since 2011, ford has put a billion dollars into the facility near kansas city. in january, general motors announced it would invest $600 million to improve its fairfax assembly plant in kansas city, kansas. in a related note, alcoa, the largest aluminum producer in the u.s., announced that it will spend $275 million to expand its plant in tennessee to meet increasing demand from the auto industry. analysts predict 4% more aluminum will be used this year as automakers continue their efforts to make lighter vehicles and improve mileage. the automotive industry is not the only sector where the jobs are: "we are seeing growth in areas like healthcare, professional services... hospitality has been relatively strong over the year at restaurants and the like. also, housing is starting to pick up, so construction is gaining jobs. that's been an area where we haven't seen much growth over the last few years." that was john challenger of outplacement services challenger gray and christmas, who adds the retail industry is slow to hire. he expects the government and military

the bud. . >>> an unruly passenger on an american airlines flight from los angeles to new york city forced the pilots to reroute to kansas city because of this behavior. ♪ i will always love you >> according to reports, this woman was singing whitney houston's songs very loudly in the rplane. yo can hear her always love you. there was a federal air marshall on the plane that tried to calm her down. according to reports, the kansas city aviation department said the woman was noncompliant with that federal air marshall and the air marshall did end up subduing and handcuffing her. this is a moment they're getting her off the plane in kansas city. >> i would be really ticked if where i'm trying to get to is delayed because of somebody like this. i'm hoping that it wasn't some sort of medical issue, some mental issue. >> she was interviewed and released after this incident, but she does claim to be a diabetic and this was a result of her condition. >> if that's true, i can understand that. we've seen other videos and stories where people go into diabetic shock and do things, they drive erratically. >> after the incident peopl

streak against colorado snapped tonight, and [indiscernible] jarrod parker would be the doctor ordered against kansas cityhe works seven innings, four hits and allowed one run and we're even in the bottom of the eighth and adam is going to be a hero of james shields raised the days when tonight, two to one shot out of the bullpen getting the victory they had 14,000 shot out of the bullpen getting the victory they had 14,602 at the coliseum and warrior fans did not want to go home last night. >> we want to thank you guys for your continued support all season. you made this arena a great place to play. and [indiscernible] is unmatched across the league. >> i love that guy, my mom said layoff curry, that guy is creepy. enough is enough. harrison barnes last night, take it off the floor, did try to play in the second half but had to leave with a headache. he spoke today. >>i didn't see [indiscernible] i was hurting and [indiscernible] stayed down, stay down. [indiscernible] it is crazy but i'm trying to be here right now. >> barnes will be ready to go next year and basketball hopes [indiscernible] it 20 years

you see the band of snow stretching from kansas city up into canada. just to put it in perspective, kansas city, missouri, averages zero inches of snow in may. we're going to shatter that. the highest total over an inch for the month of may, likely sighing anywhere from 3 to 6 in the kansas city area. through these early morning hours, the snow winds down but looks to stall out and produce flooding rainfall across the region through saturday. john and reena, back to you. >> all right, jim, thank you. >>> there are new details this morning about the boston bombers' original plot, the marathon was apparently not the initial target. >> sources say dzhokhar tsarnaev told the fbi that he and his brother tamerlan were planning to launch the attack at a july 4th event in boston but he said they built the bombs much faster than expected so they changed their plans. he also said the explosives were put together in tamerlan's cambridge apartment. >> this morning tamerlan tsarnaev's body is no longer at the morgue. it was claimed by his uncle last night and moved

we have severe thunderstorm watches on the high plains of colorado, nebraska, kansas, oklahoma and texas and tornadoes on the ground not too far from the kansas city area across the midwest. a big tornado watch currently is in effect in those areas as well. >> o'donnell: what do you think about tomorrow, david? >> i think again another round of severe storms is going to be likely. it could be in some of the same locations. in fact, our highest risk for severe weather tomorrow is going to be right over the mid part of the country: oklahoma, kansas and southern nebraska, but that risk extends all the way from texas to minnesota and, norah, we have a slight risk of severe weather in the northeast bounded by cleveland, buffalo albany's and maybe just to the north of new york city. a lot of the nation on guard for rough weather. >> o'donnell: david bernard, thank you. in southern california the winds died down today. that was a big help in the battle against a wild fire north of santa barbara. more than 600 fire fighters are on the scene. several homes and thousands of campers were evacuated. the fire has burned through 1800 acres. the firefighters hav

