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the situation room. we have breaking news right now. a tornado watch for corpus christi, texas, and beyond. violent weather warnings for the houston area. let's go live to karen mcginnis. what is the latest? >> brianna, we have a very dynamic and dangerous situation taking place across a good portion of texas, including the coastal areas and west central texas. we'll focus in from corpus christi down towards houston. this is where the watch goes in effect until 9:00 local time. one particular cell moving off towards the northeast, very strong. already some reports of damage associated with this. this line just to the southwest of houston and the area right around roseburg. we've seen some trees fall down on homes. also, windows have been blown out of homes as well. this is expected to move off towards the northeast at just about 20 miles an hour. included in that is the fact that there's very heavy rain

associated with this. so if a tornado does touch down, more than likely it is going to be rain-wrapped. all across texas, especially central and southern regions, we have flash flood warnings and flash flood watches out. now, remember, this is severe weather season. a warning, tornado warning or severe thunderstorm warning means that the situation is particularly dangerous. a watch means conditions are favorable. but we're already seeing some thunderstorms erupt and produce some very small tornadoes in west texas, just to the north of midland, texas. so be aware. listen to your weather radio or radio for information because this is going to be a very dynamic situation as we go into the evening hours erupting all the way from lubbock to midland to san antonio, houston. those are the areas that are most in danger tonight. brianna? >> and do we have any idea how long this is going to be in

effect? >> well, we have those watches that are in effect until 9:00 p.m. it's possible that they will continue or extend those across this region. right along the gulf coast region from galveston and corpus christi and into houston and lubbock and midland area. those are the two regions until about mid-evening hours, as i mentioned, 9:00 local time. but as i also mentioned, that could be extended as we go into the evening if those thunderstorms really start to ramp up. >> is there any danger of folks being outside for barbecues and these things popping up rather quickly? >> yeah. brianna, that is key. because this is a holiday. people are spending their times outdoors. they are probably not focused on the weather, though i dare say to the south and to the west of houston you are -- you couldn't help be noticing what is going on there right now because the wind is kicking up. the rain is coming down. we've had some reports in some areas of between 2 and almost 5

inches of rainfall in just a very short period of time. so not a great holiday to be celebrating outdoors, especially if you live in this coastal area or west central texas. brianna? >> karen mcginnis, we'll be checking in with you. thank you so much. shocking new details about the california killing spree in which a young man stabbed and shot six people to death before taking his own life. youtube threats and a ranting manifesto about the killer's twisted world. there were warnings and there was interventions so why couldn't the massacre be stopped? our correspondents and analysts are standing by with full coverage of this story and we begin with cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela? >> well, hello there, brianna. investigators are going through the items right now that they took from a search of elliot rodger's house looking for any other clues that might indicate what made him finally snap. we've been talking to a close family friend of the rodger

family and he tells us that elliot has been struggling with mental health issues since he was a child but it wasn't until friday that there was any indication that he was going to hurt himself. cnn has learned elliot rodger's father was racing from l.a. to santa barbara in a frantic search for his son when he heard a news report on the radio. >> a dark colored bmw with a white occupant, a male in a white shirt. >> reporter: someone driving a black bmw, just like the one his son drove, was on a shooting rampage in santa barbara. police say the 22-year-old college student was shooting at will, exacting the revenge had he been planning, police say, for at least a year. >> you do deserve it, just for a crime of living a better life than me. >> reporter: he filmed this youtube video titled "retribution" before killing six people on friday night. >> i've wanted a girlfriend,

i've wanted sex, i've wanted love, affection, adoration but you think i'm unworthy of it. that's a crime that can never be forgiven. >> reporter: rodger outlined his plans in a manifesto. lucky radley is mentioned in the 141-page document. >> the elliot rodger i knew was really a quiet, quiet guy. he never said any words. he was just -- he was just really there he didn't say much. i don't remember him saying anything. he only spoke when spoken to. >> reporter: rodger sent his diatribe to his mother and a few dozen others. his mother's home was searched and his parents feel a pivotal moment was missed last month.

six police officers conducted a well-being check on rodger in april after his mother discovered other videos he posted online documenting his, quote, loneliness and misery. but the officers say they found nothing alarming during their check and in his manifesto, rodger discusses his devastating fear that police discovered his plan. i would have been thrown in jail, denied of a chance to exact revenge on my enemies. >> rodger had been visiting therapists on and off since he was 8 years old and in high school, practically daily. and right before his killing spree, rodger was seeing two therapists. being described as reserved to a daunting degree. the 22-year-old didn't appear to have violent tendencies and never discussed any fascinations with guns. brianna. >> pamela, thank you so much.

