north dakota is now producing more than a million barrels of oil a day. ten years ago there were fewer than 200 oil-producing wells in the bakken. now there are more than 8,000. >> they call it boomtown usa this is where all the money is. it's crazy the amount of money you can make here. >> this rapid pace of development and the flood of workers coming here, has given north dakota the lowest unemployment rate in the us. but it's also raised questions over the dangers of working in the oil fields. >> the more jobs you complete, the more money you make. the faster you complete them the faster you can get to the next job. let's say i mean you take your time. if you be safe you are not i bet you could cut your pay in half. >> fault lines spent six months investigating some of the risks in north dakota's oil fields and uncovered a dark side to the boom. >> a lot of these workers come to north dakota, get chewed up and go home to recover. i get calls from attorneys in other states all asking the same question. what in the hell is going on up there? >> thousands

sorry, south dakota. coming up, robot bartenders. now all i need is a drug dealer and i will be all set. first, a word from our sponsor. >> tonight's sponsor is coderisi ng. did you know he is willing to steer your wounds for free? >>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm patricia stark. tropical storm bill is taking aim at the already be league erred state of texas. bill could make landfall as early as this morning. the storm is threatening to bring winds up to 50 miles per hour, but heavy rain and additional flooding is the biggest cause for concern. just a few weeks ago texas was hit with days of torrential rain. the rivers over flowed destroying homes and leaving many communities in pieces. >>> the field of gop contenders continues to balloon with jeb bush entering the race. he launched his campaign during a rally at miami-dade college. speaking in front of a crowd of chanting supporters he spoke of his success in florida and his ability of stimulating the economy. >> so many challenges can be overcome if we can get this ec

, i'm angry at seeing him on the dakota.at phony, that bastard, i got that mad, i took the book home to my wife and i said, look, he's a phoney. >> this is his calendar from december of '89 to december of and it leads you all the way through his manic months before his death. >> writer jim gaines spent hundreds of hours between 1984 and 1985 interviewing mark chapman. >> and you can see it becomes crazier and crazier with crossings-out and things to do. >> chapman told gaines, his mind had been like a war zone for years occupied by opposing forces he described as the big people and little people. >> he had a whole population of little people living in his head. to whom he gave instructions who had meetings about what his activities would be. i mean, it was extreme. >> seething with anger, chapman buys a five-shot .38 revolver. >> the gun used was tracked to a gun shop a block away from the honolulu police department. a sales receipt shows the gun was purchased by mark chapman on october 27th of this year. it shows that chapm

attorney for north dakota. >> it was unprecedented. i had -- i've been u.s. attorney now for going on four years. this is the only time we reached out to a school system, to the university and said hey, there's this danger on the streets right now that people need to be aware about. >> as the emergency warnings were being issued, investigators were desperately trying to find out just what this drug was, and more importantly where it came from. >> it took lab analysis to determine the true nature of these substances. when we learned what they were, 2c-i-nbome, 2c-c-nbome, that was new to us. >> 2c-i-nbome and 2c-c-nbome are synthetic designer drugs, chemicals designed to simulate the high of the banned drug lsd. these drugs are so potent a dose the size of a few grains of salt is enough to get high. north dakota's top federal drug prosecutor had never heard of them, and neither had christian bjerk's parents. >> i had to go to the internet and look up information on it. and i really didn't understand the whole synthetic drug. i didn't know what it was. i didn't

we have very dramatic video coming out of south dakota. take a look. this is called super cell and this is impressive time lapse video of a huge thunderstorm hitting the small south dakota town of black hawk. bonnie fleming was about five kilometers away from the storm when she captured the storm cloud on her cell phone. this happened over a time lapse of 0 minutes showing a black cloud engulfing the town and more super cells could form over the central portion of the united states because the system will stay here for a while. the worst conditions will happen around colorado as well as nebraska into your wednesday. more tornadoes could happen and large damaging winds could happen and heavy rain will likely increase the risk of flash floods too. on tuesday, two tornados were reported across wyoming as well as north dakota. now rainy weather for the east coast of the united states and temperatures are going to be down to the teens in the u.s. capital on wednesday. and finally over europe mostly dry but messy picture across the north. thunder shower will

