havees and david koch funneled millions of dollars to conservative candidates and causes over the last four decades -- have also worked tirelessly to open the floodgates for money in politics. the koch brothers network tops $100 billion in their currently tied for fourth on the forbes 400 list of wealthiest americans. for more we go to washington, d.c. where we're joined by the director of the new film, "koch brothers exposed: 2014 edition." robert greenwald is the founder and president of brave new films. robert, tell us what happened on capitol hill. what was the controversy over your film? >> the controversy is really another example of how the kochs work, which is they tried to change the conversation. the koch lawyer put out a statement immediately then candidates who received money from the kochs picked up the statement and carry their water in an effort to really stop free speech and prevent the public

funnel clouds of pure flames from the ground skyward. the santa anna winds, which unlike our weather across the country blow from east to west can clearly be seen from space blowing the smoke from these fires out over the pacific ocean. so many homes burned, so much land scorched. it's a full on battle especially in the area around san diego. our coverage of the fires begins with joe fryer in carlsbad, california. joe, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. 22 families are without a home tonight in carlsbad including those at this house behind me. now the number one priority is a fire just to the east in san marcos where thousands more were evacuated. today we saw the battle up close. this is what danger sounds like, crackling and hissing as flames crawl across the san marcos hillside whipped up by unseasonably warm santa anna winding spawning tornados. phil has only a garden hose to keep the flames back, but it will take so much more. fire crews are using an air attack to attack the san marcos fire which continues to grow and t

you see a funnel cloud that's part of this same storm system going through ohio. >> it is really crazy to see the hail to see the change in weather so drastically from one minute to another. >> you see what looks like the funnel cloud starting to form. even when there's bad weather the mailman still delivers. >> rain, snow, sleet or hail. the mail will get there. >> this is video proof. we're giving away another ipad mini in just a little bit. >> that's right. to enter you need the buzzword and a twitter account. if you don't have a twitter account don't worry. it's easy to create one. >> the buzzword is coming up. you have to be 18 years old or older and a u.s. resident to enter. >> stand by, everybody, for the r tshgs mshg rtm giveaway. >> two completely different ending to two robberies. the first moscow, somebody being forced into the cellular store. this person has what appears to be a gun in his hand and employee has his hands up, complying with everything the guy says. he forces the worker into the back utility room. back there the safe. he's forced to the ground. he does get in

between the white clouds at the top and the brown lower portion of the funnel where it has vacuumedp dirt from the earth. the tornado eventually turned away from them, damaging or destroying more than a dozen trailers, critically injuring a 15-year-old girl. doctors say she's expected thankfully to survive. >>> in colorado the ground search has officially been called off for three ranchers who went missing following this massive landslide. it happened in a remote area west of grand junction. slide went on for more than four miles. hundreds of feet deep in spots filled with mud. the aerial search will continue but authorities say the slide remains just too unstable to continue on the ground. >>> we're back with more on this tuesday night from new york right after this. >>> michele obama made a foray into the political arena today unlike we've seen or heard before. she's hitting back at republicans who are chipping away at her plan to fight childhood obesity by imposing rules about what schools can serve in the lunchroom. it's a plan that's touched a nerve across the country. we get o

citizens united decision because special interests, special interests found a new way to secretly funnel way into our elections. let me tell you how it works. because these groups aren't required to disclose their donors bent on influencing the political process for their benefit, anonymously give to the 501 c-4 and then funnels the money to the super pac and millions of secret dollars influencing our elections. we ought to be working together in a bipartisan way to get secret money out of our elections. i asked the treasury department to review the regulations, revise the rules and restore integrity and to ensure taxpayers are never again forced to subsidize blatantly political behavior. i would have hoped that my colleagues in the majority would have joined me in that effort. instead republican leaders attempted to block treasury from fixing these broken rules and forcing the secret givers to tell us who they are and what they want from this congress. i'm afraid there is only one explanation for this latest partisan solution. i hope i'm wrong. i hope republicans don't want to protect s

. >>> a wind-whipped fire funnel captured on camera is being called a "firenado." a woman in missouri stopped to take this picture of what she calls the coolest and scariest thing she has ever seen. the woman said a farmer was in the process of burning off his field when winds pulled the flames into a funnel. the picture went viral after she posted it to instagram. >> hopefully no "firenados" in our future but meteorologist paul deanno is at the san pablo reservoir in el sobrante looking ahead to a warmer rather nice mother's day weekend. >> it's going to be a fantastic mother's day weekend. 7million people live in the bay area it's a major metropolitan area but you can do this. less than 20 miles as the crow flies from san francisco, we are in the serene middle of nowhere. it is fantastic out here. a few folks fishing, the birds love it, there's a kids play area off to my right and the weather is spectacular outside but i have to tell you where where we are right now the san pablo reservoir is one of the least windy places in the bay area blocked by the east bay h

