Gerri third people are still missing. Nine are now confirmed dead after record rain and severe flooding across oklahoma and texas. Hundreds of homes were swept away in central texas. Another foot of rain fell on houston today which already has seen some of the worst flooding in years. In hayes county, south of austin, raging floodwaters tore through communities like wimberly. Wimberly resident keith mcnab is joining us. Great to have you on the show. I know it has been a very difficult time for you. At least for your family, at least good news your house was spared tragedy. Tell us what happened in your neighborhood. It was of course memorial weekend. We have lots of folks in town being holiday weekend. Most of wimberly Vacation Property is centered on blanco river as much as any. It was kind of a perfect storm of conditions of already wet ground. Weve had unusually wet spring out here in the austin hill country southwest of austin area. With the ground already being as wet as it was, when the storms came through, that evening you know, and dropped as much rain as it did up river of everybody on the blanco river, we had reports of anything from neighbors saying they were receiving 14, 12 to 14 some odd inches of rain in period of three days. Gerri wow. When that much water comes down and ground already wet as it is, all of that water poured into the blanco river. It came down in a wall of water. And you know, being nighttime you know, you dont see it coming. You can hear it coming but, you know, we get some floods out here in the texas hill country area. People get a little bit, kind of used to hearing flood alerts come out. And, didnt think too much of it until you know, the sheriff and other people started coming by the doors and telling folks they needed to get out. Luckily we happened to be in an area that is on a hill. So our house was spared but, my wife and i wound up staying home that evening but a lot of our friends were immediately to the right side of the fisher store bridge in wimberly, when that wall of water came down. And, you know, they got all the kids out of the house and managed to get gerri evacuated. A few belongings. That was about it. Within a matter of 30 minutes that wall of water came down. So every house on his street and sent it down river. Gerri keith, let me ask you a question here. Im familiar with the hill country there. It is beautiful. Beautiful rolling lovely area. And you say, that you could hear the water. What do you mean . Yeah. You know, when water starts to get high, you can kind of hear the rapids and hear the roaring of the water. You know, you kind of, most of the homes are fairly, you know probably 50 60 yards off of the rivers edge. Just because the floodplain will only let you build so close to the water. And any im a builder out here in the area. I know dealing with the county and other folks that we have to kind of stay outside of what is considered the 500 year flood pain. And floodplain. You watch the water creeping up into the yard and it gets higher and higher. When it starts to rise that fast, you know, you just have enough time to get out. But, it was luckily all of our really Close Friends managed to get out. Of course all the children got out. Gerri thank goodness thank goodness for that. Keith mcnab your story, amazing. Were very pleased to hear from you. Glad you and your family are safe and were prey praying for 30 people that havent been found, keith, thank you so much. With us now, another guest on the same topic, mark fox from the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. He is coordination meteorologist for the National Weather service in the dallasft. Worth region. First of all to you, mark are there issues in the area that you are studying and taking a very close look at . Are there Flooding Issues there. Absolutely. The Trinity River down near down dallas, 40 feet. Flood stage is 30 feet. Most of that is contained in the levees. We have definitely had our share of water deal with the last couple of weeks. We have had a couple of people unfortunately pass away because of flash flooding in the last two to three weeks. And were definitely water logged just like the rest of the state. Gerri you know mark, flooding is no joke. You understand that flooding kills more people than tornados. Why is it more dangerous . I think keith had a pretty good story right there. Number one these things happen semifrequently, maybe not as bad or big as what were seeing at this time around. But flooding alerts are relatively common. You tend to kind of not really think too much about them. So, what we say at the Weather Service, every warning is what we want is, well every warning is a call for us to hopefully have people do Something Different with their lives for the next 20 or 30 minutes or so to help save their lives because those warnings are issued for a reason. We want people to do something just a little bit different. The other reason i think is a lot of stuff has been happening at night. In the day time especially with severe storms and weather like that you can see it coming. At night, you cant really see it coming. Almost, you can get your clues from the sounds or anything. Gerri thats what keith said. He said he could hear it coming. You can hear it coming. Could