He said that the women were waiving their hands and asking for help. The waves were pulling them back. He and another guy went inside to help them. Reporter his son translated, as he described how he and others tried to save the woman and her child. The girl that was unconscious, the guy that got her gave her to me and i brought her to the beach front. The ems and everybody else was here. Reporter less than an hour earlier, a woman in her 60s was rescued from a far rockaway beach. People nearly lost their lives on a beautiful beach day. It marks dangerous and deadly days at the beach. Nearly two dozen swimmers had to be pulled from the waters. One of two distressed switchers was rescued on long beach standard. Unfortunately, the other died, a victim of the rip current. The analogy of being on a treadmill in the ocean. Youre trying to swim but not going anywhere. You tire and go backwards. Reporter and those three people who were pulled from the water this evening, their conditions are
Mentioned. It started in garrapidas state park south of carmel. So far, its Holding Steady at 20 homes destroyed. The heat and humidity are making it difficult to contain the fire. Another challenge is the rough terrain, its very teen and mountainous. Cal fire could not drop any water from the air pause there was low visibility. So it was up to ground crews who were laying hose. They are getting tired. You know, the terrain is steep. They are having to hike a long ways, putting in long hose lays to get in there. That could be miles long. So far, 300 people have been evacuated. They are anxious and they are worried and asked a lot of questions of cal fire. Still more than 1600 homes threatened and more people around the area surrounding carmel could be evacuated. Could be a while before they could get to their home. Cal fire does not expect to have containment until next try day, august 5th. Back out here live, there are a lot of firefighters that are being brought in. We are hearing no
welcome to fox 5 morning news. let s check in with mr. perkins again this morning. hello to both of you and good morning to everybody. it s warm. temperatures from the upper 70s to low 80s already this morning. still not a bad look. let s take a look at our satellite radar composite. you will see that in fact the skies are partly cloudy. that means there s plenty of room for sunshine out there. the sun came up just a few moments ago. now, as far as precipitation goes, we have none we re dealing with this morning. you can see there s precip in northwest pennsylvania and also out in the midwest. that s a line of a frontal boundary that will make its way through here late today. as it does that could bring with it some showers and maybe even a couple of thunderstorms but we re talking about late in the afternoon and during the evening hours. current temperatures around the region, 82 degrees right now in the district. 77 in baltimore. 78 at dulles airport. fredricksburg is at