>>> making news in america this morning -- funnel clouds, flooding rains and damaging winds. a severe storm with millions of americans in its crosshairs. and it's not over yet. >>> on the defense. a new recording surfaces of donald sterling. what is he saying about the scandal that's enveloped him and about the future of his team? >>> dramatic rescue. a car submerged in several feet of water with a driver still inside. how good samaritans came to the rescue. >>> and draft day. the newest members of the nfl are selected with a few surprises. >>> good friday morning. we begin with severe storms sweeping through the country's midsection, leaving a path of damaged homes and flooded roads. >> people in the north and south couldn't escape the dangerous conditions. several tornadoes touching down in minnesota while high winds reached 70 miles per hour in dallas. >> abc's tahman bradley has the details. >> reporter: overnight, severe weather pushed east. thunderstorms and lightning rocked new york city. the system came from the great plains. in dallas, sirens warned residents to take

climb the top, pour the water into the funnel, filled up-- [makes sounds] --guess what happened? [makes sound] barrel burst. the barrel burst because of the enormous pressure. and here's the bit. the pressure in this barrel is just the same as if he had filled it with that amount of water. it's just the depth to the free surface to where you are, that particular depth multiplied by the density of fluid, that's the liquid pressure. really, really neat. this idea that pressure depends on depth tells us why dams are built the way they are. do you ever see a dam like this? good design or bad design? bad. very bad design because the pressure is greater against the bottom and that's where it should be thicker, not like that, yeah. so we find maybe dams like this, huh? so the pressure down here exerts a force that's great, great, great, great, and there's more force at the bottom than at the top so the dam is thicker down there, simply because why? you got more force of the water pushing against it. when i was a kid, i lived near lilly pond, massachusetts. and lilly pond had a dam like

we have nowhere to go. >> reporter: where a funnel cloud with winds of 120 miles per hour raked through a camp of oil field workers. it injured at least 9 people, 1 critically, and destroyed 15 trailers. elsewhere, it's all about the flooding. some parts of houston have seen six inches of rain just over the past few days. turning streets into rivers and rivers into lakes. >> the water's moving really fast. it's crazy. >> reporter: and the region is bracing for still more severe weather. and that flooding risk is highest today from houston all the way to new orleans. drenching thunderstorms also expected all along the gulf. showers and thunderstorms, as you can see, extend into the northeast, all the way down to florida. but it will be clear and hot out in the west. >> and the hot spot, once again, phoenix, at 108 degrees. but elsewhere, temperatures will be moderating a bit. dropping to as low as 54 in boston. >>> there are major new developments overnight involving the l.a. clippers, a team that could have a new owner by the end of the week. our partner, espn, reporting that shelly ste

officers set up this checkpoint about 8:00 tonight, putting up signs and funneling traffic down to onee. officers started stopping drivers around 9:15 this evening and so far they have stop more than 100 cars. >> they come up, and they get funneled into a single lane and at that point it's a mutual formula, random pick. as five cars come up, we wave them into your five interview stall and release five cars. >> reporter: the sergeant says typically during a holiday weekend, anywhere from 5-10 will fetarrested for driving under the influence and many will get stopped for trying to avoid the checkpoint and officers typically write 20-40 citations for suspended licenses and other violations. >> the end goal is primarily to keep the streets safe for the drivers trying to get home safely from parties or family functions or going out to dippers, so that the roadways are safe and for education. >> reporter: now many different agencies are taking part in this, including the san francisco police department san francisco state ucsf and the department of alcoholic beverage control and the san fran

reports of funnel clouds twice we've gotten these in the last two hours and wind and hail reports asell. in fact golf ball sized hail is entirely possible in these powerful storms. tracking across eastern montana but now we're going osee that risk continue into the evening through parts of wyoming and the dakotas. otherwise we are looking at drought area specifically california, arizona, new mexico, where we've been so dry without very much rainfall at all. and now this same storm system is going to be spinning its way down over the drought-ridden area and we are going to expect a lot of that rain evaporate into the air. when that rain evaporates, the cold heavy air crashes down causing heavy gusts. so if we get to lightning sparked with wildfires, the wind gusts will encourage that. wind gusts are still very strong in northern california because of this low pressure system but wind gusts up to 35 miles an hour in the inland veams of southern california. -- valleys of southern california. temperatures cooling for california. cool air to the west, cool air to the east, toasty warm in

