for what we have planned for you today. our top story, an explosion and missing prison inmates after recording flooding in florida and the atlantic coastal areas. we'll have the latest on the record rainfall in the northeast and the south as well as whether it's to blame for last night's explosion at a florida county jail. after that, more fallout from tuesday's botched execution in oklahoma. we'll examine the drug cocktail and the red state politics behind what many feel is the cruel and unusual end for one death row inmate. later money, politics and florida. whether it's 2014 or 2016 jeb versus hillary or scott versus chris, the big bad expensive fight, the kind that can only happen in the sunshine state. we start in the mid-atlantic and southern regions of the country which are expecting more of the heavy rains and flooding that have set daily records or near to it in several u.s. cities including d.c. and philadelphia. one of the worst hit, the region around pensacola, florida, where

rainfall has hit a record two days running. at least a foot has fallen yesterday on top of the more than 15 inches that fell the day before. the rain there has been so heavy that the associated press is reporting that more rain has fallen on pensacola in this one storm than has fallen in los angeles in the past two years. in fact, investigators are assessing whether the flooding is a factor in last night's apparent gas explosion in nearby escambia county prison. two inmates are dead and more than 100 inmates and guards injured many of whom were moved to nearby facilities. today there was still confusion as to whether any of the inmates are still unaccounted for. in part authorities say that's due to the chaos at the scene. >> right now the building is still so insecure that our folks cannot make entry to do an appropriate headcount of the inmates. we're looking for any more that may be deceased as a result of that. >> we'll have more on that in just a moment.

now the front that dumped record rain on pensacola also flooded nearby alabama as well. further up the atlantic coastline in maryland. a block-long sinkhole has opened up swallowing dozens of cars and blocking rail traffic for csx. if you are thinking that these extreme odd sort of one-day rainfalls are becoming more common, well, you are right. looking at data collected through 2012, the epa says the top ten of these events have occurred since 1990. what is going on down there in pensacola? >> well, good afternoon, joy. we have shifted into the cleanup and recovery phase after several dangerous and very wet days here in pensacola. like you said, record rainfall. more than two feet in 26 hours. and people we talk to also describe intense wind and lightning. in fact, in one 15-minute

period, there were more than 6,000 lightning strikes. people taking shelter in their bathtub, fearing for their own safety and the safety of their homes. there's good reason for that. take a look at some of the destruction here behind me. 911 was receiving call after call. we're told a thousand calls in a 24-hour period, people needing help. some of those people, they couldn't wait. it was upon ordinary citizens to jump in and help. that includes the driver of one of these cars, katrina shannon, was stranded in her car and had to be rescued by three workers who risked their lives to get out and help her. she's going to join us live to talk about what she went through yesterday and just how unexpected it was. thanks so much for joining us. so you were on your way to work and the road just dropped out from underneath you. >> yes, it did. >> you said all of a sudden the car was tilting, then all of a sudden you were down.

describe to me what it felt like. >> first i thought i hit a curb. then i grabbed my cell phone so i could call 911, then the rest just gave way. all i could do is turn the power on, get that window down and jump out. sit on the door and hold on to the luggage rack and pray. i said, god, you said you'd never leave me comfortless and he sent those beautiful men to save me. >> how high was it on your body? >> up to my neck. >> what were you thinking when this was happening? >> just a lot of prayer. god heard me. >> when did you know they were coming for you? >> when i said, you said you'd never leave me comfortless, then i heard them. they used a back hoe. >> did they pull you out? >> yes, they did. >> what was the first thing you did when you got to solid ground? >> to one i said, don't let me

die. then i said thank you, jesus. i was off in a dark place by myself. i didn't know if i would see my kids, my mom. i lost my brother in a car accident. i didn't want my mother to bury another child like that. my one son just lost his dad and i didn't want him to have nobody. >> what do you have to say to these men who rescued you? i know you have spoken to them. >> if i had a million dollars and that's all i had in the world, it would be theirs. he told my mom he saw my headlights and he figured something was wrong because they didn't move. and they came out and helped me. >> you have had a chance to go back to your car now that the waters receded. have you been able to salvage anything? >> my bible. that was god. he protected his word. because his word is always going to stand. a beautiful thing. >> was adrenaline still going through your veins? >> i didn't sleep good. every time i laid down, i felt

