the areas near jonesboro going to pick up 2 inches. nashville, atlanta, birmingham all on alert this weekend. >> 48 hours. a wet two days coming up. >>> before we move on, we want to bring you up to date on the wildfire out west. firefighters say they're making progress tonight. progress to contain in the fire on the ground and in the air. as a fleet of helicopters drops fire retardant from the sky. as of tonight, at least 1800 people have been forced to

the areas near jonesboro going to pick up more than 2 inches. locally, 3. north and west of memphis. nashville, atlanta, birmingham all on alert this weekend. >> 48 hours. a wet two days coming up. thank you, ginger. >>> before we move on, we want to bring you up to date on the wildfire out west. firefighters say they're making progress tonight. progress to contain the fire on the ground and in the air. as a fleet of helicopters drops fire retardant from the sky. as of tonight, at least 1800 people have been forced to flee. at least 26 homes incinerated. and more than 500 homes still in the cross hairs. >>> now to washington. where today president obama called out the president of russia about the olympics and gay rights and a lot more. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl was there. >> reporter: the president talked for the first time about canceling his meeting next month with russian president vladimir putin, saying that despite the tension, they have a decent personal relationship. >> i know the press likes to focus on body language, and

the areas near jonesboro going to pick up 2 inches.shville, atlanta, birmingham all on alert this weekend. >> 48 hours. a wet two days coming up. >>> before we move on, we want to bring you up to date on the wildfire out west. firefighters say they're making progress tonight. progress to contain in the fire on the ground and in the air. as a fleet of helicopters drops fire retardant from the sky. as of tonight, at least 1800 people have been forced to flee. at least 26 homes incinerated. and more than 500 homes still in the cross hairs. >>> now to washington. where the president called out the president of russia. about the olympics and gay rights. and a lot more. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl was there. >> reporter: the president talked for the first time about canceling his meeting next month with russian president, vladimir putin, saying that despite the tension, they have a decent personal relationship. >> i know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bore

and for the next 48 hours, places like jonesboro, memphis, nashville and raleigh have to be an alert. i'll come back with the weather and a whole lot more. >> a wet and dangerous weekend in parts of america. >>> investigators are returning to a quiet neighborhood in connecticut where a disaster played out on friday afternoon. a small plane crashing into two homes. inside one of those houses, two, young children. abc's linzie janis is on the scene in east haven, connecticut. linzie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the people of this small community who sit right along a runway, says this is one of their worst fears come true. rescuers searched through the night, recovering four bodies, including two children who were inside one of the homes crushed by a small plane that came crashing out of the sky. >> children in the house. >> reporter: one of its wings, slicing through an upstairs bedroom, where neighbors say a 1-year-old and 13-year-old may have been. >> we seen it hit. one wing went through one house. the left side of the wing, landed in the bedroom where the two chil

and for the next 48 hours, places like jonesboro, memphis, nashville and raleigh have to be an alert. i'll come back with the weather and a whole lot more. >> a wet and dangerous weekend in parts of america. >>> investigators are returning to a quiet neighborhood in connecticut where a disaster played out on friday afternoon. a small plane crashing into two homes. inside one of those houses, two, young children. abc's linzie janis is on the scene in east haven, connecticut. linzie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the people of this small community who sit right along a runway, says this is one of their worst fears come true. rescuers searched through the night, recovering four bodies, including two children who were inside one of the homes crushed by a small plane that came crashing out of the sky. >> children in the house. >> reporter: one of its wings, slicing through an upstairs bedroom, where neighbors say a 1-year-old and 13-year-old may have been. >> we seen it hit. one wing went through one house. the left side of the wing, landed in the bedroom where the two chil

. >> next, a question from tennessee, jonesboro. and our caller is carol. hi, carol. caller: hello?> you're on. caller: okay, thank you. yes. my husband's mother marry martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's grand daughter some years ago. she claimed two jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time saying that she feels -- that her grandmother was so thankful that her husband's great -- great, great grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the family to the johnson family so they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war, they could have. he was a confederate general that at one time was over the east tennessee area, gerald a. jackson. his grand daughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. do you know any more about that? granting safe passage or a general that looked after the family home in the war? >> not in particular. >> thanks for telling us about it. can we fairly look at eliza and andrew johnson without the shadow of impeachment over their white house. >> sadly, historians can't