>> ah! oh, just th weird little we knew that the tornado was on top of us we knew it was going straight over us. >> another night oasf destructi the large tornado touches down near kansas city, ripping apart dozens of homes. and the danger isn't over. with 84 milliostill at risk r powerful storms. >> and from twteisrs to historic floods, rising rivers leave the aains and the midwestthe mercy of mother nature >> and ellen opens up about her childhood abuse. the talk show host said she has decided to go public good to be wh you this morning. i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. we have breaking news this morning. nearly two-week long outofreak violent weather has reached

e northeast. multiple warnings were triggered overnight including one for staten island and some new jersey counties surrounding new york city. a possible tornado touched down in stanhope, new jersey, where trees up rooted and power lines fell durorg the st as this fast-moving storroswept thugh pennsylvania, it brought were it powerful wind gusts, heavy rain, and golf ball size hail in someti areas the naonal weather service confirming that the tornado touched down i in morgan town. ining down from the sky deisbris afterwards >> earlier one of the largest tornadoetbof this ak was spotted in lawrence,ansas. stunning video shows the twister estimated to be about one le wide around 30 homes wereoy destred, with many others damaged, and so far there haven't been reports of serious injuries. meanwhile, areas of arkansas and oklahoma are experienced some of the most severe flooding they've ever seen. for the possibility that the situation will get much worse. let's turn now to nbc meteorologist bill karins who is

folling all thserious weather threats for us this morning. good morning >> good morning. last night we went from tracking that huge tornadawo near lnce, kansas, watching parts of new york city under a tornado warning. in all, we had 19 tornado reports. we had o the we showed you there in pennsylvania. we had one on thiae illinois/ior border. ad had tpo sts with numerous rntoadoes reported in the area the one that just misslawrence ground almost an hour and it kind o of lifted by the time it got to the west side of kansas city near the kansas city speed way. what are we going to do today? we're going to do it all over again. rinse and repeat here. 84 million people at risk. we have two spots, very similar to yesterday storms winl be racg fromhio through pennsylvania this time we could include washington, d.c. and baltimore st. louis to springfield, a lot of heavy rain in areas from little rock to tulsa they don't need it our friends in dallas and fort worth arclincludedayod, o.too. not many people not included >> like a quarter of the country population wise. l right, bill, thank you

the gloves are cominoff in the race for 2020. democratic front runner joe biden is hitting back at president trump for once again siding with north rekoan leader kim jong-un. this time agreeing with the dictator that the former vice-president is a, quote, low i.q. individual. nbc peter alexander has more on the response from biden's camp >> reporter: >> mr.y resident, whe you so concerned about joe biden, sir >> reporter: joe biden's campaign bstlasting president the pridesenlat landed back in e u.s.ccording to his aides before responding to the president's weekend attacks. calling them beneath the dignity of the office. withthorth k korea's brutal dictator kim jong-un, while e lashing out at the former vice-president>>im kim jong-un that joe biden is a low-i.q. dividual he probably is based on his record i think i agree with him on te that i can you that joe biden n was a disaster >> reporter: biden's campaign arguing, to be on foreign soil on memorial day and to sidlye

repeatedith a murder rust dictator against a fellow american and former vice-president speaks for i itself s part of a pattern of embracing auto kratz at the expense of our institutions. most every republican silent but pete king calling the president's criticism wrong, tweeting, politics stops at was r's edge the president also fueling controversy byrushing off north korea's recent short-range missile test by saying they don't personally botherim nbc's kristen welker is in tokyo. >> those tests do bother the japanese, but while here, president trump broke with his host and his national ricurityjo bolton who see the tests as violations of u.n. resolutions. >> rorepr:ter: ltue tuesday back heret athe white house, president trump on twitter defended his insult of bidencl, ming he was sticking up for s e former vice-espresident by words. phillip? >> that's what he says all right, peter, thank you. >> a major drug company is now on trial facing accusations of

targeting children and the elderly in the opioid crisis which has ravaged so many communitie oklahoma's attorney general said johnson and johnson acted as a drug king pen property iting at every stage of the epidemic. the landmark trying could set a ecedent for those holding companies accountable for their role here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: in oklahoma civil court, an opioid making accused of fueling an epidemic >> this cris iis is a company-me crisisis one of the causes sitting right here to my right >> reporter: in a civil suit, or oklahoma's atty general accuses johnson and johnson of misleading doctors by downplaying the risks of opioids while touting the benefits for years, the company fighting back arguing its product made up a small percentage of the opioid markets and was sold according to fda guidelines. >> we talk about opioids as if they're all the same and i assure you they are not.

