actually she is from oklahoma started her first business there but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law and it turns out that kim she had a very dangerous practice of selling casket's without a funeral director's license. before that she was on executive fast-track she learned the hard work go success and enjoyed a lot of success. and eventually ended up with one of the largest fuel companies and saw this with the dried in business to help people through her work and to be very successful but after a few years she began to note there was a niche to be filled of the classic entrepreneur the merchandise was locked up. they were marched deputy mayor between two 1/5 and 600% so how can i put together a business model that enables me to sell the same merchandise that a much lower cost? eventually she laughed joining up with janet bridges and spent one year that became the content of ashley name applies the business plan was to sell everything all of the merchandise of the internet and they would take advantage of the drop shipping so they would have no inventory that ena

kim is actually from oklahoma. she started her first business there, a tunal business. -- funeral business. but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law. it turns out that kim was engaged in the very dangerous practice of selling caskets without a funeral director's license. before that in the early 1980s kim was on the executive fast track. she grew up in a family of hard working entrepreneurs. she learned the relationship between hard work and success. and after she left college, she enjoyed a lot of success. in a number of different businesses. and eventually, she ended up at one of the nation's largest funeral companies, and there she sold pre-need funeral services. and she saw this as a way to combine her drive in business with her desire to help people through her work. and be as before, she was very successful in that business. but after a few years, she began to notice that there was a need, a niche to be filled, classic entrepreneur, and that was she saw that in the funeral industry the merc

oklahoma but the companies outside of the state who sold it to the consumers in oklahoma didn't have to have a funeral director's license. so she could have taken her business which is essentially the computer servers. she wanted to raise her own family in her hometown. and she thought the law was wrong. it enabled funeral directors to bark up the merchandise and tickets advantage of those that were of the vulnerable time in their life, so she stayed in oklahoma and she thought the law. she wasn't the only one who thought that it was wrong. some legislators did as well to beginning in 1999, they began introducing a series of bills every year to remove the licensing for the casket sales. ken testified on behalf of the bills and every year they lost. they lost for one reason and for one reason alone and that was a licensed funeral directors, the industry because of the legislature and they would lobby aggressively to protect their license. saturday every year if you want to sell a casket and you were in oklahoma-based company, you must have a funeral director's license. what kim and th

he served for eight years in the oklahoma state senate and in 2010, was elected attorney general of oklahomaen they called him general. on february 17, united states senate confirmed him as the fourth seat administrator of the environmental protection agency. please welcome the honorable scott pruitt, administrator of the epa. [applause] administrator pruitt: good afternoon. it's a pleasure to be here with you today and i saw the mayor last week at the conference mayor's event in washington, d.c. as well. it's good to be with you. i want to say first and foremost, i appreciate your leadership. as mayors of your respective cities and towns across the country, you deal with very difficult issues from law enforcement to zoning, trying to find answers for your citizens at the local level. i had that same duty and responsibility as attorney general and today, we deal with similar issues at the national level with respect to the environment and growth in jobs. i just want to commend you for the -- for the leadership you show locally and appreciate your time here today. i look forward to working wi

pdf every year they succeeded so today in oklahoma he must have a funeral director's license. let the legislators ran into is the of bottled necker's someone who advocates for the perpetuation of government regulation particular with an occupational license to restrict the free flow of workers to and enjoy the economic benefit as a result. the bottled liquors are evident. we know doctors and attorneys have licenses but recent research that we publish indicates those that require a license may surprise you said to be an option year you have to beat places or simon which interpreter or locksmith or a forest or crane operator that for years were never licensed but now or because of the work of the bottle necker's. and those that fought to reform those licensing as the law firm represents people over the past 26 years the very first case was on the issue of occupational licensing and we have continued to mitigate. what we have discovered that there is an miff -- a myth that licenses are created at the request of the harm to consumers and citizens but the truth is legislators creat

