come. >> reporter: nearly 40 counties throughout texas now under an emergency declaration. a dam rupturing just east of austin unable to withhold a historic amount of rain. >> it's not over. the rain is still here. >> reporter: family members desperately wait on dry land. >> i kept calling him over and over like are you okay. >> reporter: as rescues continue by air and water. the national guard called to rescue 13 people including three children trapped in a rental cabin in southeast oklahoma. >> the water came up quicker than expected. road washed out and we couldn't pass by it. >> reporter: in wimberley, texas still missing. julie recalls the last phone call she received from her sister. >> call mom and dad. i love you. and pray. >> reporter: along with her husband and two children inside the vacation home was swept away by the flood waters. her husband, found 12 miles away says he tried desperately to save his family but the cabin split in two. >> she is with her babies and she will be with her babies always in heaven. we know that as a family. >> reporter: the death toll in both southern states continues to rise. >> she was at prom with her date. laughing dancing next to her. >> reporter: 18-year-old alyssa ramirez was on her way back from prom south of san antonio. her car stalling out in flood waters a couple miles from her home. >> they were unable to find her until this morning when crews were out there. she has her place in heaven and they'll meet her again soon. >> reporter: now, most of the rivers here in the hill country have crested. unfortunately all of this water is flowing downstream so we have seen major flooding in the houston area. they received about 8 to 9 inches of rain in just 24 hours. and of course if you add insult to injury when you have all of this water flowing downstream. so the rivers already at high capacity and then you add the rain on top of that. still raining across southeast texas. that rain into new orleans as well. so we are still going to see the potential for flooding across texas. the forecast does improve here in the hill country though. we are expected a mainly dry forecast today and tomorrow. only isolated activity. of course if we see some heavy downpours though in those isolated areas, we will see the risk of flash flooding once again, chris. when the sun comes up here we of course will have better pictures. the bridge we're trying to get original location the integrity of it is compromised with a lot of debris. we'll be trying to get across there in the next hour or two to see what's on the other side. >> all right, jennifer we know resources are stretched to the limit. we'll be back to you. we want to tell you about iraq. government forces are going on the attack called out by enemies and allies for not having the will to fight. they're now responding with one of the biggest operations to date. the mission reclaim anbar province from isis. forces already have the key city of ramadi surrounded from three directions. we have complete coverage starting with senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. he is live in baghdad. nick. >> reporter: chris, it is potentially messy start to this operation, but the announcements are made. we have to see if they translate to action on the ground. key to how sectarian and complex this could be. the first real announcement came from the shia-backed militia who said they were going after a supply route that isis liked to use between the northern city -- sorry the northern area and anbar where ramadi is located. we then heard from the defense ministry and prime minister's office through state tv saying yes, also the iraqi military are going to be involved as are the police along with the shia-backed militia groups. and there are suggestions too that perhaps citizens of northern province to anbar may also be involved in the fighting too. key to all of this is the name they've given the operation answering the call very redolent of shia culture. that will fuel allegations that this is the iranian backed militia leading the way and it comes as you said after a week of bickering, after saying iraq lacked the will to fight, prime minister said maybe he got the wrong information to make that statement then iran's -- saying it was the american with the lack of will to fight. moment of truth is here. they announced the operation to take back anbar. we have to see if that translates to success on the ground alisyn. >> nick, thanks for that update. let's talk more about that fallout from defense secretary ash carter questioning the iraqis will o fight. it's causing a war of words at the highest levels of u.s. and iraq officials. let's get to jim acosta. what is the white house saying about ash carter's white house? >> alisyn the white house is doing some fence mending after ash carter questioned their will to fight in the battle against office. saying he was flat wrong. vice president joe biden called the iraqi leader to praise the bravery of his country's forces. here's a comment from defense secretary carter that kicked off this controversy. >> what apparently happened was that the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered. in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. >> now, carter made that comment obviously after the iraqi military withdrew from ramadi turning over another key territory to isis. the obama administration now claims carter was only talking about that one battle and was not issuing a sweeping indictment of their will to fight. here's how one senior administration official put it. this official said the iraqis have suffered setbacks before and were able to retake territory from isil who they refer to as isis. the united states will continue to support these efforts and do all we can to help the brave iraqi forces including the tribes of anbar to secure the province from isil terrorists. these comments from the administration all but previewed the operation that nick paton walsh was just talking about that's getting underway to retake anbar province. the white house will of course be presed on carter's remarks later on today. but, chris, carter he may have been saying what a lot of people are saying and thinking here in washington but for right now both of these sides the u.s. and iraq need each other. >> i think you're right on it. sometimes in politics you're not supposed to say what everybody's thinking. appreciate it. let's bring in retired u.s. delta force and philip mudd. where there is a will there is a way. so let's start with the first part of that colonel. do you believe having just been on the ground over there that the iraqis have the will? >> chris, good morning. i do. i watched in tikrit. i've watched the forces heading out to anbar and speaking to the people i know throughout the chain of command in the iraqi army they do. our problem is sometimes is we like to look down through a straw. we look through a straw and then make sweeping generalizations about what we think. my frustration with the secretary of defense the word he used is apparently. department of defense doesn't use apparently they use facts. that's what they do. i believe they will do this and i do believe they will get ramadi back. >> set up this sound by iraq's deputy prime minister about ramadi falling. let's hear what he had to say about why it went down the way it did. >> it was election that sort of surprised all of us. withdraw against such a small enemy that attack them. and they left the people surrounded by isis. this is not the army that we are willing to see or we're expecting to see. >> so if it's not about what's in their hearts is this about what's in their heads and what the strategy is, philip what happened in ramadi and going forward? >> i think you're right. i think colonel reese is right as well. we talked about this is a battle for territory. it is a battle of wills. isis like a lot of groups motivated by religion will not go home again until they're defeated or they die. i think what will happen is government as you've seen today will move in. they'll move in with shia militias. i don't think isis will be able to maintain ground. it's easy for them to take ground. much harder for an insurgent group to hold it. here's a long-term problem based on what the deputy prime minister and others are saying. in that short-term gain to make that gain in ramadi the shia-led government will bring in shia militias. so over the course of the long-term regardless whether the government takes ramadi if you're a sunni villager make a choice. go with the group that beheads you or go with the government that brings in your rival shia militias to take over your territory. that is not a long-term recipe to keep iraq together. >> philip mudd is putting his finger on something that is probably closer to the truth than what we're hearing right now. colonel, you talked about this it's not whether they want to fight, it's what they're fighting for. we're not going to hear this out of the white house because it would be too big a commitment for them. but the reality on the groupd is they're worried about what comes next when they beat isis. >> yeah chris, i understand what phil is saying. but i've also watched. there's a common enemy in isis that the iraqi both sunni, shia christian, everyone is fighting for. and when you have 100,000 people that are refugees that are moving east towards baghdad right now what the iraqi government is trying to do is garner their combat power. wherever that combat power is coming to. what i'd like to know is is okay we're all focused on the tactical fight right here. where's the diplomatic support and assistance we're doing? where's the economic piece? we talk about sending 1,000 more missiles. okay. but where's the diplomatic? we're not talking about that. where's general allen and the team that's supposed to be the iraq czar? that's one of the pieces i'm missing and i don't see it. >> another piece is that obviously the colonel was dealing with there on the ground philip is who's helping them and how. you now have iran stepping up and saying hey, we're the only ones on the ground. we're the ones fighting this. it's the u.s. commitment that you people should be talking about. what's your take? >> look this is a great game under way. the great game is between iran which sees itself as a power thousands of years old, a power in the middle east. just a couple years ago they would have had a foothold in syria, foothold in lebanon. the opportunity they have with the shia-led government if you think of that as a crescent is now cement a foothold in iraq which is a majority shia country, we've seen them supporting houthis in yemen. iran is on a roll. and the iranian generals visiting baghdad is simple americans were here for ten years but they cut and run in afghanistan, they cut and run in iraq. if you want a long-term solution to your problem america is not your solution because they will abandon you just as secretary ash carter just did. if you want guys who won't abandon you, look across the border it's us. >> what do you do with that, colonel? especially when they can talk all you want. i'm referencing here the head of the iranian force that says obama hasn't done a thing to confront daesh. what do they have to show for their effort sns. >> success in tikrit along the tigris. come in advice and assist just like our special forces has done. i think what he's saying is hey, america, you put your toe, you dabble your toe here, dabble your toe here we're prepared to come in and jump in with both feet. my point is this i think we either jump in with both feet it doesn't have to be 100,000 soldiers, we have this advise and assist mission allow those forces to help lead coach and mentor those forces. if we're not going to do that do what he said let's pull up let's go home and see what happens. >> well the big challenge is going to be everybody keeps saying what happens next what