strong thunderstorms will develop across much of the ohio valley and southeast. e storms could produce damaging winds and even large hail. elsewhere, scattered showers linger around the northwest, while the southwest remains hot and dry. >>> get another look at this morning's top stories. more powerful storms and tornadoes pounded the country's midsection overnight. at least 81 tornadoes were reported. at there were warnings and watches in 12 states. no deaths were reported, but dozens were injured. rescue crews are still looking for survivors in joplin, missouri. the death toll there stands at 125. >>> and following his visit to britain, president obama arrived in france this morning for the g-8 economic summit. the arab uprising, nuclear safety, and regulating the internet top the agenda. >>> with gas prices nationwide around $4 a gallon, lots of americans are buying smaller, more economical cars. if you're thinking about doing the same thing, there's good news in the latest crash test rules. small cars are getting a lot safer. sandra hughes explains. >> reporte

today the same system threatens the deep south and the mississippi and ohio valleys. the storm destroyed whole neighborhoods in joplin, knocking out power and phone service. the search for victims continues throughout the night. a state of emergency is in effect. the national guard has been activated. and fema officials are working with state and local agencies. joel brown has been tracking the storms overnight from washington. >> terrell, good morning. damage is just so overwhelming that people there are having a hard time even describing it. after an early report out of joplin, missouri, that at least 24 people had been killed, city officials quickly warned that they feared that the number could be much larger. the trail of destruction stretches for miles in joplin, missouri. dozens are feared dead, after the massive tornado tore through this town of 50,000 sunday, leveling entire neighborhoods. >> one minute it was just barely sprinkling, and the next minute, boy, just whole world just upside down. >> reporter: residents say there was little morning before the monst

the finger. [cheers and applause] it's no secret. i've always loved ohio from the time his a layover there to the time i drove through there. it's wider than you think. now there's another reason to visit the buckeye state. we turn to cincinnati's news leader. >> the ohio house has passed a bill that would allow those with concealed carry permits to have a gun in a bar, restaurant or sports stadium. >> stephen: sounds dangerous, but remember any baseball game already carries the risk you might die of boredom. i'm giving a tip of my hat to the ohio legislature for giving pitcher's duel a whole new meaning. i say it's about time we let guns into stadiums filled with testosterone filled fans prone to violence. best of all my life partner sweetness is a huge sports nut and i'll finally be able to bring her to the game. who knows, maybe we'll even get on the kiss cam! [laughter] now they loved you, honey. republicans say the representative danny bubka -- [laughter] explained why his bill is so vital. -- quote -- "you can't always count on law enforcement. you h

since last week, is literally sitting out there it seems like in the middle of the ohio river. ving items back in their home. on the other side of the street, they have got a play flower truck and they're thinking about moving furniture out because they heard the river is going to come up even more. well, officially it is not supposed to do that. so we'll keep our fingers crossed, the fact that it has gone down already. good news, dry weather through the weekend. but, again, many creeks and rivers still over their banks. record flooding or major flooding up and down the ohio and the southern half of the mississippi river. and until all this water drains out into the gulf of mexico, somebody along these rivers will have issues with flooding. back to you. >> mike, thanks. >>> u.s. officiales say dna tests proved they killed osama bin laden with a 99.9% certainty. how can they be so sure without having a sample of his dna? we'll be right back. ooh, a brainteaser. how can expedia now save me even more on my hotel? well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one

this to ease the pressure on the levee on the ohio river side and save the town of cairo, illinois. and this decision went all the way to the supreme court on sunday night. the first explosion went off last night, sending at least four feet of water across 130,000 acres of missouri farmland. this flooded 100 homes and left 200 residents homeless. now, there was a second explosion this afternoon, and a final one goes off this evening. now, so far the corps's plan has worked out like a charm. it's paid off. the ohio river has dropped a foot and a half from last night's record crest in cairo and they're expecting it to drop four more feet by wednesday morning. and brian, despite that the sun is out and there's no more significant rain in the forecast through the weekend, the ohio river behind me, which has swallowed up about four blocks here in metropolis, will not drop below flood stage until sometime next week. brian? >> unbelievable story there. mike seidel covering an incredible decision. one evil versus another. >>> we have in domestic news another headline in the news tonight has