all of the dead were students at the santa barbara university. he stabbed to death his two roommates, george chen a and cheng yuan hong along with weihan wang. katherine cooper and remember von veronika weiss and christopher martinez who was at a deli. his father spoke with kyung lah and she's joining us now. kyung, the only way you can describe how it is heartbreaking to hear what this man says. >> reporter: it's unimaginable. he says he's acutely aware that there is only a brief period of time that people are going to care about what he says. he says he's going to take advantage of it. he wants people to know he's not

alone. there are six sets of parents affected here, countless others mass shootings that have ber of- happened in recent years and this is what is driving him as he goes before news cameras. >> our son christopher martinez and six others are dead. >> reporter: it was an extraordinary moment when you walked into the news conference. >> they talk about gun rights. what about chris' right to live? >> reporter: very unexpected. why did you do that? >> to honor the memory of my son. to make it try to mean something. that's why i'm here. if there's all these things in the media about the shooter and there's nothing about the victims, then it sends the wrong message. and the people need to understand that real people died here. >> reporter: chris martinez was just 20 years old, an english major at ucsb. he went to the ivy deli mart to

get a snack friday night when the gunman opened fire. the boy who loved sports as a child dreamed of being a lawyer like his father. >> he's our only child. and he died on friday. i'm 61 years old now. i'll never have another child. and he's gone. you're sitting out there safe in your family room with your children around you and, i'm telling you, they walk out on that street, it can happen. it's happened far too many times now. >> reporter: yeah. i don't know how many mass shootings i've covered. eye don't know how many parents i've interviewed who have been in the position that you are in. how -- how do you make that difference? how do you as one parent make that difference? >> i can anticipate that the nra and some of the gun people are going to be saying it's the rants of the grieving father, he's just emotional and we shouldn't be listening to him.

but in fairness to me, i think i can be both emotional and rational at the same time. >> reporter: martinez is a veteran, has owned guns but wants to know why a mentally unstable man legally owned three semiautomatic handguns and hundreds of rounds. >> where is the leadership? where is the frickin politicians that will stand up and say, we need to do this. we're going to do something? those gutless bastards have done nothing and my son died because of it. it's outrageous. absolutely outrageous. >> reporter: he's talking about newtown, connecticut, 20 children, six adults gunned down at sandy hook elementary. president obama pushed for tougher gun control laws, expanded background checks. that failed in the senate despite huge public support. >> my kid died because nobody responded to what occurred at

sandy hook. those parents lost little kids. it's bad enough that i lost my 20-year-old but i had 20 years with my son. that's all i'll ever have but those people who lost their children at 6 and 7 years old, how do you think they feel? and who is talking to them now? who is doing anything for them now? >> reporter: he says that sandy hook was not enough to spark the national conversation. he's not sure if his son's death will be enough to start it but he says it has to happen. there has to be a real conversation, real action about the state of mental health and the proliferation of guns in america. brianna? >> kyung lah, thank you so much. let's dig deeper on this with cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, a former fbi assistant director and also his daughter survived the virginia tech massacre. she was on the same floor in a dorm where two of her classmate

did not and sarah clement, her mother is a teacher who survived the sandy hook massacre. i want to start with you, sarah, just as you listen to mr. martinez, what is your reaction? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. and my reaction is that he's right. mr. martinez, we stand with you in newtown and there are millions of other families and survivors who have lost loved ones to gun violence, whose loved ones and friends have been murdered and what you've said in the last couple of days is exactly correct and is exactly how we feel. the six people who were murdered at ucsb this weekend were all students. this is a young people's issue. millennials, my generation, is the most disproportionately affected generation by gun violence in america. if we don't take action, if we don rise above the gun lobby, we'll continue to see massacres.

we'll ask how did this happen? how did this happen? and it's because we continue to stay silent. silence is not going to save lives. >> and tom, as you listen to him, you must have been in the position in 2007 of realizing, you know, that things could have gone differently for you as a father. as you're listening, knowing that, what is your reaction to that? >> it's complete empathy to the highest degree. just -- i can only imagine what that would have been like and how close having the same situation happen. >> and it's -- i think -- speak to this in terms of being a law enforcement expert. and i see some parallels here with virginia tech, too. there were warning signs. there were multiple contacts with police that we're learning about. the parents had tremendous concern, obviously, for this man's mental health from the time that he was young. and yet these dots either -- is it not that they can't be connected but nothing can be

done about it? what's going on? >> well, that's right. and the frustration mr. martinez expressed here is a frustration that we should all have and that is that there has been nothing learned from incident after incident. we've had mental health issues, the shooter at virginia tech had been judged by a judge as mentally ill but that didn't prevent him from legally buying the two guns in a row in a roanoke virginia gun shop. no laws have changed in virginia. nothing has been changed. nothing has been changed with health care. the frustration of mr. martinez about the guns, there's not even a debate about handguns. we can't even get anything changed about assault rifles. so we're not stopping people from having military grade assault rifles, like sandy hook elementary school. there's no discussion about guns. and ags far as the mental hit, where are we with mental health? that means making an investment. that means ex spend tur.