happens next. winning on the ground as ugly and bloody as it is seems to be the easy part philip. how do you bring stability to a government that didn't happen the last time and wound up spawning what we're dealing with right now? they're all just offshoots of the old party. that's why isis has any intelligence to it at all at the command structure is because they're saddam hussein's old guys. what do you do to make it better going forward? >> you don't. i agree with colonel reese. daeshe is not going to win. isis is not going to win. over the long-term i suspect what you will see with the sunnis is what you've seen with the kurds in the north. that is they will start to see increasingly the government as distrustful, as a government they can't deal with because it's a shia government. it's not an iraqi government. they're either going to develop a new group after isis that will cement some sort of autonomy or independence for anbar province for sunni areas. i don't think you can put iraq back together. and people who suggest that there's a solution in persuading the iraqi government to be more inclusive were 0 for 2 for iraqi leadership including the predecessor al maliki to bring in sunnis ain't going to happen. i think iraq will never return to a unified state. >> all this reflects the truism that is difficult to control what you do not occupy. thank you very much. appreciate it as always. to a story we've been following for some time in iran the first session is over in the espionage trial in the american journalist. he's accused of spying for the u.s. cnn's becky anderson is live in abu dhabi with the very latest for us. becky. >> reporter: michaela the shameful acts of injustice continue without end, those the words of "the washington post" executive editor in a statement released. the head of what is this first session of jason's trial on charges of espionage. it was a relatively short session. no date has been released for the continuation. so the facts in this case very murky. the 39-year-old was arrested in july last year along with his wife and others. they were later released on bail but jason has been in prison at times in solitary confinement since july. why? well for months it wasn't clear, but by april this year he was formally accused of spying and illegally gathering classified information about iran and passing it onto washington. now, let me tell you the judge assigned to this case is known to be very close to the intelligence operators and has been accused in the past of passing down politically motivated sentences. which begs this question is jason a pawn in a wider power struggle going on inside tehran with the government of president rowhani pitted against hardline elements who wish to embarrass him as he tries to strike a nuclear deal with the west by the end of this month. i think the answer will become clearer in the weeks ahead. alisyn. >> okay becky, we will be talking to jason's brother coming up in the program. thanks so much for that. well memorial day was a frightening one in the sky. ten separate threats made against airline flights, two u.s. f-15 fighter jets forced to escort an airfrance passenger jet into jfk airport in new york. and that's where we find cnn's jean casarez this morning. jean, what have investigators learned? >> reporter: alisyn it was multiple flights multiple destinations multiple airlines. it's believed one person may have called in four of those threats. but the common denominator is this all of the threats are called in on memorial day, a very busy travel day. the flights were international flights in the air bound for the united states and none of those threats were determined to be credible at all. now, it started about 24 hours ago. maryland state police got an anonymous phone call launching a threat against airfrance flight %-p22 in theair bound for right here jfk. listen soto some audio between the police and that pilot of airfrance flight 22. >> do you have anyone sick or ill on the aircraft? >> no. >> and you haven't had anybody ill or sick during the flight? >> correct. >> reporter: and at that point it's when the fighter jets escorted airfrance into jfk and the threats continued from there. another one here at jfk. another one at newark. united airlines coming in from madrid. atlanta had a threat. a strange one, buffalo, new york it was southwest airlines. and the pilot actually asked for a canine unit to come onboard the plane. now the question is who are did this and why did this. and, chris, we're talking about criminal acts. back to you. >> absolutely. and the concern are the connections that may be among any of the threats. i know you'll stay on it jean. we have breaking news overnight in new mexico. a manhunt is underway for a suspect who shot and killed a police officer in a town of rio rancho. the officer who died has not been identified but the department says he was an air force veteran. an interesting revelation from pope francis. he says he has not watched any television in 25 years. the pontiff tells an argetin newspaper says he hasn't watched tv since 1990. instead he gets results every week from his security detail. pope francis says of television "it was not for me." >> i wonder what show in 1990 -- >> it was agame apparently. >> so repulsive he never watched it. >> he has been heard to say he does appreciate this program called novo journal. "new day" in italian. >> christopher cuomo. >> shaking his head. >> we're going to turn him around. meanwhile, back to the breaking news this morning and the memorial day threats against commercial flights. is one suspect behind all of these threats? and how will authorities find the culprit? when cigarette cravings hit, all i can think about is getting relief. only nicorette mini has a patented fast-dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? (music) i'm supposed to tell you how it feels when you book the perfect family vacation on hotels.com. but i think he's kinda nailing it. (music) hotels.com. they don't need me right now. the fbi looking into a series of memorial day threats against commercial flights. ten threats called into at least four separate agencies. here to examine it former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation and cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo. and cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. good morning guys. >> good morning. >> ten threats made to four separate agencies including the fbi, the maryland police department these were all regarding international flights into the u.s. mary, before we get into these specific threats and who might be behind it how common are threats into airlines? >> unfortunately they're very common but they tend to fall into three categories. attacks on airlines by terrorists and other criminal elements usually don't get a warning. but beyond that it's usually someone who has a vendetta against a particular airline, former disgruntled employee or someone who sought employment or they're in the category of aimed at somebody on the plane or somebody supposed to be on a flight person-specific. they're unfortunately too common. >> so they're very common tom, how do airlines and law enforcement begin to figure out which ones are legit and which ones are just pranks? >> well i think if i could add one more category to that is just the prankster that you have one or more pranksters like pulling a fire alarm in a high school and watching everybody scramble and watch the fire trucks show up. and i think that's part of the problem here is if you make a series of these phone calls and do it in a way that aren't immediately traceable, from pay phones or other voice over internet with enkripgs other means, you watch the media, airlines watch them unload the planes watch the fbi have to search all the planes and luggage and watch the spectacle of it all that you personally caused to happen. what the fbi will be doing is also trying to see and hope for social media, somebody will take credit for this. not necessarily a terrorist group, i agree with mary they don't take credit and just attack and worry about it later. but is somebody bragging about this? is some kid somewhere saying look what we did? look at the phone calls we made that caused this scramble of people on memorial day during a busy day of travel. >> mary given that it's so common what do airlines do when a threat comes in? >> unfortunately they have to react as if every threat is just as serious and potential loss of the aircraft or life or terrorist threat. and they have to do what happened yesterday. they have to take them seriously. particularly since they said some very frightening words and that apparently is in one of the calls they mentioned a chemical weapon. which is very difficult, that's why we had the liquids rule they're hard to detect. and that was a huge red flag and very terrifying frankly. >> tom, who do you think is behind this? i don't mean specifically but what category of person is behind this one? >> i think because it's the fact it's so many different airlines i don't think it's a disgruntled employee of one particular airline or one particular country. i think that you know my personal opinion is i would lean toward the prankster trying to just watch this happen and get their indirect 15 minutes. >> mary these were again, ten flights all international flights interestingly inbound to the u.s. who do you think -- >> i think tom's right. i think, you know it almost seems like someone was watching a flight aware and it picked out ten flights inbound. unfortunately because international flights are wide body and have a lot of passengers, if you picked a domestic flight you might get a 50-seater plane and 50% of u.s. flights are small flights. so it almost looked like someone was watching flight aware and called in ten flights headed inbound international and that's a lot of chaos. >> tom, the u.s. air force scrambled fighter jets to accompany one of the flights, an airfrance flight bound for jfk here in new york. what can fighter jets do exactly? >> well that's a good question alisyn. i think that the idea behind that is that if that plane deviates off course and for whatever reason it's been hijacked or a pilot has taken over the plane that has problems and they start to fly that toward manhattan, you know it's basically 9/11 all over again. the idea would be the fighter jets theoretically could shoot that plane down yes, kill 350 people on the plane but maybe save 3,000 people on the ground. whether that would happen and whether they could do it in time is a good question. because the inbound approach to go into jfk airport it's only a slight matter of seconds deviation to drift off that course and go into manhattan. you know same issue here in washington. you have flights inbound into reagan airport, you know it's a matter of a few seconds to go off course and fly into one of the buildings in the capital. so i think it's a dangerous situation. you know whether they would actually shoot down an airliner and if they tried to would it be in time is a good question. >> mary, if i'm a passenger on a commercial flight i never want to see a fighter jet out the window. >> well exactly. you never want to see a fighter jet out the window but in this day and age you are likely to see it on the screen on your seat back first. and what surprised me is many of these passengers on these planes weren't told anything onboard. and i think that's pretty risky because you're likely to have it on your screen. of course the captain could have cut the communications could have stopped the entertainment, turned off the screens in the seats. but not telling passengers in this day and age with the age of communications and wi-fi et cetera is pretty risky. any time you look out the window and see those fighter jets scramble it's a bad thing. >> tom, very quickly, how hard will it be for law enforcement to figure out who exactly did this? >> i think it will be hard. i think there's so many different ways to initiate phone calls and to as you mentioned so many different areas. and if you do it from pay phones if you do it on encrypted voice over internet type phone calls it's going to be very very difficult. what you're going to hope for is after the fact somebody wants to tell everybody how cool they are that they've pulled this off and start bragging about it. and then give the authorities a head start on who to zero in on. >> that really does happen a lot actually. so let's hope that scenario does play itself out. mary schiavo, tom fuentes, thank you for explaining this. over to michaela. alisyn quite frightening scene in florida, a waterspout tosses an inflatable bounce house into the air with three children still inside. details ahead. listen up... i'm reworking the menu. veggies you're cool... mayo, corn dogs... you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein... and 26 vitamins and minerals. and now with... ...twice as much vitamin d ...which up to 90% of people don't get enough of. ohhhhhhh. the sunshine vitamin! ensure now has 2x more vitamin d to support strong bones. ensure. take life in. when you're not confident your company's data is secure the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. we monitor network traffic worldwide, so we can see things others can't. mitigating risks across your business. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. you wouldn't do half of your daily routine. so why treat your mouth any differently. brushing alone does less than half the job leaving behind millions of germs. complete the job with listerine®. kill up to 99 percent of germs. and prevent plaque early gum disease and bad breath. complete the job with listerine®. power to your mouth™! also try listerine® pocket packs to kill bad breath germs on the go. we are following breaking news. at least six people dead and 12 missing in texas and oklahoma. the result of record setting rains and flash flooding. the governor declaring a state of emergency in 37 counties. houston closing all schools this morning. near austin as many as 400 homes have washed away. that same severe storm system spawning a tornado across the border in mexico killing 13 people there. we also have breaking news this morning in iraq. government forces are going all-in to take back anbar province. and their pride after a number of recent setbacks including the loss of ramadi and the strategic oil refinery. word of the operation comes as the u.s. and iraq engage in a war of words after defense secretary ash carter questioned the iraqis will to fight in an exclusive cnn interveet. memorial day fun turns terrifying in florida. waterspout comes ashore creating havoc on a busy beach. that entire ordeal caught on camera. >> oh bounce house! >> oh there's kids on it! >> parents on ft. lauderdale beach watching in horror. moments before a waterspout forming just offshore makes its way onto land. watch as it cuts across the beach sending this children's bounce house soaring an estimated 20 feet into the air with children inside. >> it gets high up by the palm trees. next thing you know you see kids flying out of the bounce house. girl hits the floor, boy hits the floor. and the bounce house takes off. >> reporter: one little girl who suffered a fractured arm describes her ordeal. >> i was in the bounce house and then the bounce house flew while i was in there. then i fell in the dirt. i was thinking i was about to die. >> reporter: in total three children were injured. this mother watched helplessly as her daughter lifted off the ground. >> i was like oh my god, i can't believe this. >> reporter: waterspouts are similar to tornadoes but are usually less intense, however they can be just as dangerous. the waterspout on ft. lauderdale beach packed enough force to snap this concrete basketball post in two. >> this is an act of mother nature. something that could not be prevented. >> reporter: inflatable bounce house injuries are becoming more common according to one study. rising 1,500% from 1995 to 2010. around the same time last year two young boys were seriously injured when a gust of wind sent their inflatable house airborne. both children fell two stories. so you saw that little one with the broken arm. another little child was sent home with some injuries. but one child was kept in the hospital overnight stable but observing to make sure they're okay. imagine you're a parent watching that happen. there's nothing you can do. >> i don't know that that's true that the parents can't do anything. but why do the castles keep flying away? >> it just happens all the time. we've seen this all the time. and they're really fun. i mean bounce houses are great at a party. >> i'm not used to seeing them at a beach. >> but they fly away too much. that's a design flaw. >> or it's about who is in charge of the bounce castles and what the rules are and the rules are not. i mean, 1500% up from 95 to that period they've measured. >> how many times have we reported this story on "new day"? >> too many. >> yeah far too many. another story we've reported on many times but still the need is great is baltimore. we're not there so things must be better at least, right? wrong. the fact is there are more killings in baltimore than ever. there are over two dozen shootings just this weekend. and arrests however are down. that's a very troubling combination. we will tell you what's going on there. and you're going to want to know. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? 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>> it is so critical chris, when you will consider nine fatalities just this weekend. last year 2014 we didn't hit 100 homicides until july. we're now past that number still in the end of may. it's critical and alarming when you will consider that school isn't even out and a lot of young people are still in classrooms. what happens in three weeks when these young people go out and they have no employment opportunities, no recreation centers and nothing to occupy their time? and so we're in dire crisis and our whole city is gasping its breath hoping there's some sigh of relief. >> you say the fact arrests are down is also relevant because? >> it is so critical when you will consider arrests are down by 50% of what it ordinarily is. commissioner batts is going to have to be answerable because it looks as if the police have taken on the posture of substitute teachers who go into a classroom, turn a blinded eye but really don't infiltrate any discipline or give any expectation. and so it's really become the wild wild west. so we're looking for law and order to happen both on the end of the police and accountability from our citizens. >> now, what to you say to the argument of backlash? you know you go after the police you say everything they do is bad, every altercation is excessive force, that this is what happens. the police wind protecting our community. this is a false analogy and a bad premise. >> you're also calling out government's choices of where to put its money. you say it's not putting money into teachers and schools but it's building a new juvenile detention center for tens of millions of dollars. and you see that as what? >> the philosophers scholars all agree there's a direct connection between poverty and criminality for our governor to make the willful bad mistake to not giving $11 million to surge baltimore public schools but on the same day elect to erect a $30 million juvenile detention center shows misplaced priority. and 21 employees of the baltimore public school system got notices that their services are no longer necessary for next school year. i don't know how you do that with good conscience and you hire then people to break ground on a brand new juvenile detention center. today we're demonstrating to help the governor know that this is bad politics. and you've got priorities out of place. >> you talk about government responsibility, police responsibility and what about personal responsibility reverend? what is your message to people about raising their kids and about what the element is in these communities that winds up breeding crime? >> well here in baltimore we don't call it a riot chris. we call it an uprising when you consider after dr. king was killed it took in baltimore $113 million to restore the city. our own mayor and comptroller agreed to restore the city after the uprising on april 23rd and 26 it just $23 million. dr. king says riots are in fact the language of the unheard. and so i think that there were just a few who went in measures we don't ascribe to but speaks that young people in this city want opportunities to develop jobs they want to have opportunities for education. and they feel frustrated that the governor would in fact give them an opportunity to spend the night in a new jail but not spend the night on a college campus. >> reverend bryant thank you very much. this is an urgent situation. we pledge to keep attention on it. and we will do that. please let us know how it goes going forward. >> absolutely. thank you. we're also watching this story. the suspect in the washington, d.c. mansion murders act alone? 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(announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. good to have you back. police are now looking for accomplices in the d.c. murder. daron wint is accused of killing the family and their housekeeper. want to turn to robin flicker, good to have you. i'm curious what the family thinks of the charges against their sibling and mother? >> i spoke with the family on the phone, there are nine children in this family. they impress me just as daron did as nice island people. they're horrified by these charges and don't believe that daron had anything to do with it if you note in the records filed by the u.s. attorney it says that a black man with short well-groomed hair was driving the stolen blue porsche that ended up being burned two miles from daron's father's house. however, all the pictures of him show that he has long dreadlocks and indeed he still has long dreadlocks. so someone else was driving that car, someone else burned the car. >> so mr. flicker, you're talking as though you also believe he may have had accomplices in this as prosecutors are alleging? >> i think that prosecutors should start looking at current or people who work for the deceased very recently. daron was a part-time laborer for him ten years ago. you don't harbor a grudge for that long only to see it spring forth ten years later. >> again, we don't know if this was a grudge or if it was something to do with the money that was found and taken from the area. look, we also know that dna was found on a pizza crust there, dna that belonged to daron wint. >> well his brother and sister both told me without being asked that daron doesn't like pizza and never eats it. there were three messages coming out of this house while people were supposedly being held hostage. one by the mother who ordered pizza and gave her credit card number one by the deceased gentleman who called for the money and then another message that went out to a housekeeper telling her not to come. couldn't someone have said call the police we're being held hostage during this time? >> they were likely under duress do you not assume? >> they may have been under duress but there are three contacts and it's very suspicious to me that no word no cry for help went out at all. >> well you're making the assumption that the people being held that were actually sending out those messages they could have been the people that were holding them. i want to ask you about his description. you described him on our air last week when you were speaking with my colleague you described wint as kind and gentle. well i want to point you to a 2010 case the charged document read that wint threatened to kill a woman and her 