come on down! reporter: with those three words come on down! reporter: bob barker electrified audiences for 35 years, hosting the price is right. the game show where con tes tanltestant guess th price of every day items. i hear, bob, come on down, every place i go. reporter: but just months shy of his 100th birthday, his publicist announcing the world s greatest mc who ever lived, bob barker, has left us. he died of natural causes in his hollywood hills home this morning. fans remembering him with flowers on his walk of fame star. born in darlington, washington, barker spent his early years on an indian reservation in south dakota, where his mother was a schoolteacher. in 1942, he joined the navy, training as a fighter pilot during world war ii. his entertainment career began in radio, with the bob barker show. all right, go. i m going to go. reporter: a big break in television would come six years later, hosting truth
very, very much for inviting me into your homes for the last 50 years. i am deeply grateful. reporter: tonight, his successor, drew carey, writing, there hasn t been a day on set that i didn t think of bob barker and thank him. we love you. contestants on the price is right win valuable prizes, but it was barker that won over daytime tv. emily queta, nbc news. still ahead tonight, the standoff in spain over this kiss. the soccer executive now fighting his suspension. and what one major suspension. and what one major city is doing to age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss and if you re taking a multi-vitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece. preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. preservision is backed by 20 years of clinical studies. so ask your doctor about adding preservision
one woman described it as hell for the last couple of days. it s been a long haul this summer. athena jones, thank you so much. i want to bring in now cnn meteorologist britley ritz from atlanta. everyone is getting hit hard, but gnow you re focusing on the southwest, phoenix in particular hit very hard by this heat wave. to athena s point, where we have that urban heat island, the barker the blacktop, the more heat gets absorbed. if you re walking pets, do it early in the morning or later in the evening. speaking of phoenix, here it is at 115 degrees. that s nearly ten degrees, almost 20 degrees in some cases in some locations across the southwest above normal.
After announcing their first pregnancy, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker recently had a gender reveal party and it was revealed to be a boy. The couple now has a name for the unborn baby.