>> jeff: tonight, severe weather in the heartland. >> we have a large tornado on the ground causing damage. >> jeff: tornadoes rip across the nation's midsection. >> oh my lord. >> jeff: and the danger is not over yet. eric fisher has more. defying international pressure, voters in eastern ukraine cast ballots to break away. clarissa ward is watching the vote. this afternoon as mark albertia tells us a third victim is found after friday's deadly hot air balloon crash. ♪ a house is a heart even when it's gone ♪ >> jeff: and on this mother's day, anthony mason with ben harper. he has played music all around the world, but there's nothing like singing with someone back home. >> i just, you know, came to my mom and said, "let's do a song together, just one song." and from that one song came another song and another song.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. the danger stretches from texas to illinois. severe thunderstorms and tornado threats, the worst of it is today and there is now a confirmed tornado touchdown in clay county, nebraska. here's a look at the map. it is currently moving east to iowa. this is what has already happened in orik missouri this weekend during one of the most volatile systems of the season. a tornado swept through saturday leaving home after home torn apart. >> this is orik tonight. trailers were tossed, trees and telephone poles down. many of the 800 who live here are without a home. michael arnold got back just moments before the tornado struck. >> pulled up, got the kids out, down in the basement and then

literally like two minutes after that, we were all down in the basement and everything started happening. >> a large tornado on the ground causing damage. >> jeff: the tornado was an ef-2 with winds up to 135 miles an hour and it was on the ground for 20 minutes. >> came out and i didn't expect to see what i saw. the babies room, there's two branches sticking in from the ceiling. >> oh my lord. i need to see them. i really need to see my babies. >> jeff: neighbors did get 15 minutes warning. so despite all the damage, no one was hurt. >> we're just all relieved that everybody is okay and we made it out. we can replace our things. can't replace our lives. >> jeff: for more now, we turn to eric fisher, chief meteorologist at our boston station wbz. eric, what is the forecast tonight? >> well, jeff, you look at the radar right now, what might catch your attention on may 11th is snow, but the thunderstorms explosively developing this afternoon, this evening. that is the one we mentioned at

the top of the newscast where you see a little cell into eastern nebraska. and that is the zone we'll be watching as we head through tonight. tornado watches in yellow from illinois back down through the plains all way down toward the texas panhandle. and an area in particular for tornadoes is here in red. these storms developing in kansas. there is a warm front right in here. where wind sheer, basically twisting of air in the atmosphere is highest, so we will watch these storms as they move across southern iowa into northern illinois, up to baseball-size hail and damaging wind gusts also possible. tomorrow, the threat is a little lower still damaging wind gusts, large hail and farther up north towards green bay, wisconsin. >> jeff: eric, you mentioned snow, that's significant snow in the rockies. what is happening there? >> an unbelievable late season snowstorm there across the front range. reporting of up to 19 inches of snow already. a couple mountain tops, highest elevations three feet of snow. and several feet in the denver metro as well, this will pose a power outage risk. the leaves are coming out and that is extra weight for the

trees so that will linger into monday morning for the denver area. >> jeff: eric fisher, thank you very much. meanwhile chronic drought in california has lead officials to declare tomorrow the start of the fire season in all but three counties this weekend, southern california is getting a look at what could be ahead and here's carter evans. >> high winds began whipping through los angeles in the predawn hours. 50-mile-per-hour gusts brought down trees and power lines. >> because of the very dry and gusty conditions, we have extreme fire danger, red flag warning in place through tomorrow night. >> reporter: the state's fire season usually begins in july, but for southern california it never ended. in january, a wildfire destroyed five homes east of los angeles during what was supposed to be the rainy season. so far, california has seen 1,350 fires, nearly double a typical year and the forecast is bleak. over the next few days, parts of southern california will see strong winds, very low humidity