hear the water coming. He has lived there a long time obviously. He knew the signs and signals. To your point at night you cant see anything really. Apparently keith told us that he could hear people yelling are in in the middle of the night calling for help which is tragic. You say once those alarms are sounded, once the authorities start saying you know you have to get out of there, it is too late to plan ahead. Is there anything these people could have done ahead of time to save their families, to save their homes . That ace really tough question because everybody has a different viewpoint, different way they approach things likes that one thing we stress from the Weather Service make sure you have those plans in place. You cant wait until the sheriff or whoever comes knocks on your door. If the rain is heavy, and youre in that floodprone area you should have that plan in place and have the predesignated spot to go to before the water really starts to rise up. Once, you do get the warning, once you do get the signals something bad is happening then time to act on the plan and take cover, get to Higher Ground do whatever else you need. Gerri you say a place, the whole family knows where theyre supposed to meet if trouble does arise, correct . Absolutely. Everybody in the family, everybody in the household knows were meeting at this place if Something Big and bad happens. No questions asked. You essentially know what youre going to do long before anything bad happens. You can get out in front of it. Gerri wow. Tragic down there. Mark, thank you for coming on the show. Thanks for describing what is going on there. We appreciate your time. Anytime, thanks. Gerri turning the page now, moving on to breaking news as the irs says thieves have gotten access to Tax Information from 100,000 taxpayers. They used an Online System called get transcript to steal tax returns and other information. The thieves managed to clear a security screen requiring Social Security numbers, addresses dates of birth, and tax filing status. The system had been breached from february to midmay but has now been shut down. So mystery solved. That is how the bad guys got into the irs system. Meanwhile, General Motors as you may have heard under pressure as it possibly faces criminal charges from prosecutors over recall faulty ignition switches. They may have to pay a record fine to safety defect linked to more than 100 deaths. We have a managing partner and business law attorney. Seth, welcome back to the show. So glad to have you here. I look at this all this information has been out for sometime. Why criminal charges, why now . Well roughly a year ago the Criminal Division of the Justice Department launched an investigation into the behavior that was going on at General Motors behind the scenes. And what they determined alongwith reading the internal report, that gm also created with a lead by a former u. S. Attorney was an unfortunate pattern of concealment and deception, which tragically led to the deaths of whatever 100 individuals because of this ignition issue. So really this is really a very tragic situation. The Criminal Division of the u. S. Attorneys office at the Justice Department is involved in this. And it looks like theyre on the cusp of a historic settlement that could be reached as early as this summer. Gerri i understand could be as much as a billion dollars . A billion dollars . Right. Well thats true. There are two main components to these settlement discussions between gm and Justice Department. One, whether or not theyre going to plead guilty or potentially enter into what is known as deferred prosecution agreement or dpa. Naturally gm wants to push for the latter. That is more of a direct agreement as opposed to guilty plea. As you said it will be what is probably historic fine. Toyota recently entered into an agreement for 1. 2 billion. Look for a number that might go north of that in this case. Gerri were talking billions of dollars. Right. Gerri as we know the Company Already paid a 35 million fine to nshta. Where does this money go . If they pay a billion dollars or more fine, does it just go into the treasury . Yes, it goes into the main treasury account just like money going in through the huge multiple big Bank Settlements that were announced last week. If it is not agency specific and goes from the Justice Department, it goes into the United States treasury. Gerri now i understand that General Motors has Something Like 25 billion cash on the Balance Sheet to pay for any kind of liability, any criminal finding against them. One of the conversations going on today is that maybe there would be criminal charges against an individual at gm. Who would that likely be in your view . Well, i think that one of the lead targets would be some of the senior engineers who allegedly concealed this defect in the car approximately 11 years ago. There were a small handful of engineers. One in particular. His name was mentioninged over 200 times in the internal gm report. I think there is really going to be likelihood at the end of the year you will see someone indicted individually Corporate Responsibility at its hallmark requires individual accountability. These were deaths that were not only tragic but were avoidable. If this was handled in the