. ♪ >>> it was a february morning in sioux falls, south dakota. routine work day for jds industries, a company that makes trophies for sports teams. routine except one of their most dependable employees, darlene vandergiesen didn't report to work for a second straight day. >> on friday when she did not show up for work, her boss called her parents, dee and gene. >> darlene's parents immediately drove to darlene's apartment since they had their own key. >> went to her apartment and we saw her cell phone. we knew something was wrong because she never traveled anywhere, never did anything without having that cell phone so people could get ahold of her if they needed to. >> darlene's cell phone was especially important to her since she was deaf. >> deaf people rely heavily on cell phones and text messaging, instant messaging. that's their lifeline with the hearing world. >> darlene's cell phone records indicated that she hadn't used her phone for the past two days. police found nothing inside the apartment to indicate foul play. >> there was no sign o

many it felt like a home game and drove in from south dakota and st. louis, philadelphia even florida all to watch team usa begin its quest for the cup. >> rapinoe shoots. >> reporter: a decisive 3-1 victory over australia in the first group stage match. u.s. goalkeeper hope solo laser focused and on top of her game with save after save. >> she saved us yeah i told her as we were walking off the field at half thank you. >> reporter: the embattled star's performance seemingly un unaffected by her tumultuous private life. the coach saying the team has moved past those domestic abuse allegations. >> shot. >> she's the best keeper in the world and looked really sharp for the last three or four months. >> reporter: this squad a mix of youth and experience. five players making their world cup debuts including 26-year-old christen press. >> the shot. >> reporter: scoring in the 63rd minute to put team usa ahead. >> i've been dreaming of this

i had the honor of being in south dakota before the election as i walked around in south dakota, looked around and i thought i could just as well be in oklahoma. up there i talked to the farm bureau people you up there they said it's -- it's a farm state, oklahoma is a farm state. we understand that. the problems they have, they say the e.p.a. overregulations are the greatest problem. single one out endangered species, another one, the waters of the united states, the waters of the united states currently we're doing legislation and it's legislation that's going to get that burden off of the people from south dakota and oklahoma and right now, right now we're considering the most expensive of all the regulations that's the ozone regulations. it would constitute the greatest single increase in spendures or taxes of anything in the history of this country. so it's nice to know that we have someone who is so committed to the goals of this committee to be singling this out in a maiden speech as the greatest concern. and so i appreciate that as the chairman of that committee and we're going

jerry's life growing up in rural north dakota, about being the oldest of five kids and working on the family farm. in fact, bob explained to the girls that jerry made the farm his priority, choosing to spend all of his free time there. the four students created a farm complete with grass tractors, rocks and farm animals to represent the place where jerry felt happiest, on a farm where he planned to return and make his life with his fiancee after serving in the army. j.c. walter and cambry shaneer decorated a fishing hat to commemorate thomas walker, a staff sergeant who served in vietnam in the army. the students learned that prior to being drafted thomas enjoyed spending his free time fishing with his young family. on the fishing hat j.c. and cambry wrote thomas' name, date of birth and date of death. on eight fishing lures they hung from the hat they wrote the names of thomas' family members and the awards he received during his service to our

when i joined the air force my first base was in minority north dakota. as we pulled up to the dorm, there were eight or nine windows with the stars and bars hanging in them. it was frightening, 10 days into my 18th birth day, coming from new york, to see that i thought i took it as a negative. i was afraid. i was angry. i couldn't understand that. i wasn't, irony of course over the next year-and-a-half two years, i think i became friends

this powers a lot of the homes in south dakota. i'm concerned that by using a loaded carbon pollution and making personal statements about which types of x warts you may oppose -- exports you may oppose, the bank becomes about policy goals and less about creating american jobs. it do you think that making the statement was a mistake? does it give the opponents of the xm bank the ammunition to say that you pick winners and losers? >> thanksgiving me an opportunity to talk about this. it i mentioned earlier, we have had a environmental policy that we have inserted in her charter since 1992, we have been required to look at reasonable repayment and the environmental impact. that's not my doing it. at that has been in our charter for over two decades. administration, they bank got sued. before a got to the bank, the bank agreed to a consent decree -- consent decree on how the bank could do a better job to adhere to the will of congress which is to take the environment into account. the bank has been doing this and it has been an evolvi

