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attorney. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm joe johns. you're in the cnn news room. new this morning, strong storms affecting major portions of texas and even up into the midwest states send people at a circus running towards the exits. >> eye witness video shows the moments inside the tent. water is seen pouring from the top of it. a trapeze performance artist comes to a screeching halt. we have the details on this one. >> good morning this is not the way you want to get your weekend started off. a few folks out there going out for a friday evening performance. 30 minutes into the show they're sent running for the exits there are some of the moments before water started to pour into the tent itself. the footage actually captures

some of the tense moments inside the tent. i want you to listen as people started realizing that just something wasn't right. stop crying, don't cry. >> so again, several nervous folks inside the tent and they will nowhere to go many of the folks trying to evacuate the tent. you can see the weather still major rain coming down outside of the circus. earlier this morning we had an opportunity to speak to one of the circusgoers. she described what it was like inside. >> the hail started. which was a very scary sound. honestly. and i don't want to minimize on those weather is a scary thing, i know some people that were home during all of this and they were scared as well. but it just people decided maybe they shouldn't be in the tent and when they did. they started moving. >> now fortunately nobody was injured out there.

it was really just more of a scary moment there. hearing from weather experts this morning. they said wind gusts of over 61 miles per hour reported at a nearby airport. in a community south of houston there. there were about four isolated tornadoes as part of the system in southeast texas and the threat remains this morning, christi, so very important folks as they get ready to head out for the weekend, not only in parts of texas, but mainly in the southeast continue to track the weather because the threat of severe weather does continue into today. >> it is not pretty. paolo sandoval thank you so much. the same storm created some big problems on the roads, a look at the cars stuck here and passengers stranded in flash floodwaters, this too, in houston. some good old folks there were even helping each other move cars to higher ground. you can always find some kind people which is helpful. >> lots and lots of rain around. a bad weather caused passengers to be stranded on a tarmac for hours. united airlines flight left

kansas city it was diverted to colorado springs due to lightning. in denver and with no air conditioning only crackers for food. passengers of course outraged. turn to their phones. capturing it all on video. here's our affiliate kdro with more. >> the operation is required to formulate plan to start getting people off the airplane. that is and they are sticking to that. >> that plan -- not fast enough. no fresh air, no air conditioning. and only a few crackers for food. passengers coming close to a riot at one point. instead of rioting, they recorded. >> we only have three dates and they are not in the mood to be dealing with us. they don't have to do anything with us. until we've been on out here for three hours. >> my sister and i -- taking her to visit an aunt.

and this was probably our last vacation together. and this is the memory we have. >> desperate to get out, but couldn't. basically if we exited the plane any time in that six hours we would be stranded. >> colorado springs airport says it was a mix-up. >> there's been a little bit of a miscommunication between the pilots and the passengers stating that the colorado springs airport was not allowing them to taxi to the gate. that is not true. >> turning what was supposed to be a dream vacation -- >> and to them it's just business but to the people on the plane, it was our heart. we weren't flying out of boredom. we had something to do. >> into an hours-long nightmare. >> thanks to greg miller from our affiliate kdro for that report. and republic airways, the subsidiary of united airlines released a statement to us regarding this incident. they said quote there was no known lightning strike only lightning the area at the time when the plane has apparently

been exaggerated. not yet been confirmed and the flight followed faa procedure. this was one of numerous flights diverted to cos because of the storms. >> it's not just the airline it's the airport as well and some collaboration that's going to help those people. >> and people don't know who to be angry at a lot of times. you don't know who it is that's holding you up. >> right. so i'm wondering, ivan cabrera, here with us where are the dicey spots today? >> same areas, people are glg to get hit with the torrential downpours, the same low that's responsible for bringing the snow to colorado are the same ones look at the thunderstorms that blew up over texas here. i want to take you back as far as what the radar was looking at friday at 5:30 watch the thunderstorms as they move through houston. you'll be able to see a bow ring here that is indicative of strong damaging winds, rolling through houston at the time of the tent situation there. and i must say you have to have contingency planes if you're