. >>> in a soldout oakland coliseum a's beat the kansas city royals 2-1 today. play the royals again tomorrow in oakland. >>> former u.s. open champ ken venturi has died just days after he was inducted into the world's golf hall of fame. i had a chance to chat with him at the fry's.com open recently. >> it's an honor. i've always said the greatest reward is to be remembered and i've always thanked the world golf hall of fame for remembering me. >> venturi grew up in san francisco and he overcame a stuttering problem as a kid to spend 35 years in the broadcasting booth. venturi of 82. >>> the weather is going to work for us tomorrow for beta breakers, isn't it? >> looks good, fog free, a nice day for san francisco. >> looking forward to beta breakers with you, everybody. good night. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv

severe thunderstorms near the kansas city and topeka area out there and in the areas of eastern kansas. that's probably the worst of the weather. as we go throughout the day today, more severe weather in yellow, chicago, detroit, indianapolis, st. louis that area of red a moderate risk of severe storms and torpnadoes, once again targeting oklahoma city, norman and the ozarks. it looks like st. louis is forecast for a top eight all-time flood it should crest on tuesday at about 40 feet. the city itself will be safe. the northeast stays hot today and tomorrow. it looks like the storms will clear the midwest by sunday. >>> coming up, it is sentencing day for the madam in the zumba prostitution ring. >>> oprah's advice for harvard graduates, plus burger king is offering a whole new way to eat the whopper. [ female announcer ] now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. for every year you don't

the yellows here, those are are severe thunderstorm warnings. we could see some straightline wind damage moving into kansas city and where you see the reds that is where we have the tornado warning. looks like a tornado warning for parts of oklahoma and into kansas south of the wichita area and then into iowa. that is a new tornado warning. and this unfortunately is going be the scenario as we head into the overnight hours when people are are sleeping. noaa weather radios need to be on and pay close attention to your local fox stations. the severe threat again extending from the midwest down through the big bend of texas with sort of a focus on the red shaded area where we think all of those ingredients are going to come together for the hail, for the damaging winds, long lived tornadoes as well. very destructive tornadoes. we have seen the video all day. damage has been documented in parts of oklahoma and kansas and now as we move into iowa. heading into tomorrow doesn't move much. the system continues to move eastward. affects will little more population. chicago, green bay with the focus on oklahoma city and joplin. just on the anniversary of

wichita and then could have straightline damaging winds moving through the kansas city area. just want to point out where we have tornado watches extending through oklahoma and kansas up towards iowa and minnesota for the next several hours and unfortunately this kind of scenario is going to kin into the overnight -- continue into the overnight and into tomorrow. norman, oklahoma. south of oklahoma city where we have reports of debris and some damage as well a tornado warning just north and east of chandler, oklahoma. up towards kansas. south and east of wichita here, west of independence kansas is where we have the tornado warning there. then moving into iowa. fort dodge. getting into heavily populated areas here. cities. a tornado warning east of minneapolis that has is since be lifted which is great news. you willunfortunately, we are g into heavily populated areas. damage could be quite severe and extreme in some of the areas as the storms push eastward and they are not letting up unfortunately. taking a look at the severe threat from texas all the weigh up to the midwest,

. >>> the a's are 6-0 against the houston astros and now 3-0 against the kansas city royals. a.j. a's trying to finish off a three-game sweep of kansas city. still a scoreless game in the second as there is a fly ball down to the left line making sure it's not a rally starter, making a nice sliding catch. the royals take a 2-1 lead in the 5th, adding to it when they picked up this hit. alex gordon comes around from second to make it 3-1, but the royals were kept off the score board the rest of the way by griffin and three relievers. the a's then caught up with single runs in the 5th, 7th, 8th. derek morris with a hit to the center and derek lowe misplaces it, giving us a chance to see the catcher run as he ends up at third and eventually scoring on a sacrifice fly. >> no problem. >>> still 3-3 in the 8th, losing one against calvin herrera. his 8th homer of the year. ryan cook gets his first save of the year as the a's get their sweep. all three wins by a single run. 4-3 the final in this one. they only need to look at their own clubhouse to find some big fans. >> he loves being up

the kansas side. patti ann: we're looking at some incredible video right now. sharon, you yourself, were you in the midst of all of this? what did you experience? >> i was in the kansas city, kansas area during the storm system. primarily it was just heavy rain and strong winds. we did some see tree damage this morning as i was leaving my neighborhood. patti ann: in addition to the tornados as we've been mentioning and you mentioned heavy winds, apparently some very large hail falling in the most affected areas. some of the damage is near the wichita airport and obviously as you mentioned to rural areas. any estimate or is it too early of the financial hit taken by this storm? >> it is too early to say on that. certainly with the amount of hail that was reported and the in the wichita area and even to the west with the larger hail than what wichita received we expect a significant amount of insurance claims coming in over the next several days to people who have damaged cars and damaged homes. patti ann: yeah. do most folks in that kansas area that was hit by this tornado have shelters, specifically for that purpose? >> it really varies from community to community. some p