2-year-old daughter broke the windshield of her car and stole their television. kind and gentle? >> there was no injury in that case. >> threatening to kill a 2-year-old? >> the 2-year-old wasn't injured at all. these are idle threats often resulting from a custody battle. >> all right. well kind and gentle isn't a description i've heard when someone threatens a 2-year-old child. i want to ask you also about the fact that you maintain that he has been wrongfully accused. and i believe that's what the family is also saying correct? >> there's no question about it. if you look at the photograph of the man running away it doesn't look at all like daron wint. and even though there's some implication by police that it is there are no facial features that can be observed. >> could have been one of the alleged accomplices. again, my point is there are many questions we still don't know the answer to. one of the questions i have for you is if he is wrongfully accused and if he is innocent why would his girlfriend in brooklyn say that he was planning on turning himself in once he realized that the police were after him? and then why would he run to d.c. instead reportedly some local media reports are saying that he took $1,000 cab ride to d.c. if he just wanted to go for the memorial day weekend to d.c. probably just hop on the megabus or something. >> he was probably coming back to family. i've met with members of the family. they're all very nice island people. he was coming back home to talk to his family as to what to do. >> why was he afraid? >> he was afraid because of the media attention and the allegations made by police. the police were referring to him as a murderer on national tv. >> so why not walk into the precinct and say here i am, what questions do you have, here's my representation? >> well he should have gone and talked to a lawyer right away. that's for sure. i represented him in six cases, he was found not guilty in all six cases. but when you have a national dragnet out you become afraid. and when you're being called a murderer on national tv of course you're going to be a bit defensive. wouldn't you? he's presumed innocent. the police should have said that from the very beginning. >> have you had any more contact with the family about whether you're going to represent daron wint? >> they're going to be talking about that this week. there are nine children as i said it's a large family. and they don't want the public defender to represent him. they're going to be getting back to me at the end of the week. i hope that i can represent him because i think we'll win and he'll be found not guilty. >> robin ficker there's still a whole lot of questions that need to be answered at this point. what we do know four people are dead. thank you so much for joining us today. >> my pleasure. we're following a whole lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> 200 to 300 homes completely destroyed still looking for 12 missing. >> our wildest imagination think of the wall of water that would come down. >> the road was washed away. >> the challenges are not over yet. >> a massive attack on isis. >> the ministry operations will be northeast of fallujah and around ramadi. >> we've talked about this as a battle for territory. it is a battle of will. >> i love it and i hate it but it's home. >> an iranian-american journalist for "the washington post" is on trial for espionage in tehran. >> may is now the deadliest month in baltimore in 15 years. >> we've come too far to have this type of setback. >> why do you think that there is a great increase in the murder rate? good morning everyone. welcome back to your "new day." we have big stories breaking at home and in iraq where a major military operation is underway against isis. but first parts of texas and oklahoma reeling from severe storms and flooding. the relentless rain and violent weather blamed for at least six deaths and a dozen people still missing at this hour. >> texas' governor saying people in his state have never seen anything like this. in houston the flooding is so bad schools are closed today. let's get to cnn's jennifer gray. she's in wimberley, one of the towns hard hit. what does it look like now? >> reporter: chris, it looks more like tornado damage than flood damage. you have 200 to 300 homes completely destroyed, a lot of homes wiped clear off their foundation. as we mentioned a dozen people still missing. in fact the blanco river rose three times flood stage on sunday with the flow 2.5 times that of niagra falls. this morning record breaking and deadly flood waters continue to wreak havoc across central texas and oklahoma. >> the challenges are not over yet. there's going to be more rain to come. >> reporter: nearly 40 counties throughout texas now under an emergency disaster declaration. a dam rupturing just east of austin unable to withhold the historic amount of rain flooding a highway. >> it's not over. the rain is still here. >> reporter: family members desperately wait on dry land. >> i kept calling him over and over and i was like are you okay are you okay. >> reporter: as rescues continue by air and water. the national guard called to rescue 13 people including three children trapped in a rental cabin in southeast oklahoma. >> the water came up quicker than expected. road washed out and we couldn't pass by it. >> reporter: in wimberley, texas around a dozen people are still missing. >> when she wasn't there i knew something was very very wrong. >> reporter: julie recalls the last phone call she received from her sister laura. >> call mom and dad. i love you. and pray. >> reporter: along with her husband and two children inside mccombs vacation home was swept away by the flood waters. her husband, found 12 miles away says he tried desperately to save his family but the cabin split in two. >> she is with her baby. and she will be with her babies always in heaven. we know that as a family. >> reporter: the death toll in both southern states continues to rise. >> she was at prom with her date and, you know laughing and dancing next to her. >> reporter: 18-year-old alyssa ramirez was on her way back from prom just south of san antonio. her car stalling out in high waters just a couple miles away from her home. she called 911 and her father but it was too late. >> they were unable to find her until this morning when crews were out there. she has her place in heaven and they'll meet her again soon. >> reporter: the stories coming out of this area are unimaginable. the river has crested, it did on sunday. so we should be improving. no rain in the forecast today and tomorrow. we could see a few isolated showers, but nothing the widespread rain like we saw. all of this though flowing downstream. bad news for houston. the water filling up the rivers there. in addition an 8 to 9 inches of rain the past 24 hours we're seeing major flooding in the houston area. the rain continuing there. it's also pushing into south louisiana. so flood watches and warnings still in effect. those rivers still running high across a lot of southeast texas, but, chris, the cleanup here will continue for days, weeks. the search still continues for those 12 missing as families try to figure out what to do next. >> all right, jennifer we do understand that reports for help requests for help are on the way up as you're heading down into these major metropolis areas. let's bring on rick flanagan the emergency management coordinator for houston, texas. we were just hearing, sir, that the need is great and it's heading your way. what is the latest? >> well right now i can honestly tell you overnight we got hammered. it was a tremendous amount of rainfall. we had high waters that were inundated in our streets. cars were stranded mobility was stopped, power went out, signal lights didn't work. it was just a mess. >> there is no way to prepare for this obviously. do you have the resources that you need? what is the biggest urgency right now you're dealing with? >> the biggest urgency right now is to get back to our new normal. we can't supply the normal level of service. we do have the resources, but right now the call volume and requests are so high law enforcement and police they have calls that are backed up. so we're trying to make sure we can get units responding. we've reorganized the response profile so we're not sending the same amount of emergency units on some events because there are so many we have to respond to. but we want to make sure and reassure the public hey, we're going to get out here and make sure we can assist and help you out. one thing we want to say to everyone if you don't have to be outside, please please stay at home. >> and what are you finding in terms of the ease of rescue in these situations? obviously you can't move around very well. you can't send out the same number of reinforcements that you usually would. are people able to be extracted from these situations? what's your success rate? >> there's a management process to it. it slows things down quite a bit. we want to safely get them out, get them assessed some have to be treated at the hospital. in some of the residences we're rescuing we have to move them to shelters. make sure they can provide -- so it's just an ongoing cycle. the bad part of course right now is we're getting into the morning traffic. so that's why we want to have forecast out if you don't have to be out please don't. we're all working with isd, so they've closed for today. that helps to keep some of the traffic flow out of the way. a lot of cars there have been submerged. we have to get those off the roadways get the roadways opened back up. signal lights are not working. we've lost power. it's a major task. >> you know looking at the pictures there just seems to be so many frozen moments where people were obviously caught unaware of what they were getting into and that's why you're cautioning people to stay home. you're going to do the best that you can to get there. we know the governor has declared a state of emergency. we'll stay in touch with you so you can let us know what the needs are for people as they're being rescued and we'll spread the word. thank you very much for joining us. we'll let you get back to the very important tasks ahead. >> god bless. >> alisyn. okay. more breaking news this morning. a major operation now under way in iraq as forces look to take back territory under the control of isis. iraqi forces surrounding key areas in anbar province including ramadi. cnn has complete coverage starting with senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. he's live for us in baghdad. what's happening there, nick? >> reporter: alisyn we're at the station trying to see these announcements by a number of iraqi officials translates into hard action on the ground. first of all we heard the major announcement from the shia militia backed by iran who gave a press conference saying they will be moving into anbar to push isis out but also going through a supply route north of anbar which isis use there as well. that was subsequently backed up by statements on state television read out by the prime minister and defense ministry saying the iraqi military and police and potentially also we're hearing now as well maybe hundreds of sunni tribesmen could also be involved in this fighting too. now, the exact makeup of these forces is so key because of the sectarian divide in iraq the sunni-shia tensions that have always been here. fortunately now i think many observers are seeing the name of the this operation that the shia militia announced is called answering the call of hussein. that's very -- many are wondering perhaps the initial signals of this aren't particularly about embracing iraqi nationalism. but we have to see if this violence actually translates -- announcement translates into progress on the ground. we are hearing from those shia militia at this stage they don't think they need coalition