we'll hear all of those arguments and probably the final argument that we'll come out with is that the nra is going to recommend that the sorority girls should be armed and everybody on campus at santa barbara should be armed and everybody everywhere, that was the recommendation last time. let's arm our teachers. the only thing to stop a good person with a gun is a bad person with a gun. >> and sarah, you've talked about gun laws not changing. you know that. connecticut has tightened its gun laws but even after newtown, there was an inability to change gun laws federally. do you think, knowing in your heart of hearts, that anything changes in the wake of this at ucsb? >> i actually would like to provide some optimism in light of this horror and in these dark days. there actually was a lot of --

there have been small victories, actually, that have occurred in the last year and a half or so after 12/14 that likely would not have occurred. for example, we had the director of the atf appointed for the first time in 20 years. we had politicians run and win elections with gun reform on their platform. and we had states like connecticut and colorado and california and many others adopt comprehensive, commonsense gun reform packages. actually, when you look at california, which is where the shooting happened this weekend, although the strict gun laws in california obviously didn't deter what happened from happening, they also didn't allow the killer to obtain an assault rifle and 50-round ammunition magazines. so obviously it didn't stop what happened from happening, but the steps that we took after 12/14

did deter -- what happened could have been much worse. >> some optimism there but still a lot of frustration. sarah, thank you to you. >> i would like to say that we are in the -- we are moving forward in the right direction but we're still in the first mile of this marathon. >> and it is slow when it comes to mental health and issues with guns. sarah, thanks so much. tom, thanks for being with us and talking about this. >> thank you. next, intense new fighting breaking out in ukraine, even as the country's new president elect talks of peace. we'll be taking you there live. and the white house accidentally outs the cia chief in afghanistan as the president meets with troops there. how damaging is this leak? how much protein does your dog food have? 18 percent?

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a billionaire candy tycoon known as the chocolate king will be the next president for ukraine. there is a new round of bloody fighting. let's go to chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. he's in kiev. jim? >> reporter: well, brianna, tonight, ukraine is a country of deep contrast. the excitement, the hope here in kiev, the capital in the person part of the country contrasting with real fear, fear for their lives in the eastern part of the country. the peace, the calm here after the election on sunday here in kiev and in the west contrasting with a major anti-terror

operation under way around the donetsk airport. we're hearing still of loud explosions overnight. that violence continuing into the night. ukrainians voted but the election could not extinguish the violence. today, the airport in donetsk under armed assault by pro-russian militants. ukrainian forces responding with attack helicopters. ukraine's president-elect, petro poroshenko, known as the chocolate king here, said that his priority is to get russia to stop the bloodshed. >> bringing stability on the eastern part of ukraine. that would be impossible without participation of russian representative. >> reporter: despite the violence, international observers led by former secretary of state madeleine albright declared sunday's election largely free and fair. strong turnout in the west and center of ukraine, they said,

outweighed the violence in the east. traveling there through checkpoints manned by pro-russian separatists, we found the militants with free rein. election materials sent burning outside of polling stations and police looking less than interested in chasing the guilty parties. >> who came here to burn the ballots and materials outside? so who gave this order? >> reporter: a representative of the steve-declared donetsk people's republic was more than willing to take credit, showing me the closing of the polling stations here. then, waving russian flags, their supporters cheered a new russia, independent of the government in kiev and closer to neighboring moscow. tell me what you think of tomorrow's election? >> translator: i think they are

illegal but it's not important what i think. it's important what the people of donetsk think and they think this election is illegal, too. >> reporter: it has those facing a dilemma. can ukraine have a credible, legitimate, national election with very low turnout in the east? >> well, it's important to remember that the people denied their franchise in the east were denied because of violence committed by individuals apparently with support coming from russia and then we've got to work closely. brussels, the united states, berlin, paris, london to keep pressure on russia. >> a remarkable show of force in the last three days here by pro-russian militants. they were able to shut down the election in the two eastern provinces. 10 to 20% turnout. and now in the last 24 hours to shut down a major airport in

donetsk. and you can see this new leader of ukraine petro poroshenko saying that one of his other priorities is int gaegration wi the eu. remember, lots of violence, lots of players, including russia had a stake in that. if he pursues that goal very quickly, how will russia respond? a lot of open questions. it's hard to see how this country gets stable very quickly. >> sure is. jim sciutto, really appreciate that. he's in kiev. you can join jim now for a twitter chat. just tweet your questions using #jiminukraine and he'll be answering those for the next 30 minutes. i want to bring in daniel baer. he's joining us now from vienna. thanks, ambassador, for being with us. really appreciate it. and also your teams helped

monitor these elections. can you talk a little bit about what they say in the east and we just heard some of jim's report describing that. but tell us about some of the things that they saw and what that means for this election. >> that's right. there were over 1100 people observing these elections. there have been 100 people on the ground for the last three months observing the lead-up to the erections, the pre-election environment and then they were fanned out across the country. they were joined by a thousand more for election day and what they found, as they reported at their press conference today, was that the elections met international standards, that with the exception of the areas, the discrete areas in the east where armed groups have terrorized the local population, that 98% of the polling places where they observed were positively assessed.