he is down in oklahoma for day one of rokerthon 3. al? >> that's right. university of oklahoma. students and the band here are going to help us show you the weather the way we've never seen it before -- a giant human map, okay? so first of all we've got sunshine in the southwest. the weather is looking pretty spectacular but as we make our way up to the northwest, we have showers, winds, it will be a bit of a mess there. but up to the plains, the plains we go. we've got partly sunny skies, it's going to be a lovely day. the upper midwest and on into the mississippi river valley we've got showers and thunderstorms, we've got wind, but, again here in the midwest and norman, oklahoma, things looking good. up in the northeast showers and snow. we're talking some areas in northern new england picking up up to five to six inches of snow. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >>> well, here this morning we have fog to talk about, dense fog advisory still in effect until 9:00 a.m., some areas are seeing about a half mile visibility

state senate and in 2010 was elected to the attorney general of oklahoma. then they called him general. on february 17, the united states senate confirmed him as the 14th administrator of the environmental protection agency. please welcome the honorable scott pruett, administrator of the epa. [applause] >> good afternoon. it's a pleasure to be with you today. i saw him a year last weekend here in dc as well so it is good to be with you and i want to say first and foremost, i appreciate your leadership as mayors and a respected cities and towns across the country you deal with issues from law enforcement to zoning trying to find answers for your citizens at the local level. i have the same duty and responsibility as attorney general and today we deal with similar issues with respect to the environment and growth in jobs, so i want to commend you for the leadership that you shown locally and support your time today and look forward to working with you. it has been said friendship is a partnership and as i think about the role and how we must work with cities

singing "oklahoma." oh, man.okay ♪ >> it doesn't get any better than that, baby. >> is there anyone better to tour college campuses than al roker? >> i am thinking going back to school. al needs to go back to school. >> i think al should have a marching band with him at all times. at all times. >> al, thank you very much. good luck. >>> now, let's get to the top stories of the morning. here's your news at 8:00. >>> good morning. i'm hallie jackson in washington. no marching bands at the white house today. but we are watching the blame game here. the fallout after republicans yanked their health care bill. as president trump looks to refocus on tax reform, the white house is talking down any riff between the president and house speaker paul ryan. today, back to work with backlash building. full-on finger-pointing, 72 hours after the health care bill failure. >> i think there's plenty of blame to go around. what happened was washington won. >> reporter: the administration, pitting responsibility on conservatives in

he is down in oklahoma for day one of rokerthon 3. al? >> that's right. university of oklahoma.nts and the band are going to never seen it before. a giant human map. okay? these students, first we have sunshine in the southwest. the weather's looking pretty spectacular. northeast, we have showers. we have wind. it will be a bit of a mess lovely day. on theippiiver valley we crazy. again here in the things looking good. up and snow. we're talking some northern new england picking up >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. the fog will thin. we'll see a nice wa little bit of late-day sunstoday. near 70 forskies. rain showers this morning out of and 64 tle bit of sunshine late ♪ >> that' you need it. check out our friendscable. matt and al wait a second. you're in because we tonight have a lot of time. bangor, maine? >> we'll check bac it's looking good. >> all right, buddy. thank you. >> i'm exhausted. >> he's just beginning. >>> coming up next, we have a new "rossen reports" that could lifesaver. >> hi. good morning. i'm jeffnapping case making headlines. an ducter the t

we'll talk about severe storms texas and oklahoma right now. >>> am over central texas and oklahoma as well as kansas with large hail, damangn and tornadoes all possible d e. >>> here's a live picture of dallas where strong storms are moving through right now. at least two tornado warnings l overnight. >>> these scenes in the meantime, all over western texas as several tornadoes move a no major damage reported but there were some deaths. three storm chasers hunting tornadoes colliding with each other instead. er the south. this massive tornado touching down west of dallas. >> you see that? >> reporter: a family inhelples twister heads for their home. >> on the ground. >> go get in the closet. >> the fire alarms are going off. >> go that way, please. >> reporter: theorcing the driver to pull over. and tragedy striking as well. these storm chasers killed in a car trash while intornadoes mom video was taken. >> we're going to stay right on this storm that we're on for just a little bit. williamson and randy yarnell racing through the middle of rain-soaked texas. >> southwest of spur. cam

