it is saturday, august 4th. good morning and glad you are with us. i am randi kaye. we start with wildfires in oklahoma. 100 homes are being threatened. the fires are being pushed by strong winds. the worst is in cleveland county south of oklahoma city. joining me is kelly cain for the oklahoma department of emergency management. good morning. are evacuations being ordered at this hour? we haven t had new evacuations overnight which is good news, but we are definitely still watching these fires. they were so dangerous yesterday and we had a couple of small fires that popped up overnight. we are keeping a good eye on things and have been looking in the morning at what resources are needed. we are looking at the incredible video of the fires burning. how many fires are you dealing with? do you have any idea? more than 12 fires were reported to our office yesterday. we know there additional fires that were not reported. we had about probably six large fires that we were
cross roads of the world, perhaps the most famous celebration, new york s times square. the venue is cleared of snow five days after a blizzard blanketed the area with up to 29 inches of it. the mountains of the unwanted white stuff has since been dumped into those giant melters and washed away. allan chernoff is live for to us set the stage. so a million people are expected. are they ready? good morning. reporter: the countdown is on. only eight hours from now, the biggest party on the planet is going to begin. that will be 6:00 here in times square. there will be music, dancing, confetti, a wedding underneath the big ball and then of course at midnight, the dropping of the ball followed by fireworks. tons of family fun which is very, very different from the way new year s eve used to be here in times square. that s when it was just a nice of drinking and fighting. could you say that times square has cleaned up its act.
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