♪ breaking news this morning. look at what people in texas and oklahoma are dealing with. one person has already died amid this dangerous flooding. neighborhoods are evacuated and dozens of people need to be rescued and there is more on the way. and we have got demonstrations, arrests, protesters upset over the acquittal of a cleveland police officer and they are taking to the streets. >> it's not the answer. it's about trying to find a solution. for good or for bad. >> there is cleveland's hometown hero lebron james calling for calm. will there be a repeat tonight? plus ben carson making a strong push with some republican voters it seems. the retired neurosurgeon upsetting the gop's field in the south and giving a major boost

for his run to the white house. it's all ahead on your "new day." it is 7:00 here in the east. we are so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. out of oklahoma, record breaking rain has already claimed a life. >> a firefighter in claremore, oklahoma, was killed while trying to rescue people trapped by rising water. take a look at the new pictures just in from tulsa, oklahoma, overnight there. that car immersed in high water. they are floating down the road. this incredible video too. this is coming up here from bags, oklahoma. the ground is so saturated, drains are overwhelmed. oklahoma to the pan handle of texas, in fact. this downpour is toppling power lines and forcing evacuations and cnn's elena machado, we

understand you're facing a rough day today. help us understand what it's like there right now. >> reporter: even before the overnight rains, we saw roads like this one were already blocked off pause of high water and residents here were already on alert. relentless rain pounding parts of the plains. causing severe flash flooding in oklahoma. in wichita falls, texas, truckloads of sand continued arriving on saturday as volunteers worked around the clock to fill up the bags. all in an effort to help residents in low lying areas who are scrambling to prepare for what could turn out to be a record flood. city leaders on alert. >> so we will just have to wait and see how this progresses. >> the water line would be about

from the edge there, maybe about 12 inches down. that's about as max as it usually gets. >> reporter: tom becker and his wife carrie are among the hundreds of people in wichita falls who have been forced to leave their homes. >> it's just overwhelming. you don't know what to do or where to go or how bad it's going to be. >> reporter: the water slowly creeping up in their backyard. they have packed up their valuables and they had to get creative with how to protect what they are leaving behind. >> the first night, we tried to get everything two to three feet. the last two days we kept coming back and going higher and higher and higher. we have stuff way up high now. >> reporter: no doubt this is an inconvenience the beckers they say but they welcome the water. they have been under a drought for the past five years and their prayer for rain is answered. >> with when we don't have water, that's a big deal. we are blessed. it's hard to look at this and

say you are blessed. >> you were praying for rain, right? >> i stopped. i stopped about two days ago. >> reporter: now this area had major flooding in 2007 when the river reached 24 feet. the latest information from the national weather service is suggesting some hope. we are being told that now the wichita river is expected to crest at 21.5 feet later tonight so that is some good news. we might be avoiding some major, major flooding in this area after all. >> we would hope so. alina machado, thank you very much. >> that is not knowing how bad it's going to say get. that is enough and you see it coming. let's raise it a little more. you just hope it makes it. we did talk to kim jackson this morning. she's an anchor for ktul in tulsa and she talked to us about this firefighter who died. >> listen up to this.

>> there was a duplex and people were needing to be rescued so he was one of dozen of emergency workers who showed up to help, and he was, you know, swept into, you know, a storm drain and very unfortunate, as he was one of the people there to help everyone. >> give us some sense of the area where all of this water is causing problems. wuf got claire -- you've got claremore, and other areas. does it go as far as out as oklahoma city? some idea of the size of this problem. >> absolutely. it goes even west of oklahoma city. i can't begin to name all of the communities that are just seeing so much rain that has left us in these conditions where everyone is just in a state of shock basically. we even had -- here in tulsa, we had a teenager who was driving his truck when the rain first started. he hydroplaned and crossed the center line and this morning, his family is grieving because he was killed in that accident. so every minute, we are getting

