as many as 20 so far, from arkansas to missouri to illinois. and erin hayes leads us off in suburban st. louis tonight. erin? >> reporter: david, this storm system was swift and fierce. and where its tornadoes hit, they hit hard. this is the sunset hills neighborhood of st. louis. here and in several states tonight, the storms have brought devastation. here, it looked as if a bomb exploded. the deadly twisters hit first in northwest arkansas, obliterating this house in the tiny town of cincinnati, killing an elderly couple inside. another man died in a nearby barn. >> hand sticking out. he had blocks all over him. his head was bleeding. we dug him out and then we just started looking for the other people that were missing. >> reporter: then, the violent weather moved northeast into missouri, killing three more. in sparta, jessica barnes and her 3-year-old son survived a terrifying tornado. >> i placed him in the tub first and then laid on top of him and when we came to, he actually was on top of me, and first thing he said was, my house is brok

maxx, editor of the arkansas times, has been writing about politics in arkansas for years. he has a daughter about the age of chelsea, bill clinton's daughter, and they were on the same softball team. they sat to the at the games. here's what max says about bill clinton's, the appeal about him and his empathy. he says, one of the things about charisma is the ability of people to connect with other people. it's the ability of a person to connect with other people, and bill clinton can do that quickly, serially and effectively. he gets close to you, touches, establishes a physical connection, a arm on a shoulder, a handshake and looks you in the eye and for a short period of time, makes you think you're the only person in the room and quickly finds the common foundation, hometown, knows your cousin, knows your school, your boss, and then the other thing he can do which is the real trick is file it away and have near total recall of it some point way in the future. i've known politician who can do some of these things, but in a way that is a trick. bill clinton really is inter

and arkansas having to stop pryor.g men who will be us ises spended the first five games of next year for improperly selling memorabilia. ohio state recovers and they led 7-0. pryor 43-yards to posey. pryor, mvp. 222 yards passing, a couple of touchdowns, 1145 yards rushing. biggest play of the game, a rush from arkansas but nope, that's it. ryan malice their great quarterback is picked off, jim tressel has got to be gatorade time. show you how much stanford respects harbaugh. the only coach i can remember this post season who didn't get the gatorade. the buckeyes 31-26. they are a winner tonight >>> athletes are well-guarded when one speaks out, we roll it. >> we have guys that want to do it occasionally. not all the time though, that's hard work. and when you work hard and you win you feel it after a game. and i guarantee there are guys that don't feel that tired after that game. it's frustrating. >> and a little p. off and three out of five the sharks have lost. >>> world series mvp edgar renteria is not going to re

arkansas snapped out of it in the second half. razorbacks cut the lead to 10. arkansas cut the block in the final minutes and had perfect field position for the go ahead score. picked off, and that's your ball game. ohio state held on to win the sugar bowl, 31-26. >>> texas rangers couldn't land cliff lead, so they broke the bank on adrian beltre. he signed a deal with the rangers. >>> basketball to the garden, the knicks pulled off another impressive win. chandler led with a season high 31 against the spurs. felton knocked down a 3 late in the game to give the knicks the lead. knicks handed the spurs just their fifth loss of the season, 128-115. >>> every team is trying to find a way to stop the red hot heat. the bucs' coach decided to do it himself. bottom of your screen. he walked on to the court and bumped royal as he was shooting. you can't do that. he was given a technical foul. back to the drawing board for the bucs. they had no answer for dwyane wade. he had 34. heat won it, 101-89. >>> now to new jersey for one of the craziest careens you'll ever see.

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arkansas, missouri, illinois and oklahoma. at least six people have died, and there is tremendous damage. homes destroyed, roofs ripped off, and trees and power lines down. it's all due to a huge ms of warm and unstable air that swept across the middle of the country, from the gulf coast all the way north to michigan and wisconsin. we are covering all of it tonight starting with michelle hofland in sunset hills, missouri, just outside st. louis. good evening, michelle. >> reporter: good evening. the first reported tornado touched down in arkansas early this morning, killing an elderly couple and a farmer as he was milking his cows on his dairy farm. it was just the beginning of a deadly day. the violent winter storm that tore through the nation's midsection hit the town of cincinnati, arkansas, particularly hard, killing three people in a town of about 100, and injuring more than a dozen. >> this is our house. this is all that's left of it. >> reporter: tammy borden's boyfriend was inside their century old house when the storm

ohio state/arkansas. terrelle pryor, one of five buckeyes players that will be suspended for first five games next season. second quarter, up 14-7. pryor, finds dane sanzenbacher. great grab for a touchdown. sanzenbacher, 12 letters in his name. he scored a touchdown on the ground. 12 touchdowns this year. pryor, tressle, a little chest-pump. 27-7. third quarter, arkansas on the comeback. ryan mallett, to jarious wright. before the fourth quarter, mallet gathers the troops. he transferred from michigan. you know he wants to beat the buckeyes. the hogs tie him up in the end zone. that's a safety. great defense by arkansas. dan herron just got smacked. first safety in a sugar bowl since 1998. after the safety, here come the hogs. ryan mallett, to jarious wright. breaks it off for a gain of 24. that would lead to a field goal. ar oor on the comeback. now, pumpbting. colden miles nash. they have it in the ohio state 18. second and ten, the ball in the hands of ryan mallett. now, it's in the sands of salmon th