assistance. they might be able to do it on their own. a tough fight ahead though michaela. >> certainly there will be. all right, nick thank you. this operation launching just as the u.s. and iraq get into a war of words over isis following harsh comments about the iraqis from the defense secretary made exclusively to cnn. let's turn to jim acosta. is this new operation iraq response to carter's comments do you think? >> reporter: well i don't know about that michaela but the white house is certainly doing some fence mending with the iraqis after defense secretary ash carter questioned their will to fight in the battle against isis within hours after iraqi prime minister al badi responded basically saying flat wrong about their will to fight. vice president joe biden called the iraqi leader to praise the bravery of his country's forces. here's that comment from carter to my cnn colleague barbara starr that kicked off this controversy. >> what apparently happened was that the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered. in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. >> reporter: and of course carter made that comment after the iraqi military withdrew from ramadi turning over another key territory to isis. the obama administration now claims carter was only talking about that one battle and was not issuing a sweeping indictment of their will to fight. here's how one senior administration official is putting it and put it up on screen for you. it says iraqis have suffered setbacks before and were able to retake territory from isil. the united states will continue to support these efforts and do all we can to help the brave iraqi forces including the tribes of anbar to secure this province from isil terrorists. but these comments from the administration all but previewed this operation that is getting under way. but, alisyn certainly it seems defense secretary carter he was saying what people were thinking here in washington but it is very apparent now that these sides need each other. they're going to have to put this war of words aside for the moment. >> right. in washington sometimes people don't always say publicly what they're thinking. meanwhile, more breaking news to tell you about. cnn learning a person of interest is now in custody in connection with the murder of a new mexico police officer. officials in the town of rio rancho say the officer, a four-year veteran, was gunned down while on duty last night. the officer has not yet been publicly identified but the department says he was an air force veteran. a bloody memorial day weekend in baltimore. police report 30 people shot seven fatalities. the murder rate this month is at its highest level in 15 years. let's bring in cnn's suzanne malveaux. she's live from baltimore. we're seeing not just an uptick in crime, but you're seeing arrests down. now, that's a very troubling combination. >> reporter: it really is chris. when you think about this baltimore police tell us just overnight there were two more shootings, a guy who his head grazed by a bullet a 9-year-old boy shot in the leg. this is just devastating for the baltimore community. and you mentioned those statistics of 30 people who were shot over three-day period the holiday weekend. of those seven who died another very alarming statistic and that is just if you look at the month of may 35 homicides in the month of may. that brings to total 108 people who have died who have been killed in the city of baltimore this year throughout the whole city. and you bring up this point which is the number of arrests that are going down while these shootings are going up. a lot of people openly asking chris, in this community what is going on. is it related to the death of freddie gray who died after he was taken into police custody and the indictment of those six officers? some people are quietly within the police department saying this is about soft policing, this is about passive policing because there's a very difficult situation with the community. and they feel like they are gun shy and do not have the back of the leadership. michaela. >> all right. we're going to talk about this more coming up in our show. suzanne, thank you so much for that. the daughters of blues legend b.b. king claim he was poisoned to death by close aides. in separate affidavits the daughters say they were prevented from visiting their father in his final days. they were prevented by the entertainer's manager and personal assistant. well police say there's no evidence to support their accusations, but they are taking their claim seriously. a lawyer for king's estate though calls the accusations ridiculous. apparently the preliminary autopsy results don't support those claims. there is no active homicide investigation going on. but they're going to wait until the final autopsy which we know takes time could take up to eight weeks. >> the last days of people's lives are so painful especially when there's reaction. >> this is a big estate a lot of money at play. >> family's desperate for answers. >> yeah. >> we'll have to see what happens with this one. well up next more on that iraqi military operation that's aimed at driving isis out of anbar province. what role will the u.s. play? 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>> they had already planned an operation in ramadi alisyn. i think this is just a quickening of the tempo associated with that operation. but you're going to see a combined force of both iraqi security forces both army and police. you're going to see several elements of different shia militias going out to anbar province. and you're going to see some effects of sunni tribesmen. it's going to be somewhat of an uncoordinated action which we've seen them have difficulty with in the past but they're going to have a whole lot of mass. they will defeat isis. i will predict that today. given good odds for the iraqis to win back the city. >> general, you think they will get ramadi back? you take this seriously enough what's happening on the ground there that you believe that they will in short order get ramadi? >> i said that last week alisyn. they can't let ramadi say in the hands of isis. they have to get it back. but it's not going to be pretty. this is going to be an ugly fight. >> michael, do you see it this way? >> yeah i think they'll eventually get it back. but there's a lot of propaganda and public relations going into this campaign. much of it is i think is self-defeating. the operation called at your service hussein, which is a shia war cry or rallying cry. this would be like going into ramallah shouting next year in jerusalem and hope the majority supports you. they're going into the capital of the sunni heartland of iraq. many of the sunnis living in ramadi don't necessarily agree with the isis ideology but they've allowed isis to come in because of their political grievances and sense of disenfranchisement. i think this will be more like tikrit really spearheaded by the revolutionary guard forces who has effectively been the ground commander of this campaign. the man recently yesterday i believe had very strong words for the u.s. government said essentially we suck we haven't done anything to fight isis. and more than that we're an accomplice we have created isis this is our devil we've sort of brought into existence. i take a very very dim view of how this is going to go. i think there's going to be a lot of bloodshed and a lot of atrocities much will be hushed up. the iraqi government will deny anything like that has taken place. we've seen it before in other parts of iraq where they've come in and liberated these towns and cities. >> general, what do you think of that take? >> i don't take as dire view as michael does. i think some of that could happen. i don't put the divide as strongly as many of the west. some of the sunni tribesmen and some of the sunni provincial ask for the shia to come in because they know it was their saving grace in this case. i just see that there's a potential for actually a combined effort here. but again, i do agree with michael completely this could be ugly. what might be interesting to watch is what happens after the fight. are there atrocityies committed? there were in some fights. tikrit was not as bad, there were some reports of some extrajudicial killings and some shia atrocities but not much. so i think you're seeing maybe an understanding by the iraqi government that you can combine these forces. remember these forces fight and we don't often get this right in the west. they fight in priority for god, for tribes and then for country. if you can combine some of those things and that's what i think mr. al abadi's attempting to do. >> read to you the popular mobilization unit which is a shia militia. >> a consortium of all militias. >> he's saying this is a continuation of the tikrit operation. it is to cut the supply route from baiji oil refinery in the north tora ma di. after the call of the minister we answered the call. our forces are prepared and are surrounding ramadi in three directions. >> there's a civil war taking place within -- kind of a soft civil war taking place within the iraqi government. you have the sovereign actors the isf, the iraqi security forces. prime minister al abadi is considered to be more of a nationalist than sectarian. the difficulty is the pms do not see eye-to-eye with him. they accused him of letting fall because he didn't let them go in sooner. the u.s. government has made it priority to enforce command and control. there's a lot of skepticism in the pentagon and in the white house that that is actually taking place. they fear that iran is really behind the pmus. >> general, what i'm trying to figure out is this a reaction to all of the washington talk and what secretary carter said? is this a p.r. move? or is this truly an impressive military move we should be watching today? >> well it's neither, alisyn. it's not an impressive military move for sure because, again, i revert back to my earlier statement. this is going to be an ugly fight. it's just mass. it's just pouring a lot of people into anbar province. i don't think it's a reaction to the words of secretary carter. they were planning to do this before. they just didn't have the momentum going. but now they've seen a disaster in ramadi. so they needed to move. and ramadi has been -- the government in anbar province has been screaming for help over the last month and more saying they are about to fall. so i think it's a combination of all those things. again, it's also the prime minister trying to keep his country together and trying to as many politicians do console different parties and different actors to try and bring consensus. it's a tough road to hoe in iraq. >> general, michael weiss, thanks so much for helping us try to figure it out this morning. over to michaela. to politics now. they may be polling at 1% but some republican presidential hopefuls are making quite a huge impression in the early voting states. should some of the top tier candidates be concerned? 