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are missing, more than 1,200 homes have been damaged or destroyed. along the southeast coast the danger is rip currents. lifeguards have rescued hundreds from the water. and today one notable waterspout in fort lauderdale. mark straussman has more on that. >> underwater tornado.an >> reporter: beach-goers withle smart phones recorded this frightening moment of a waterspout that made landfall. it pushed an inflatable bounceh house end over end on fort lauderdale beach and tossed it 20 feet in the air.er three children were hurt, one b seriously. up and down florida's atlantic coast, the national weathera' service issued red flag warningsl of rough surf and rip currents that created dangerous swimming conditions. lifeguards have rescued more than 400 people since sunday. three men have drowned. one yesterday, two more today. >> people waving and the lifeguard out there, and then two much them went out thenk three of them then four. and i think they were getting stuck. >> reporter: these patrol officials said yesterday's drowning occurred in an unguarded area of the beach.ar they're urging swimmers to stay within areas manned by lifeguard towers. rip currents are fast-moving channels of water that range in size and width, flow away from the shore and pull swimmers out to sea.ll they usually develop in low spots like sand bars. in jacksonville, an 11-year-old boy went missing in the surf on saturday. rescue teams searched by air land and water but have yet to find him. >> the tide is very strong. what they found today, the divers from the jacksonville sheriff's office found the sea bottom has changed dramatically, even since yesterday. l >> reporter: and late this t afternoon, jeff, there was yet another possible drowning off the florida coast. >> glor: mark straussman, thank you very much.dw the texas governor saidce floodwaters hit with the force of a tsunami and the danger is not over. vicente arenas is in wimberly, texas tonight. vincente? >> reporter: jeff, the river here in wimberly rose some 40 feet with so much force it te caused houses like the ones you see behind me to lift off their foundations and crash into each other. the number of homes damaged here is still being counted. powerful floodwaters swept down the blanco river this weekend, destroying a bridge and ripping homes from their foundations. rich lives on the banks of the blanco which rose 26 feet in one hour. he provided shelter for his neighbors moments before the home was swept away. >> you could hear the house move off the foundation and gordonti said, "here comes my house." and within a matter of minutes his house floated by. >> reporter: carly smith is the hays county emergency managementep coordinator. >> we have roadways that are just a road full of slabs now. we don't have any structures on them at all any more. >> reporter: the town of wimberly was hardest hit.. more than 70 homes were destroyed. rescue crews are still searching for 12 people who have gatheredwh in a home for the holiday weekend. jonathan mccomb was found alive 12 miles downstream. his wife and two kids are among the missing.b near birney, texas, bystanders watched helplessly as an suv was swept away. >> oh my god! >> reporter: the driver eventually escaped. 68-year-old danny pullan was rescued after being trapped in his truck for several hours. hanna is his daughter. >> i kept calling him over and over and all i could hear was are you okay, are you okay. he was like, "i don't know if i'm going to make it. he's with like, i love you." >> reporter: record rainfall hashe also hit oklahoma, overflowing rivers and lakes.s. oklahoma city has already received 18 inches this month. jeff, heavy rains have been falling all afternoon here in wimberly and that could cause the river to rise once again. and jeff, there have been reports of flash flooding all the way from dallas to san antonio. >> glor: vincente, thank you. dave schwarz with the weather channel we are following all of this. what is the forecast in the plains? >> well, the forecast for the southern plains today after another round of severe weather is improving conditions later tonight after midnight, let's say. we've got a line of severeth thunderstorms east of dallas east of i-35. that will make its way into louisiana and then die later on tonight. so oklahoma and texas, we should be done by about midnight tonight. >> glor: meanwhile, how long do these rough conditions exist in florida? >> yes, the high rip currentut threat is going to continue at least for another day., high pressure is strong here. low pressure out over the plains, in between we have a strong onshore flow here and that means dangerous rippr currents. on the west coast of florida out there in the panhandle. >> glor: dave schwartz, thank you very much.es the oil spill cleanup continued t along the coast of santa barbara, california. up to 101,000 gallons