phone calls here at the station from something that is happening from just roads being closed to accidents. last night, from 9:00 until 11:00, our emergency responders responded to about 55 different incidents and some of those were rescues of people stalled in their cars because we are telling our viewers with just 6 inches of water is enough to knock an adult over, you know? and possibly be swept away. a foot of water is enough to jeopardize them in their car. so with situations like that, you had cars on main roads. i'm talking roads that the malls are on, so people are out. it's saturday night. no one really expected it. so it was quite a scene in many parts of our town. >> what does it look like there right now? is the water still flowing? is it raining? >> it is. the water is still flowing. it's still raining. it's still drizzling at this point in tulsa. that isn't to say what is happening somewhere else close by, but we do have a gentle rain

that is falling, but any rain right now is too much because our grounds are simply saturated from days and days of water that we received, you know, beforehand. so it's not going to stop. today, we are expecting more rain. >> let's bring in cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera. she makes a good point. just six inches of water could cause you huge problems and a lot of people don't realize that. >> absolutely. a couple of feet could just get your car buoyant and away you go. a lot of this has been happening overnight, right? when it's dark and people can't really gauge what is in front of them as far as how much flooding has occurred and it has been a lot. i want to show you some of the hydrographs here and one has caught my eye. amazing stuff here. this 4:00 p.m. and the river is at four feet. we went from 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., climbing, climbing, climbing, past the record of 33.3 feet and last observed, we are at 40 feet. we are expected to crest at 41

feet. so 35 feet of water volume here in the river and that is st. marcos river. that passes right over i-35 which is along st. marcos which is why we have closed parts of the i-35 corridor here north of san antonio and the heaviest of the rain is east of it here. even if we don't get a drop of additional rainfall it will take a while for the rivers to come down. we will get a lot more drops of rainfall and torrential rain in the forecast the next 24 hours. the flash flood watches and warnings all over from texas to on oklahoma and into kansas, whereas i've been showing you some areas picking up six timed their normal may rainfall. that is incredible. more of this moisture is just going to get pumped into the north. out ahead of it, some of the individual cells that develop this afternoon, the potential is still there. the main threat is flooding but i do think that some areas could be talking about large hail and also some damaging winds.

that will be more for eastern texas heading into arkansas and into portions of missouri with some damaging winds so we will watch for that. then again this continues because the pattern that we are in, we are basically stuck in. reverse of what we had during the winter, when we had a big low in the east and big high in the west has swapped and now we are talking about this rainfall that is not stopping any time soon. >> incredible. six times their normal main rainfall. >> 18 inches. >> wow. >> and still raining. >> huge. thanks so much for that, ivan. the other thing we are watching today is cleveland. the mayor has spoken. now nba's lebron james is talking about the protests, and the arrests overnight. we will tell you what is happening there and take you there live. plus isis is on the move. this terror group is making inroads in iraq. allied forces are looking to stop their advance. and we will tell you why the u.s. is watching closely. takyou haven't seen ep like... your bed in days.

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all eyes are on cleveland this morning following the protests over the acquittal of police officer michael brelo in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people. demonstrators facing off there against police that were in riot gear as you see. authorities say there were multiple arrests. some restaurants boarded up their windows, closed early after some scuffles broke out. we know at least one patron was injured. cnn's erin mclaughlin is in cleveland right now. you have the nba playoffs there tonight, erin, that are there in cleveland and now we are hearing from lebron james. not about basketball but about all of this, yes? >> reporter: that's right. he is urging fans to stay calm and to focus on the game. meanwhile, today at around 9:00, we are expecting a press conference from the police chief, as well as cleveland's

mayor. there are fears of violence, but, right now here in cleveland, things seem quiet as this community comes to terms with this tragedy and the verdict. protests in downtown cleveland following the acquittal of a police officer in a 2012 shooting death of two unarmed people. police in riot gear pushed back protesters, arresting at least a dozen. three people were charged after an object was thrown into a restaurant. >> the man picked the sign up off the sidewalk and just threw it straight at me. >> reporter: protesters took to the streets immediately after a judge acquitted officer michael brelo on charges of involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. >> i therefore found the defendant not guilty of counts 1 and 2 as indicted. >> reporter: brelo was accused of firing missiles after a 22-mile police chase.

