blow torch. reporter: jody is out of the hospital after suffering burns on her arm. i thought i was going to die so i tried to call my son. i wanted to say good-bye to him. reporter: witnesses tell us the heat here was incredible, the blast obliterated five homes. federal investigators are on the scene to try to find out what sparked the explosn. lester. thank you. tonight we re tracking multiple opicalhreats in the pacific and atlantic that could have a major impact in the coming days. al roker is here. al, where are the threats headed? we ve got problems with erick for hawaii causes rain and high surf late tonight into tomorrow. flossie causes problems into the beginning of next week with again high surf and a lot of rain. remnants of a tropical system going to bring anywhere from three to 5 inches of rain in central and southern florida. and then we re watching this area here, tropical disturbance, 70% chance of development. here s the five-day development zone. we ll co
saying 50% of breaking waves. any with interest in puerto rico, you should be watching this. still the computer model takes whatever this is towards the win ward island and eventually puerto rico in about seven days from now. right now, not an eminent risk. this is flossie that will head towards the hawaii islands in the next couple of days. if this happens, we won t see any impact there. good news there. today s forecast, if you want perfection. 84 and sunny in minneapolis. chicago has had a good day too. very hot in texas. not quite to 100 but we ll see
a major one eric is going to stay to the south of hawaii. flossie, a category 1, the atlantic of that will bring it somewhere around hawaii early next week. so we re going to be watching that closely in the atlantic we have an invest area, 95-l, this right now a 10% chance of development over the next five days, but as it gets to the southeast of florida, could cause some problems strong storms firing up in the northeast tonight. more tomorrow afternoon. airport delays from new england all the way down to knoxville. we ll be watching that carefully tomorrow as well lester all right, al, thank you. there are new developments in the case of two american teens under arrest in italy in connection with the murder of a police officer investigators say today the officer was attacked immediately after a drug deal went wrong the. and for the first time they reveal a murder weapon, a commando knife authorities say the suspects brought from the u.s. both of them remain behind bars tonight.
you see it on the radar here, upstate new york, a lot of trees down, ithaca, back through pennsylvania, as well. that watch is up until 9:00 tonight. front moves east tomorrow, i-95 cities are fog to going to get some big boomers, that will eventually break the heat, thankfully. and the hurricanes in the pacific, two of them, flossie and erick. erick, a category 4 now, less than 1,000 miles from the big island. a southerly track, some weakening, we hope. we re watching a disturbance right now over puerto rico, giving them some record rains. that disturbance is rolling towards the southeast, will bring parts of the u.s. heavy downpours. david? a lot to watch in these days ahead. rob, thank you. now to the horrific string of murders in wisconsin. a gunman killing three family members, then shooting his way into a second home, killing a woman there and wounding her parents. and tonight, the sheriff is now saying that that suspect may have been imitating the abduction of teenager jayme
are worried about wildfire danger. let s look at the tropics where we have two systems, eric and flossie. they rotate every 6 years. i have seen flossie a couple times now as a meteorologist and hopefully they will not affect hawaii. the waters are cool around the island so we think the storm will we can and then we watch an area of concern across the caribbean and then moving across the atlantic from the coast of africa, this is the time of your we have to pay close attention because these could pop up and we will watch them. stay out of the water if there are sharks. i wouldn t go in, thank you. 36 after the hour. democratic presidential candidates are ramping up their talking points ahead of tonight s second debate. putting babies in cages at the border. we have an economy that is