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Get to this morning's need to know. Headlines everyone. Over 120 million Americans are under the threat of severe thunderstorms today ranging from the Midwest through up and down the east coast. The National Weather Service warns that there is a chance of flash flooding tornadoes, damaging winds and hail as the storms and the associated cold front head east throughout the day. The Pacific northwest and rocky mountains are also at risk of storms from a separate system. Hundreds of storms were reported across the eastern US over the weekend including eight tornadoes. Last night. Heavy rains even disrupted NASCAR after a 90 minute delayed start. The Michigan International Speedway had to postpone the fire keepers casino 400 to today and three people died last night in a crash between two helicopters responding to a vegetation fire in Riverside county, California. According to CAL fire officials, the victims were the pilot, a fire division chief and a fire captain. They're the first deaths at CAL fire as reported in California's fire season this year. Here's what the Cal fire region chief had to say the individuals in the first helicopter were able to land safely without incident and no one else was hurt. We think about this and how it affects the families. They have lost. We have lost three great individuals. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. According to police, multiple passengers have died after a charter bus crashed with a vehicle in Pennsylvania overnight. The bus was traveling through heavy rain and crashed shortly before midnight last night. The bus was traveling from New York and had up to 50 people on board. According to a police report obtained by CBS Philadelphia, three people were pronounced dead on the scene. State Trooper Megan Fraser told the associated press this is considered a mass casualty incident. We do have eight ambulances that assisted with us just because of how many people were involved and the amount of injuries. The Red Cross confirmed they were providing services to passengers from the crash as well. And in South Korea, thousands of people are being evacuated from the world scout Jamboree. In advance of a tropical storm, 36,000 scouts will be moved from the campground in Southwest County Guan. Starting tomorrow morning. The scouts who traveled to South Korea from 158 different countries will be hosted in and around the nation's capital. Seoul. Us scouts have already been transported to us military base camp Humphreys while the tropical storm is already responsible for one death and seven injuries in Japan and it is expected to make landfall in South Korea on Thursday. Elsewhere, the US women's soccer team has been eliminated from the women's World Cup after losing to Sweden during a penalty shootout during yesterday's game in Melbourne, Australia, the two teams played 120 minutes without either scoring a goal. Well, ultimately, Sweden triumphed in a 54 penalty shootout. The dramatic match saw both Sweden's Natalie bro and the state's Megan Rapino missing shots while the US women's team has won the last two world Cup titles 2015 and 2019. And Sweden will move on to the quarter finals which start on August 10th. We'll have more on that U soccer loss. A bit later in the show, a woman is suing Southwest Airlines for racial discrimination after an airline employee reportedly called the police to report the woman on suspicion of child trafficking. Mary mccarthy who is white was traveling from California to Denver with her 10 year old black daughter. Now this happened in October of 2021. Mccarthy claims they were confronted by police officers in Denver after a Southwest Airlines employee alerted authorities. Police did eventually let mccarthy go. Now, in a statement to CNN Southwest Airlines, they offered their apologies and said they were conducting an internal review of the situation. They have not commented on the pending lawsuit. Mccarthy is seeking an unspecified amount in damages and dungeons and dragons is updating its artist guidelines and says illustrators will no longer work with artificial intelligence. The move comes after an illustrator that the game has worked for with more than a decade used AI to create commissioned artwork for an upcoming book. While fans of the role playing game flagged that one of the characters looked unusual and questioned if it was actually human made. Asra said in a statement that the company formerly known as Twitter, that is quote, he will not use A I for wizard's work. Moving forward. The company also posted that we're revising our process and updating our artist guidelines. Excuse me, to make clear that artists must refrain from using A I.