authorities say brelo stood on the hood of the car and fired 15 shots into the windshield. though, about a dozen officers fired a total of 137 rounds at the car, no one else was charged. the case started after the car driven by russell backfired. a noise officers mistakenly thought was caused by gunshots. >> because he caused severe physical harm to the victim to end an objectively reasonable perception, that he and the others present were threatened by russell and williams with eminent serious bodily harm. >> reporter: relatives of the victims had harsh words for the police and court system. >> help my baby cousin! i tell you right now. we have no justice! >> i know that those officers were upset. adrenaline was flowing. by the time they reached up, caught up to tim and melissa in that parking lot, they simply let them have it. >> reporter: the verdict comes on the heels of several high profile national cases involving

police -- ferguson, new york, baltimore. and another case in cleveland. the death of 12-year-old tamir rice, ruled a homicide after he was shot by police while holding an air gun. but as the city prepares for tonight's nba playoffs, hometown basketball star lebron james is urging his cleveland cavalier fans to stay calm and focus on the game. >> you just feel a certain way about rooting for a team that you love, and it can get your mind off some of the hardships that may be going on throughout your life or in that particular time of period. it just does that. >> reporter: the justice department has announced it will review all evidence and witness testimony from the brelo trial to determine what, if any, additional steps are necessary. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. we want to talk now a little bit more about the response to the verdict with ohio

congresswoman marsha fudge who joins us on the phone and cedric alexander who is the black law enforcement executives and also recently appointed to a new task force. we have the city of cleveland, between this bench trial and the nba playoffs. as we approach that third game in cleveland tonight, what is the message that you are sending to your constituents in ohio? >> i am proud of our city and the police and law enforcement in cleveland. there was no rioting or looting. i want there to be the same kind of mindset today, that they would go to the game. if they choose to protest, do it in the manner they did yesterday, peacefully and

productively. i think it's important also for people around the country to understand the context of what we are dealing with. there are a lot of things going on in the country but a lot of things going on here. the justice department is wokking through issues and i'm proud of how they have handled it. >> cedric, you believe that police academies around the country have to start teaching differently as a result of all these cases from new york to baltimore to ferguson, even cleveland where we haven't seen a lot that was not peaceful. what kind of training do you think we are going to have to see in police academies around the country? >> first of all, let me say this, joe. i think across the country in terms of how we train police officers, we are going to have to look more certainly -- we know how to tactically train them in order to shoot and do all those things. that's a part of their job,

quite frankly. i think the piece that we have to put emphasis on today is how to help police officers build those relationships in communities that are so much important. so going into academy, yes, you learn all of the things you need to be able to do to protect yourself and to be able to protect the public, but a great part of that job when it comes to public safety is being able to bridge those relationships and more emphasis needs to be placed in that area. we also need to be able to place more emphasis on mental health training because what we are seeing out there is a number of more people who are challenged with mental health conditions, whether it's chemical depression or whatever it happens to be and how do we better engage those populations and deescalate situations as well. >> congresswoman fudge, you put out a statement the need for sweeping changes. what changes do you think have to happen as, for one thing, doj walks into this, and the

community of cleveland starts to heal? >> a couple of things that have to happen and i'm really happy you have someone there from some law enforcement. we have to do a better job at training but we have to go back to policing. if there had been a minuty station between the rec center, that police officer probably would have known tamir rice and know he would not be brandishing a gun. if people know the police, know the situations that we put ourselves in and we put police in, i think the response would be very, very different. we have to find a way to build some real confidence in our relationship with law enforcement and it begins with training, of course, but it also begins with the interaction with our communities and there needs to be more positive interaction with our community so people feel comfortable with the police. >> thank you so much for that,

