tornado watches have been raised in texas louisiana, mississippi and illinois. this morning houston is getting pummeled. a flash flood emergency has been declared. over 7 inches of rain fell overnight make something roads impassible and forcing passengers to abandon their cars. the storm knocking out power to 80 million people in the houston area are without service. authorities are urging all to avoid trouble. fans at last night's houston rockets game were advised to stay in their seat because of the severe weather. many stayed for hours. >>> one woman was killed when a tornado hit southeast oklahoma monday afternoon. it was one of several tornados to hit that part of the state. homes were destroyed and dozens treefs were uprooted. and the news was even worse in a mexican city across the border from texas. a tornado destroyed up to 200 holmes. one victim was a baby ripped from its mother's arms by the strong winds. 300 people were injured. omar villafranca has more on the severe weather. >> reporter: drones showed what was left after the hays county river rose.

the best chance of severe weather today appears to be from about memphis down in through louisiana. mississippiand houston texas back to western texas. the best chance of thunderstorms -- excuse me tornadoes will be out in western texas away from houston, dallas and oklahoma today. all green aircraft at philadelphia international airport. on the board that means no major delays. lot of cloud cover out in chicago. orlando starting to clear out but no rain in any of our most commonly traveled destinations tam. >> thank you david. >>> making and keeping regular dental appointments is about more than just keeping up with your cleanings and fillings. dentists also look for oral cancer. it also affects long term tobacco users. doctors say they're seeing more young people being diagnosed because of hpv. oral cancer has a high survival rate if you catch it early on. >> the phillies continue their series in colorado tonight. pitcher severino gonzalez will be recalled from aaa lehigh valley and will step in for the injured chad billingsly. >>> rockies took the win last night snapping the phillies six gam

the four state sweep was in arkansas louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. the biggest sweep in history with 280 arrests focusing on unscrupulous pharmacists, doctors, and more. >> this is just you know sort of professional drug dealers. >> reporter: among those arrested in little iraq, dr. jerry rifus. >> sometimes life is very difficult. will it get straightened out. >> reporter: agents say what's happening in little rock mirrors a nationwide epidemic in prescription drug abuse. with a steady rise in overdoses and co-related deaths. agents say prescription abuse also fuels the current heroin epidemic adding even more, officials say, to a growing public heath threat. mark potter, nbc news little rock, arkansas. >>> it was a case of road rage here in new york that stunned the nation. a horde of bikers who claimed they'd been provoked caught on camera surrounding and pounding on an suv before attacking the family inside. now with a trial underway we're hearing new details including a frantic call for help. here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: the moment

locally some areas across eastern texas through louisiana, mississippi could be looking at more than 4 inches of rainfall. otherwise the temperatures are going to be relatively warm across the southeastern u.s. already in the 70's this morning. >> thanks so much maria. the fbi is investigating anonymous threats against six passenger planes flying into the u.s. an anonymous caller warning of chemical weapons on board flights new york jfk, liberty and boston logan. we have more on the major he security scares at some of the country's busiest airports. >> air travel along the east coast after an anonymous call came from the united states police bare rack. two were scrambling to flight to new york city's jfk airport during the last stretch of the trich. the fbi saying a call was made to the police barack. a bomb threat was made to aof a chemical weapons threat. they checked the plane in an isolated portion of the runway at jfk and cleared the plane after landing. other planes flying into northeastern airports one from saudi arabia a second england into jfk. they were checked out and anot

closer at the fire department with some questioning because what has gone on in texas and louisiana, mississippi, alabama in the last month. so, we're all a little more conscious and leery of these things. perhaps, convey to them more importance than they actually have. but that particular problem, i could talk about it at length i must tell you. i know it came out of the the state legislator that mandates to change those valves to two and a half inch and san francisco has three inch. yes, sir? [inaudible] dennis: the question is the actual casualty figure. for many, many years we thought it was 450, about. and they came to that figure because of the bodies that they had reclaimed in the hospitals and the infirmaries. and those that were picked up from the streets. but, gladies hanson took it on her own to investigate all the deaths during that period of time and try to try o attribute cause to those deaths. and she found that the number is about 3,000. and she feels that the number could go to 4,000 is that there was a great deal of life loss at the time, and i think that the life -- my goodnes

