- Well welcome to the 700 Club.
Deadly tornado's andstorms hit the Midwest
and Plains states thisweek, killing seven people
and injuring dozens ofothers and it's not over yet.
- The storm is pushingeast and now the big
concern is flooding.
At the same time the southeast is getting ready
for a record breaking heat wave.
Heather Sells brings us the story.
- A week of tornado'sin the Midwest has left
death and destruction in its path.
In the Capital of Missouri,lives were spared but the
twister decimated a three mile path.
Even the capital took a hit.
The concern in JeffersonCity in the tornado's
aftermath is flooding.
The city sits on a bluffoverlooking the Missouri river
and that river is projectedtop a levee today and
potentially flood the airport.
- So not only are wedealing with the storm
we're also still payingattention to what happened
with the water rising.
- [Heather] The Missouri tornadowas just one of dozens to
strike the Plains statesin the last few days.
This funnel cloud crossedover the Texas Panhandle
near the Oklahoma state line on Thursday.
A reporter was able to come up very close.
- [Reporter] We're almost on it.
It's a large tornado andI can see violent motion,
I mean good night, thisthing is spinning hard.
- [Heather] Oklahoma is stillgetting hammered by both
tornado's and flooding.
The worst in 30 years.
The big concern; the Arkansas river.
Authorities have opened theflood gates at Lake Keystone
where rising watersthreatened the dam but that's
dumping millions ofgallons of water into the
Arkansas river whichruns right through Tulsa.
- We called up some of the national guard.
- To make matters worse,
these two barges broke loose
and floated down the swollenArkansas on Thursday.
As you can see here theyactually slammed into
a dam and then sank.
The dam held but the sunkenboats are now blocking
three of it's 12 floodgates.
The storm system is now moving east.
On Thursday afternoon anEF1 tornado touched down
in Columbia, Marylandand heading into this
holiday weekend, believeit or not, forecasters
are also talking about a heat wave.
Potential record temperaturesinto the high 90s,
possibly into the 100swill likely scorch the
south east from Alabama to Virginia and,
as forecasters point out,those enjoying the holidays
should be prepared as heatcan literally be a killer.
Heather Sells, CBN News.
- Well in other news,President Trump has told
the intelligencecommunity to work with the
Attorney General and hisprobe into the source
of the Russia investigation.
John Jessop has that story from our
CBN News Bureau in Washington.
John?
- That's right, Gordon.
The President has directedintelligence services to
"quickly and fully cooperatewith Attorney General
William Barr's investigationinto Robert Muller's
two year Russia probe andpossible collusion with
Trump's 2016 campaign.
Trump also gave Barr fullauthority to declassify
documents connected to the probe.
Barr has already asked USAttorney General John Durham
to determine if theintelligence and surveillance
methods used in theRussia investigation were
legal and appropriate.
Well embattled BritishPrime Minister, Theresa May
is resigning, effectiveJune 7th, admitting defeat
in her handled of Brexit,the UK's 2016 referendum
to leave the European Union.
- I have done everythingI can to convince MPs
to back that deal.
Sadly, I have not been able to do so.
But it is now clear to me thatit is in the best interest
of the country for a new Prime Minister to
lead that effort.
- May will stay on ascaretaker Prime Minister
until a new leader is chosen.
The simmering stand offbetween the United States
and Iran got even more tensethis week as the Pentagon
announced plans to sendup to 10000 troops to
the Middle East and human rights experts,
religious advocates andpoliticians met in Washington
this week to discuss Iran'sescalating war against
Christians and other religious minorities.
Victims of Christianpersecution in Iran shared
first hand accounts of lifeunder the Islamic regime.
Among those invited wereAmbassador Sam Brownback,
Senator Ted Cruz and Dr. MikeAnsari, Head of one of the
largest satellite channelsbroadcasting Christian
programming into Iran.
Well a new bill pendingapproval by the Irish government
is just a few stepsaway from becoming law.
As Chris Mitchell reports from Jerusalem,
if the legislation is approvedit would have profound
consequences for bothIrish and Israeli citizens.
- The proposed law wouldmake it illegal for Irish
citizens to buy goods andservices from Israeli citizens
in what they define asthe occupied territories.
That would make it illegalto buy an ice cream,
a post card, or a bottleof water here in the
Old City of Jerusalem.
- We bought ice creamand we bought water and
we bought it here in theOld City next to Jaffa Gate
and if this bill passesthen what we just did
would be illegal.
- Irish citizens Karen andNorman Ievers along with
their twins, Natalie andNathaniel visit Israel often.
- Well it's an infringementof our freedoms.
- If it becomes law, anIrish citizen convicted
for violating it couldbe fined more than a
quarter of a milliondollars and spend up to
five years in jail.
International law expert,Professor Eugene Kontorovich
calls the bill radical.
- The proposed Irishlaw is the most extreme
anti-Israel legislationproposed anywhere outside
of the Arab league.
If you come to the Holy Cityand you buy some holy water,
if you buy a Jewish prayershawl or religious books
and bring them back toIreland, bang, jail.
- We love Israel, we'reChristian Zionists and we
support the Jewish peopleand the Palestinian people
and we think this bill is unfair.
- One of the only reasons thelaw has not been passed yet
is because the Irishgovernment is probably worried
about the consequences itcan have for Irish companies
doing business in Americaand many of the large
American companies like Applethat do business in Ireland
because America has strictlaws against boycotting Israel.
- [Chris] In the meantime theIevers hope their next visit
to Jerusalem won't land them in Jail.
Chris Mitchell, CBN News, Jerusalem.
- Thanks Chris.
Gordon, I think a lot ofpeople might be surprised
that this hard line billis coming out of Ireland.
- Well, all of these kindsof bills to say let's
boycott Israel, there'scomplete lack of understanding
as to what it does on theground in the West Bank.
The biggest impact ofthis is it leads to severe
unemployment for the Arabsliving in the West Bank.
The Jewish citizens ofIsrael predominantly live
outside the West Bank andso you're not going to
affect Israeli industry at all.
What you're going to affectis employment of Palestinians.
So it just makes no senseto have these boycott bills
and to say anythingproduced in the West Bank
or anything coming out ofthe West Bank we're gonna
boycott, you're actuallydenying their ability
to earn a living.
Why would you ever wanna do that?
On top of it all it's onthe wrong side of history.
The whole source of thisconflict is the Arabs
saying we do not recognizethe state of Israel,
we do not want a Jewishstate in our midst.
There's been no attemptby them over 71 years now
to create a second state,to create something where
they can live at peace withtheir Jewish neighbors,
they have never done that.
There are constant criesto drive Israel to the sea,
that's the motivationbehind all of this and it's
time to get on the rightside of history to say
Israel exists, it's beenthere, it's going to be there
and it's time to come to peace.