you see that tornado watch in north dakota and south dakota. the severe thunderstorm watches that include nebraska that's the area we're watching tonight that you can see in the orange there. going to sink to the south tomorrow. the threat actually elevated for northwest kansas southwest nebraska. we'll be watching that tomorrow. it's that active jet stream out in the west that's dipped south. texas drying out. and brought all of that rain. the heavy storms flash flooding even. two to three inches through friday right there north carolina southern virginia. >> all right, ginger thank you. >>> we turn now to the fiery exchanges on capitol hill today over those defective air bags. thatakata and that massive recall. nearly 34 million vehicles. the airbags, they say, could explode in your front seat. now, they learned that even the replacements might have to be replaced. abc's linsey davis with american drivers tonight who are fed up. >> reporter: congress giving takata the company behind the biggest auto recall in american history, an earful on ca

there is a real difference between north dakota and south dakota.a is a completely different economy. tom: they have great college hockey. brendan: i was wondering what was going to happen at the end of that thought. vonnie: there is great anticipation, anxiety syndrome. but when do you expect the rate increase? john: we are in the same camp as your economist -- september very likely. 25 basis points. i just wish we would do it so that we would rip the band-aid off and get on that side of what is an inevitable event at some point. tom: remember m1, m2, m3? your world and mine stopped. vonnie: right now, photos. in germany, we have the g7 upcoming meeting. more than 35,000 will be protesting. president obama, angela merkel and others are scheduled to meet. discussed will be topics like a bola, the economy. american military personnel were deposed. should not wear cowboy apparel or t-shirts. ahead of world oceans day next week, a new adventure capturing underwater images from the bahamas, great barrier reef, and the florida keys. humpback whales, sea

susan: our next caller is from christie in west fargo, north dakota. dakota. dakota. dakota.ou for having me. and i'm calling today because i wanted to know your feelings about what mary would have thought when lincoln signed for the slaves to become free, he also signed for 38 dakota native americans, plus two, to be hung in mankato, minnesota, which was the largest mass hanging in our united states history. and being a native american from north dakota, i was just wondering on your comments. what did mary did she know about this? and if she did, what were her feelings on it at the time? susan dr. terborg-penn, do you : know? rosalyn: i haven't seen anything about her response to the hanging. i know she was very excited about the emancipation proclamation. i suspect, from what i have gleaned about her caring for people who were disadvantaged and who were outsiders, so to speak, that she might not have liked the idea. but i don't know. do you? richard i don't. : i know lincoln tried to reduce that number. the original list was much, much larger than that, and he reduced it si

you want some action you can go up to minnesota you can go to the dakotas.even had in south dakota reports of the tornado touching down with these strong to severe storms, as all part of the cold front that will be marching east and south east ward over the next day or so, arrival time maybe in the early afternoon tomorrow. let's talk about it now. this is the latest of one of our computer models and it shows the front and it is pretty clear where line of demar case is and showers ahead of the front maybe in the in metro area as early a as two or 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon and that is crucial to whether or not we will have a heat wave whether we will get to 90 degrees or get into dangerous heat and if this front wasn't coming through we will have dangerous heat in store for tomorrow. strong thunderstorms possible to the south of us, maybe four or 5:00 o'clock by seven or 8:00 o'clock it is off shore and that is it for that as far as that frontal system is concern. not a lot of rain with it but it could be loud with these thunderstorms tomorrow. again, tha

this latest derailment was in north dakota. in february a train erupted into a fireball in west virginia and a month later in illinois. no one was hurt it's the accidents prompting environmentalist to sound the alarm. his wake up call came in 2014, when tankers derailed. though one was hurt no oil spilt. >> it made me realise what a near miss that was. >> a near miss because of the densely populated neighbourhoods within striking distance of train lines. every day trains like this come rumbling across the tracks. often they are carrying dozens of cars with volatile crude oil on them putting people in the park and community at risk and all up along the train lines. >> the group estimates 700,000 people in philadelphia and surrounding suburbs live within half a mile of evacuation zones. and oil trains captured fire. officials dispute the number, saying it represents a worse case scenario. a number not in dispute between 31 and 65 oil trips like this passing through philadelphia each week. the reason there's opinion an increase in

