martha? >> martha: all right. we will be watching, matt. thank you very much.ngton takes steps to remove these two monuments, i spoke to people here in louisville who are dealing with statue controversies of their own. watch this. >> my feelings are it's all history. at this time we need to come together as a nation. that is history. we leave history alone. and what i don't understand is now we are going after history where we haven't done it in the past 25 years. but this time in the last seven months we go after history. and i think it's got a lot to do with president trump. >> someone is offended by every different type of statue or whatever, i just think it's crazy. it's just crazy. it's part of our history. it should be looked at that way and not as something bad. >> martha: republican congressman thomas massey has represented kentucky for almost five years and reynolds is president and ceo of the louisville urban league. her organization has been working to remove the confederate monuments from kentucky. welcome to both of you. it's great to be with you h

martha? >> martha: jonathan, thank you very much. so earlier today one of the president's staunchest supporters newt gingrich offered the commander-in-chief this advice for tonight. watch. >> my hope would be that he will side step senators mccain and flake. he's going to need both of them this fall in terms of the agenda. this is not a place to pick a fight. and i hope that he will be more presidential and less confrontational tonight. but, look, he is the president. he gets to do what he wants. >> martha: that is true. david bossie president of citizens united. former deputy trump campaign manager and fox news contributor. he was also rumored to be helping the trump campaign try to find a potential primary challenger to senator jeff flake in arizona. so, he is here tonight. we will ask him about all of that. good evening, david. good to have you here. >> geenkt. thanks for having me. >> martha: we are both not in the 107-degree temperatures in arizona. that makes us more comfortable this evening. newt gingrich says don't go after j

martha maccallum is back on the story right now. >> martha: breaking tonight on the story. tensions rising now as white supremacist and far left antifa groups vow that charlesville, they say was quote just the beginning. good evening, everybody. i'm martha maccallum and at this hour the president is on route to his home just a few blocks away to new york city. we will watch for that arrival that will happen moments from now. we do see, also, that protesters have been gathering over the past couple of hours there we will take you there live in a moment. in the meantime though the chief of police in charlottesville today says that he has deep regrets, of course, about what happened saturday in the senseless loss of life. but he also said this: >> we did have mutually combative individuals in the crowd. we had a number of individuals who chose to remain and cause violence. > >> martha: so that was a sentiment that the president was criticized for. today though he called for the nation to come together and in that statement, he named names. >> to anyone who acted criminally in

martha? >> martha: thank you, john.re now general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and fox news military analyst. general, good to have you here. >> good to be with you, martha. >> martha: an area that you have spent a lot of time in and something have you studied very closely. what do you think of the president's plan from what you have heard so far. >> is he absolutely moving in the right direction here. is he going to commit himself, from what we understand, to stay in afghanistan and is in the american people's vital interest. if we don't do that international terrorist also occupy that space again. they were threaten europe and they will threaten the people of the united states. it is a fact, indisputable that that will happen. and i think that's the reason for this decision. i mean, his instincts after 16 years as many people in america, we don't have much to show for this, why are we going to continue to do it. i think he has asked those hard questions. i would like him tonight to share

martha? >> martha: trace, thank you.ore here tonight lieutenant michael walt green beret commander. and author of eternal -- good to have you here. michael waltz, let me start with you. does it appear that what the white house did here worked? >> well, martha, finally someone stood up to the school yard bully and punched back. and i think what we've seen for decades here is that the north koreans weren't used to that look at the recent op-ed from former national security advisor susan rice who said we need to get used to it. we need to accept that north korea is going to have a nuclear arsenal and be able to hold the region and the united states hostage. so i think that was incredibly effective. but, we cannot get complacent. we cannot rest on our laurels. we have to maintain pressure on china. the north koreans are very good at ratcheting up tensions and then ratcheting them down and staying just below that threshold of war, meantime they are buying time to improve their icbms to get more mobile launchers to go from liq

martha, back to you. >> martha: all right.terms of the wind speed, we are understanding it is now a category 4. steve, thank you very much. we will be back to you in a moment. let's go to rick reichmuth who is taking a look at some of these latest numbers that have just come in. hi, rick. >> rick: new update just out from the national hurricane center a cat 4 storm. so it has increased to a category 4 storm. winds are 130 miles per hour so we have not seen any weakening of this storm. put up weather 8 behind me i will show you a couple things here. a category 4 hurricane right at landfall, a strengthening hurricane right at landfall is not what you want to see a strengthening hurricane actually transports more of the wind down to the surface and dangerous thing. we saw this with hurricane charlie and hurricane wilma. take a look at this imagery right here, martha. we have a new satellite goes-16. first time we have seen a hurricane on it all of the storms around the crerpght of it. 20 miles offshore. the eye wall is going to b