having an event in the middle of weather here. this was not a surprise. we knew we were going to have some dicey weather across texas yesterday so that's that. and there goes the storm as it pushes east. that low is still spinning in place. so the same areas are going to get hit. you see all of these tornado reports and hail reports here. we're going to continue to see a line from dallas all the way to the north. but take a look at the rainfall that's fallen as well this is the other part of the story. not only severe weather but torrential downpours, five to ten inches of rainfall have fallen in the last of five days. so we still have flood warnings across the gulf coast. as far as the severe weather. it extends because the low is not moving from corpus christi to austin to dallas. and heading up into wichita. not expecting tornadic outbreaks here possibly a few isolated tornadoes. the main threat will be heavy downpours of flooding rain and the possibility of damaging winds with hail. >> so we're under the gun once again. >> thanks for the heads up. appreciate it. president obama is telling the senate enough is enough.

that it's time to stop playing politics and confirm loretta lynch as the attorney general. >> there's no reason for it. nobody can describe a reason for it. beyond political gamesmanship in the senate. on an issue that's completely unrelated to her. this is the top law enforcement job in the country. >> sunlen serfaty is live at the white house with the story. sun sunlen how are republicans responding to the president's words. >> republicans are pushing back. they're pinning the hold-up on the democrats in the senate. a big part of the hold-up over lynch's nomination and confirmation is because her nomination has been tangled into a separate unrelated issue of a bill on anti-human trafficking. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has linked the two issues. he says that they won't go on to a vote to lynch until they hold

a vote on the human trafficking bill first. the problem there is that bill includes some controversial language on abortion that a lot of democrats are unhappy with. so this is we see many republicans now move to saying it's the democrats here that are actually standing in the way. >> well i think we're doing just what the democrats did when they were in charge. that is leave lined up a series of issues we're going to deal with and right now, the issue that's right in front of us is the bill the democrats have supported. and that is the trafficking, the illegal trafficking bill in human beings. they're supporters of it and they're filibustering that bill. >> there are some signs of progress on this bill on capitol hill. democratic and republican sources tell us that they are moving towards a compromise in order to tweak the language. that abortion language that might make it more amenable to democrats. that's all-important in the context of loretta lynch if they're able to get the compromise the majority leader

mitch mcconnell said he'll hold a vote on the trafficking bill early next week. that could potentially pave the way for a vote on loretta lynch. perhaps as early as next week. >> republicans in control of the senate flexing their muscles. thanks so much sunlen serfaty. this one almost sounds like a movie script. new york doctor in a little bit of trouble here. took an oath to do no harm. but cops say a cardiologist tried to put a hit out on a colleague, he had a stash of weapons hidden in a room behind switch-activated boom shelves. the doctor's lawyer is joining us next. it's a big weekend for the gop. the top contenders for the 2016 race in new hampshire for the party's leadership summit. but who's connecting with voters? we're going to go there live, coming up. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it.

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was it a prescription for murder? a wealthy new york cardiologist is accused of trying to take out his competition. wednesday, police charged dr. anthony moschetto of plotting to kill a rival cardiologist jennifer mcloegen from our affiliate wcvs has more. >> it was inside his lavish gold coast home where this respected cardiologist allegedly hatched his sordid plan when investigators raided the sands point estate. they said they discovered a hidden room containing this cache of 100 assault weapons. >> luckily for his victim, dr. moschetto chose the wrong people to deal with in his scheme and

we stopped it dead in its tracks before anyone could get hurt or killed. >> dr. moschetto paid undercover agents with illegal prescription pills, cash and guns it's alleged. and arranged for two henchmen co-defendants to set fire to his former colleague's office and kill his former colleague, in a bitter dispute over power and control. >> he was going to have him beaten and put him in the hospital for a knew months and pay $20,000 to have him killed. >> let's talk to moschetto's attorney randy zellen. thank you so much for being with us. i want to run through some of the evidence here. that they're talking about. police are alleging that he they found about 100 weapons hidden in a room behind a switch-activated book shelf. that included hand grenades high-capacity magazines, knives. how is he explaining this? >> well first of all, let's remove the word "evidence" from