moderate risk just to the north of kansas city down to the south of oklahoma city and all these stormsing around the 3:00 p.m. time today. tomorrow the storm is already moderate risk going through joplin and then east of kansas city but northern end threat of severe weather around parts of great lakes. tuesday is still under the exact same storm parts of the great lakes, it will be wednesday before we are completely done with this storm. >> jamie: keep us posted. thanks so much. >> kelly: good news to talk about. we have a winner -- not me -- from somebody that hit the powerball jackpot. $590 million. we'll tell you where -- wow! >> jamie: whoever that lucky winner is. supporting our troops. we can't do enough. there is one food truck company that is giving our vets a chance to own their very own business. everyone's retirement dream is different; how we get there is not. we're americans. we work. we plan. ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. to help you retire your way with confidence. ♪ ♪ that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can

kia was left inside an abandoned suburban that was towed to the kansas city impound lot. clue she was there and for the last month, kia was trapped. >>she had now where to go. >> reporter:no where to go. nothing to drink. nothing to eat. except for the trash in an mcdonald's bag and some old cigars. >> it's devastating to hear and then it's inspiring to hear all at the same time. so, hearing how this little girl who's 12 weeks old has lived in this car for this long in those conditions is just amazing. >> reporter:a lot employee spotted the pup in the dashboard of the car and called police, who then turned kia in to the kc pet project. >> she's really scared. she has been since she got she's shaking poor thing. but besides being dehydrated and underweight, kia is expected to survive. many have cursed the cool, rainy spring we've been having, but for kia, the weather made all the difference. >> life, the fact that it hasn't been so hot lately. so if we went into this week, i don't know if she would have made it. sound. >> reporter: and it's not taking long for her to make s

in particular watching dodge city, kansas, down through panhandles of texas, oklahoma. that's the highest chance of tornados. but a widespread threat, kansas city, omaha up on into minneapolis. john, diana. back to you. >> jim dickey, accuweather. thank you. president obama and new jersey governor chris christie spread a unified message at the jersey shore. at one stop they tossed footballs at a tire. christie needed one throw to put it through. the president missed five times but wound up with a teddy bear and chicago bears sweatshirt. later the men stressed the shore recovered well from super storm sandy but there is plenty of work to be done. >>> a truck driver is listed in serious condition after a freight train crashed into his big rig near baltimore. that collision caused the train to derail, and then a powerful explosion. the blast was felt at least a half mile away. abc's david kerley was there. >> reporter: the rail car burst into flames after derailing. as the fire intensifies watch this massive explosion. [ explosion ] >> back up. >> two warehouses had their walls shred

the sweep, kansas city, winning all 3 by one run to get back over the 500 mark.to the ice now, the sharks fell apart at the end of game 2 thanks to a penalty that led to a 5 on 3 for the kings. well, last night was san jose making the most of a 2-man advantage. >> in deep it goes, thornton, marlo. it scores. >> now, logan was the hero after briefly being side lineuped with an ankle injury. his return sent the tank into a frenzy and surprised some of his teammates. >> i just did not know it. >> he is a huge, huge part of the team. this is his coming out party, nationally people are starting to talk about him but we have known logan like this for a long time. >> the sharks can even that series tuesday night at the tank. tonight's sportscast was supposed to be following a game 7 in san antonio. did not happen. the spurs game 1 in the western conference finals. the frustrating day at the office for that man. zach randolph, memphis leading scorer held to 2 points on 1 of 8 shooting. meanwhile, san antonio could not miss. they knocked down a franchise record 14 3s. mat

rain around the metro kansas city area. ssouri, too. you can see the storms that we were just looking at on the left hand side of your screen. rain overnight with flooding concerns around central illinois, northern illinois. not in the chicago area but between peoria and chicago. flash flood warnings. one state park was evacuated. 120 camp sites in iowa. as far as flash flooding goes, rivers are coming down. more storms on the way. by the way, all of the green colored in counties are river flood warnings. we're expecting a significant flood. a lot of the small rivers that feed into the mississippi river and even a moderate flood event, north of st. louis as we go throughout the rest of the week. we have more rain on the way. we are just set up here for a hose of moisture spraying down the central plains each and every afternoon, given every 12 hours or so, thunderstorms dump torrential rain as the warm air is trying to move north and the cold temperatures of the great lakes is still in place over that area. today, one thing

