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st. paul to north of st. louisn places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california's high country are gone, but warmer temperatures are accelerating their melt the yosemite valley closing to visitors this week over flood concerns the volatile conditions don't end there as 22 million people in the south face a more immediate threat tonight, violent weather including large hail and possible tornadoes in the forecast this evening. maggie vespa begins our coverage >> reporter: tonight, up and down one of america's longest rivers, a slow-moving disaster, inch by inch, is taking shape. this one is scaring people. >> yeah, it's going to devastate the whole downtown if it comes through. >> reporter: rising waters now swallowing entire neighborhoods reaching what experts call major flood stage from st. paul, minnesota, to fountain city, wisco

flood warnings from mississippi, davenport, just north of st. louis.eorge, this is something we'll be watching for days to come. >> ginger, thanks. now to texas where nine teens were shot at an after prom party. they are all expected to survive. rhiannon ally has the story. good morning. >> reporter: prom supposed to be a big night in a teen's life, but one quickly turned scary in the early morning hours sunday when someone started shooting. authorities say at least nine teens were shot at an after prom party outside jasper, texas. most of the victims were hospitalized but as you mentioned, thankfully none are considered life threatening. police are urgently on the hunt for a suspect and they are questioning people's interest, asking anyone with any information to come forward. the school district said as a result of this weekend's event there will be a much larger law enforcement presence this week to ensure student safety, as well as counselors on hand for anyone who needs their assistance. they're also trying to figure out a motive. why someone woul

st. louis boston asheville north carolina and others an organization called mayors organized for reparationo and economic justice, on larger scale that is to say perhaps a federal scale. worth noting a "the wall street journal" is reporting u.s. consensus bureau thinking of ask with weather or not you are a des endant of slavery we talked to national assembly of american slavery descendants saying that is with a we need. anything on federal level to do reparation force descendants and we make argument what is good for descendants is good for every american doing better every single americans the country as a whole is doing better. >> of course, the questions where does money come from in

north. guess what? we've got more. but you've got strong storms all along as she threw a st. louis all the way up in the champagne near chicago. these lines of storms anywhere along that boundary. we could see more tornadic activity. we're seeing a chance of again, a little further to the north of that will be more the issue throughout the night tonight. and all this is going to slide further to the east to one. it does again tomorrow could be another very, very active day. all right. contrast in that we get back to the bay area are looking good out there right now. we've got some sunshine, a couple clouds, some drier weather expected, least mostly dry for the weekend. slight chance of sprinkles in the north bay. other than that looks like some pretty nice weather ahead. all right, lawrence. well, the coast guard returned to base in alameda today. >> after a 90 day cor narcotics patrol. they were in the eastern pacific ocean. and during that patrol crew members did stop 2 suspected drug smuggling boats. they nearly 900 pounds of cocaine, 9500 pounds of marijuana. the crew offloaded

a brand new tornado warning just issued moments ago here north of mountain view, headed toward gladden, perhaps toward lesterville, but st louisget ready. if you know somebody at the st louis area, or you're in that area be prepared. these storms are headed in your direction. now let's go down to the gulf coast. big storms pounding panama city right now, lots of damaging winds along with heavy rainfall. downpours speaking of rainfall downpours in the northeast eastern pennsylvania, dealing with persistent rains that haven't moved very much. does that sound familiar? yes this is the same part of the system that produced the flooding in fort lauderdale , and in fact, there are numerous flash flood warnings. allentown east of philadelphia, and scattered just to the west of new york city. some of that heavy rate could move into the big apple. as we head into the overnight hours. we'll track the storms for you with a forecast of the radar notice the storm's head for st louis by about 678 o'clock tonight and continue on until midnight, then a new batch of storms down around new orleans that's going to cause a problem and that same b

northern plains north of minneapolis and a severe weather outbreak from the great lakes to the gulf coast. i want to show you tuesday's severe weather outlook, lemoine chicago little rock, st louis, a bullseye of severe weather, including tornadoes back to you, ryan and andrew. kevin thank you will do some catch up now because april fool's day fell inconveniently on a saturday, at least for our purposes. you know, we would have had fun on this. yes of course. we had to wait two years. this is our first chance to show you the fake rollout of chuck e cheese wedding packages it included. having the real chuck e cheese as the wedding celebrate, which is why the tagline was you're gonna love this, andrew, where a mouse can make you a spouse. i would fall for this. i would think you would get married at chuck e cheese three. no, i was just at this is real. well, yeah, i guess i mean, it would be fun pizza video games. let's not to love. all right. next, you tell a tic tacs. they're not real. although plenty of people myself included very much wh they were. they weren't the they weren't the only offering that fans thinking that had fans thinking that way. mcdonald's in australia introd