the discussion. because merely holding a press conference is not evidence. what i know about the case so far is i've been handed pieces of paper that basically say somebody told me that somebody did something that somebody said something. on a particular day. none of anything in this case has any evidentiary value and this is the fundamental notion -- my client is presumed innocent as you look at him, as everybody looks at him on that screen it doesn't matter what anyone says he is presumed to be innocent. >> so what what is he telling you about the fact well what can you tell us? i should say, because i know there's a privilege there that we can't and wouldn't try to get into. but he gave cash and black prescription pads to an undercover agent. >> once again at this stage of the proceedings, that is a completely unsubstantiated allegation. as far as this case goes criminal cases, whether they be high-profile cases or not, they have stages they have lives. right now, the most important

thing that we set out to accomplish was to have my client walk out of the courtroom with me. which he's done. and that was first and foremost. now what we work on doing is getting him back to work. he's got patients to see. this man, while he was in a detention cell the only thing that he cared about were his patients. and amazingly, his patients were flooding the office with calls, making sure that he was okay. the next thing we do is we get him back to work. then we start tearing apart this case and looking for the e word looking for the evidence. >> what are you going to be looking at as you tear apart this case? >> it's impossible to say. we look under every rock. every haystack there's nothing that we don't look for. we have a team assembled. we're going to go through every allegation. we're going to go through everything in this case. so i cannot tell you, because there's no recipe there's no script. every case stands on its own.

every client is an individual human being. every fact pattern is different. and that's the way we approach it. the uniqueness of every case and everything that goes into it. >> mr. zelin, you said his patients had been coming forward to defend him and they want to go see him. can he practice while this is pending? >> yes. right now as i know and as the world is concerned, this man is a well-respected top, amazing cardiologist and he wants to work his patients want him to work and there's nothing stopping him from doing what he is amazingly talented at. which is he's got people's hearts in their hand that's whey does and that's what he will be doing. >> attorney randy zelin. we appreciate you being here with us, thank you. christi, the gop courting voters in new hampshire. jeb bush and the other top contenders for the white house in 2016 in the granite state for

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let's take a live look now, nashua new hampshire, where republicans are out in full force. senator rand paul on stage, right after the his speech on

the second day of the summit some other big names that are also going to take the stage. among them texas senator ted cruz wisconsin governor scott walker. it comes a day after contenders tried to grab the spotlight or put some of the rhetoric to a field test. let's bring in cnn's athena jones. what's senator paul been saying so far? >> good morning, joe, he said a lot on the stage. he bashed president obama on immigration, on his executive actions on immigration. quoting monescu, saying when the executive starts legislating, a form of tyranny ensues. now presidential candidate hillary clinton and the handling of the situation in benghazi. he said her dereliction of duty should disqualify her from holding any higher office. but he also talked about what the party needs to do to find a

nominee who could win. let's play that sound. >> we have a decision we need to find someone who is going to represent us someone who is going to be the leader of the republican party and make the country a better place. how are we going to get that? some of the party say let's just dilute the message, let's become democrat lite and we'll get more votes. i couldn't disagree more. i think what we need to do is be boldly for what we are for. >> so be boldly for what we are for. what did he say we are for? he talked about cutting corporate taxes. he also said that republican party in order to win more states than texas and georgia, to win purple states places like ohio colorado new hampshire, the party needs to start defending the entire bill of rights not just the second

amendment right to bear arms, but the other amendments like the fourth amendment, like unreasonable search and seizure. he covered a lot of ground on the stage, joe. >> some libertarian themes in there, athena jones, thanks so much. developing this morning, a vow to take down terrorists after a brutal isis suicide attack leaves dozens dead. why investigators believe the blast was targeting government workers. and protesters called enemy forces and adversaries, the language used by national guards revealed if an exclusive cnn investigation. but first, this week's one to watch series examines the art of photography. >> we travel to france to meet a man who has such a unique perspective about the face off your planet. >> a moving image held still.

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for law enforcement, but for the broader community. we need to get better in relation to identifying young men and women involved in this type of behavior at the very early stages. >> officials say those three suspects have already been released. in afghanistan at least 33 people are dead and more than 100 wounded after a rush hour attack claimed by an offshoot of isis. the blast happened in jal ed ined in ed ined in ed ined in jalal bad. the bombers was targeting government workers. earlier today, the afghan president condemned the attack vowing to take down terrorists who he says are using afghan blood and soil for a proxy war. let's bring in major general marks. i want to start with the bombing