and another area of rain showers in louisiana, mississippi.ghtly concerned we'll see a passing sprinkle tomorrow. notice this line of showers from wisconsin and northern michigan moving to the southeast. that can come through us tomorrow afternoon. other than that we'll be in great shape until perhaps tuesday. so the forecast for tonight, it's going to be cloudy with late clearing, isolated sprinkle mainly in the mountains, 40s and 50s for friday morning. we'll have that chilly start. you'll need a jacket. west, northwest winds 10 to 15, picking up 10 to 20 in the afternoon. temperatures tomorrow mid- to upper 70s, just a slim shower chance in the afternoon, west, northwest wind 10 to 20 and sunset late at 8:19. three-day forecast, head towards start, it will be fantastic, going to be a great day. the winds will be a lot lighter northwest to south west 5 to 10, afternoon highs lower to middle 70s. sunday looks good, just warmer, not too humid yet, 84. monday we'll make a run toward 90 potentially. could be a chance of an isolated storm mainly

they pregraded the country from new england to louisiana, mississippi, they commence by hanging white game bers. next, negros suspected of conspireing to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged, then white men, and finally, strangers from neighboring states going further on business until dead men were seen dangling from the bows of trees on every roadside and in numbers almost sufficient to rival the native spanish moss of the country as a drapery of the forest. in st. louis, a milano man seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city chained to a tree, and actually burned to death. in all within a single hour from the time he had been a free man attending to his own business and at peace with the world. such are the effects of mob law. such are the scenes becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order. let reverence for the love of laws for every man, and let it become the political religion of the nation. >> over the next 15 years, they take different paths to leadership. lincoln heads to congress in 1848. his opposition to

>> the drurks of the people of louisiana and mississippi may not be. >> george bush doesn't care aboutyesterday while receiving an honorary dock rat, he teased the audience. >> george bush -- has some very cool self-portraits. i didn't know he was an artist. >> you know he's right. the self-portraits are pretty good. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. 21 minutes past the hour. i am joined by a political analyst, good morning to you. >> bridging the great political divide. i like that. that's nice of kanye. let's talk about the president. there's a bit of a dust up with him and democratic candidate elizabeth warren. where is the rub? >> a lot of candidates don't agree with the president. there's great suspicious about these trade deals. a lot of democrats are saying no to the president. >> people are accusing him of hiding parts of the deal. >> it's getting a little bitter and throw in hillary. a lot of this has to do with her. there are a lot of liberal democrats who would love elizabeth warren to run. >> she's not going to do it? >> i think she's not going to do it. ther

texas finally on the dry side but it is over portions of louisiana and eventually to mississippi. also western and central kansas where we have thunderstorms this morning. things over the next couple hours expected to change. flash flood watches from oklahoma city and points south. here are the models. they have done a wonderful job with accuracy in recent days. dallas and oklahoma city and east of austin tremendous rainfall over this region. a couple more inches of rainfall not out of the question. you see places in texas picking up texas-sized rainfall. a 24-hour total of nearly 12 inches. remarkable when you think how much rainfall that is. oklahoma city 18.7 inches has come down in may. for seattle, it would take six months to get what oklahoma city has seen so far in the month of may. phoenix, two years worth of rainfall. houston, it would take five months to get the rains they have seen in just 24 days of may. >>> thank you. the city of cleveland threatening to erupt. people taking to the streets after a police officer was acquitted of manslaughter charges in shooting of two