. >>> the kansas city royals are leaving the american league ce >>> the kansas city royals are leading american 26, but for the past two days they have been trying to play in mudville. it has been no joy for their fans. they made the best of it slipping and sliding in the tarp in the rain on thursday. >> it looks like fun. heavy rain forced postponement of two games. up with after the royals and white sox had blogged through three-and-a-half soggy innings. it was the fifth of this young season for kansas city. >> look at that. welcome back to "cbc this morning" i'm anthony mason. >>> the fate of accused killer jody arias who is now in the hand of the jury her trial has been going on for four months in phoenix with tales of sex, lice and murder that made eight courtroom sensation for tabloid readers and tv viewers. >> you're the one that did this right? >> yes. >> reporter: over the past five years, the jody arias murder case has provided so much drama, there is already a made-for-tv movie in production and the verdict isn't in yet t. real story began on june 4th 2008 when arias' boyfri

also, just down to the south kansas city. we actually have thundershowers, chances in our forecast as well. these are lifting northbound on the north side of interstate 95. already getting ready to rain steadily here in manassas, quantico, wood bridge. over the next 20 minutes. seven day coming up. >> messy accident that could keep some in northern virginia out of work for weeks. the damage is substantial. news 4s, darcy spencer says it is what leaked out of the semitruck that made clean-up so difficult. >> authorities tell me that driver was driving here on route 29 at 5:00 this morning. when he feel asleep. now he smashed right into the front of this office building. fortunately, no one was here at the time. va vap state police say the driver of the rig lost control of the truck. he drove 25 feet off the road and hit the building. it houses a construction company. the driver walked away unharmed. the speed limit is 45 miles per hour here. that building stands alone in a rural area. an archery business is next door. >> had an

one time with the kansas city royals and carl crawford 2 for 6 lifetime against him. giants had a real hard time getting crawford out in that season opening series in l.a. that's in there for a strike. >> mike: stay on that inside corner. crawford likes to get extended. >> jon: hit a little bit better against lefties this year than against righties. .33 against left-handed pitching. just off the inside down around the knees for a one-ball, one-strike count. >> mike: he likes that ball away. and most lefties you face in the big leagues you're going to see breaking balls away. >> jon: ethier the possible go-ahead run at second with two down. stays in the infield. there's the throw. safe. and crawford a very fast runner, and he's supposed to be hurting a little bit. but he still beat that one out. a great play by joaquin har yas. >> a great play. just get to the ball, prevent it from going into center field. only the speed of crawford denies what would have been a spectacular play but the whole thing, it's fun to watch. kaufrd as you point out, way too much speed. got a

. >>> it was deja vu experience for the oakland a's and the kansas city royals in town and getting itlone. butler couldn't have thrown this ball in a better place and lands between three athletics and is an rbi. first malone with a based loaded no-out jam and he struck out to end the ending. the a's got one run on a sacrifice ply. moss got on the into a santana pitch. coco crisp scores on the rbi triple. the a's make it two in a row over the royals both by a-1 score. >> there is a certain personality we have come to expect from the giants in recent years, pitching and defense, their strengths. those straits have gone missing in their current road-trip. giants at coors field. this is how you make a fan happy pablo sandoval handing over a personal souvenir. blanco scores belt. belt doubled with two out and chatwood just called up from triple-a for this game. giants committed nine errors in their previous four game oz the trip. here is another one. tim lincecum throws the ball away from the dribbler by rutledge and the rockies took a 3-1 lead, lincecum not happy with the development. mor

there's the kansas city rain headed out towards odessa, eventually into st. louis. urban flooding st. louis and chicago in the next couple of days if you get one cell that hangs around too long. that's what we're expecting. we just see storm after storm in the same kind of place, the same thing that happened in san antonio, the cold front's not moving very much. dry line sitting here. that makes dry air pushing moist air in the air. i know this doesn't make any sense. moist air is actually lighter than dry air. that air wants to go up in the air causing severe thunderstorms. and that's what we'll have in the plains. and what they had across parts of the northeast was just the other part of the low, the backside of the low, the cold air dragging the snow dragging the cold air down out of the upper midwest and also down out of canada. i can't blame it on you canada all the time, but this time i think we can because 34 inches on white face mountain, i said this last hour, coldest fourth of july i ever spent in the world was on top of white face mountain, i think it mig

