severe storms brought high winds and pounding rain to upstate new york. one driver captured the chaos in the city of troy. after the system moved through, residents couldn't believe the damage, tree limbs littering the damage, power lines. one woman trapped inside her car. she is okay. >>> breaking overnight, that weather, a possible cause for this accident. seven people are dead following a collision between a minivan and a semi truck in upstate new york. the accident happened near the small town of truxton between binghamton and syracuse. police say the trailer portion became detached from the cab, crossed the median and slammed into the van. all of the victims were riding in the minivan. two people in the truck were not hurt. >>> an army sergeant charged in the massacre of 16 afghan villagers is pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty. his lawyer says staff sergeant robert bales was crazed and broken the night of the attack, but he was not legally insane. families of the villagers killed in the massacre had been demanding he be executed. >>> pakista

and we even have areas of severe weather right now affecting upstate new york. some severe thunderstorms are currently moving toward the albany area. >> o'donnell: what do you see in the forecast for tomorrow? >> looks like more of the same. tornado alley, the mid-part of the country, that looks like where the worst of it is going to be. the highest threat, again, from north texas through oklahoma, kansas, missouri, right into upper portions of the midwest. when we look at the atmospheric conditions tomorrow, norah, it looks like more of the same. the highest threat tomorrow is going to be for more damaging wind, large hail and the possibility of more of these destructive tornadoes. it's certainly the height of tornado season in the plains. >> o'donnell: david bernard. thank you. we learned tonight that the new york city place department says two anonymous letters addressed to mayor michael bloomberg contain traces of ricin, a deadly poison. they say one was opened at a mail facility in new york, the other in washington at the offices of bloomberg's gun control

you go from snow, more than three feet in upstate new york, now to the 90s, even in some spots. look at the numbers with me. temperatures in new york city, going to get to 80 by the midweek. and here in d.c., 87. so, close to 90. >> wow. a big change coming. ginger zee, we'll see you first thing in the morning. >>> now to the fast-moving investigation tonight. a high school bomb plot halted. and this evening, police are now searching an oregon high school before allowing any students back after the holiday, after uncovering what they say was a student's plan to blow it up. there were bombs and a date set, they say. and here tonight, abc's linzie jan janis. >> reporter: tonight, 17-year-old grant acord, whose photo we're obscuring, is behind bars, because police say he was planning an attack on his school to rival columbine. >> this person had taken substantial steps and actually manufactured devices that would have been capable of causing significant injury or death. >> reporter: police say it all began late last week when they got a tip-off from a 911 caller, saying acord was pl

pressure off the coast that is bringing rainy, wet, unsettled and cold weather across portions 6 upstate new york into new england. it's cold enough for snow where we could get six to 12 inches in the highest elevations. white and green mountains, unheard of and 5-15 degrees below average but a warmup is on the way. we'll be getting into the 70s and even the 80s by late next week. taking a look the rest of the country, we're looking at potential for showers and thunderstorms across the plain states. a lot of moisture working in from the gulf of mexico and threat for severe storms, not a severe outbreak but we could see hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes across the high plains into the missouri river valley and mississippi river valley. close watch on moore, oklahoma, where they have that devastating tornado earlier this week. temperatures are warmer and the storms have subsided so clear and dry conditions for much of the weekend and into the week next week. a quick look at monday forecast. we're going to continue to see showers and thunderstorms across the central u.s. we're not looking

a lot of large hail and within reports in pennsylvania, upstate new york and through the higher elevations of virginia and north carolina. humid morning up and down the eastern aboard. a lot of showers and thunderstorms through central georgia and further to the north and rain coming on to the shore of coastal carolinas. showers and downpours in areas of ohio, virginia and west virginia. later on today we'll see additional chances of strong stms in these areas. areas in yellow includes philadelphia, washington, d.c., albany and outside of syracuse and burlington, vermont, chance of seeing wind damage with large that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your windo just taking a look ahead unfortunately for a lot of you up there in new england this is not going to be a pretty memorial day weekend. it looks like even though we have thunderstorms today, chance of rainy and cool weather through the weekend. also today thunderstorms return to oklahoma. i'll give you that forecast later. >> a quick question about that video. if we see that funnel cloud woul