i'm martha maccallum. tonight a look at the increasing influence of online mob rule in politics and in life. the fear that expressing your opinions are not sufficiently wrapping your expressed thoughts in a protective armor of politically correct language. could cause you to be blasted by the online mob and the impact can be orwellian-style scorn if you don't play by the rules. it is this kind of fear that led to the reaction to this post by the aclu. first, they posted this seemingly innocuous picture of a toddler in an aclu t-shirt with the words "this is the america we want." the kid has a t-shirt on that says aclu. this is the america we want. to which this twitter user responded "a white kid with a flag?" the bandwagon was jumped on by scores of people that were horrified and declared the image of that child was a sort of trigger for their emotions. a reminder of the charlottesville neo-nazis. the aclu says these hateful torch holders, that they have the right to march and fired back with a panic. the

"the story" with martha starts now ♪ ♪ ♪ >> martha: it is 7:00 p.m. in new york city and 6:00 p.m.uston, texas. i'm martha maccallum tonight on "the story" the houston convention center now has twice as many people as it planned for over 9,000 people. red cross was ready for 5,000. some of them getting ready to sleep again tonight on cardboard. there are a few reports of women going into labor under obviously difficult circumstances here but everybody is too long the best that they can under these circumstances. we will hear from the mayor of houston live in a moment. he is going to do a news conference and we are ready to take you there as soon as that get underway. meanwhile the pentagon standing by with 30,000 national guard troops to help texas tonight. this as the u.s. record is shattered as one texas town gets more rain than any place in the country has ever gotten before as long as we have recorded such things. 52 inches of rain and it is still coming. so this good news comes as ordinary people become heroes every hour as they reach out and they help their neighbors in need.

a special report online begins in seconds. >> martha: good evening. i'm martha maccallum. good news tonight. a strong gdp report and tax reform that is in the report and we'll get to the big stories today. the fact of the matter is that the water is still rising. people are still tonight being rescued in the state of texas. >> we're flooded across the state. we have water five, six feet deep in some places. we have about 20,000 homes and i would estimate about 20,000 homes have water in them. >> martha: unreal numbers. port arthur and beaumont, look at this. in the middle of a tragic loss. look at these people in a shelter. the president was in missouri, as you know, and this is what he said today. >> i have seen the resilience of the american spirit firsthand all over this country. to the people of houston and across texas and louisiana, we're here with you today. we're with you tomorrow and we will be with you every single day after to restore, recover and rebuild. >> martha: some of the most red stories online today are still about the first lady's shoes. or what a desi

martha? >> martha: thank you very much. karl rove, former deputy chief of staff, and bill bennett, both are fox news contributor's. welcome to the both of you. good to have you here tonight. before i let you know, i want to ask karl what's going on in houston, it's obviously near and dear to his entire situation. we will get to that in just a moment. in terms of this news dump, karl, your thoughts in the way that was handled from the white house? >> look, this has become an art form perfected by president obama of taking news and dumping it out on friday night so it gets less coverage. i don't know whether this was intentional or not, but the effect is to take 2-3 very controversial stories and dump them out late in the afternoon or early on friday. when you've got a big news story that's dominating it, we are spending more time than we should talking about harvey and less time talking about sheriff arpaio or the transgender reversal at the military and so forth. whether it was intentional or not, it served the purpose of h

i am martha maccallum.he hardest hit county in texas now says that it's more than rate reaching capacity. 38 deaths reported statewide and it's not over yet. 25 miles outside of houston, fires or breaking out and containers exploding, releasing choking black smoke at a chemical plant. more than a dozen police officers rushed to the hospital and people ordered to evacuate for nearly 2 miles in all directions at crosby. we'll take you there later. at beaumont, texas, the city's water supply knocked out, forcing the evacuation of a local hospital and you see the good people attending to those who need them and in houston, firefighters starting a long and difficult road of door-to-door, block by block home searches. reports come in like this one. children begging for help, dozens of foster children and one home with one day left of drinking water. these stories pile up and they continue to come in with no sign of letting up tonight. here is the vice president and the governor, greg abbott, of texas, just moment