the ohio and mississippi valleys are mainly clear. r today, strong thunderstorms will develop in the northeast and southeast. triple digit heat will return to the desert southwest, and the ohio valley gets a date to dry out. >>> in sports this morning, miami is going to the nba finals. in chicago, the heat's lebron james led a fourth quarter comeback. he made a jump shot to put them ahead. he finished with 28 points. james capped an 83-80 win by blocking a last-second shot by the bulls' derek rose right there. that would actually tie the game and gave miami the eastern conference championship. 4-1 over chicago. after the game, former heat star alonzo mourning handed over the prize. miami hosted dallas mavericks in game one of the finals on tuesday. >>> in baseball a dramatic walk-off win for baltimore. score tied in the bottom of the 12th inning, the orioles, a slow bouncer up the middle that scored the winning run. baltimore beat kansas city 6-5. in the national league, philadelphia pitcher cliff lee smashed a long drive to center fie

, along the mississippi and ohio rivers that so hard hit over the past month with very, very heavy rainfall. by the time all is said and done, here's the total forecast rain. 4 to 8 inches to add to the 10 to 15 that we saw just last week. many areas have already seen record flood. we will see record flood once again. perhaps even in the city of memphis, tennessee, as we work our way through the next several days. wow. another story right on the heels of this tornadic outbreak. lester? >> all right, jim cantore, thank you. one more note on the flooding. in cairo, illinois, which sits between the ohio and mississippi rivers, the ohio rose to a record level today. authorities have ordered the town evacuated because the flooding has already consumed part of the area. the army corps of engineers wants to destroy a levee on the mississippi river which would protect cairo but flood a huge area of farmland. today the attorney general of neighboring missouri asked the u.s. supreme court to block that plan. >>> the other big story we're

thacker, but the johnny appleseed society in urbana, ohio. we are located for this program in the johnny appleseed education center and museum and historic daily hall here at the university. we are here to listen to howard means talk about his brand-new book. this is his 10th book in its written a biography of johnny appleseed or john chapman and is here to tell us all about the book. the book is "johnny appleseed," the man, that's an american story. so i welcome howard. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. my book was published only five days ago and since then i've done taping sessions with some of the nationally syndicated radio shows. this is the first live event for "johnny appleseed" and it couldn't have been in a more appropriate. not only because we are in the newly renovated johnny appleseed center, joe dusek was one of the first people i contacted after simon and schuster agree to publish the book here before it written a word of it and show has been atrophic hope from day one, one of the johnny appleseed society arthur hump

in sports, a long and ugly scandal has finally forced the second most successful coach in ohio state football history to step down. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. it's a tactic often employed in the pr world, the best way to bury a story is to announce it on a friday afternoon or a holiday. so the ohio state buckeyes picked memorial day to shake up college football. jim tressel, head coach of the ohio state football team has resigned amyself a growing scandal regarding his players selling team memorabilia. tressel spent ten years in columbus leading the buckeyes to the national championship in back in '02. >>> it's as american as apple pie and pickup trucks, baseball on memorial day. in the windy city, an american bald eagle soaring around wrigley field. then clint barmes and hunter pence hit back to back homers. strohs may have the worst record in the n.l., but they put it outline together for a win. >>> shows up, gets down on one knee and pops the question. that's as cool as it gets. angels torre hunter has been calm, cool

we talked about cairo in illinois, the confluence of the ohio and mississippi rivers. o evacuate the 2800 residents, just one of the many places. farmland throughout southern illinois, missouri, arkansas, all being inundated with the rain. the problem is the rain is not over. we have a few more days of it. we'll get to it and walk to the wall to show you where the radar is and where we are seeing the rain. again, we have this line that's really just kind of crossing this i-40 corridor. here is a look. you can see this inundation called training. time after time these storms with this cold front not being progressive, thus not moving, so this rain we have seen between 7 to 12 to 14 inches in the last week or so in these areas. we have had severe weather earlier in memphis where a big outdoor concert is being held. there was a tornado warning. we have had reports of some hail. but also it started really early this morning. we'll take you right now to north texas with one-inch hail earlier this morning. this was kind of just the onset of it. hail and very strong winds gust