like water was hitting me again. my children aren't getting a pool any more. >> but they get to keep their mom. we're so glad you're okay. thank you so much for joining us. so just one of those tales of those scary moments in this intense storm. as you can see behind me, the weather is lifting today. we're finally getting a break. we haven't seen any rain so far. a few minutes ago we saw some sun. and that's giving investigators the ability to go full steam ahead about ten minutes from here into an intense investigation into an explosion at the county jail that happened late last night at the escambia central booking and detention center. two people were killed, more than 100 injured. right now we don't have an official cause but we are told there was severe flooding at the county jail leading up to the explosion. we're also told that city council members have been told that a preliminary investigation revealed that it might have been a gas leak in the jail laundry room that prompted this explosion. now, here's where it gets

confusing. the sheriff says three inmates possibly unaccounted for. they may be among the dead and since investigators haven't been able to go into the building, have not been discovered yet. they may have escaped or they may be in the hospital and not have been counted yet. that's the focus of the investigation. 600 people were at the jail at the time. the injured include both. the two dead are inmates. their families are being notified of what has happened. for now the investigation still a lot of fallout from this very violent storm. a lot of cleanup and unanswered questions. back to you. >> nbc's sara dalloff, thank you very much. after that botched execution in oklahoma now other states are forced to take a second look at how they deal with death row inmates. then how big name democrats like clinton and charlie crist

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oklahoma's board of corrections is meeting behind closed doors right now at this hour to discuss the investigation and, quote, possible litigation after the botched execution of clayton lockett tuesday night. oklahoma governor mary fallon has ordered the investigation into the debacle, but at a news conference yesterday she doubled down on her commitment to the death penalty. ohio's governor is also standing by the death penalty. a spokesman for john kasich said the governor supports the death penalty and takes his responsibility of implementing it very seriously. after the aclu called on him to

suspend all executions until next year. lockett died of what officials believe was a massive heart attack 43 minutes after the drug injection that was supposed to result in a quick and painless death. but it quickly became clear that things were not going as planned. one of the journalists who witnessed the execution, kfor reporter courtney francisco described what she saw after lockett had already been declared unconscious. >> he was moving his head. he was adjusting his head moving it. he was starting to move his body. he was starting to raise his feet. he was mumbling. he was trying to talk. at 6:39 he was struggling to breathe. he was struggling to move. he said the word "man." >> lockett's death was the latest in a string of executions in which states have used new and untested lethal drug combinations with disturbing results. in january, the cleveland "plain

dealer" reported it took an unexpected long 25 minutes for convicted killer dennis mcguire to die in ohio. he gasped and convulsed for ten minutes before he died. last year florida used a new drug cocktail in the execution of william happ. it appeared that he remained conscious longer and made more body movements after losing consciousness than other people executed recently by lethal injection under the old formula. they're comparing the use of untested drugs to carrying out the death penalty in the lockett and others to human science experiments. >> i don't know if it was humane or not. i'm not clayton lockett. i can't answer that. only he can, and he's dead now. >> this doctor testified on behalf of inmate david mcguire earlier this year before his

execution. there's at least a substantial risk an inmate such as mcguire will be aware of and experience air hunger as the drugs take effect. thank you so much for being here. i want to start by asking you what is air hunger? >> air hunger is a simple inability to take a breath. imagine when you get hit in the stomach and you can't catch your breath. that's air hunger. but for someone like mcguire or say a severe asthmatic, they don't know that will go away, so it brings around a terror. one of the worst terrors that we know that can happen to man. >> you testified prior to the mcguire execution as part of the attempt to stay it. afterwards the state of ohio actually changed the dosage. in your view is that an admission that there was something wrong with the drug cocktail that was used? >> it is hard for me to say. certainly it is an admission

that what they had initially used was inadequate. >> yeah. so what is in these drug cocktails? we're talking in these various cases. to your knowledge it is the same drug cocktail that's being used from state to state and what's in it? >> so it is not the same drug cocktail. there are two broad approaches. one broad approach as used in ohio is to not use a muscle relaxant. in this case they used midazolam and a narcotic. the other in oklahoma is to use midazolam and put the inmate to sleep but then uses a muscle relaxant so they cannot move, then potassium chloride which stops the heart. >> these are drugs that are used for other things. do they normally have other medical uses? >> midazolam is a very commonly used drug. we use it in much smaller doses, 2, 3, milligrams for patients to help decrease anxiety and to have them not remember so when