the tip is to mack a funnel with a sandwich bag and sand.here and it makes a nice funnel so the sand doesn't fly all over the place. and then fill it with your beach glass and/or shells to make it a beautiful display. >> how do we get this wall in our house behind us? i want that. >> and then here we have a very do it yourself. we'll have you dive in. this is a shell pattern beautiful pillow. get a pillow, take the pill you out, put a hard board insert inside so the paint doesn't go through and with your paintbrushes put on a color of your choice, these are fabric paints. and just put that all over your fan shaped shell. you want a nice wide shell with deep grooves that will make a nice stencil impression. you can roll it on to the pillow because if you just press it down simply, you only get a few lines. for anybody at home, do practice on a paper or remnant cloth before you get started. >> this way? >> you can roll it on for that beautiful shell look. it is a great start. >> you need more than i was putting there. >> with did them in rows,

emirates to be put on display here the special exhibition lousy inaugurated of exhibition president was funneled to the best projects exemplifies just a place that i saw that thing throngs of its gulf ally. as always the season in the pool beach and the french and reaches a special treat of the ladies just one among the hundreds of works on display at paris's to move and said to be shipped to the museum says the sign to not be gone the next year their paintings for months is like more you use the five bucks each. sculptures from central asia and africa. from the arab world itself inaugurated the a train to bristol press well known tuesday. the connection is my keys to compile. just the piece is one such claim that arab emirates will create a cultural hub in the gulf states. the idea because it is evident i know this leads to my station was a meeting of the house has an aunt because of that very often to be cool to read it and really getting into a single to any of us and using it. one of its title. well it's my stations will become the centuries. melt the end of the muslim world as well as islam

thank you. >>> the giant funnel cloud in central kansas over weekend. it appeared in an open field and then headed straight for homes and barns there. incredibly, there were no reports of injuries or damage. some areas of kansas though still under a severe thunderstorm warning as more storms march through that area. and in nebraska, rain, tornadoes sweeping across the southeast part of the state, no one injured there either but several barns and homes were destroyed. >>> for the first time, donald sterling is talking about the racist rant that rocked the nba. in the newsroom with what donald and his estranged wife, shelly, had to say. >> sat down with cnn's anderson cooper and after his comments got him banned from the nba for life, sterling vows he's not a racist. >> another chance, not give it to me. >> after weeks after only hearing his voice on explosive tape recordings, for the first time, we hear donald sterling's take on the scandal that led to his lifetime ban from the nba. anderson cooper. >> the people who decide my fate, i think, are not the

quick moving storms created funnel clouds, hail and flooding rain. you can see the hale and funnel clouds today as severe weather is forecast again for the area. no injuries reported. >> coming up markets will have more of your pictures to share demetrius will be back and you can get the forecast any time on our free application. >>jesse jackson junior's family says it's worried about his mental health, as he serves his prison sentence for fraud. the former congressman admitted, he misused campaign money, and spent it on lavish items for his home. the sun-times reports, jackson has been scrubbing prison toilets with a toothbrush, as an act of contrition for his crimes. he's also written two *books in prison. a fellow inmate says jackson is hoping president obama will pardon him, once his prison sentence ends next year. taking a look at the *other top stories this morning. a woman on the northwest side murdering her 3-year-old daughter. maria espinoza-perez was arrested after an autopsy revealed that her daughter ashley mendoza was the victim of child

now that i have got these funnels. here's the dangerous part. what happens to the kids that take drugs and they od or the ones that get alcohol poisoning? joe, do you know kids who have gone to the hospital? i do. i remember kids that did a lot of drugs when i was growing up. there was always the one kid who was in the accident and is in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. >> this has been going on for a long time, sean. we're talking about this like it's a new problem. this has been going on since the beginning of college basically. the reason why it looks worse and feels worse, one, we're getting older. >> speak for yourself. >> but also it's because of these. i can record anything at any time. i went to panama city. i over served. >> full disclosure. i always went on family spring break vacations in college. with social media, that's permane permanent. it's on the internet. with this economy, it's really hard to get a good job. >> you think these kids are thinking about social media right now? >> they need to be. they have to look for some