i think it's important, also following on jim's assessment, he's been the eyes and ears on the ground there and doing great reporting for the last several weeks. when we're talking about the east, we're talking about two specific districts in the east out of 24 in the court where there are some parts that have been under control of the groups. what is amazing out of yesterday's election, that even in those two districts, thousands of people came out to vote. yes, the turnout was low. the latest turnout was 15% and only about 900 out of the 1300 were able to open but the turnout of 15% for those 900 polling places puts it largely in line with the rest of the country which shows just how many people would have voted if they could have voted if they hadn't been prevented by these violent groups. >> and ambassador baer, the judgment of these elections being largely free and fair is significant because the west had said that it would and the u.s.

said it would enact tougher sanctions if that didn't happen. does that mean that we shouldn't expect to see any consequences because of this judgment of these elections being largely free and fair? >> reporter: look, i think the osc is the gold standard in international election observation. it includes russia and ukraine. obviously it's a broad tent. it's a great step forward for ukraine. even before the votes were tallied, we knew that ukrainians had won yesterday's election because they came out in their millions and picked a new president and turned the page towards the future. i think there's a lot of work ahead and that means there's a lot of work ahead for mr. poroshe poroshenko and his government and for the ukrainian people coming together to work for a stronger and better ukraine. russian's actions continue to be destructive and detablizing. we heard about jim's report

about the new violence in donetsk, armed groups taking over the airport there. yesterday, lots of reports about chechens coming across the border from russia, openly admitting that they had come across the border from russia heavily armed. and russia needs to play a constructive role in the future, too. >> yeah. >> and i think we will continue to apply both pressure and support in getting them to play that role. >> a long road for sure. ambassador baer, thanks for joining us. and coming up, the identity of a top cia official in afghanistan that was supposed to be a secret, obviously. so why did the white house let the spy's name slip out. and as donald sterling faces a deadline from the nba, his wife may be fielding offers for the l.a. clippers. you're in "the situation room." i always say be the man with the plan

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america today is pausing to remember its fallen, those who have died serving their nation. hours after returning from an unannounced visit from troops in afghanistan, president obama laid a wreath at arlington memorial cemetery and spoke of continuing challenges abroad and the scandal facing war veterans at home. cnn's senior white house

correspondent jim acosta has details. >> reporter: on this day of remembrance, president obama paid tribute to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives and offered a war-weary nation closure. >> we're at a pivotal moment. our troops are coming home. by the end of this year, our war in afghanistan will finally come to an end. [ applause ] >> reporter: but with the embattled veterans affairs secretary, eric shinseki, the president could not ignore the cover-up at the v.a. >> we must ensure that the veterans get the opportunities that they earned and deserved. >> reporter: mr. obama's remarks came after a top secret whirlwind trip to afghanistan where he warned that al qaeda may be on its heels in that part

of the world but not everywhere. >> they are imposing a serious threat and we're going to have to stay strong and vigilant. >> reporter: it was a brief sneak preview of the speech that the president will give at west point where he will face critics who say that he's become too cautious and rush shthat's involvement in ukraine. >> it avoids errors, you hit singles, doubles every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run but we steadily advance the interests of the american people. >> reporter: but all of that will come after the memorial day, when the nation's political discourse can be set aside to honor those who defend it. >> everything that we hold precious in this country was made possible by americans who gave their all. >> reporter: but the white house has another headache to deal with and that is the accidental naming of the top intelligence

operatives stationed in afghanistan. it happened at a print pool report that went out to 6,000 journalists because of a mistake made by white house press officials and they are very concerned about this operative's safety but for right now the white house and cia are not commenting. brianna? >> jim acosta, thank you. let's bring informer cia officer bob baer along with cnn political commentator ryan lizza who is the washington correspondent for the new yorker. i'm going to ask you about the danger this imposes but you spoke with the reporter who put out this -- the name of this station chief. how did this happen? >> well, he was a pool reporter on air force one. a small group of reporters that always travels with the president, as you know. he basically asked for the name of the folks who were briefing the president at bagram air force base in afghanistan. a white house press person went to the military and asked for that list.

a military person sent it back to the white house with a note saying this is for the pool. in other words, this is for public distribution. gave it to the press. the press then wrote up a report with that and other information, sent it back to the white house -- >> as is customary. >> as is customary. >> to be sent out so the white house saw it before. >> and the white house pushes the final send button. these are low-level people and the question is, how did that name get on the military list. >> yes. >> that was sent to the white house, that was sent to the reporter and then to 6,000 e-mails. >> that is the question. and bob, we want to talk about the real effects of this. you worked for the cia. you served in many dangerous places. you heard jim's report, there is concern for the state of this person but also what is the greater danger here? >> brianna, i think they are going to have to pull him out. now that he's been identified

publicly. the taliban didn't know him before but they will focus on assassinating him and it's as a matter of fact that they are going to pull him out of afghanistan. it will affect his career over the long term, too. >> and what about those around him, anyone who may have been affiliated with him but without knowing his status, perhaps it didn't raises much as a red flag for the taliban? >> well, exactly. they are going to be able to look at him, his cover and the people around him they are going to look like they are cia, too and they may have to take a whole unit out. but this is a serious breach of security and the problem is white house staffers and some of the military don't understand the significance of cover and what it means for the cia. >> it is certainly a big deal and to you, ryan, as we see president obama going to west point talking about foreign policy, what does he need to do? >> well, it's really tricky because a lot of the criticism is coming from those on the right.