the tribes of ohio are making common cause with the british. there is an event that takes place, a horrible event that takes place in mansfield actually. they are rounding up green tree indium to send them to this very place right here, green town to march into urbana so they will be out of the british influence so they can't really sign up for the cause. they march them two miles away and they interthem. they burned their village. one girl, 12 years old i think she is, happens to be visiting from another tribe. her father comes to take her away and they shoot the father. they them and scalp them. the soldiers are drinking whiskey out of the scalp. it is a scene dionne description terms of horror and of course they were avenging, and attends an event cycle. so work comes the indians are on the warpath. meanwhile, the american, the garrison of soldiers and mob vernon had sent their choose to march these green town indians to urbana. there is not enough protection so they have this meeting, and i have to find us in the book. they have this meetin

this is the ohio river. the red coloring, those are flash flood warnings right now. all the ones you see isolated, we have many areas where there's water going over the top of the levees. we have dams that can't contain the water anymore. we haven't had any levee failures, but they've to evacuate a bunch of small towns, especially in southern illinois. our computers are saying a little more rain today, and then it's gone. we're going to have four or five days in a row. that's exactly what this needed. it's a slow process of getting all of this water into the mississippi. in memphis, the crest isn't going to happen until may 10. we've still got a week to go until we see the crest going down the mississippi. it's a slow process, and then we'll worry about it in areas like viksburg. as far as today's forecast, isolated storms. not going to be a tornado outbreak. if you live in areas of eastern pennsylvania down through west virginia, the mountainous areas of virginia itself, including the roanoke area, you could see isolated strong storms, damaging wind, maybe some hail

now it's all moving down the ohio and mississippi rivers. we're not raining anymore. it's going to be sunny and dry probably for the next week. that's how long it's going to take for many of these rivers to crest. right now the high water marks are right along the ohio river coming downey the paducah area that will crest sometime tomorrow. then it will take another week for the water to crest in memphis. this water is not moving fast, it's a slow buildup. in the meantime we have record flooding. there's homes the water is halfway up through the live rooms, just incredible. some areas have never seen water this high. the only saving grace is that at least we're not going to add to the problems. now we've got to wait and see after all the water cleblths how high the mississippi river gets. on the eefrnt seaboard, if you're waking up with us this morning, today is your rainy day. this is the same system that brought the rain to the flood system. now it's moving through charlotte and richmond. as we go into the afternoon areas, it will arrive in new jersey and new york cit

keep in mind, the ohio river goes right into the mississippi, doesn't it?ember the whole thing with the bird's point levee exploding in the cairo area. we'll watch this area. at this time our thinking is it's not going to be enough to make the river go back up, but it could be enough to keep that level higher for a longer period of time. now, something else we have to worry about is that the thunderstorms developing today are likely to be strong, possibly severe. we're watching an area from southern minnesota, stretching all the way down into parts of texas. we have two watches issued here in the last hour you can see one, dry line thunderstorms, possibly supercells possible. be aware isolated tornadoes will be possible and another one for western iowa, including into sioux falls and omaha. if anything is popping and hitting the ground, we'll let you know about that. >> thanks so much, jacqui. no one wants to see anymore rain in that region at all, even if it's half inch of rain. they don't want to see anymore. thanks so about a role reversal. see hot happe

there in the pacific and the rains are favoring the southern midwest record flooding going into the ohiover you to get a sprinkle lot of those particularly in the afternoon as it turns mostly sunny and wednesday we will turn southerly after that later in the week. here is the seventh day for tests 53 today to 63 tomorrow and 66 thursday. our next chance of rain

> we're looking for more severe weather across a good chunk of the midwest and also pushing into the ohio valley. you can take a look at this map. we have right now 11 watches, ie tornado or severe thunderstorm watches, encompassing 18 states across the country. they go through 11:00 p.m. central daylight time tonight. you can see a huge chunk of real estate stretching from texas where you need that rain all the way up through st. louis, chicago and even up towards the u.p. of michigan. stretching eastward towards lexington and chattanooga and maybe even atlanta could see severe weather as well as we head overnight. and we're not done. turn the page on towards your monday. once again towards the afternoon, the evening hours we see severe weather explode again stretching from central texas all the way through the southern plains, back into the midwest and the ohio valley. even as far east as pittsburgh could see more severe weather as we head on towards monday, including the risk of more tornadoes. not to mention heavy rain and flash flooding a huge concern. lester? >> all right, paul, tha

