nicole mitchell is here. tell us what's going on. >> of course that meet adding to drought conditions in places like the southwest where we're also issuing excessive heat warnings in arizona. we're closely watching this boundary from the mid central section all the way up the east coast, causing areas of rain and severe weather. now we've kind of focused on the severe, but still heavy rain in places like new york and down intoners this morning, dealing with that. more of this will be in the mornings and tapering off, but a stronger cluster of thunderstorms, wind and hail the primary threat with all of this. with that, we still have areas even of severe. i want to mention we're just monitoring this, but an area in the gulf of mexico, they might check out later today to see if anything's developing. back to you. >> nicole mitchell, thanks so much. officials in delaware think they know what may be causing serious structural problem on a bridge. the span was shut down monday after the support pillars were tilting

let's bring in nicole mitchell. the good thing is we're going to actually be off anyway when the game plays, so we don't have to call in sick. >> i was thinking what are we doing wrong. i'm pretty sure he just gave us all permission to have the day off. >> i think he did. >> we do have this heavy rain in texas, louisiana and more through the midwest, so a couple of places we're going to have problems with heavy participation. we've seen some of it. this is for the next couple of days. scenes out of texas, we have had that heavy flooding. you have the moisture coming up from the gulf of mexico and it's going to continue with that pattern leading to more scenes like these. as i said, kind of that corridor from texas, louisiana but along the gulf coast in general, we could see this as we head into the weekend. on the northern side, this is again over the course of three days, so you look at places like the dakotas into minnesota and a little bit for iowa, those are places where we were already inundated earlier in the

first a look at temperatures across the nation today, meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. nicole. >> good morning, they definitely had warm stuff already today. as we start off, houston 76, northern tear of the country is the dividing line with the system going through causing the severe weather. slightly cooler in the northeast, the rain moves out, starts to rebound into the upper 70's. hot stuff through the south, including the heatwave into the southwest, so these heat advisories have expanded parts of california to texas with a lot of these temperatures running in the hundreds, like that one for el paso today. starting the weekend, still a lot of place comfortable. even on the warm side, chicago, 82 degrees is what we're expecting into tomorrow. >> another toasty day in the southwest then. >> delaware officials are inspecting every major bridge in the state. they want to make sure no other bridges have the same problem as the i-495 bridge. that span was closed earlier this week because its supporting columns tilting, the governor set aside $2 million for repairs. more

meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. nicole. >> still sultry, from the south up through the mid atlantic, that high humidity. cooler behind the front, minneapolis a little more on the comfortable side versus 95 in houston with the humidity and then the heat continues all the way through the southwest, a little cooler by the time we get to the california coastline. impressive temperatures in dallas at 90, el paso at 100. definitely a brisk day. friday, a little bit cooler in chicago. that will be a nice break. >> iraq's future face ago new threat follow isil which has gained control of major cities. the rise of the leader and how it shaped the group's tactics. >> eric cantor primary loss sending shack waivers around capitol hill. some argue the defeat could result in a serious road block to immigration reform. >> discussing the battle between lawmakers looking to overturn a mandate for healthier school lunches. >> a look at our images of the day in young children in cambodia, scavenging a landfill for scrap supplies. these

nicole mitchell is back. >> we made it to friday, headed into the weekend. people worry about how things are going to shape up. we've had the boundary through the midsection whic of the coun. the focal point into the midwest is areas of heavy rain. this has been moving through the great lakes today, getting a break in minnesota and iowa with flood risks from yesterday. just south of the great lakes will be our heaviest area of rain and more into the mid atlantic getting into tomorrow. >> the first day of summer. >> yes! >> yes! nicole, thank you very much. >> attacks by fighters in nigeria is forcing stringent border controls. illegal immigration won't be easy to stop while the government fights boko haram. >> there are dozens of border crossings across the porous border. anyery jen officials have been busy following arise in attacks by boko haram. 900 illegal immigrants have been arrested or repatrioted from here. >> the immigration service here will help to apprehend migrants who across illegally. many are fighters and how many traffickers, but still the w

. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell with a look at wet weather ahead. we've been seeing some of that already. >> i just got back from mississippi, just missed the area of 18 coming back from some military duty. >> we have one area in the central united states and another that's moving toward the east coast and along the coastline through the gulf, so watch out for this. you don't want to drive in it. it only takes a foot or two of rain which comes up quickly to move the car away. >> we have not only a system developing in the midsection of the country, but all that wet weather is a mentioned, really the eastern third of the country is pretty unsettled right now. some of the heaviest stuff this morning is with that front that is moving along the gulf coast where we have thunderstorms we've been dealing with in places like now starting to furnish into the florida panhandle dealing with that. some of the heaviest stuff off the coastline, so a lot of the boating that goes on out here and fishing, it's going to be a are you ever day to try to get any of that

nicole mitchell is here. what do you think, a beach day anywhere? >> it depends where you are. you might be rethinking that beach day at this point in time, places like california, sunshine, a lovely beach day. not as great into the northeast, especially into the day tomorrow. we've got a system moving into the great lakes is where we're seeing heavier rain. still a lot of flood concerns along rivers as that mainly is saturating the rivers as it moves downstream. what we'll see as this front moves along, a slight chance for severe risk, but a widespread green area that we can see the thunderstorms. you can see the flow in from the gulf of mexico. over the next couple of days, significant rain, great lakes today, northeast tomorrow, it is going to be a soggy beach go. >> have you ever dived for sharks? >> i have. >> on to another animal. donkeys going digital, herdsmen going to the field armed with 21 century technology, donkeys carrying solar panels, generating electricity to use lap tops and get the latest updates on weather. a solar pack can also charge cell phones. >> no com

you have to deal with the rain. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. a vanishing portrait of leonardo da vinci could be saved by science. >>> the artwork was drawn with red chalk on paper and has been fading for 500 years. as jacob ward reports, researchers can pinpoint how much longer it may survive. >> reporter: this is the legion of honour, containing a conservation lab for paper art. it's a great way of understanding the process of making art. beginning in the 14th century artists used paper to plan out and thinking about their work, their sculptures or paintings before executing them. leon arto da vipsy is an agreed -- vincy is a great example. paper was great stuff. more recent made out of wood pulp. back then it was made mostly out of linen rags, meaning it lasted a long time. as you know, paper eventually yellows and that process is caused by atoms within paper, ab sort offing blue light, and the more yellow light it reflects. the work in question is a great self-portrait by da vinci. i'll draw a self-portrait of myself - ready. i can't do that

. >> as always, we turn to nicole mitchell for that. >> it's a slow-mover, getting plenty of chances to dump a lot of rain. the midwest, where this has moved through, all of these dots are different places, rivers in flood stages. we're getting into flood stages of 14 feet on the mississippi river, parts of downtown twin cities were over 20 feet. as all the water pours in from other tributaries, we have concerns there today. the areas in green are different flood areas extending to the south. with that line, now some of that heaviest rain in places like texas, we've been getting that. we are having flood concerns in north texas. this is actually, you don't want to see this, the wind and rain with the thunderstorms coming down. north and west texas are the places we have had extreme drought recently, so some of beneficial. as we get to the broad picture, the texas part with that perfect has moist flow along the frontal boundary. this will be moving through the northeast today, the core of our heaviest strength. we have had places like indiana yesterday, we had one report, we had four

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell for a look at what other weather hit the country. you warned us about this. >> yesterday we said was a moderated risk, we knew we were going to see some of this. you can see damage coming in. hail smashing through windows in states such as nebraska and missouri. we also had high, damaging winds. you're still going to see a lot of debris this morning and siding definitely messed up. there's some of that hail as it went along. fortunately, isolated tornado reports, reports overall through the course of the day, look at this. there were over 400 different reports. most of that was damaging wind and hail. as i said, the tornado reports i saw a lot of that around nebraska. some roof damage, siding damage, right now, not reports of great damage with tornadoes, so it maybe wasn't a big tornado day but big in other types of severe weather. with that, it also left all of that heavy rain. the areas you see in green, even though some of this rain moved off are places you still might see areas of collected water and flooding. you need to be care

