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2023. slow motion disaster. the waters of the mississippi are still rising with homeowners now being forced from their homes as tens of millions are under threat this weekend. deadly crash. three soldiers are dead after two helicopters collide in alaska. what the military is doing after its third deadly training dent in as many months. dramatic video showing a former san francisco fire commissioner being attacked by a homeless man with a metal pipe. why this video, though, may not tell the whole story. and the new program for children with autism that's really taking off. it is 11:00 a.m. in palm spring, 1:00 p.m. in bismarck, 2:00 p.m. in new york. >> that's right. as kate said it's friday. we'll begin with a series of severe storm systems bringing dangerous weather today and throughout the weekend. 21 million people across the southern plains are facing the risk of large, i mean really

large hail and wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour. this is what softball-sized hail and heavy rain did a school outside of waco, texas, earlier this week. you're seeing it on your screen. canceling classes through monday. >> further north along the mississippi river, it is really a slow-moving disaster as floodwaters keep rising. some nearby homeowners are now evacuating. the red cross has opened a few shelters in riverfront communities. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking these storm systems for us. but we begin with nbc's jesse kirsch out in davenport, iowa, where the water continues to rise. jesse, how are things looking today and what are people doing to try to deal with the floodwaters? >> reporter: yeah, kate, so our team is already noticing the water level continuing to creep forward and we expect that the water level here in davenport, iowa, will continue to rise until the middle of the day on monday. so we are days away from the worst of this in this community

along the mississippi river. this is normally a street and railroad crossing. you can see there is a dry patch up ahead and off in the distance is the mississippi river and illinois on the other side. it. this is what we're seeing up and down this stretch of the riverfront property here in davenport. sandbags up around multiple buildings bracing for the water level to continue to keep climbing and that is, again, something that is expected for days to come in this community because we've seen snow melt further north from the twin cities coming on down so the flooding has been impacting numerous communities along the mississippi river and that's the situation here in davenport, right now. we spoke with a business owner about a block up the street from where i am now, a short time ago, and he said he's not wore ridded. they've had flooding here before. this is fairly common, people told us, to see flooding in downtown along the riverfront and know benchmark, something we

often find in the communities hit with flooding, people know where the water hit in the past and so the businesses i spoke with know where the water hit in the past and this flooding is expected to be not as bad as that 2019 flood so he's not worried about his business but obviously there are others who are concerned about water getting into their homes and businesses because we see that sandbagging around this community, guys. >> absolutely. jesse, another ripple -- another ripple effect, no water pun intended, shipping traffic is starting to be impacted. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, so the usda says there is some barge traffic that has been halted because of what is unfolding with this flooding along the mississippi river and obviously a lot of goods can make their way through the mississippi river including food and fuel and so that is something to keep an eye out for as we move into the days and weeks and the aftermath of this to see what kind of impact that could bring but obviously the immediate concern right now is where this water is going to go and how far up it might go into the community. we still got days before this

hits its worst point in davenport, back to you. >> all right, jesse, thank you. to bill karins if we can. there's so many different things going on right now when it comes to weather and climate. what do we need to be watching out for. >> reporter: what's interesting about the flooding story, we've been following it for the last week and had our reporters on the river and it's been sunny every single day. it's so strange to be covering a flooding disaster story with sunshine. it's because this is like 90% of this water we're watching in the mississippi is all from snow melt and areas of the dakotas in minnesota. sunny, hasn't rained in days yet you're watching your property possibly going underwater. let's talk about what we'll deal with. this map is as empty and clear as it can be. barely a shower to found in the state of texas. that will change in the next couple of hours, storm system will move right through, and we think we'll get rapidly exploding thunderstorms 3:00,

4:00 local time almost over the top of san antonio and austin. draw a line to waco and up into the dallas-fort worth area, storms will explode on top of you. this large area of orange is what we call an enhanced risk of severe weather where we think the greatest concentration of severe weather will be and the greatest concentration of large hail. that's one of the biggest threats with this. we could have isolated tornadoes and if we get those, it will be around the waco area that those supercells will have the twisting motion and a better chance for tornadoes. the hail threat is large. we could see -- we probably will see that huge grapefruit or softball-size hail we saw days ago. that's mostly in the beginning of the storms had they're forming and could be as we go throughout the evening rush hour for a lot of metropolitan areas so that's one of the stories also to watch. as far as the timing of this mess for your weekend plans, there's two storm, the one bringing rain to the mid-atlantic as we go throughout

