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Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
May be threatened and 50 to 100 of those already may have been destroyed. Peter. Gadi schwartz, thank you. Te whns of thousands of travelers faced long delays or cancellations by major problems at an air Traffic Control system in virginia. It started on the east coast and spread well beyond. Kristen dahlgren is at Laguardia Airport tonight. Kristen, good evening. Good evening to you, peter. The faa says the system is back in service. Things slowly getting back to normal. I just checked the board inside laguardia. Only three departure delays. Still a dozen on arrival. Tonight up and down the east coast there are many passengers still stranded. At d. C. Reagan nationalhihis afternoon, the only thing going up was frustration. It shouldnt be like this. Planes werent going anywhere. According to the faa, the glitch was in a tracking Computer System based in leesburg, virginia. Supposed to help route High Altitude traffic near the nations capital. So this is what the airspace looked like for
Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. New hampshire has a way of shaking up a young race. John kerry beating howard dean in 2004, ben carsons win in 1992, saving his campaign after he got a thumping in iowa. And john mccain in 2000, over george w. Bush. Last night did things, confirmed Donald Trumps place, and chased Carly Fiorina out and may be sending Chris Christie back to new jersey. It cast doubt on marco rubios theory of how to run for the republican nomination. There was heavy turnout on the republican side, healthy but not recordbreaking turnout on the democratic side. Well start this edition of inside story in where else, in New Hampshire with aljazeeras libby casey. Because of a uge voter turnout, and i say uge, we won. Reporter in concord, New Hampshire, democrat, Bernie Sanders, thanked his supporters. What began last week in iowa, with voters here in New Hampshire confirmed tonight is nothing short of the beginning of a political revolution. Reporte