. >> meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. nicole. >> good morning.s we get into the heat of the summer, what can really aggravate high temperatures and all the sunlight, some of those pollution days. that's something that unfortunately we have ahead of us. already very warm, in the south already in the 70's. phoenix 86 already. arizona, where you see those fuchsia colors are heat advisories. we're above average on the numbers of children dying in hot cars, not a statistic we even want to have to report. be very careful out there. because of the heat, we have fire conditions possible, the heat and wind through the southwest. phoenix very warm into the hundreds the next few days. more heat has been creeping eastward. how to, even portions of texas near 110 degrees for el paso for today, so a lot of very hot weather. much more comfortable in other places. up and down the east coast, we've got the temperatures in the 80's and for northern portions of the midwest, more 70's out there. the heat in the midwest will contribute to possible severe weather thro

. >> meteorologist nicole mitchell is here with that. >> definitely cooler air. a few more 50's this morning, that's that front going through. now cooler air really isn't too bad. it means you can leave the windows overnight, anywhere from chicago to omaha. you can see that kind of 5-15-degree cooldown from yesterday, but that's also bringing in drier air for this eveningen. after all, the humidity that will be a little bit of a nice change very warm in the northwest. we'll talk more about that coming up. >> the race to replace outgoing house majority leader eric cantor. >> the list is narrowed to a couple of congressman and there is one front runner. some worry he may not be conservative enough for the job. >> we the jury find o.j. simpson not guilty of the crime of murder. >> the case rivetted the public 20 years ago. how that case changed the way the legal system works today. >> turning ocean trash into treasure. what some women in africa are doing with discarded flip-flops washing up on beaches. >> the c.e.o. who's actually encouraging people to steal his com

. >> we want to turn to our meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> it wasn't just the united states we were watching that wet weather very closely yesterday, because prior to the big u.s. soccer tournament, we were watching that very closely. there was heavy amounts of rain and that didn't keep people from reveling out here. singing in the rain. there's singing in the rain with people getting ready for the matches, but it's a very large country. if you're familiar with brazil, it's just smaller than united states, so there's going to be rain at some point especially with matches all over the place. what we're looking at today is the northern tier of the country looking at rain, including the host city, some of those chances out there. back to the united states. we definitely had the wet weather through the midwest. unfortunately, even though a lot of rivers have crested, there is more rain on the way for the weekend. the moist flow in the gulf coast is one of our problems over the next couple of days. iowa and nebraska and up through the dakotas is what we're watching. it's been minnesota i

. >> nicole mitchell thank you. >>> a super drug has been fast-tracked after two successful clinical trials, have eight delivered intravenously and can combat skin and other infections. one in 25 patients will get antibiotic resistant infections like mrsa. for than 200 die from them every day. >>> in syria they have started to count votes in the presidential election. the only surprise may be the armour of victory. voting was extended to handle an influx. the polls are called a sherate. with millions unwilling to vote. nick, what are you hearing about what is happening in syria in light of the elections. >> have eight calm now in syria. they are counting the ballots, so we are waiting for the results, which may come as early as today. there'll be no no industries. bath is expected to win. the only question and what margin, have eight a forum for a celebration of the rule. half the country was bombed. the other were forced to vote. that's what the opposition is having to deal with, liking the wounds, knowing that bashar al-assad will stay and use the election as a reason for excuse to

. >>> and from erica we turn now to our meteorologist nicole mitchell. nicole, this has been a disturbing season already, not over yet. >> meteorologist: of course, you know, the height of the season is april and may. and things traveled northward as you get more in the summer because of the contrast in the season so it starts farther in the southern plains early and then the risk for severe weather elevates as we get farther in to the month of june, for example. here is some of the damage from yesterday, but this only goes back a little over 12 hours, doesn't capture all of it, but at the core of what we had, you can see by the dots, nebraska, right along the minnesota, iowa border was one of the places. what was so impressive about those twin tornadoes, that is rare as was, but you could see that they were both large and intense at the same time, usually one kind of over takes the other. kind of sucks energy away from the other. so one will get bigger as one gets smaller, that eventually happened but they were both large and intense at the same time fo

