Sleigh. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Right now a series of wildfires whipped by powerful winds is blazing across the southern california. The state of teenage has been declared in ventura county. The sight of the first and largest blaze now charring almost 60,000 acres and growing. The fastmoving inferno has forced tens of thousands to evacuate the area while hundreds of animals are caught in the fires path. Nbcs jay gray has more from the ground. Reporter the fire fight continues overnight. The smoke an orange glow in the california hills, a clear indication Mother Nature is still winning the battle here. It continues to challenge us. Our fire is over 50,000 acres and still growing. We have a mandatory evacuation in the areas around the entire fire. Reporter tens of thousands of rushed to safety including john and letha who were able to save their pets, but little else. Our whole lives were wrapped up in that house. Everything its all
Sleigh. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Right now a series of wildfires whipped by powerful winds is blazing across the southern california. The state of teenage has been declared in ventura county. The sight of the first and largest blaze now charring almost 60,000 acres and growing. The fastmoving inferno has forced tens of thousands to evacuate the area while hundreds of animals are caught in the fires path. Nbcs jay gray has more from the ground. Reporter the fire fight continues overnight. The smoke an orange glow in the california hills, a clear indication Mother Nature is still winning the battle here. It continues to challenge us. Our fire is over 50,000 acres and still growing. We have a mandatory evacuation in the areas around the entire fire. Reporter tens of thousands of rushed to safety including john and letha who were able to save their pets, but little else. Our whole lives were wrapped up in that house. Everything its all
Sleigh. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Right now a series of wildfires whipped by powerful winds is blazing across the southern california. The state of teenage has been declared in ventura county. The sight of the first and largest blaze now charring almost 60,000 acres and growing. The fastmoving inferno has forced tens of thousands to evacuate the area while hundreds of animals are caught in the fires path. Nbcs jay gray has more from the ground. Reporter the fire fight continues overnight. The smoke an orange glow in the california hills, a clear indication Mother Nature is still winning the battle here. It continues to challenge us. Our fire is over 50,000 acres and still growing. We have a mandatory evacuation in the areas around the entire fire. Reporter tens of thousands of rushed to safety including john and letha who were able to save their pets, but little else. Our whole lives were wrapped up in that house. Everything its all
Any better . Im annie yu and ill have all the details coming up. And later, a Sports Illustrated surprise. Beyonce making a special appearance at last nights sports person of the year awards to honor colin kardashian. Well have all the details coming up. Good day at 9a starts now. 9 01 is the time. No surprises here g day d. C. Good to see you. Good for to you see us hope hopefully. It is wednesday, december 6th. Allison seymour, Steve Chenevey welcome back. Hope youre feeling better. Im kind of surprised maureen is home getting better. We hope she feels better. Right. Its revolving door around here. A sickness once it gets inside the fresh air inside this building it kind of lingers for while. Its get trapped in petri dish. Also ahead this morning times person of the year honor this year goes to the silence breakers who helped launch the light decades of Sexual Harassment and abuse by powerful men a cross the nation. More thon decision coming up as well. First, though, transition day
Lets get Team Coverage. We want to tell you more about that breaking news story on i50 in annapolis maryland. Theres an overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 that could put a halt to your morning commute. Annie yu is live on the scene with the latest. Hey, annie. Reporter good morning, holly and maureen. Thats right, Maryland State Police tell us just after 2 oclock this morning, a tractortrailer somehow overturned and so its causing quite a disruption along route 50 here this morning. Since that time, there has been a heavy presence of Police Activity straight ahead. Accident is on the westbound side of 50. This is just after Saint Margarets road. All lanes on the westbound side are closed and so for those of you traveling from the Eastern Shore headed back to d. C. Youll be forced to get off at exit 29 which is Cape Saint Claire road. Eastbound cars are approaching. You are getting by with one lane on the right side because of all the large debris thats scattered from the westb