and overnight in the ohio valley including possible tornadoes in kentucky and pennsylvania. >> probably wasn't even 30 seconds and i could feel the house -- feel the house moving. i thought it was going to come in on me. >> scary, but so far this morning, only minor injuries are reported. >>> to the latest now in joplin, efforts have been hampered by 16 people were killed by the twister. it was the nation's deadliest single twister since 1963. no wonder, it was an ef-4 with winds approaching 200 miles per hour. an estimated 2,000 homes and other buildings were destroyed or damaged. the tornado was three-quarters of a mile wide and left destruction six miles long. randall pinkston is in joplin with more. randall, good morning, what's the latest on the ground? >>> good morning, terrell. i have been in a few war zones and the devastation i've seen here is easily comparable to anything that a bomb could do. look at this. this is the parking lot of the st. johns regional medical center. cars tossed around like match sticks. you can see indentations of hail on the back of that gray vehicle th

that's the ohio. ght at the confluence of these two rivers. if you look in the back here behind me, you can see a wall with a red barge in the background. that's the ohio. the levels of both of these rivers have gone down considerably over the last few days, meaning residents are back for the most part in their homes here. officials are warning them to leave in the evening hours. then come back and get things they need and stay here during the day. they're asking people to leave in the evening hours. the reason is because of the amount of pressure that is still up against that retaining wall, specifically in the ohio. there is some seepage. if any part of that were to blow of course the city would be flooded in a matter of minutes. people in cairo are very pleased the army corps of engineers decided to blow that two mile hole basically in a levee on the other side of the mississippi. they believe it may have saved their town. there are some farmers over on the missouri side who have lost everything. th

the ohio, remember, dumps into the lower mississippi river valley. this i don't think is going to be enough to necessarily bring those levels back up to where they were before or bring them back up to record levels for those of you that have receded. it could be enough that it could keep the levels elevated a little longer, keep the crest around a little higher, keep flood stage around a little bit longer. this is the forecast. we've crested in vicksburg, we're cresting in red river valley -- landing, excuse me, as well as natchez and retaining the man-made flow in baton rouge and new orleans. we're still looking at three weeks, talking middle of june, fredicka, before all the areas will be above flood stage. >> that's incredible. thanks so much, jacqui. we'll check back with you throughout the afternoon. >>> meantime, politics now. a big day in the world of politics. let's start off in atlanta where a new name has been added to the list of gop candidates. herman cane officially declared his candidacy. the former ceo of godfather's pizza told e suppo

maybe not even the ohio river. smaller tributaries and rivers and streams that all feed into those will certainly be impacted and could be rising. one last thing that i want to mention here are the travel delays, fredricka. a ground stop in effect for chicago. a lot of severe thunderstorms rumbled through there the last 20 to 30 minutes. looking at delays into the northeast. mostly clouds here. even out west we've got delays because of the clouds. a lot of travel issues, lots of severe weather breaking out. this will be ongoing through the night. of course, i'll be here all night long to help you get through it. >> keep us posted on all that. thank you, jacqui. >> sure. >>> scientists are watching a volcano erupting in iceland right now. you can see the plume of ash there. extraordinary pictures. it has forced the closure of the air space over iceland's four international airports. no flights into or out of the country right now. so far no european or transatlantic flights, however, have been disrupted by all that

i'm the directer of the johnny appleseed society here at urbana university here in ohio. we are located in the johnny appleseed education center and museum in historic bailey hall here at the university. we are hear to listen to howard means talk about his new book, his 10th book, and he wrote an biography about johnny appleseed or john chapman. the name of the book is "johnny appleseed, the man, the myth, and the american story. " i welcome howard. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. my book was published five daying ago, and i've done tapings with some of the syndicated radio shows, but this is the first live event for johnny appleseed, and, of course, it can't happen in a more appropriate place not only because we're in the museum. joe was one the first people i contracted after simon agreed to publish the book, but before i wrote a words of it, and joe's been a terrific help from day one, author humphrey helped and he gave freely of his time and knowledge once i was able to lanch on to him, and i say latch, but maybe more of a blood sucking parasite. [laughte

that's where the ohio river meets the mississippi river. ton of water coming from the ohio river. that's where the crest is now. it has to go tall way downstream over the next two weeks. the water on the mississippi is a slow journey down to the gulf of mexico. we crested at the fourth you a-time highest. now we are waiting for memphis to crest. looks like you are going to crest wednesday. upcoming week. probably second all-time highest river level. goes back over 100 years. this is one of the great floods being compared to floods of the 1927 and 1937. look at the very bottom of this crean. vicksburg, this thub your all-time highest crest on the 20th of this mop. we still have another week and a half to two weeks to go before we are done with the great flood of 2011 p. memphis, not a lot of rain in the forecast for you. that's good. it is too late, we saw so much heavy rain in april that's why we are seeing this record flooding. your weekend forecast, scattered showers and storms rolling through missouri. watch those near the derby this afternoon. then your mother's day forecast, j

