Hey, good morning to you, everyone. Im reena ninan. And im phillip mena. Lets start with the wildfire crisis across the western United States and all of the heat that so many of us are being forced to deal with. Definitely feeling it here in new york, but major fires burning in washington state, oregon, idaho, california, colorado and montana. For so many in these states, its time to survey the extensive damage and determine what, if anything, can be salvaged. Take a look at this. The socalled canyon creek complex fire in oregon. This picture taken on friday, just small plumes of smoke. Well, fast forward just a couple of days, and it looks like this with. With more on the fires and the scorching summer temperatures, heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter across the west the heat and dry conditions have fueled wildfires burning out of control in several states. On the front lines 30,000 firefighters who are stretched so thin, active military troops are being called in as reinforcements for the first time in a decade. In chelan, washington, where dozens of homes have been destroyed, dozens more threatened, fire officials are putting out a call for help overseas. Were looking at other nations that we generally work with like australia and new zealand. Reporter there are air quality alerts as the smoke from those 90 wildfires moves across the country. So many just looking for some relief during these dog days of summer. From the east triple digits, miserable. Reporter to the west the humidity was out of control, and it made it even hotter. Reporter it was a muggy monday in new york city. The first heat wave in two years as temperatures soared. Millions of americans baked in that dangerous summer sun, so many headed for water looking for ways to survive the extreme heat. Just trying to cool off when on this nice day its a little hot. Hes enjoying the water. Reporter kenneth moton, abc news, washington. Some more extreme weather to tell you about. Tornadoes roaring across a number of states. This video from colorado shot almost directly underneath a tornado that had yet to touch down. Several structures were damaged in the storm near denver. Some power lines were also taken down, but were happy to report there were no injuries. [ sirens ] that siren sounding in southern mississippi as another tornado approached. It wound up taking down trees and causing some structural damage. Once again, there were no reports of any injuries. Taking a look at the radar now, that Severe Weather from colorado now making its way through kansas and oklahoma. Damaging winds, hail and a few tornadoes are possible. Accuweathers Justin Povick has todays forecast. Good morning, justin. Phillip and reena, thanks and good morning to you. Were very concerned about tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail later on this afternoon over the nations heartland. This is a very intense storm system for this time of the year. Numerous travel delays expected from des moines to chicago and all the way south toward kansas city and wichita, but its not just the Center Portion of the country that were concerned about. Out west its the heat, its the drought and also a continuation of high fire danger right through midweek, and then into the east its just the heat and the humidity. Again, its coming in a little bit late. Its still midaugust, so we can definitely feel the heat this time of the year. Were not talking about record highs, but its going to feel like its around 100 degrees in a couple of locales is wednesday along the interstate 95 corridor. Phillip and reena, back to you. Thank you so much. Breaking overnight crews in indonesia have finally reached a passenger jet that slammed into a mountain on sunday. The bodies of all 54 people on board the Trigana Air Service flight have been recovered, and crews also found both black boxes. The plane lost contact with the airport minutes before it was scheduled to land. It was also carrying nearly 500,000 in cash to aid poor families. Breaking overnight a second explosion in bangkok, thailand following yesterdays deadly blast. Records say a bomb was tossed into the water at a popular tourist location. There were no injuries. This comes a day after at least 20 were killed in an explosion at a hindu shrine popular with tourists. Authorities say they were hunting for a suspect in the bombings. Well, the state Department Review of Hillary Clintons emails so far hase found as many as 305 messages that could contain classified information and require further scrutiny. Clinton insists she never sent or received classified messages on her private server. While campaigning, she tried to make light of it. You may have seen that i recently launched a snapchat account. [ cheers and applause ] i love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves. [ laughter ] well, clinton has turned over tens of thousands of emails to the state department for review. The donald trump show rolled into Lower Manhattan yesterday as trump arrived for jury duty. The republican frontrunner shook hands and signed autographs on the way in. Ultimately trump was not picked as a juror due to a lack of cases, but abcs tom llamas had a chance to ask trump about his controversial immigration policy. Reporter how would you find them and deport them . Its going to be very easy. You just watch. Reporter how would you do it . Can you give us a specific . Rare silence from trump. Tomorrow he returns to the campaign trail with a town hall meeting in new hampshire. Well, prosecutors in south africa are calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder in the death of his girlfriend. Pistorius is due to be released from prison friday after serving ten months of his fiveyear sentence for manslaughter. But prosecutors want his conviction upgraded to murder with a minimum sentence of 15 years. Pistorius testified that he thought he was shooting at an intruder, not at his girlfriend. A sad passing to note. The countrys oldest veteran has died. Emma didlake was 110 years old and just last month she traveled from michigan to the white house to meet president obama. Didlake was a 38yearold wife and mother of five when she signed up for the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943. One of her secrets to longevity, she said every day she had nine golden raisins soaked in a pint of gin. Well, two soldiers are set to make history this friday becoming the first women