more forward facing and aggressive foreign policy and it all started with his switch in syria, when he backed off on the threat in syria. that's become one of the main criticisms for more hawkish republicans. i don't think he wants to be backed into a corner and argue that he is hawkish. he has this fine line of being where a lot of american people, which is less interventionists but also not being painted into this corner of someone who has withdrawn from this wider world. >> ryan lizza and bob baer, thank you so much to both of you for being with us. now, next, the nba wants a response from donald sterling by tomorrow. does he have anything to say about the racist comments that could cost him the clippers? plus, severe weather on this memorial day. some people are under a tornado warning. we'll have those details ahead.

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the nba has one more week to tighten its case against the owner of the los angeles clippers. the league will vote for donald sterling and his wife shelly to sell the team after outrage from coast to coast because of his racial comments. he has until tomorrow to respond to the allegations that those comments damaged the league. rachel nichols is in miami. what are we expecting to happen here? >> reporter: who knows. it depends on what side of the bed donald sterling and his wife shelly and their various lawyers wake up on. they have changed their tune over and over again throughout

this whole process. remember at the beginning, donald sterling just thought this was going to all blow over. he was telling friends he didn't have to do anything. then he goes on tv with anderson cooper, apologizes and says he doesn't need to sue or litigate this, that he and his partners can work this out. and while those words were hanging in the air, he goes and hire as lawyer, an anti-trust lawyer, a real serious heavy gun. meanwhile, his wife shelly has hired her lawyer. she's threatening to haul the other owners into court to question them about their private lives. donald sterling tells the nba that he's not paying the $2.5 million and there's no way they are participating in all of this and then yet in another change of direction, a few days ago the sterling's leaked stories that donald has agreed to let shelly run the voluntary selling of the team the nba is not going to

allow it to move to seattle. it seems to be farcical at this point. the nba is control and are going to proceed no matter what donald and shelly do. if they answer this charge, if they don't answer this charge, they are going to proceed with the process. >> so is that all we know about potential bidders here? >> reporter: well, you know, then if the nba does strip the sterlings of the team, tomorrow is when the sterlings have to answer the questions that the nba has given to them. they can choose not to answer the questions. that's their prerogative. or they can send over a bunch of legal papers stating their case. either way, in a week we will see the board of governors hearings and vote. we expect their ownership to be stripped from them and the nba would take over ownership of the team and when that happens, then it would begin the bidding process. it seems that there are so many very, very, very, very rich people who want to take this over.

>> yep. >> we were talking about a billion dollars a week or two ago. now it seems that that number, the asking price for this team might start at a billion and a half and go up to $2 billion. even more people are putting their hats in the ring. we heard about oprah winfrey and larry ellison. grant hill threw his hat in the ring. magic johnson, i don't know, brianna, do you want the team? >> i just can't afford it. rach rachel nichols, maybe we can go in together. >> reporter: we can work something out. >> yeah, definitely. just ahead, severe thunderstorms and flash flood warnings across parts of the south. the forecast, next.

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toward collapse? turning point. the search for malaysia flight 370 reaches a critical juncture. why could efforts to find the missing plane possibly be put on hold for months? eyes in the sky. remarkable technology help police fight deadly crimes from thousands of feet in the air, but does it cross a line when it comes to privacy? wolf blitzer is off tonight. i'm brianna keilar. and you're in "the situation room." this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news now. severe weather including tornado warnings. we had a watch before. it's now a warning. this is in parts of texas. we are seeing very heavy rain right now. they're extremely dangerous conditions for people who are on the road and who are off. we want to go straight now to cnn, our severe weather center where meteorologist karen mcginnis has the latest. what's up, karen? >> violent and dangerous storms erupting across eastern and southeastern texas. also west texas. this blew up just about two

hours ago. we have two tornado watches. one for extreme southeastern texas. the other for west texas from lubbock to del rio. the other from corpus christi to houston. not only are we seeing strong to severe thunderstorms, which have the potential to produce tornadoes, but also the very heavy downpours and that will be the big problem because we've got such low visibility because of the rainfall, if a tornado does develop, it is going to be rain wrapped. you are not going to see it touch down. we've had some reports of some damage. could have been thunderstorm damage, but could also have been small tornadic damage. no reports of any injuries or anything. let's move on and show you what's happening as we get a little bit further toward the south. this is a tornado warning. here is stenton, here is corpus chris christi. the cells moving to the northeast 20 to 30 miles per hour. have the capability of producing

tornadoes. we've had some reports of damage across that region as well. and in through west texas, heavy downpours. now two tornado warnings out. one near stanton, one near big spring. if you hear of a tornado warning, that means the danger is imminent. you need to take cover immediately. but not just the tornadoes and the storms. we're looking at severe flooding. we're monitoring our cnn affiliate. we saw people pushing cars out of floodwaters in houston, texas. now, that may not sound unusual with these heavy downpours, but the rain is staggering. some areas 2 to 4 inches. more rain on the way. some areas could see close to 8 inches of rainfall over the next 24 to 48 hours. and unfortunately, brianna, it looks like this is not just a one-day event. we'll see this going into tuesday and it shifts further to the east by wednesday.