there were also three deaths in cincinnati, arkansas, a small town near the oklahoma border. a tornado hit before dawn, tearing roofs off houses and leaving a trail of destruction. don teague is there tonight. don, what's the situation? >> reporter: good evening, harry. we now know about 24 homes were destroyed here in cincinnati. i'm standing in what was the living room of one of those homes, a two-story house. you can see it's gone. in fact, most of this house ended up a couple hundred yards away. if you can see that tree behind me, there is furniture from this house in that tree. but even more amazing, there was a man who was in the bedroom where i'm standing. he was picked up by the storm, thrown something like a quarter of a mile away, landed and was injured but is going to be okay. an amazing story of survival. still, there is just devastation in this tiny town of just 100 people. flattened trees and snapped power poles marked the tornado's path. debris is scattered over two counties and at least 14 homes and businesses are damaged or destroyed. >> my whole house starte

not just birds and arkansas, hundreds of thousands of dead fish and the arkansas river.d with only one type being effected, one to 5 mi. from the dead birds. one half of americans are giving them pau president obama 8 positive f reada positive reading, and that a-is the- highest reading he has added nearly eight months. and he had a 50 percent approval rating and the gallup poll between may 29th-june 1st. top-seeded democrats regard to block any efforts to repeal the health-care overhaul. and that would eliminate a lot of popular benefits like closing the gap in benefits, medicare coverage. and with senate majority leader jerry reed and the overhaul is too important to be treated as collateral damage in the bipartisan mission. >> a blood test for cancer is getting big boost. johnson and johnson. has partnered with massachusetts to eventually bring this new to the market. they claimed the sensitivity can spot one single cancer cell among billions. and they could press, colon, prostate, a lung cancer, could be a good indicator of pre-cancerous conditions. @ live, from the

. >>> people around the country are still talking about what's going on in arkansas. the massive bird kill and fish kill. thousands of each found dead in separate incidents. birds falling out of the sky. fish dead in the water. and today, more dead birds, hundreds of them, were discovered just to the south in adjacent louisiana. our own janet shamlian is in beebe, arkansas. >> reporter: a grisly event believed to be an isolated event has happened again. some 300 miles south of here in louisiana. some 500 red wing blackbirds were found dead littering a quarter-mile stretch of highway outside of baton rouge and discovered yesterday and they are the same species found in arkansas. they say they may never know for certain what caused 5,000 birds to fall from the sky new year's eve but they do believe the birds were shocked by fireworks and then literally flew into homes, trees and each other. as of this evening, birds from both states are at a federal laboratory for testing. they say mass kills like this are not unheard of but insist that they are highly unusual, especial

, take the luck as many as a hundred thousand this were taken from the arkansas river. only a certain type were killed people all are hoping that this is just a disease that affects this particular type of species. >> it was kind of a gray and gloomy day today. there it rodeo beach the sun started to show as the sun went down this evening. not to the golden gate bridge, tonight we have seen a few clouds out there for this evening. the clubs are beginning to clear for the north bay, at as the skies clear, the chance for fog acetylene and is in the forecast for tonight. no. bay and east bay. temperatures in the '40's into oakland, san francisco 48 degrees, to 45 percent jose. we're headed for the mid 30's for tonight. here's storm trackers for all the stormy weather not to southern california. rain and snow dry conditions here for the bay area, just of used snow fall of showers in the sierra, but those are gone as what appeared so the snow was not following any longer, in south lake tahoe though roads are beginning to clear up as well. the next couple of days in the sierr

so what happened in arkansas? disease is one theory.e tangled up in some atmospheric disturbance. >> it's conceivable that this mass suicide was sparked by some kind of atmosphere disturbance. also, there's a possibility of a microburst. >> reporter: arkansas's chief veterinarian still thinks fireworks panicked them and they crashed to earth. but the only thing scientists will likely be able to prove is cause of death. >> our thought is that it is trauma. >> reporter: scientists here at the arkansas state lab continue to try to work out whether perhaps it was disease or poisoning that drove those birds effectively to commit suicide. samples are being sent as far as wisconsin and georgia. that as most scientists for now seem to concur that all these incidents were purely coincidental. matt gutman, abc news, little rock, arkansas. >> maybe that mystery has finally been solved, we'll see. >>> here's a look at your weather around the country. snow and avalanche warnings in the cascades. rain from seattle to portland. snow showers around the