three feet of snow falling in upstate new york along the vermont border. on the unofficial start of summer. meteorologist is live in the weather center. where is the worst? >> we'll be dealing with the threat for severe weather across the central u.s. and the rockies through the afternoon and the evening. we already have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of montana, wyoming, and south dakota. we don't have any toward warnings but those could come at any time this afternoon, through the evening. we have a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of south dakota and all of that flooding rainfall in parts of iowa where we saw close to a foot of rainfall. this evening, a widespread area across the northern plains, into texas, with a bull's eye where we can see the potential for large tornadoes throughout the afternoon and evening, parts of kansas through nebraska. and the flooding is incredible. over the last 48 hours, in some cases six to ten inches. parts of iowa still in flashflood warnings where flooding imminent and we're expecting potential fo

in some parts of the country, it looked a lot like winter, oh, yeah, an upstate new york city mountaineted with fresh powder. in this video, you can see how the blizzard like conditions turned the roads into a one-lane mess. >>> in new hampshire, santa's village amusement park was forced to close because of too much snow, can you believe it? we are sure some kids are upset about the closure, hopefully the irony of it all wasn't lost on that snowman. meteorologist bill kierans is here. i can't believe it is snowing. this is the unofficial start of summer. what is going on? >> saturday was, yesterday wasn't great, saturday was unbelievable. so that storm is gone. so what's left? we talked about the horrible flooding out of san santonio we are dry down there, at least. but all the problems today and really the next couple days will be through the mid-west. we kind of have that typical clash of the cold air. that storm exiting nujd -- new england. in between is where the thunderstorms are rocking and rolling. we have a large complex of storms. all the white flashes on there are the lightni

new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravity from the mountains pushes the water upwards toward the surface through vertical shafts. these shafts feed the water mains of each neighborhood, which branch into smaller pipes below the streets... feeding into buildings and houses, into the plumbing, and finally, after its long journey, to our faucets.

jon: and snow in upstate new york? >> snow in upstate new york.a very chilly start to the weekend. but, jon, get this, some people in the northeast could be at 9 degrees by thursday. a lot of fluctuations across the country. jon: big, big swings in temperature. maria molina, thank you. >> thank you. uma: we have dangerous new developments in syria's bloody civil war. why the conflict that left more than 70,000 people dead could spread beyond the country's borders. >>> plus new research revealing a possible link how long children sleep and their genes. we'll look what is it could mean for youngsters and their development as they grow up. @í0x;ñt jon: this is general martin dempsey, our nation's top uniformed military officer speaking now at the amphitheater at arlington national cemetery. the president is due up next. when he addresses the crowd gathered there we will take you back there live. >> our sons and daughters are on patrol in afghanistanners right now there is a growing concern that syria's bloody civil war might be spreading beyond its

ch possibility of hail, damaging da wind and certainly some heavy hv rain and that goes up to upstate new yorkat we're watching tonight that slight risk for for severe storms will continue forr the next several hours. ho for our area, this evening, andd temperature wise, it's still really warm, so the storms areme feeding on the humidity and thee temperatures. while we're 84 degrees, look att what has happened in the winin chesner the last couple of hours.rs 66 degrees, much cooler and rain cooled out to the west.west a shower or storm is possible, tonight. 71 degrees, after the sun depose down, you will get a preak. pr there may be another trigger trr overnight that may produce showers. a little storm tomorrow, folks, it's going to be cloudy, cl 82 degrees, if we get some sunshine, and the thunderstorms that pop up could potentially bb stronger, but right now we're we thinking there's going to be aia few waves of this so that might take a little bit of the energy out of the atmosphere. i wouldn't rule out strongng thunderstorms, again if we getiw some sunshine. it will be a few showers, as ea

oh, yeah, an upstate new york ski mountain was blanketed by fresh powder. deo, you can see the police ard-like conditions turned the roads into a one-lane mess. >>> in new hampshire, santa's village, amusement park was forced to close because of too much snow, can you believe it? we are sure some kids are upset about the closure. hopefully the irony of it all wasn't lost on that snowman. meteorologist bill kierans is here. >> for everyone in new england, saturday wasn't grey, it was unbelievable. so that storm is gone. so what's left? we talked about the horrible flooding out of san antonio. we are dry down there, at least. all the problems today, really the next couple of days will be in the mid-west. we kind of that have warm humid air over the middle of the country. if between is where the thunderstorms are rocking and rolling. we have a large complex of storms. all the white flashes on there are the lightning strikes. there is just a classic collection of storms rolling through the central plains with wind damage as the primary threat. severe thunderstor