we see that every day in oklahoma.nt crates a program new constituents are created and they are about trying continue their existence and not help those services are for. the incentive are wrong for government they never have to compete for the resource they need. >> that's exactly right. the special interest people profiting from big government are part that the wasteful government stay in. when we talk about the hammers or fighter jets that cost to much because of the military complex. there's vested interest in the waste. they have more say because they hire the senator as lobbiest. there's a power for lobby for the people living off the government. >> this is a problem for government, i want it talk about how this is not just a democrat party, the bipartisan issue is a problem with central planning. this is fatal consent that the government knows better than you do. when boris yelt son was not amazed by the space station but the grocery store. what he recognized is that government don't have the information to make

this case could put oklahoma's so-called make my de la to the test. here's abc's dana whitworth. >> reporter: tonight a stunning jailhouse interview with the getaway driver in that shocking oklahoma home invasion that left three teenagers dead. >> never in a million years did you think it would turn out like this? >> no, never. >> reporter: 21-year-old elizabeth rodriguez facing potential felony murder charge in the deaths of 19-year-old maxwell cook, 17-year-old jacob redfern, 16-year-old jacob woodruff. >> we just made bad choices, really bad choices. >> reporter: rodriguez says she planned the burglary with the teams who lived in her home. >> were you closer to one of them romantically? >> yeah, max. my boyfriend. >> reporter: the foursome, she says, had a history of robbing homes. you talk about sort of casing houses to decide which ones you guys might want to hit? >> we had our own connects. >> you and the three boys? >> yeah. >> reporter: monday, a hit on this house went tragically wrong. >> i've just been broken into. three help, two i've shot

this one unfolding in oklahoma.he woman police say drove three would-we robbers to a home where they were killed is now charged in their deaths. and authorities are deciding whether the man who shot them did it in self defense. here is abc's clayton sandel. >> reporter: police say it began when 23-year-old zach peters awoke to the sound of three masked teenage burglars breaking into this house near tulsa, oklahoma. >> well i thauflt ought it was funders. peters used an ar-15 rifle, shooting all three burglars dead. >> two were juveniles in the range of 16, 17. one an adult male. 1. armed. one was with brass knuckles. the other one with a herself in the getaway driver. >> trying to clarify as the to why they chose the that house. wum was it random or some other knowledge the suspects had. >> reporter: prosecutors say oklahoma law allows for rodriguez to be charged with three murders even if she didn't pull the trigger. charges have not yet been filed. oklahoma's make my day law allows homeowners to use deadly force i

, oklahoma farm credit, from the red cross of oklahoma, from the salvation army, the oklahoma department of agriculture, oklahoma forestry service, southern baptist disaster relief, oklahoma emergency management, first responders from all over the state volunteer and career firefighters that worked very long, difficult hours. usda and fema were also on site. harper county extension, all the emergency management folks from beaver, harper and a woodward county. places like loves travel spots that have donated so much to be able to move things there. the united way. clean line energy and their donations. and untold numbers of civic organizations and churches from around that community. as i looked at many of those folks in the area last week and met with some leaders and pastors in the area, i reminded the folks that the devastation that they faced is not something that will be quick. springtime will come soon and the area that's just black earth right now will spring to life with green grass again in the weeks ahead. but the loss of those fenc fencelines, the loss of thousands of animals,

