in greeley, colorado. spring runoff pushes the river over the banks. the water level reached nine feet, a foot above flood stage. all right. don t play in floodwaters. here s a look at the weather across the nation. severe storm system moving east, hitting the ohio river valley with thunderstorms stretching in to new england. another band of severe storms following close behind in the upper midwest, but it will be a sunny, pleasant day from the rockies to the west coast. temperatures heating up across the country. warm and a summer-like in the 80s. across the south, 90s in texas and the southwest and much milder in the north. a couple of weeks ago a viral video featured a mother bear hauling one of her cubs to safety away from traffic. on a road in canada it was very cute. i don t know if you remember that. now another video starring different bears and a different road. mama and her three little ones look ready to cross that road in wisconsin but wait too much traffic appare
size. the rescuers in the first couple days to about 5 today. they don t believe he survived. we spoke to a ranger a short time ago who gave ace better idea of how this young man got swept down the river. they saw him swim out into the river. he went out into the middle of the river where there was a large boulder, having fun. when it was time to swim back. he got back, started swimming back. as he was coming out of the river onto the shore the current caught him again, swept him. he was unable to recover. reporter: now, he was in a part of the river about sfern 20-feet wide, it quickly funneled to 10 or 15, by that time the water had been moving so fast it had been very difficult to get out of it. it is the spring runoff at the moment and in those very narrow channels, it is almost impossible to swim out of them. clearly, he had gotten past the
you know, pristine beauty spot for people, but this young man got himself in some serious trouble. the falls that he went to, he was with a church group out of sacramento. they hiked up about three miles to these falls. it gets very warm here during the day, up into the 80s and after a hike that long, perhaps he wanted to go for a swim and cool down a little bit. but rangers here on the scene saying they don t leave a lot of hope that he survived that fall. where he was swimming, is swimming permitted there? s that has this started any discussion about whether maybe it should be banned? no, it s not permitted there. there are signs posted at this area. it s close to this enormous fall. it s 600 feet. the water is rushing very fast, even though we haven t had a big snow pack this year, it is still the spring runoff is. the water is racing down, you know, the slopes there and to be
and he got out to the middle of it, to a rock in the center of it, when he tried to get back, though, to the same shore that he had started on, the same current that he got through before, swept him. it is the spring runoff right now. you usually have that much water coming down even yosemite falls. and even though we didn t have a huge though pack this year, the water still runs very quickly and even though it may look placid on top, it will just rip you right down. pee people saw him go over the precipice and they don t believe he survived. so there were warning signs posted. will more be done now to keep people out of that water? reporter: it s hard to do. it s a massive park. it does get hot during the day. but they have very strict warnings in that area. the rangers have stressed that to us over and over again.
lawmakers are having a tough time in washington state, not just washington, d.c. that s right. here they can t get a budget passed because protesters keep interrupting them. more than a dozen arrested yesterday at the state capitol in olympia, some trying to storm the governor s office chanting less us in others had to be escorted from the gallery after shutting down the legislature for 30 minutes. it s about labor groups, angry about millions of dollars in proposed cuts to state funded health services. in fargo, north dakota, they re preparing for the worst from the rising red river. spring runoff pushes this river above flood stage and it s expected to crest this weekend at around 40 feet and stay there through the beginning of the week. meantime they re continuing to sandbag in fargo and also across the river in minnesota as well. rob s here to give us weather from across the nation. rob, what s it looking like? we got rain moving into the midwest. of course any addition