>> well, not as much on the mississippi as say the ohio river and some of the smaller tributaries. we think that's est rain is going to be pouring. it could be enough to prolong, you know, maybe staying a little higher for a little longer. as we speak, the best thing i can tell you is if we didn't have a drop of rain for the next three weeks and everything stayed and held with all the levees and the spillways, the worst of this thing would be winding down right now. so that's the positive side of all of this. while we have crested in vicksburg there, we're still almost 14 feet above flood stage, almost 15 there in red river landing, and we're cresting still, so to speak, in baton rouge. and new orleans. and that's that kind of man-made crest that we've been talking about, holding it steady in new orleans at 17 feet. now, let's talk about where the rainfall's going to be in the next five days. and the heaviest accumulations are likely going to be in the middle of the mississippi valley and ohio river valley. the ohio river dumps into the mississippi river and makes its way toward th

right now the crest is just south of cape girardeau where the ohio river dumps into the mississippi.he reason the mississippi will take so long to get through all of these flood stages is because the ohio river is where the worst flooding is right now. there is a long journey down the mississippi. we look at these dates by all these cities, memphis, wednesday of next week, we are talking about next weekend. even after next weekend in greenville, mississippi. vicksburg is almost two weeks from now. this just going to take forever and some of these locations talking about the greatest flood ever. we do not need any more rain, of course. that will aggravate things. we have a complex of thunderstorms that's heading over the ozarks. that will arrive over -- right over the ohio river and right over the mississippi where the worst flooding is occurring. it is not going to add too many more problems to it. it is not fun to watch it raining while it is flooding. as far as the kentucky derby goes, lot of questions about the rain there. we are going to see showers during the afternoon. i think

they have fired dozens of rockets onto the road going to the ohio. shelling has caused the road to close. it was focusing on cutting the lines between gaddafi and his troops. >> so far, so good. rizzi and warm this afternoon. temperatures will make it into the low-80's. look at the hd doppler. we can see thunderstorms on the other side of the mountain. they are moving to a very unstable air mass. we could see some severe weather this afternoon and into this evening. the next few hours will be dry. 77 degrees at the airport with a south wind at 12 m.p.h. we will get to 82 degrees before the thunderstorms command. -- before the thunderstorms come in. >> a tornado of the destruction across of an, australia. cars were overturned the funnel cloud cut aid three-mile path of destruction, hitting a shopping mall, eight supermarket, and hardware store. -- auckland, new zealand. efforts continue in the south following the tornadoes that hit there. it is a race against time to clean up as much as possible and get tarps down before bad weather comes again. it is

we're watching the ohio river at record flood stage. where the crest is, the flashing light. that's where the ohio river meets the mississippi river. there's a ton of water coming from the ohio river. that's where the crest is now. it has to go downstream over the next two weeks. water on the mississippi, it is a slow journey down to the gulf of mexico. cape girardeau, it's the fourth all-time crest. this is really one of the great floods, being compared to the floods of 1927 and 1937. vicksburg, this should be your all-time highest crest on the 20th of this month we still have another week and a half to two weeks to go before we're done with the great flood of 2011. memphis, thankfully, not a lot of rain in the forecast for you. that's good. it's too late, we saw so much heavy rain in april. there are scattered showers and storms rolling through missouri. we'll have to watch those near the derby this afternoon. your mother's day forecast, scattered storms in the carolinas through areas of virginia and also wet weather in the northern r

we haven't seen the ohio this high since 1937. nly calls for desperate measures. this town has been evacuated. you know the pressure was so intense that the water was actually bubbling up from underneath the ground here. we had what they call sand boils, the arm corps of engineers had to combat against. remarkable situation here that they acted on last night. they still potentially have to do a couple more explosions down the floodway later today. >> what's the overall picture, rob? is the flood moving south and moving out to sea eventually, or are we still on the rise? >> reporter: well, there are some parts of -- even upstream still on the rise. we just had a bun. of rain, so places like metropolis, evacuation order there's, livingston county, potential failure of a levee there as well. this is not just unique to this particular town. right, the water released here does go downstream. they potentially may do similar actions downstream toward the boot hill of missouri. that decision has yet to be made. we'll see how successful thi