and record-breaking temperatures topping 100 degrees. chris concepcion is a division chief with the orange county fire authority. >> this is a time everyone needs to be extra careful in the wild land areas in all the behaviors they take in those areas. santa ana wind driven embers can destroy your homes and neighborhoods far from the actual flame front. >> the state is already facing its most severe drought on record. the latest reading of the sierra mountain snow pack, which provides about a third of the state's water is more than 80% below normal. and california's driest months are still to come. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: the european union says tonight it will not recognize the outcome of today's vote on separation in two regions of eastern ukraine. the balloting was marred by isolated outbreaks of violence and concerns about voting mistakes. clarissa ward is in donetsk. >> reporter: at some polling

stations there were lines as long as five city blocks as thousands of ukrainians defied the will of the international community and even a request from russian president putin. >> some of these people have been waiting more than an hour and a half to cast their ballot. and one woman told me that she has lived here for 23 years and this she's never seen so many people come out to vote. certainly the referendum did not meet international standards. many polling stations had no booths, leaving voters to cast their ballot at an open desk. we saw one older woman vote twice. the ballot had just one question: do you support the independence of the donetsk people's republic?ç#v- with one exception, every single ballot we saw had a ticket for yes. >> we love ukraine, this voter told us. but our government took power illegally and they're destroying our country. >> reporter: the crowd echoed their approval. >> there were pockets of violence.

ukrainian forces shut down a polling station in the town of krasnoarmeisk. later surrounded by an angry crowd, they began firing their weapons. at least one man was killed. it was the latest in a string of clashes with the military. and for many here they have only strengthened the desire for independence. jeff, there is, of course, a significant part of the population who don't support the separatist movement and who boycotted today's referendum. and many of those people are very concerned that tomorrow's results will only bring more violence. >> jeff: clarissa ward, thank you. france is offering to host an international summit next weekend on how to deal with boko haram. the militant group that kidnapped more than 200 nigerian schoolgirls. deborah patta joins us from the nigerian capital, abuja. deborah? >> a source communicating with

well-placed senior contacts in both government and boko haram has told cbs news that what he saw as a dialogue committee has been head up by military intelligence. separately united states and british teams already in the country are working on well- coordinated strategy with government says the presidency. the sheer scale of the ope2s)rjñ that has to be put in place is daunting. the immediate priority for the international teams is to develop a coherent picture of exactly what happened. that is how many girls were taken and what their precise identities are. up until now, there hadn't even been a conclusive list of the names of the stolen girls. so it appears government has a two-prong strategy. on the one hand, thrashing out the details of a search-and- rescue mission. and on the other, our source says, the girls could be used as a potential prisoner swap for boko haram militants being held in nigerian jails. >> jeff: deborah patta, thank

you very much. >> a "washington post" report today says secret service agents were diverted from the white house to the home of a fellow employee during the summer of 2011. the "post" says agents made checks at the maryland home of an aide to secret service director mark sullivan. the agency was concerned that she was being harassed by a neighbor. sullivan resigned last year, following a scandal involving agents using prostitutes on a presidential trip to colombia. on "face the nation" today, house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers said this. >> they're going to have some explaining to do and maybe they've got great explanations. but they're going to have to come up and explain it. and if they can't get this piece right i think you're going to have to look at a cultural leadership shift in the secret service. >> jeff: a secret service spokesman tells cbs news the checks of the employee's home occurred over the july 4th weekend when the president was at camp david and there was no impact on his security. the spokesman says the checks took place quote, "because of concerns for the physical safety

of an employee." there was a somber commencement today in virginia. two staff members from a school athletics department along with a pilot were on board that hot air balloon that crashed on friday night. this afternoon, searchers recovered the third and final body. mark albert is on campus. >> i want to begin this invocation with a moment of silence. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a day of celebration at the university of richmond. but commencement sunday turned into a day of mourning for natalie lewis and jennie doyle, two members of the women's basketball team staff. lewis, who was engaged was a championship swimmer for richmond whose mascot is the spiders. flowers now sit outside her former swim coach's office. the note is signed spider nation. doyle was a basketball star at the school before becoming associate head coach. lewis and doyle went up in a hot air balloon friday evening at a festival in virginia. witnesses say the balloon piloted by dan kirk of delaware, a licensed balloonist for at