and the northeast, we saw earlier tornado warnings in upstate new york. a lot of areas getting severe weather this evening. we'll continue to track it. across the area that you see shaded in yellow, that's where we have our slight risk of severe weather through the evening hours. you can see the lines kind of scraping through. with that, we think damaging winds certainly will be an issue. even up towards upstate new york and parts of new england we're going to look for the threat of severe storms. just keep that in mind and keep your noaa weather radios on and keep alert to the weather bulletins. looking at the satellite forecast for you as we move further out in time. east texas watching you. louisiana up towards the mississippi river and the tennessee river valley, greta, the good news is it's going to be your garden variety thunderstorms as we get into wednesday and clearing pattern as we move into moore, oklahoma, which is certainly great news. it will be cool tonight, temperatures will warm up. a slight chance of storms later this week. but nothing s

we saw warnings in upstate new york. so a lot of areas getting severe weather this evening. we will continue to track it. but here, you can see the areas in shaded in yellow, that's where we have the slight risk of severe weather throughout the evening hours. you can see the lines scraping through and with that, we think damaging winds will be an issue. even up towards upstate new york and parts of new england, we are going to look for the threat of severe storms, keep that in mind and whether the radio is on and keep alert to all the weather bull 10s. as we -- bulletins. east texas, louisiana and the mississippi river and the tennessee river valley. it's a guarden-variety thunderstorms into wednesday and a clearing pattern as we move into moore, oklahoma, which is great news t. will be cool tonight. temperatures will warm up. a slight chance of storms later this week. but nothing severe on the horizon, although, greta made mention that may is typically the busiest month for tornadoes. so they are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. >> janice, that this o

in vermont and upstate new york, emergency crews plowed snow in higher elevations and restored power to homes after a late-season storm. temperatures have been 10 to 30 degrees below average for this time of the year and up until today rainy and cold. now the sun has come out. so have the crowds. >> this has been inusual even for the east coast to have it turn so cold. but we're dealing with it. >> reporter: at jones beach, people braved the blustery weather to take in the annual memorial day bethpage air show. the remainder of the holiday weekend calls for warmer weather, along with the potential for more storms later this week. michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >>> now to the memorial day forecast and the threat of more severe weather later in the week. meteorologist todd santos joins us from weather channel headquarters. todd, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. we are going to see at least some improvement especially for the northeast. the winds should settle down. we'll see 70 degrees from new york up towards boston. at least there is kind after bonus day this w

all of this impressed the jury in upstate new york. the same prosecutor's witness that has divided the 80's to the kelly michaels case, her theory being that, as a child says no, no, no, nothing ever happened, was the absolute proof that something did happen. and the jurors thought that. she was here to say that roughly in the same way again. how is it, you could asked, that prosecutors could pick for their expert witness so discredited an expert as this particular one. eileen treacy was her name. she had been denounced regularly. people wanted to do nothing with her. because prosecutors want to win. they call one another of and say i need an expert witness. call eileen treacy. we'll get her for you. that's the way it works. what i'm saying is an ugly truth i think most people apprehend. prosecutors have among them some -- many honest people who know the meaning of their -- the integrity and uphold their -- but others, many others simply want to win their cases and will go down to their last breath when someone has been acquitted sayin

one company in upstate new york is at the forefront of the new cyber battlefield, tracking down and stoppings. eamon javers has more. >> on the front lineses of the cyber war things look much different than u.s. military veterans are used to, just ask former u.s. major general. >> unlike most of my experience in the military where i had clear, technical advantage, and there are lots of us that are compared to the people that are coming at us don't have so much technical advantage. >> in the army fastbend who now oversees advanced information systems for contracting firm accelus always had the upper hand when it came to technology and manpower and in cyberspace that's not always the case. they can find themselves tangling with elite chinese army units probing every nook and crane of the u.s. defense and industrial base. >> you find you have an adversary that's adapting very, very quickly. >> that's forcing the united states to adapt quickly, too. on monday for the first time the pentagon made it clear what many in the u.s. government had discussed obliquely before. the u.s. government is bein

. >>> also a deadly plane crash in upstate new york. rescue teams are searching for the pilot of that plane. it went down in a pond near albany early this morning. investigators say at least two people were killed on impact. sadly to report, the plane is reportedly owned by angel flight, which is a nonprofit organization that moves sick patients for free. no word yet on the cause. the faa investigating. >>> i'm jamie colby here at fox. we'll send you back now to cavuto on business. have a great day. >>> all right. you get by with a little help from your friends because when the government wants to snoop on a.p. reporters or other reporters like fox's james rosen it needs help from verizon and google to get access like calls and e-mails. usually the companies say no problem. adam, you say when that happens, big problem, huh? >> yeah. the bar should be extremely high before telephone carriers and internet companies give anything to the government. they should resist as much as possible. we don't have an absolute right to privacy. the gove