they go back to surgery, they don't remember the experience. muscle relaxants -- >> go on, go on. >> muscle relaxants are commonly used in the operating room. it's important, joy, to get this straight, though. what they're doing is not anesthesia. anesthesia is about taking care of patients. this is wholly unrelated to that. >> and i mean, i guess the reason why we're seeing this sort of experimentation that's happening, as you said not even consistently the same drugs, is why? because the former drugs that were used for this purpose are now off the market? it does seem like this is kind of random and kind of experimenting with what they think might work. >> well, it is random and sperpt i -- experimenting. if you look at history, sodium pentothal was used. then it stopped being made, then they went to another barbiturate, barbitol.

some people took the compounding path where compounding pharmacies that are state regulated would make it. others took the let's find a different drug path, for example, oklahoma, which chose to use midazolam. but let me make a really important point here. we know that experimenting increases the risk, but the problems we're seeing, especially the problems in oklahoma have happened all along when they were using drugs they'd always used. so really, the new experimentation is a problem, but that not only exacerbates the system problems of protocols, inadequate training, inadequate oversight. >> the people administering these drugs, do they know what's in the cocktaiocktails? are they told in advance so they can anticipate what the effect might be? >> i'm not familiar with what

happens. but since the protocol is well known within the institution, i assume they do. >> so you mentioned compounding pharmacy. can you explain to the viewers what that is. >> so in normal medicine, compounding pharmacies are used to make either a drug that is not available for a patient or a drug that doesn't have certain additives. so a patient is allergic to something else that is in a drug that triggers reaction so the compounding pharmacy makes that drug without that offending agent. in this case, they're using it to make drugs that are otherwise available. compounding pharmacies are state regulated. companies, pharmacies, designed to make drugs. >> and so the secrecy surrounding this is due to what? is it because the drugs are not available or because they are mixing drugs that are readily available but that people aren't 100% sure what the combination will do? >> the se cresses surrounding what, joy?

>> the secrecy surrounding what is in these drug cocktails or what is being given to these inmates? or where it's coming from, i guess you could say. where they're actually getting the drugs from? >> there are two distinctions here. the policies are public. so we know what is in the cocktails and we know what is being given. where the drug comes from is a different story. and that is being litigated across several states right now. >> all right. thank you so much, dr. david waisel. appreciate you being here. >> thank you, joy. >> we have a reid alert for you. you're looking live at the white house where president obama is honoring the 2014 national teacher of the year. he's a 30-year-old high school english teacher in baltimore. he developed the program that assists struggling students through rigorous courses that help them get into college. [ female announcer ] grow, it's what we do. but when we put something in the ground,

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which ideas could survive to the next election cycles. because while the president's health care plan is still under water in terms of popularity, charlie crist is proving that it is possible to run as the altogether pro-health care candidate even in a swing state like florida. executive director of the miami-based public research firm joins us for the strategy session. we'll now untangle all things florida together. this quinnipiac poll that essentially shows hillary just mopping the floor with all-comers, what is going on down there in the sunshine state? >> it looks -- it's a harbinger of 2016 repeating the model we saw in 2008 and 2012 where in a statewide level in a presidential contest you have a democrat with a strong base of support even against the former governor jeb bush and even in the case of marco rubio, the current senator. it's a panorama that looks strong for democrats in 2016 but the harbinger for that is what

happens in 2014 with this important governors race where you see rick scott in a difficult and tricky state according to this recent quinnipiac poll. >> he's down ten points to charlie crist. my working theory that crist is known and liked and still has enough republicans to carry him over the top and enough independents. anything that rick scott has done let's say in the last week or month that could bring him back? or is this really -- has he hit a ceiling? >> you know, joy, you know things are bad for governor scott when he wakes up in the morning and asks himself if today is the day he'll be more popular in terms of approval rating than donald sterling. he's in really bad shape. if you think about the fact that ever since his first year he hasn't seen his approval rating rise anywhere close to that magic 50% threshold. and i think what you're seeing is it's a race as much as rick scott wants to make it about charlie crist, this election is about a referendum on governor scott. and right now all of the polls strongly are in his opposition

