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Down. now the northeast is not too bad. we have widely scattered showers and storms here. but were expecting a break by midday and then into the afternoon things will start to kick up once again. speaking of things kicking up, check out this satellite picture. hello. we know the atlantic hurricane season is here. this is not an area where we would typically see development this early in the season for june. usually we see that in the gulf of mexico or the southeastern coast of the united states....

Concrete and trees and parts of tents where people were sleeping strewn over the campground. flash floods are deadly. it is a basin. there is two rivers and this water had no where to go but in this river basin. at one point water levels were at 23 and half feet. we are expecting a press conference at noon today to give an update and expecting senator lincoln and tom millsap visiting the area and talking to families and get an update as the search efforts continuement >> thank you for that updat...

Confirmed dead. they found the bodies just moments ago, something that volunteers are very upset about. they have been coming out by the numbers to the command center in langely. they have been going out every hour looking for bodies. i want to show you video of the devastation weve been seeing from the campground. its jarring. the camp is littered with debris. not trash, but big cement slabs that have been pushed up against the trees. we found 18-wheelers wrapped around trees, tents that people...

The gulf. join us now eric smith, a former oil industry executive, now associate director for the tulane energy institute in new orleans. its a pleasure to have you with us. give us a sense of how possible it is to identify the actual cause of this spill. >> i think it will be pretty easy to identify once the spill is over with and weve got the b.o.p. back up on the surface. and we can hopefully reflrg the well and find out what happened down-hole. the evidence is there, just a matter of getting...

We are laying down boom to keep it out of lake poncatrain. the winds are favorable towards louisiana. they are expected to shift to be less favorable tomorrow. the reality is they are not moving very strongly. its not moving as quickly as was first predicted. yesterday for the first time noaa is saying areas will open up. we submitted plans for every coastal parish. we put together detailed plans for every parish to the texas coast. we have plans for the coast guard and bp and our fisherman will...

President, are you listening? secretary napolitano, remember us? if you or your predecessors have had something to close the nations back door, we wouldnt be in this fix. where u.s. citizens are left to wonder whether theyll be asked for -- you know, that averages out to about 70% of arizonans. thats a lot of support for this law, john. >> theres a lot of support for the law. certainly, in arizona, but you have to realize, this is also rallying the democratic basin, specifically hispanic voters....

Decide if its constitutional. arizonas governor has until midnight friday to sign the bill, veto it or do nothing. she does nothing, the bill becomes law. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. it looks like snow, doesnt it? its not, though. its actually marble and pea-sized hail piled up to four inches deep. in the denver area, storms swirled across parts of colorado and more severe weather is expected today. >> good thing they still have the snow trucks out, rob. >> they probably have them gassed up ...

Were seeing showers and thunderstorms trying to develop across parts of the valleys of central california and even some showers, still rotating down across the border into mexico. showers of the rain variety in denver and not as much severe weather there today and five inches of snow in the basin and theyre still open for sure. >> kansas city, back through wichita. these storms were severe earlier with a dime and quarter-sized hail and right now its falling apart into a bit of a rain event. so t...

Transportation. more people use it. you just cant put folks through metal detectors and submit them to the kind of screening that airplane passengers get. >> pete williams, our chief justice correspondent on the beat for thus morning. thanks very much. >> you bet. a second day of pirate attacks on had the high seas. a ship was attacked just west of the cyclades islands by three boats. yesterday, pirates went after a navy ship. jim miklaszewski joins us. mick, they got some pirates yesterday. b...

Today from severe weather center to weather center with snow. its not severe. >> it doesnt have the ring. >> i like winter. i spent a lot of times in the northern parts. i like it. theres a lot of snow this year. >> lake-effect from where youre from. not as much as i had. up the i-80, cheyenne and denver. thats where it will be today. 16 inches of snow not out of the question. as you get the air -- the air is going to come in this low-pressure center like this. this is a lower elevation, lets sa...