>> not great news across parts of the ohio and mid-mississippi river valley. as you heard earlier there's more bad weather. a lot of flooding rainstorms occurring across thosehe areas. the worst across western tennessee, membphis down to little rock, arkansas. flash flood warnings are in effect. there's a lot of heavy rain and thunderstorms moving through the ea this morning. looks like you could see upwarpdz of maybe 5 to 6 inches of rain in the next 24 hours and across most of the ohio river valley down into texas. severe weather, likely damaging wi >>> and good sunday morning to you, chilly morning outside. we have 45 degrees, clear skies in oakland. san jose also 45 degrees right now, a little bit of a southeast wind at 5. gilroy up towards napa, we're in the 30s this morning. dry air, clear skies, allowing the temperatures to drop off. as we head towards the afternoon, lots of sunshine and temperatures climbing nicely, mostly 80s inland, close to the upper 70s for san jose. and you can see the dry valley, close to 80 in livermore. turning warmer for the mi

hope is that by blasting through the levy the mississippi river will accommodate the rising waters the ohio river. if they do it will flood 130,000 acres of farmland in the state of mississippi. if they don't the rain swollen ohio river could flood communities in kentucky and illinois. >> ii would much rather issue a mandatory evacuation and nothing happen than not to do it and people loose their lives. >> reporter: more rain is falling on that area tonight. forecasters expect the ohio river to crest by tuesday, well above the record flood level set back in 1937. >>> also in the south today a pledge from federal officials to spread up the recovery of the area devastated by tornadoes. we rode along with the rescue crew still looking for survivors. >> we can all realize that after three days in rubble that possibly this is the last viable day. >> reporter: the crews get their assignments and head out. >> remember safety, watch out for your people, drink plenty of water, let's get to work. >> reporter: i'm riding with mobile fire search and rescue, a team trained to pull people from disasters

the ohio river has dropped a foot and a half from last night's record crest in cairo, and they were expectingto drop 4 more feet by wednesday morning. and despite the fact the sun is out and there is no more rain in the forecast through the weekend, the ohio river behind me which has swallowed up four blocks will not drop below flood stage until sometime next week. brian? >> unbelievable story there. mike seidel covering an incredible decision. one evil versus another. >>> we have in domestic news another headline tonight. it has to do with a colleague who is becoming a direct competitor. scott pelley has been named the new anchor of the cbs evening news. this follows five years in the chair for katie couric, and we welcome scott to the time slot. >>> recovering from the worst tornado outbreak ever in this country. has the government learned a lesson from some previous disasters? this country. has the government learned a lesson from some previous disasters? but look. this is doing fine. why? it's planted in miracle-gro moisture control potting mix. it holds 33% more water... than ordinary po

and yes, while we wake with up frosty conditions back across the ohio valley, there are roughly a dozen states back hereunder the influence of frost or freeze warning this morning. after the growing season started the general area along ohio and tennessee and lower mississippi valley dealing with flooding and dealing with really chilly temperatures. needless to say, though, that is the core of the cold air slide on top us today. we get sun here but it looks like we will actually have to battle that cold air mass. we will probably have to battle the northwesterly wind versus clouds trying to develop into the afternoon. but really, the next push of clouds will be during the day tomorrow. so, this afternoon, nice and comfortable, breezy and cool. tomorrow, we try to push in warm air. and then there will be more clouds during the afternoon and showers back to the west trying to sneak in late in the day. looks like we will hold them off until after the morning -- evening commute. and leading on into the weekend, we will try to get the showers out of here early saturday morning. could linger

that's how the researchers from ohio state were able to conduct their cancer study. >> the amish takeial networking to a high degree, but they don't do it with computers. they do it by chatting and letters, and talking with folks after church. so they know pretty well what's going on in their community and their extended family. by interviewing just 92 families, we actually covered 90% of the existing population in the county. >> the researchers think they already know the reason why the amish have low rates of skin cancer -- their wide brimmed hats and long sleeved clothing protect them from the sun. they're also protecting their health with fresh food from their farms and active lives. they don't go to the gym, which would be good to get aerobic exercise, but they're all working on farms and factories and construction. so they do heavy labor, so they're not sedentary. and the amish avoid tobacco use. so while we might not share their genes, we can all join in their healthy choices. >> all right, young america. what's your opinion? we'll find out in speak of the week. >> here's a mon