to his re-election. that's what has him running scared. >> what's interesting is rick scott has been perennially in the 30s. 38 is his best number in a long time. you do have this other piece of the quinnipiac poll where they ask who is more compassionate. interesting question, crist 50%, got 35%. in a state where a tea partier can win. now you have people leaning towards charlie crist on the compassion level. do you get a sense that perhaps the health care law, perhaps people not being able to get the medicaid expansion which charlie crist has been hammering which is beginning to help crist and hurt scott? >> i don't think there's any doubt, joy. you look at the enrollment numbers which top 7 million enrollees, the fact that people are starting to see the aca come online in a way that's directly impacting their quality of life, the presumption that many democrats said once this law came into practice and people began to see their feelings, it has changed in popularity.

rather than being an albatross, i think you'll see it to be something to run on. and people now remember governor scott's decision to avoid the medicare expansion in florida. all these things which, in the light of how governor crist acted when he was governor and accepting federal funding in spite of the fact that it was coming if a democratic president, all these things cast him in a much more favorable light. you see independent voters, moderates and democratic and even some republican voters according to this poll, say they're interested in a crist candidacy. >> we haven't mentioned jeb. he's kind of been all over the place but this is the latest iteration of jeb's views on immigration. >> yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. it's kind of a -- it's an act of love. it's an act of commitment to your family. >> this is back on april 6th.

he could have completely changed his mind by now. jeb bush is back to being pro immigration. how is that playing inside florida? and does that make him more or less viable on the national stage? >> i think it was a virtue oeso statement. your viewers should remember the author of the compassionate conservative phrase which george w. bush used in his election campaign was authored by none other than jeb bush. another example referring to illegal immigration as an act of love in a way to maybe triangulate it and win back the support or at least make hispanics give the republican party a second look. if there's one figure in the republican party that can do that with credibility, it is jeb bush. someone who feels completely at home and comfortable with hispanics in the hispanic community. you see his tilt back towards the middle on immigration particularly in this area where he knows in florida and especially nationally the republicans need to make grounds with hispanic votes if they ever hope to capture the white house

again. very astute politics on his behalf. he's the one republican in america which has the credibility with which to do so. >> i want to ask you a bigger picture pollster hat, if you put that hat on for a second. the most interesting number is really this number about the income gap. people were asked do you believe that the widening income gap prevents you from rising, prevents you from having upward mobility? 54% said yes, 43% said no. what does that say nationally about the mentality of the country right now? >> i think this is the great issue. you've put your finger on it, joyp about this feeling that the american dream that a lot of people whether they play by the rules and do what was supposed to be the contract with america, if you worked hard and did the right things, you can still get ahead is in jeopardy. this is the central question. you'll see more and more come to the forefront of the elections. this posture is one that

benefits the democratic party who, whether it's through the minimum wage increase that they're trying to bring about and address this great chasm between the have and the have nots puts the other side, the republican party in this case, on unsolid ground. this is the central question going forward. how do we reconcile this economic disparity which is affecting millions and putting the contract on america, the ability to achieve the american dream of greatness in great jeopardy. >> it's interesting because the president is constantly talking about things like minimum wage but he's still under water even looking at our poll in florida, under water 46-50. is the president a useful messenger inside of the state of florida? is he somebody that charlie crist wants to have come down there and campaign for him or is he somebody who would hurt crist going forward in terms of the governor's race? >> you know florida so well, florida's such an interesting state because there's so many states within the state. the president is a tremendous asset in the southern part of the state, states like dade, broward and palm beach county

where former governor crist is going to need to rely on a heavy democratic turnout. he may be a little more judicious whether he wants to trot him out in the northern part or the central part of the state but no question that barack obama is still popular and can be a tremendous asset for crist in key areas of the state that he'll need to win the governor's office back in november. >> i will ask you also the change in the composition of the hispanic vote in florida is an interesting story especially the i-4 corridor. charlie crist did well with hispanics in 2010. >> he did. you see a massive puerto rookie been vote coming online. 250,000 puerto ricans have moved to the orlando area driven by jobs at disney world. you see greater support for them on the democratic side. the fact that they happen to have some relationship with charlie crist, a lot actually pulled the lever for him in