saturday, that will be a rainy morning around new york city up through southern new england and won't pour but it's going to be wet. probably enough that the baseball and softball games will get canceled if they're not on turf fields and then this area of rain in the south, that will be the storm that will plague us most of the weekend. not a lot of severe weather, isolated saturday in north florida but by sunday this is bringing heavy rain around d.c., northern virginia, all the way up through central portions of pennsylvania, western new york, the cold side of this storm, there's still going to be more snow in wisconsin. we've had a bunch this april. there will be more especially the upper peninsula of michigan will be chilly and raw, not great late april weather and monday this sizzlingers throughout the region and it will be improving especially monday night but it's like three days. go plant your grass seed now and get some of that done. this is great grass growing weather. not great outdoor weather. record heat pock in omicron some areas of the west.

keeping an eye on the snow melt. that's not what we want. we didn't want record heat with temperatures soaring and the melt happening fast and all that water going into the rivers then by the time we get to sunday there is the umbrella messy indoor day going to areas of the east coast, guys. kind of a messy weekend to end april. >> a heard mom say if they cancel all the game, maybe that's better. i don't have to sit in the rain. bill karins, jesse kirsch, thank you. >> thank you both. three soldiers are dead. a fourth injured after two apache helicopters collided midair. it happened thursday near healy, alaska. the helicopters had just completed a training flight returning to fort wainwright in fairbanks and here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: this happened overnight in an isolated area. so information is still coming in. we do know that each helicopter

was carrying two people. two soldiers died at the scene, another en route to the hospital, the fourth getting treatment for injuries still. killing three soldiers and injuring one near remote healy, alaska, more than 200 miles north of anchorage. officials say soldiers based at fort wainwright from the 11th airborne division were flying two ah-62 apache helicopters back from a training mission when the crash happened. army officials saying, this is an incredible loss for these soldiers' families, their fellow soldiers and the division. our hearts and prayers go out to their family, friends and loved ones. it comes weeks after several crashes involving u.s. army helicopters. last month, nine soldiers were killed in kentucky when two army blackhawks crashed in a training exercise west of fort campbell. back in february a black hawk from the national guard crashed in alabama killed two crew members. just terrible news for any community but in that statement the head of the 11th airborne division pointed out fort wainwright is an especially

tight-knit place. overnight russia launched its largest air strike on ukraine in nearly two months killing at least 23 people including four children. those fatal strikes targeted residential buildings in the city of uman about 130 miles south of the capital kyiv. >> i woke up by the sound of explosions and i understood it was explosions, and i could -- i could say that it was nearby. >> nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald joins me on this. hey, meaghan, what is the latest on recovery efforts. >> reporter: all hands on deck approach since it collided in this building. search and rescue crews were digging through the rubble.

the death toll is continuing to rise and we are talking about a residential building registered to 109 living inside. there were 46 units out of those 46, we know that 24 have bebeen completely destroyed. this is the level of terror that we have seen over the course of now more than a year that every day ukrainians live with every day, not knowing if their home will be the next to be attacked. >> absolutely. meagan, you know this war had slowed down to at least an extent over the winter. we haven't been talking about many scenes like this in many months. do we think this is maybe the first sign of a spring escalation? is this, unfortunately, maybe a message of what's to come? >> you know, it's such a great question. we are standing by for what we suspect to see as a ukrainian counteroffensive that could take place in the zaporizhzhia region with also focus on crimea. we know that the ukrainian military has been very

tight-lipped about this but also you take a look at what we have been seeing over the last several months. it has been quiet. but then you remember back in the summer, the end of last summer, that's when we saw the ukrainian counteroffensive there going into winter trying to secure as much territory as they can. right now we are waiting to see the next moves from the ukrainians because we understand a counteroffensive is expected soon. >> all right, meagan fitzgerald, thank you very much. coming up, what police are now revealing about how they managed to track down an inmate on the run while two others are my actcte pspsoriatic arthris can make me feelel like i'm losingng my rhythmhm. with skykyrizi to trtreat my sn and d joints, i'm getttting into m my groov. ♪(uplplifting mususic)♪ along withth significacantly cleaearer skin..... skyrizi hehelps me movove withth less joinint pain, ststiffness, swellingng, and fatitigue. and isis just 4 dodoses a yey, afafter 2 stararter doses..