in afghanistan. this is an offshoot of isis that's claiming responsibility for it. and as you know, we also have this bombing, a car bombing in erbil, claiming the lives of four people. 18 people injured. isis also claiming responsibility for that as well. what's the significance of that? >> well clearly, both in both cases what isis has achieved and let me joe, take a step back and say we don't know that this is really an isis-it's isis inspired. but we don't know its linkages into what i would call the isis command and control type of structure, which exists in full blossom in northern and eastern syria, northern iraq. but having said that what these both of these attacks really get to is the nature of terrorism. which really defines the vulnerability of innocent citizens. when isis claims it's trying to achieve the caliphate and the caliphate is in northern iraq

and syria they need to hold on to territory. the caliphate could be in cyberspace for inspirational purposes. but it's got to be territory associated with it. so when you have a terror attack like what took place in erbil, they aren't looking to hold territory, they are looking tore exert forms of terror on to the population. and erbil is a rather modern open city. we've all been there before and we know that commerce kind of takes place. it would look like any place that you would see in america. so this really strikes to the heart of the vulnerability of the iraqi people. the advances that isis is making and it keeps people's heads on a swivel. you take that relative to the advances that are taking place now in ramadi where isis wants to hold on to territory, that's a tad different. but still it's symbolic and it took place outside the american consulate. that's what's worrisome. >> it's symbolic. but as far as strategy from a strategic sense it doesn't mean that much. >> well joe, it does.

because this is what terror is all about. terrorism is about keeping you on your toes and keeping you nervous. and primarily, altering your behavior. that's what's going to take place in erbil. things will be different. the new normal will be different today than it was yesterday in erbil because of this attack. that's the success of terrorism. >> now, this morning, iraqi tv is reporting that iraqi forces have entered the baiji oil refinery to liberate it from isis how important is that refinery from a strategic standpoint? >> huge. it's huge. >> before we liberated iraq in 2003 it was all the discussions were about obviously wmd and iraqis oil production. refinery as well as exploitation of those incredibly rich oil resources they have. baiji is one of the primary refinery and distribution facilities. so this is all about to show from isis' perspective, holding territory.

they want that facility. the isf, the iraqi security forces need to get them out of there. >> general marks, thanks for coming in to us on a saturday morning. see you again soon. >> we want to talk a little more about the suicide car bomb attack at the u.s. consulate in erbil. for that we want to go to mitch pethero a bureau chief of mcclatchy newspapers in erbil. what can you tell us? what have you learned more at this point about this blast. >> kurdish security officials ways talking to have revised the timeline of what happened last night. it was around 5:40 p.m. the bomb did go off directly outside the pedestrian entrance for the u.s. consulate in erbil. at the time they were saying it was three bombers in a car trying to mount an operation. now they've revised that saying it was one bomb anywhere a car and two of the dead they thought were part of the operation were in fact were just innocent

passersby. and we've had an announcement from the turkish government that they did lose two citizens yesterday. that's the latest we're hearing on what happened last night in this normally very quiet section of erbil. >> isis is claiming responsibility for this one. have you heard anything more about the strategy and who exactly was behind it? >> well the isis group that took responsibility for it was a unit in the iraqi city of kirkuk which would make sense, an area controlled by the kurdish security forces that has a high sunni muslim population of arabs, as well as sheia there is isis activity on the front lines, the islamic state and the peshmerga face off, sorld of a world war i style trench warfare area down there and there's a lot of traffic between kirkuk and erbil. what we are find something kurdish security forces have been pretty good at preventing these attacks. there's only been two suicide

bombings since june when mosul fell of last year. which is far lower than anybody anticipated. one thing that the kurds have going for them is a fairly unified population. anybody see something suspicious they're going to call the police or call the internal security guys and it will be checked out. it's a very different situation than you would find in baghdad where it's a city of eight million people. a lot of who don't know each other or are afraid to get involved in any suspicious activity or call the police about something they don't trust. >> we have pictures of a top saddam aide who has reportedly been killed. wondering how significant is his death? and how does it affect ice nis that region. any gauge? >> it's not going to affect the islamic state. he was the leader of a group called the nashbondi order, a group of former saddam officials that were resisting the shia government the shia-led government in baghdad. they had aligned with isis last

year with the islamic state in the takeover of mosul and were very helpful of over time what they found was that the ideology ideologies were so radically different from the islamic state's desire to build a muslim caliphate span between mosul and raqqa. and there had been a lot of internal tensions some of his men had joined the islamic state or fled to baghdad or erbil. so he was a fairly marginal figure. the biggest thing is it's a symbolic win sort of both for the united states who spent ten years looking for the guy, unable to find him and it's a big deal to the shia government of iraq. because this is somebody who had tormented them as part of a you know saddam's right-hand man as part of the regime for a decade. he's a notorious figure in iraq. but in terms of his day-to-day presence operationally in today's battlefield he's relatively insignificant. >> thank you so much for the