martha. >> martha: trace, thank you very much. breitbart news london editor in chief, the author of "no-go zone." how sharia law is coming to you. welcome back to the program. you look here at these pictures coming in to hear about the thousands of people coming across to the basically low-hanging fruit to countries that are right across from the middle east and northern africa, the easiest places to get to. a combination of tragedy and desperation for so many families, but also some percentage of danger presented here. >> yes, absolutely pretty incredible if you look at the number of people suffering from the results of the human traffic themselves. and the little boats that they put them on in the sea. many dying and suffering as a result of that train and people, coming from turkey and parts of north africa as well. you would think that we would have some semblance of introspection over this. maybe we do not allow the boats to come over. maybe we do not start rescuing people who have been human traffic there, bringing them into

>> martha: yeah.he safety is in jeopardy, is because the police, as we say, have in some situations held back a little bit. we have reports of that in charlottesville. they don't want to be on the wrong side of some of these confrontations. we have seen what happened in some of these cases that led to so much violence in recent situations. in terms of the slippery slope argument, the statues and the monuments, gettysburg said they won't be removing anything. demonstratorses are planned for september 11 and other dates where there will be demonstrations outside of these. a, you know, should they allow those to go forward? >> well, i believe, as you know i believe in a very robust view of free speech. those people have a right to speak if they have a permit. the police have to do the best they can to keep these crowds apart. you can't have a veto for groups that are going to be controversial. we don't need the first amendment to take care of popular speech. >> martha: what about the pastor in chicago wh

moves up the ranks and becomes martha washington's top slave.the moment they decide to bring slaves to new york, they choose seven people, seven enslaved men and women, ona was one of them. that begins the trip to the north. >> it's just getting good now. >> this is a good one. >> she arrives in new york in 1989 and the first time she's out of the slaves's house but it's a place where slavery still exists but so does black freedom and their stay in new york is brief. the nation's capital moves to philadelphia in 1790 and she spen spends the next six years in philadelphia which was the epicenter of freedom at that moment in time. no other place had as many free black people in the city and she watched this. here she is as an enslaved person. she sees this. she witnesses it. at this moment where she's coming of age, so no matter what the washingtons try to do and they are very thoughtful and careful about keeping their enslaved people enslaved people and in philadelphia that becomes tricky. george and martha washington have to figure out how to wo

. >> martha: i am martha maccallum. we already know some of what we are about to hear. basic outline calls for 4,000 additional u.s. troops in afghanistan. the president also is expected to ask india and pakistan to shoulder more of the load in this terror fight. the president says he will not hold pakistan more accountable for the long-standing support of the taliban. let's check in quickly with the chief white house correspondent john roberts who is on the scene there in fort meyer. good evening, john. >> good evening, looking at the way things are shaping up here, as we wait for the president, it looks like it is l going to lauh a new era of an integrated regional policy, according to the state department. rex tillerson talk with the prime minister of pakistan, as well as the foreign ministers of afghanistan and india to talk about how the countries could work together on a broader regional strategy. the troops are going to be a piece of this. you talk about pakistan, trying to bring that taliban back to the table, because the attacks with qatar and the taliban incid

to martha, martha said she didn't want anymore children. she was going to have a baby and was hoping this was the last one, and she had four more after that. that's the way. so with jefferson, again, not having his own first lady, a person that could actually serve that role, it was friends and his daughter's friends who -- his daughter and their friends who tried to step in and to be helpful to him. but they were pretty close. madison came, james and dolly came to monticello quite a bit and martha was always there. they grew to be close. she didn't have her mother from the time she was, you know, 12 years old, and so dolly was somebody who she, you know, bonded with. >> yeah. who -- >> sometimes you can have a great family, to take someone -- you know, ivanka in some ways has shades of anna roosevelt in that -- in that she is going to have somewhat of an official role it seems, but she also has shades of alice roosevelt, teddy roosevelt's daughter, because there's also a celebrity. alliss w alice was a character. she said, if you don't hav

they were pretty close. >> martha was always there. they grew to be close. she didn't have her mother from the time she was 12 years old. so dolly was somebody who she, you know, bonded with. >> yeah. >> some times you can have a safe family feud. ivanka has shades of anna roosevelt in that she'll have some what of an official role. she also has shades because there's also that celebrity. >> she seems a bit better behaved. >> she would say if you don't have anything good to say come sit next to me. >> and roosevelt says that. >> and she would literally put an attack under the cushion of a dignitary and watch them sit and blow up. she jumped into a pool when she was on a cruise and met her second husband that way. >> she is the hand picked successor they discovered in the white house a little voodoo doll. >> let me start with you. was sally hemmings ever freed from slavery? >> she was informally freed. she moved in after jefferson died. if he had freed her a couple of things. she was over 45. she was at this point 53 years old. if you freed them you have to p