we will get some additional storms in the dakotas with a new tornadoes. about 1.5 million people at risk of the storms and the next five to six days looks dry and getting warmer texas and oklahoma. we're heading in the right direction. i don't think the weather is too bad today. in the east coast, wait about 24 hours and d.c. to boston much better. >> that's great for the middle part of the country. texas needed to dry out. thank you, bill karins. >> much more "way too early" ahead. i hate cleaning the gutters. have you touched the stuff? it's evil. and ladders... awwwwwww!!!!! they have all those warnings on them. might as well say, "you're going to die, jeff". you hired someone to clean the gutters? not just someone. someone from angie's list. but we're not members. we don't have to be to use their new snapfix feature. angie's list helped me find a highly rated service provider to do the work at a fair price. come see what the new angie's list can do for you. is there such a thing as a sure thing in business? some say buy gold. others say buy soybeans.

north dakota is now producing more than a million barrels of oil a day.n years ago there were fewer than 200 oil-producing wells in the bakken. now there are more than 8,000. >> they call it boomtown usa this is where all the money is. it's crazy the amount of money you can make here.

was from the north dakota state prison. that happened in 1992. in that case he somehow got himself into a ventilation duck and wiggled his way free to the outside. in that case he did not caught right away. he was gone for ten months before finding him. they did find him, and then the next place he locked up from and then escaped was in louisiana the maximum federal security prison. having escaped from two other facilities already by the time that the feds had had. he must have been casing the joint immediately. he mouf been casing it the whole time before he figured out how he was going to get into that. the way that he escaped was intrep. he got a job which was repairing and sewing mail bags. in the course of that he figured out a way to mail himself. he sealed himself up and got himself mailed to freedom. got into a mail bag and mailed him to a warehouse and busted out that he sealed himself into and got himself an energy drink and went off down the railroad tracks. >> put yourself in my position. >> yeah, i know. >> i am not throwing you agai

while in sioux falls, we also learn about the south dakota urban indian health center. and from the "native report" archives we look back at our visit to the journey museum in rapid city we also learn something new about indian country and hear from our elders on this "native report." narrator: production of "native report" is me possible by grants from the shakopee mdewakanton sioux community and the blandin foundation. [music playing]

the next round of wet weather is taking shape in parts of western south dakota.it doesn't look like much. watch the futurecast and you can see the winds today bringing in the dry air. that will make things comfortable heading into the afternoon hours. tomorrow we'll see the return of clouds. that little bit of energy in south dakota will come at us with showers tomorrow. but not today. sunny skies, less humid, 80s this afternoon. tomorrow, 65 in the morning, 86 the high temperature. sunny skies to start with clouds take over an a chance of late-day showers, more likely evening showers. and that shower activity continues into friday morning. we'll get some breaks of sunshine friday afternoon, back into the middle 80s on friday. but the rain on track for this weekend, will keep temperatures much cooler. 71 degrees on saturday. we'll be in the middle 70s on sunday. maybe some late-day sunshine sunday. if we don't get it sunday the sunshine will be back with temperatures returning to the 80s monday and tuesday. >> fortunately drivers won't have that heavy rain beatin

four minutes later it's north dakota. the supreme court ruling nullifies north dakota's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. five minutes later, ohio cuyahoga county probate court started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. three minutes after it's georgia. atlanta court, marries gay couples. by 11:51, it's kentucky kentucky governor has told the county clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. then it's south dakota and then it's alabama, and then it's tennessee and this was today and it is over. it's over. there are places that are going to go kicking and screaming. in mississippi thinking about taking the confederate emblem off of the flag maybe mississippi should take a step toward banning all marriage. maybe mississippi should ban marriage for straight people. and everyone. and maybe that will keep them from going along with this. good luck mississippi. this may not be exactly done yet, but it will be done. this is settled. the dam is broken. and yes, a number of 2016 republican presidential ca