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two of the four inmates who escaped a mississippi detention center last saturday remain on the loose. police captured jerry raynes in spring valley, texas, thursday just a few miles outside houston and more than 400 miles from the jail he escaped from. that arrest came one day after another suspect, dylan arrington, was killed in mississippi during a standoff with police. nbc news correspondent catie beck is following all the developments. catie, any sightings of the remaining two that escaped? >> unfortunately, for authority, no, there are seven different agencies spanning from mississippi to texas that are working hard to try to locate those remaining two inmates but so far we have not heard of any

eyes on any of those inmates. the concern here is that there has been a series of other crimes that have followed the escape, obviously we know about the standoff with police and the pastor who was unfortunately killed on the side of the road so i think the urgency has been escalated in recent days, a danger that could come. >> raynes was captured 400 miles from where they broke out of jail yesterday. how does that change what authorities are doing and where they're searching? >> reporter: raynes was picked up in a hospital in the houston area and went before a harris county judge waiving extradition so it is expected he will be transported back to mississippi to face charges of armed robbery and also auto theft and also escaping, escaping the facility, so we know that his time in texas will be limited. but in terms of the other inmates, you know, obviously the

manhunt continues, i think the sheriff addressed the fact that his jail is vastly understaffed and sort of ill-equipped. this is an older building that has had a lot of escapes in the past. they've seen a number of inmates do the same exercise of getting out and getting away and even had at one point some conversations about the state taking over. i think they're sort of trying to address some security gaps now doing some searches for possible contraband, interviewing a lot of the staff they have, but there are certainly deeper issues in terms of security there. >> okay. catie beck for us, thank you. we're learning more about a violent confrontation caught on camera in san francisco. a former fire commissioner was viciously hit with a metal rod by a homeless man earlier this month. you're seeing that on your screen but this newly released video, this one here is raising questions about how the whole incident got started. nbc news reporter maya eaglin

has been following it for us. >> reporter: new evidence has officials and investigators wondering who should be held accountable. here's more. another brutal attack in san francisco causing an uproar with videos released pointing blame at both men. a homeless man swinging what appears to be a metal bar at a former fire commissioner. it was leading to three felony charges. two video clips released by his attorney appear to show him lifting his hands to protect himself from a man identified as garrett alan dodi who is homeless. the second video appears to show dodi pulling a metal bar from the trash and swinging. don's attorney said he was beaten and chased for two city blocks but there may be more. dodi's public defender released two videos prosecutors turned over as part of evidence. one appearing to show don approaching dodi and spraying him.

dodi's defense lawyer saying this instigated the altercation and cited a third party witness saying don threatened dodi. along with the video dodi's defense released evidence of bear spray attacks against homeless people in the neighborhood over the last two years including this one from november 2021. the suspect fitting don's description. but he hasn't been charged in relation to any of the incidents. >> he sprays with a massive can of bear spray, the same weapon used in the dodi incident. >> reporter: in an interview with cbs' local affiliate don saying he approached dodi for camping out and doing drugs outside his mother's home. he did admit to using pepper spray in, quote, self-defense saying he was informed by his attorneys he might be facing charges himself. according to nbc bay area don's attorneys strongly deny their client being involved in any prior incidents. he missed his two last court

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temperatures. we have been talking about how hot inland. we are still looking at temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s for livermore, fairfield as well as upper 80s in morgan hill. the north bay is getting relief. high temperatures reach the low 80s. compare that to upper 60s in san francisco. the day tomorrow, it's going to cool down more. a bit of a breeze making it across the bay. the valleys will see temperatures reaching into the mid 80s. we will be in the 60s near the coast. look at the changes on sunday. only 60s for much of the bay area. a few spots reaching the low 70s. there will be more of a cooldown and we will talk about that in the seven-day forecast. the warriors have a chance to end their series with the kins tonight in san francisco. if they win, they will move on to the next round. >> tip-off time is earlier than usual. the warriors take on the kings

in game six of a very exciting playoff series. it's going to start at 5:00 p.m. this is one of the earliest weekday starts. look at the shirts. they will cheer on the team in this pivotal game six. the kings have headed to san francisco. here is video of them boarding the team bus yesterday. it's win or go home for them tonight after losing game five to the warriors on wednesday. huge win there. big-time performance from steph, clay and drey. drey, 21 off the bench. then looney, another great playoff game, grabbing 22 rebounds. that's a lot. great performances from those four individuals. game six won't be a walk in the park. steph has told fans to get here early, because you have the 5:00 p.m. start time. if the warriors win, they go on to the next round.

