Candidate ted cruz railed against the decision yesterday. Speaking before conservatives headed up by industrialists and charles and david koh kh. Senator cruz, is the president exaggerating . Is there a different word than exaggerating that i might use. Here are the facts. If you look it the satellite data in the last 18 years, theres been zero recorded warming. Just two weeks ago being, the american meter orologists said this is the second warmest year on global warming. There are reports that beau biden was encouraging his dad to run for president before he died of brain cancer. Now josh alcorn will play the groundwork for a potential president ial bid as the biggest week for the 2016 so far gets started tomorrow night with a republican debate. Tracie potts is with us now. It is crunch time and a lot of jockeying for the last few spots. Reporter exactly. A new nbc news wall street journal poll that says when you average all of the national polls, the cutoff for that is 5 00 tomorrow
Well start with Raphael Miranda. Raphael, we havent had a triple digit day in the summer, have we . No. Havent had a heat wave. Its like 89, raphi. Kept saying 89. That was the third day of the heat wave. Never happened. Weve had a string of 90degree days, though. Were going to get close again today and tomorrow. Flirting with 90. Youll see in the weather headlines, the heat does continue. Were turning up the humidity hey bit. It was comfortable over the weekend. That is ending a little bit. Chance for storms later tonight, especially north and west of the city. Then a cooldown is coming. No 90s towards the end of the week. Mostly clear right now. A quiet start in Westchester County and Rockland County. This is our weather maker later this afternoon. If you live well north and west of new york city, this cold front approaches, sparking off a few showers and thunderstorms. Probably just in time for the evening commute. Thats well north and west. Sullivan county, pike county, pennsylvani
The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
And on the republican side, jeb bush, 26 positive and front runner, also has a 26 positive rating bought 56 negative rating. And the new poll shows 75 of hispanics have a negative view and that includes some who answered very negative. He skipped last nights debate in New Hampshire. And nbc tracie potts joins me live from washington. Plenty of candidates, waking up this morning, hoping to be in that top 10. Reporter but today is the cut off and here is the line up as we see it based on the average of the last five poll five major poles. Donald trump, scott walker, and jeb bush and rounding off the top 10 for now, governor chris, christie and kasich. And the one thing we saw in the Forum Last Night that maybe we havent seen as much of in the campaign trail, lots of issues being discussed. Isis, and the border. Rick perry, who was governor of texas, talked about that. Balancing the budget and iran. And as you noted, trump was not there, even though hes polling 24 in that state. However,
Hours after a condemning of violence in the borough. Reporter im going to get out of the way, we see one of the victims of the shooting hobbling into the house where the shooting took place. She had a wound on her shin. So, she didnt want to say much to us about what happened, but of course, police have filled us in. Halfway down this block is where the shooting took place at the red hook houses. Police have been on the scene here and have been since around a11 00 when police say the driveby happened. A car moved along white street, a gunman hit five people seriously injuring one person. Sources tell me its unclear if a second person was in the car. Again, as i said, one woman seen hobbling in, she had some sort of wound on at least her shin. This is a pretty residential area, with one person mistaking the gunshot for fireworks. I suspected it was just firecrackers which we hear a lot around here. Then i saw ambulances coming down and sirens, and i poked my head up and then there were