2010, that's going to help him. that's why you see governor scott making such an aggressive push. he went on the air with spanish language ads. as early as i can remember in a cycle just a couple weeks ago and naming as his lieutenant governor the first hispanic in florida. the swing vote, decisive vote in the state of florida coming on the heels of the midterms. >> i will recall as you will rick scott tried having that first african-american lieutenant governor and we see how that worked out for him. that doesn't help you when you're in the 30s. but thank you very much for being here. really appreciate it, man. >> thank you, joy. always a pleasure. now a reid alert on health care. outgoing health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius just announced that over 8 million people have signed up for the affordable care act since october 1st. both those numbers are about the same as the last update we got last month. up next, in the aftermath of

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thing for really old people. according to a new sur vav commissioned by mtv, 64% of white millennials believe that with the election of a black president, people of color now have the exact same opportunities as white americans. the study, which was just released, finds that 36% of white millennials also believe that gains for people of color often come at their expense. that belief is a source of repeated public debate over whether racism still exists at all and, if it does, how to combat it in a way that won't leave white americans feeling disenfranchised. yes, i used that word "disenfranchised" a word historically used to refer to people of color, women and other groups being denied full participation in society but is how many white millennials feel today. but other than a donald sterling who said black people weren't welcome at clippers games. it could actually trigger the

very misunderstandings that lead to subtle discrimination of all kinds even among the young. as america moves toward the day just four years from now when half our population under 18 will be non-white, whether women are demanding equal pay and the lgbt community is out and proud and gaining equal rights, what can be done to flush out hidden bias? the senior vice president of public affairs of mtv and the director of research and communication for the anti-defamation league's national education division. they're two people behind the mtv look different campaign which is an initiative aimed at fighting the hidden causes of inequality of the younger generation. i got that all out, i think i even got it right on the names. start by explaining to us why you did the study? >> we did the study to really inform a big campaign that we were just launching called look different, which is about really enabling our audience to better recognize and challenge the hidden racial agenda and lgbt

bias that are still rampant. we can sometimes overread how far we've come. and for sterling, for our audience, that's old school racism. that's not the way they see it. it's clear that it should be condoned and he should be held accountable, but where we live now is a subtle place. micro transgressions, sometimes unintentional, where our audience is having a hard time and parsing some of these complicated issues. we want to support them in pushing forward in reaching towards a more equal future. >> microaggressions comes up a lot in your study. what does that mean? >> it's a small experience of injustice. it could be just, you know, the word "that's so ghetto" so describe something like a housing project but somebody's outfit. and people for whom are closely associated with that, for example, african-american people who live in subsidized ouzing or

some kind of area that was typically historically associated with it, they feel snubbed. it's a putdown. those are some of the things that when you pile them up, they're kind of like lint on a jacket. you turn around and there's a bunch there, and they carry it with them. >> your study showed that young minorities feel that they have less opportunity than whites but white millennials thing everyone is equal. can you explain? >> there's a lot happening here where our audience is really growing up seeing these big historic milestones in civil rights from on the race fronts from seeing president obama's election and seeing the way discrimination plays out. there's a feeling that, okay, so that stuff's behind us, but there's not the same understanding of these deep-seated and deep rooted structural inequities as well as historical inequities. to have 40 or 50 years where we've not had vitriolic racism does not undo the 450 that came before that. we want to dig deeper into that and help them understand what

that means and how it impacts others around them. we do want to challenge some of these assumptions that were there because we're by no means there. >> now that we're in a war with the supreme court that has said that the voters in the state have decided they want to do affirmative action. they think that giving racial preferences even to fix past wrongs is unfair. what do you make of that? >> i think most youth are having opinions that are based on the branding of what affirmative action is. because when you ask them the question, do you think it's fair to -- do you want a diverse campus? and they say yes. is there a benefit to having a diverse campus? yes, absolutely. do you think there should be efforts to help make that happen on their campus, then they agree. so they don't necessary -- there's a close association with what the misnomers are about for affirmative action. >> one other point that's interesting is because the mtv

audience is really on the fore of this changing country where you raised the stat in four years children under 18, we'll have a majority future. this is not 2043, this is like the next graduating class. we see that our young white audience is kind of figuring that out and looking at the population dynamics and also in some ways may have like a zero sum game mentality to say that there's only a fixed number of jobs, there's only a fixed number of slots at school and we want to challenge that and say it's not a zero sum game. there's a way for us to kind of rise, lift the tide for everybody and kind of challenge some of those perceptions. >> i think that's what's exciting about this partnership and this look different campaign is that the demographic that mtv works with specifically and what we do at adl as well, they're going to be policymakers some day. right now we have to help them stand and create a foundation from which to build values that