>> and you're seeing, karen, rain-wrapped tornadoes. how dangerous and how common is that? >> well, we see this typically in a very moist environment. places like around houston. across the central plains, you've got such dry air, you don't see these big volumes of heavy rainfall. so they're not as obscured. but because they are obscured, if there's a warning, you may just think, oh, it's just rain coming down and that's what i hear. when, in fact, it could be a tornado. either big or small. we are suggesting that, perhaps, we could see more violent weather across west-central texas and from corpus christi to houston it's going to be the heavy downpours, but still that threat of severe weather in the form of tornadic activity and then look what happens for tuesday. from houston to austin, in that hill country of san antonio, all the way down toward brownsville. brianna. >> all right. karen, we'll be checking in with you. thank you.

now, it's some of the fiercest fighting yet with government warplanes, helicopters, paratroopers waging battles for hours trying to take back an airport in eastern ukraine seized by arm pro pro-russian militants. donetsk, a flashpoint in the deadly fighting threatening to split this country apart. cnn's nick paton walsh is there for us. give us the latest, nick. >> reporter: even now, brianna, on the outskirts this city, we heard the thud of explosions continuing. locals saying from the direction of the airport. here the dead of night in a city in which we thought was possibly immune to the violence swirling around this region. forces moved in, that was a red line for the government and moved in to assert their authority. some of the worst violence we've seen since this violence began. donetsk airport was a red line. separatists knew when they took

it quickly. ukrainian military jets alone flew over it. paratroopers moved in, separatists, too. oddly, both sides agree how this started. nsu 27 fired two strategic bombs" this separatist said, echoing a ukrainian official. this man adding it was inhuman to bomb a suburban area. locals caught in this. as explosions, a clear sign of the continuing intense gun battle around the airport. the worst violence really that this key population center in eastern ukraine has seen since start of this crisis and coming hours literally after yukrainia president-elect poroshenko would like to negotiate potentially a way out of this crisis. separatists well armed, disciplined, trained, amassed.

facing ukrainian gunship. they fire at it. it hits a target then comes back. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: rural suburban worlds ruptured. his family say they support the separatists who protect them. you can see over there on that roof, one of the stray rounds has landed into a house where, fortunately, there was nobody there at that time. police stopped traffic, but not the separatist bus loads flooding in. both sides later claim they held the airport, but the fire burning here just as kiev's new leader calls for peace, hence at how ukraine may be rushing headlong toward collapse.

what's most perturbing about today, brianna, how simply this morning we thought we had a new diplomatic window of how to fix this crisis. poroshenko saying he talked to moscow, moscow saying they talked to him back. amnesty to those separatists here who didn't have blood on their hands. we thought maybe things were winding down then suddenly this violence, it is the worst kind of violence we've seen certainly here in donetsk, certainly more fe since the begin of this ukrainian crisis we don't know the number of people who lost their lives here. both sides admitting that has been the case, and both sides claiming, too, they control the airport. the concern is are we in a new phase, and do the separatist gunmen here who are asserting their authority despite ukrainian military moving in in ways we haven't before, do they answer to politics? is there a potential negotiation

ahead or are we seeing things spiraling out of control here? >> how quickly things may be changing. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. search for missing malaysian airlines flight 37 o is reaching a controversial turning point and possibly hiatus that could last for months. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh is working this story for us. >> so, brianna, we're just hours away now from getting the raw satellite data families have been pushing for for months. now, it's critical the search for the missing plane rests solely on this data and where it says the plane entered the water. it's why millions of dollars in resources and manpower have been focused on the south indian ocean. i want you to listen to malay a malaysia's transport minister today when asked about timeline for the release of the data. >> inmarsat probably tomorrow. >> probably tomorrow? >> yeah. so, tomorrow. what's the hurry? the most important is getting to the truth. >> well, isn't it important to release the data as promised?

