severe storms streak across the middle of the country delivering tornadoes, damaging winds, and rain from texas to minnesota. the show goes on. wring ling brothers and barnum & bailey circus pulled its first show sunday when acrobats were injured in an accident. and the nfl draft kicks off in new york city, and it's a long way for heisman trophy winner johnny manziel. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, y 9t this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, may 9th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning, recovery efforts are under way from the southwest to the great plains.

the latest batch of severe weather including tornados and flood-producing rains caused significant damage from texas to minnesota. the storm system is moving east today, but the possibility of more heavy rain, hail, and the chance of tornadoes exists from texas to indiana. yesterday the dallas area was hard hit. the rough weather blew through the dallas area yesterday afternoon. winds clocked at up to 70 miles per hour, toppled trees, crushed cars, and collapsed buildings. >> when we were inside, it felt like it was lifting us, you know. you felt like you were getting lifting like an elevator kind of feeling. >> at one point over 30,000 homes lost power. part of the dallas rapid transit system shut down. the wind tore through homes. one family said there was no time to run. >> it happened really fast. it was actually really scary. >> it was just overwhelming, man. everything happened all at once. >> there were also

flood-producing rains, up to 4 inches in the metro dallas area. five teenage boys who were playing near a drainage tunnel were swept down a fast-moving creek. >> back up for us. back up for us, please. back up. >> they clung to branches before being rescued. at least two tornados touched down in minnesota along with up to two inches of rain and hail. another twister landed in colorado. and 11 planes were hit by lightning at salt lake city international airport. now meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says even though the storm system has weakened, it is still threatening parts of the midwest with heavy rain and the possibility of tornadoes. >> well, quite a few severe weather reports yesterday. large hail, some tornados and damaged flooding around places like dallas. today it marches off toward the east, a little bit less energy. a lot of the main push of this storm heads sbup canada.

there will still be storms firing, especially in the mid-mississippi area and parts of the ohio valley. local threats for rainfall. a little bit more disorganized. around memphis and little rock, this is where we could see the severe weather popping up. some damaging wind gust, large hail, and an isolated risk of call tornados as we head through the day. a lot of warmth in the east. a lot of 70 gs and 80s on the map. the cold stuff is in the rockies and it will actually get colder as we head toward the weekend. mother's day on sunday, a little change in the pattern. a little cold air will be coming down the mountains. some mother's day skiing will possible. summertime warmth, though, from sunday into monday to kick off next week across much of the northeast. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. official and experts from the united states are arriving in nigeria to help find hundreds of kidnapped school girls.

they were abducted from a boarding school on april 15th by islamic terrorists and as correspondent and cbs news contributor debora patta reports from the capital, the nigerian families are desperate for any news. >> reporter: the classrooms are empty, looted. these charred remains of the school in chibok are a stark reminder of the kidnapped school girls missing now for 25 days. villages wait for any word from their daughters' kidnappers. anything is better than silence. al jazeera ya interviewed this mother who said she would give up her life to have her daughter freed. >> they can go into my house, burn my house, break everything in my house, give me my daughter back. that's better for me. >> reporter: militants herded more than 200 girls into trucks and drove off. the group has terrorized

villages like chibok for over a decade, and their attacks have become increasingly violent. twice the government has attempted to broker a peace deal, twice they have failed. this activist was part of the negotiations both times. he warns that any military operation to rescue the girls is risky. >> these people do not reason like normal human beings. any attempt to use force to free these girls will end up in a very tragic circumstance. >> reporter: he told us he thinks the girls may be held hostage in the dense forest northeast of chibok. he fears the group's growing extremism against nigeria's government. >> they have a mission to turn nigeria into an islamic state. >> reporter: he thinks the girls are still being held in one large group possibly to be used as a potential prisoner swap for boco haram militants who are

being held in nigerian jails but u.s. intelligence seems to think they've already been split up into smaller groups, possibly taken across the borders into neighboring villages. debora patta, chibok, nigeria. they plan to proceed with sunday's self-rule vote. despite calls to delay those votes from russian president vladimir putin. this morning he attended a victory day parade in moscow. victory day in russia commemorates the germans' surrender in world war ii. the government in kiev and the west consider the votes illegitimate. and we may learn today if the house committee will boycott a new committee. the republican controlled house voted to launch the probe yesterday. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. democrats are calling this a political and fund-raising