moon, nasa and its contractors were hiring 250,000 new people in florida, alabama texas, louisiana and mississippi and so by virtue of where these jobs were, it had to have a civil rights element to it. katty: steven, what was nasa actually doing in the context of employing african-americans to push desegregation? >> well, first, it had to start recruiting on its own and that was part of the president's executive order that federal agencies would no longer be allowed to discriminate based on color. so nasa had to go out and recruit potential black employees, engineers computers, people other than janitors and also all federal contractors and in nasa as it grew that would be a huge group of people. they had to become equal opportunity employers, have anti-discrimination clauses in their federal contracts and so they would also be hiring more and more african-americans to work for space-related projects and programs. katty: so these african-americans get employed by nasa, their life is inside nasa in the deep south fairly desegregated but against what backdrop, richard? >> julius money don'try in th

pharmacies and clinics were raided in arkansas, alabama, louisiana and mississippi. 280 people arrestedkillers. >>> to texas, a retired san antonio police officer was among the 170 bikers arrested after the deadly brawl in waco. he retired in 2004 after 32 years in the force. he's charged with engaging in organized criminal activity. >>> in syria, isis fighters have seized control of palmyra. the historic city is over 3,000 years old, dating back to the time of the ancient greeks. many worry isis fighters may pillage and destroy its ruins, just as they have done to other ancient sites in syria and iraq. >>> you have to check this out. a dog trainer has taught his two border collies some really cool tricks. the dogs can do a number of tracks standing on their hind legs to standing on each other. wow. i'm a human and i can't do that. >> those are smart dogs. >> i like when they're pushing the carriage along. not that we know of. >>> a look ahead, the memorial day tradition, the flags-in ceremony at arlington national cemetery. for more thanks u.s. flags placed on grave sites which now num

the other areas stretch all the way back through southeast texas, parts of louisiana and mississippi, too. damaging winds, maybe a tornado. and we're under a flash flood watch now for another system coming into texas, as if they haven't had enough rain. more rain four five inches plus especially across central texas. and this storm has been so strong with severe weather, it has been pumping up the heat for the northeast. tomorrow even warm earl across the i-95 corridor. temperatures in the 90s80s and near 90 90. >> rob, thank you. we move to the millions digging out tonight from more than a foot of snow. abc's clayton sandell on that part of the story. >> reporter: the bizarre weather mashup began by turning south dakota's black hills white. blizzard-like conditions nearly two feet of snow. and in nvbebraska, 18 inches turned this car into a snow cone. but in dell month, south dakota, a twister four football fields wide brought only this. >> oh the house is gone. >> reporter: dozens of homes now piles of rubble along with the town's spiritual heart, its 125-year-old church. mike feckn

. >> when you talk about flooding altogether, we are talking the accident arkansas, louisiana mississippi as well as into parts of tennessee and that is going to continue at least we think for the next three days. it's a lot of standing water in this area, and this has to move downstream to lower elevations. that could take days, sometimes weeks across that particular area. over the next 72 hours we think we'll see heavy rain toward the northern part of the accident, as well as oklahoma, another five to eight inches of rain expected in that area. if you look down here towards austin towards san antonio this area right there probably seeing lighter rain. that's going to give those areas a little time to let that water recede and not look at an additional flooding threat in that particular region. >> in addition to the destruction is incident republicans of government services closed because of the severe weather. >> mexican officials are responding to a rare, deadly tornado that killed at least 13 people. the twister where he could the border town, destroying houses and upended vehicles an

under the gun tonight will stretch all the way back through, yes, southeast texas, parts of louisiana and mississippi, too. damaging winds, maybe a tornado, some large hail, also. and we're under a flash flood watch now for another system coming into texas, as if they haven't had enough rain. more rain, four, five inches plus, especially across central texas. and this storm has been so strong with severe weather, it has been pumping up the heat for the northeast. tomorrow, even warmer across the i-95 corridor. temperatures in the 80s and near 90. david? >> we know we get the storms when the cold and heat clash. thank you, rob, and let's move right now to the millions not only bracing for tornadoes, but several states are, in fact digging out tonight from more than a foot of snow. abc's clayton sandell on that part of the story. >> reporter: the bizarre weather mashup began by turning south dakota's black hills white. blizzard-like conditions, nearly two feet of snow. they had to plow to play ball in denver. and in nebraska, 18 inches turned this car into a snowcone. but in delmont, south dakota, a tw