this is video from olive branch illinois where waters overflow the banks of the ohio river. the floods is a result of the u.s. army corps of engineers' attempt to relieve preciousure by -- pressure by blasting a hole in the area. they took the corps to court questioning the authority to intentionaly -- intentionally breach the area but they said it would take years along with millions of dollars to fix the damage done. the u.s. supreme court declined to intervene and in that happened on sunday. >>> well cameras captured a water spout popping up in hawaii. it was spotted monday night at a storm moved -- das a storm moved through. two spouts formed off the coast combining into one larger spout. no damage was reported but that is an interesting video and interesting i am the equivalent of a tornado along the ocean? >> now maryland most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >>> 6:14. yes and no. water spouts are weaker than standard tornadoes. but essentially the same function. they are pulling in air from the directions and circulating up

the mid-80s. here in washington, probably low 80s. look at columbus, ohio, cincinnati. only in the mid-40s right now. pittsburgh is only 49 degrees and that's the chilly air that's going to be coming our way. over the last 12 hours, a conveyor belt of rain from new mexico to the ohio valley is now about to come into the mountains and cross mountains and come into west virginia and come our way, but that is not going to be until later this afternoon. before then, though, partly sunny with temperatures hitting the low and mid-80s throughout much of the region. just a small chance of an isolated storm popping up this afternoon, and then a greater chance tonight. we'll look at tonight in detail as well as tomorrow, some changes. i've just analyzed some new data. that will be coming up in a few minutes. >> tom, thank you. >>> let's check on the driving out there, see if there's any problems you face heading out. here's tanya wilmer-hutchins. >> after pennsylvania, it will be slow in east capitol. let's take a look in virginia now. we're dealing with construction there as well

back in the ohio river valley and pennsylvania, this will come our way. e total amount of it so far has been fairly light. .003 at bwi. typical high on the first day of name commits a day in baltimore, highs in the 60's. only in the low 60's on the interior shore. just to the southwest, developing and head of a warm front and a pretty close to 70 degrees in central ohio. richmond had 68. the warm front of the getting closer as the day goes on. we will even the sound of 48-55 degrees. the showers should move out earlier tonight followed by mostly cloudy skies with a live southeastern wind. we will see a lot of clouds and the temperature will come up. there are some big storms rumbling right into northeast texas. the same scenario from last week just not with the power or energy associated with last week's storm system. were the two are colliding, the big thunderstorms. scattered hit and miss showers throughout the day and off and on tomorrow. as we getting to the afternoon, a thunderstorm is possible. finally, the cold front will go wednesday night into thu

if you went along the ohio river leading up to caro, you'll see an amazing levee. of wall of protection, concrete wall of protection which every river community would love to have. on the mississippi side, not so much. but the interesting thing that i found when i went down there is even that side of the river, ohio river, with this huge concrete levee has serious problems. it turns out the water level is so high that the pressure of the rising ohio river is forcing the water into what's known as sandboils. so out of nowhere in the midst of a lot or street, up pops a geyser of river water. you think, what's going on here? it's, you know, 10, 15, 20 feet away from the levee. we will, that's because the entire ground is so saturated an the river is working its way underneath eating up the under layer. i walked along with a national l guardsman taking pictures of the screen. we took to one place where water was bubbling and as the national guardsman was taking my photograph, the street collapsed under him and he fell two or three feet down because all of this water had

i thank the senator from ohio for his leadership. i wonder in the last 30 seconds or so he wanted to reflect especially on trade and jobs which has been his specialty. mr. portman: i thank my colleague from tennessee for helping to promote this idea and, again, we're looking to reach out to democrats in this chamber, in the house, working with the administration, to actually get this done. we need to get the american economy back on track. and as i just heard you talk about trade, we talk about that earlier, but as was said earlier, we need to increase exports. because exports equals jobs. if you look at these three pending trade agreements that the administration has yet to send up to the united states congress, and we can't move until they do that they would create 250,000 to 300,000 jobs -- 300,000 jobs. it would help our farmers, workers in these three instances. we need to private president with the authority to knock down more barriers by giving him trade promotion authority. i call on the trade administration to send us those a