credit suisse helped some clients funnel money to offshore accounts in order to limit tax liabilities. to avoid detection. part of the practice was to hand deliver cash directly to clients in the u.s. credit suisse copped to the crime and agreed to a penalty payout of $2.6 billion that breaks down like this, $1.8 billion goes to the department of justice on behalf of the u.s. treasury. $100 million goes to the federal reserve and another $750 million to the new york state department of financial services. with this settlement, credit suisse became the largest bank in two decades to bleed guilty to a u.s. crime suffering the most severe settlements seen in recent years. in 2009, u.b.s. paid a lot less, $780 million, though it turned over names of nearly 4500 clients. >> this announcement should send a firm and unequivocal message to those who would engage in dishonest financial activity that the justice department does not and we will not tolerate such activities. >> that goes for rich americans hoping to avoid paying taxes. while credit suisse is not turning over its client list, it i

this is called -- go ahead. >> a funnel. to a southern college, auburn, but i did not do this at home because i was a good sorority. if we want to reenact it, sean. i got it. >> i won't put in a lot. >> okay, okay. all right. >> that is a lot of water there. >> put your thumb on it. >> and then -- >> oh my -- [ laughter ] >> all right. so. >> that's just water. >> bend your knees a little bit. that's the trick. >> and everyone claps. >> spring break. >> all right. now, these obviously are tube shots. >> tube shots. usually handed around so everyone can have one and it's a mixed drink. sometimes straight, but usually a mixed drink of sorts. >> like a sweet drink? >> cunningham is looking in the background. this is not something-o you've conin yoco con -- done in your life, is it? >> we went to southern baptist. apple juice pong. that's how i learned how to play. if the ball goes in the cup, you have to actually shoot that cup. there you go. >> so it would go in, you should shoot it. >> she did. we're fine. there is supposed t

i'm for the continuance i'm a san franciscan i'm coming from a funnel and raise children and i've beenere all today, i appreciate a continuance on this matter. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> my name is roger i'm the president of the balboa association and we support supervisor campos request for continuance the supervisor has worked hatred open the issues and we want to support him and his support for the neighborhood. thank you >> good evening. i'm the architect for the project i strongly oppose the motion to a continuance it's unfair to the applicants this project has gone on look at it and initialed before the anti clustering legislation it was originally calendared last month and taken off the calendar because the health department had their hearing and then it was heard

firms are funneling money into the campaigns of the legislators and state officials who are overseeingese pension funds and the question is, what is being given out? they're a rip-off for taxpayers and retires. >> most of the hedge funds that i saw missed the s&p performance this year and charging fees from two to ten times what a standard index fund would. if you have a pension fund, they better be getting a good return for that taxpayer dollar, otherwise their face is ripped off. david, great work on this. thank you. >> thank you. >>> michael sam becomes a ram and the first openly gay football player to get drafted in the nfl. now what? his agent joins me next. (growls) (man) that's a good look for you. (woman) that was fun. (man) yeah. (man) let me help you out with the.. (woman)...oh no, i got it. (man) you sure? (woman) just pop the trunk. (man vo) i may not know where the road will lead, but... i'm sure my subaru will get me there. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. purina pro plan can help him drachieve it. ♪ epic classical music stops ♪music resumes music sto

>> reporter: moments earlier, they saw it forming. >> it's about to go over us. >> i could see a funnelhere to go. >> reporter: dan and his colleagues running for cover, a questionable choice in their pickup truck. >> i expected to see a cow nieg by like in the movies. flying by like in in the movies. >> reporter: debris flying past their window. let's look at that part of the tape again. you see right there the debrisx flies by. we'll slow it down and spotlight it for you. that huge chunk of debris. when i have been storm chasing, we see large debris like that fly miles outside of the tornado. >> it is sitting there. >> reporter: the camera catching the dark red dirt circulating beneath and the bright white reflection of the condensation above. >> the only way i can describe it is terrifyingly beautiful. >> looks like it is breaking apart. >> reporter: tornado dissipating but leaving behind this. at least nine people were injured and the national weather service giving a preliminary rating of ef-2. winds up to 120 miles an hour.ñr that tornado one of more than 140 severe weather report

firms are funneling money into the campaigns of the legislators and state officials who are overseeing pension funds and the question is, what is being given out? they're a rip-off for taxpayers and retires. >> most of the hedge funds that i saw missed the s&p performance this year and charging fees from two to ten times what a standard index fund would. if you have a pension fund, they better be getting a good return for that taxpayer dollar, otherwise their face is ripped off. david, great work on this. thank you. >> thank you. >>> michael sam becomes a ram and the first openly gay football player to get drafted in the nfl. now what? his agent joins me next.  a whopping 6.8 rating, the highest for the draft. compare that to what else is on tv on thursday. more people watched the nfl draft than either nba game combined. it was a big night for just american sports networks. michael sam's agent joins me next. female narrator: the mattress price wars are on the mattress price wars are on at sleep train. we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. now it's posturepedic v

