of us a warm front. There is a weather front to come closer and closer to us. So that will up our chances of showers and thunderstorms into the week. But for tomorrow rather scattered and mainly between i95 and i85 tomorrow. Theres romney and winchester. Your chance of showers and thunderstorms coming after 2 00. And pretty much staying well north and west of d. C. For northern and central maryland and for areas of western virginia the best chance tomorrow up until about 7 00 or 8 00 and wednesday we do it all over again. Theres the partly sunny sky and this time the chance through d. C. Wednesday and thursday. Tomorrow morning, muggy. Mostly clear. Coolest start of the work week tomorrow. 60 to 70 degrees starting out. Pretty warm folks. The best time to exercise is early in the day to beat the heat. We climb very quickly into the 80s starting at 11 00 a. M. And staying in the 80s for your afternoon hours and we start cooling off i think pretty late during the evening tomorrow. Heres a look at the storm team fourday forecast a 30 chance of a storm or thunderstorm to a 50 and 40 chance for wednesday and thursday and continuing the threat all week long. A couple of days of high humidity and breaking it down and when we expect the storms to come through on wednesday and thursday later in the newscast. Thanks vj. A 5yearold girl from virginia caught president obamas attention on twitter. Yazmin wrote a letter asking him to quote stop war or our world and, quote, give a speech to tell everyone that they can marry who they want. Her aunt tweeted a picture of the letter to president obama and he responded. The president said quote, tell your niece i really like the letter. Couldnt agree more. Mama showed me the letter. Of the president. Pretty exciting stuff, wasnt it . Yeah. Yeah. The fact he responded to a letter that a 5yearold wrote to be able to share with her that her words got to the president was pretty remarkable. And this is president obamas sixth tweet since getting his own account. Six tweets. Hes down right prolific. Better than me. They have been at war for nearly a year. And now two soldiers are home with a big surprise for their baby sister. Next at 4 00, the heartwarming homecoming caught on camera. And before you fire up that grill, the three food safety tips you need to hear. This video is trending online. A surprise homecomeing from soldiers returning from Service Overseas surprising their sister at a high school in new jersey. She had no idea they were home. Theyre in the army. It was their idea to surprise their sister at school and they got home just in time to spend memorial day with their families. Well are you spending this memorial day at a cookout or attending a ceremony for the fallen . Where you live may determine how you choose to spend this day. Gallup has a new poll out, studied the meaning of memorial day in communities across the country. 38 of American House hold have a loved one serving in the armed forces but that jumps in Rural Communities around bases and counties with large native american populations. There folks are much more likely to focus on remembering Fallen Service members than spending it outdoors at family gatherings. A lot of folks are firing up the grill for this memorial day holiday. But before you start it the department of agriculture has safety tips to keep in mind. First, never marinade food on the counter. Use separate plates and utensils for raw foods and everything thats cooked. When grilling meat use a thermometer to check the internal temperature. Chicken and ground meats need to reach 165 degrees. Finally, store any leftovers within two hours after youre done. Theyll last about four days in the fridge. Next at 4 00 the fight to save a local memorial to world war ii soldiers. Why a lawsuit was filed to tear it down. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or get 300 back and free dvr service for 1 year, with a 2 year agreement. Hurry, offer ends june 8th. Go to getfios. Com. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v heres a look at the stories we are following right now at 4 30. Mexican border town has been devastated after being hit by a tornado. Cars are up ended and buildings, piles of rubble. We know at least ten people are dead in the town just across the rio grand from del rio, texas. The tornado hit this morning while a lot of folks there were still sleeping. A little boy nearly drowned at a Community Pool