arkansas game officials are trying to investigate the cause. they're not sure what to make of this phenomenon. >> i thought it was out of an alfred hitchcock movie, it was not a joke. >> i thought the mayor was messing with me when he called me, he got me up but 4:00 a.m. and said that he had parents calling out of the sky. >> this morning residents got an unwelcome surprise, thousands of dead birds covered the ground. >> jews what a way to start the new year, last year we start with less this year with birds. >> every yard in the area looks like this one dozens of birds, litter in the ground. the scary part is that no one knows how they got here. >> most of the animals are rednecks bought birds, and they're not just on lawns, we bomb on roads, it was difficult to drive without crushing them. we even saw some on rooftops. >> started it 7:00 picking up birds off the street njord's. it's just a mess. >> arkansas game and fish has collected some of the animals it will perform tests on mondays to try and determine the cause. officials believe it's

the dead drug fish were found floating and lining the banks of the arkansas river near ozark. the arkansas game and fish commission says a disease is likely to blame, since only one species of fish died. investigators are conducting tests to find out just what happened. >>> actress zsa zsa gabor is back in the hospital to have part of her leg amputated. her publicist says doctors decided she needed surgery. operation is taking playstation at ucla medical center. the 98-year-old absent restaurant has been in and out of the hospital since july after breaking her him. she even asked for a priest to read her last rites in august. >>> no playoffs, but a first. the history the raiders made in their victory against the kansas city chiefs, but will their coach be back? >> after a rainy weekend, could we go an entire week without rain. meteorologist mark tamayo is working on the complete bay area forecast. . >> today's storm move rapidly out of town. if you have been want a break in the wet weather, i think you might look the forecast with a few day of warming temperatures across a goo

the threat through arkansas and missouri yesterday. half a dozen tornados left dozens of people homeless. >> reporter: survivors of fast- moving storms in the midwest and southeast dug through the remnant of their possessions saturday. >> i don't know what to say. i'm in a state of shock. >> reporter: heart lan stands perused emotionally and physically. he dove under his tractor for cover while the storm destroyed the building around him. >> unbelievable. >> reporter: his wife ran inside, only to get knocked down by a refrigerator. it may have saved her life. >> this is where i survived, under here. >> reporter: missouri governor jay nixon heard stories of survival as he toured the damage. >> ran into that door. >> reporter: the family told them they merged from the basement after the storm barreled through, and nothing was left but the foundation. the governor described the path of the tornados. >> the tornados stayed on the ground 6 or 7 miles. other than that, it was like it was bouncing along the way. when it touched down, the deva

. >>> seven people confirmed dead from a series of tornadoes that swept through arkansas and missouri a half dozen hit the states friday. michael on the clean up that has just begun. >> survivors of fast moving storms in the midwest and southeast, dug through the remnants of their possessions saturday >> i don't know what to say. state of shock. >> he stands bruised emotionally and physically he dove under his tractor for cover after the storm destroyed the building around him. >> unbelievable. >> his wife kathy ran inside only to get knocked down by a refrigerator it may have saved her life. >> i survived under here. >> the missouri governor heard stories of survival as he toured the damage. a family told him they emerged from their basement after the storm barreled through nothing was left by the foundation. the governor described the path of the tornadoes. >> at one point in franklin county they stayed on the ground 6 or 7 miles other than that it was like it was bouncing along the way when it touched the devastation was complete. >> the storm that produced a half dozen tornadoes w

the animal apocalypse also claimed the lives of 100,000 fish on the arkansas river. pestilence or some sort of disease is being blamed. test results will take up to a month. meanwhile, further down america's bible belt in louisiana, another play from the sky. this time, find hundred birds, some with a broken back and wings. -- 500 birds, some with a broken back and wings. >> they look ok and then die in a short time. >> mass animal deaths are not unusual and it is likely science will explain this one. in the meantime, there are some imaginative theories. where else but the internet? they blame government experiments in the end of the world, among the favorite. when commentator suggest the most likely explanation is that the blackboard simply collided in mid-air with an invisible ufo. bbc news, washington. >> a photograph taken by a philippine politician before he was shot and has led to the arrest of his killer. the manila district counselor took a photograph outside their house on new year's day. unknown to any of them, it captured a man raising his gun to fire in t

. >> fue una extraÑa manera de comenzar el aÑo para los residentes de arkansas, con una misteriosa lluvia aves muertas en todas partes. -esperas. >> cayeron al -5000 aves negras. todavÍa quedan vestigios del fenÓmeno que ha levantado preocupaciÓn. los resultados de autopsia descartan que las aves haya muerto por enfermedad o en velamiento pero entonces quÉ las matÓ. -envenenamiento. esto parece formar parte de un rompecabezas, en y luisiana tambiÉn se encontraron y otras mÁs en kentucky. >> es muy comÚn que mueran rÁpido. pueden sufrir del sistema nervioso, luego se debilitan y mueren en un lapso corto de tiempo. >> ciertas teorÍas apuntan a que murieron por el estrÉs causado por los fuegos artificiales de fin de aÑo. o incluso el mal tiempo o un rayo, lo cual fue descartado. algunos residentes no estÁn muy convencidos de las explicaciones; otros lo ven como un pÁjaro de mala agüero; otros creen que pueden ser seÑales apocalÍpticas. >> en el mismo estado de arkansas, al menos 100.000 peces fueron encontrados muertos en un rÍo. >> muchÍsimas gracias por el informe. una de las loterÍas mÁs

