with the details. police have this entire area cordoned off after it was evacuated while the bomb squad went in to make sure that there was nothing inside that pressure cooker that looked suspicious. just after 6:00 this evening, a resident of an apartment complex next to the san antonio shopping center in mountain view alerted police to the pressure cooker which was on a ledge in the bushes outside the lobby doors. police were called in and infrared technology was used to determine that it was emitting heat. the southwest section of the center, which includes the apartment building asafeway store and some restaurants were all evacuated. three hours after that initial call just after 9:00 this evening, the bomb squad reported there was nothing inside that pressure cooker. what comes to mind immediately is probably the boston marathon, the tragedy that happened back east. and we would like to avoid that here. pressure cookers are obviously, could be used as bombs. and we d
hey, good memorial day morning to you, ladies. good morning to yous at home if you have the day off. i hate to bring this to the table, but unfortunately we have a chance for some showers. i wanted to show you right off the bat. doppler radar is nice and dry for the time being and temperatures are mild. some cities aren t even going to see that rain until tonight, so stick around, the all important memorial day forecast is coming right up. right now back to you two and the stories of the day. thank you very much. we start with a developing story, a shooting killing three people and the gunman are still on the loose. a man was hot at hayes avenue near monterey road in san jose. investigators say the man was shot at least once. he was pronounced dead at the scene. police have not released a motive. his death marks the city s 19th homicide of the year and a few hours earlier, two people killed in a shooting in east san jose. it hand on ryan hold drive. the neighbor says her
parts of the country are feeling the effects of extreme weather. three people were killed in san antonio over the weekend. some americans are digging out from a spring snowfall. msnbc bill karins joins us now this morning for what we can expect this memorial day. really a mixed bag. a lot of extremes out there and we learned the hard way flash flooding is a huge tlit and kills a lot of people. a life here or there and what happened in san antonio. what is going on? we woke up this morning to violent weather in omaha, nebraska. that is heading south. a line of severe thunderstorms not tornadoes, but this is a line of storms with dangerous winds and all it takes it one tree to go down on a house and can you have injuries and fatalities with this too. if you re? st. joseph. now 1200 lightning strikes an hour and hopefully a sign the storms are weaken. those areas of red counties in north central illinois still under flash flood warnings and heavy rain the last couple of days t
at 31 past the hour, syria has agreed to attend next month s peace talks proposed by the u.s. and russia aimed at ending the syrian civil war. syria s foreign minister announced the news after arriving in iraq today. in a gut wrenching moment in london today family members of the murdered british soldier visited the scene of last week s horrific attack. the widow of lee rigby laid a wreath among hundreds of other tributes to her fallen husband. police arrested three more suspects. authorities in france are not connecting the london attack of yesterday s stabbing of a french soldier just outside of paris. the suspect remains at-large, though, while the soldier recuperates from a stab wound to the neck. the marathon winner says he will return his winning medal. and the los angeles galaxy of major league soccer has signed robby rogers. he becomes the first active openly gay male athlete in u.s. team sports. rogers had retired three months ago when he came out publicly.
0 disaster. alex? yeah, you can imagine the sight for him as he will be on approach on air force one as he heads to the air force base. from the sky, charles, it still has just this very defined mark of where exactly that twister went through, doesn t it? reporter: it s a scar. it s a scar across this part of oklahoma. and it s very similar to the one that was in 1999, the may 3 tornado that killed so many people. that s probably the last time a president was here in moore, oklahoma. that was president clinton back in 1999 who came to tour the devastation back then. one thing the president will see here, a lot of american flags on the side of the road and even in the rubble. people have a strong sense of patriotism here even among all the debris here and amid this disaster. and let s hope those attending church certificaservi receiving comfort and inspiration from that. let s go to front page politics. new reaction to the major counterterrorism speech. the president established