Flew in an aircraft, jayhawk helicopter out of elizabeth city earlier today. they had to sit down. they couldn t get to new bern because of the heavy thunderstorms and the micro bursts. we just got over the air here but we have not done rooftop rescues in the last 15 to 20 minutes. martha: so in terms of i know general mattis announced earlier today that they wanted to remove any sort of red tape that might exist in terms of getting military help to people who need it. can you explain what the procedure is like? i can tell you this. for the united states coast guard, our authorities allow to us come in immediately after a storm. for general mattis, there needs to be approval to move military forces to do defense support of civil authority. so he is cutting any of that red tape. national guardsmen, active duty, navy, air force folks can immediately respond. that is encouraging. secretary mattis is fully involved be the department of the defense team. all the agencies, all the federa
Alert. nonstop rain triggering dangerous flooding in missouri. look at this. this scene near kansas city where the rising waters forced families to wait for rooftop rescues. search crews report pulling people from stranded cars and saving one woman who was trapped up a tree. adam klutz live with more. rain totals impressive. that s what this is for 24 hours. you re looking around the kansas city area getting close to 10 inches. this was widespread and a very large event. this is the leading edge and along it, folks in upstate new york, stretching to the south. all areas we could see severe weather today. the same system tracking off to the east. we ve seen big storms along here. we ll likely see more as we head into the evening hours, continuing to wrap up through the overnight hours. the other big story this is a bigger story in the next couple days we have this low pressure system. areas of concern, this is a 90%
It appears they are trying to get people out and there is an area in the building they sort of cannot penetrate forcing them to do these rooftop rescues. member, martha, 3000 people work in this sector of the navy yard at the command where they build and maintain the chips. so they are able to clear some people out but they still have a hold in place order for people in the neighborhood as well as parts of the navy yard so hold in place order went into effect after it began at 8:20 this morning. they think they have the shooter cornered but he is not in custody as of yet and it is an ongoing active shooting and being treated as such. martha: can you confirm, jennifer, they say it is one shooter, a lone gunman? right now that is the report we are getting from the scene from navy officials. they are working on the assumption there is one shooter
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