the gulf of mexico. and again, tomorrow kansas city toward chicago and st. ouis will see the chance of tornado producing thunderstorms into the start of the workweek. temperatures outside right now still 70s and 80s outside. temperature change running a few degrees warmer than yesterday. we'll repeat this for one more day tomorrow. the wind direction will be more out of the north tomorrow. it will unfortunately be increasing fire danger. you're starting to see that now. out towards the delta, these humidity levels will continue dropping off the fewer cast you'll see no low clouds on the coast thanks to the mixes down drier air, it will set the stage for warmer temperatures to come. we have high pressure building in for the next 24 to 36 hours. in some cases, could see low 90s inland. so around the inner bay, and humidity levels down into the teens at times tomorrow, and a sea breeze comes firing back up, and this will lead to a big drop in temperatures. another ten to 15 degree cool down. one real taste for summer, watch out for the dry winds, and overnight t

the east coast will deal with some rain. in kansas city up to severe thunderstorms with large hail. it's rolling on i-70 from topeka, heading over the top of kansas city n about a half hour to 45 minutes from now. keep that in mind. severe weather likely today. the areas of yellow, once again, the same spots. we've been doing day after day from chicago, st. louis, iowa, down through areas of missouri. this area of red once again, unfortunately for the fourth day in a row we're targeting oklahoma, including oklahoma city, tulsa. including areas up 44 towards springfield and joplin. today looks more favorable than yesterday for the potential of strong tornadoes. of course we will probably have those live pictures for you this afternoon when the helicopters are chasing them. hopefully they'll be over rural areas. today, gorgeous sunrise. heat is on. ac on full blast, but we do cool it off a bit on saturday. 80s, possibly 09 in washington, d.c. on sunday, the midwest dries out. midwest, cooler, all the stormy weather will head to the eastern s

the kansas emergency management, the spokesperson. where, precisely, are you in what do you see? what are you expensing? >> guest: i am in kansas city, kansas, and we have sun line and a last clouds and it looks like the storm is coming our way. we are monitoring the storms particularly in wichita. that is our biggest concern. >>gregg: how does emergency management community with the population? >> guest: we have individuals in the wichita area who are working in conjunction with the county. right now, we are communicating through our computer systems and phone lines to all emergency managers that could be in harm's way. we are aavailable to assist them if needed. we will continue to help out if they need help. there is this assistance requested but we have reports of damage potentially in the area of the mid-continental airport in wichita. at this time we are fortunate based on what we are seeing. >>gregg: this is referring to the county which coughs wichita, the airport is to the west of the downtown area and that is where the big tornado was seen and touched down but no reports injuries at this time, right? >> that is correct. th

it is important what commissioner marshall spoke to earlier, and echo about the tragedy in kansas city. we are talking about the 22-year-old mother who was killed and leaves a three-month-old baby. that is with these conversations are about. even though we are in a staffing crisis, the mayor and the people who sit on these chairs will address this but we are still down about 300 officers. thank you for your comments and the material beverly upton who keeps moving around back there. concerning our most vulnerable. in october we built a space in our most secure floor, behind locked doors, a place for children, and many of the folks behind me tr everybody has been sitting together, we are altogether all the time anyway. in october, domestic violence, elder abuse, missing persons, juvenile violence, came together under one roof. a putting the human trafficking task force regional effort. even though we are in the middle of hiring 1000 officers over the next six years, a critical piece of that and i will read this draft, officers convicted of domestic violence shall not be considered. it wi

ester george, the president of the kansas city fed-s going to be making one of her first major speechess a dissenter. she's the only fomc member who recently voted against the fed's credit-easing program. she joins three other fed district presidents and one board of governors member as inflation hawks. and this may make it more difficult for ben bernanke to continue to implement his programs. >> all right. we'll leave it there. we appreciate your time tonight. we'll be focused on all those events tomorrow. up next, banks prepare for battle. my observation on that. stay with us. clients are always learning more to make their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move, i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinars. i use daily market commentary to improve my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every step of the way. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) scottrade... ranked "highest in customer loyalty for brokerage and investment companies." >>> and finally tonight, my obse

cbs reporter, marlee hallhas the latest from kansas city. >> reporter: a reported tornado ripped through a mobile home park in shawnee, oklahoma. >> it's total devastation. >> reporter: rescue workers climbed over debris looking for anyone who might be trapped, and crews carried the injured to safety. severe weather slams oklahoma. picking trucking off the highway, and tossing them like toys. people are surveying the damage. homes collapsed as the wild weather moved through the area. >> the wind blew the cell air door off. all of a sudden, everything just seemed like it just went to pieces. >> reporter: in edmonds, debris swirled through the air. >> look at all the debris in the air. >> reporter: these storms are from a weather system spreading from the plains to the midwest. in viola kansas. a tornado snaked across the sky. a homeowner in iowa looked shocked as she surveyed damage. forecasters say the middle section of the country will likely be in for another round of severe weather monday. marlee hall for cbs news, kansas city, missouri. >>> rough berta gonzalez has been watch -- robe