i have concerns like the .nderground tanks >> the ohio river started to yesterday.ome spots any relief and they can get is good. our route here we have a really nice day, and looks like. >> the first of two disturbances will be moving through this evening. we don't really have the strong.rs for anything it is really just not there -- >> just an annoyance. >> nuisance, an annoyance, variety, whenever you it. to call let's look at the time lapse with the sun rise over frederick. the new earth and space science center. level clouds. 65 degrees downtown as we overlook the potomac into d.c. pitiful picture on this by afternoon -- beautiful picture afternoon.day annapolis along the water at 63. rising this afternoon into the lower seven days, but mid-70's south of the metro. breezy at times, especially metro.f the these are steady winds at 13 miles per hour in annapolis. it is not as bad as the dust yesterday -- gusts yesterday. cloud cover of west virginia. disturbance affecting us is really falling apart. it will not pack much of a punch at all. sunset this evening. second system is an are

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walsh tells me there was so much more at stake. 80 miles of shoreline along western kentucky on the ohio river. 120 miles from commerce, missouri down the mississippi to helena, arkansas. these are all areas with levees that could have been overtopped by the rising river, walsh says, if he hadn't acted. and when the time came, after consulting with scores of engineers and experts, it was his decision to make and make alone. >> so you're it. you're the top of the chain of command. you didn't have to kick this up to the white house or anybody like that to say hey, we're going to flood a significant portion of missouri? >> certainly we keep the vertical chain in alignment and informed on what decisions i make. but the decision in accordance with the program is for the president of the mississippi river commission. >> and that's you? >> and that's me. >> and there wasn't much time. just eight days from an alarming weather forecast to walsh's worst fears coming true. >> how did this affect you personally? >> well, certainly, i know many of the people who own land there and i've been to their

well for mother's day tomorrow the earlier storm that came through chicago is now pushing through the ohio reported. what does our computer suggests? the next system that will be affecting us monday and tuesday and more rain expected. tonight's forecast is mostly clear skies we're looking at late to breezes with low temperature 43-47 degrees wins coming out of the east. for sunday it's mostly cloudy, the wind will continue off of lake michigan. high 53-67. sunday night clouds increase and may be a shower. and monday cloudy skies could get a thunderstorm cell look for periods of rain not a great way to start though work week. but what about the next seven days? tuesday and wednesday the temperatures will soar but it is expected to be messy showers or thunderstorms from time to time. mother's day has an increasing cloudiness but it should be a dry day. >> at least it's warmer. today is national train day and a seven year-old boy had his best wish fulfilled. he loves trucks and trains and anything else that has to do with transportation. he has a medical condition that france's life but all t

as i mentioned, the heaviest is going to be for the ohio river valley, extending towards st. louis. does this affect people down stream? well, it's exasperating to say the least. i think we're fought going to see any significant fluctuation that takes place in places like natchez and vicksburg and in baton rouge. the frustration factor more than anything. we'll see these little crests every now and again. it will kind of ebb and flow. it's going to stay high for the next several weeks. we're looking even into mid-june where some of these rivers are still going to be way above flood stage. i just updated these. these look to be just about it for these areas. right around the red river landing. it is now 15 feet above flood stage. if you can imagine that. you know, 15 feet above where you would normally see a flood stage for the mississippi river and that's why it is such an attraction for people to go down to the river and take a look at what's happening there. today could see thunderstorms rumbling across the mississippi river valley and ohio valley. >> all right, karen maginnis wit

engineers blew up a levee to lower water levels on the mississippi and ohio rivers. e town of cairo, illinois, but it ruined 200 square miles of farmland for the planting season. >>> the united way of central alabama and birmingham tv station, that is wtvm, are hosting a telethon for tornado victims today. you can direct your donation to any state affected by the tornado outbreak that happened one week ago. now, here are three ways you can donate. first, you can text tornado to 50555, to make a $10 donation, or you can go online to uwca.org, or call the toll-free number, that is 855-205help to make a donation. very good cause. here's a look at what's ahead this hour on the rundown. first, taking down bin laden. how navy s.e.a.l.s actually train. >>> and the cost of killing bin laden. it goes way beyond the raid. >>> and then finding bin laden, tracing the intelligence route. the white house photo that has gone viral because of its presidential death stare. >> he looks like he's got the weight of the world on his soldier. >> this picture will go down in history. it's a