. >>> an arkansas wildlife officials have a mystery on their hands. what caused thousands of birds to die and fall out of the sky. >> news of the world tonight an earthquake shook the same region of chile that suffered a devastating quake last year. today's quake measured 7.1 and was centered about 370 miles south of the capital of santiago. thousands of people in coastal cities rushed for higher ground, remembering last february's quake that generated a deadly tsunami. the milder quake today disrupted power and communications, but so far, no injuries or major damage are reported. >>>in brazil, there was a touchy diplomatic moment for hillary clinton late yesterday. she shook hands with venezuela president hugo chavez while attending the inauguration of brazil's new president. chavez, famously referred to former president bush as the devil in a united nations speech in 2006. relations between the u.s. and venezuela are still sour after the handshake, chavez said that quote, in truth, he wants to be a friend to president obama. >>> smokers in spain gra

hacia el sur una masa de aire helado cobró tornado y por lo menos 6 personas murieron en el norte de arkansasy tras heridas. >> tenemos aire frío en altura con veeblts fuertes del oeste del oeste y sur este y aire cálido desde el golfo de méxico y otros ingrediente que permiten inicio lugar rotación de tornado no es un fenómeno ajo enoja la época y ni tampoco al sistema que está ocurriendo. >>> el mal tiempo de hoy es producto de la tormenta que trajo vientos lluvias y nieve a california. y el frente se ha movido hacia el centro del país. >> tiene la parte fría hacia el norte con nieve, flan cies desde la porción norte de kansas y arkansas y dakota y minnesota y sector intermedios al surtenemos tiempo severo. >> gran parte del país es un buen día para pasarlo dentro. >> sobre todo un día para no manejar en dakota del norte nieve y visibilidad cero causaron un accidente en cadena considerando a cien vehículos. >> usa el sentido común que velocidad sea a 65 millas por hora no significa que ir tan rápido. >> buen jos aún en el sureste hacia tiempo que muy arizona na veían tanta nieve. >> la torm

violenta línea de tornados que devastó tornados en oklahoma missouri y arkansas.uliana gonzález nos cuenta la historia. >>> a las 6 dea mana en arkansas las autoridad de emitieron una alerta detornado . >>> 9 minutos después, tocó tierra en medio de cincinnatti un pequeño pueblo cercano a la frontera con oklahoma en cuestión de segundos,odo se hizo escombros. y 3 personas murieron y otras 5 estarían en estado crítico. los cuerpos de socorro tardaron en llegar las carreteras quedaron bloqueadas por cable de electricidad. varias edificaciones sufrieron daños entre ellas la estación lol de bomberos. >>> la tormenta atravesó el estado de missou. los tornados causaron la muerte de 3 personas y dejaron sin electricidad a cientos más. los vientos derribaron casas y arrancaron árboles. las autoridades declararon estado de emergencia. >>> se necesita una tremenda cantidad de fuerza para causar algo así. >>> la humedad del golfo de méxico impulsó vitos del sur que provocon una alza inusual en los vientos invernales decenas de estadounidenses en el sur y centro del país. des

other recent mass deaths occurred in arkansas and louisiana. some claim they died after flying into cars. few believe that but there are no definite answers. plus new reports of thousands of dead fish in arkansas and maryland. the 17-year-old son of a police detective opened fired a a high school today before killing himself. panic students ran for cover. no word on a motive. >>> the u.s. airways yet from 2009 will now go to a museum in north carolina. sully sullenberger made the landing saving the 155 people who were on board. >>> another cold and foggy >>> it is their first day back in power and the house of represents and the republicans plan to roll back health care reform and ubdo president obama agenda. >> reporter: the new house speaker provided a tearful moment as he cepted a gavel from nancy pelosi. >> god bless you speaker boehner. >> reporter: boehner said he is humbled by the challenges. >> no longer can we fall short. no longer can we kick the candown the road, the people voted to end business as usual and today we begin to carry o

. >> the arkansas game and fish said this phenomenon is not as unusual.s a lightning strike or high- altitude help. possibly fireworks but there's no connection between these dead fish in the dead birds. the matter what the explanation, that the arkansas say that 2011 is off to a very ominous start. >> we started with floods last year, now, birds. >> and the roads. >> for the third year, the iphone application failed! >> kimberly sakamoto, the social media /+. >> iphone users complained it and wind on twitter- whined on a life of a twitter and facebook. >> and tweaking, that i'm waking up so late, the the application is broken! >> and also, that steve, bbv to some were sleep? and other users are saying that it worked just fine. and it is just as if the manually reset each night and it is not a recurring alarm. and is not just a limiteted the iphone, other iphone applications apple-ipad. it is not just the iphone. >> and here is a live look at the golden gate bridge. falling this building but is still moving well. now, the san mateo bridge. the same. we ar