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cold air behind it, that's that's the blue. kansas city, might just stay in the 30s.ng the day on friday. a little more snow behind it, but rain out ahead of it. cooler temperatures filtering in. some areas were really cold like kansas city. still a chance of rain on saturday throughout the southeast. all the way up to minneapolis. and whatever snow happens and the rain, we'll see that melting, chicago back to 65. showers throughout parts of the great lakes. monday of next week, still some showers. it's the same system, just slowly working its way out. a pretty good looking weekend by the way. 66 on boston. and pacific northwest completely scores the next several days, temperatures into the 70s and into the 80s. still seeing 70s and 60s in the west. remember weekdays on the weather channel from 5:30 to 7:00, you can "wake up with al." i see you've noticed my bottle of probiotics. isn't that for digestive health? yeah and did you know trubiotics is a daily probiotic that helps in two ways. it supports digestive and immune health by working in your gut where 70% of your

the east. today northeastern oklahoma through central missouri and kansas city and springfield, tulsa, oklahoman red, chance for large hail, damaging winds, and storms that fire too. and also the threat for flooding. that continues across the midwest. these areas have seen so much rainfall the past couple of weeks, flash flooding, river flooding a big time concern. kansas city even into the chicago area. john and diana, back to you. >> jim dickey, thank you for that. >>> at least seven people are dead following a collision between a minivan and a semi truck in upstate new york last night. the accident happened in the small town of truxton between binghamton and syracuse. the trailer portion of the truck crossed the median where it slammed into the packed minivan. several passengers, including several children, were killed. >>> potentially deadly letters were sent to new york's mayor and his gun control group. they were postmarked in louisiana. the threatening letters tested positive for the poison ricin. here's abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. where someone who hates mayor mich

we've been following them around the oklahoma city area, stretching on up into kansas, warnings galore. we're also looking at flash flooding in a lot of the slow-moving thunderstorms as well. tonight the red zone. minneapolis to kansas city, right on down towards tulsa and oklahoma city. tornadoes are likely. they could be large and long-lived, that means lasting for miles on the ground. and then tomorrow still more severe weather from oklahoma city on up towards chicago. so even more people will be included in those warnings. back to you. >> it's going to be a long night. kelly cass, thanks. remind folks the weather channel is covering this online and on cable. now for the train derail that snarled traffic into the northeast corridor. the ntsb continued its investigation today as tense of thousands of passengers brace for a difficult commute tomorrow. nbc's michelle franzen is in bridgeport, connecticut for us tonight. >> reporter: a new video posted on youtube captures the frantic moments after friday's train collision in bridgeport, connecticut. >> step over this. >> reporter: shock

the a's were in kansas city over the weekend where that's what orioles.in the eighth inning. this helped the a's beat the royals 4 to 3. the a's play the texas rangers today in texas that 5:05 p.m. our time. >> they painful day away for the giants yesterday. the colorado rockies won their first series over san francisco in two years, beating the giants 5 to 0. there is no place like home, after a 1 to 5 road trip. the starting pitchers had a 9.82 era and the filled in committee had 13 errors on the trip. the giants play the washington nationals tonight at at&t park is 7:15 p.m.. >> here is a live look outside and we will be right back. you kids should count yourselves lucky. we didn't have u-verse back in my day. you couldn't just... guys... there you are. you know you couldn't just pause a show in one room, then... where was i... you couldn't pause a show in one room then start playing it in another. and...i'm talking to myself... [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. there w

the students in kansas city need enough social fuel to hit the road to d.c. and lobby lawmakers for more hands on education. >> amazing. twitter rules the world. can't control the weather, though. >> at least not yet. keeps the weather man employed. weather man likes that. >> so does weather man's family. >> peek outside tonight on a friday night heading into the holiday weekend. a lot of folks getting into san francisco. don't have the fast track. clear skies in the back guard and there will be a clear friday night. let's take y tbeach because so many of you are heading to santa cruz. mainly sunny skies tomorrow, mild. some morning cloud cover movings in. afternoon sunshine, but it will not be as warm. now let's go to the mountains, lake tahoe, where it's going be chilly. lows near freezing. not too uncommon. sunshine, 62 tomorrow. 6 # degrees and breezier coming up on sunday. overnight lows tonight, right around 50 degrees. fremont 49. san jose 51. there are some changes coming, if you like sunshine, you'll like this first one, low pressure west of seattle

