There's been more than nine inches of rain in parts of Blanco county, southwest Austin. Much of that water has been flowing into the Blanco and San Marcos M rivers. People have been forced to evacuate homes along the rivers and move to makeshift shelters. The rising Blanco river forced the closure of interstate 35 earlier today to south of Austin when water covered the highway. And San Marcos river reached record levels close to 40 feet. It crested just over 37 feet in late May of 1929. The rain is reducing the effect of multiple-year drought. Lake Travis which supplies the city of Austin with water is more than 50 percent full for the first time in years. For NPR News, I'm * in Austin. 

 

 

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service says a tornado hit an apartment complex in Huston this morning. Two people were injured. 

 

 

And in northeastern Oklahoma, firefighter captain Jason Farley died after being swept into a drainage ditch last night while helping rescue people trapped in their houses. 

 

 

US Defense Secretary says the * Islamic State's takeover of Ramadi is evidence that Iraqi forces don't have the will to fight. In an unusually candid assessment, Ash Carter old CNN Iraqi forces vastly outnumbered the opposition but failed to fight but pulled back from the provincial city. Carter says the US can provide training and equipment but he says Iraqi forces have to show a willingness to fight for the country. Congressman Adam Adam Schiff told CBS Face the Nation boots on the ground won't solve anything. 

 

 

I think we have to make sure we don't react the wrong to that threat, and we could aggravate it by sending a lot of American troops. And, and there's a particular risk of escalation if we do. 

 

Meanwhile, the Pentagon says its latest airstrikes in Iraq, including four near Ramadi, destroyed 19 armor vehicles. 

 

Greece's Interior Minister says the economically troubled country doesn't have enough money to make a debt payment next month to the International Monetary Fund. Joanna Kakissis reports that such a move would bring the country closer to a messy default. 

 

Greece has been shut out of bond market since 2010 when it declared it was deeply in debt to pay bills which forced it to seek billions of international bailout loans from Europe Union and the International Monetary Fund, but those loans came with tough austerity measures that devastated the economy. And new-elected government refused to accept more austerity. It's locked in tense negotiations with its creditors who will not release loans unless Greece accepts labor and pension reforms. The government has been reading cash reserve to pay debts and bills but that money has run out. For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis. 

 

Tomorrow is memorial day when the US honors men and women who served in the military and died during their service. 

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Race driver Juan Pablo Montoya overcame accidents and mistakes in the pit lane during today's thrilling Indianapolis 500. As * from Member Station WUDET reports, it's Montoya's second in Indi's winner circle. 

 

Juan Pablo Montoya is known for never giving up and giving no quarter. Both qualities were on display in Indi as he drove to 30th out of 33 drivers, had car damaged early and overshadowed *. He stormed back to take the lead, dueling with two other cars to the very end. In victory *, even Montoya seemed amazed at his improbable comeback. 'It was hard. It did everything I could and I was craving.' Crashes dotted the race from the first * on, but no car was seen flying upside down, as it happened repeatedly during practice and it was feared it could happen during the 500. For NPR News, I'm *. 

Nobel Prize winner and mathematician John Nash and his wife were killed in a car accident on a New Jersey turnpike last night. Nash who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind spent much of his career in Princeton University, winning the Nobel Prize of Economics in 1994. 

I was unemployed at the time, and I was beginning to get to social security. But I was in a position to be very much influence when my recognition, my * came about in this way. 

He suffered from schizophrenia. That's him talking in an interview in 2004. John Nash was 86 years old.