and the heaviest snow so far has fallen in southern arkansas and parts of texas and oklahoma. on top of that, parts of mississippi and alabama are expecting their worst icing conditions in more than a decade. governors in a number of southern states are simply telling people to stay home today to avoid all those dangerous conditions on the roadways. >> been through it here in the northeast. welcome to it. states of emergency have been declared in louisiana, alabama, georgia and tennessee. >> what is next? and where is this huge storm going next? accuweather meteorologist ava dinges has the latest. hi, ava. >> good morning, rob and vinita. vinita, you mentioned the northeast has been through it. they may be going through it again into the upcoming days and it will be because of these storms. two storms right now. one in the southeast bringing the heavy snow. also the icing and another one on the heels in the plains bringing up to a foot of snow in cities like omaha and kansas city. obviously, those cities in the plains much more used to heavy snow like this, whereas the southea

other recent mass deaths occurred in arkansas and louisiana.ome claim they died after flying into cars. few believe that but there are no definite answers. plus new reports of thousands of dead fish in arkansas and maryland. the 17-year-old son of a police detective opened fired a a high school today before killing himself. panic students ran for cover. no word on a motive. >>> the u.s. airways yet from 2009 will now go to a museum in north carolina. sully sullenberger made the landing saving the 155 people who were on board. >>> another cold and foggy morning tomorrow and a change for the weekend, details in a few minutes. [ male announcer ] rockin out to the big hot pastrami. big. hot. pastrami. don't dare call it a cover band -- unless you're talking about covering freshly baked bread with layer upon layer of flavor-packed pastrami. this sub lays down power cords of tasteocity with pickles, mean licks of mustard and riffs of melty, bubbly cheese. catch 'em before the fresh toasted tour leaves town. subway big hot pastrami. crank up the flavo

the california highway patrol reported to a scene only seen in arkansas and louisiana. more than 100 boards have been clustered on the ground. you are looking at a picture court see of the press democrat. the birds were all the same type and being tested by a biologist right now. no immediate word on what caused the birds death. the chp who we contacted this morning contacted the california department of fish and gain. you might remember on new years eve 5,000 red winged blackbirds fell from the sky. they died to blunt trauma to all organs. more recently 500 birds were found in louisiana. 300 miles from the arkansas incident. all are under investigation and we hope to hear back from the california highway patrol for more information about what happened here. reporting live jade hernandez. >>> san francisco is expected to have an interim mayor by this afternoon. the man to be opponented is city administrator ed lee. the 58-year-old has served under four previous mayors. it will be interesting to see how his policies compare to his predecessor gavin newsom. >> we are part

. 100,000 drumfish washed up along the arkansas river.s say disease is likely to blame. on their own, dead fish may not raise too many eyebrows. a little more than 100 miles away in beebe, there's another animal mystery. before the stroke of midnight on new year's eve, thousands of birds started falling from the sky. >> i thought it was out a albert hitch comb movie. [ laughter ] hitchcock movie. >> jimmy: albert? the guy's a regular alfred einstein there. so that might explain why they're having trouble figuring this out. [ laughter ] you know, we've got -- we have a good show for you tonight. i mentioned the bachelor is going to be here. patricia heaton will be here from "the middle." and josh groban. i want to mention josh groban has a new album out. he's been doing some interesting things. josh is actually taking words from another high-profile performer. not songs but words. he's made into lyrics and put to music. it's kind of the reverse of a cover album. it's hard to explain. he's promoting this album with a television commercial.

the sudden storms killed seven people in missouri and arkansas. dozens were injured, and many others have no place to call home. the national weather service says the tornado packed winds as high as 160-miles-an-hour. here's more. >> reporter: video posted caught one tornado as it struck in missouri. across the region, the new year begins in misery for many who must pull together the pieces of their lives. >> not mump we -- not much we can do with mother nature's fury. >> dozens of tornadoes crashed the holiday in five states, spreading death and destruction. >> my whole house start shaking. the windows started busting out, and then it was gone. >> the freak storm took residents by surprise. in this video, ominous crowds bore witness, then sirens wailed a warning, this woman and her young son barely got out alive. >> some doors were laying on top of us and i managed to get them off me and screamed out for help from my neighbors. >> three people were killed in this small arkansas town of cincinnati. >> start looking for the other people that were m

north and bb arkansas. dead birds hundreds of them. bird, starling of sparrows. >> this newest case comes days after thousands of red wing blackbirds and starlings top of the sky near little rock. a preliminary report shows the likely died from massive trauma. instead officials believe new year's eve fireworks are maybe even bad weather like taylor lightning caused the mass death. >> it is free you'd never expect that many birds dead everywhere. >> in louisiana the say the spurge and i no sign of trouble. i'm going to take a look of these birds and determine if there's any common factor if we see anything in our monthly in the location where the birds are. >> samples of the sent to labs are results will be compared to those of arkansas. great black reporting. >> a similar store in kentucky fewer birds dozens of hundreds these birds were found dead experts there think it's the weather. a problem called winter stress. the national wildlife health center has not said if it's going to expand the investigation into all this to include the k

