To the top of the box office. Early today starts right now. Good monday morning to you, everybody. Wildfires, they continue to scorch the west coast, triple digit temperatures and drought on fueling those flames. Nearly every firefighter in the country was on call overnight because of more than 100 large uncontained fires in several states. Thb nbcs Gadi Schwartz has the latest. Reporter a small resort town surrounded by fire and residents here are traumatized by the destination. Reporter the battle to protect the homes in washington is fierce. The National Guard called in to make water drops after thousands were forced to evacuate. But, so far, only 50 to 100 homes and buildings are believed to have been destroyed. Hard to see this. Reporter all that is left of this house is a chimney and its foundation and families like this one trying to find what is most important to them. Trim from my moms wedding band. Reporter the fire has also burned a local economy to its core where building a
Storm scan3, quiet as can be, we look at what we can expect as far as the dew point, always like to use this sort of comfort index here, at cbs3, where we show you how it starts it really feel when you walk out the door. And today, is where it does begin, in terms of the steamy necessary, quickly checking on the area temperatures, it is into the 70s, many locations, so off to warm start, air go it will heat up with no problems. Shooting for 94 in the city. And the full sunshine will extend across the entire Delaware Valley here today. , fantastic pool day, air conditioner required, as an if you have to be outside, i feel for the poor construction workers. I cant imagine how much water they go through. Just clog g slugging it back. Hope you have your coffee and water with you, morning construction, schuylkill westbound between belmont and city avenue. See the tail light trying to fin eagle their way through. That will lost the right lane, starting to see now single file lane, which as w
The granddaughter of Actor Morgan Freeman stabbed to death on a street in manhattan. Tonight the actor is speaking out about his loss as the family awaits charges against the suspect. First, a nightmare for tomorrows commute. The lirr service is back up and running tonight after a plane crashed on the tracks. Good evening im sandra bookman. Im rob powers. Service was fully restored to the Ronkonkoma Branch tonight. Plenty of headaches for people tonight. The mta releasing new images. The plane was decimated and the pilot killed and his name has not been released. One person survived the crash. Mta crews worked into the night to fix the tracks. Josh einiger is live for us at penn station for more. Reporter from looking at the pictures you can get a look at how colossal it was for them to get things moving for tomorrow morning. Its pretty much back on schedule and just in the nick of time for the monday morning ride to work. The train started moving again after dark along the lirr busy m
You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. Hot day. Day three of our hot wife. It started saturday. Temperatures around 80 to start the day. Normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, Staten Island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. So, we are looking at a hot day today. We will get into the mid90s easily today. You tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. Thats right. Be careful. We could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. We will talk about that coming up. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. We will start out telling you everything is back on track l. I. R. R. On the Ronkonkoma Branch after problems from yesterday. Metro branch, Waterbury Branch ongoing construction in bridgeport. George, lincoln and holland moving okay. Number 1 trains, no trains at 14th to south ferry. That is Maintenance Work going o
The air quality else not that good when its so hot and humid with the dome of unhealthy air to breath later in the day. It will be hot all the way back to the great lakes. We will watch that sophie if we can get another 90degree in there tomorrow. This afternoon in the mid90s. 3 00, 4 00 we will know if we hit the record high for the afternoon. We will talk about that, a cool down, thunderstorms and a lot to talk about in the forecast coming up, back to you. The cool down sounds good about now. Thank you, bill. Parts of new jersey could see the highest temperatures which is why a lot of people are heading down the shore. New jersey toni yates is live in belmar with that part of the coverage. Dont hate me. Lists seven, i wasnt going to show up for live at noon without taking the advice that i heard already. Check out the hat. I am on the boardwalk in belmar. This hat is keeping me cool. I am also slathered in 70 spf sunblock. You know what, if i wasnt working today, then i would be out