it's from the south of oklahoma city up justto the north of kansas city. east. send it ba to you inside. >> clayton: it's prom season. we all remember how terrible our prom proposals we our embarrassing prom proposals. now they are being taken to whole another level thanks to internet and posting stuff up on youtube. think it's maybe not just ut the prom proposal anymore. it's probably about trying to make i go viral. here is just a few examples on yourreen right now. >> alisyn: if you don't have flash mob. it ain't a prom proposal nows. do you knoat i'm saying? you have got to get the whole school dancing in right on your screen.d those are actual prom prals. >> tucker: i have a well-documented record of opng all change for its sake. but i have to say this is pretty cool. this is kind of creative and interesting. it's certainly more impressihan will you me with me to the prom? and getting 19 of your friends to break dae in the background i think it's kind of musing. clay clarify you would have been beating up for tha breaking out son a dance for proposal

the system is stalled out. yesterday burlington, vermont was 84 degrees. 39 in kansas in may. and it's still getting snow on the backside of kansas city. we sit here baking but there are changes brewing. system is going to move back from inland and park itself right off the bay area by probably sunday, monday. sunny and warm to hot inland. it's always a tough, tough call when that sea breeze kicks in but it will be one more day with way above average temps. plunging temps on sunday. cloud it up monday and tuesday. >> thank you, steve. >>> an american military plane crashed in central asia. the new information we just received about those on board. >>> also you are going to see what firefighters see as they go into a burning building. we'll give you a first person look at an overnight fire fight. >>> and here we go. a historic journey about to take under way right now. we're looking live at moffett field as this solar plane is taking off on the beginning of its cross country trip. >>> it crashed near the border of kyrgyzstan. the american official there says five people were on board. there is no word yet whether or not there is any su

the country. we'll be watching for that in kansas city and minneapolis. rain around the big cities like d.c., philly, and new york city. even up toward boston. boston high around 63. chicago tops out at 74. 88 in dallas. on thursday keep the umbrella for the northeast. highs near 79 in atlanta. so a warm-up in the southeast. highs around 70 for kansas city and chicago with some rain showers. across the west coast low 60s for san francisco and l.a. dry on the west coast for friday. highs around 91 in phoenix. 71 in albuquerque with some rain showers. off to the north of albuquerque around the denver area we'll see some of that through houston and dallas as well with highs in the low 80s in texas. rain showers continue for areas like albuquerque and denver into the start of our weekend. we're also going to watch for some rain showers along the east coast for the first day of the weekend. that would include areas like d.c. and new york city. highs around 60 degrees for new york. 72 in washington. 76 in atlanta. 80 in new orleans. by sunday rain showers still

the flight was from los angeles to new york and an air marshal had the pilot land in kansas city, shelamed the outburst on her diabetes. >> i think the problem was poor song choice. >> and execution. >> the surprising respond to the deadly capsizing of an america's cup catamaran on the bay and why the race now is attracting positive attention. >> the answers lawmakers will demand from caltran over the bad bolts on the new bay >> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> 5:00 on tuesday morning. thats for joining us. i am kristen sze. >> i am eric thomas. >> mike nicco, our meteorologist, how is it looking? >> a lot more sunshine than yesterday. hardly any clouds when you get away from the coast. no wet weather to speak of even at the coast. we will talk about what will happen this afternoon to downtown san jose. that is where we will get to 78 degrees a warm spot. the cool spot is 65 in san francisco. it will be breezy again like it was yesterday. we will see more sunshine at the coast with temperatures leveling off at 61 degrees and the dry air inland neighborhoods

kansas, right now. the sky darkening behind her. >> that is the storm that brought the tornado ripping through wichita, kansas. it's moving to our north and east. there's a tornado on the ground near oklahoma city. this is an active and fluid situation. we'll bring you the latest details throughout the night. but look at the wild weather so far. tearing across the kansas landscape, multiple violent tornadoes. watch as lightning illuminates this twister in sanford, kansas. that tornado also touched down near rosel, where it was caught from every angle possible. and big hail coming down. pummeling this windshield in nebraska. in oklahoma city, 60-mile-per-hour winds toppled power lines. there's been 300 reports of severe weather in 2 days. major highways turning into rivers. these semis stuck in north dakota. and in georgia, parts of the land under water. roads crumbled. the steady and intense downpour, flooding backyards. this playset submerged from the rising waters. >> it rained from 2:00 until 6:00, nonstop. >> reporter: and across the plains today, storm chasers, like me, are bracing for more. the threat still exists tonight. i want to show you the area that has to be concerned. it's from ok