>> so, 24 hours is not going to make that much difference to the truth, right? >> so we'll get the data tomorrow? >> hopefully. >> all right. you heard him there. he sounds or nonchalant. for the families the release of the data is really a win. they've been demand it for months and critics who say the crews are searching the wrong place, they may not be satisfied until they see the data for themselves. now, we do expect it will reveal how and why malaysian and australian officials are so confident that the plane is where they have been searching. as this data gets released, we do know that the hunt for flight 370 is about to come to a stand still, potentially for two months. the underwater drone that we know as bluefin-21 will finish scouring its designated search zone on wednesday. if you remember, it's focusing on the area where the underwater signals were detected. those sounds possibly from the plane's black boxes. but after wednesday the search

may not resume until august. that's when the underwater search vehicles contracted through private companies, we expect they will pick those companies and that part of the search phase will kick off. >> that does take some time. let's bring in now our cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director, as well as peter goelz, former managing director of the ntsb. what, tom, are you expecting to see here? rene was saying, you know, it's basically going to explain how they got their math. is that all we're expecting? >> i think so. i think just to see them do their homework and how it was arrived at the longhand calculations that they used to determine it and the fact that all the experts have examined that same data. >> so we're kind of checking the work, if you will, like a math teacher does. is that what we expect, peter? >> right. it may or may not help the situation because aviation experts across the globe are going to cherry pick some of the

data. they're going to challenge some of the assumptions. this -- you know, more information doesn't necessarily bring clarity. >> wait, is that bad, though? let's say that they diverge for a while then eventually maybe converge. >> we haven't found anything. so more information, more analysis, let's get as many sets of fresh eyes on this because we're not going to start again as rene said for two months. let's take a deep breath and see where we're headed. >> so we've been looking now -- not we, we've certainly been involved in covering this. the search for this has gone on since march. from a law enforcement perspective, does the ability to put together a solid criminal investigation diminish with the passage of this time? >> not necessarily. they do have to find the plane otherwise they're not going to be able to determine what happened at all. i think that's the key problem here is that it's going to be important that if that data is correct, and all the experts that have looked at it says it is and says that plane is in the

south indian ocean, then the next step is however long it's going to take, get the right equipment out there to do the job and they haven't done that yet. >> so this has taken so much time, rene, and the families have wanted this released. they've been pleading for this. why has it taken this long? >> you know, it's really unclear why it has. i mean, we saw the back and forth. the malaysians saying it's for inmarsat to release it, then we heard inmarsat say, no. we experienced that, and of course that wasted a lot of time as well. also let's think about this. as malaysians said, this was an unprecedented event and they have admitted that they didn't handle it the best way that they possibly could. that being said, i think they were learning as they went along, and the last thing they probably wanted to invite is, you know, several people sitting on the sidelines saying, you know, picking apart data and saying, no, you should be doing this or you should be doing

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because it is clear responsibility we have. as a country, as a people, to take care of these men and women and their families who sacrifice so much. i know systems are imperfect. i mean, i get that. but when you've got what we do know, and you right, we do need to get the facts, let's see exactly what happened, why it happened, how it happened. then we have to fix it. then we have to fix it. but, sure, i mean, everybody is upset with this. >> and cnn talked with two veterans who have had two very different experiences with va health care. she's joining us now from a va facility in miami. tell us about this, alina. >> reporter: well, brianna, we actually spent several days talking to several veterans and those two veterans caught our attention because they're at different stages if their lives and offer two very different viewpoints of a system that is now under fire.

33-year-old brian lost his legs to an ied in afghanistan in 2010. >> happened in a flash, you know, as quick as you turn on the lights in your home, that's as quick as it happened. it felt like the biggest punch to my face. >> reporter: like so many wounded sole swrerdidiers he en walter reed. by time he left 18 months later, mass was walking on new prosthetics. just two months ago, he started running. now that he's retired, he's entitled to care from the va health system but chooses not to use it. >> the va facility that i go to, there's basically one day a month to go and get prosthetic care. for somebody that works to have to go on a thursday one day a month and that's the only day you can get there, that's a very inconvenient thing to do. >> reporter: eddie miller is also a veteran. unlike brian, he says he depends on the va. >> i've been in vietnam, did three tours in germany, one in korea.

>> reporter: since retiring from the army in 1992, miller has struggled with addiction and homelessness. >> gotten everything from them that i needed to the point even with my addiction, my drug problem. >> reporter: today, he's working to turn his life around. he credits the va system for helping him get better. you an see the doctor when you need to? >> i see him every month. he has hundreds of patients. i can see him. if it's an emergency, yes, i can see either him or the psychiatrist on call. >> reporter: still some veterans say they have not had the same experience as miller. sources tell cnn at least 40 vets died while waiting to see a doctor with a phoenix veterans affairs health care system. at least 26 va facilities are now being investigated by the va's inspector general over accusations regarding delays in care. makes you angry? >> angry beyond words. >> reporter: mass says he has heard the reports and is calling for change now. >> to think that on memorial day

i'm going to have to try to -- i'm going to have to remember veterans that were last to us because they didn't receive care, because they were put on some false waiting list at a veterans affairs facility? that's the most dishonorable thing i can think about. >> reporter: so can you fix the system? we asked mast what he thought. he was emphatic if his response. he said absolutely you can. he also said service members are key in helping those men and women who may be falling through the cracks. >> alina, great story. thank you so much. let's bring in alex nicholson, legislative director of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. first off, you heard president obama today reiterating this commitle to make good, to make a difference here, to push thitur around. what needs to be done for him to make good on that? >> one of the first things we need to see is fundamental and