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>> great on this tuesday morning. how are you guys doing? little bad cop, good cop going with me inside politics the associated press ted o'keeffe of "the washington post." bad cop, good cop, joe biden and ash carter the vice president of the defense secretary. here's what the vice president said yesterday. he called the iraqi prime minister and the white house put out a read that the vice president recognize the enormous sacrifice and bravery of iraqi forces over the past 18 months in ramadi. the vice president pledged full u.s. support in these and other iraqi efforts to liberate territory. it was reaction to this secretary of defense ash carter exclusive conversation with cnn's barbara starr. >> what apparently happened was that the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. now, we can give them training. we can give them equipment. we obviously can't give them the will to fight. >> now, the vice president was being diplomatic here. but ash carter isn't saying this on his own. he sees the intel what's happened on the ground. what's happening here? >> ash carter is certainly saying what a lot of people in washington believe. but this is a difficult situation. the administration does not want troops on the ground, they're limited in the air strikes they can do because they feel there are too many civilians killed that will give isis a propaganda coup. that's the card in this situation in a lot of ways. >> really for biden, if you track his movements closely, you know he doesn't do a lot in public that catches public attention. but if you read the information that comes from his office he spends an awful lot of time still talking to iraqi leaders, to kurdish leaders in the north and to regional leaders across the middle east. he's still very concerned throughout this. undoubtedly carter's comments will cause a lot of undulation. >> new defensive under way. largely between the republicans there aren't a lot of democrats saying put more ground troops in. they're very worried what happened last go-around in iraq. iraqis aren't willing to fight. is that going to create support for troops? >> i think it's hard to create public support for sending troops after so many years of war in the united states. certainly there's a sense in the republican party and the republican primary that people want a more muscular defense. an interesting quick switch for the republicans who just a few months ago were pursuing more noninterventionist approach here. >> one guy who will not be calling for troops in iraq is governor sanders. he's officially in the race already. but today he's going to do the big rally, the lakeside in burlingburl g burling burlington vermont. he says look he's not going to be clinton inc. he can't raise a billion dollars. but he does tell the a.p. organization he can raise $50 million for primaries gets about $4 million since launching the average contribution. i was at a big benefit last week for a community service organization a lot of young people there. literally a dozen approached me, don't forget bernie. no evidence he can beat hillary clinton yet but there's something going on here. >> i mean certainly there's a desire in the party. senator sanders wasn't the guy they wanted. they wanted senator warren but he's the guy they have. the question i have is whether he's not going to attack, he doesn't do character attacks but does he take tough shots at hillary clinton, does he go after the foundation and speeches like that then we'll have a race. i think if that doesn't happen it's more of sort of a campaign to push the left on certain issues. >> he is a figure who want the chance to rally behind somebody who's saying what they're thinking who may not have any chance. get maybe nine months out of him, get a good exercise out of him. he's very popular in certain pockets of new hampshire and eastern iowa. you're looking western new hampshire and eastern iowa. that will force clinton to go to those areas, to say things to do things to win those democrats back. i think mostly he'll serve as a catr trks cathartic figure. >> we don't see them in public all that often. hillary clinton marching in a memorial parade in chappaqua, new york. smart to her part she refused to take any questions about politics saying that's not the reason for this day and it's not the reason for this day. so good for her and good for them to march in the parade. focus a bit on the republicans. do i call them under dogs? do i call them long shots? rick perry about to get in rick santorum about to get in george pataki about to get in, former governor of new york. look at the bottom of the pack in the polls. we're just showing the bottom of the pack. jeb bush is on top, scott walker but look from cruz to pataki pataki. you could look at this and say you know, okay, what are these guys doing? or you could look at this and say, ed there's no front runner the guy who's on top of the national polls is at 17%, rick santorum at this time four years ago is at 1% or 2% in iowa only had to get to 24.6 just shy of 25 to win. are they under dogs long shots, nobody? >> they're sitting tight knowing most republicans, most americans aren't paying attention to this at all. and i think one or two of these guys catch fire they will jump. we've seen this flavor of the month, flavor of the season before, i think we're seeing a little like now with people like carly fiorina in iowa i think if you're a 2% right now you don't have to be worried. if you're 2% in december hang it up and go home. >> the whole system has changed. all you need is to find a freelance billionaire to float your campaign and you can stay in this thing for a long time. if you don't win the presidency you can get a nice contract a book deal a tv contract. so there's a lot of incentives to run. and there's far fewer incentives not to run just because of the structural changes. >> keeping a list of these freelance billionaires? >> yeah, i need some freelance billionaire money in my -- yeah. >> right now there's no reason. >> and let's be honest this is not -- the debate you're going to do with the lower tier somebody could catapult out of that debate into the top tier based on one 30-second sound bite. all they need is a moment. >> never seen anything like this and you've got some serious people. governors down there, interesting people sometimes they take off. as we close and get back to you, alisyn, show you pictures yesterday of vice president biden. we showed president clinton and secretary clinton in the parade. vice president biden also doing some memorial day work yesterday. this is the ride to recover from from d.c. to virginia they start at the naval observatory. saluting veterans saluting those who served our country. memorial day for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. it is always a good day, 365 days plus a year. kudos to the vice president for taking part. >> nice to see him getting involved. looks like everybody was happy to have him along for the ride. john, thanks so much. all right, the trial of "the washington post" reporter accused of spying begins this morning in iraq. when and how will he be freed? 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>> well you know i think from their perspective it's a debate that they have in iran where do you draw the line between aggressive reporting and what they would consider activities that harm the state or even es espionage espionage. every society defines that differently. here in the united states representative king came out on cnn and demanded that glen gree wald be tried for espionage. he was afraid he would be charged with espionage here. it's a crime that i think has a political connotation to it because of course a state is interpreting on its own how it sees its interests and how it sees them harmed. here you have a particular problem with iranian-americans who are not entering iran on a visa. they enter iran on an iranian passport. so they're also treated as iranian citizens. and they're not given the same kind of consul access. >> all right. but let's go from the subtle to the more severe on this. i'm not supporting the allegations that we're referring to about glen greenwald, but that was about the responsibility of a journalist and what to do with information you're given and what wasn't redacted and what was put out there in the open space for good or bad reason. so that was very separate. this is this guy resigned. what proof has come up in any way that he was doing anything but his job? >> you know nobody knows the specifics or the details of the case. nobody outside of the prosecutor's office from what i understand in iran has actually read the file. but when the iranian foreign minister was here a few weeks ago, i had the opportunity to see him in new york. and he spoke publicly. where he said the case against jason involves him being taken advantage of by someone working for the united states in some way to actually divulge information about iran that would harm iran. so in some ways it is similar in terms of how the iranians see it to the case of glen greenwald where jason was not acting in their perspective in ways that would protect the iranian state. you and i may think this is terrible, we sympathize with him greatly. but in terms of this debate between aggressive journalism and espionage, this is a problem a lot of countries have and iran is in the spotlight for this problem. >> it seems like there's no fine line between reporting and espionage. they're very different things. doing it in the kangaroo style court it seems to come at the same time you have one of their military chiefs coming at the u.s. and saying that president obama hasn't done a damn thing to help in iraq. it seems like they take every chance they can to poke a stick in the eye of the united states is that unfair appraisal? >> well you know, there's an ongoing war. for 35 years the united states and iran have been essentially at war. some people call it the twilight war. but since the revolution in 1979 we have never accepted the islamic republic of iran and this is a core problem. we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars both in terms of covert programs and covert activities to under mine if not overthrow that government. we shouldn't really be shocked that they then turned. >> i think the shock is that you're at the table at all. this is why people are saying why are you negotiating with these guys when they do nothing but cause chaos in places and attack their citizens. >> the same thing could be said of china. the reality is in today's world we are not the one and only super power. we have to deal with rising powers as they are. whether it's the islamic republic of iran or the people's republic of china there's no getting around it. we can sympathize with americans who fall into a bad situation in these countries, but we can't say that we're not going to deal with these millions of people in these countries with an extraordinary amount of power. we need iran in iraq yemen, in syria, throughout the middle east to attain any of our objectivities. we can't close our eyes to that. >> what do you think happens here? 