here on "the heat index" jiff doesn't have a big announcement.cial media and can do a lot of cool things. he will show us one right now. and i believe this is a first time that we're going to do this, so, jiff, do you want to go ahead and do you want them to tell him how to do his autograph. go ahead, jiff. big moment. yeah, are you going to do it? i'm afraid. i don't want to interrupt. he's like a big movie star right now. do you want to come in? autograph. autograph. all right. there you go, jiff. we got the autograph. give me, five, buddy. here's here kicking off our dog versus dog contest. send us videos to goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! and the top dog will scare off dog to dog right here, right here in times square. you know what, he doesn't have to do it. he doesn't perform on command. >> but there are the rules right there. hope to hear from you. as i said there were so many people who sent adorable pictures of their dogs saying that they could match jiff paw for paw. >> he just had to find his motivation. >> exactly. >> he's proven now

. >> and senator jiff hoffman went for his bid for a fourth term. he's now looking to secure a 23rd term. these primaries are seen as unlikely to be part of the makeup but they could cold lake the tea party. the most recent c bbs new york poll, it's down 51% from last december. >> thank you, susan. >>> this morning flood warnings and watches are posted in parts of texas and oklahoma, and severe thunderstorms are possible for the plains later today. damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes may develop as the storm system moves east. >>> a tornado hit central indiana yesterday afternoon. winds of 100 miles per hour threw an r.v. into a home. more than a dozen homes were damaged just southwest of indianapolis. no injuries are reported. >> scared to death. i didn't know what was going on. so i had to calm my grandkids down. i got one 6-year-old and 2-year-old and take care of them. >> when the guys come here and saved up, they said is anybody here, is anybody here? >> and last night in chicago, the storm system caused flooding on city streets and highways. a

three people were kill and 187 injured, and as jiff pegues tells us, the federal agency blames the pilots. >> reporter: before the plane crashed at san francisco international airport, all three pilots in the cockpit missed important warnings. according to investigators coming in for a landing, the plane was off target. it was traveling too low and air speed was too slow to make the runway. the pilots mistakenly believed the auto throttle which controls speed would keep the plane on track. the ntsb concluded the pilots had given too much control to the boeing 777's autopilot functions. >> as the approach proceeded, it seemed to be more compound. >> reporter: the belly struck the runway and the tail of the airplane broke off. investigators say the three people killed, one died after being struck by an emergency exit door that pushed in when the plane cart whealed down the runway. and the other two were not wearing seat belts and were ejected from the plane. >> the ultimate message of that is buckle your seat belt. when the cabin crew says buckle your seat belt, buckle your seat belt. that'

jiff j lube top to bottom. if there is nothing wrong with them if not send them to war.ere in the united states. open around the country. if we brought on enough staff to staff them, we could bring in v.a. soldiers. >> too we have the right people in place, montel? >> no, i do not. >> i'm reading some study showed 80% of the people in the phoenix v.a. received incentive bonuses. 100% of the upper level management across the v.a. received at least positive, you know, we enforcement at the end of the year. what's going on here? >> what's going on here is the fact that we chopped off the head and thought we took care of the problem. >> shinseki. >> that's right. the chicken is still running around and running around aimlessly, it's time to take the chicken down. some of those people that actually voted to give themselves bonuses for a rigged system that allowed them to lie, some people should go to jail. how come we are not hearing this? we can jump up and down tomorrow and say let's send more boys off to die. but we can't jump up and down today to talk about how to take ca