spilled when a pipeline ruptured. two beaches that were closed may reopen next week. it is the start of summer driving season. and as temperatures rise, so do gas prices. since mid-april they have been rising a penny a day to a nationwide average tonight of $2.74 a gallon. that is still nearly $1 less than last memorial day. prices are highest on the west coast and carter evans is there.av >> reporter: tourists traveling through los angeles this hold this holiday weekend were greeted by gas prices topping $4 a gallon. at least $1 more than the rest of the nation. >> the lowest i paid was $2.24 in missouri. >> reporter: john pope watched $ prices shoot up as he drove his winnebago cross-country to california. >> in arizona it went up 50 cents, here went up about 1.50. >> reporter: nationwide regular gas prices are more than 20 cents a gallon higher than a month ago.on but the increase is double that in california which has the most expensive gas in the country.in higher than alaska and hawaii. >> the last time gasoline prices were over $4 in californiat crude oil prices were over $100 a barrel.er today crude oil prices are aboutel $60 a barrel. >> jamie core, the president ofof the non-profit consumer watchdog is also skeptical about poorly timed refinery shutdowns whichde decrease supply. >> when the refiners themselves are controlling the maintenance schedule, and they're making huge profits when the refineries go down, questions have to be asked. >> a lot of it is definitely going into profit. but that doesn't mean the firms are actually doing anything wrong. >> reporter: sevenin borenstein with uc berkeley energy institute says californiac be requires a special summer blendal of gas which few refineries produce.hi an explosion at one and labor strikes at two others have also slowed production.n. >> if you happen to be selling a product at a time that there is a real scarcity of it and the price goes up, you make a lot of money. >> reporter: but those high profits may not last. many analysts expect gas prices are just about to peak and will decline throughout the summer especially here in california, jeff, as refineries come back on-line. >> glor: carter evans, thank you very much. anonymous threats were made today against four international flights bound for the u.s. an air france jet from paris was escorted by two air force f-15s and landed safely at jfk in newyo york. a search turned up nothing. the fbi says the threats do not appear to be a credible threat and may have come from the same person. we learn today that cleveland has reached a settlement to resolve what the justiceha department says was a pattern of police misbehavior.de that word comes as cleveland remains on edge after a whitev police officer was acquitted saturday in the shooting death of an unarmed black couple.of a dozens of people arrested in protests after the verdict wereer arraigned today on misdemeanor charges. jericka duncan is in cleveland. jericka? >> reporter: good evening. details of that department of justice settlement have not yet been released. it comes just after protestors and police clashed over the weekend. 71 people were arrestedow following saturday's verdict finding officer michael brillo not guilty in the 2012 deaths of timothy russell and melissaho williams who fled police. he got on the hood of the car and fired 15 shots. the judge said because several officers shot at the car, there was no way to determine thatd brillo's bullets killed the pair. he remains on unpaid leave from the cleveland police department. now the brillo verdict comes as the family of tamir rice wantswill to hear whether charges will be filed in that case. rice was the 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun when he was shot and killed by a cleveland police officer in 2014. now the justice department issued a report in december saying that cleveland police often use unnecessary, excessive and deadly force. a so news of a settlement could mean changes to the cleveland police department. jeff, details on that settlementpe are expected to come down tomorrow. j >> glor: jericka, thank you. comments by u.s. defense secretary ash carter struck ay nerve in baghdad. carter said yesterday that iraq's military showed no willow to fight isis. when the islamic extremists took the city of ramadi.ri today iraq's prime minister al- abadi said carter was wrong and his forces would recapture ramadi within days. holly williams has covered isis extensively. she joins us tonight from istanbul, turkey. holly, how realistic is the prime minister's claims? >> reporter: well, jeff, iraq's government has deployed theoy country's shiite-muslim militia to try to retake ramadi. now i have spent time with one of the shiite militias known as the bada brigade and they do seem more motivated than the iraqi army. p in large part because they are defending their own peoplele iraq's shiite muslims from theom menace