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gallons of crude oil into the ocean and onto the coast. >> the federal, state, and local partners really work to determine what resources are needed and how quickly they can get here in order to make sure that we have the right people, right equipment, and the right no-how to get -- to address this oil spill. >> it's very thin, like a layer of paint. >> reporter: the ocean surface is tested to determine how pervasive the oil is. on this map, the yellow area show where there is nothing but a sheen on the water, slightly thicker in the red areas. but this environmental expert says it's all nonrecoverable and will naturally evaporate. >> the issue is now along the coastline where the oil is stranded on the beaches. >> reporter: but the efforts in the ocean continue. this map represents where potentially impacted marine life has been spotted. >> what they have are trained experts looking down to see exactly what animals are in what areas and how many are there so we can directly our efforts to determine where we need to send teams out to try to catch

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we are staying on top of some breaking news for you this morning. some dangerous flood conditions across oklahoma and the panhandle of texas have claimed the life of a firefighter who was killed early this morning while trying to rescue people trapped by high water in claremore, oklahoma. evacuations are under way this morning in several oklahoma and texas communities. and cleveland's mayor and police chief are going to be holding a news conference in about an hour and a half.

9:00 a.m. eastern this morning. this, of course, as the city appears calmer following a night of protests and what police say were multiple arrests. you see here how demonstrators were facing off against police in riot gear. it happened after the acquittal of michael brelo in the death of an unarmed man and woman. >> reporter: isis is trying to march to baghdad which is about an hour away from where isis militants and iraqi forces have been fighting all weekend. let's go over to senior international correspondent arwa damon in baghdad. arwa, is isis any closer to the air base where the u.s. advisers have been located? >> reporter: no. the area where this fighting is happening is well to the south of the air base where the advisers have been in the past, that would be the al assad air

base. the fighting is extra around a military installation that is located between ramadi and fallujah and both under isis control. the last hour, iraqi army unit backed by the popular mobilization units, the iranian supported shia paramilitary force, have managed to push isis slightly back toward their stronghold of ramadi. they are also now actively or more active than they have in the past, employing the sunni tribe in the area and having them hold ground to try to prevent isis from circling back. many were quite taken back by the fact that isis, after it took over ramadi, did quickly push through some small towns in the area, but now we are being told that those smaller towns are back in the control of the forces loyal to the iraqi government. but they still need, as they do along many of these front lines, more support, more manpower and

better rep -- there is still violence that happens elsewhere in the country. perhaps it is part of the isis campaign to try to create diversions or create more tensions between the sunni and shia populations op a while ago we received numerous reports that two car bombs went off in the city of bakuba north of baghdad and the iraqi security forces there found two more car bombs in a series of ieds they managed to infuse and in shia neighborhoods and the sectarian tensions are already pretty high in this country, could be aggravated once again. >> arwa damon in baghdad, thank you so much for that. so let's bring in lieutenant

general mark hertling here. general, you just heard that report of the car bombs. how secure do you believe this base is, first of all, where we know that u.s. advisers and some weaponry are held, onity way on the path to baghdad? >> i think al assad air base is security, but what is concerning is the continued assaults in the areas around both ramadi and fallujah are going to threaten the lines of communication, the supply lines from baghdad to that base. i don't think we will see any challenges there, but as arwa says, we are going to see continued assaults in various areas. while the focus has remained on ramadi and fallujah and the anbar province there is also continuing conflicts in other provinces what is called the baghdad belt and what is unreported is the number of car bombs happening in both baghdad and as arwa reporting baquba

which is north of baghdad. >> we keep hearing they won't take baghdad but they have taken other places they said they wouldn't take. when you look at baghdad and you understand that city so much better than most of us do, help us understand how fortified is that city? and what is the risk of it falling, truly? >> well, i will never say never. i learned that a long time ago whenever you're talking about conflict, all sorts of things could happen. baghdad is a very secure city. the majority of the population is shia. they have the vast majority of the iraqi security forces are stationed in and around baghdad, and there are great defense around the city. so i think a march by isis on the city, i don't see that occurring. but you never know. and i think you're going to see continued fighting, not only in an around the baghdad belts as we used to call them, but also this fight in anbar process is going to go on as we mentioned