. >> and here with that forecast is our metrologist nicole mitchell, i meant to say our outstanding metrologiste the adjectives and thank you so much. heading out this morning kind of an outstanding forecast that will change later in the day, not too active and you see showers moving through the great lakes so chances in the east coast but later in the day everything is really going to come together so all the areas in green are chances for thunderstorms. today so far this week and for really the last week or so are most significant chance for severe weather and places along interstate 80 and iowa. watch for that and this is brewing and chances for heavy rain and flood watches and warnings are up through the course of today and back to you guys. >> nicole mitchell thank you so much. a sand storm in iran killed four people and left tens of thousands without electricity in their homes. the capitol city of tehran was plunged in darkness in rush hour and the storm had winds 70 miles per hour and forcing residents to seek cover and knocked down trees and swept debris across the streets and forecaste

. >> meteorologist nicole mitchell is here with all of that. good morning. >> good morning. it's still that boundary we've been talking about for a couple of days. you can pick this out anywhere from the dakotas stretching south toward the great lake and midwest region. all along that as that has been oscillating back and forth it is producing severe weather. you can see the core in south dakota, almost 30 reports of tornadoes, at least one with a multiple vortice again. it's hard to put it down depending where that front decide to say lay for the course of the day. with another system pushing out of the rockies along that corridor, that could be another firing line for us and then all the way to the mid atlantic, possibly there, too with the other boundary we've been seeing. heavy rain associated with this in the same places that we've already had it. numerous places under flood concerns and over just the next 24 hours, we could see one to three inches right around iowa, but the next couple of days, that's still going to be a big problem for us. back to you. >> we are not o

. >> let's go to nicole mitchell. >> we've had this stationery boundary. with that stuck, we are seeing severe weather over and over again in similar areas, as well as rain falling in similar areas. both the severe weather and flooding risk because of that. this is stretched across the northern tear of the country, far enough northward that we had tornado reports into ontario yesterday into canada. one of the cities reported about 30 different solid structures damaged, a number of injuries. this has been a pretty dramatic couple of days, not just here in the united states but now into canada, as well. back to that broad picture, you can see the storms we've had, even into the overnight hours, warnings up for wind and hail. you can see that line of storms that we've been dealing with, still this morning. a heavy band for example pushing into wisconsin right now, and some severe thunderstorm warnings into parts of south dakota, as well as a number of watches both for thunderstorms and for the flooding concerns. that moist flow again today, the boundary oscil

and nicole mitchell joins us now and we are in that season and they are bracing all around the midwest meteorologist: yes, as we go from spring more than to the zone plains busouthern plains bk tends to switch north. the risk is more northerly in to the united states. you have to watch everywhere, but this is what we are looking at. the yellows is the elevated slight risk area for the today. the rest of the greens is thunderstorms. but some of this with the frontal boundaries through the area is the same area as yesterday. around the great lakes, spotty in to the northeast but it's this core of the northern midwest and the central plains where we could see some of the moisture once against today. that's also our best chance for areas of heavy rain, iowa in to wisconsin. also want to mention a lot of heat south of that bounce are you contributing. look at the four corners regis how widespread the fire risk is here because of the heat here, places like phoenix 103 degrees. more comfortable north of the boundary at least more comfort my effort nation, billings at 66. but for the east coas

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nicole mitchell is back. >> midsection of the country is definitely where we'll see activity.ou can see some of that on this broad satellite. we're looking at the atlantic. really, this time of year, june 1 is when we start our atlantic hurricane season. we have a little activity we're watching, kind of this boundary that cuts across central america. slight chance that we would have development, kind of here around the peninsula, but at better chance on a pacific side that that could develop up. that's something that we'll be watching here. the formation areas for this time of year, really into the gulf of mexico is not until these waters get more active into august, september that we see that come across africa, but where i was showing you that possible system we're monitoring, definitely the temperatures warm enough in the water to support that if nuggets going. >> the starving ordereddist, it's a cliche that has become a reality in cities across the u.s. mean times are forting artists to move into affordable small towns r. towns. one unique town has become an artist haven.