to graduate from the armys famously difficult ranger training. About 40 of those who started the training that was back in april, they dropped out. Even though they will graduate, the soldiers are not allowed to serve as rangers since women are still banned from combat. What an achievement for those women, though. Absolutely. Still ahead, worse than first thought. A cyberattack at the irs exposing taxpayers personal information. And a bright flash then a crash. A man on a motorcycle struck by lightning. The one thing he says that saved his life. Plus, a dangerous job. Two men forced to use garden tools to corral a tiger on the loose in a major american city. Babies arent fully developed until at least 39 weeks. A healthy baby is worth the wait. Welcome back. And hundreds of thousands of americans will soon be getting letters from the irs telling them that their account may have been hacked. The irs says that the data breach, much worse than originally thought. In may an estimated 114,000 taxpayers were involved. Now the irs says three times as many could be potential victims of identity theft. This upcoming Labor Day Holiday could be the busiest ever for summer air travel. Airlines are expecting 14. 2 Million People to take to the skies between september 2nd and the 8th. If that figure pans out, that will be up 3 from the same period last year. Well, the nations gas prices are taking a sudden surge because of refinery problems in indiana. The average price for a gallon of gas now 2. 72. Thats up 9 cents from a week ago. Around the midwest, gas prices have jumped as much as 60 cents a gallon since last week because of the bp refinery problem. Starting tomorrow people looking for something stronger than espresso can find it at many more starbucks across the country. In an effort to boost its evening profits, the coffee giant will start selling wine and craft beer at an additional two dozen locations adding to stores in several cities where alcohol is already on the menu. Customers can order by the glass or bottle. And theres another change at starbucks. Something new in its top selling seasonal drink of all time. The Pumpkin Spice latte will now contain real pumpkin. Starbucks is also taking something out, no more caramel coloring and artificial flavors. Theres no word yet on when that will be available this year. And when we come back, caught on camera. A man tries to rob a store with a sword when the clerk pulls out a bigger weapon. And Donald Trumps new fight, supermodel heidi klum firing back at the president ial candidate with a video going viral this morning. I thought activia was for big digestive issues. Until i realized our body handles a lot. 1,100 meals a year. 730 rushed snacks. Add 300 stressful decisions. No wonder our digestive system sometimes acts up. So try the activia challenge enjoying activia twice a day for 4 weeks may help reduce the frequency of bloating, gas, discomfort or rumbling. It works or its free across america, people like badominique wilkins. Er. Are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes. 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The father and son spotted this baby whale swimming extremely close to the shoreline. The whale swam back and forth feasting on fish before finally heading back to the deep sea. Well, now a look at todays morning road conditions. It could be wet out there for more than half the country. Rain possible from the Northern Rockies all the way to south florida. Theres even the potential for flooding across the middle of the nation. And if youre flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis, chicago, kansas city and memphis. And now to colorado where a motorcyclist is so thankful to be waking up to another day. Eugene valine was struck by lightning last friday while riding home. He suffered some bleeding on his brain in addition to broken ribs, a partially punctured lung and several scrapes and bruises. He says he remember seeing a road exit but not much after that. Like somebody was to get tasered or something, not a whole lot of memory of the whole thing. As for getting back on his motorcycle, he says thats a conversation hes going to have to have with his wife after hes healed, but shes already indicating she does not want him riding that again. Well, this was a bizarre situation inside a store in pittsburgh. Take a look at this store employee wielding a huge sword fighting off a wouldbe robber dressed as a ninja carrying a much smaller sword. There were two guys dressed as ninjas in the store. Yeah, who would think, two guys. The clerk fought off the first guy and says he wasnt afraid to use his weapon. He came here to attack me. I attack him like that, and i until i throw the his sword from his hand. What are people doing with swords . I just dont understand. The second guy dressed as a ninja was confronted by a 65yearold customer. The entire the store owner eventually came out with a gun. The robbers ran away when they saw the gun. I bet. You attack me, i attack you. The camaro z28 owned by the founder of papa johns pizza was found. It was in the driveway of an abandoned home in detroit yesterday. It was stolen at a classic cars event over the weekend. This camaro is a replica of the won John Schneider sold in order to save his fathers bar and ultimately launched papa johns. It was probably dumped after the Media Attention was so great. Look at this. A wild scene at an old auto plant. A 660pound Siberian Tiger named texaco holed up in a stairwell. Pictures went viral yesterday. Texaco was being used for a photo shoot when the photographer was unable to secure him. People were forced to use a weed whacker and hedge trimmer to get texaco to move along. The plants owners had approved a photo shoot but say the photographer neglected to mention he was going to bring a tiger along. Big problem there. Well, now we move to sports. Some baseball highlights. A real pain for a new york yankees pitcher. Yeah, those painful details now from our guys at espn. Good morning. Hes stan, im neil. This is our sports segment where we do sports. Yeah. Lets start with the twins and yankees. Yankees up a half game on the blue jays in the a. L. East taking on the twins. Kicking off a tengame home stand. Brian mccann sleeping in his own bed works for him. Threerun shot off kyle gibson. Mccanns 21st. Yankees take a threerun lead. Brian mitchell got hit with that liner from Eduardo Nunez. Left the game, walked