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bottom of the hour. here are some of the stories making headlines. atlanta police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old in the killing of a transgender woman. cocoa -- koko da doll was the

subject of a documentary that won seven awards in january. the teenager turned himself in after a warrant was issued. colorado's governor signed four gun bills into law. the laws make it easier to sue the gun industry, raise the minimum age to buy a gun to 21, expand red flagstaff laws and impose a three-day waiting period. the governor, a democrat, said the people of his state deserve to be safe in their communities. and new york's metropolitan transportation authority or the mta as we know it here runs the subway, buses and commuter rail. they're putting an end to realtime updates on twitter. the agency has used the platform to provide service updates over the last 14 years to its more than million followers and mta officials say twitter is no longer reliable for the, quote, consistent updates riders expect. there are new developments this hour in the murders of four

idaho college students. attorneys for the suspected killer, bryan kohberger, have secured an interview with one of the surviving roommates in the students' house. they believe bethany funke could have key evidence that could prove kohberger's innocence. let's bring in erin mclaughlin. what information does kohberger's defense team think she may have. >> reporter: kohberger's defense is claiming funke has exculpatory information that might help to exonerate him and an investigator for the defense insisting her information is unique and cannot be provided by another witness. initially funke's attorney fought the subpoena saying even if she does possess exculpatory evidence and it's not clear that she does, the preliminary hearing is not the place to present it. now, funke is agreeing to testify but in nevada where she currently lives and not in idaho where the preliminary hearing is expected.

now, her account of that evening is still one of the big unknowns in this case. we know she was interviewed by police and was able to help them piece together a time line of when her roommates arrived home that night, but beyond that, her version of events is something of a mystery. at least to the public, kate. >> yeah, and we probably won't hear what happens in this very private meeting but i wonder what is next publicly? >> reporter: there are still so many unanswered questions when it comes to this case. we still don't know what authorities believe to be a motive. we don't know why they think kohberger allegedly did this. authorities have yet to provide a time line for what happened in the hours between the killings and the 911 call for help and what, if any, connection there might be between kohberger and the victims, all eyes will be on the courtroom in idaho later in june when the preliminary hearing is scheduled. kate. >> oak, erin, thank you.

police in texas have announced the arrest of four teenagers in connection with a terrifying shooting at an after-prom party that left 11 people injured. but the shooting could have been much worse. reportedly there were 250 people at the gatherings and guad venegas has been following this. they held a news conference today and what is new here? >> reporter: hi, savannah. so authorities say they have enough evidence and that's why they made the arrest of four different individuals, three 19-year-olds and one 18-year-old, two of them were arrested in the neighboring state of louisiana. the sheriff there in jasper county thanked multiple agencies that worked together, local and state, to make these arrests. now, he also said that this could be the result of a conflict between two different groups of individuals. here's the sheriff speaking this morning during a press conference. >> there's been a lot going on for months between these two

groups of young men and not only in our county but in another county too and it finally came to a head. >> would you say this has been an ongoing feud? >> i would, yes, sir. >> reporter: now, authorities during that press conference also talked about a separate shooting that took place so they're saying that these suspects could be responsible for both the shooting at the party and a separate shooting in a different part of town. now, savannah, you mentioned the 250 students that were present, so the sheriff made reference to the large number of young people that were at that party. he says they're all considered witnesses and they've set up a special system at the local high school to interview all of them. they're still going through interviews so there's still more evidence that could come from those interviews. therefore, the sheriff says they could be making more arrests as they go through these interviews, now, they also have evidence that has been sent to laboratories, that evidence will

take about 30 days to have some results, so because of these reasons, it's an ongoing investigation and with more interviews and more evidence coming back, something else could come -- more information could come and possibly more arrests in the case. >> guad, thank you very much. former vice president mike pence spent hours yesterday in front of a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election and actions taken by then president trump. prosecutors hope mr. pence can provide critical insights into mr. trump's thinking in the days leading up to the january 6th attack on the capitol. ken dilanian joins me now. ken, it's unclear what was said behind closed doors yesterday. we don't know what they asked the vice president, the former vice president, but this will probably be a critical account, right, for the special counsel. >> reporter: i think that's fair. while a lot has happened to mike