st. louis. let's get to chief meteorologist gen zers a tracking it all for his. hey ginger. >>> there is are frost advisory from just north of us to tennessee. that same front has kicked off severe thunderstorms tonight. the area you see highlighted in pink, orlando down to coral springs for the next hour or so watch for damaging winds, hail and isolated tornado. tomorrow we have to open up the skies in texas because it looks like that front western part in abilene wood be 4:00 p.m. then i would say waco, round rock and temple and austin all included in the evening part of the damaging wind threat. and of course a few tornadoes. finally, 32 spots on the map with major flood stage projected or already there could crest by this weekend. >> we will be watching out for days to come. thanks for that. >>> what president biden said about running for reelection today and what the numbers show tonight. biden, trump and the reaction from ron desantis win he was asked about trump out pulling him. his reaction making news. here is chief white house correspondent mary bruce tonight. >> reporter: president biden is on the cusp of annou

those tornado watches extended up to the north as this system continues to move east chicago, the strongest storms expected between 7:00 a.m. and noon st. louis 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. detroit into the afternoon hours. and then evening hours, cleveland 4:00 to 8:00 look for strong winds, localized flooding columbus 3:00 to 9:00. buffalo 5:00 p.m. to midnight. until 2:00 a.m. in pittsburgh. and then tomorrow this very strong line of thunderstorms comes through the i-95 corridor. winds could cause big, big problems and heavy rain in the south from houston all the way up to jackson. locally six inches of rain or more flooding is most likely in this region we w will get toto your local forecast in the next 30 sesecon. . shshe was alwaways out of f br. that's w when i decicided to introroduce ththat she lititerally gets b bubbles in n her mout. now she's a lot more active shshe's able t to join uss onon our advenentures. now she's a lot more active and we're e all able to do things as a family. ♪♪ get t started at longlivedogs.com >>> good wednesday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. as we take a look at temperatures today, still on the cool si

st. louis, you all are in the high-impact severe outbre lisa: sunny conditions, partly cloudy sky and breezy wins throughout the day today as the system drops down from the northg for a chilly start to the workweek with windy conditions, below average temperatures, maybe a spotty showers. 56 today in san francisco. upper 50's on the bayshore. things really change the second half of the week where temperatures begin the warm through next weekend.. >> and i have to give guys a few quick facts. lightning itself can actually heat up the air to 50,000 degrees fahrenheit, that is five times hotter than the sun. okay? and contrary to the popular age old adage, you do see it hit the same place more than once. so it is electrifying! >> there you go. >> this is when somara really turns it out. >> exactly. >> the science says -- >> absolutely. >> i'm very excited about this because emmy winner and "gma" friend quinta brunson made her "saturday night live" debut last night. the creator of the abc smasher that we all love "abbot elementary" took the opportunity to give a a shout out to teachers and her mom by sharing a video she took with a friend you might recognize. >> h

st. louis. >> and from jacksonville on our first trip to new york. ♪ >> to my mom and dad watching in albany, new york. >> we love you >> from texas celebrating our tenth anniversary! >> from salem, northhe visuals have been more than we anticipated with your speedo talk. >> that was to make it memorable. >> we won't forget no, we will not. >>> let's get right to your news at 8:00. the fbi has made an arrest that revealed secrets about the ukraine war among other items. the suspect, it turns out, is a 21-year-old member of the air national guard nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins us with the latest now good morning. >> hi, savannah. good morning to you. this morning lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding answers about a 21-year-old air national guardsman could have pulled off one of the significant intelligence leaks in decades just hours, jack texeira will appear in a federal court in boston he was arrested in massachusetts thursday afternoon. the government has accused him of leaking hundreds of classified documents from the pentagon he worked in it in the intelligence wing, which could have given him access to a computer network that scored top se