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>> reporter: well so now that the sun is up and we are finally getting a first glance of this and we are on the banks of blanco river and you can see it raging behind me and this looks more like tornado damage than flood damage. at one point over the weekend the water was above these trees, and this river rose to 43 feet and now it's starting to recede but the damage has been done. there are houses on top of hills that have been completedly lycompletely wiped off their foundations, and 12 people still missing. >> this morning record-breaking and deadly floodwaters continue to wreak havoc across central texas and oklahoma. >> more rain is to come. >> nearly 40 counties in texas under a disaster declaration. a dam unable to hold the rain flooding a highway. family members desperately wait on dry land. >> i kept calling him over and over and, i was, like are you okay? >> rescues by air and water. the national guard called to rescue 13 people including three children trapped in a rental cabin in southeast oklahoma. >> the water came up quicker than expected. >> in texas, around a dozen people are still missing, including two pea families with children. >> and julie recalls the last phone call with her sister. >> call mom and dad, i love you, and pray. >> along with her husband and two children inside the vacation home swept away and her husband said he tried to save his family but the cabin split into. >> she was out with her date and dancing and laughing. >> and on her way back from prom south of san antonio, and her car stalling out in high waters and she called 911 and her father. >> they were not able to find her until this morning, and she has her place in heaven where they will meet her again soon. >> reporter: we are going to see better conditions over the next couple days. it's overcast now, but no torrential downpours expected here, and we could see isolated activity but we are expecting the rivers to go down. they have crested, and otherwise we are continuing to see a major flooding problem down in houston and a lot of rain combined with all of the water flowing downstream and adds insult to injury and it will fill the rivers south of here faster and with the additional rainfall that's where we are seeing all the major flooding in houston, and the flood watches and warnings still in effect all across texas and even portions of louisiana, and we have seen over eight inches of rain in hue houston in about 24 hours, but we are going to dry out for a couple days in the hill country as they continue to clean up and search for those missing people. >> yeah and just down the road from where she is is san marcos texas. we have the mayor of that city joining us right now, mayor daniel guerrero. can you hear us okay? >> yes, fine thank you. >> we understand you have been having communication issues there given all the rain. how are you managing to communicate outside the county? >> we are doing our very best. as you mentioned, just having significant issues because of the weather and flooding with the cable communications and television, and a lot of the communication that we have been able to do fortunately has been either through the reverse 911 when we were able to go ahead and start encourageing people to make plans to leave their homes prior to the event taking place, and then certainly social media, and we have been trying to utilized social web sites, and certainly people have mobile devices and cell phones have been great, and radio, i can't commend our radio stations enough. >> yeah and i know this has got to be taking a toll on your rescuer kurz and first responders, and we understand five of the police cruisers there in san marcos was swept away by floodwaters and a fire station was inundated, and how are your first responders doing? >> a wonderful job, from the very beginning and through everything and now they are doing an outstanding job. the five cruisers they were not swept away they were caught up in fast rising waters within neighborhoods, those vehicles have been taken out of rotation and we have other assets we are trying to get into neighborhoods where they are needed and our police officers and firefighters have done an outstanding job and are fine. we have a great team that been the over to the fire station, firefighters to people from our hr department and in between went in and got the facility cleaned up, and it's going to be a great deal of time before it can be operational. >> they have a lot of hard work in front of them. a man was killed in the flooding, and there are 12 people missing in hays county that came from families that gathered for the long weekend. any update you can give us on the situation regarding the 12 missing people. >> i don't have any new information to share at this time. we did find an unidentified body earlier in the event, and we are still working diligently to identify this person and to be able to share a bit of information. in regards to the other group, i do not have any information at this time to the numbers of adults versus the numbers of children but what we do know is that we are receiving good leads that are helping us move towards getting more definitive information that we can get in touch with families. >> have you seen anything like this? >> we have seen plenty of tphrading here and my home and my parents home have been damaged over the weekend, and this is a new flood of record. but to seat community come together over the last 48 hours to help their neighbors and to help people living on the other side to come over and provide resources and prayer and energy and it has been a tremendous response to our residents and surrounding neighbors, and we are going to rebuild and do our very best to get this situation cleaned up and move forward. >> we send our best thoughts and wishes to you there and help you weather this storm. thank you for joining us on "new day." >> thank you. we do have breaking news this morning coming out of iraq. government forces have the city of ramadi surrounded on three sides and this is a must-win battle to get the city and its pride back. we go to our cnn correspondent live in baghdad. what is the situation on the ground nick. >> reporter: the announcements, they have translated into the progress on the ground and they did announce on state television we heard from the shia militia that gave details to what they would be do and the iraqi government and they were focusing on the supply route to the east and they are heading towards the key oil refining town, and they want to sever that first and we are hearing from the prime minister here and ministry of defense, and their moves to try and get into anbar and bush back at a later stage, and perhaps these groups can read off the same script and the militia answering the call of hussein is that relevant in the culture, and i think that will have many concerns particularly in washington and that will put out what is badly needed in the fight, and the question is how fast can we see progress on the ground. >> nick, will the u.s. military get involved in the operation to take back anbar province? barbara starr joins us live. what are they saying? >> iraq has always been a patchwork battlefield, and that's the pentagon's point of view, and some places force fight well, and in ramadi they did not. they are looking at the new operation from the pentagon point of view hoping it works but being very cautious about it at this point. in big change in u.s. military strategy. look for two things to continue to be the basic pentagon line. first, u.s. air strikes are only going to be used in this operation and other operations when the u.s. has its own intel intelligence to show where to drop the bombs. it wants its pilots to know not to hit the areas, and so going back to what nick was just saying if you see the sunnis on the ground if you see the shia militias on the ground the u.s. will use air strikes but only in support of the units directly under the control of the iraqi government and that continues to be a big problem, and a lot of shia militias operating on their own and the u.s. wants the sunni tribes more involved but how to get them involved remains a big question. >> one of them anyway. let's bring in our cnn military analyst and u.s. retired army general. let's check the boxes of the big issues here. one, do you believe the iraqis can turn it around and take ramadi in short order? >> that will be determined. that's a very tough question to answer. we have seen in recent days that they have not demonstrated an ability to show up and any capacity to fight really has rested with the shia militia in the form of the corp. and a different militia, and this becomes problematic because you have shias in sunni anbar. >> is it saying the will to fight is not what it needs to be on the iraqi fight? >> it is simplistic but what you want to do in warfare is keep it as simple as possible because even the most simple plans suddenly once in contact can unravel and become complicated, so what we saw in ramadi was forces that would simply leave the battlefield. that's leadership that has just simply dissipated and gone away. you have to have leadership that holds those units together so they will stand up and fight and that only happens when leadership decides they want to show up and be a part of the solution. >> more men and women in your part of the world tell me don't think about what is going on right now but think about what happens next and what happens if isis is taken out and what replaces that and they are taking more and more about iran and that comes on the heels of the a main military figure saying it's not about the iraqi's will to fight, and it's not about american's will to fight, and he says barack obama has not done a damn thing. what do you think of this? >> we are setting up and we are seeing the stages for a very very broad sectarian conflict that will be enter generational and that's shia against sunni, and barberism that we have seen at different levels. this is our new normal. the key for us is to not allow it to expand and our administration has acknowledged if iraq is not going to step up let's do the best we can to hold on what exists. this is what we need to be able to acknowledge is that tehran is setting up a much larger issue for us in this part of the world, and we need -- we are not focusing right now and we need to focus on what is happening in rekwraud. what do you think the partners in the kingdom of saudi arabia are thinking. >> iran further kphraucomplicateing it because the more iran is involved they are opposed to that and that takes us to the second layer of this. do you think provocative, but could it be true that in terms of keeping iran at bay, the united states would have been better off with saddam hussein in control there? >> oh, very hypothetically and that's the question if we knew then what we knew now would we have invaded iraq and taken saddam down. saddam clearly held that place together. central figure very strong hand and very brutal throughout his -- the country of iraq and development of chemical weapons and use of chemical weapons against his own people, and you look at that and you say you have got to be kidding me and this guy has to go away, and let's not talk about saddam but a central figure that is galvanizing and can bring the area together, and we have not found that guy. >> people listening at home they will say we are talking about a war in ramadi but all other things are involved. >> it's the strategy and the long-term view. thanks. the first session is over for the american journalist. and we have becky following along for us. >> good morning, michaela. the shameful acts of injustice continue without end and those are the words from the "washington post" senior editor. a relatively short session and no date has been released for the continuation so the facts in this case the 39-year-old iranian american arrested in july last year along with his wife and a number of others who were later released on bail but jason has been in prison at time for consolitary confinement, and he was charged with spying and illegally gathering classified information about iran and passing that on to washington. and the judge in this case has been accused of putting down politically motivated decisions, and so the question is is he is pawn. and we have no idea in this case when it will continue. >> we will be speaking with jason's brother about all of these issues momentarily here on "new day." the city of cleveland and the justice department set to announce reform to the city's police force, and it comes in the wake of the acquittal of a white cleveland police officer. good morning, nic. >> the city of cleveland agreed to the changes after what doj officers said there was violation. there will be court supervision of the police department. when it was announced by eric holder they agreed there needed to be changes to the police force, and this morning the local paper in cleveland announced the u.s. attorney's office in the city has asked stake holders in the community to come and talk about this so-called pattern of excessive force, and the timing of this all very peculiar. over the weekend small scale demonstrations and meanwhile the city is under pressure to explain the death of 12-year-old tau mere rice a young man shot and killed by police while brandishing a pellet gun. >> we will tell you about a passenger that travelled from liberia to new york and they died from lossa fever. no symptoms or fever upon arrival nine days ago, and went to the hospital with that a sore throat and died. there never has been a known case of person to person transmission in the u.s. here is a question for you. how was your memorial day weekend? i bet it was not like chris norton's? he walked the stage this weekend to accept his diploma from luther college, and doctors gave him a 3% chance of walking again after suffering a spinal cord injury, and sunday he defied the odds with a roaring crowd cheering and see the beautiful lady beside him, and he also proposed to his girlfriend, emily, and she accepted and the two are set to be wed. >> how was your memorial day weekend? just saying. are you stealing the good stuff today? >> a 3% chance of moving anything below his neck again. >> and he says he is going to keep going, and the message is you can't give up on yourself. >> we will take as much good stuff as we can get. >> with the amount of bad, we really have to move the balance in the other way. >> let us know what you think about all that. also the violence is on the rise in baltimore, but arrests, strangely, are sharply down. how do police explain that paradox? we'll tell you, next. i want a great shape. who doesn't? so i work out. i'm good. i juice. and then there's that other thing. this... i can do easily. new benefiber healthy shape. just a couple of spoonfuls every day means fewer cravings. plus, it's all natural, clear, taste-free and dissolves completely. it's clinically proven to keep me fuller longer and helps keep me healthy inside and out. new benefiber healthy shape. this, i can do. