every butte top, you are going it look down on this desert and see these bold lines coming across the desert and you know that line goes somewhere. you get on it, you stay on it, and it will lead you to what are called great houses, up it 3 acres in size. these great houses are often aligned in a certain way so that at certain times of year, say summer solstice, light comes through certain windows. i have sat in these at different times of the year and watched this light show start at sunrise where lights start appearing on the walls all around me and you realize this is how you tell time out in this landscape. this is the way they did calendars. this is the way they understood the larger sphere, the moving of the heavens, was by setting up structures that could receive the light in certain ways. i mean, it's happening everywhere. i was just in salt lake city and i took a walk downtown and i saw a pillar that had been built in the last 4 years that a big block of sandstone that i recognized. it was probably wingate sandstone that had been hauled up there from about 200, 250 miles away

and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -- a little bit of architecture but they couldn't tell what they were. and they decided they are just not going to put them in the reports because they didn't have a name for these until he decided to go up to one and he dug into it and there he found a carved stone bowl with a carved stone lid set into it. and he opened it up and it was full of pieces of turquoise and that's when he looked around and thought, wait a minute, there's something going on around here.

it's a picture of one of these big almond trees flying in midair over the top of one of these power poles. in butte county, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and from ken let's go straight to ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin who was tracking this storm. >> after seeing the debris and damage that kenney was showing us, the weather service is going to continue investigating. here's how it looked yesterday. here we are at 5:00, those two bright areas, there were tornadoes at that time. here is the actual event south of durham. a couple of tornadoes touching down. again look at the damage. we go up to the air, these pictures given to us today. that's an almond orchard. the trees have been defoliated. that's a lot of damage. that's more than i would expect from an ef1. the national weather service is on-site and will determine if it was an ef1, maybe an ef2. but very rare and tornadoes. coming up we'll have the bay area holiday weekend weather coming up. >>> and the danger of avalanches, yosemite national park will be opened but it could be closed at any time if there is more snowfall. tayag

top of all the troubles they've had. we want to start off our coverage tonight with nbc's anne thompson in butte larose, louisiana. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. louisianians are busy tonight, preparing for this historic flood which has already done so much damage upriver. as the mississippi river barrels south, satellite images reveal its relentless and destructive impact. this was memphis on april 21st before the flood, and this was memphis yesterday. much of the city underwater as the mississippi reclaims its territory. the damage here pegged at $320 million. the swamped casinos in tunica mississippi, could lose up to $87 million just this month. overall, one economist estimates the flood's toll could reach $4 billion. up and down the raging river, people race against the clock, filling sandbags in yazoo city, mississippi. crews built this temporary levee in the shadow of louisiana's i-10e that crosses the atchafalaya river basin. >> it will be the back-up of the water from the mississippi trying to get out from the river into the gulf. it backed up on us. >> reporter: that's if officials open

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butte larose, louisiana. >>> now to politics -- the race for the white house instead of heating up seems to be cooling down. two top republican contenders have pulled out. >>> and for other candidates, the big money is coming in, tara mergener, good morning, tara. >>> good morning, betty. yeah. they're going to need that money because this is going to be a very expensive race, a race mike huckabee and donald trump will not be running. the race for the republican presidential nomination is down another contender. >> i will not be running for president as much as i would like to. >> after months of flirting with a bid, donald trump announced monday he's sticking with the world of business. while the billionaire insisted he could have beaten president obama, analysts say his departure won't make much difference. >> i don't think it changes how people think because i don't think anybody believed he would get in the race. >> trump is the second to bow out in a few days, former arkansas governor mike huckabee joined the sidelines over the weekend. for those planning to make a run for the white house, the focus now is on

should pay one particular tax rate right now it's a top tax rate of around thirty six percent and somebody who earns their living in quotes sitting on their butt around the pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive at capital is the true capitalist should pay only a maximum of fifteen percent income tax because somehow that kind of work is more important or different or what i don't get the rationalization why is it why do we have this this incredible disparity in our tax code that the very well that the true capitals that bear that small one or two percent are paying a maximum fifteen percent income tax on the revenue. well it has to do with a a kind of hustle i mean the truth of the matter is taxes are a political decision made in congress of the united states and the wealthy people in america have the political punch using their wealth to keep their tax rates lower than those on the rest of us that's the reality everybody who follows this understands that but a politician cannot go around and get reelected by admitting openly that he or she votes for these tax rates because that's where their contributions and their campaigns come from

top 10 worst beaches includes capitola beach. >>> we showed you some pretty amazing pictures from northern california of a tornado. >> we have been talking about a tornado warning and central butteright now on live stormtracker 2. it is set to expire at 7:30 p.m. that might be extended or changed. it looks like chico is clearing out but brush creek, some thunderstorms just to the west, thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes. still some lingering rain showers to our north and heavy snow across parts of the bay area. tomorrow so morning clouds. the weekend, a sun/cloud mix. the coolest locations in the lower 40s. san francisco right around 50 degrees. pretty active weather picture today. still some more activity up to our north and west. that is an active storm track to our north. there will be some clubs that will continue to move into the region -- some clouds that will continue to move into the region. some gusty winds this saturday around 30-35 miles per hour. a winter weather advisory still in place for sierra. some clouds out there. another batch of some clouds push over the region for friday morning. temperatures for tomorrow, a little bit warmer today's highs. no 70s

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butte la rose with all of this. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the army corps of engineers says at its peak the flooding could reach 15 feet in this town. that would cover water above this roof top. a frightening prospect for the people that live here. the water is well on its way. the floodgates are open and there is no turning back. that torrent of water could nearly swallow up tiny butte la rose by friday. this is what 15 feet of water would do to the town's fire house. this home, whose owners have already evacuated would almost be totally submerged. this laund ro mat, 13 feet tall would disappear under water. like so many, these people are packing up. they're newly weds. married less than a year. >> she's doing great. i'm worse, think. >> reporter: why is that? >> i -- i didn't marry her to make her life harder. >> reporter: they're heading for higher ground indefinitely. >> this is all i have ever wanted. and i'm here. and we'll be back. >> reporter: it's not clear when they'll return or what they'll find. the water could sit here so long that the wildlife, snakes, alligators, and a host of insects could be waiting inside. some residents are going to extremes, building hand