>> reporter: in couremily walden, her son died of an overdose in 2012 she is now a leading activist in the fight against opioid addiction and drug makers. >> theedneed to pay billions of dollars for the damage that they've done in every single state. and then we need criminal charges. we nee td prisone for these executives >> reporter: the lawsuit named multiple c companies, but in mah purdue, the makesers of objectin oxycontittled while denying wrongdoing teva paid 85 million this is one of ainou mntain of ndpendclaims filed across the countrsuing drug makerd distributors set a critical precedent, which is why walden, who is om kentucky, felt she needed to be here >> a mom in oklahoma or a mom in kentucky, we've lost our kids.

we've lost loved ones. and we feel the same pain. >> that was stephanie gosk reporting. >> the fight over state abortion restrictions has trickled up to the supreme court after wa compromi made on indiana's abortion law with the court invalidating bs on abortions based d on s s, race, or disability but allowing fetuses to be buried or cremedat meanilwhine in another state, women seeking an aboion may have to leave to get one nbc's ann thompson has more. >> reporter: missouri could become the first state in the nation with no abortion clinic this planned parenthood facility in st. louis going to court to stay open beyond friday, unable to reach an agreement with missouri's health department to renew its licee.nse. two years ago, jenny bach said this is where she went to have an abortion. >> i know we made the best choice for her >> reporte but with no clinic and the new law the governor signed friday after baing abortions for eight weeks, she and sbr hud would no longer

have that option they ended her pregnancy at 15 ekweafs after learning her daughter had aen getic disorder and would die soon after birth now they are expecting another child. >> i believe my greatest act of love ahes her mother was to sufr myself instead >> reporter: alualu louisiana is expected to ban abortion if fetal heartbeat is present six weektoin pregnancy >> we should determine when life starts >>hi this law is blatantly unconstitutional >> reporter: a judge said it threatens immediate rights mississippi is appealing for siose looking for gns from the supreme court, mixed signals on indiana's law the justice is letting stand the lower court's decisionlocking the law banning abortions on gender, race or disability but upholding the requirementalr cremated >> it's becoming sort of increasingly clear and perhaps

likely that there are several justices who aren't ready to wade into the issue of abortion yet if they can possibly help it >> reporter: something several states are not afraid to do. ann thompson, nbc news, chicago. >> meantime, gaga's billion dollar film industry could face a major blow after streaming giant netflix announced it would coreconsider its entirinvestment if the fetal heartbeat bill go into effect. netflix currently has five projects filatng in the e including shows like "stranger thgsgs" d and "ozark." georgia made $10 billion from the film industry. georgia became the fourth state this year to prohibit abortions once the doctor can detect the first fetal heartbeat. >> sombie distur dashcam video t ouofew nor york. auitorities are searching for a passger who attacked a lyft driver during the rideus >> excme, ma'am, if you're e disrespectful, i'll pullover right now >> ooh that incident happened last week

while the driver says he was taking those two people to a hospital in queens he says the shirtless guy in the back started violently punching hi wm because heouldn't drive faster lyft says that passenger has since beenan bned. as h for the driver, he said wasn't seriously injured, but he is considering find giagnee new >> t wig woman r t there was yelling at the shirtless guy assuming telling him to stop okay, let's check back in with bill karins to see more on the severe weather we're g getng today. >> we're still getting flash flooding ing.re diminished for the me this area of rain very heavy this morning from st. louis to chicago, right over the top where l illinr s rive where we have major flooding ongoing the thunderstorms near fort smith are cruel. we showed you e picture of the nskansaseriver dng de age ther s far ae flash flood goes, all of missouri is under flash flood. from area of peoria, from dallas to fort smith, again, just the

same areas time after time that's a look at the big weather story of the day now here's a closer ok at your day ahea you can see where osose thunrsdetormhr teats are once again today. we're going to take kansas city out of the mix you had your fun yesterday unfortunately. now we're watching thoin storms rollg from ohio today and this afternooton wards d.c., baltimore, philadelphia later this afternoon as far as the storms go ine thnortheast, not so many tornadoes we're rried about. mostlyag daming wind today >> thas s a relief for us. everyone else edneeds it, too, with tlo fing. bill, thank you. in titay's quick h there were no winners last night in the mega millions drawing. friday's jackpot has grown to $44 million. that's the 8th largest in the game's history meanwhile the powerball jackpot is $325 million. >> twitter is hiring a tweeter-in-chief who will run the company's official twitter the job will require the person to be extremely plugged into the twter culture. no wd w whait paytt >> manhaan hedge when the sunset lines up with mhaan re i grid,t happens every

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we're justearning kit harrington entered a therapy program right before the series finale of "game of thrones". the representative for the actor confirmed that he secretly checked into a wellness retreat before the show's ending harrington who is best known for his role as jon snow i this break in his schedule to work on some personal issues the 32-year-old went from a relative unknown to an international star when "game of thrones" took off. he told reporters earlier this year that he finds fame hard to deal with. >> a lot of fans found the finale hard to deal with the iry people needing therapy after that, too. all right. leading the news this morning after a very deadlsey seas and highest peak, officials in nepal are defending the number of permits issued to climb mt. everest. it led to outrage ov over overcrowding. it calls for tougher restrictions after an american climber became the 11th person

there to die this season nbc's sarah harman joining us now from lonn. sarah, good morning. this is a $300 million industry for this country >> reporter: phil,hat's exactlright. they charge $11,000 for each one of thet' permits and thas just ite perm e sherpa, the gear, the oxygen tanks, they all cost extra and it brings in a whole lot of money to an impoverished nation like nepal it's not just the permitting the weather and inexperienced climbers contributed to the traffic jamb we see at the twy a la from colorado just became the 11th person to die this season, shortly aerft he reached the s world'ghest peak, his dream. others who climbed this week described the scene as a zoo with cmbers standing chest to chest to get to the top and in some cases, even climbing over dead bodieto rchea the summit. overcrowding is especially dangerous because at that elevation, once you pass about

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