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ such a shame it's labeled a "getaway." life should always feel like this. hampton. we go together. always get the lowest price, only when you book direct at hampton.com don't just visit new york. visit tripadvisor new york. tripadvisor not only has millions of real traveler's reviews and opinions, but checks hundreds of websites, so people can get the best hotel prices. to plan, compare & book the perfect trip, visit tripadvisor.com today. it has been the deadliest month in baltimore in 15 years, and homicides reached 35 this month and the last time the city had that many homicides in a single month in 1999. what is fueling the violence? let's discuss it with the retired nypd detectivive, and our cnn political commentator. i was listening to some of the details in a city that four years ago had the lowest number of homicides since 1978 which was 196. i have heard anything from locals and somebody said freddie's death was like an earthquake and these are the aftershocks and somebody said that's what happens when the police are over taxed or over stressed. what do you think? what is your assessment of what is happening? i will start with you, harry. >> it's hard to figure that out, but the fact is i think that maybe the police officers are feeling that every time they take some kind of action they are vilified by the press or politicians, and they are thinking why should i go out of my way out here for people that hate my guts? we have police officers locked up in baltimore, and it was before that and it was automatically that the police officers were the bad guy here without the investigation being fully conducted. >> and it goes around about because the people in the black community are saying we are not the bad guys here so why are we -- >> and sometimes the bad guys feel empowered because the cops are not going to do nothing, and it's a free for all. >> what is your assessment? >> one, i disagree with that and if i was a police officer i would disagree with that, and police officers would say because it's freddie gray no way, and somehow police are afraid to do their job, and that's a narrative that police spin to make them not prosecute them. this is an issue of structural inequality, and when people don't have food clothes and shelter, they shoot each other. >> i talked to police officers and i called officers down in baltimore and spoke this them. they are hoping it's not so much what happened in baltimore itself, and we see a hike in the crime rate all over the country, and new york homicides up 10% and shootings up 10% -- >> but to go from the numbers preto post that's a significant increase? >> i have spoke to police officers about this, and when i run into a scene with a shots fired called i am not going to take the time to do it myself and that's what you see. and police officers feel if they are not being backed you know am i going to go to jail for the next decision? cops worry enough of being killed in the line of duty, and now they are worried about going to jail. >> for shooting unarmed people. >> you can do that under certain situations. >> yes, under certain situations and there are many when you cannot. police are not going to jail for killing people a whole lot, and even the nationally televised cases, ferguson nobody went to jail for that. >> what happened in ferguson? police were vilified. >> police are not going to jail for killing people. >> is that concern warranted? we heard the reverend talking to crisp there is a wild wild west mentality on the streets of baltimore and they are concerned about the attitude and he is concerned about the lives that have lost? >> you should be. he was concerned with the lives lost -- >> why aren't they demonstrating about the crime going on? >> you can't protest. >> of course you can. black lives matter. >> you are disagreeing with the point i am making. you can't protest your way out of gangs killing each other. they are not going to stop killing each other. we march people to stop killing each other with impew tea. i have been in chicago doing conflict and dispute resolution- and you get people jobs food clothing and shelter, and i hold the police to higher standards than the kreupz when it comes to killing black people. >> this is a situation that is clearly not going anywhere anytime soon. thank you. the espionage trial of "washington post" reporter rezion and his brother on "new day," next. when cigarette cravings hit, all i can think about is getting relief. only nicorette mini has a patented fast-dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara® your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may increase your risk of cancer. always tell your doctor if you have any sign of infection have had cancer, or if you develop any new skin growths. do not take stelara® if you are allergic to stelara® or any of its ingredients. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems including headaches, seizures, confusion and vision problems. these may be signs of a rare potentially fatal brain condition. serious allergic reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you or anyone in your house needs or has recently received a vaccine. in a medical study most stelara® patients saw at least 75% clearer skin and the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. stelara® helps keep my skin clearer. ask your doctor about stelara®. here we go with the five things to know for your new day. number one, 37 texas counties under a state of emergency after record-setting rain and wide-spread flooding. so far blamed for six deaths in texas and oklahoma. 12 people remain missing. the iraqis launching an operation to reclaim territory from isis including anbar province and the city key of ramadi already surrounded on three sides. a violent memorial day in baltimore, police reporting 30 people shot and seven of them fatally. the murder rate up 47% in the city this year. in iran the first session over of the espionage trial for jason rezyen. and police say there is no evidence to support accusations that b.b. king was poisoned. they are taking the claims seriously, though. when michael sylvia was a teenager he witnessed a classmate being shot after being bullied. he is using it to impact your world. if you want to learn more go to cnn.com/impact. here is the story. after ten years traveling the world with a hit show "stump," he decided to shift his focus to a younger audience and he did not want to perform but he wanted to teach an important lesson. >> the reason we are out there to talk about bullying. who knows what bullying is? 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>> i think it's hard to tell. it's a very complicated situation over there. you have different factions within the governments that have their own political agendas and go about trying to get them in different ways than we do over here and you also have the larger conversation about the biolateral and multilateral conversations going on. we are not sure why. jason was the most meticulous journalist in iran, and he knew he needed to play by the rules and follow the rules, and his credentials were just renewed the day before they came and took him off to prison so it just came out of the blue. >> according to the new york times, the iranian government presented two pieces of evidence during the trial, and they said they had an american visa application for jason's wife as well as a form letter sent by jason to barack obama's 2008 white house transition team offering help to improve relations between iran and the united states. do you think those are evidence of spying? >> well in my opinion, of course not. those are consistent with what we believe were parts of the case file but i don't know what was presented in trial. what i can tell you is jason was trying to get a permanent residency for his wife which is pretty standard procedure, and as a result he reached out to the u.s. consulate in the area where he would have to go to do all of his paperwork and asked them to expedite the process, and that was the extend of that particular conversation, and then during the transition before president obama was sworn in and jason filled out a form letter online and said he had acknowledge of the iranian culture and had been living over there and wanted to help our countries understands each other better and offered help to become part of the administration and was able to get a job to help bring the countries together and not be so adversarial adversarial. >> your brother is the journalist that has been held the longest. >> that's correct. >> what do you know about his health? >> he has been isolated the entire time, and he has a cellmate and that's the only one he enter acts with except the guards and interrogators, and he had a multiple amount of issues including a variety of infections that went untreated, and he was taken out of the jail to get specialists to look at them, and we were concerned there would be long-term damage to jason, and we don't know the extent of the damage of what happened to him that has been inside, and it's difficult for him because of the isolation that he has had day in and day out for ten months. >> you have or your family been able to receive any help from the state department? >> yes, we are in communication with the state department. they speak with iranians and make requests as well as sending the requests through the protecting power of switzerland. president obama speaking out about it a few weeks ago at the correspondent's dinner i think shows a commitment of the government as well as the senate resolution that passed two weeks ago unanimously calling on the u.s. government to do everything in its power to get jason and the other americans released. >> the hearing ended today without any other future date for a next hearing though one will be assigned we assume. what do you want people listening to do to help? 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EXCLUSIVE — Former New York Gov. George Pataki embarked on his fourth humanitarian aid trip to Ukraine this week, telling the Washington Examiner, "We're fighting the war for everyone who believes in freedom and democracy," referring to the country's conflict with Russia.
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