last weekend it's going to go on for weeks, if not months. >> so what about the iraqi forces? you mentioned this perimeter that iraqi forces have around baghdad, but they have not proven to be strong, certainly not in ramadi mostly as of late because they are running essentially from isis. >> i'll share a different narrative on that. i think, in fact, when you look at what has been happening in ramadi, the iraqi security forces have been fighting there. they have been in pitch battle for over a year now. they are exhausted. a bunch of things led to the fall of ramadi earlier this week, and it had to do with not only the exhaustion of the iraqi security force but a continued lack of support from the government, and some weather conditions out there. so you had literally a perfect storm that contributed to isis advancing and conducting attacks into that city. but as arwa reported, you're now going to see counterattacks by

both the iraqi security forces and the tribal elements in anbar and that is going to be a very powerful force if we can get those connected. >> all righty. lieutenant general mark hertling, always appreciate your insight. thank you for being here. >> thank you. coming up, we will have more on a disturbing story we have been looking at all weekend about one of the scariest office for a child. a dental office. a dentist is giving up his license as he denies horrific claims of abuse for his patients but is closing up shop enough for these patients? we will talk to an important to some of them coming up next.

he has been called a nightmare dentist. a florida dentist accused of abusing his young patients. we are talking about pulling out healthy teeth and performing unwarranted and painful procedures on kids that did not need them. those are are the accusations. cnn spoke with one mom whose daughter went in for what should have been a simple procedure. >> the nurse suggested that it's best that kids act better when the parents aren't in the room. they said we don't like parents back here for the procedures. finally the nurse came and got me and said there had been an incident. she was hyperventilating and marks all over her and blood all over her. in the parking lot she takes her gauze out and i noticed all of her teeth were gone. >> oh, my gosh! dr. howard schneider the dentist

being accused is giving up his medical license voluntarily and closed up hi jacksonville office and facing mutt lawsuits. talk about this with attorney john phillips who is representing some of the alleged victims in this case. john, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. let me talk to you about brandy motley and her daughter whom we just heard about there. we know that you are representing them. help us understand what these families are going through right now still. >> it's -- it's awful. you know? we have had people come out in their 30s and 40s who still remember treating with dr. schneider and still have emotional trauma. >> what? >> yeah. absolutely. he has been doing this for 45 years. there's, you know, on top of dealing with the emotional trauma, there are simple things like eating and speaking and, you know, poor girl had all of her front teeth, i think seven or eight ripped out when they said only one with a problem and she didn't have any pain. so it's outrageous!

>> so we understand he is under investigation by the state attorney general. he didn't just shut down his office. he gave the florida department of health a voluntary relinquishment of his license. i'm looking at this and thinking from the public view the fact he just relinquished everything seems incriminating to him. from a legal view, does that play in? >> it probably wouldn't come in in court. i know it wouldn't come in in court. but certainly it is a step in the right direction. the protesters were out there the first couple of weeks, all of these moms. it was kind of a beautiful sight. and they let other people know what was going on inside this clinic, which then shut down his practice and, you know, some would say he really had no choice at that point in time when you have the local police and attorney general breathing down your neck. when you don't have clients coming in is one thing you have to go through.

>> is it safe to say a fear because he relinquished his license and it might be closed that that is the end of it, that he won't have to have any other repercussion? >> no. that's certainly -- i mean, it's always a fear. you know, any -- when you're dealing with this, this is kind of an unprecedented case. that this happens all over the world, particularly in america, particularly with medicate abuse being so rampant, this isn't just in jacksonville, florida where these dentists are getting paid by the troooth and are strapping these kids down and pulling more teeth than is necessary. we need to create awareness where the pressure is on because this isn't an isolated incident. >> in this specific case, since this is what you're working with, what are the potential punishments for the doctor? >> oh, goodness. they are looking at it from a medicaid fraud prospective and child abuse prospective and

other criminal statutes in place but it would be felonious. the charges would potentially be a felony and somebody of dr. schneider's age would certainly be facing, you know, life in prison by the fact that he is 80 something years old. >> john phillips, thank you so much for bringing us the latest and our best to those families. thank you for sticking with us because we will keep up with this one. >> absolutely. thank you. >> john philips, we appreciate it. >> coming up, we are asking the question is it a shake-up in the gop? dr. ben carson is coming out strong in a new poll. do republicans have a new lead in the race for the white house? we will ask senior cnn political reporter coming up next.