. >> next to the criminal caves oklahoma state senator ralph shortey. his attorneys saying this morning that the senator plans to resign. senator shortey is facing felony child prostitution charges alleging he solicited sex from a 17-year-old boy. oklahoma's state senate voted unanimously last week on a resolution stripping him of most of his legislative privileges. >> the federal government will explain new restrictions this morning on incoming flights from some foreign countries. passengers on direct flights on foreign airlines from airports in certain middle east and african countries will not be allowed to bring electronic devices into the cabin with them, just phones and medical devices. laptops, tablets and pretty up everything else will have to go into checked baggage. >> what's likely happened is that the government, the u.s. government has developed some intelligence that a group or individual has developed some type of device that they can get on to an airplane using a laptop or some other electronic appliance.

bracing for severe storms to hit texas, oklahoma, oklahoma city, going into arkansas, louisiana, wednesday, during the day. damaging winds, hail, between a half inch in diameter to 2 inches in diameter if yesterday is any indication. flash flooding and tornados. shift to the mississippi vally region throughout the evening time. the same low swinging to the north will bring soaking rain throughout the midwest, causing flooding, kendis, diane. >> thanks. president trump made good on a promise to roll back president obama's climate control regulations. it wipes out restrictions mandating climate. the president said a newer era in energy production. >> how about this? why don't we get together. we'll go to another place. you will get another job. you won't mine anymore. do you like that idea? they said no we don't like that idea. we love to mine. that's what we want to do. i said, if that's what you want to do, that's what you are going to do. >> environmentalists insist the president is overselling the revival of jobs in a declining industry. meanwhile, governors in new york and california ar

jacob rascon, nbc news, sulfur, oklahoma. >>> we'll hear a lot from her in the future. that will do it for us on this monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> it wasn't the players or the coaches that made this decision. but it was me that made it. >> right now at 6:00, they are leaving. again. the raiders ditching the bay area for sin city. the news at 6:00 starts right now. good monday evening, thanks now joining us, i'm janelle wang. and i'm jessica aguirre. the move in the works for years is now a reality. the raiders are trading in that old coliseum for a billion dollars stadium in las vegas. nfl owners approved the move today but they won't be leaving right away. they have another year at the coliseum since the new stadium near the vegas strip wouldn't be ready until 2020. >> we have several reports on the move to vegas. we are tracking reaction from owner mark davis but let's begin with scott budman in alameda, and very pointed words from city leaders tonight. >> reporter: you could really say that. reac

. >>> finally tonight a big dispute in a small town in oklahoma has been resolved.issue, would people finally get their wish to simply go dancing? more than three decades later, they found themselves in their own version of the movie "footloose." kevin tibbles tonight on how it ended. >> if you've never been, henrietta, oklahoma is a quiet town. problem is, some say it's been too quiet. >> they banned dancing within 500 feet of a church or a school. >> that's mayor jennifer explaining a 40-year-old law. passed when some thought dancing could lead one's feet down a troubled path. >> jump back. >> just like in the movie, "footloose," about another oklahoma town where dancing was banned, henrietta yearned for its own kevin bacon. then local outlaw and antique shop owner joanie rode into town wanting to hold a dance in the empty room upstairs from the store. >> do you feel like jesse james? >> you know, a little bit. >> but she was shot down by the city ordinance. her dance hall was an illegal 300 feet from a church. so at a raucous city council meeting, the law was cha

oklahoma did not do that. instead, we paid the price and bit the bullet a little bit on some of that. you will see a fwiv and take with some tax credits on any particular category that you want to find. overall for the health of the nation and for the health of americans, we're going to see competition do much better. and i would add this. you may recall when we had the deregulation of the airline industry. everybody said it's going to be unsafe. we're going to have these fly-by-night companies. travel is going to be awful. it will be expensive. quite the contrary. we have lower middle class families who can afford to travel, competition that has given us many opgs we never imagined. same with the telecom industry. when was the last time we paid for a long distance call? deregulation works. having only one health insurance company in oklahoma, how do we know what the rates will be when we only have one insurer? we're not even offered options to make comparisons. that's how i reply to those statistics. how do t

