and then there s the flooding. the arkansas river overtalks oklahoma and arkansas. many thousands forced to evacuate. we have team fox coverage. matt finn reporting from fort smith, arkansas. first, mike tobin live on scene in dayton. mike? shep, the national weather service confirmed that one of the tornadoed touched down, measured up to the ef-3 on the fujita scale. as you mentioned, more than 50 tornadoes whipped up. stands to reason some were touched down in populated areas. that s what happened here, eight miles north of dayton. the home behind me was obliterated while the people went inside and went to seek shelter. john barber stayed up late to watch the local news. he heard the warnings. he woke up his wife and this is what he saw. it went on. seemed like forever.
yet still the water just keeps rising. a lot of people leaving behind their homes and businesses and headed for higher ground. team fox coverage begins. matt finn is in fort smith. what is it like there, matt? shep, city officials tell us this afternoon that they expect up to 1,000 homes to be flooded by tomorrow when the arkansas river is forecasted to crest at 42 1/2 feet. the highest river level this area has seen. a lot of debris has been collecting along this lock and dam and this bridge. officials say when the debris rips off, that s a concern. and the lock and dam here. workers had to be from the rooftop of that tower because the fleet water rose so quickly, it trapped them. right now the water is up the grand doors.
phase. president trump has claimed his campaign was the victim of spying. u.s. intelligence officials insist that they acted lawfully, conducting surveillance under court order. we have team fox coverage. hillary vaughn reporting on the president s trip to japan. first, to blake burman reporting live at the white house. hi, trace. just a couple hours ago on the south lawn, we heard from president trump for the first time since the president unveiled that he left the attorney general, bill barr, declassified documents as relates to surveillance in the 2016 presidential campaign and since the president has ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with all of that. the president saying that he s doing this in the name of transparency to see as he put it how an attempted coup was started. the president also tried to draw a line between himself and the declassification process saying he doesn t even know how many documents may or may not be involved with all of this and
prime minister shinzo abe as two big regional trade does hang in the balance. team fox coverage continues with hillary vaughn reporting live in washington. hillary? the president will meet shinzo abe and he will be his guest of honor. they will attend a sumo wrestling championship where president trump will award the trophy to the whenner. both leaders are wrestling with a trade deal that hangs in the balance. the president tweeting on air force one on his way to japan saying, i m on air force one with the first lady heading to japan and looking forward to honoring on behalf of the united states his majesty, the emperor of japan. i will be discussing trade and military with prime minister abe. he will be opening up u.s. beef exports into japan. so we opened it up with japan. first time ever.
the president said last week businesses. take a look at this car that that money would come from tariffs collected from the dealership. the tornado is so powerful, it tariffs on chinese goods which picked up cars, s.u.v.s and to a large degree have been paid pickups and put them on top of by american consumers. it s not clear where that money each other all the way down these rows. is coming from. some of the money, about $100 workers say the trail of destruction was a mile wide in billion, will go into jefferson city and dozens of exploration to find other people were hurt. markets for u.s. farmers to sell nobody was killed. their goods. more than 150 miles south and we ll learn more about that in a west of the capitol, officials couple minutes, trace. say a different tornado killed trace: we ll have that live. john roberts live on the north three people near golden city, lawn. team fox coverage continues. including a couple in their 80s. their bodies found hundreds of lawmakers wei