after the bad bike crash. so look who stepped in to help at a huge concert overnight. chris martin and bruce springsteen, honoring the singer s commitment to a big cause, with a show for the ages. with or without you still marking up with a lighter. i know. the lighter. just right outside here. just a few hours ago here in times square. a night to remember just popped up like that. and with or without bono, the show went on. it went on. chris martin and the boss up there. what a backup plan. bruce springsteen right there, fills in for bono. got a lot of good friends. and we have a lot to get to this morning. beginning with the wild weather. heavy rain on the west coast threatening mudslides and flooding. temperatures plunging in the east. ginger is tracking it all. the flash flood watch from san diego to los angeles. back into the sierras. and not just that, watching the new storm. we have had round one. now it s this. you can see it churning, pushes the moisture
47 minutes after the hour. let s bring you up to speed. the big story kaufman county texas. district attorney mick mclelland and his wife cynthia were found shot to death at their home saturday. this just two months after the prosecutor vowed to find the people responsible for murdering one of his top deputies. steps from the courthouse. security has been offered to other county officials and the hanhunt is under way. it s arraignment day for a california teen who was allegedly drunk when his suv slammed into a fan and killed five members of the same family. the crash helped early saturday morning in southeastern nevada. police say 18-year-old gene soriano s dodge durango slammed into the back of the family van causing it to spin and flip over. they also say they found beer bottles inside his suv.
Under state law the governor perry will appoint a d.a. to serve out the . martha: well, that s the news conference underway in kaufman county, texas. on the right-hand side of your screen you saw the picture of mick mclelland the district attorney in that county. he and his wife were gunned down in their home and as was pointed out by bruce wood, the judge who is speaking, it was just a couple months after the assistant d.a. in that county, mark maase was also murdered in cold blood. clearly there is someone after public officials in our area. they are investigating and looking for this killer. we ll keep on top of it. we ll get you more as it comes along. bill: as that story develops here at home. from overseas. more developments the united states is sending advanced stealth f-22 fighter jets to south korea to join military exercises there amid rising tensions on the peninsula. north korea making trouble ising into new we know but
0 if you remember that, you re about my age. i m don lemon. have a great weekend. happy easter. see you back here next week. good night. fear in texas. a district attorney is gunned down just weeks after the murder of his deputy. the killer or killers still out there this morning. tough talk on the korean peninsula. but this time it s the south vowing to strike if the north crosses the line. on a new york city street witnesses say they saw an armed abduction in broad daylight. but was this all just an elaborate hoax? a gruesome injury then a rousing finish. the louisville cardinals landing a spot in the final four, minus a wallen warrior. i m christine romans this monday for you. i m john berman. it is monday, april 1st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we re going to start in texas where at this moment there is an intense manhunt under way. the search for some person or some people targeting public officials for assassination. the latest victim, kaufman county district attorney mike m
0 brian: tomorrow holly robinson peet, john lester, the ace of the red sox staff. steve: a busy show and a busy after the show show. go to our web site to watch us live and we ll see you tomorrow. bill: as we begin a whole new week, fox news alert. manhunt still underway and community on alert after the murder of a direct attorney. kaufman county, texas, d.a., mike mcclellan, and his wife incident cynthia were found shot to death in their home over the weekend. police are stepping up security to protect other district attorneys. that is where we start. here on america s newsroom. welcome back to you. martha: good to be here. very nice week off, thank you. thank you. hey, everybody, i m martha maccallum. this is a terrible story. bill: sure is, yeah. martha: local leaders there at this point trying to calm everybody down. watch this. loud noises friday night. they thought it was a thunderstorm rolling through. the bodies were discovered 24 hours later on sunday night. cynthia mccl