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after something that happened over the weekend, you may be wondering if there is not a new leader among conservatives in the race for the white house. dr. ben carson took the lead in the straw poll. he was leading the pack of nearly 20 candidates. scott walker came in with 20% of the vote, followed by senator ted cruz is 16%. stkeut mean there's a new republican frontrunner. let's bring in steven collinson. does this mean dr. carson is the one to beat, or does it say

something about the ones that decided not to get in the race there. >> historically the straw polls are not particularly good indicators of who goes on to win a nomination, you know, and who wins the presidency, but it's a good result for dr. carson for a couple of reasons. the first is he is not a professional politician. this is his first shot at running for president, and it shows his campaign has the organizational muscle to go into one of the big conferences and organize and get into the polls and win a straw poll. it confirms happen he is a real conventer for the social conservative and evangelical report. perhaps even rick santorum who was a candidate last time around who was getting into the race this week. that is an important indicator of the fact that ben carson, he may not be a top tier contender

right now, but somewhere like the southern states, it will be important later in the race, and iowa, where evangelicals are a key voting bloc, he is a real competit competitor. >> what does it mean when you have jeb bush and marco rubio falling off in the poll? >> well, they did not compete in this. there is not much in it for them at this stage, and they are top tier candidates, and if they came out and were down in the poll, it would be a reverse for them. they will start to concentrate on the southern states later, and we have gone through iowa and new hampshire. there was not much in it for them here, and that does not mean they will not court evangelical and social voters, and we can see them do that in places like iowa. >> what is it that gives ben

carson the ability to connect with some social conservatives? >> it's interesting. you speak to people at these events and he is very charismatic. he is a retired tphaour yo surgeon, and he had a nonpolitical capital going for him, and people are attracted to him because he san outsider, and he says things that washington politicians don't say, and he is a real insurgent and talented speaker. he almost has a preaching style, and very charismatic, and people listen to him and connect with him. >> thank you so much for that. they did not deserve to die. those are the words coming from michelle russell, just hours after learning that a cleveland cop had been acquitted in the

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tough task, right? imagine doing so without the ability to hear the world around you. and dr. sanjay gupta introducing us to one of the first nonhearing physicians. >> he wanted to follow in his parents' footsteps by becoming a doctor, despite his hearing loss. his parents pushed back and placed him in public school, where few special accommodations were given to deaf students. >> the teacher said, no way am i going to have a deaf kid in my class, and my parents had to insist. >> bullying became another obstacle. but the doctor persevered and been the on to medical school and worked twice as hard to keep up with his hearing classmates. >> i probably spent a lot more time reading the material, and i

never doubted myself. >> today the husband and father of two is department chair of family medicine at the university of michigan. >> many people don't even know i have hearing loss. >> he inspires others like him to pursue a career in medicine. >> it's always a help for all of us that may have a little struggle. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn. >> that's the kind of story i like to herae hear. the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. breaking news this morning, hundreds rescued after historic flooding across texas and oklahoma. one person is already dead. neighborhoods are evacuated and people are trapped. now we are learning even more rain is on the way, too. the eyes of the world are on

cleveland, ohio, for a huge basketball playoff game tonight, and even lebron james is calling for peace as protesters hit the streets in the wake of a police officer's acquittal. the mayor and police chief scheduled to hold a news conference next hour. want to wish you all a good morning at 8:00 on sunday morning. i am christi paul. >> yeah am so johns in for don lemon. >> record-breaking floods claimed the life of a firefighter in claire moore, oklahoma. people are being told to evacuate to safer ground, and this as major roadways are