appropriate way and wasnt actively concealed it would be far different story. Dont are surprised to see individual indictments in this case by december. Gerri the company itself didnt initiate recalls until early 2014. That was 10 years after the problems came to light. This went on and on and on. Seven years after the fixes to the switch were implemented. If youre going to blame engineers, boy you wonder about that chain of command. Surely other people in the company knew since this went on for so long. Do you think justice will really be served by this. I do. This is one of the biggest highprofile cases in the history of the automotive industry. Remember, there were about 15 terminations as a result of this report being issued by gm. Not only people within the Engineering Department but also people who were in the management chain. So i agree with you completely. There has to be accountability within the management chain. You really cant have another case of prosecution light where you just cut the check and you hit the road. I do think given the high visibility of this case and the tragic facts you will see heads roll in this case. Gerri 107 fatalities in this case this switch that did not work correctly. It is truly tragic. Seth, thanks for coming on the show tonight. Appreciate it. Always a pleasure. Gerri now we want to know what you think. Here is our question tonight should gm be held criminally responsible . Log on to gerriwillis. Com and vote. I will share results at the end of tonights show. Still a lot more to come this hour, including new warnings taxpayers may be on the hook, for get this, more than 25 trillion. And next, more than 1000 ps tsa badges disappeared. Airport officials are downplaying concerns. Could these i. D. S have fallen into the wrong hands . Tweet me what you think. Gerri willis fbn or send me an email through our website at gerriwillis. Com. Well be right back. If youre an adult with type 2 diabetes and your a1c is not at goal with certain diabetes pills or daily insulin your doctor may be talking about adding medication to help lower your a1c. Ask your doctor if adding onceaweek tanzeum is right for you. Onceaweek tanzeum is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes along with diet and exercise. Onceaweek tanzeum works by helping your body release its own natural insulin when its needed. Tanzeum is not recommended as the first medicine to treat diabetes or in people with severe stomach or intestinal problems. Tanzeum is not insulin. 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What is the sphere . You have to appreciate is that the whole operating environment of an airport is one that is tightly tightly controlled. For some different reasons. Even before 9 11. These airplanes are millions and millions of dollars of pieces of equipment. Obviously passenger safety and concern is paramount concern. And, who gets on the air side in particular but throughout these terminals, is absolutely essential. So having these types of badges go missing without any type of inventory taken on them whether or not theyre turned off so you cant use them anymore cant get access this is a real concern. Gerri its a real concern, obviously and we were talking about Atlanta Hartsfield which is the Busiest Airport in the world, really. Some 90 million passengers pass through there each and every year. There are 60,000 employees at that airport. I mean it is a huge operation. And seems to me that it is essential that the folks who go in there to work every single day we know who they are when theyre coming when theyre going. Why isnt the tsa more locked down on employees themselves . Seems like that is a easy part to control . We spent so much money and resources and effort on trying to secure the way that people travel by air. And, this is one component now. Tsa can sit there not a major component there is a lot of others. It erodes the confidence of the flying public. To think gee, you set up all this security in the system and now these badges go missing and you dont know where they are . Gerri exactly right. Let me tell you the tsa itself is saying you have to have a pin for this. There is a picture on the i. D. Makes it much less useful to terrorists, to bad guys who might get into the airport to get into an area and hurt people. Are you buying that . Is that an adequate excuse . Well, again these types of things they with all of the money resources that weve spent, seems to be something that you could really lock down better to use your words. We have seen in new york state in particular the theft of uniforms. There has been threat information in the past about folks trying to impersonate a pilot trying to get on the planes. So is this a part of it . That is really the biggest concern. Is this part of a larger effort. Gerri for example, there was a horrible event where people were impersonating Airport Security personnel and using those very officer uniforms youre describing. The other thing that tsa says you know, look, you know these badges are turned off. Theyre basically made completely not useful after a couple of days. But michael, i read, sometimes they wait to demag advertise those i. D. S because people are hoping that maybe they will turn up somewhere. You know, it is not something that is handle