in the door this is happening a few days after thousands of black birds fell from the sky and arkansas. >> go take a look of these birds and try to determine if there's any common factor for see anything environmentally in the location where the birds are. if there is obvious contaminants or causes of death. were hoping some of the birds and sea of debt and the obvious growth regions. >> the dead birds of loaded up near lake charles bird. there will be sent to labs for testing. that's not all even more debt to top dead birds to tell you about this is a woman of western kentucky these are the bridge she found near her home. she said she clean them up at first and think about it until she saw the story about the birds and arkansas. the national wildlife help senators investigating all of these bird deaths. and some theories as to how they died include stress from winter weather or fireworks and year's eve. new details the first the navy was describing as videos has humorous gets it and they called it not acceptable. the crew videos and a couple of years ago or going to cost captain of wh

erin hayes, abc news, beebe, arkansas. >>> gamblers in las vegas were not betting on this.ert strip. a winter storm brought about two inches of snow to sin city yesterday and higher elevations got nearly a foot. palm trees covered in white. flurries came down around the hotels and casinos and several roads had to be closed. apparently some of the people there were so unfamiliar how to drive in snow they slept in their cars, which might be the smart thing to do if you don't know how to drive in it. >> what a wild winter it's been for so many folks. >>> here's a look at your tuesday forecast now. much milder in the southwest as that storm moves out. snow showers meanwhile in the colorado rockies. light snow around the great lakes, around green bay, grand rapids, and north of detroit. showers and thunderstorms from eastern texas to southern mississippi. >> a wet 63 in new orleans. 55 in atlanta. 40s from boston to baltimore. a bitter 7 degrees in the twin cities. 11 in fargo. 24 in chicago. sacramento will climb to 51. seattle is 40 degrees. >>> well, she's missing one of the

first it was arkansas, then louisiana and tennessee.ow dozens of dead birds are found here in the bay area. wee i want you to >> >> the founder of wikileaks vowed today to step up his site' release of u.s. documents while he fights extradition to sweden. that's where he faces rape charges. he had a short hearing in london today to talk about his next court date in february. he said his expedition to fremont could lead to the u.s. and quantanamo bay. the leaks so far have damaged his international relationships and put lives at risk. >> police say they believe all three were involved when a sing the shot hit and kel grisby yesterday. he was killed as he walked out of his grandmother's home on fleming avenue. he managed to run back into the house where he collapse and died. grief counselors are on hand at the high school to cope with the loss. >> birds mysteriously falling from the sky dead. on saturday more than 100 dead birds were found clustered in guiserville. on new year's eve more than 5,000 red winged blackbirds fell from the sky i

this is video of snow in arkansas today. the fors of arkansas, georgia, louisiana, and alabama, have declare emergencies and some places are expecting as much as seven inches of snow. we have more from atlanta, where people are getting ready for it. >> north carolina is still digging out from friday's storm, and more snow is on the way. it's great news for skiers. not so great for drivers. >> keep your distance from other cars. judge the hills you're on. and judge your momentum because you basically have no braking power. >> the system is drawing moisture from the gulf of mexico, and is expected to blast of mix and snow and eyes from texas, straight across to the carolinas. plenty of snow is expected across the southeast. this storm will bring up to a half a foot of snow to areas of the deep south. in northeast texas, people are stocking up on groceries. >> a lot of bread, produce, lunch meat, hot dogs. >> reporter: the local hardware stores, heaters and generators are flying off the shelves. >> faucet cover, pipe insulation

cincinnati, arkansas is a very small town, only has about 100 people. nearly everyone is affected by the storm. >> i was in shock. i couldn't believe it. this is my hometown. i grew up here. everything's gone. it's all gone. there's nothing left. it's really sad and devastating. >> two people were killed by another twister in missouri. the storm system is still massive, stretched down into the gulf of mexico. >>> of course i've been complaining a little bit about the holiday rain around here, but it's nothing like we've seen. we'll check in with jim for our weather forecast, i believe. >> we can do that. you've had enough, i gather? >> yeah, let's do it. >> okay. >>> you know what, i think we're going to take a quick break, first. mega jackpot, even by mega million standards, but still belongs to no one. just ahead, the would-be winning numbers and how much the prize will grow for the next lottery drawing. ,,,,,,,,,, mega million drawing. the jackpot reached $242 million, with no winner. the jackpot has gone without a winner for 15 consecutive drawings.

a deadly storms flat in homes and killed seven and arkansas and missouri. if the national weather service confirmed several tornadoes did come out of the system. it shall be shows as the destruction. >> i better start to 2011 for residents of sunset hills missouri, a small town was hit hard by the new year's eve line of violent weather reported from arkansas and mississippi >> the storms were especially tragic for duane price of missouri, his elderly mother is in the hospital but a friend in the house with her when the winds hit was killed. >> there were both sitting in the living room when it hit. my nephew and friend were outside and said they saw the house is exploding. it >> everything started rumbling underneath me. police injured by the storm also has a revenue story to tell. i got picked up at least three times and a walk before i came to a slamming called up against a small tree up behind the house. >> this is what's left of his home. officials are assessing the total damage from the storms, missouri's governor declared a state of emergency differen

