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To expand his own power on the basis of this guy s death. more details emerging about this guy. more on hopefully what authorities will be able to uncover as to what his motive was. we ll have more on that throughout the show this morning. five minutes after the hour. now to extreme weather exploding. a storm blamed for deaths in the part of the country rising. floodwaters killing eight people in texas. and a coat of ice on kansas highways causing at least six fatal crashes there. out in oklahoma, ice covering most of the state, downing trees, power lines, leaving 80,000 people in the dark. rick joins us with more. ice storms are the worst to be driving on. interstate 40 and 20 and 25, all these big areas that all the people driving on would like to be driving on, really dangerous. this is the system, mostly just a jet stream across parts of the mid-atlantic and still down ....
School. jeff, such, terrible things you went through yesterday, and yet you my friend are one of the lucky ones, have you your family intact, a place to go tonight, we wish you the best, thank you for sharing the video and story. let us know if you need anything. we re down by the hospital. thank you. thank you. a lot of stories like that we ll hear this morning, people who found a way through it. people who were lucky and they are the lucky ones as horrible as it has been, many stories who come out won t have those types of endings, back after a short break from moore, oklahoma. ....
And speaker boehner just came out and said he will work with the president to make sure money gets out the door and to the people quickly and that there is no fight in washington over funding for response. they ll work out the politics of how that happens but speaker boehner said he s ready to partner with the president to make sure that people of oklahoma get what they need from the federal government, chris. jessica, if they can t agree on this, they won t agree on anything. the need couldn t be more comprehensive no matter what your political stripe. thank you for the reporting. let us know if there is any update in the president s plans to come down here. surely we ll be a welcome face. thank you for the reporting. appreciate it, jessica. as weather continues to close in here now, there is so much need. it s going to continue. you have to remember there is nothing that destroys like a tornado. all natural events whether it s a fire or a hurricane. they re all horrible. there is ....
Number will change, 20 already are kids. many died in the basement of that school. it became flooded. horrible to hear, but imagine for the families to learn that. the search and rescue there, still very active. going hand by hand. can t get earth moved. you can t get earth moving machines in here, too difficult. there are active power lines down, active gast lines open. all very difficult. that is the scene in oklahoma. the weather has moved on, you will see clear skies here, front moving toward texas. get to meteorologists that will tell us about the threat that remains for places. more tornadoes that could come down. from moore, oklahoma, right now, all about the aftermath and finding out who is still alive. community are very active right now doing it. saw it as we drove through. looking for people. asking the media to move so you don t hear the generator sounds so they can keep searching. pam brown with me, all morning, seen it first hand. ....
pastor, as you are talking to me, so our audience understand, there is hazmat manager and a rescue team, search and rescue going on around us that we have a camera on right now as well. just to have people understand, pastor, how many different arm there of of the recovery process. people need to search, and people like you need to open doors and welcome in families. the need will come in waves. people who didn t see last night, they need food, clothing, you will start to see people, yes? absolutely. it does come in waves and right now we re focused on doing everything we can to meet immediate needs and work with the amazing rescue workers. in oklahoma, we re no stranger to these types of tragedies, we re thankful that oklahomians are hard workers, full of faith here, our people are resilient, and a lot of crying going on right now. but we know how to work together ....