minneapolis and kansas city under the gun for violent thunderstorms, possibly producing tornadoes. back at home, a whole different story. 70 and mild. muggy from eldridge to passa dina. temperatures stay into the 60s tonight. we are concerned about fog tomorrow with temperature around 63. and showers and storms tomorrow with temperatures close to 80 degrees. could hit 90 by tuesday and wednesday and we'll have a look at that forecast comingp. >> and people are still cleaning up. out in texas, some lost their homes and six who lost their lives. christie green is grateful she is alive. her home was in the path of an f-4 tornado that tore through granbury. they can hear their home being destroyed up above. >> i look at brandon and he goes a love you mom. and i said grab the closet door and shut it and he went to grab it and he flew out and i was right behind him. >> green and her boys wend flying. she did survive. she suffered a fractured neck and almost lost an ear. her youngest son is heading off to college to study meteorology. today we remember firefighters who died while doing th

we have the latest from kansas city, missouri. >> reporter: a reported tornado ripped through a mobile home park. >> totally devastation here. >> reporter: rescue workers weaved through homes looking for anyone who may be trapped and crews carried the injured to safety. the powerful storm picked up trucks and tossed them like toys. in edmond, oklahoma, debris swirled in the air as a tornado went across a usually busy road way. >> look at the debris in the air! >> reporter: the storm damaged roofs and took down fences. in viola, kansas, a tornado snaked across the sky. there are reports of tornados touching down in parts of oklahoma, kansas, and iowa. a home owner in mitchell county, iowa, looked shock as she surveyed storm damage in her neighborhood. it ripped apart barns and threw a piece of metal into power lines much the middle section of the country will be in for another round of severe weather monday. . >>> now they are predicting the storm system will die down before hitting the east coast but it could bring us weaker storms. we have more on that coming up in the first morning w

the beginning of may. it's not just icing. it's raining and chilly in kansas city. the midwest has all the issues out there. the white on this map is snow. there's snow falling from oklahoma, colorado, kansas, portions of nebraska, iowa, minneapolis and wisconsin. seven different states that right now, you could find snowflakes in. as far as the worst of it, just to the east side of omaha, that blue shading is heavy, wet snow. from des moines northward. it's snowing good in ames, iowa. and to the north, a snowy morning for you. anywhere east of minneapolis. so, again, the city of minneapolis avoided the heaviest of it. they're not complaining, i'm sure. at 36, they're doing okay. again, there's going to be a little more snow out there. the bigger issue is cold for this time of year. and a lot of areas are l get cold rain. st. louis into the weekend. >> this is going to make me feel guilty about enjoying the perfect spring. >> the east coast is nearly perfect. i didn't say it. you brought it up. i didn't want to rub it in. >> you're thinking of those people. >> i'll b

of course, more intense there, here from kansas city down to oklahoma city. tomorrow i the threat moves east and very slowly. this whole system is very slow. we'll watch that slide over to places like chicago, des moines could be included, all of the way to texas. large area, multiday-thing that we have to talk about. i have a bunch on flooding later. >> ginger zee, as she said on the broadcast yesterday, i don't chase sunshine. >> that's incredible video. >>> all right. now, let's turn to ron claiborne for a look at the developing stories. >>> good morning, everyone. an annual parade in virginia celebrating the appalachian state trial turned into a scene of horror on saturday when an out of control plowed in people. >> reporter: some 60 people are recovering from their injuries after this green cadillac plowed into annual parade. the car out of control at 25 miles an hour. >> the vehicle veered off the road on the right-hand side. started striking bystanders at that point and moved into the hiker parade. it struck a couple of other cars before coming to a stop. >> three pa

over the edge for adoption charity. >>> well, right after a couple threw out the first pitch at the kansas cityropped down on one name, travis, to boyfriend to the girlfriend, caysha. it was a great moment and he said it was a perfect moment to thank the person who saved his life and hopefully will have the rest of his life to thank. see, earlier this year, travis was given one of her kidneys and it happened just before valentine's day. travis was born with only 25% of a functioning kidney and his girlfriend, day girlfriend, taysha was a perfect match. and the reason they decided to do it at the royals game is because that's where they had their first date. >> speaking of mangrriage -- >> a proposal in five seconds flat. one groom going high-tech to pop the question. >> kurt bethman asked his girlfriend, marcia collier to marry him. he sent his proposal as a five-second video on twitter. collier tweeted back her response, a resounding, yes? >> short too. that is all for "early start" this morning. >> "starting point" begins right after this break. efs for charity, to prove that with soft fabric