not any state, louisiana mississippi, alabama, texas was more than 14 obese. now we're looking at obesity rates higher than 30% in one generation. this one in six that are food insecure, hunger and obesity coexist in the same community and same person. if you will solve a problem, you better know what the problem is. the problem turns out the majority, 61% at least is affordable nutrition it s what we're talking about. getting them fruits, vegetables, dairy and protein compared with empty calories etcetera. i also stole this slide. i was on a panel for partnership of healthy america down in d.c. the gentleman who runs the largest food service group in the united states, called marcon, he had this slide. he's headquarters in northern california bay area. this is exhibit a. what we're talking about. this is a field of lettuce. you know the punchline already. this is after the harvest. what's up here is about to get plowed under. why is it going to be plowed under, what happens is, they go out and measure when is the arch head of lettuce is the right size. why? t

heavy and all it is heading toward new orleans almost the entire state of louisiana affect by this as well as parts of the mississippi as well and this is a tornado watch in effect for southern louisiana as well. so hopefully we will not be hearing about anything destructive to bad but flooding rains are really a problem in the southern part of the country. for us looking at the future cast we will see no rain in the forecast for today it is tomorrow, when we build up with heat and humidity and we may get thunderstorms rolling through six or 7:00 o'clock in the evening on wednesday and possibility of that happening gannon thursday, abe gannon friday. mid 60's for just about everybody right now. 66 degrees in philadelphia. dew points are in the 50's mid to upper 50's, where we're still in the comfortable range right now with our measure of in moisture but once we hit that dew point of 60. it starts to get on the sticky side. so what did we get to yesterday? your memorial day high temperature was 87 degrees, we will beat that today with a high of 89. but we will give you nine out of ten because we don't expect then are

a swath of heavy rain expected to make its way across texas, louisiana, get into mississippi parts of tennessee, arkansas. now, as far as the national forecast for the west coast, nothing like that. in the 70s in los angeles. mild weather. we're going have a few pop-up storms across the rockies and the worst of the weather across the southern plains in texas. i'm meteorologist jeff ray for c cbs dallas. >>> a pressure cooker found in a suspicious vehicle was detonated by the bomb squad as thousands gathered for the memorial day concert in front of the capitol building. officers saw the pressure cooker and smelled gasoline. the area was closed off and the detonation produced a loud bang. >> we heard that yeah. we actually heard -- we thought it was fireworks. we thought, oh, is there going to be fireworks tort? we had no idea. no hazardous things were found. the concert went on as scheduled. >>> this morning there are new questions about the obama's strategy to defeat isis. it was a surprise victory by isis. mark albert is in washington with the details. good morning. >> good morning,

arkansas, alabama, louisiana and mississippi. the investigation was dubbed operation pill.rs say in one case arkansas patients were paying $200 for a prescription without the doctor's exam. >>> muni plans to start a new system for trains to make it easier for passengers. on sunday muni will implement double stopping. that allows two trains to stop at three busy stations. the first stopped train will allow passengers to get on and off, the second allows passengers to get off. >> double stopping is our response to what we have heard from our riders in terms of wanting to be able -- understand why they couldn't get off the train. >> double stopping begins sunday morning. muni plans to have ambassadors to help figure out the system. >>> calling for an end on gay troop leaders. they voted to allow openly gay scouts but that did not apply to leadership. he says he must speak as he did when he was directer of the cia that we must deal with the world as it is not as we wish it to be. if the board lifts the ban troops could still set their own rules for leadership. >>> an emotional

look at the storms raging across louisiana and into mississippi this morning. heavy downpours and severe weather there. not expecting severe weather to our area. the future weather shows the possibility of some heavy downpours for tomorrow. we're talking late-day storms. this is this afternoon. showers staying in central pennsylvania as we go into tonight it stays dry. by tomorrow morning we will start the day dry. we'll start with some sunshine. feel the humidity in the air. look at the rain developing. a possibility of heavy downpours late tomorrow. today, sunny, breezy warm temperatures in the 80s by early this afternoon and topping out closer to 90 later today. seven day forecast coming up in the next half hour. >>> 20 minutes past 4:00 people who wanted to enjoy every last minute of their holiday weekend will finally be heading back home. it was bumper to bumper traffic on the atlantic city expressway. aaa said there would be several people who would travel because of lower gas prices. they saw waves throughout the day. you might get one between 11 and 12