kind of align with their sentiments that they value diversity, they value fairness and equality. >> it's not just racial, right? because there's also gender equality. interesting stat in your poll, lgbt millennials, 85% feel they face discrimination which is more than people of color or women that face discrimination. >> that's right. what was interesting to us is we saw a lot of energy going into marriage equality. our audience has helped to power that forward. when doma fell and we get to 17 states there's a little sense of, okay, we're good. i think we're not good in any way. and we want to help them understand how these things are all connected because there's no such thing as a la carte inequality. dr. king said a threat anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we know they care deeply about these issues and they want to push on them. if we can use mtv as a platform

to accelerate that push and that fight and make their voices louder, that will be for the better. >> tell us what that looks like. what is your call to action for these young millenniums? >> i'll let jason answer that. >> i think it really starts with looking internally. if you want to go to the school to prison pipeline or pay inequality, that's a huge thing that a young person in their daily life can't have an impact on. but they can get to know themselves better and their own implicit biases. and a lot of young people may not know they're there. the more they're aware of them, the more they can challenge them in their sphere, with family, with friends, when they see things happening that are not just, we can give them tools to better intervene. we've seen something like 65% of our audience wiv they knew how to better address bias when they see it because they don't have the tools. that's why we work with experts like the adl to make sure we're

doing this right. >> bias that grows unchecked grows into prejudice. and it grows into discrimination and sometimes hate. that's the part of the reason that we've partnered and we're endeavoring to do this in a multiyear initiative. >> this is great. this set going mtv back to its prime directive of being a social mover. thank you both for being here. coming up, we read between the lines on a mass abduction of girls in nigeria and how the government there is botching the response. they say you'll never go back to your old cleaning ways again. not once you've tried mr. clean's new liquid muscle. it's a concentrated liquid gel with two and a half more power per drop. so a little goes a long way. new liquid muscle. when it comes to clean, there's only one mr. yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from.

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right now, right under our noses there's a human rights outrage taking place in nigeria. hundreds of girls have been kidnapped by fighters for the terrorist group boko haram. and forced into marriage. it's being described as a medieval form of slavery.

234 girls between 16 and 18 years of age were taken from their dorm in chibok in northeastern nigeria on april 19th. while 50 managed to escape, the rest are still missing. here's a human rights activist on how the girls' kidnapping has sparked an international social media campaign. >> the protest has taken the whole world by storm finally. finally this issue is being reported because the girls have been missing, have been captured for 2 1/2 weeks now. so now social media has taken up this cause with the #bringbackourgirls. heart felt emotional pleas from the mothers, if you imagine what it is like for a parent, for a mother, to have your daughter kidnapped with limited or ineffectual attempt to recover

the girls for over two weeks. the world has now finally taken up this cause inspired by the action of the mothers. up until this social media campaign really took off, a lot of people didn't even know that 200, over 200 young women have been kidnapped in nigerinigeria. this is causing global support for action to be taken and for the government to go in and rescue these girls. once again we're seeing the power of social media and the pursuit of social justice. >> that was human rights activist kevin murungi. the # bring back our daughters. be sure to visit us online at the reid report. the cycle is up next. i understand there might be a birthday afoot, abby. >> turning 21. >> happy 21st birthday, girl. now get you a martini.

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straight ahead in this storm cycle may day takes on a whole new meaning. it tears up and down the east coast. we're now seeing the damage. i'm abby huntsman, that's all coming up. game night for the los angeles clippers, and we know who won't be sitting courtside. i'm toure. and nba owners taking the first step to kicking donald sterling

out of the league for good. >> in politics, can president obama get his groove back. pund ets asking that very question. personally time to take a step back. >> rob ford is back in the news today. new images surface that appear to show him smoking crack. >> what? >> no, no. >> this time it looks like the public shaming may have finally done the trick. abby, i know it's a story you're interested in this afternoon. he's off to rehab. six inches of rain in pensacola last night in one hour is almost a once in a 500-year event. >> it reached its height late tuesday night shutting down i-10 leaving drivers trapped in their vehicles some for up to ten hours. >> driver hs to be rescued leaving cars submerged in water. >> the area saw up to