today, there were piles of wood where the homes stood. one person was killed, more than 65 hurt, and more severe storms are racing through the region tonight. adriana diaz is in bridge creek oklahoma. adriana. >> reporter: scott, as you can see the rain is starting to pick up again. now, this overturned chair, this sink, all of this insulation around me didn't come from the building right behind me. it came from a trailer home across the street more than 70 yards away, giving you a sense of the power of this storm. the view from this drone camera brings the path of destruction into focus. this oklahoma city motel reduced to rubble. jimmie o'quinn was a motel guest. >> kept coming, it kept coming. upon we lost everything. got nothing. >> reporter: just half a football field away, the scene wasn't any better. mobile homes tossed aside. fire chief keith bryant helped get people to safety. >> you know, r.v.s and mobile homes don't fare too well in these types of storms. >> reporter: when you first arrive at the scene, what was your thought? >> a lot of debris, access issues-- so all that kind of added to the difficulty that we face. >> tornado is on i-94 at the moment. >> reporter: flash flooding made it worse. the one death-- a 42-year-old woman found drowned in her storm shelter. >> oh, man. there it is. >> reporter: the massive storm started to roll through the southwest plains wednesday and throughout the night. the national weather service says at least 50 tornadoes were reported, spread across more than 460 miles from oklahoma to nebraska. bridge creek, oklahoma was one of the hardest hit downs. more than 1500 homes and farms damaged or destroys descroid. mark crick lost his trailer home and his welding shop, but he hasn't lost hope. >> you just got to remember, it's just stuff. and, you know, it can all be replaced and as long as nobody gets hurt and family's all together, we're good. >> reporter: scott, all day residents have been busy trying to cover up what they can what's left of their homes. they're determined to prepare for this next round of storms. >> pelley: and more violent weather is on the forecast for fridays and saturday. adriana, thank you very much. there was an emergency in the air late today when smoke billowed into the cabin of a delta jet flying from ft. lauderdale to new york. correspondent kris van cleave picks up the story. >> reporter: this is video from onaboard delta flight 2028 as smoke filled the cabin of the md-88 jet. the f.a.a. says more than an hour after taking off the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and a problem with one of the jet's two engines. "60 minutes" producer katherine davis was on board and shot this video. she says the captain announced he had shut down one of the engines. >> we could hear the beeping of the smoke alarm and it was-- it was pretty quickly the cabin of filling up with smoke pretty quickly. so-- so, yeah, it was a little nerve-racking. they told all of us to put our head heads down in our laps because the-- the air would be fresher. >> reporter: another of the 89 passengers on board tweeted this picture of the smokey cabin calling the experience "the scariest flight ever." the pilots landed safely in charleston, south carolina and tonight delta repair crews are inspecting that engine. scott, the md-80 aircraft is an aging workforce of the delta fleet. >> pelley: transportation correspondent kris van cleave. chris, thanks very much. tonight, tom brady is speaking at a previously scheduled event in massachusetts one day after an investigation found probable cheating in the a.f.c. championship. brady's agent attacked it the investigator today attorney ed wells, who found equipment handlers probably deflated game balls to make them easier to grib and the quarterback likely knew it. elaine quijano has more on this. >> reporter: the star quarterback arrived on a helicopter two hours ahead of his scheduled appearance where he's expected to make his first public remarks since the damaging wells report. brady's agent donald yee blasted the report calling it a "significant and terrible disappointment." we spoke to him by phone. he said brady is innocent. >> resulting report does not contain a significant amount of tom's testimony which provide much context to the conclusions that were reached by the wells team investigators. >> reporter: but the report contains at least 10 referenceto brady's testimony including the quarterback's response to the charges. "brady denied any knowledge of or involvement in any efforts to deflate game balls after the pregame inspection by the game officials," the report said. according to investigators, the quarterback declined to provide his e-mails and texts. >> it's not a big deal at all to us in the fraternity of the play. >> reporter: scott zolak is a former patriots quarterback and now a radio host for cbs boston station wbz. do you think brady knew? >> he handles the balls. i don't think he ordered the code red and say hey you be how to do that. but you guys know how i like the balls prepped on a qiek weekly basis. make sure that's the way they are. >> reporter: zolak says the report may look bad to the public but players push boundaries. >> this is all to do about nothing. >> reporter: players cheat in general. >> you're using the word "qeet." i think there's a fine line between cheating and games manship. >> reporter: scott, the nfl has not said when it will announce its decision on a possible punishment for brady. >> pelley: elaine thanks very much. today, the director of the f.b.i. said the bureau was on to one of the men who attacked an anti-islamic event in garland, texas osunday and sent a warning to the police there. jeff pegues is following this. >> reporter: just before the attack on sunday, elton simpson tweeted his allegiance to isis with the hashtag texas attack. that same daat about 4:00 p.m., the f.b.i. says it sent a photograph of simpson to garland, texas where a contest on drawings of