on how it ended. >> if you've never been, henryetta, oklahoma, is a quiet town.is, some say, it's been too quiet. >> they banned dancing within 500 feet of a church or a school. >> that's mayor jennifer explaining a 40-year-old law. passed when some thought dancing could lead one's feet down a troubled path. >> jump back. >> just like in the movie, "footloose," about another oklahoma town where dancing was banned, henryetta yearned for its own kevin bacon. then local outlaw, and antique shop owner joanie rode into town wanting to hold a dance in the empty room upstairs from the store. >> do you feel like jesse james? >> you know, a little bit. >> but she was shot down by the city ordinance. her dance hall was an illegal 300 feet from a church. so at a raucous city council meeting, the law was challenged, and the mayor delivered the verdict. >> henryetta, oklahoma. [ cheers and applause ] >> we get to dancer in, any time we want to. >> it's going to be a lot of fun and good for the community. >> some folks got "footloose" right then and there. >> it makes you feel

jacob rascon, nbc news, sulfur, oklahoma. >>> we'll hear a lot from her in the future. do it for us on this monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. serious? jen and ben's happy weekend today. >> all the breaking koups now now on "extra". ♪ extra, extra >>> new photos of j-lo and a-rod in the back of a rolls-royce dining out in l.a. they are moving fast. >>> "flip or flop" star chris stina el moussa super sexed up amid rumors of her dating star nate. >>> scarlett johansson's interview about her baby girl. >> i was still nursing her when i was making this. >> the new thriller that has her transforming into a nearly naked cyborg. >>> the latest on the injury knocking max off the show as we go inside rehearsals with the olympic golden girl, the bull rider, and the bachelor. >> what would you say is hotter? >>> then the stars of "scandal" on the real life washington scan dominating the headlines today. >> they are giving us a run for our money.

. >> deadly storms devastate parts of texas and oklahoma, bringing tornados, hail, and powerful winds. >> tons of thousands of people still without power as the storm threat moves east, john champion in dallas with a look at the damage. >> aerial footage shows the damage in rot well, texas, roofs and walls of homes reduced to piles of debris. overnight, severe storms swept across texas, and oklahoma, with damaging high winds, heavy rain, and pounding hail. powerful winds knocked bricks off the walls of the fort worth apartment building, crushing cars, below. >> so like i said, i mean, it happens. >> tornados tore through the western part of the state. >> tornado on the ground. >> more than dozen were reported. >> oh, my gosh. >> near liver i can, one ran a stop sign and there was collision. hail created brutal conditions on the roads. some chunks were large enough to crash through car windows. >> it hit my daughter in the back of the head ... >> outside, chunks of hail blanketed the grounds, in oklahoma the powerful storm blew over semi trucks on the highways. don champion, for cbs-3,

jimmy's a legend in the department of corrections of oklahoma. he's a tough guy. he wouldn't want to be messed with, for sure. good guy. good heart. but if you cross him, he's going to be strong. >> that man is 74-2 in the boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> 74-2? >> 74-2 is his record. >> maxwell has spent most of his adult life behind bars, did not earn his reputation solely through fighting. >> he's got a history of getting out of lockup, escaping from several facilities in the state of oklahoma. during that time, he got a heck of a reputation of not being able to be held. >> and just 14 hours earlier, he fled an oklahoma state prison 60 miles outside of tulsa. he was apprehended on the outskirts of town and suffered a black eye and a shoulder injury in the process. >> due to his being an escape risk, we will be using handcuffs, leg irons, and a chain around his belly with a box and a padlock. >> we're going to have him black boxed. this is a system, actually it was invented by inmates in prison who have learned how to compromise the handcuffs.