we have a line of very strong storms racing through south dakota. these storms are moving at 70 to 80 miles per hour. you couldn't even outrun them on the highway with your car if you wanted. going through sioux falls, south dakota. prepare in sioux falls like a tornado is going through. wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour. dangerous stuff right now along interstate 90 where it meets 25. later today, all these storm also regenerate. tornado threat today, areas of southern wisconsin, especially. madison to milwaukee, southwards down to about chicago, into michigan later this evening. wind damage and tornadoes likely with these storms. and on tuesday, ayman, we'll watch these storms heading to the northeast. new york city baltimore, philadelphia and d.c. two days of strong storms. today we'll have a chance of tornadoes. i don't expect many tornadoes in the northeast tomorrow. >> we'll keep our umbrellas nearby. >> if it's not stormy it's hot. very hot. >> bill karins thanks for that update. >>> parachute stunt gone horribly wrong and believe it or not,

the legacy memorial park is located at new hampshire and north dakota avenues in northeast. it honors the lives of the nine people who died when two trains crashed near the fort totten station. d.c. leaders will hold a ceremony this morning and news4's megan mcgrath will have a report coming up in the next half hour. >>> the so called free range parents are back in the spotlight. why they were cleared of wrongdoing. >>> it's an error that could have your kids retaking the s.a.t.s but will you have to pay again? >>> looking live outside this morning where we're already in the 80s in some spots. that is hot and only getting hotter. storm t >>> child protective services ruled in favor of the montgomery county couple who says it is okay to allow your kids to walk home alone. according to "the washington post," the agency says the my fives did not neglect their children. the police picked up their kids when they walked home from a park. they have been investigated multiple times but have not been charged. >>> 15,000 students can retake their s.a.t.s. that's how many were affected

for what purpose does the gentleman from north dakota seek recognition? without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> big things are happening in matura, north dakota. the show known as the greatest show in the west is celebrating 50 years of entertaining and inspiring visitors while paying tribute to american values of family patriotism and faith in god and thoveg legacies of theodore roosevelt and harold schafer. madoro serveses a the gateway to theodore roosevelt national park who ranched the badlands of dakota territory before going back east refreshed and restored to accomplish big things. mr. cramer: tonight i'm grateful god gave us the badlands and theodore roosevelt and that he gave a dream to harry schafer and that the theodore roosevelt foundation keeps that dream alive today in beautiful north dakota. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. defazio of oregon for today.

these strong storms that are moving into minnesota, rolling through eastern south dakota and north dakota seeing that activity those are on track for us tomorrow afternoon. but not today. sunshine, hot but less humid than over the weekend. upper 80s and low 90s with drier air riding in on the winds out of the west/northwest, up to 12 miles an hour this afternoon. the humidity is right back in here tomorrow. look at the tempeba,ui soaring 96. that's 1 degree away from the record for tomorrow. heat humidity and strong storms later in the day. but we will be drying out much more comfortably, even though it will be warm on wednesday. the humidity comes way down. we'll start the day in the 60s. the high of 88 degrees. there's a chance of showers to keep things cooler for thursday and friday and this weekend, turning even chillier. morning temperatures in the 60s, highs only in the 70s saturday and sunday. >>> a real mess out there to make you aware of in west philadelphia. this is a live picture of haverford between 41st and 42nd streets where there is a three-car crash. we do know from police

and an astounding 122 miles per hour in hayes, south dakota. as the storms pushed east, in its wake a trail of destruction. and it's not over yet. >> we could have tornadoes in wisconsin and iowa tonight. that will head east through chicago, detroit, cleveland overnight, reform along the east coast. >> reporter: millions tonight still in the storm's danger zone. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> there is alarming news this evening about an alleged isis-inspired plot to attack the u.s. a 19-year-old from north carolina, justin sullivan, is in fbi custody, accused of plotting a terrorist act "on behalf of isis." he allegedly told an undercover operative that he wanted to kill as many as 1,000 people, either with a large car bomb or chemical weapons. sullivan's own father tipped off authorities about his son. >>> moving now from the threat of isis at home to the battle against isis overseas. tonight we have a ground-level view in iraq with the forces on the march to try and take that territory from isis. here's the rub. they're not american o