the frofet muhammad was held. they believed he might be interested in the controversial event but the f.b.i. did not know simpson and his accomplice, nadir soofi were en route from phoenix armed with aconclude-47s. at around 7:00 p.m., two meb opened fire on police before being killed by a traffic officer. simpson had apparently received guidance and inspiration online from his american jihadist fighting in somalia. today in an off-camera session with reporters f.b.i. director james comey described isis' siren song. he said the terrorist group reaches out through twitter identifies followers and sends them to encrypted web sites that are difficult track. comey says the message is, "go kill people," sometimes supplying them with hit lists, sometimes suggesting particular targets. today a spokesperson for the garland police department said they had no information at all that simpson and soofi were headed their way. the f.b.i. had reopened an investigation into simpson in march but he was not being watch around the clock. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom tonight jeff, thank you. today, a federal appeals court said a controversial government surveillance program is illegal. it is the formerly top secret program that gathers massive amounts of data on phone calls. not the conversations themselves but the information on who's calling whom. jan crawford is our chief legal correspondent and joins us tonight. jan, what does this decision mean? >> reporter: well, i mean, as a legal matter, i think it's largely symbolic. the appeals court said the telephone data collect cleks program was not authorized by congress under the patriot act but that law is going to expire in three weeks anyway. i mean the court did not decide the bigger questions of whether the program violated the fourth amendment, and it said it could continue for the next few weeks. so what this decision does is put the responsibility for continuing the program in the future on congress. and already, scott we have seen senators today from both sides of the aisle saying they're not willing to do that. >> pelley: jan crawford, thank you very much. al qaeda in yemen confirmed today that one of its key members was killed by a u.s. drone last month. nasr al-ansi had been a member of osama bin laden's inner circle, and more recently had appeared in al qaeda videos. in january he said his group was behind the attack that killed 12 people at the magazine "charlie hebdo." tonight, we have learned of a wide-ranging federal investigation into a problem that we uncovered here this week. correspondent jim axelrod has been telling us that american troops and veterans are being prescribed dubious pain medications that are expected to cost taxpayers up to $2 billion this year. jim's back tonight with today's developments. jim. >> reporter: and, scott, we can report tonight there are now multiple federal investigations under way into 90 compounding pharmacies and doctors for suspicious practices. last night we reported on a doctor named paul bolger in davenport, iowa, who wrote me a prescription for pain creams even though we'd never met mt. or even spoken. dr. bolger told us he was one of hundreds of doctors doing this part of an explosion in prescriptions for compounding creams. the pentagon tells us today they have suspended payments on all prescriptions signed by dr. bolger as well as three other physicians. payments to four compounding pharmacies scott have also been suspended. >> pelley: jim axelrod with our original investigation. jim, thanks. in another cbs news investigation, "60 minutes" reported that lumber liquidators was selling laminate floorgt made in china that contained high levels of a chemical that causes cancer. since then, sales plummeted and the stock price sank. today, lumber liquidators said it will stop selling the flooring. here's carter evans. >> reporter: just a few days after dennis winkler installed this flooring in his california home, he says he began to have problems. >> i started getting very very bad headaches and nausea. >> reporter: youinoid pretty much right away. >> yeah, right away, right away, there was something wrong. even my dog was lethargic. >> reporter: when he saw the "60 minutes" report on chinese-made laminate flooring frr liquidators in early march, he decided to rip most of it out. >> don't know if it was the floors, but the minute i took it out, everything stopped. >> reporter: "60 minutes" sent undercover investigators to three chinese factories that produce laminate flooring for lumber liquidators. they found box after box with labels indicating the floor boards met strict standards set by the california air resources board, also known as carb. but factory employees told a different story. >> reporter: in tests commissioned by "60 minutes," 30 of 31 boxes of the product emit as much as 13 times the amount of formaldehyde allowed by carb, but lumber liquidators founder tom sullivan defended the flooring. >> we're never going to sell something unsafe. >> reporter: the company sent air quality test kits to concerned customers and says of those analyzed so far 97% came back with formaldehyde levels that met world health organization guidelines. but in a federal lawsuit filed today, california attorney general alex robertson accused the company of misrepresenting the test results to customers. >> i think that they've been lied to. i think that they've been trickd and deceived into believing that their results are-- quote unquote-- safe. >> reporter: now, dennis winkler is storing most of what's left of his floor because he is now party to one of more than 100 class action lawsuits. scott, the company says even though the flooring in question is still being tested, taking it off the market of the right thing to do. >> pelley: carter evans reporting for us tonight, carter thanks. when we come back, is power plant pollution contaminating drinking water? 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