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eastern tennessee overnight. reportedly killing two people and injuring dozens more people. the storm's tearing through parts of the great smoky mountains. the park spokesamerican telling wtae that a falling tree killed a woman and another man died when his motorcycle wrecked during the storm and rob mars an mow is going to let us know where they're going. >> good morning. >> well, the storms have weakened. around 5:00 they were rolling down the south, the western part of the smoky mountains. if you don't know east of knoxville. a lot of tourists get millions of visitors, as a matter...

Floodwaters in northern florida and others were caught in rip tides in alabama and in florida. now back to "on the record." re. >> it has never happened before but today it did. the full house of representatives in a bipartisan vote, vote to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt. congress. it's the first time an attorney general has been held in contempt but not all house members were sticking around for today's historic vote. in a dramatic display, most democrats walking out of the capitol building in protest. what is next? we spoke with house oversight chair derek issa. >> thank you ...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> it's a channel of water pulls out to sea, too much water close to the shore, rip current will pull you out to sea, i...

Friend first. >> we begin this morning with an extreme weather alert. tropical storm beryl making land fall last night. it came in after midnight tonight. wind 70 miles per hour. it continues to dump rain on parts of florida, georgia and south carolina. rip tides making for dangerous weather conditions off the coast of florida and georgia. some folks are braving the water despite the warnings. for beach goers it's a rude awakening. >> it really got out of control. >> an advisory has been issued at the top of the hour.

thank you for waking up with us. i'm live in new york. let's start in texas, shall we? it's a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you're looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let's go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we're going to get to chris welch who's in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they're going to get any relief from mother nature. >> we d...