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national guard as they described protesters in ferguson missouri in the wake of the michael brown shooting. >> sara sidner is following the story. good morning, sara. >> some of the protesters told us they should be called americans in the documents, not enemies. but it is true that some of the protesters did at times turn violent. >> cnn has obtained new documents revealing how the national guard planned for the situation in ferguson missouri. in internal documents that used words like enemy forces and adversaries to refer to the protesters. after protests erupted in sporadic violence looting and burning in the wake of michael brown's death. the document outlined the enemy forces to watch out for. putting general protesters in the same category as known hate groups like the clue cluxklu klux klan and the black panthers noting that several small arms fire

incidents have occur and some may use militant tactics taught by that rebel group. >> we are looked at as the enemy any time we're vocal, any time we're expressing ourselves, any time we're disenfranchised in the black community. >> how am i an enemy? all i am is a 62-year-old grandmother who is worried that i'm going to leave my grandchildren in a world where i can't protect them any more. i want to see change i want to see real change. >> the national guard itself worried about the perception of enemy and adversary. in the document one colonel warned the language could be construed as potentially inflammatory. the spokesman told cnn these were only drafts taken from an army form letter and the language was changed and november appearnever appeared in the final order. the head of the national guard telling cnn the documents used were a generic military planning format. utilized in a wide range of

military mission, so the term enemy forces would be better understood as potential threats. when november when a grand jury decided not to indict the office another killed brown, the governor and national guard were criticized for the guard's lack of response as two streets in ferguson went up in flames. back then i asked the city's mayor about the guard's reaction to the riot. >> did the governor do the wrong thing when this comes to how quickly the national guard was actually deployed on the streets. >> i don't know who made that call. but i do believe the national guard should have been out there much sooner. >> whether these are a draft or the final document what we did notice is that the final change came in november on the 18th when they took the word enemy out and these documents had been around likely since august which was four months prior. the first time the national guard was deployed in ferguson. christi, joe? >> sara sidner thanks for that. what happens in vegas didn't stay in vegas for an nhl player.

what cops say they caught a star forward for the l.a. kings with a hotel by the pool. that coming up next.

now a national hockey league star is in big trouble with the law this morning. >> jared stol faces drug charges after his arrest in las vegas

last night. >> not good because jared stoll has gone from the cold ice to the hot seat. arrested for drug possession on friday afternoon. police tell cnn affiliate ksv. that stoll had cocaine and ecstasy, he was released from jail on $5,000 bail. a hearing is scheduled for later today. guys. >> the team has put out a statement, sand right now, what they're just sort of saying well some of this some of that. we don't know what this is we're going to wait and see? >> it was the team's pr twitter account and they came out and released the quote. they said our organization is concerned and has begun conducting a thorough internal investigation, while we continue to actively gather facts, we're with holding further comment at this time. so that's the only thing they know clearly they're going to dig deep and see what happened here. >> tell us more about him on and off the ice, because i think a lot of people know him through

his still girlfriend? >> yeah well -- in the past he is known to have been dating erin andrews. the host of "dancing with the stars" and a sports reporter. he was also engaged to rachel hunter the actress and model at one time. his name has been around. but recently erin andrews, they've been the power couple in l.a. this is the guy who was with the l.a. kings since 2008. he won the stanley cup twice, once in 2012 once just last year and now, though guys he's a free agent. starting in july i believe his contract is up. so this is terrible news terrible timing for him in his career moving forward. >> do you think he'll have trouble getting picked up? >> if this is what we think it looks to be then yes, it absolutely would be. he is 32 years old. he has a lot of playing time left in those legs, think this would be pretty detrimental for him. >> how is he known as a guy? >> he's young, he's a very good

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