Considering a run for the top office. Good morning, everybody, im juliet huddy. Im ben simmoneau. It is 5 00. Monday, august 3rd. What a weekend. Went to the mets game. Went out to dinner in hoboken. Met some people when out for dinner. They love the show. Thank you for watching. Especially early. Especially on a monday. Mike woods, good morning. Good morning to you both. August already. August 3rd. Clipping right along here. No. We have a whole month left. People. You will get backlash. Im not saying happy about it. I am saying it will fly by. You know the way it is. 31 days in august, right . Yes. September this year. We have five weeks left. We have some time left. That. Show you what we have out there. It was a pretty decent weekend a few little spots of rain here and there. We expected that. All together things are looking pretty good. This is what we had with the high temps. The reason we missed out on heat wave in the city, just something to talk about. We made it up to 89 degre
A second american doctor accused of illegally killing a lion using a bow and arrow in a restricted as calls to ban it grow. The american hunters coming to the defense this morning of a sport they love. And good morning, america. Boy, what a rough weekend for millions of americans. Well take a live look. Just outside chicago this morning, the aftermath interest those powerful storms overnight. You see that building right there. Also take a look at this. A large tree right in the middle of a city street completely uprooted right there. Wow. So many wildfires burning right now out west. More than 20 in california, more than 12,000 people forced from their homes and they dont know when theyll be able to go back. More on that just ahead. But we do begin in chicago, site of that deadly tent collapse. Gio benitez is on the scene right now. Good morning, gio. Reporter yeah, good morning to you. Look at this mess behind me. Crews are trying to clean this up right now. These storms moving in har
Coming together for cma fest. But first the nightline five. 5 00 6 00 7 00, 8 00 gonna pop around the clock tonight at intel they make technology that gives you the power of the pc and fun of a tablet. I could turn it into a tablet and do my spread sheets . I said fun of a tablet. Exactly. Upgrade to a twoinone with intel inside. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im rebecca jarvis. Trophy hunters may be getting a bad rap after a minnesota dentist allegedly poached cecil the lion. Many are fighting back in the face of public outrage tonight saying the money they pay is actually crucial to Wildlife Conservation efforts. Do they have a point . Heres abcs david wright. Reporter ever since news broke a week ago that cecil the lion was shot and killed in zimbabwe, by a minnesota dentist, allegedly illegally, big game hunters have seemed like an endangered species. Now two american hunters are stepping forward. Defending their hobby even posting their kills to instagram, fully aware of
61 down the jersey shore. 64 wrightstown. Sunshine, 84 by noontime. 87 this afternoon. A great day, especially for august. We should be in the midst of the dog days where its sticky, steamy and sultry. Its not. We will talk about the weekend next in your accuweather seven day forecast and it looks better than when we were talking about it this time yesterday, heather. That is a good thing. Lets go to the maps. Not a good thing is on the leigh. Looks like we still have an accident, l. I. E. Eastbound near exit 19. This accident blocks three lanes. Then as you head through brooklyn, dont forget about the sinkhole. Its 5th avenue at 64th street. Then we are looking at minor delays lincoln. Off the George Washington bridge on to 95 southbound local lanes near exit 71, we have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Mass transit is running on or close to schedule. Shirleen, ken, over to you. Okay, thank you. House sands of homes on long island are still without electricity this mo
At 1030 this morning it is a tractortrailer that caught fire and it started burning the overpass above it. Since then traffic has been backing up for miles in both directions. Ive been in my car now for about three hours and ive come from the lincoln tunnel to exit 14. It was anyone hurt . No right now please are not reporting any injuries but ill be tweeting that out as soon as we have that. Did you have a big cup of coffee before he got the car this morning . Once we got stuck in traffic i tweeted out and said i was stuck in traffic and i was holding my cuppa coffee and i said hey to me your pictures and people did and someone else said you better start drinking that coffee and they are absolutely right. Before they can open up the lane its going to have to be inspected, its is going to have to cool off and there the truck hit the bridge and until that happened you cant let traffic underneath it. Thats the real dilemma because the fire was so bad that it hurt the structure of the ove