thompson, south dakota. close by, samahtha weaver was asleep with her family in their camper when the storm hit. >> we rolled one and a half times, and we lifted over the electrical box, and then landed, and rolled again. >> and rob is here now. a terrifying night for that family. the first day of summer rough for so many people. >> i think the north central part of the u.s. will be hit tonight. eastern montana through north dakota. we're watching the storms pop up. and will drive through the east tomorrow. highly populated areas like minneapolis, chicago. >> how about the heat out west? >> some relief there, but it's going to be expanding. and no real rain in the forecast. five to 15 degrees above normal. oregon and washington could see triple digits toward the middle part of the week. >>> and the lack of rain not good news for crews on the wildfire battle lines. dozens of fires burning across several states. and ryan owens reporting in from the fire lines tonight. >> reporter: dozens of new fires popping u

tornado watch in eastern montana through north dakota. we're watching the storms pop up.nd will drive through the east tomorrow. highly populated areas like minneapolis, chicago. detroit, area of severe weather there. damaging winds, and possiblilyy lyily a tornado. >> how about the heat out west? >> some relief there, but it's going to be expanding. and no real rain in the forecast. five to 15 degrees above normal. oregon and washington, could see triple digits toward the middle part of the week. and that's pretty unusual for this time of year. >>> and the temperatures and lack of rain not good news for crews on the wildfire battle lines. dozens of fires burning across several states. and tonight, red flag warnings in nevada stoking fears that fires may flare there, too. and ryan owens reporting in from the fire lines tonight. >> reporter: dozens of new fires popping up across alaska. tonight, there are 145 burning across its vast wilderness. more than 30 homes destroyed. in california, 500 residents evacuate after a new fire breaks out near san luis obispo. the state's

by 10:53, it's north dakota. the supreme court ruling nullifies north dakota's constitutional ban on smaerge marriage. same-sex marriage. five minutes later, ohio cuyahoga county probate court has started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. three minutes after that it's georgia. atlanta court marries gay couples. by 11:51, it's kentucky. kentucky governor steve beshear has told the state county clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. and then it's south dakota and then it's alabama, and then it's tennessee. and this was today, and it is over. it's over. i mean there are places that are going to go kicking and screaming and say they don't want to. in mississippi, where they're thinking about taking the confederate emblem off of their state flag this week in mississippi, the head of the judiciary committee in that state's legislature said today that maybe mississippi should take a step toward banning all marriage. maybe mississippi should ban marriage for straight people and everyone, and maybe

the groups moving down say from the dakotas. we also had along the missouri river the missourian, the winnebago, the omaha, and the ponca. i would venture to guess we had 300,000, 400,000 objects. many of the great plains items were as i mentioned collected after the civil war when euro-americans cannot to the -- came out to the great great plains. they were surveyed for railroads, if they are establishing missions, even in terms of military, they would collect various items of material culture. we have those inestablishing missions, even in terms our gallery as well as about 98% of our collections are housed elsewhere. in a museum, you typically don't see more then 2%-3% of the collections that are on public display. and the planning for the gallery, we work collaboratively with the number of native americans. this is important because historically we see a lot of times museums interpret native american life for the native americans. it is seen from someone else's perspective, perhaps someone not native american. we wanted to w

the first time was in north dakota in 1988. he was aresd on suspension of murder. he was in a room with three detectives and hand cuffed him to a chair and had a tube of lip balm and the three detectives in the room with him and somehow reached into the pocket and used it to grease up the wrist and slip out and then ran out of the room with the three detectives chasing him, and got away. that was the first time. he ran five blocks. stole a car. drove until the car stalled out and hid in an apartment building. a long article in the new york er says that it was a report er from the daily news that saw him sneaking into the apartment building that day. the report er called the police and told them where it was. he climbed out of the window and lucked in to the tree. it was only because he could not hold on that he felle and they took him back into custody. he had escape from the county jachlt his next stop and escape was from the north dakota state prison. that happened in 1992. in that case he somehow got himself into a ventilation duck and wiggled his way free to th

