A scary moment during a Major League Game as the new york yankees pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. That hit him. Lets see if hes okay. He walks off the field, and well tell you how hes doing today, tuesday, august 18th, 2015. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Certain moments in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is. Bryan mitchell, a rookie. Youre right. In the one snanlt at the follow through, that pitcher is exposed. Thats what can happen. Well tell you more on how hes doing. Were going to begin with active Duty Service Members being brought in for First Time Since 2006 to contain these raging wildfires out west. Lets start with Miguel Almaguer live in washington who has the latest. Good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. This wildfire has now torched more than 60,000 acres. More than 40 homes here destroyed. When the smoke clears, that number could rise. Six western states experiencing explosive conditions as here in wash
Are calling in the troops. This image from nasa shows the damage in space. Calmer parts of conditions in parts of california helped firefighters in some areas. 200 military troops will be deployed to help firefighters across the west and the first time that has happened since 2006. Western fires have burned a million acres and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed. Our affiliate kiro shows us conditions that have forced more than 3,000 from their homes. Come on. Reporter john parker would usually be home right about now. Just lost. I dont know where to go, what to do. Reporter he is one of the roughly 2,000 people evacuated from the wires near chelan. Its wow. Really difficult because you just dont know what to take. Reporter what he took is all he has left. I can say im actually homeless. His home burned in the first creek fire. There is where the house was. Reporter he got his dog max out and this truck. This is about it. Reporter at the shell station downtown, Francisco Rodr
Parts of california helped firefighters in some areas with calmer temperatures. 200 troops will be deployed to help firefighters across the west and the first time that has happened since 2006. Western fires have burned a million acres and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed. Our affiliate kiro has more. Come on on. Reporter john parker would usually be home right about now. Just lost. I dont know where to go, what to do. Reporter he is one of the roughly 2,000 people evacuated from the wildfire chelan. What he took is all he has left. His home burned in the first creek fire. There is where the house was. Reporter he got his dog max out and this truck. Reporter at the shell station downtown, Francisco Rodriguez works as a gas station attendant, but lately he kneels more like a therapist. I had one lady come in. She had lost her house and three horses. Reporter so many people have lost so much. Authorities think between 50 and 60 structures have burned and the fires threaten m
Town. The military joins the wildfire fight. Thousands of firefighters are now battling fires in eight states. Nearly two dozen in Washington State alone destroying dozens of homes. Numerous tornadoes and funnel cloud sightings in colorado. They are concerned about damaging winds and large hail over the nations heartland. Another explosion has brought the city of bangkok after a day of deadly bombing there. Officials searching for a man in a yellow shirt with a backpack. Indonesians found the crash of a plane and a recorder. No survivors. Potential victims doubled to 3 334,000 with an irs. From sending classified information. Trump reported for jury duty and his civic duty. Two female soldiers are sent to graduate from the armys prestigious rangers pool. Look at that. Great white leaping out of the water trying to eat a seal. Unbelievable. All that. Line drive. Didnt quite get the glove up. It hit Bryan Mitchell in the head as he goes to the ground in pain. Stevie wonder put on three p
Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,