The airline said it was 30 feet away as he was landing last airport. Those are some of our stories on this monday it, august 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with those devastating wildfires in california. The largest fire doubled in aggressive effort. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter firefighters are working day and night in close hand to hand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed 50,000 acres, destroying at least 24 homes, threatening thousands more. The u. S. Military called up two more c130 firefighting planes from colorado sending them to california where theyll join large dc10 tank percent right there is a dc10. Hes coming in. Hes going to drop fire retardant. This plane can carry 12,000 gallons of retardant at once. There it goes. The terrain here is bone dry. And lightning isnt helping since thursday, 13 ,000 lightning stri
And good monday morning. Our top story this half hour, the extreme weather in the midwest. A number of tornadoes touched down in iowa last evening. This one is in crescent, west of des moines, iowa. Yeah, another one was spotted in eastern michigan. As abcs rob martian knows reports, storms put a tragic end to summer celebrations all around chicago. Reporter a chaotic scene at the perry fest about 25 miles northwest of chicago. It was just hail and rain and just unbelievable wind. Reporter one person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a tent blew away with people inside. Victims carried out on stretchers taken to nearby hospitals. High winds, rain and hail sending debris flying. All of a sudden, you could see the rip in the dome, and it just kind of blew down. Reporter witnesses say the tarp hand landed on several people and rescuers had to cut hoes to get them out. It was the final day. Police say those in attendance were in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Storm briefly shuth down
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Came long after Hillary Clinton put this idea out. In the late 1990s, there was hillary care. Back in the early 1990s, there was hillary care. Even in 2008 in the democrat primary, Hillary Clinton laid out a plan that included the federal mandate and many provisions that are now in obamacare. We were told under obamacare that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. That was the lie of the year nationally. Think about all the people that have been dumped off their Health Care Insurance by their employer by the pressures of obamacare. Think about how many premiums have gone through the roof. Some of the folks here have lost coverage and seen premiums go up. A lot of people were told this is not a tax, but we see this for individuals and employers. Think about all the things that have been problematic about obamacare. They only get worse under Hillary Clinton. She has a much bigger goal than what we see in obamacare. Voters across the country have a clear choice next november.
After a guy challenged me who said if you dont like whats going on in washington, what would you like to do i wrote my own budget. There were votes on for budgets that year, the president s budget, the democratic budget, the black caucus budget, and the case it and the john kasich. Udget an i had 29 other people who thought it was not right to mortgage our young peoples future. I also thought there is a good value which is you dont live in debt. I spent 10 years of my life fighting for that, literally 10 years. In the late 1990s i worked with the Clinton Administration and i was one of the chief architect of the first time we balance the federal budget since man walked on the moon. We paid down the largest amount of the publicly held debt and the economy was doing very well3 . I also was a military reformer. When i first went to congress, the only committee i was on was a defense committee. I found hammers and true drivers and ranches along with a couple of other congressmen the cost t