ploy on the part of republicans with this becoming the eighth investigation into benghazi by this panel, but republicans say they're just not satisfied with the explanations they've heard so far. >> and the resolution is adopted. >> the republican led house voted to begin a new fact-finding mission aimed at getting to the bottom of the benghazi attack that killed four americans on september 11th, 2012. the gop argues that the white house and state department have m misled the public and are holding back information. democrats called the move an election year political ploy that could involve months of hearing including testimony from former secretary of state and potential presidential candidate hillary clinton. >> this is not political. this is public policy at its most important level. >> democrats argued against the measure ahead of the vote. >> i urge all members to oppose

the cynical exploitative partisan ploy that is not worthy of this house. >> democrats are threatening to boycott the committee and are expected to meet later today to decide if they'll participate. several congressional panels have already looked into the benghazi attack. american ambassador chris stevens was among those who died when the armed militants stormed the u.s. consulate. they originally said it was a spontaneous attack in response to an anti-muslim video. several democrats, many of them facing election, broke rank and joined the committee. anne-marie? >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. coming up on the "morning news," the big top returns. the performers take the stage for the greatest show on earth for the first time since the aerial accident. this is the "cbs morning news." bs morning news." actually it ca. neutrogena® ultra sheer. nothing outperforms it. nothing feels cleaner.

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stunt in providence, rhode island. four days later the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey brothers resumed their performances. alexis christoforous has the latest. >> reporter: the first performance of ringling brothers and barnum & bailey's circus was dedicated to the injured performers. >> they're recovering and they're in great spirits. they wanted to let you know and i quote they feel your prayers. >> reporter: eight acrobats were hurt in providence when a performance where they were held by their hair fell 20 feet to the ground. several were critically injured. >> we're working with authorities to find out what happened to make sure an accident like this never happens again very while the show went on thursday night, the hair hanging stunt did not. >> are there plans to bring back the hair hanging act? >> right now we're waiting for the performers to recover.

any determination of when they might come back is premature. >> reporter: a spokesman said the horrifying impact has not impacted ticket sales and the people we spoke with are happy the show will go on. >> i would be willing to believe after the accident they took every precaution to make sure it was as safe as can be. >> i was afraid they'd have to cancel the show until the people got hurt -- schedule the circus to another day. >> reporter: you know the show's still going on. >> yeah. i'm really happy about that. >> reporter: the circus will dedicate all remaining shows to the injured performers. alexis christoforous, cbs news, hartford, connecticut. straight ahead, your friday morning weather. and photo failure. snapchat settles with the government or arguments about the use of private pictures that were supposed to disappear. appear. always-puts-herself-last mom... don't-mess-with-my-mom mom... liking-everything-i-share- on-facebook mom...

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on the "cbs moneywatch" fed chair janet yellen talks bonds plus snapchat settles privacy charges. jill wagner's at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. fed chair janet yellen says the bond holding will drop very gradually. in her second day of congressional testimony, yellen says it could take eight years for the fed investment portfolio to return to 2008 levels. those investments now total $4.5 trillion. on wall street investors will be watching developments in eastern ukraine ahead of sunday's scheduled referendum on secession. the dow rose 32 points on thursday. the nasdaq lost 16 points. asian markets were mostly higher on news that china's inflation eased last month. tokyo's nikkei added a quarter percent.

hong kong's hang seng gained a fraction. cash is king in the u.s. real estate market. almost 43% of residential home purchases in the first quarter of the year were all cash deals, according to realtytrac. that's up from 38% from the previous quarter. that may be driven by more investors hoping to flip a property quickly for a profit. snapchat agrees to a settlement over charges it deceived its customers. the federal trade commission says that snapchat, the popular mobile messaging app, misled yierss about their disappearing messages and kept users' contacts without telling them or asking permission. snapchat agreed to settle without admitting or denying any wrongdoing. and apple is close to making its biggest acquisition ever. as early as next week apple will reportedly buy beats electronics. the company behind the popular

