The world series. Its monday, august 3rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, we start now with investigators in new mexico looking for clues after two bombs went off outside las cruces churches during sunday services. As federal investigators move in today, worshipers describe the moments of terror and confusion after the blast. Abcs Kayna Whitworth has the details. Reporter the fbi investigating two terrifying explosions at churches in new mexico. It sounded like something had fallen off and, like, shattered the glass in the back. Reporter 8 00 a. M. An explosion in a mailbox outside cavalry Baptist Church. Parishioners left with their ears ringing. 30 minutes later, 8 30 a. M. Just as worshipers were receiving communion, another explosion shattering the glass front doors at Holy Cross Church in las cruces. Can you contact the daso bomb squad . Reporter that bomb exploding in a trash can near the entrance. Police arrived, escorting
And im joe torres, Health Officials were seeing new cases popping up in the coming days. Tonight there are four deaths linked to this outbreak in the south bronx and 65 people have been diagnosed with the disease and five locations texted positive for legionella and all have been disinfected. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross is at one of those locations and shes in monthaven tonight. Aj . Reporter joe, sandra, well Health Officials narrowed down five sites including this one as a possible source of that legionnaires cluster. We are not out of the woods just yet. They do expect cases to increase over the next seven days and tonight i spoke with someone who battled the bacteria firsthand. I was about to wait one more day to go to the hospital and if i would have waited that one day i dont think i would have been here right now. Reporter for Daniel Tejada being back in his home surrounded byname is something hell never by family is something hell never take for granted again. Now just rel
That coveted triple crown. We have tips before your head out to the park. Good morning, everybody. Youre looking live at lower manhattan. Its gleaming in the sun. Thank you for joining us on this sunday, august 2nd. Summer is moving along. Here we are. Not too fast. Slow down. This is the dog days of summer but with sunrises like that you cant complain. Im tony yates in for michelle charlesworth. Im rob nelson. Good to have you back. Thank you , dear. Michelle is waking up along the beach. Were all jealous of you, michelle. Enjoy this weekend and next weekend off. Going to work with you again. Certainly. You know who is in the house with us this morning. Miss freeze. Right, a my. Looking out over the east another temperatures starting were a stormfree end to the weekend as well. Lows this morning starting cool in monticello in the 50s. Everybody else 60s and 70s over night. Newark had 69, satellite and radar picture, it looks really nice across the area. Wall to wall sunshine as you wa
After noon the mid 80s until sunset. 88 is the forecast high. Chances for rain once we start the work week and a major temperatures cool down is coming. That coming up. Were following breaking news out of brooklyn the morning. A mass shooting has left at least nine people hit by bullets in East New York. Witnesses tell us the victims began scattering everywhere to escape the gunfire. Kristen thorn is live on stanley and pine street. Kristen. Reporter good morning. We have learned more about the victims hurt during this shooting. We learned that includes five women and four men. The most serious injuries are to a 19yearold and 24yearold, both of them shot in the neck. This happened around 2 30 at this home on stanley avenue in East New York. Were told that there was a house party going on in the backyard, an argument happened, the next thing people knew bullets were flying. Nine people shot. Were told the ages of those victims 19 to 38 years old. Besides the two shot in the neck seven o
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