off on his own power. Taken to the hospital. Small nasal fracture but he was back in the clubhouse by the end of the game. This is how the game ended. Tenth inning, chase headley, ground ball, and Eduardo Nunez cant handle it. Yankees walk off 87. He had a walkoff . Yeah. I got a walkoff. All right. Produce this. This is good producing. Cole hamels, kyle seager, shinsoo choo makes the catch. Thats good, but this is better unless youre Logan Morrison because youre so out. Bottom nine, bases loaded. Adrian beltre, up, oh, he was a good man, lets walk. Fernando rodney and the rangers get the walkoff. He gets wet. Texas has won five straight. Thats it from here. The yankees lead, by the way, in the a. L. East now up a full game on toronto who didnt play on monday. Thank you, gentlemen. Up next in the pulse, a triumphant return, Tracy Morgans first gig since being injured in a car crash. Plus, raising the bar. A wedding dance being called the best of all time. My Opioid Pain Medication is slowing my insides to a crawl. Millions of people are estimated to suffer from opioidinduced constipation, oic, caused by the opioids they use to manage chronic pain. Oic is a different type of constipation. Opioids block pain signals, but they can also block activity in the bowel. Im really struggling to find relief. Ready to paint a different picture . Yes talk to your doctor about oic and prescription treatment options. I can do that from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. 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Morgan set to take the stage for the First Time Since his near fatal accident. His triumphant return will be on saturday night live hosting the show on october 17th. Morgan was a cast member from 1996 until 2003 and hosted the show once before in 2009 but this will be the first time that we will see him perform live since that accident. Morgan tweeting stoked to be going home, snl. So many of us so excited to see him back on stage. And it is home, snl, for him so we look forward to that. Yeah, hes one of the funniest dudes alive. Glad to see him back. All right, heidi klum has found a creative way to fire back at donald trump without saying a word. After trump told the New York Times that the former supermodel is no longer a 10, she posted this funny video on twitter, getting downgraded to a 9. 99 among the heiditrumpstrump. So, the last laugh really goes to the 42yearold mother of four proving to trump and everyone else that she has still got it. She did oneup him. That was pretty funny. Absolutely. Theres no way to connect with the american people, the average guy, by saying that heidi klum is not hot anymore. Youre right about that. Totally true. Well, now to something more technologically advanced than all that. The folks at a Company Called boston dynamics are at it again. The fourlegged robots, we have seen before, we showed them to you here, they have been testing a humanoid robot instead. There it goes making its way down a forest trail. They call a walk like this a totally different challenge than what they had to do in a lab. This looks like mickey mouse meets the humanoid, right . This is like a tail. It looked like a tail, right. Right. Its a little creepy looking. Its a little bit odd. The engineers are working on way to free the robot from those power lines that theyre attached to. They need the power, see, thats why they have the little tail. The point just about is anything seems possible these days including a humanlooking with a tail. Stuff of nightmares there. Stuff of nightmares. My gosh. Thats next, phillip. Lets move along now to an epic wedding day treat for a bride in richmond, virginia. Kirk and Valerie Henning are both professional dancers, so he surprised her with a specially choreographed dance routine with the help of his talented groomsmen. And you can see right there, she really enjoyed every single moment. This hit that ice cold Michelle Pfeiffer that white gold this one for them hood girls them good girls straight masterpieces stylin whilen, living it up living up in the city they are good. Yeah, they are. Thats a good song to start with. The dance medley started with uptown funk, the big bruno mars hit and ended with shut up and dance with me. The wedding reception took place on the same stage that the couple shared when they were dancers. Those are great songs. For some of you, your local news is next. 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Thank you for waking up early and joining us. I am christian. I am eric thomas. And the world is all right. And now a check with mike and the weather. Good morning, everyone. Live doppler hd shows it is not so hazy as yesterday. We have marine layer clouds take over. That is a refreshing change from yesterday. The mean will subside. Our air quality will improve today. It is cooler, 55 to 63. 68 at the coast up to 80 with sun returning to all areas but the coast by noon. 68 to 88 with the heat this afternoon. Hail . We will look outside at the macarthur maze. Traffic here is light and unevenful with no accidents to get started. As i move over to the san mateo bridge the commute will take 12 minutes heading across the water between hayward and 880 and we long the peninsula. Drive time traffic is 80 westbound albany to the maze at four minutes, and southbound 880 from fremont to san jose a quick 15 meant commute and 11 minutes 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino. San jose his are investigating the second officer involved shooting in 24 hours. It happened last mit and both shootings were connected to a gruesome homicide last week in a tech office. Matt . Yes, a violent couple of nights for san jose police. The second officer involved shooting in 24 hours. Police are still looking for one more murder suspect. Latest shooting took place last night in south san joses 7 00. Police say they were tabling a 17 wanted for the murder on lundy avenue. Officers believe the map was driving with a woman who had information of the murder and he was going to kill her. The suspect realized he was being tailed and sped off, crashing the car. He took off running with officers in pursuit. The suspect is running to the house at the end of the court. The officers chasing the suspect. Suspect. The suspect reaches to the and shot. He is dead. Happen if two others were caught open video terrorizing and shoot a man on august 13. 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