more than 1800 dead in alabama, florida, georgia, louisiana and mississippi.n some cnn reporters could even bear. the reports fill with dismay, grief and eventually anger. >> a powerful hurricane appears to be setting its sights on the central gulf coast. >> the winds are just incredible here in new orleans. we can see the roof of the super dome has been shredded. >> this is the easy side of the storm but it doesn't feel easy here on the banks of the mississippi river. >> it is a strange feeling covering a hurricane, particularly one of this size, got there just as the first rainfall was starting. >> the winds have picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me and i had a crew with me and we were kind of on our own. >> went to like a wal-mart and bought some supplies. >> i was in a wal-mart earlier in the day and they came up and said have you heard of my town. >> and a girl at the wal-mart said have you gone to the central coast and we haven't been in touch with anybody at wave land. >> when i gov to wave land, it was unlike anything i've seen before. bl

seeing over the next couple of days down to the south, a frontal boundary moving through louisiana and mississippilooding across this area. that will be something we watch as well. for tomorrow, rain continues across much of the south-east and as we go to tuesday, we are looking at the severe weather coming back into play as we go into tuesday and thunder storms expected then. >> thank you very much kevin. >> they were classified as an endangered species more than five years ago. victims of oil spills and over fishing, what is done to save the only species of penguin native to africa. and this weekend ireland becomes the first country to hold a referendum on same-sex marriage. a look at the week ahead coming up in the next hour. >>> he skates swims, rides horses and tags wilted tigers did you -- wild tigers did you know russian president can handle a puck. he took to the ice in socially on saturday. making 70 years since the end of world war ii and can you guess how many goals the 62-year-old scored. count them eight goals leading to an 18-6 blow-out victory. luckily he had hep and assistance from

louisiana, prior to the u.s. government, the federal government building levees on the mississippi river, and our coastal region of growing to the tune of three quarters of a square mile per year on average. it was growing in land. when the corps of engineers came in and built levees on our river systems, we immediately went from growing or acreating to losing land. in some years, or in some decades we've lost an average of 16 square miles per year. in other decades we've lost closer to 26 or 28 square miles per year. in 2005, we lost nearly 200 square miles of our coast per year. to put that, to add it all up, the total figure, we've lost 1,900 square miles of our state since the 1930's. to put it in comparison. if the state of rhode island lost 1,900 square mile the state of rhode island wouldn't exist anymore. if the state of delaware lost 1,900 square miles it would consist only of its inland waters. 1,900 square miles is an extraordinary amount of land. to watch this administration come out and say, we're going to propose this new watts of the u.s. definition becausers of the united states are so important to

as well as louisiana and mississippi. it is give-and-take. we have a national system. we are going to create a transportation network that will benefit everybody. the product that montana cattle rancher could beget -- get could be cheaper if a rail system delivers things they may need. they will benefit by having an efficient system and have the country become competitive. they can get their products to market or export products easier when you have an efficient system. not when one in every nine bridges is about to break down. panelist: right now, there are federal taxes for transportation that have not been raised since 1993. gas prices are at their lowest level, cars are more efficient than ever. and the infrastructure that has been built, a lot of it was not intended to last this long. that farmer in montana, or i come from oregon, where there is a lot of agricultural commerce, when the supply chains block up, products go to waste. when the ports are not efficient, products cannot get out to 95% of consumers in the world outside of the u.s. what we are saying is up