the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. higgins, a member of the environmental subcommittee on science. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. higgins: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of h.r. 1431, the e.p.a. science advisory reform act, of which i am an original co-sponsor. this bill intends not to deny science but to deny manipulated science. this is a commonsense good government piece of legislation that will discourage ideologically based decisions by the science advisory board and set it back on path to making objective science-based conclusions as originally intended by congress. . further this bill would promote accountability within nsab while also strengthening public participation, ensuring that there is a diverse makeup on its various boards and panels, reinforcing a strong system of peer review requirements that work toward reducing conflicts of interest. providing ample opportunity for dissen

, which is about 90 miles north of oklahoma city. population -- roughly 50,000. right here in enid, they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. but wedged in between enid's silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. >> my name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. he was a child of the dust bowl. grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. >> and oliver jordan kept it all here. for 60 years. this salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. hi, stuart! >> welcome to paradise. >> i found it! the rusted old cars in this shed -- some of them relics of the roaring '20s -- are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. but his real interest was t

russell, a republican from oklahoma. thank you forjoining uslj russell, a republican from oklahoma. forjoining us. i think if we can get past the party that filters, it was a uniting message. what america can look like. there we re what america can look like. there were some challenges, how do we educate, unite and fix the broken things. there was some unifying language. what about in terms of what he said on policy? it has been a little bit vague and contradictory about the way forward from the legislative agenda? the one key thing we did get was in his must haves for the replacement of the afforda ble haves for the replacement of the affordable care act. he listed five things. his guidelines of what he would need before signing legislation or stop what do you think about his proposal to increase military spending to the degree that he says he wants to do? part of the increase is already spent. a 3% increase is already spent. a 3% increase is already spent. a 3% increase is not going to be adequate. it is not enough money at his spoke forcefully about the end of the quest —— seques

hail broke a skylight in one home and the storm knocked town trees in oklahoma. and severe thunderstorm warnings are posted in parts of oklahoma, arkansas, and texas, and a tornado in arkansas destroyed four homes. >> a suspect is in custody for opening fire on a bus on the las vegas strip this weekend. the nearby cosmopolitan hotel was evacuated and earlier bandits robbed a jewelry store at the bellagio. mireya villarreal has the details. >> reporter: as s.w.a.t. teams moved in on the double-decker bus, snipers were nearby. assistant sheriff tom roberts. >> at about 11:00 we got reports that shots were fired. our officers immediately responded. as soon as we came, were coming off the bus. >> the suspect had sunglasses on and a ball cap and light colored shirt. that was the shooter. >> reporter: he started shooting, leaving one dead and others wounded. cosmopolitan hotel guests that stayed inside captured this video from high above. >> something just blew up from the bus. >> reporter: steve smigtd was close enough to hear the gunshots. >> the gentlemen were doing

, which is about 90 miles north of oklahoma city. population -- roughly 50,000. right here in enid, they have the third largest storage capacity for grain on the planet. but wedged in between enid's silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. >> my name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. his name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. he was a child of the dust bowl. grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. >> and oliver jordan kept it all here. for 60 years. this salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. hi, stuart! >> welcome to paradise. >> i found it! the rusted old cars in this shed -- some of them relics of the roaring '20s -- are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. but his real interest was t

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spotted near the town of ada75 miles per hour southeast of oklahoma hi -- 75 miles southeast of oklahoma city. >> fog is thick.orter: fog is e southern half of the region. and we have showers around, double scan showing you that. most of this centered in the northern half of the area while the fog is mainly from philadelphia delaware county and sussex county and points south. as we look outlisi hd and we'ree penns landing, it is tough, balls the low-lying cloud cover and fog is definitely obscuring things a little bit. as we look at storm tracker 6 live double scan, i want to give you a closer look at the showers pushing popping through. parallel to the i-95 corridor. philadelphia getting a little bit of this. the city right now and points north jenkintown, willow grove and doylestown is light precipitation just popping through, enough to make the roads wet, not an inundating rainfall. in the northern suburbs we have steadier stuff, berk county around reading yellow is popping through. that might make it up to quakertown andifou're heading te western area, harrisburg, for pa turnpike, yo

