making news in america this morning -- breaking overnight. an amtrak train on its side, derailing while packed with passengers. new details and pictures just coming in. political turmoil, growing concerns about the outbreak of protests and violence at donald trump's rallies. the chaos overshadowing one of the biggest days of the election season happening tomorrow. we're live with the latest. severe flooding in the heartland. water rushing down streets. plus, on the west coast, a growing mudslide forcing people from their homes. and march madness. it's that time of year. get your brackets ready. who are the favorites and number

good monday morning. we begin with that breaking news, another major train derailment the second in the less than a week. >> new images coming in from kansas. five amtrak cars on their side. this happened 20 miles west of the dodge city. there are injuries. none of them we're told are life-threatening. >> it was bound from los angeles to chicago, carrying 128 passengers and 14 crew members. >> obviously, the cash investigation is in its early stages right now. witnesses onboard said that the train started shaking. last week, a commuter train in california derailed when it struck a tree, we're working to get some new details on this amtrak derailment later in this half-hour other major story, the race to the white house.

trump rejecting blame for the violence. >> it's casting a shadow over tomorrow's crucial primaries. >> both parties are holding contests in florida, illinois. for republicans, the winner in ohio and florida get all of the delegates. coverage begins with kenneth moten. kenneth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, donald trump's rivals pointed out those images of violence at his rallies are being seen around the world. some of the toughest criticism came from the two men who have a lot to lose if they don't win their home states. this morning, donald trump under fire as violence and protests continue to break out at his organized. troublemakers. >> reporter: rising tempers sparked incredible scenes at trump's events in illinois,

missouri and ohio. more secret service agents are now surrounding the gop front-runner after one man even tried to rush the stage as trump spoke. but as trump rivals on both side on the attack. >> he's trafficking in hate and fear. >> no matter what it takes i will not take the low road to the highest office in america. >> reporter: the violence has been a distraction from the race for the white house. a path that leads to the delegate-rich states of florida and ohio tomorrow. >> after tuesday, we're going to see this race narrow clearly to a two-person race. >> reporter: a recent poll has ohio governor john kasich leading donald trump in the buckeye state but rubio is still trailing in his home state democratic bernie sanders is hoping for the same, polls in the five states voting tomorrow

>> we think we have a chance to win here in ohio. >> reporter: today, the trail here in ohio will get another familiar face, one of donald trump's biggest critic, mitt romney will campaign for governor john kasich. reena and kendis. >>. the violence in chicago over the weekend reminding people of the 1968 election. >> abc's jonathan karl takes a closer look at the political >> caller: turmoil and what he's witnessing on the campaign trail. >> it's hard to look at what's happening now and hard to think of those images from chicago in 1968, violent clashes on the street. i have been to trump rallies all over the country and it's important to say that the overwhelming majority of trump supporters are entirely peaceful. overwhelming majority of the protesters are entirely peaceful.

have a candidate from the podium encouraging even condoning violence as these protests grow bigger, go more fervent. i fear this could actually get worse. >> jonathan karl reporting for us. another story that we're following overnight. a young maryland police officer is dead in what officials say is an unprovoked ambush attack. the suspected shooter was then wounded in a shootout with cops. his brother was later arrested. . the motive for the shooting is unknown. the officer would have turned 29 this week. >> the community needs to know that one of your defenders has been lost. >> he was important to his family. he's important to this entire community. we have another mother tonight who's without her son. >> police say they had no contact with the suspect before he opened fire. he's currently in the hospital

with nonlife threatening injuries. overseas now, where the death toll is rising following a terror attack in the capital of turkey. police suspect that kurdish militants carried out the attack which the main boulevard of ankara. the turkish prime minister promising to bring terrorism to its knees. now, al qaeda's north africa affiliate is claiming responsibility in an attack on a popular beach resort. the gunmen stormed the beach. one witness described the panic as the terrorists opened fire. night because of severe weather in springfield, missouri, a storm dumped as much as 5 inches of rain in less than five hours. at least 60 water rescues took place.

roads are closed. in the meantime, in eastern arkansas, also being hit with severe storms and heavy rain as you can see. some roads are closed because of flooding. there's no report of damage from the storms. forecasters expect the weather to clear out by daybreak. take a look at that radar the storm system has moved a little to the east, now drenching parts of kentucky, tennessee and mississippi. another storm is causing problems in northern california, two families have had to evacuate their homes because of a mudslide. other homes may be in danger. the problems started several months ago. formal announcement from the white house on president obama's choice to replace supreme court justice antonin scalia.

three choices. senate republicans are still refusing to hold hearings or schedule a vote before the presidential election. still ahead -- new details on an automaker recall. a passenger plane bound for the u.s. with two missiles onboard. how did they get there. plus, caught on camera.

this is proof why you should never tailgate. look closely at the two vehicles on the left lane on this highway. the vehicle in the back riding the other, until the vehicle taps the brakes, causing that driver in the rear to spin out

of control. the driver who crashed was cited. and new overnight a dramatic high-speed chase of a stolen police cruiser through parts of los angeles ended when police opened fire on the driver. that driver hit speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour. weaving in and off of freeways. the stolen car was cornered in an alley. gas prices are going up and drivers are seeing the difference at the pumps. the national average price for a gallon of gas is now $1.94, that's up 24 cents from a month ago and more than 12 cents in a week. largest weekly increase this year already. demand is up and we're diving more because gas has been so inexpensive. nissan is recalling more than 47,000 leaf electric car

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a report that could have serious security imply cases here in the u.s. >> that report by european tv network says two missiles have been discovered by officials at an airport in serbia. alleged to be bound for oregon. u.s. officials are looking into who was going to receive the missiles and what they were going to be used for. investigators in france are calling for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilot. a nearly a year after one pilot may have deliberately crashed a plane into the french alps. investigators said he had been urnled by doctors to get sigh yat rick help. researchers discovered why women need more sleep than men. since women multitasking

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we'll have some sunshine this afternoon, but a lot of clouds left over, the temperature as well will be in the 80s but it will feel much warmer as we have a lot more humidity to

not a lot going on the next few days. partial sunshine everyday. we'll build a few clouds, not much rain from them though. upper 60s to 70 degrees. feeling like summer. you factor in the humidity, this is the dew point scale. now we're talking about upper 60s to around 70. yesterday, low 70s. hadn't seen this high humidity in quite some time. certainly felt that. we're now approaching that oppressive scale and will continue generally in the upper 60s. could be even muggier, we do that in the summer but for this time of year we're going to be pretty juicy the next few days. keep it in mind. low to mid-80s away from the coast. with a gusty southwesterly wind taking over for today we'll keep it in the 70 along the coast. that will be much issue for boaters. i think we'll be in pretty good shape. then tomorrow once again we

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starts now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us. i'm dan deiah riley. >> dan shaffer has the day off. we start with two stories. >> a serious crash involving a stolen car. police say up to six people were joyriding in the stolen car and speeding when they broadsided the undercover pickup truck at central avenue and 54th street before 12:30 this morning. police say the two officers were actually searching for another car, another stolen car when this stent accident happened. the officers' injuries are not considered life threatening. the passengers in the car, their injuries appear to be more serious. more at 5:00. in tampa police state victim of an overnight shooting is not being very cooperative.