we are almost into june but parts of upstate new york and vermont are covered in up to three feet ofeantime the threat of tornadoes returns this week for parts of the country including the oklahoma city area. weather channel meteorologist kelly cass is monitoring it all for us tonight. kelly, good evening. >> good evening, natalie. i'm happy to say temperatures will be warming up in the northeast. that should take care of the snow that accumulated in the higher elevations of the northeast. as you mentioned we expect severe weather in the middle of the country. in fact, storms are already firing up. we have seen flooding in iowa with several inches of rain there and now a tornado watch in nebraska and kansas until midnight tonight. here's a look at the threat for tuesday. it extends from pittsburgh to chicago into texas. it does include portions of oklahoma. unfortunately it only gets worse on wednesday. this is when we think we'll have the peak of the severe weather. we are talking about a possible tornado outbreak. look at that. it puts oklahoma city and moore right in the middle of

upstate new york had serious storms around albany that dove down into areas of western massachusetts last night. 23 tornado reports yesterday. none that caused significant damage. as far as our storm tracker this morning, numerous areas of very heavy torrential rain around tulsa. these are slow-moving storms. this is where the flash flooding comes into flay. near wichita, nasty storms to your north and west of town. all of this is headed up into the flooded regions of the midwest. especially all the counties covered in green have flood warnings, including northern missouri, much of iowa and western illinois. this is all the areas that go into the western mississippi. already major river flooding on the mississippi, and we're expecting a top five all-time flood on the mississippi. that's historical. by the way, mid-atlantic today, yesterday was warm and steamy, today we'll turn it up a notch, low to mid 90s. >> love it. i live for this time of year. >> i think you're in the minority on this one. this is my time of year. >> you have the nice new hair cut, too, so you don't have to worr

upstate new york and areas of pennsylvania got nailed two days in a row. today will make it three. we also have a slight risk of severe weather there in north texas and areas not far from oklahoma city. so i mention that area from the northeast through pennsylvania. later on today from burlington, vermont, albany, new york, scranton and hudson valley outside of new york city, poconos through philadelphia, altoona areas and even washington, d.c., we all have a chance of seeing a few strong thunderstorms during the day to day. the next threat, west of oklahoma city. maybe isolated tornadoes. that's a lot of rural country. hopefully the storms will stay there. the northeast and again a little section there of north texas at risk for strong storms today. i don't expect any big huge tornadoes. >> that's good news. thank you so much, bill. >>> just ahead, we'll take you back to oklahoma and speak with a heroic teacher who helped get all of her children to safety. >>> plus, an impasse in the jodi arias trial as jurors struggle to decide her fate. flying is old hat for business travelers.

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warnings and we have cold front to drop the temperatures and cold enough for snow in portions of upstate new york and vernont and new hampshire into monday. hopefully it is the last of it. we have freeze warnings in the great lakes and the aplatchian areas and vegetation will suffer unfortunately. your lows will be cold. warmer in the gulf coast and the west. we are looking at warm dry conditions and early next week. tomorrow's highs we remain warm and warm up in the midwest and northeast especial low on tuesday. they are jumping up 30 degrees from what they will be tomorrow. harris, happy mother's day to you. one of my favorite mothers. >> right back at you. >> a wild scene caught on camera and bicycles and get that guy on the bike. they are chasing a bear on the lamb. they have been trying to coral this guy for days. >> hum. i don't know. that would be on twitter, i guess. they got it in the cage. with my friends, we'll do almost anything. out for drinks, eats. i have very well fitting dentures. i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the

a few flurries, yes, in upstate new york and parts of new england. but really, the rain is the dangerous part. that's why i want to get to how much rain is still going to fall. parts of vermont have seen a month's worth in just a week. record rain yesterday, and they have another two inches possible through sunday. >> all right, ginger zee with us. and another warning spot to watch? >> right, flash flood warnings all day here, austin, you can see pictures here, from austin, big thunderstorms coming down. down to san antonio, closing numerous roads in both those big stills as so many folks get on cities as so many folks get on the roads. that's going to be a big mess. but i've got great news for the memorial day weekend, on the day itself, on monday, looking much dryer as the storms move out of the northeast. you can see it there. if you want warmth, go to the southeast of the southwest, because the center of the nation, going to stay stormy. >> the center once again. ginger zee with the entire weather picture. ginger, thank you. >>> and we move on to