of isis. but many of the shiite militiamen are not particularlyined well trained or particularly well equipped. b and in the battle for tikrit in march and april, despite outnumbering isis, it still took them more than a month to recapture the city.t now all of that suggests that itth may take more than just a fewi. days to retake ramadi. >> glor: holly, isis has also taken the historic city of palmyra. what is the latest there? >> reporter: well, jeff, we're hearing reports that we cannot independently confirm that isis has executed hundreds of people in palmyra. a lot of attention has been given to palmyra's ancient monuments and fears that isisth could pillage or destroy them. but the capture of palmyra also gives isis access to new oil & gas facilities as well as control of part of a highway that connects the syrian capitol of damascus with the east of the country. so eight months after u.s.-led air strikes began in syria, this really is a key strategic victory for the militants. >> glor: holly williams, thank you very much. at arlington national cemetery this memorial day, presidentgton obama said the country mustl never stop trying to repay americans who died in battle. d the president also placed a a wreath at the tomb of theunkn unknown soldier. in kaubl, u.s. portions pausedn to remember the soldiers that died in 14 years of fighting in afghanistan. it is the biggest auto recall inut u.s. history but which cars are involved. and a very emotional moment for a bride and groom, the story behind this picture. when the "cbs evening news" continues. are you still getting heartburn flare-ups? 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>> reporter: the students are u.s. special forces undergoing a 15-day course. we agreed not to show their faces. >> they can be in some undisclosed areas within 30 days and carrying out rural operations it is a very real reality for these guys. >> reporter: anthony parkhearst a retired marine, is director of the horsemanship course. >> if we can take a hundred pounds off a marine's back or soldier's back and put it on the back of a mule, by the time theyon get to their objective, whatever it may be, they are better prepared to bring the fight to the enemy. >> reporter: parkhearst instructs his students on how to find good horses in foreign countries. >> we teach them how to age a horse with the teeth, how to listen to the heart for heart murmurs. you teach these guys you have to give something up to get something. you want a horse with a nice disposition.et >> reporter: what do you think the future is of horses and mules in the military?r: >> well, i think for our program, we're going to continue to grow because i think some of the enemy that we have to fight today, the terrorist enemy they're going to continue to fade back into the mountains and we're going to have to have some form of transportation. and what better form of transportation than something that has been walking around the mountains all its life? >> reporter: seven decades after the u.s. cavalry was put out to pasture, the special forces are getting back in the saddle again. >> get over there. >> reporter: chip reid, cbs news, bridgeport, california. >> glor: that is the "cbsto evening news" tonight. scott will be back tomorrow. i'm jeff glor. good night. captioning funded by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org turning life upside down in one airplane noise reaching nightmare levels. tonight the new flight rules turning lives upside down in one bay area neighborhood. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> and i'm allen martin in for ken bastida. imagine an airplane roaring over your home every couple of minutes. some neighbors in palo alto who lives miles from sfo say they are suddenly living under a super highway for planes. how the neighborhood changed almost overnight. >> these neighbors say that the planes are changing the quiet character of the neighborhood. the planes, they complain, are noisy and virtually nonstep. >> it was like every 2 minutes there was another plane. our neighbor has gone from a very quiet peaceful neighborhood to a noisy one. >> reporter: it's an issue increasingly on the radar at this formerly quiet palo alto neighborhood. the near constant airplanes overhead on their way to or from sfo. >> every 10 minutes it's been more noisy. in some cases we can't carry on a conversation in our backyards. >> reporter: scott has joined several of his neighbors in filing complaints to the faa. he believes the noise is due to the fallout of the faa's next gen airport condensing the airplanes in to a narrower flight path in to the three major airports. the faa says new satellite technology allows them to fly more precisely. the downside neighbor carlos abraham says, is nonstop air traffic. >> it was like every 2 minutes there was another plane and that caught my
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