martha, thank you. i want to bring in retired marine colonel, stephen ganyard, and you heard that u.s. intelligence believes the north koreans have produced a miniature nuclear warhead that can actually fit inside that missile. that was the concern, was it not? and if so, what's the defense? >> it was, david. because miniaturizing the weapon was arguably the hardest part of the nuclear capability. look at this. this is what's called a ground base interceptor. if u.s. radars were able to detect a north korean launch, missiles would be launched from alaska and california, fly up into outer space. they would be able to tell the difference between a decoy warhead and the warhead itself, they would intercept it like a bullet on bullet, and prevent that nuclear warhead from hitting the united states. >> that is certainly the hope of how it would play out. colonel ganyard, let me ask you this, too. the president's words promising fire and fury like the world has never seen. afterward, kellyanne conway saying t

but where martha meets commissioner neat and clean becomes filthy and disgusting. piles of trash some of it dumped illegally by outsiders cover the street corner virtually full time. joey's family lives right next door to the mess. they e mailed me with a plea to come out and take look. >> everybody just dumps you know what i mean? just people dump their stuff here. it gets cleaned very rarely unless we do it. >> reporter: this was my lucky day. on our way to the 3,000 block of martha just a couple every blocks away we noticed a city waste crew they call it the complaint truck. weighing through used condoms and other garbage to clear this stretch of side street. martha and commissioner was not on their friday to do list so i asked a little favor. >> is it possible you guys can swing by and get that. >> they were happy to oblige and just five minutes later, they were hard at work cutting that mountain of mess down to size. while they work, i talked to neighbors about the running battle to keep their block cle clean. scavengers who tear into diss cared trash bags in

abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz, with president trump's entire statement on camera. his warning to north korea. >> reporter: it is the most fiery, overtly military threat president trump has ever launched at north korea, a chilling warning in response kim jong-un's threats to the u.s. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening, beyond a normal standard, and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power. the likes of which this world has never seen. >> reporter: this dramatic escalation of rhetoric, all the more alarming given the latest extraordinary intelligence assessments of north korea's nuclear capabilities. first reported in "the washington post," and confirmed by abc news, u.s. intelligence analysts believe the north can now produce a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles including its intercontinental missiles. kim jong-un's claim that he was standing next to such a nuclear device last march

martha, thank you. >>> next here this evening to that developing headline at this hour. the president set to address the nation just a short time tr now. will he send more american troops to afghanistan? abc's senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega, is in ft. myer in virginia tonight. >> reporter: tonight, president trump hoping to turn the page after one of the worst weeks of his presidency. in a primetime address to the nation, the president is expected to announce his decision to send more troops to afghanistan, following the advice of his generals who argue, the only way to ultimately beat back the taliban and isis, is with more american boots on the ground. >> it's a very big decision for me. i took over a mess, and we're going to make it a lot less messy. >> reporter: the move would mark a major reversal for mr. trump. here he was in 2012 -- >> afghanistan is a total and complete disaster. what are we doing? let's get with it. get out of afghanistan. >> reporter: the following year tweeting -- "we have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in afgh

martha raddatz tonight. martha, thank you. >>> next this evening, a tornado watch across several states here in the northeast right now. already severe storms moving from kentucky all the way up through maine. 20 million americans in the zone. a flash flood emergency in the kansas city area. a family of seven right there, and their pets trapped on their roof. the path of that possible tornado threat right now from ginger in a moment, but first, alex perez from the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, the deadly flash flood emergency, trapping families in their homes in part of the kansas city metro area getting up to 10 inches of torrential rain. >> we need you to evacuate the area immediately. >> reporter: more than 160 water rescues, one man caught in high water losing his life. >> rushing water is a whole other animal, and it can move a great deal of weight with its force and can literally sweep those cars off the road very quickly. >> reporter: firefighters using their ladder truck to save a woman clinging