substantial reform at the va, that includes not only policy and practices but personnel as well. it's clear that there are problem bureaucrats deep down within va. there are some problems at the top as well, but i think most people know that there are problems within the va. the secretary has had trouble firing people who've made egregious mistakes. hospital leaderships that have been responsible for patient deaths. cover-ups. now we're just seeing more and more. this is going to continue. >> so basically people who aren't allowing that sort of information that's on the ground to percolate up so that secretary shinseki would know what's going on? >> that's definitely part of the problem. you talk to frontline hospital workers, social workers, counselors, case managers, they can tell you about plenty of the problems at the va, the suggestions they've made over the years to try to correct some of these problems. it doesn't always get up to the secretary. he's certainly created a culture around him in which his employees sometimes are either not willing or don't feel comfortable or are not able to report information up to him.

>> do you see congress as having any role in a change here? >> congress has definitely got to be proactive. you know, this is one time where it's really hard to blame congress for this problem. i know that tends to be, you know, it's sort of funny to say that, but congress has given the va every penny it has asked for and more. over the past couple years when other agencies have had budgets slashed, congress exempted the va from sequestration. there's no doubt that the resources to serve veterans is been provided, they've just not been handled well. >> on this memorial day, i want to ask you a broader question about veterans. we saw president obama in afghanistan over the weekend. many service members have been in war for years now. what is the biggest challenge for veterans now after 13 years of war? >> i think the number one thing we hear from our members who are transitioning out of the service, returning from a deployment, is they have trouble with the folks that day interact

with as a civilian understanding what they've been through, their experiences, gravity of their experiences, how it's changed them and there's just a disconnect. the military/civilian divide continues to be the biggest issuedays. >> how do you bridge that? how do you let civilians who don't know a service member, don't understand, how can you get through to them so they understand? >> to be perfectly honest, segments like this, having memorial day every day, having veterans day every day is one way to start. people have to realize the men and women, the 1% who put their lives on the line have done a lot and you have to integrate that more into your daily lives, into businesses hiring vets. it's just got to become a bigger part of our society. >> think about them in your daily decisions. alex, thank you so much for the great conversation. >> you're very welcome. we do want to go now to pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she met an amazing veteran and barbara, i just -- tell us this. this is one of the most inspiring stories that i have seen today. tell us about it.

>> brianna, set aside everything you think you know about an american veteran and meet travis mills. >> come on. yeah. let's go. >> reporter: travis mills is determined today to shave time off his run on the treadmill. and he's doing it with no arms or legs. >> how i survived, i have no idea. i was yelling at the medic to get away from me because i thought i was done. i wasn't freaking out or nothing. just accepted -- accepted the fact that this could be it. >> reporter: far from it. even though he lost all his limbs when an ied exploded under him in afghanistan, and he spent months at walter reed hospital, he quickly quickly started living his motto to never give up, never quit. he'd even bring his then-infant daughter chloe to his workouts.

there was never any sitting around. >> just too boring. can't do it. sit around and stew about it. i mean, 26, you know? i got stuff to do. might as well just go ahead and do it. can i get a kiss good-bye? love you. >> reporter: now he says it's all for chloe and his wife, kelsey. >> look at this technology. how neat is it, you can lose both arms and legs and can still walk? i'm running for you later today. i snowboard. i go downhill biking. it's wild. >> reporter: travis also recently jumped out of an airplane with the army golden nights parachute team. >> here he comes. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: he insists despite three tours full of fire fights and his injuries, he does not have post traumatic stress, but he has a rare determination. >> it's where the river meets the road. i put personal friends in body

bags. they're not here. i am. wro you know, that's just -- how selfish would it be if i gave up? >> head down. head down. >> reporter: travis is doing more than just living life. he's trying to buy a camp in maine for wounded troops. and he knows public support for the war, itself, is in decline, but he won't talk politics. >> i know what i did over there meant something. i know my buddies didn't die in vain. the first time you go because you want the excitement. second time you go because the guy you trained to your right and left, they got your back. third time to go, i had orders somewhere else. i called up and had them canceled so i could go for a third time. i had a great group of guys. i didn't want to leave them stranded. no way. >> reporter: no way does travis want you to worry about him. >> the wounded warrior thing, try and change that now. i was wounded. i'll give you that. now i'm not. i'm not wounded anymore. i mean, oh, look at you, you

know, you're wounded. wounded means i'm still hurt. i'm not hurt. you know, i'm fine. so, once upon a time, i was a wounded warrior. i'll give you that. now i'm healed. i'm just a guy living life. there we go. >> brianna, travis mills' motto, never give up, never quit. the motto for so many american veterans on this memorial day. brianna? >> i know, barbara, today you were at arlington cemetery. tell us about what it was like to be there. >> well, we go almost every year here at cnn because it's so important for americans and for us to be able to show americans what happens in arlington, just one little slice of what happens at military cemeteries across the country. we saw so many young children, once again, as every year it happened, being brought there to pay their respects by their parents. young widows bringing infants in their arms. just really a place where you

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