Footage that were getting into the newsroom out of utah. Its of a raging wildfire or actually just a fire in the town 70 miles southwest of salt lake city. More than a dozen homes and buildings already destroyed. Reportedly two firefighters were hurt and hospitalized. We dont know of any other injuries. Thousands are without power. People are evacuating and the red cross is on the scene right now trying to help out. Still no details on what caused this fire. Im at the live desk. Back to you. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Man, we had quite the storm. Chuck bell with four things to know. Thats right. Fortunate fortunately, that Severe Weather threat is gone and will stay gone for a couple days. Time for a cool change. Thats what we get around here today. For a little bit of tomorrow as well. Our twodaybreak from the high heat and humidity. Dont you worry. Hot weather lovers, the heat blast is coming back for the weekend and you have a trip sunday and monday. All three days coul
The last raindrops near st. George island and way far southern maryland. Planning out the rest of your day, plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Afternoon highs in the mid80s. 86 degrees in leesburg and manassas. 87 in washington. Grilling in the backyard, the perfect night to do it. Have your baseball forecast and help on what to wear today in ten minutes. Lets go over to jack taylor at the glass enclosed news center. Beach drive once again closed. Authorities had opened them and then closed them again. Northbound on route 1 near beechwood road, weve got all lanes blocked off there because of a downed tree. Here, you will be under police direction. Be aware, also this morning, starts surge number five of metros continuous work. Orange and silver line single tracking through july 31st. Aaron, eun, back to you. Its my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top in the delegate count tonight. Congratulations, dad, we love you. It is official. The gop ticket is set for november now.
Will be here also trying to drum up support for statehood. And chris and tom sherwood will be in cleveland all week to cover the convention. You can look for thur live their live reports this afternoon. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell is standing by with more on the slight relief from the heat. Ill take whatever we can get. Well take a little break today. There are fewer storms to worry about as well. Those are all in the positive column as well. Tomorrow is the nicest day for the week before we get in the cooker for the weekend. All shows thundershowers yesterday, its a nice, raincooled morning. Fewer storms today, thats good news. The weekend looks like its going to be an ugly stretch of hot weather. Now here are those thunderstorms, in frostburg, not severe. Todays highs up in the upper 80s to 90 degrees. Be ready for that. Jack taylor, good morning to you. In northeast, weve got a new problem. Weve got a reported problem near burroughs avenue. University boulevar
Another tragedy. Thanks for joining us this evening. Im erika gonzalez. Powerful words from the sheriff in louisiana today. And until we come together, as a nation, as a people, to heal as a people, if we dont do that and this madness continues, we will surely perish as a people. Investigators say it looks like a gunman ambushed officers and sheriffs deputies in baton rouge today. Three of the six shot are dead. One fighting for his life. President obama addressing the nation just a short time ago. He says attacks on police happening far too often and advanced no causes. As we head into the political conventions, he called on all americans to avoid divisive rhetoric. Five days ago i traveled to dallas for the for the officers that were slain there. I said that that killer wouldnt be the last person who tries to make us turn on each other, nor will todays killer. It remains up to us to make sure that they fail. That decision is all of ours. The decision to make sure that our best selves
Tay tay a severe storms, just some downpours with thunder and lightning tracking into the lower neck of virginia, lower part of the eastern shore. Coming up in a few minutes, a look at another heat wave on the way. We may have our hottest temperatures of the summer so far coming up in the next few days. Looking at when they arrive and when they leave. Thats in just a few minute donald j. Trump is ready to serve and lead this country as the next president of the United States [ cheers and applause ] this has been an Unusual Campaign and the start to this years Republican National convention, it was kind of unusual, too. It was. Donald trumps wife melania introduced herself to the world tonight. That was after speakers who took on the black lives Matter Movement Hillary Clintons handling of the attacks in bengha benghazi. And an introduction by her husband that weve certainly never seen before, the candidate appearing on stage before the last night of the convention arriving like a rock