least 13 years clipped a power line, caught fire and crashed. on sunday, the university's baseball team paid tribute to their fellow athletes it cancelled its remaining games that the seniors would play. head coach tracy woodson. >> it hits you and you just never know if it could be you or someone in your family. so i hate it. i feel for them. i don't like situations like this. but you know, i had to make sure our guys understood. >> reporter: hot air balloon crashes in the u.s. are extremely rare. there have been 67 where someone died, according to the national transportation safety board, in the past 50 years. >> jeff: mark albert, thank you very much. the washington monument is re- opening. an earthquake in 2011 made it unsafe to visit. two and a half years later, it is back, even better actually now. they say it is now earthquake proof. the first tickets go on sale tomorrow morning. in washington state scientists and officials are still trying to determine what caused a landslide yesterday in the town

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positive, miami dolphin defensive back don jones tweeted "o.m.g." and "horrible" in response to the kiss. >> it has since been deleted and the team's general manager plans to meet with him to discuss proper use of social media. >> i'm not worried about that. >> last night on a conference call with reporters sam said he is committed to making an impact on the field. >> ray davis played in the nfl for four years and came out publicly after he retired. he thinks players will adjust. >> sports is a different space, right. you spend so much time with each other, like in intimate spaces. so i believe that athletes are even better positioned to be able to accept a player who is from a different race, a different class, a different religion and different sexual orientation because you spend so

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>> you feel like you have complete control over this. >> 100%. i have hundreds of hours of flight time with this. i wouldn't fly if i felt nervous. >> reporter: investigators still don't know who was flying the drone that nearly collided with u.s. airways flight 4650 at tallahassee regional airport. the jet was flying at 2300 feet when the pilot reported seeing a camouflaged f-4 fixed wing aircraft that was quite small. the drone was so close the pilot assumed he had hit it. investigators found no damage. during a recent conference jim williams head of the f.a.a.'s unmanned aircraft office said drones no matter how small can be a risk to the flying public. >> we all know that the miracle on the hudson aircraft was brought down by geese that went through the engine. imagine a metal and plastic object, especially with that big lithium battery going into a high speed turbine engine. the results could be catastrophic. >> other pilots have reported seeing drones in flight including an incident in march 2013 when an alitalia pilot on approach to jfk airport in new

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>> jeff: finally tonight on this mother's day evening, a music story that is all in the family. here's anthony mason and ben harper. >> reporter: three time grammy winner ben harper travels the world performing his music. but he always returns herend to his mother ellen. >> what is this place for him? >> it's a lot of things. it's a retail store. it's a museum. we have lessons going on all the time. >> it's poetry, it's music, it's freedom of expression as much as anything. >> sure we can do that. >> reporter: for the past 13 years, ellen harper has been running the folk-music center in claremont, california, which her parents founded in 1958. ♪ >> this room has got to have so

much resonance for you in so many ways, there is so much of your history in here. >> i remember ben growing, you know-- crawling. >> on the floor. >> yeah. >> this is as of the childhood home as any house ♪ a house is a heart ♪ even when it's gone ♪ even when the grass is overgrown in the yard ♪ >> during his nearly 20 year professional career ben harper's released 15 albums. this week, he released his latest, a collaboration with his mother ellen. it's called childhood home. >> i just, you know, came to my mom and said let's do a song together, just one song. and from that one song came another song and another song. >> the songs are sounds of family life and the folk-music sounds. >> you know how it can be. >> ben wrote six of the tracks on the album, ellen wrote four. >> how is it for to you make a record together.

>> once you bring a song and you are sitting and you are playing, it's music and it's its own path. i mean, you stop thinking oh, it's my son and are you two musicians and you're working together on a song. >> because effectively you have been doing this for a very long time. >> yeah, that's about as close as two people are going to get to sharing one voice ♪ turn it all again tomorrow >> anthony mason, cbs news, claremont, california. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor. cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night and happy mother's day. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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