another tornado watch, seven reports already of tornadoes across parts of north dakota. the storm that's moving across the east, it has some flooding rains with it. we'll time out the rain to show that most of it will be done by 10:00 tomorrow pushing up to upstate new york and parts of northern new england. to the west we go. excessive heat warnings there. temperatures up over 100 degrees. thunderstorms possible, as well. rare across the pacific northwest. >> it has just been brutal out there. rob, thank you. >>> we turn now to south carolina, charleston today saying good-bye to more victims of that church shooting. here, long lines of mourners waiting outside emanuel ame for the funerals of three church members who died there. but tonight, the controversy over the confederate flag still flying outside the capitol heating up. one woman taking justice into her own hands. here's abc's devin dwyer. >> ma'am! ma'am, get off the pole. >> reporter: activist bree new newsome, 30 feet in the air, grabbing south carolina's confederate flag. >> this flag comes down today. >> repo

joining me is the attorney general of south dakota and attorney general, i welcome you.hosen to honor the ruling. what led you that decision? >> thank you for having me. as the state attorney general, it's always been my position that the people of my state should define marriage not our federal courts. but recognizing that we are a nation of laws and that the court has spoken in a majority opinion, south dakota has begun the process of issuing marriage licenses. that process included an updating of our vital records as well as the local officials at the county level that issue marriage licenses to begin issuing licenses. this began on friday. my understanding is there has only been a handful of license requests. i would anticipate that the majority of effect in some of the midwestern states will be not necessarily the issuing of licenses but the recognition of licenses being issued in other states. >> sir, those in opposition say they do so on a matter of principle for many. it can be that. i'm curious with you. is it because you oppose the social and cultural movement

but it was the straight line winds near 100 miles an hour that menaced the dakotas, minnesota, and iowa earlier. golf ball-sized hail cracking wind sheels. and iowa, winds crashing down cracking down on planes with winds 95 miles an hour. to get to portland, we drove through the same line of storms. we are almost five hours from sunset and it's almost pitch black outside. this red, if you can see it, is what we are going through right now. in the last 24 hours, a whirlwind of flash flooding in the southern plains. parts of the lone star state getting a third of their annual rain in the past week. this bridge in hunt county, texas, collapsing. motorist rescuing them in the pickup using ropes. >> look at the road! >> reporter: and the road caught crumbling on camera, that is a 20 foot by 30 foot chuck of highway 78 just disintegrating into the red river. we talk about the power of nature. that is a semitruck. not exactly sure where it began but it ended up inside the goodwill building. there were people inside, no one was hurt. david? >> glad to hear they're okay. matt gutman, thanks to y

this time lapse of a supercell in south dakota. flash flooding left over from tropical storm bill triggering rescues in illinois and tonight storms on the move with a huge stretch of the country in their path. here's abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano. >> reporter: severe weather slamming the northern plains hail bouncing off the ground like ping pong balls in south dakota. the biggest one's three inches in diameter. and in the last 24 hours five reported tornadoes in southern illinois alone. winds ripping the roof off this house. heavy rain causing this dramatic scene watch as three kids play in a drainage ditch filling with flood water passerby matt choat was there shooting this video. >> i could see their heads just bobbing in the creek. the water was all the way up here to the concrete. it was coming up over the road. now sensing danger two of the boys managing to get out but one. >> help! help, help! >> reporter: getting sucked into that culvert. his friend grabbing his arms trying to lift him but can't. >> he's getting s

hill city, south dakota, reporting flash flooding tonight. and in nebraska, where the ground is already saturated, the rivers are running high, flooding crops. with so much destruction here still to be cleaned up in colorado, here's the last thing anybody wants to hear. there is more rain in the forecast for next week. but at least the severe threat has now moved to the east. cecilia? >> okay, ryan, thank you. and rob's here now, tracking the storms. colorado as we just saw, hit so hard. but these tornadoes now on the move elsewhere? >> reporter: yeah, we're in the stuck weather pattern. now it's beginning to shift off to the east. we already have a tornado watch up that involves a good chunk of nebraska parts of south dakota iowa and southwestern parts of minnesota. sioux falls, sioux city that's an area we're most concerned about. a long night ahead for this part of the country. then we slide it further to the east tomorrow. places like st. louis will be in it. indianapolis, south part of chicago, stretching even into parts of ohio. damagin

north dakota is now producing more than a million barrels of oil a day.go there were fewer than 200 oil-producing wells in the bakken. now there are more than 8,000. >> they call it boomtown usa this