more than 1,800 dead in alabama, florida, georgia, louisiana and mississippi.more than some cnn reporters could even bear. their reports filled with dismay, grief and eventually anger. >> a powerful hurricane appears to be setting its sights on the central gulf coast. >> the winds are just incredible here in new orleans. we can see that the roof of the superdome has been shredded. >> this is the easy side of the storm but it doesn't feel very easy here on the banks of the mississippi river. >> it's a very strange feeling covering a hurricane, particularly one that was this size. got there just as the first rainfall was starting. >> the winds have picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on our own. >> yes, as you can see, it's coming apart as we speak. >> went to like a walmart, bought some supplies. i was in a walmart earlier in the day, and people just come up to you in the walmart and say, have you heard about my town? the woman at the walmart said to me, you should go to the gulf coast of mississippi beca

not any state, louisiana mississippi, alabama texas with more than 14% obese.now we're looking at obese integrates higher than 30% in one generation. what happened is that this one in six that are food insecure for the first time in human history hundred and obesity coexist in the same community and same person. if you're going to solve a problem you better know what the problem is. the problem turns out for many of the food insecure, the majority, 61% leased, is affordable nutrition. getting them fruits, vegetables dairy protein compared with empty calories, fast food junk food et cetera. i also stole this slide. i was on a panel for partnership for a healthy america last year down in d.c. and the gentleman who runs the largest cooperative service groups into united states, out of 25 $35 billion business he had this flood. is headquartered in northern cal in the bay area. is to meet is exhibit a that what we're talking about. this is the field of letters. the interesting thing you know the punchline poverty this is after the harvest. this is about to get plowe

they have been concentrating in arkansas alabama louisiana, and mississippi, states that all have large-scale problems with pill mills. these medical centers, pain clinic pharmacies that supply prescription pills to drug addicts. they're not really medical facility according to the dea providing normal medical care normal treatment. these are in effect drug trafficking, the people involved in these organizations. and that's how many are charged now. the operation that began this morning, we saw it started in little rock arkansas, at the -- along with local authorities went into a local medical center arrested an officer, staffers, and an armed secured guard. part of a national epidemic of prescription drug abuse that's balanced by the cd -- been cited by the cdc and white house. they're trying to tackle it. that's what they were trying to do today in a four-state operation. >> mark potter, thanks. we appreciate it. >>> coming up, the latest developments in waco as the first suspects arraigned in the deadly biker brawl. waco police sergeant w. patrick swanton will join me live to talk about th

on the left here is general richard taylor commands the department of alabama, mississippi, and east louisiana. taylor has heard rumors about genia and north carolina and -- virginia and north carolina. the commander of the union department of mississippi is general camby on the right there. it will be the only general who oversees two surrenders. i want to point out a few things on my map. down here is mobile. the union army is going to assault the fort protecting mobile on april 9. the confederates will pull back up to meridian, mississippi. in these towns up here in mississippi and alabama, the confederate army is going to concentrate and the union army is going to concentrate -- capture mobile and move into the interior of alabama towards the capital of montgomery. in late april, having gotten word of what is happening to the east, taylor and camby will start to communicate and will meet between their armies. the meeting happens that the mcgee farm. just like bennett farm and appomattox, a private home. it was near the railroad, that is why they chose it read they -- they chose it. they wi

christie, who is considering a white house run traveled to mississippi and louisiana tuesday to help raise money for republicans. >>> the new attorney general is promising to improve baltimore's police department. loretta lynch sat down with gray's family. she met with congress and community leaders. the meetings come on the second week of the job. after the unrest of gray's death in police custody. >>> a budget vote puts -- they passed by a vote of 51-48. it would cut spending and repeal the health care law. the president will veto the measure. the house adopted it last week. it's set to pass for a balanced budget within a decade. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," now a bank is accused of budgeting customer's account. how you can sue, hop on a ferry and head to kuby. jill wagner has more on that. >> reporter: wells fargo will defend itself against the lawsuit of fraud. unfair business practices. it says bank employees opened unauthorized accounts to meet quotas. customers were charged improper fees and may have had their credit damaged. wells fargo blames it on a few rogue employees that