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martha raddatz was talking saying the u.s. remains at the ready. >> we have the capability to defend them against the attack that north korea is capable of delivering today. >> let's bring in martha raddatz from seoul, and that language would make it appear they have backed down at least for now, but the pentagon knows they are still a major threat. >> reporter: yes, david. it does appear kim jong-un blinked and backed away in what could have resulted in a major military conflict, but this does not in any way end the threat from this volatile dick tater. we know intelligence believes he is trying to perfect a nuclear weapon against the u.s., and military ongss mustry main on the table, david. >> reporting in from soule again tonight, thank you, martha. >>> back at home to the invisible danger. nearly a dozen people hospitalized by dangerous levels to carbon monoxide. police and neighbors overcome after rushing inside to help, and here's abc's mara schiavocam schiavocampo. >> rep inside this new jersey home, poisoned by a carbo

there are really no good options here. >> martha raddatz with us live from washington. thank you. >>> tonight, the controversial former arizona sheriff, joe arpaio has been found guilty of criminal contempt. arpaio, who called himself america's toughest sheriff has now been convicted for conducting immigration sweeps for 17 months after a federal judge ordered him to stop. arpaio served as the county sheriff for 24 years before losing the election last november. >>> next here this evening, we celebrate the life of sam shepard, the pulitzer prize winning playwright, and the oscar-nominated actor. proving over and over again he had the right stuff. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: like the rugged characters he created on stage and on screen, sam shepard had hidden depths. his test file in chuck jager in "the right stuff," he was the unsung hero. a cowboy aviator proudly going his own way, and he was nominated for an oscar. >> spam in a can. >> reporter: he had leading man looks and the soul of a poet. he won a pulitzer prize as a playwright for "barry child," and w

. >>> abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz with us on this breaking development. this new threat from north korea, and martha, you have been talking to your sources at the pentagon. a lot of americans watching this unfold want to know how unlikely is it. will we see military conflict here? >> reporter: president trump's statement was a surprise to many. it is important to say war is the last thing anyone at the pentagon wants to see happen, but pacific command has been doing updated war planning and they are certainly focusing on defensive measures as well, but if those tough sanctions imposed on north korea do not work, if kim jong-un continues to make progress on a nuclear tipped missile, a senior official told me in 6 to 12 months, the decide whether some sort of pre-emptive strike or some other measure should be undertaken to stop kim, david. >> martha raddatz following the breaking developments as well. martha, thank you. >>> the other major headline developing at this hour involves the russia investigation tonight, and the raid before dawn at the home of one

happen. >> reporter: in a statement president trump saying only "all options are on the table." >> martha raddatz joins us from washington, and martha, the president recently threatened to respond to new provocations from kim jong-un with fire and fury. just last week, he said he believed the north korean leader was starting to respect us, but it doesn't appear that way anymore. >> reporter: it sure doesn't, tom. that statement about respect was clearly premature. you see kim right there watching the launch. president trump has spoken with japan's prime minister and both agreed they need to increase pressure on north korea, but it is unclear what kind of pressure, and impossible to predict what kim will do, tom. >> martha raddatz for us tonight, thank you. >>> there is much mir hi add on this special edition of "world news tonight" this tuesday. the popular megachurch in the storm zone. critics asking why it took so long to let victims in, and the pastor spopd bing tonight, and the chemical complex now underwater. one of the launchest in the country. >>> and the husband and his pregnant w

okay, martha, what else would you add? after the 90 min usutes, assusu. >> i don't think we have to slow what failure dred scott was. and for a long time it was called the secret opinion. he writes a second dred scott decision hoping that another case will come and that he can clarify his position and that he can make good. now the case might not have given us a civil war but it required a constitutional revolution. it set in place this bar against free black citizenship that had to be resolved by this nation. and it was the civil war that gives us the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. but whatever the course of history might have been, that revolution was necessary for the nation to go forward. >> that's it for discussion on dred scott. thanks to both of you for being here. and thanks to you at home for your questions and watching us tonight. we will be back next week with the third in our landmark cases. ♪ ♪ >>> landmark cases returns february on c-span. join us for more on the people who sparked ground breaking cases and

here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz. >> reporter: already coping with the crisis at home, president trump is now confronting one on the world stage. >> what are you going to do about north korea? >> we'll see, we'll see. >> reporter: kim jong-un launching an intermediate range missile, soaring 1,600 miles, crossing above the japanese island of hokkaido, before crashing into the sea. the first time kim jong-un has made such a provocative move over japanese territory. si in japan, high alert. sirens blaring. people receiving text messages telling them to seek shelter. >> no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in japan. so i think something serious has to happen. >> reporter: in a statement president trump saying only, "all options are on the table." >> martha raddatz joins us from washington, and martha, the president recently threatened to respond to new provocations from kim jong-un with fire and fury. just last week, he said he believed the north korean leader was starting to respect us, but it doesn't appear that wa