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wildlife officials try to figure out why thousands of blackbirds have fallen from the sky in arkansas. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry, and today we begin with day one. president obama returned from his hawaiian vacation to a new reality in washington. republicans control the house, and promises for some gop leaders should undo several of his legislative victories. but with the democrats still in control of the senate, the moves face inevitable roadblocks. incomes's tracie potts has more from washington. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi there, lynn. good morning. good morning, everyone. yes, they're back in action on capitol hill and this week, expecting to hear about the debt and dell ceiling and republicans talking about less spoending here in washington starting with health care. house republicans will vote soon on whether to get rid of health reform. >> that will happen before the president's state of the union address. >> adding to the deficit by

now arkansas game and fish are trying to figure out the cause. environmental service workers finished cleaning up the birds yesterday. they only fell over a 1 mile area, the fish and game commission says they showed physical trauma, they say lightning, hail or even new years eve fireworks could be to blame. >>> grapevine still closed after snow and wind shut down that highway yesterday. interstate 5 is closed in both directions to the kern county line. it has been a traffic nightmare for many drivers heading home after the holiday weekened more than 100 cars were stranded some disabled by the snow winds reached 90 miles an hour and snow fell as low as 1500 feet no word on when the road will reopen. >>> well, it was a very interesting weekend, snowfall in some locations and plenty of rainfall across the bay area. we will look and see how much rainfall we picked up this new years eve weekend. out the door, cloudy start some areas of fog especially well inland. mostly cloudy for the bay and coastline temperatures upper 30s to upper 40s. this afterno

they are red wing blackbirds the same as the ones in arkansas.own headed cow birds and sterlings. some add obvious injuries such as if they had hit power lines. >>> three swans are now swimming in the lagoon at the >>> mark joins us once again with the big changes happening with the oakland raiders. >> what a night, what a day in the nfl and to put it bluntly two years ago the raiders were a laughing stock. no respectable big name in the country would everyone consider accepting a big coaching job in oakland. so davis gave it to a virtual unknown, tom cable. and he's plain speak, over achieving every man coach has now been fired. tom cable informed earlier this eve that the five year option on his contract would not be exercised. thanks for everyone tom, hit the door. and davis is not making the move because he thought it would be popular. the fact is that davis loves a high octane office. jackson started to get bites from other nfl teams rather than risk losing him, davis now makes him the seventh head coach in oakland in the last 12 years. >>>

they are red wing blackbirds the same as the ones in arkansas.own headed cow birds and sterlings. some add obvious injuries such as if they had hit power lines. >>> three swans are now swimming in the lagoon at the palace of fine arts. last year someone had killed two swans, blanch was left alone. now blanch has two companions. one named bella. >> we'll be right back. >>> mark joins us once again with the big changes happening with the oakland raiders. >> what a night, what a day in the nfl and to put it bluntly two years ago the raiders were a laughing stock. no respectable big name in the country would everyone consider accepting a big coaching job in oakland. so davis gave it to a virtual unknown, tom cable. and he's plain speak, over achieving every man coach has now been fired. tom cable informed earlier this eve that the five year option on his contract would not be exercised. thanks for everyone tom, hit the door. and davis is not making the move because he thought it would be popular. the fact is that davis loves a high octane office. jac

thousands of birds fell from the sky in central arkansas and year's day, if hundreds more died the nextf those birds were examined at a lab in the plant up. >> we did not see gunshot wounds which we always looked for wild animals. it means the most likely in the case of birds they flew into a stationary objects. >> the scientist for said the arkansas birds were startled by new year's fireworks. even before the new skills that theory drew widespread skepticism. >> i don't believe that. >> doll believe that all especially over small area like this on your seat. >> add to that new reports of mass fish kills 100,000 dead and dying drumfish if washed up in northwest arkansas. and then of thousand fish died in maryland's chesapeake bay. if officials say it will take weeks to finish the task of those bird carcasses. if the official line is there's nothing to worry about a mass bird deaths are not at all comment. >> the mystery surrounding the death of a former pentagon official is only getting bigger. here surveillance tape that's john wheeler sort of wandering around a parking grosz two days