arkansas, alabama, louisiana, and mississippi. the dea says this is their largest pharmaceutical takedown ever. and they're tracking down on these clinics that look like regular medical clinics but are actually there to service addicts. they do not provide actual medical care according to the agents who sent undercover officers in to confirm what they were saying. they act like doctor on the outside. but inside they're just giving away prescriptions, selling prescriptions, and they're providing these painkilling medicines to people who are not using them for medical purposes but just to satisfy addiction. the operation is called "operation polluted." it's been going on for 15 months. so far they've arrested 140 people in the first 15 months. today they're trying to get 140 more including 33 doctors and pharmacists. and what we're seeing in little rock and the south is actually part of a big national epidemic of prescription drug abuse. 4.5 million americans said to be boozing prescription painkillers -- abusing prescription painki

this is part of that raid in arkansas alabama and louisiana and mississippi. it's the largest pharmaceutical takedown in dea history this afternoon the u.s. attorney in little rock spoke and put all of this in perspective, let's listen to what he had to say. >> this is not a crime problem. public health and community problem. we in law enforcement cannot investigate and punish and prosecute our way out of this problem. this is going to take the concerted effort of health care providers and families and communities and drug treatment facilities and many many others to solve this. >> now officials have all along said that the situation that we see here in little rock and the other areas in this are all part of a national epidemic of prescription drug abuse cited by the cdc and white house. officials say as many as 4.5 million americans are currently abusing painkillers. 16,000 died from it in 2013. that's 44 a day. they are also saying this is tied to the heroin epidemic and people first become hooked on pills and when they can no longer find them they turn to c

enforcement administration raided clinics pharmacies and other sites in arkansas, alabama, louisiana and mississippi part of a nearly year-long operation. >> woodruff: and on wall street stocks struggled to make any headway. the dow jones industrial average lost 27 points to close back below 18,300. the nasdaq gained less than two, and the s&p 500 slipped two. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour: big banks plead guilty for rigging currency rates worldwide. a rare window into osama bin laden's personal life and the al-qaeda network. scientists link the deepwater horizon oil spill to dolphin deaths in the gulf. winners and losers as more robots take over jobs. is there a path to recovery for struggling black colleges and universities? and, female spiritual guides in morocco working to empower women and stop violent extremism. >> woodruff: big banks and their behavior are again at the heart of a new criminal case brought by the department of justice and other authorities today. five major institutions pled guilty to rigging currencies and manipulating the foreign exchange market. the banks also agr

swelling waters overran levees throughout the tennessee river and into the mississippi turning northern louisianao an inland sea. secretary of commerce herbert hoover called the flood the greatest peacetime calamity in the history of the country. the disaster was predictable. the mississippi had flooded before. local authorities attempted to pvide flood control but with uneven efforts. the levee systemis only as strong as its weakest link. the building of dams could have prevented the flood. some legislators wanted to use federal funds. but they faced tough opposition on capitol hill. dams not only control floods but they can be used to generate hydroelectric power. that presented a threat of competition to the private utilities. to justify the expenditure required to build these dams electricity had to be sold. that would be produced by these hydroelectric units which were to be installed in the dams. that feature disturbed people who opposed tva. they thought that was a function the government ought not to engage in. the private utilities were successful in their opposition until 1933 when a ne

. >>> christie who is considering a white house run traveled to mississippi and louisiana tuesday, to help raise money for republicans. >>> the new attorney general is promising to improve baltimore's police department. loretta lynch sat down with the family of freddie gray on tuesday. she met with congress and community leaders. the meetings come on the second week of the job. after last week's unrest over gray's death in police custody. >>> a budget vote puts congress on course for a showdown over obamacare. the senate passed the gop by a vote of 51-48. it would cut spending $5.3 trillion over ten years and repeal the health care law. the president will veto the measure. the house adopted it last week. it's set to pass for a balanced budget within a decade. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," now a bank is accused of embellishing customers i counts. how you can soon hop on a ferry to cuba. jill wagner has more on that. good morning. >> reporter: wells fargo will defend itself against the lawsuit charging fraud. the city of los angeles filed the suit alleging unfair business practices. it s