we always put out those advisories and never launch near flight paths or sea lanes, david. >> martha raddatz in washington. martha, thank you. >>> tonight, that new russia sanctions bill passed after bipartisan support in congress, sitting on the president's desk waiting for a signature. vice president pence in the former soviet republic of georgia today where the u.s. is holding joint military exercises, saying the president will likely sign the new law this week. but then secretary of state rex tillerson also weighing in today saying he and the president are not happy about the sanctions saying they are an impediment to improving relations with moscow. >>> next to an explosive new lawsuit against fox news alleging links between the white house and a false story about a murdered democratic staffer and leaked e-mails. did the president know the story was coming on fox? it outraged the family and was retracted by fox news. here's abc's chief national correspondent, tom llamas, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a new lawsuit with a bombshell accusation, the white house worked with fox new

but at this corner where martha meets commissioner, things get ugly.t. homeowner e-mailed me to come out and take a a look at the mess this pile has been growing for days but it's just the latest to be foul the block. joey's family lives right next door. >> people even throw out dead animals. put them in bags and just dump them off, and it wreaks, i mean, it's terrible. >> reporter: sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. just two blocks away we happened to notice a city waste crew. they call it the complaint truck, wading through used condoms and other garbage to clear this stretch of side street. martha and commissioner was not on their list so i asked for quick favor. >> any chance you guys can swing by there and get that cleaned up? >> reporter: they were kind of enough to oblige and five minutes later they were hard at work making a mole hill out of this mountain. while they work i talked to neighbors tired of fighting a losing battle against trash. some of it tossed illegally by outsiders. the scavagers. >> on garbage day, refuse day, you'll

so, martha generates this traffic that goes to the headquarters. so she's trying to save their marriage by signing him up for the oss. i think he never knew. i don't think he ever knew what martha had done. yes, right there. >> [inaudible] >> okay. i am a humbled historian. there's a lot of stuff out there by people that are smarter than the on medical issues. his articles on traumatic brain injury and depression. this partial release of his files at the mayo clinic at least unofficial release. he had electroshock therapy. my argument is all of these pressures built up. so there's the history of depression, the family, there's the physical. he banged his head repeatedly on accident. i wonder if this is not his fault. he's just at the wrong place at the wrong time. i can think right at the top of my head for major blows to the head. they seemed to be collapsing and on top of that there is a strain paranoid thinking. they have done far less in the state department and were not soviet agents and communist agents of any kind. they are likely to win, an

martha and commissioner was not on their list.i asked for a quick favor. >> any chance you guys can swing by there and get that cleaned up? >> reporter: they were kind enough to oblige and five minutes later, they were hard at work making a mole hill out of this mountain. while they worked, i talked to neighbors tired of fighting a losing battle against trash. some of it tossed illegally by outsiders. the satisfy injuries. on garbage day refuse day you'll have waves of people coming by and pick up trucks and vans and whatever and they'll just rip over the bags looking for a couple cans. >> reporter: and there are the heroin addicts driven through this block by the cleanup of the the conrail tracks not far away. >> every morning you're coming out and i'm cleaning up at least 20 of them up. >> reporter: drug needles good drug needles. >> reporter: inside of 15 minutes the corner was clean and waste crew was on their way. folks on martha street appreciated our help, but are under no illusion that the problem is fully solved. remember

martha, we know that the secretary of defense was considering about 4,000 additional troops. any new indication tonight of a hereible number we're looking at >> reporter: secretaryattis said today there's a number he has authorized to go up to, but wouldn't say what that is. but the top commander for the region said today, you could see additional troops heading into afghanistan within days or wer weeks. thank you. >>> next this evening, a tornado watch across several states here in the northeast right now. already severe storms moving from kentucky all the way up through ma 20 million americans in the zone. a flash flood emergency in the kansas city area. a family of seven right there, and their pets trapped on their roof path of that possible tornado threat right now from ginger in a moment, but first, alex perez from the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, the powerful storm system on the move, now threatening millions in the northeast. already a deadly flash flood emergency in the midwest, families trapped in their homes. tonight, the deadly flash flood emergency trapping f