. >> let's talk about your home state of oklahoma.olks that you represent. you're dealing in your state with hundreds of earthquakes, a number over magnitude 3.0. these are man made earthquakes, caused by the pumping of wastewater from fracking for oil back into the ground. we know that. i've covered it, covered it in a number of states. it's the epa that regulates that, part of their mandate. are you comfortable with $2.6 billion cuts to the epa, cuts, sir, that may mean more of these earthquakes in your home state? you comfortable with that the. >> you're assuming that's what they're going to be doing. actually the jurisdiction of that is the corporation commission of the state of oklahoma. it's not the epa. >> no, it is the epa. let's pull up -- part of their mandate from their website says they regulate, the construction, operation, permitting, closure of injection wells used to place these fluids under ground for storage or proposal. if any money gets cut from that, are you comfortable with that? >> first of all, that's not going

more helicopters are being sent to oklahoma in this area. what we find out, anthony, what makes this interesting is in the four-state area where fires are burning, conditions are either moderate to abnormally dry and that's a big part of the problem. >> tough fight there, david begnaud. thanks, david. >>> the cia is saying next to nothing about a massive leak of thousands of highly classified documents but others compare it to the security breaches engineered by edward snowden and chelsea manning. the wikileakssi what it calls secret files that shows how the cia can hack into common electronic products. >> it can affect i phones and google android, tvs, and even car. >>> what's pretty clear is the intelligence community is concerned about sensitive secrets being exposed. wikileaks claims that this leak is the largest publication of confidential cia documents ever allegedly revealing the tools the agency uses to gain access to a number of everyday electronic devices. >> there are some bad people in the world who have samsung tvs too. >> right

quick question for you, so your home state of oklahoma, my home state of texas, pennsylvania where i lived for a while, all these states do a pretty good job of regulating oil and gas industry on their own which is complex piece of environmental regulation. i look at these things say what to the point of epa. i'm sure there is one. tell us what it is. >> kevin and i had a little conversation getting ready to come on stage, from texas, oklahoma, we have this day in october where we're not friends. >> only state we ever tried to give back to the indians. [laughter]. >> but maybe the discussion for another day. but as far as the epa is concerned there is an important role for the agency. there are air quality issues, water quality issues that cross state lines. what we've seen the last several years is a displacement of the partner that the epa has used and worked with over the decades and those are the states. if you go back to the inception of the epa, the environmental statutes that were passed in the 1970s, clean water act, clean air act and others, there was a very important prescr

this morning red flag warnings are posted in northern oklahoma, kansas, and missouri. the fires burned hundreds of square miles and destroyed dozens of buildings. in oklahoma david begnaud spoke with storm chairses following fiers. >> reporter: what's the point of this for you? >> saving lives. that's my whole objective. get the word out and save lives. >>> a state of emergency has been declared in 22 oklahoma counties. >> investigators are trying to figure out why a freight train plowed into a charter bus in mississippi. at least four people were killed. it was carried gamblers from austin, texas, to biloxi, mississippi. it was carried seniors from a senior center. the bus was stuck on the tracks for five mijtss. >> the bus looked like it bottomed out. when it tried backing out, you could see the train. it was gone. >> 48 passengers and the driver were on the bus. >>> on the eve of international women's day, hillary clinton inspired future leaders. >> if we're serious about building a stronger america, we need to be supportive about supporting our girls. our country c

