. >>> southwest missouri, high winds, rains and localized flash flooding made for treacherous driving conditions. powerful storms in northeast arkansas are being blamed for two deaths there. wind gusts were so powerful, they sent this four-wheeler flying. that is something you don't see every day. bill karins is here with more on the storms. that's incredible. i have no idea how strong the wind has to be to pick something up. >> like a chain off the back -- >> so maybe it got caught. >> something else was attached to it that went airborne and it literally is hanging. regardless, it is an incredible feat of strength. this was a big wind event. we call it a derecho, a weather word that describes a long lasting thunderstorm, has to go 250 miles and cause widespread wind damage. this was a huge one. went 1,000 miles, all of those blue dots show you where we had wind damage reports from kansas all the way to northern georgia. in the west, another warm day yesterday. little cooler for the coastal sections as has been the case of late. it doesn't look like we're going to see much in the way

southwest missouri is starting to dry out after severe flooding. it happened after 2 and 4 inches of rain fell in the span of a few hours on friday morning. ahead the running of belt momon stake, alex wallace has the picture for us. >> the focus is in the middle of the country for a risk of storms. we have a boundary stuck in place. not really a whole lot. a cold front coming in from the north as well. that will enhance the risk as well. some storms could be strong to severe. anywhere in the red, including oklahoma city, we have that risk for today, tomorrow as well. maybe shifting a little further south to now include spots like dallas. so you could be in line for those storms. damaging wind, hail. isolated tornado. can't rule that out, along with the heavy downpours. the other story, the heat building across the western half of the country. it is going to be very warm out there for us across the central valley of california, into the desert southwest. some areas certainly no strangers to triple digit heat, but, i tell you, it's not going to be fu

missouri yesterday. storms father said they saw tornadoes in central and southwest iowa. along with as well the southwest kansas. they brought baseball size hail and severe flooding. to attend it over to weather prediction standing by in the weather center. a sticky closer look at the severe weather. impacting the midwest right now. as you mentioned a missouri got the brunt of it. right now we are scene of severe weather move through the st. louis area. already tried to wind gusts up to 70 mi. per hour. flash flood warning is in effect until later on this morning. this continues to push through chicago. it will move through the ohio valley as well. so looks like unsettled and severe weather. several watches here in the bay area just chilling with some low clouds of this occurs along the coastline is a live look of conditions from our real camera. today is expected to be warmer we will see temperatures jump up by about 5 to 10 degrees. faster clearing on tap for today and as we look ahead it looks like temperatures will continue to warm as we head into the weekend. we do h

southwest. >> phoenix will be up to 108 degrees again today with temperatures in the 80s and 90s across most of the south and cooler in the north. >>> a family in missourithe family's 5-year-old kangaroo. >> probably not surprisingly the first kangaroo to live in their city. animal control officers say it is perfectly legal for the family to keep the kangaroo and they have met all the requirements needed to keep her on their property. >> even so, the city is considering an exotic animal ordinance. the family wants to make sure it is okay if to keep their kangaroo if the ordinance passes. kangaroos are actually, there are very, very few reported attacks on people. >> i wonder in australia, is a kangaroo a pet that is not so odd. >> i think that is still pretty odd. they are wild animals but very powerful hind leg. the only large animal that hops around as a means of locomotion. >> pretty cool. what about the bunny rabbit? don't they hop around? >> large animal. i said large animal. >> got me on that one. by the way, she loves cheerios, bread and bananas. how about that? >>> coming up in "the skinny," the dramatic act on age involving an a-list actor and

missouri river area. and then out across the west, another spectacular day. warm across the desert southwest.>> that's the place you need it because they need frozen yogurt in free knicks where it is so hot. guys, back to you inside. >> yummy. >> it is national yogurt month and we are celebrating. >> i need to enter that contest. >>> we have other stories making headlines this sunday. the marine jailed for two months in a mexican prison gets a visitor from washington. arizona congressman matt salmon spending time with andrew tahmooressi who believes the marine is being treated fairly. he illegally drove across the border with 300 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. salmon says, i'm pleased to report he is doing well and is in good spirits. many are encouraging to free sergeant tahmooressi. >>> a wild car chase caught on camera. >> watch out! get out of the way! get out of the -- ah! >> this is unbelievable. cops say a th14-year-old was in the driver's seat when he reportedly pulled out a gun and then cops went after him. after flying through a park full of kids, the police tried to blo

developing across the southwest pulling up a lot of moisture out of the gulf, in the same area, four to six inches of rain over the next three days, oklahoma, kansas, east to arkansas, missouri. flash flooding problems there. you can see the storm damage from last night's storm, the wind damage and hail even a few red dots there showing there was tornadoroy reports but now, it's the flooding problem across the southern planes and the lack of rain across the southwest. we have excessive heat warnings and red flag warnings in effect. the fire danger is high as we are looking at dry weather continuing and very little rain. so that is the big problem there. here is the severe weather across kansas and oklahoma, extending to the east. now, this is a bow line. it bows out, an indication there is a lot of wind damage but very little rotation. so just wind damage reports coming in as this rain continues to push east, a close-up view shows the line is pushing out of oklahoma and kansas in through missouri. there is one or two severe storms here with the wind damage reported. >> that's the big problem is these storms could nntinue to p east. it's moving out. seeing more rain develop h