. >> in the form of a vortex or funnel. >> that whirlpool shape is the same shape of a hurricane and. we see it everywhere. so every living thing on earth has incorporated the shape of these whirl pools. so every part of every living thing is built in accordance with this geometry. what we did is we analyzinged what that regime -- analyzed what that is. >> packs technologies outside of oakland, california manufactures a small six-inch device that can amix 10,000 gallons of water, that is essential to keep bacteria from forming. >> and the reason is a ring vortex is visually frictionless. you get this enormous benefit. if we reduce the amount of energy that municipalities have to use to mix that water, we are able to reduce the chemical content by 85%. >> currently 800 municipalities is using the pax mixer. its shape is inspired by the sea shell. >> did it surprise you when you came up with this idea that nature could be so efficient that it could be more clever than anything that we've thought up in all of our brilliance? >> it's completely inevitable biomimicry. this is the time whe

franciscan i'm coming from a funnel and raise children and i've been here all today, i appreciate a continuance on this matter. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> my name is roger i'm the president of the balboa association and we support supervisor campos request for continuance the supervisor has worked hatred open the issues and we want to support him and his support for the neighborhood. thank you >> good evening. i'm the architect for the project i strongly oppose the motion to a continuance it's unfair to the applicants this project has gone on look at it and initialed before the anti clustering legislation it was originally calendared last month and taken off the calendar because the health department had their hearing and then it was heard good weeks ago and postponed again, because gp h hearing hadn't occurred and now it would be extremely unfair to the antenna to force him go if boo into an discretionary review position and has a higher bar for him to cross we need to move forward and make a decision now with all fairness to the party and the public thank you. >> hello, i'm margare

. >> i could see a funnel cloud coming down., "oh, this is not good." >> tornado warning. >> yeah! >> reporter: warnings blaring, dan and his colleague make a questionable choice. >> dude, where do we go? we have got nowhere to go! >> they run for cover in their pickup truck. >> we were getting hit by a good amount of debris. we were getting pelted by really big-sized chunks of wood. kept expecting to see a cow flying by like in the movies. >> i don't want to be sitting here. holy [ bleep ]. >> they start driving. the twister cutting off their only escape route. debris flying past their windows. >> just sitting over there. >> sitting over an rv park. the camera catching the dark red earth circulating and the condensation above. >> look an out of body experience. the way to describe it "terrifyingly beautiful." >> breaking apart. >> reporter: after the tornado dissipated it left behind this. >> and their trailers were torn apart. cars were upside down. >> reporter: tonight the national weather service is giving a preliminary rati

me and my office about the puc having the funds to cover the shares of costs to fix the mountain funnel. repairing the tunnel is a vital part of the san francisco system it should be completed without delaying other promotions within the puc. the dispute with the board of supervisors with you is not my business and but i want to be sure that nothing interiors this commissions ability to not repair the projects as soon as they need construction those are to deliver the water we rely on and my agrees in san jose and santa clara counties that dependent upon that system for 2/3rd's of the water to meet the customers needs therefore i ask that your resolution contain a solution for the puc priority for water and power funds and nothing will stop this economy from the projects like the tunnel. with with that, i'll conclude my comments >> thank you commissioner moran. >> thank you with respect to the hetch hetchy capital report. i think it is important that that information be available on transparent one thing that mr. richie and i have had conversation it's important we highlight periodicall

the monies being funneled all over the place at the end of the year may or june we're going to hear a story oh, we found $20 million you ain't found nothing those funds have been coming here because the community has not been benefited talltall:. under the city planning land use, the so-called infrastructure of the redevelopment agency all of those programs that's been set up have not been adolescence for the city and county of san francisco you all need to ask questions you as city planners where's those monies don't believe what olsen lee actual i made a statement to one of the city planners they said if you can't talk aboto me i said represent the sins the san francisco. i wrote a note about him this rad that's lawsuits been filed i think that's what he was reading about in the newspapers that's a joblgz it don't mean nothing. it's for big developers he know some of you support of the developers coming in here and taking over the properties and sending you tell us out the san francisco willie brown said if you don't make $100,000 a year you don't need to be here. i bought my house

