20 million dollared a ad by. That was Peter Alexander reporting. And a terrifying look that wild fires ravaging california. And a familys desperate escape with only moments to spare. A woman spotted smoke in the distance. She said they never received the mandatory Evacuation Order and spent time packing but the danger started to set in when they had to drive through the burning forest to leave. The familys home was destroyed and the fire is now just 15 contained. In just a few hours, volunteers will gather to search for the last missing victim in the deadly flash flooding in the utahmississippi border. And for the first time, were getting a tragic look at what happened. We want to warn viewers about the images and the sound. Reporter it happened in an instant. Oh, my goodness. Reporter raging flood waters and mud ripping across a road, two vehicles filled with three families, 16 people disappearing. Swept away, hundreds of yards. Three survived, as did others trapped. And unable to wade away to safety in waist high water. Virginia black shot this on her cell phone. The water rose. We wished we could do something but started to realize we were in trouble too. Reporter search crews continue the efforts to find the missing and shelter for victims one moment, a tomb the next. Ive lived here all my life and never seen anything like this. Reporter a small puligmist community and its sister, dumping two and half inches of rain in just two hours. And over 1,000 feet and literally just a wall of water rushing into hildale. It hurts my heart hearing about all these people. Well, a frightening accident in houston to show you. A school bus carrying four charter students slam under med into a guardrail and plunged off an over pass. Two died and others and bus driver were injured. They say a driver of a beige buick claims she swerved to avoid another vehicle and hit the bus. Theyre reviewing Surveillance Footage from the bus. And hungarys barb wire complete. And refugees, they are stuck. Piling up at what used to be a main entrance to the european union. Theyre fleeing violence in their home countries and for many of them that is syria, where over 200,000 have died during a civil war. And theyre battling a regime of assad. Hes backed by russian president , sflad vladimir putin. Things are tense. And yesterday, the white house opened the possibility of a meeting between putin and obama on the issue. Mean while, isis has violently taken control of syria. 1 in 5 syrians in syria believe isis is a positive influence on the country and 81 believe its a foreign or americanmade group. Now to something a little bit lighter at home. A life size hot wheels in action. For jaguars 8th an vrs 0th anniversary, this is the first time a pedestrian car has done this truck and the driver, carry grant, said he had to train for two months to make sure his body was ready for all those gs. J now a storm causing a retaining wall to give way in southern california, leaving one house on the brink of collapse. Fortunately, no one was hurt. And meteorologist, bill karins is here with your wednesday weather. Its been hit or mis. L. A. Yesterday, about an inch of rain and for them that was significant, especially in september. Andm miami to Fort Lauderdale there, are some thunderstorms that are going to try to blow. And during the afternoon, well get that to merge a little bit in the middle. Were now halfway through the month of september and its been historically warm in the great lakes area. And we have the last half of the month to go but the longrange forecast is for a warm end of the month. Were about four 1 2 degrees above the all time highest september weve ever had. This is off the charts, minneapolis, chicago, all on pace for the warmest weather youve ever seen. And thats your national weather, now a closer look at the day ahead. 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Hillary clinton set to appear on the toont night show with jimmy fallon. I want to say happy birthday to rapper florider and david copper field turns 59. Im betty nguyen, thanks for watching early today. Have a terrific wednesday. A derailed Freight Train pulled from the tracks. What it means for the morning commute. Plus, mayor dds dds laying out new goals. The major announcement that impacts hundreds of thousands of new york city students. And Police Need Help finding these people who preyed on an elderly woman. How they swindled her for 90,000. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, september 16th. Im darlene rodriguez. And im michael gargiulo. Chris cimino here with the forecast. Michael, whos the one next to you . My friend darlene. Beautiful in red this morning. Its a hologram. Well take that. 67 degrees. Its a nice morning. Yesterday we went into the middle 80s. Today i think its upper 80s. Still seeing a couple upper 40s in the distant suburbs. By noontime, a high of 81. Well top off near 87 this afternoon. More weather news ahead. Thank you very much. Crews removed the Freight Train that derailed on long island. The train went off the tracks west of the hicksville station. 14 hours later, its still impacting Long Island Railroad riders. Lauren has the latest from the liir, but we begin with Katherine Creag with with the latest on repairs. Reporter were live here from the hicksville train station. We saw one train here early this morning coming from new york city, from penn station. Commuters told us that it was going a little bit slower than theyre used to, but it was running. We know, according to the mta, that trains are running in both directions, but there might be delays, there might be cancellations. Be ready for anything, the mta says, because repairs have to be made to 200 feet of track just west of here. That is where a Freight Train carrying construction debris derailed overnight. Workers removed it. We have video. It took hours to remove it, but it is gone. But the tracks have to be looked at, inspected, and repaired. The derailment happened at 1 00 in the afternoon. It took seven hours for regular or close to regular liir service to resume. It was around 8 00 at night when trains were running but delayed. In the meantime, the afternoon rush was severely impacted. At one point, shuttle buses were running. People near the site of the derailment said it was loud when it happened. At the moment of impact, it was just the sound of, you know, brakes hitting. Its scary. Dont get me wrong, but like i said, thank god it wasnt a regular passenger train. Its just trash. Reporter the mta says there will be no eastbound Train Service at this point between 6 00 in the morning to 10 00 in the morning, darlene. But as far as where we are here in hicksville, trains are running in both directions. Theyre just going to be delayed. Cancellations throughout the back to you. Now we get to lauren with what commuters need to know. Thats right. Katherine just gave us a little bit of that information. Just to e reiterate, you can expect 10 to 15minute delays as well as cancellations on both the ronkonkoma and Port Jefferson stations. Some westbound trains are going to be bypassing westbury and carle place. Well continue to keep you posted on that. While were on the trains here, we have downtown 4 and 6 and a and e trains running express for