christie traveled to jackson, mississippi, and baton rouge, louisiana, today. the governor spoke at a mississippi republican party reception today and met with the governor there. he then headed to louisiana for a meet and greet with senator david vitter. christie's first out of state trip since two former allies were indicted for their alleged roles in the traffic scandal. christie's former deputy chief of staff bridget kelly and bill baroni were in court yesterday. wildstein pleaded guilty last week. today, reporters asked the governor what he thinks about the indictments. >> i'm happy to tell anybody everything i know. which i've done with three separate investigations now that have come to the same conclusion that i said the day after this happened. and so i don't have any misgivings about that at all. >> governor christie has not been implicated in that scandal. >>> more breaking news right now. this from philadelphia's fish town section. police have just released this surveillance video right here. the driver of this minivan is wanted for abducting and ass

texas finally on the dry side but over portions of louisiana and into mississippi and also western andal kansas where we have thunderstorms this morning. things over the next couple hours expected to change. flash flood watches and warnings. here are the models and they have done a wonderful job with accuracy. dallas into oklahoma city and east of austin tremendous rainfall developing over this region. a couple of more inches of rainfall not out of the question. a couple of places in texas picking up texas-sized rainfall. a 24-hour total of 12 information. remarkable. oklahoma city 18.7 inches has come down in may. for places like seattle, it would take five months to get that rainfall. and houston, christine, would take five months to get the rains they have seen in 24 days in may. >> thanks pedram. >>> the city of cleveland threatening to erupt. protesters taking to the streets after a police officer acquitted of manslaughter charges in the shooting death of two unarmed suspects. police able to keep the protests mostly peaceful for now. we get more from nick valencia. >> reporter: ch

next day or so, most of the heaviest rain is going to be east of the accident through louisiana alabama or mississippi. therefore, there could be a day off. however, that's just the next day or so. it's possible after that, we'll get showers building again random ones in the west of the accident and the mexican border. >> now still to come on the program, an agreement is reached in nigeria to end fuel shortages. just how long before things go back to normal? >> this serbian far right leader accused of atrocities was allowed to return home. international prosecutors want him back. >> in sport after sacking their coach, who will be the next person to silt in the real madrid hot seat? we'll have details in about 20 minutes. >> the top stories iraq security forces announced the latest operation to take back western anbar province from isil. security forces have come under credittism a the home and abroad. >> kenya's interior ministry said a policeman has been killed and four others injured by al shabab. they claim to have killed 25 police officers in numerous villages near garissa. >> malaysian police are

if you're driving between shreveport and jackson, mississippi, a lot of light nooigning strikes. airport travel is fine. it's louisianarth of houston and back through central mississippi. as luke mentioned, very warm and very humid. we should pop up a few thunderstorms around d.c. south down through the carolinas including the atlanta area. new york boston much of new england, things cooled off dramatically in many areas. areas like new york yesterday were about 85. we're in the same air mass as the south. we're going to be about 67 compared to almost 90 in d.c. if anyone is traveling, you need need -- >> mitt romney like you've never seen him before. we'll tell you what brought him off the sidelines and into the ring. "way too early" is back right after this. being a sailor, and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military

in al bam a louisiana and mississippi part of a 15-month operation by the dea.l foods said the forecast for turkey meat production is for the birds. they told analysts he is skeptical of the industry's ability to hit the goal due to the devastating outbreak of avian flu. guilt tow a misdemeanor charge and will pay $11.2 million to end a federal probe linked to a salmonella outbreak according to a plea agreement. the world's largest disney store opened doors in shanghai today. it is 53,000 square feet and the first disney store in china. shanghai is set to get their own park in the spring of 2016. you are up to date. that's the news update at this hour. back to you, ty. >> gold prices are up just a little tiny bit. some of the others moving in other directions. gold at $1208 an ounce. silver high by about a 30 of a percent. copper is flat down a smidge. up a little bit. about 1/10 of 1%. platinum about a half percent. to the bond market to the guy i spent part of yesterday with. rick santelli is tracking the action. >> the iconic convention, it was great having y