and tools to have the understanding this is not only on a isolated incident this may be a way to funnel money into other criminal activities that's what we do in manhattan and hope to do here. >> i can tell you from manhattan that because we're the intel driver with the seminar ada person has spoken i gave you examples of violent crime but we have a huge count fiat ticketing ob

winds have been fueling the flames even spawning firenados, which are funnels of flames. joe fryer has the very latest on the fight to contain these. >> reporter: the may fire storm has claimed its first life after a body was discovered. to the east a fire that started in san marcos has spread to neighboring escondido. >> three big black clouds of smoke and it took off like crazy. >> reporter: this is the county's number one priority. a destructive enemy to devour a large home and to break a family's heart. amanda and stan rented a hill top house with a priceless view for three years. >> our patio deck. >> reporter: they evacuated an hour before the flames took everything. >> it just makes you think of all the times together. >> reporter: we were there as the fire chewed through another hillside inching right up to a fence, the only barrier between rows of apartment buildings. >> now we go live to jennifer be jork land. what's the latest there? i understand there have been some arrests. >> reporter: there have been some arrests. they are perhaps unrelated to any of these

and tools to have the understanding this is not only on a isolated incident this may be a way to funnel money into other criminal activities that's what we do in manhattan and hope to do here. >> i can tell you from manhattan that because we're the intel driver with the seminar ada person has spoken i gave you examples of violent crime but we have a huge count fiat ticketing problem we have the times square issues that has low-level crimes but not nice to tourist we know what the issues are and track the patterns the same people over and over that are doing it we can bring the right people to the table and we do to figure out pro-active strategies that might include new legislation of legislation or making it inhospitalityal so they'll go somewhere else. >> thanks colleagues questions or comments. okay. thank you for taking the time from new york to come. mr. district attorney our next one >> the next one is mental health especially there's an area you have taken a professional leadership and some of your other colleagues, we from many years have been u custodial aware the challenges in

. >>> take a look at a giant funnel cloud that touched down in central kansas. first apoored poor -- appeared in an open field and then barns. no reports of injuries or damage and some areas under a severe thunderstorm warning as more storms march through the the area. >>> in nebraska, rain and tornadoes swept across the southeast part of the state. no one was injured but several buildings were destroyed. >>> one of the most recognizable landmarks in the u.s. is about to reopen for the first time in almost three years. >> it is. that would be the washington monument. it has been closed for about 33 months since it was damaged by the earthquake years back. crews repaired 150 cracks, numerous rain water leaks as well and a couple of hours from now and 130-year-old monument will be open to the public again shortly after the celebration. >>> well, it was a special mother's day for a special group of women in san francisco. >> kpix 5's mark kelly reports women at a homeless shelter got the royal treatment. >> hair and make-up and classical music, they got the treatme

. >>> in parts of texas, tornadic activity produced funnel clouds, damaged property and downed powerines. check out this time lapse. can you see the circulation over sterling city, texas, violent winds and also hail. in colorado, late season snow fell across portions of the rockies in full force. in just a few moments a look at the latest weather with nbc philadelphia meteorologist brittany shipp. >>> firefighters in alaska are hoping for rain to gain a ham on the wildfire there. that blaze spread to 250 square miles larger than the city of chicago. about 1,000 homes have been evacuated south of anchorage. at this point the blaze can about 30 porras contained thanks to more than 600 firefighters on the scene. >>> pope francis is planning a meeting with victims of sexual abuse. the pope announce d those while on the plane. it comes as part of a zero tolerance plan for anyone in the catholic church who has abused children. he will meet with rate victims next month and cardinal sean patrick o'malley from boston who is head of the commission for the protection of minors. >>> vigils takin

this is a photo of a funnel cloud. in the area the region has been slammed with thunderstorms and tornado warnings however those warnings have now been lifted allowing some flights in and out of the denver to reach zoomed the travelers should expect at least an hour the late tornado watch is still in effect until 8:00 p.m. and dipper and 10 surrounding counties. denver residents are already dubbing with heavy rain and hail from the area. catherine? >> catherine: the bus has been traveling through l.a. and swerve to avoid the pipe and overturned then sliding down at an abatement. >> catherine: the family of the los angeles student is now slowing he was killed on the charter bus he was san was hit by the fed ex ^ 10 people were killed april 10th and the fat x dropped slammed into the bus head on the bus held 44 pistons. 44 students >> pam: san francisco 49ers linebacker aldon smith showed up late this afternoon and a santa clara county superior court. he is facing felony and misdemeanor charges which and all weapons and