that's three feet of fresh snow in upstate new york. d at killington, in vermont, they opened up again, using every last inch. and some mud. and in new jersey, it was a weekend 180. from miserable, to downright magical. and check out this stunning super cell thunderstorm in nebraska yesterday. more than 200 severe weather reports this weekend alone. all on the eve of what will be a very stormy week. >> i want to bring in ginger now who has been tracking this since this morning. severe weather tonight into tomorrow? >> there's a real tornado threat for northern kansas and southern nebraska. so that's the area i want you to laser focus in on here. the severe storms, that huge red area, from rapid city, to kansas city, to abilene. not just tonight and tomorrow, what you're going to see here, right there, tomorrow this extends all the way into western pennsylvania, western new york, and this entire week ahead. i'm very concerned because the jet stream does something called "negative tilt." it has more time. could be violent storms from the m

that produced wind damage from texes too louisiana, mississippi, even kentucky, tennessee and upstate new york have a lot of cleanup from those storms yesterday. they are dying off this morning. no severe weather left out there. just thunderstorms down there along the gulf coast. just outside of houston to louisiana. the same storm that brought us those tornadoes has weakened. it's still going to be moving through the ohio valley. we are going to see a chance of a few isolated tornadoes in ohio today. otherwise a lot of other strong storms with gusty winds and hail, pretty much a lot of areas, the ohio valley through tennessee and on the east coast. just a more humid air mass. reminds you of summer. but i don't expect a lot of tornadoes. nothing like what we dealt with earlier this week. >> we're thankful for that. thanks, bill. >>> coming up, more on the relief effort in oklahoma. >>> in other news, convicted murderer jodi arias has a change of heart as the jury begins deciding her fate. "first look" returns in three minutes. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears

. >>> serve people including children were killed in a crash in upstate new york.ractor-trailer collided with a minivan yesterday in truxton. that's about 25 miles north of syracuse. the trailer became disconnected and crossed the center line hitting the van. seven people in the minivan were killed. two people in the truck were not injured. >>> u.s. army staff sergeant robert bales is expected to plead guilty to killing 16 people next week. the attack was one of the worst atrocities of the afghan war. elizabeth palmer went back to that remote afghan village and she was surprised by what she found. >> reporter: from bell am buy base you can see co-zye village, the site of the worst american atrocity of the afghan war where sergeant robert bales is alleged to have started his killing spree. he's charged with sneaking off the base and shooting 16 afghan civilians including nine children. and you're still here in spite of the tragedy that happened. >> we're still here, roger. >> reporter: right after the shootings, the military thought it might have to pull out of bell

new national historic landmarks including a kentucky whiskey disstillery and artist retreat in upstate new yorkee new national monuments. republican senator coburn in oklahoma said it makes little sense to expand the sites when the budget of every otheritate park is cut and visitors are turned away from visiting the white house. the spokesman for the secretary said the department has taken aggressive steps to reduce spend since there is across the board cuts it does not allow for the flexibility to rob peter to pay paul. >> a summer job that is cool. norway has a opening for a polar bear spotter and telling researchers about the bears. the job requirements. enjoyment of the outdoors and ability to identify polar bears and competence with guns just in case. but the loud voice seems to be the biggest qualification. >> president obama is filling out the remaining chairs in his cabinet and far from the campaign promise to change the way washington works. it appears that the president is operating as usual. >> a spate of presidential nominations raises new questions about the administration's long h

thirty percent of the cost of the medication sara fronto has had her shop in a small community in upstate new york for about six months offering personal attention and a more intimate approach she's built a good reputation with the locals fast i'll do it right now but the pharmacist says an increasing number of her patients have been learning they have no choice but to do business elsewhere at a giant pharmacy across the street what they do is we just had one this week a woman came in she wanted to fill her prescriptions at our pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s. the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took a prescription took her insurance card bill ditto for insurance found out she could not fill anywhere besides c.b.s. most. hosey and runs a pharmacy in new jersey and he's faced with the same obstacle he says he has lost a fifth of his patients because of these deals the big stores are able to make that negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that they get they get paid more than what we do and then. when they purchase their medications they purchase some at a

versus the edge of on and in rochester we cross it judy bello she is an active member of the upstate new york coalition to ground drones and end the wars right crosstalk rosen a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want marvin if i go to you first here what's your first conclusions drawn after the election here particular when it comes to drones is anything going to change. i don't think that we'll see too much change in the visible way. there already has been a cut in the use of drones well margaret i think there was there was a long as there was a lot of before the election there was a lol before the election you think it's going to change that law will remain you think no i don't know i don't think it's going to change i don't believe that the united states is going to give up on the policy on the other hand i believe we're going to see our discussions with the new government to find everybody in a fairly comfortable place ok it's not a sign what do you think about that in washington do you think anything is going to change and what this new government. what i think the obama admini