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
Reporter trump also plans to force mexico for a paying for a wall on the u. S. Border. They will pay for the wall. They are sending drugs and they are taking money out. They are making a lot of money. Mexico is making a lot of money. Reporter the details angered some of his republican opponents. Others agree on the walls importance. So our leading contender, mr. Trump, is going backward on immigration and i think he is going to take all of us with him if we dont watch it. Finish the wall and make it clear anybody that comes over that wall, once we have done t youre going back. Reporter trump says if mexico refuses to pay for the wall, the u. S. Will raise fees on visass and Border Crossing cards. Donald trump will take a break from campaigning today and plans to report for jury due to in new york city. It will be interesting with that. Thank you so much. Some sad news to report this morning. Actor morning freemans granddaughter has been killed. A man has been arrested at the scene and
First. Developing overnight an iconic cocoa beach mansion destroyed by a massive fire. Details on the history that was lost. And the challenges firefighters faced as they battled the huge blaze. Breaking overnight. Gunmen burst into an orlando apartment. Robbing the homeowner and killing his dog details on how they managed to get away. Hillary clinton and trump picking up big wins. But one state is still too close to call. Find out where people are now calling for a recount. News alert. Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a massive fire. That destroyed an iconic cocoa beach mansion. The fire broke out around 9 oclock last night. On third street and atlantic avenue. Florida today reports. Firefighters had a hard time fighting the blaze. Because of high winds and issues with water supply. The home was once owned by al neuharth who founded usa today here is a picture of the mansion from florida today. The 10thousand square foot home was built in 1975. And had 11 bedrooms a
To 50 to 55 mph possible. As high pressur build sin behind this systems colder air works its way down from canada dropping highs on friday into the upper 30s and lower 40s. Tonight showers stor ms ending, windy low 3743 winds sw 1530 and gustythursday p cloudy, very windy high 50 low 40 friday m cloudy, stll windy high 43 low 33 saturday mostly sunny high 56 low 26 sunday mostly sunny high 58 low 36 monday chance of showers high 53 low 3 tuesday chance of showers high 49 low 42 tonight, the National Weather service confirmed that an ef1 tornado touched down near avoca. Thats a tow in Pottawattamie County in souuwest iowa. This tornados winds peaked at about 110 miles per hour, and they damaged a grain bin, along with barns and trees on farmland. There are no reports of any injuries. In astern iowa, the storms damaged several outbuildings with Farm Machinery inside of them. This is a picture from north of wyoming in jones county, courtesy of tim ott. And in iowa city, the storms scatter
Glenn cough apartments on folcroft area were cleared after fire broke out here, in a first floor unit around 10 30 p. M. Three people were taken to the hospital, as is a result, two elderly people transported nearly for evaluation, and one woman who lives in the apartment where the fire started, taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Fire crews were able to contain the flames to the one apartment, but the smoke and co was keeping everyone out now that the fire is extinguished. Red cross is ace something and close to two dozen of displaced at shelter that has been set up at the fire station. Were providing food for them, and just general comfort until theyre able to get back to the apartments tomorrow morning. When they get back, we get back in, there we can get in our beds, and sleep for good couple of hours. Thats what i would like to do. And no word yet on exactly when those residents would be allowed to return. They tell me, theyre hearing around 8 00, 9 00 this morning, fire o