. >>> now to a chilling 911 call in oklahoma. investigators say the target of a home invasion burglary ended up fighting back, killing three teenagers in what police say appears to be a case of self-defense. in a remarkable twist it is the alleged accomplice of the home invasion might be charged with murder. nbc's kristen dahlgren has the story. >> house got broken into, three men, two shot in my house. >> reporter: the 911 call came from this home near tulsa, oklahoma monday. moments after 22-year-old zach peters shot three intrud intruders. >> are they bleeding? >> yes, i believe one is down and one is still talking. you need to get here now. >> they broke into your home? >> yes. >> reporter: authorities say the three burglars 16 to 19 were dressed in black wearing gloves with knives and brass knuckles. all three died but during the call peters only realized he shot two of them. >> what did you shoot them with? >> an ar-15. and i'm still armed in the east corner of my house. >> sir, my deputy is on scene. unarm yourself and put

when you're in oklahoma city, you've got a little ways to go. you've got places that take a little while to get to. >> i love it. >> but the president was in detroit. i was with him on wednesday. and he announced the decision with respect to the cafe standards. you may not be familiar with this process. but in 2012, the previous administration, the epa worked with industry to say we're going set these emission standards for cars. we're going to set it over a longer period of time, which i think is a wise thing to do, 12 to 13 years. so there was a 2025 window as far as these evaluating these standards. well, there was going to be a midterm review in april of 2018. and the last administration in december finalized a process. and within ten days, 16 months early, rendered a decision that those standards were insufficient and they needed to be enhanced. and so as i share with people in detroit, kevin, it would be like your kiddos being told you're going to take a test in april of 2018, and the teacher coming alongside and say we're not going take i

kevin tibbles, nbc news, oklahoma city. >> that's going to do it for us on a thursday night.ter holt. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for watching and good night. freeway standstill. oting turns >>> right now at 6:00 live pictures right now sky ranger over the freeway. a freeway shooting. two victims taken to the hospital. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. we've been tracking this shooting for the past two hours on air and on line. a lot happening this hour. all lanes of eastbound 80 north of berkeley remain closed. this shooting was right on the freeway near the richmond border. nbc bay area sky ranger is above the scene showing us just what's happening down below. you can see all that activity down there. police say it was a gang-related targeted attack. >> we have multiple reports covering this breaking story. let's start with elyce kirchner. what have you learned? >> reporter: chp briefed the media here along the freeway confirming two people driving along the freeway were shot. if you take a look behind me you can see all lanes along ea

oklahoma's governor has declared a state of emergency for 22 counties. tomorrow authorities here are hoping that lower wind gusts will help firefighters, but the battle won't be easy. especially with no significant rain in the forecast until this weekend. lester? >> gabe gutierrez in oklahoma tonight, thanks. >>> now to a deadly attack on a hospital in afghanistan. it was carried out by isis gunmen disguised as doctors. in happened in kabul, just yards from the u.s. embassy. when it was over, at least 30 people were killed. our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, has more tonight. >> reporter: afghan commandos landed on the roof of kabul's main military hospital as four isis gunmen were inside. some disguised as doctors, moving from ward to ward. i was in the operation room when a suicide bomber in a white doctor's uniform came in, said a doctor. i fell to the ground, then he shot my colleague. a local tv station caught terrified men hiding on narrow window sills during the six-hour siege. they were firing at doctors, visitors, and patients. i hi

as far as our severe weather threat goes, from san angelo, ab bean, oklahoma. then we today. if you want the dry, sunny spring weather, head to the desert southwest. we'll talk more about that storm hitting the northwest, maybe a little flood potential in the next couple days. >> there you go. the desert southwest looking good yet again. thanks, bill. >>> joining the men's team. south carolina lady gamecocks advancing to the final 4 and winning their 111th consecutive game. the huskies are headed for their tenth straight year. head coach moves past pat summitt for the most ncaa wins with 113, joining stanford and mississippi state in dallas for the finals. >>> winding down there. still ahead, a hero cop comes to the rescue after this fiery crash. we'll show you the full footage when "early today" comes back. we can't stay here! why? terrible toilet paper! i'll never get clean! way ahead of you, big daddy. aww charmin ultra strong. it's washcloth-like texture helps clean better. it's four times stronger... ...and you can use less. beautiful view. (wiggles butt) thanks to charm