. >>> we saw it in arkansas and louisiana and italy, and now sonoma county. what may have suddenly killed more than 100 birds. >>> and we got a few rain showers out there today. they are fairly light in nature. and they're going to be sticking around throughout most of today and possibly through tomorrow. how much rainfall when it is all said and done? take a look at the numbers, and the totals are coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ation. julian a >>> the founder of wiki-leaks is promising to release more confidential u.s. information. julian assange says wiki-leaks will move off its publication schedule of secret documents, and assange appeared in court in london today, fighting efforts to extradite him to sweden, where he faces sex crimes charges. >>> and the homeless man from ohio whose smooth radio voice made him an internet sensation last week had a run-in with police in los angeles. officers were called to a hotel in hollywood last night, after ted williams got into a loud argument with his daughter. both were held for an hour and released. not charged. pol

here's the latest the storms left seven dead, three in arkansas, four in missouri. dozens more were injured. peak winds reached 165 miles per hour. 40 tornadoes in all reportedly touched down in four states. cynthia bowers is in the st. louis suburb of sunset hills tonight. cynthia. >> reporter: you know, and no one was injured here, which is amazing, considering that the tornado sirens sound around noon. there were a lot of people here and they tell me they ran for refuge. it was all over in a matter of seconds and today family like the gasts were totaling up their losses and counting their blessings. >> this is where i survived under here, right under that counter. >> reporter: in her newly remodel kitchen, cathy gast took shelter from a powerful f-3 tornado with wind over 150 miles per hour that destroyed nearly everything she owned, including her home of the past 40 years. >> it's jut unbelievable. you never think it's going to happen to you. >> reporter: husband harlen lived to tell about it thanks to some quick decision making and his old tractor. >> i looked

arkansas new year eve then later louisiana then tennessee now dead birds found in sonoma county. don ford says the mystery near geisterville appears to be solved. >> reporter: over the weekend the california highway patrol received a call that hundreds of dead birds were on the 101 freeway near geyserville. at the independence exit they found the carnage. birds scattered in all lanes dead for no apparent reason. >> very weird. >> reporter: on new year's day back in arkansas, over 3000 red winged blackbirds were found dead. officials there still don't know why. here in sonoma, however, there is a witness. michele was driving southbound and saw it all. >> i look over in the northbound lane as a huge swarm of starlings very compact and round. they started swarming really low and i was thinking oh, my god they are going to get hit and this huge semitruck went right through the middle of them and about three other cars and they just fell. they were everywhere. >> reporter: michele didn't stop at the time and until she came forward today no one knew exactly what happened. >> one office

. >> y vamos a la pausa y en seguida estamos en arkansas donde o la muerte de aves y peces tiene a muchosl colesterol. ay como te gusta sufrir. para nada, acuérdate que es cereal honey nut cheerios. tiene un rico sabor a miel y fibra soluble de avena integral que ayuda a bajar mi colesterol. sí, sí, saludable y delicioso. y ahora quieres que crea que tu esposo te llevó de shopping y te está dando un masaje de pies ¿no? ♪ [ locutora ] honey nut cheerios. vivir sano es vivir feliz. . >> cru cuestión >>> algo. >> misterio por muerte de peces y aves. >> vamos con el informe de natalia. >>>_que tal muy buenas tardes. >> ven im a este lugar que es el epicentro de un círculo de mis te crío sigue sin resolver, vinimos hasta acá para traerles por menores de la investigación y autoridades insiste en que esto no es más que uno de esos extraños accidente de las naurmz y nada más. >> en suspenso están residentes de arkansas esperan la conclusión de investigación de lo que para pudo causarlo muerte de aves negras en luisiana pasa lo mismo allí también se encontraron sin vida más de 500, y autoridades e

time now 6:41. 2011 got off to a bizarre start in arkansas.wo mysterious incidents involving wildlife and how that is effecting the communities outlook for the new year. >>> plus four years after approving a bill to reduce prison overcrowding, the state has not completed any projects. what a local lawmaker says the new government has to do. >>> traffic is moving well on northbound highway 2. you want some fiber one honey clusters? yeah. you must really care about him. what? no, no. you gave him fiber. no she didn't. this tastes way too good to be fiber. they're delicious crunchy clusters with sweet honey and half a day's worth of fiber. you care about my fiber? not really. i care about your fiber too. i have for a while. ok, carl. why don't you care about her fiber? hey carl. [ male announcer fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes. >>> good morning to you. welcome back. here a quick look at some of the top stories for you. today is inauguration day for a several newly elected officials. harris becomes attorney general today. and gene quan take

the weather channel's julie martin is live in cincinnati, arkansas with more.ee of the six were killed in this tiny community of just about 100 people. as a tornado believed to be about 500 yards wide cut a path 21 miles long right across the oklahoma/arkansas border. it was one of at least 26 tornado reports yesterday. in fact, people in four states, not a very common occurrence, in fact, that's the most new year's eve tornadoes since 1950. so a lot of people starting off the new year on a somber note. >> julie martin, thanks. nearly 1348 partiers packed times square to walk the iconic ball drop to welcome the new year. new york's party one of the biggest. but the largest crowd came out in australia. 1.5 million people ushered in the new year in sydney's harbor. down south in rio, the party is on the sand and thousands gathered for the fireworks extravaganza. that definitely looks like a party. >>> now the national forecast. a slight risk of severe thunderstorms across the eastern gulf coast and still the threat for isolated tornadoes, high pressure dominating