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,,,, here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. in sports the nfl draft resumes tonight with the houston texans making the first pick in the second round. houston got things started last

night by making jadeveon clowney the number one overall pick. the former south carolina defensive end was widely considered the top prospect in the draft, but the big story was where college football's marquee player would wind up. heisman trophy winner johnny manziel had to wait nearly three hours to hear his name called. >> with the 22nd pick of the 2014 nfl draft, the cleveland browns select johnny manziel. >> cleveland made three trades during the first round, the last of which netted them the former texas a&m quarterback. manziel said it didn't worry him that he wasn't one of the first players taken. >> i felt going into this that everything would work itself out, and i was a true believer in that, so obviously there were some spots i thought i might end up, but when it didn't happen, there was no list or bitterness or grudge or anything there about that. >> manziel becomes the fourth

quarterback taken by the browns in the first rounds since 1999. in the nba playoffs now, the portland trail blazers find an unwelcome guest in their locker room before game two of their series against san antonio. a snake measuring three to four feet long was curled up in thomas robinson's stall. it wasn't venomous but it may have rattled the blazers. they dropped game two to the spurs, 114-97. and the miami heat remain unbeaten in the playoffs. lebron james scores 22 points and miami takes game two of its series against brooklyn, 94-82. and in the nhl playoffs, the boston bruins' winger matt frazer will never forget his first playoff game. the rookie breaks a scoreless tie a little more than a minute into overtime to give boston a 1-0 win over montreal. that series is now tied at two games apiece. and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the severe weather in the great plains. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." ther in the great

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chicago has a new attraction that opens tomorrow on the 94th floor of the john hancock building. the tilt allows visitors to step into booths with some very thick glass and then tips them over at a 30-degree angle. they get a pretty scary view a thousand feet below. it will cost you. $23 per person. some say they can't wait to try it. i think i'll wait though. here's another look at the top stories. cleanup is under way from texas to minnesota. more severe weather. there could be more rain and strong winds again today in the midwest.

and four days after the accident that injured aerial performer, the circus resumed its performances. the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circle was show went on yesterday without the controversial aerial act. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki has ordered a nationwide audit across the country that care for millions of veterans. that's after claims that 40 veterans died waiting for care at a clinic in phoenix. wyatt andrews reports. >> reporter: troy burmish is a veteran of iraq and a former v.a. hospital work never phoenix. he told a cbs affiliate thousands have waited for more than a year for care, but the hospital has used a secret list to hide those delays. >> and now because they want to look good for d.c. or their supervisors or whatever the case may be, now we've lost the lives of 40 veteran because somebody wanted to have a good report. >> reporter: and it's not just phoenix. whistle blowers and investigators at three other v.a. hospitals and clinics have also charged that officials kept off the books secret lists of

veterans who were made to wait longer than the goal of 14 day. secretary of veterans affairs eric shinseki told us that because of those claims, the national audit will study however v.a. clinic schedules its patients and handles delays. >> i have directed the undersecretary for health to do a systemwide survey of scheduling practices to make sure we understand what's going on here. >> reporter: does this suggest a pattern to you that the secret waitlist seems to have surfaced in four different places? >> that's a large health system, 1,700 points of care, and just about every one of them does scheduling, so we're going to take a good hard look here. >> reporter: the house committee on veterans affairs have subpoenaed all of shinseki's documents and e-mails related to the investigation. the question here is whether

local v.a. officials may have delighted versions of the secret list before the arrival of the investigators. wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the severe weather in the great plains. we'll get a live report. plus, california's giant redwoods are under attack by thieves. we'll tell you why poachers are targeting them. and supermodel christy turlington joins us in the studio. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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it is 4:30. and no one is more halfier than mr. lawrence karnow. >> i'm fired up today, guys! lots of sunshine coming our way for the weekend today we still have a lot of clouds out there, even a couple of sprinkles early on. but you know what? we have mother's day coming up. we have to make it a good forecast. we'll have more on that coming up. >> the pressure is on. we have some fog out the door. visibility is limited this morning across the golden gate bridge. we do have an accident in lodi. we're also watching it on i-5. we'll have your friday morning commute coming up. >> thank you. armed, dangerous on the run he could be in the bay area. kpix 5's andria borba reports a former cal fire chief wanted for killing his girlfriend may be near the santa cruz mountains. reporter: escorts, double life, murder and a firehouse. this guy is being sought, cal fire battalion chief orville fleming. the body of 26-year-old sarah douglas was found in