pence, he was after all the central focus of donald trump's efforts to disrupt that congressional session and prevent congress from certifying joe biden's victory, pence has never talked explicitly about his conversations with donald trump in detail. you know, there was reporting, for example, there was a phone call where -- testimony actually, sworn testimony where trump called him a wimp and worse before that january 6th session. but pence himself going before that grand jury and we presumed discussing the details of what trump said could be really important evidence because these prosecutors want to try to get to donald trump's state of mind, they're trying to establish whether he committed crimes while he was essentially perpetrating this plan to try to hold up the certification of the election and put forward a false slate of electors. so pence's testimony very important. also historic. i don't know that there's ever been a situation, you can never say never because grand juries are secret where a former vice president has testified against the person he ran with and got

elected with, so major deal here. >> yes, i can't remember one of those. in his memoir, pence already described, right, some of the pressure he faced from former president trump. so what more could the testimony add? >> reporter: yeah, that's a fair point. i think we're talking about, well, first of all, he hasn't explicitly said what was said and did trump -- really the big ticket here is did trump communicate to pence that he knew that what he was doing was potentially illegal because there's testimony that some lawyers told donald trump that and some advisers, but can pence put that in trump's mouth? that would be very, very important for this investigation and then just a flavor of what trump's state of mind was and also what happened to mike pence that day. he was essentially a victim in part of this crime. he had to run for his life with the secret service detail from these rioters then there were chants to hang mike pence so that testimony is important, kate. >> ken tracking all of that for us, thank you.

>> you bet. the city of santa monica, california, has agreed to pay more money to settle claims of sexual abuse by a city employee. all in all, the city will have ended up paying out nearly $230 million stemming from one alleged abuser. authorities say he molested more than 200 kids over three decades. marisa, so disturbing. what do we know about the case and the boys this person allegedly targeted? >> reporter: near $230 million is no small lump change here. that's taxpayer money doled out by santa monica for over 200 people who say they were sexually assaulted about i a city employee while still children. the city of santa monica put out a statement earlier this week identifying that former employee as eric uller and it lays out a pattern of sexual abuse talking about between the '80s and early 2000s volunteering with the police actives league, not as a

police officer, but as a civilian employee and keep this mind these were programs and activities for city youth looking for guidance. now, someone who claims to be on the other end of that sexual abuse spoke with a los angeles station under the condition of anonymity. take a listen. >> it happened 16 times over a period of two years, in his car, in parking lots. it was really nothing that can fix what has happened, you know. i mean, i'm thankful for it coming out in the open so we can stop any potential abuse in the future. >> reporter: now, santa monica's mayor said in a statement, i'll read you a portion of that statement, he says, quote, my heart goes out to the victims who experienced so much pain and heartbreak. adding that the settlement is the city's best effort to address the suffering, but that that suffering and harm done to

the victims cannot be undone. we should mention uller, that accused employee was found dead from an apparent suicide in 2018, the same year the allegations were brought to them. before i leave you i want to leave you with this one note. past interviews with our los angeles station, they said in those interviews that the city claims that they denied any knowledge of any wrongdoing. savannah. >> all right, marissa parra, our deep gratitude to the story that was shared there. thank you for reporting here. coming up, a new program for children with autism. children with autism. that is really taking off.

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in today's daily health for families traveling with a child with autism, even the thought of boarding a plane can sometimes be overwhelming. but helping them understand what to expect before they fly can make all the difference. here's nbc news correspondent erin mcgone lynn. >> reporter: these days at the airport there's no shortage of travel stress, as record numbers of travelers pack up and take off. >> what are you looking forward to most? >> caden having fun.

>> reporter: for a child with autism, any travel can be filled with fear and anxiety. >> what are we going to get on? >> the airplane. >> i'll see you on board. >> reporter: 10-year-old caden has never traveled on a plane. >> we're just worried about what could possibly happen, if he has a meltdown, or if there's different things that will trigger him. >> reporter: 20 children with autism, and their families, made the trip to los angeles ininternationanal airport t for real-life in-flight dress rehearsal from the curb to the cabin. >> we're going to go through security next. >> give it a little wiggle. there we go. >> children with autism have a hard time dealing with change and novelty. this becomes very stressful. >> reporter: dr. rolanda gott is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at ucla. >> they may be also having sensory differences in processing information. for example, loud noises make them very scared, being in a crowded d place makekes them sc oror upset. >> repororter: actreress holly robinson pete who partners with

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