rains. military planes are flying relief supplies it hard hit communities. officials say the flood area is now larger than france and germany combined affecting some 200,000 people. the worst is far from over. today s forecast calls for heavy rain and new flash floods. queensland officials say recovery could take weeks. let s go to we ll can back in a moment. but we ll go to ben and tell but some explosions in egypt over the weekend. ben is standing by. we ll take a break and be right back. style that lasts a lifetime. what do you say we get the look we want, the softness we need, and an unbeatable lifetime stain warranty for whatever life throws at it. then let s save big on the installation. we re lowering the cost of going barefoot. more saving. more doing. that s the power of the home depot. get exclusive martha stewart living and platinum plus installed in your whole house
than californians can bear. the forecast calls for a chance of more rain on saturday. mike von fremd, abc news, highland, california. and that storm front is now battering new mexico to the east. road crews are working around the clock to stay ahead of the heavy snowfall. but this morning s commute in some parts of the state will be a tough one. the national weather service is predicting blizzard conditions today for western and northwestern new mexico. temperatures only in the teens. old man winter won t let up. the ntsb is now investigating a runway accident at wyoming s jackson hole airport. an american airlines jet from chicago slid more than 600 feet past the runway as it landed. 181 people were on board at the time. thankfully, though, no one was hurt. the pilot reportedly told passengers the jet s brakes had failed. the airport was closed while that jet was pushed out of the deep snow there. here s a look at your weather for today.
they have been stuck underground, can you imagine, for more than two months. and otto is upgraded now to a tropical storm, winds about 60 miles per hour right now. otto is north of puerto rico. you can see the radar moving slowly northeast. it could be a hurricane by saturday. but it s not expected to threaten laland. the forecast calls for auto to just keep on moving, keeping on moving, otto, out into the atlantic. here is a story i have lots and lots of tweets on this one. this is a scandal that started on duke s campus. it s an apparent e-mail, just a few friends on the internet. and you guessed it. it has gone viral. it is no wonder why. it is a detailed account of a grad s sex life. i m talking names, pictures, rankings of these guys. harmless fun or perhaps a frightening sign of the times? that is ahead. and looking ahead to tonight, bill mahr, never short of opinions. tonight eek talking politics tonight at 7:00. and at the o clock eastern on
look at the skies over new york city. they re going to be lit up again by a spectacular fireworks show tomorrow night for the second year in a row the fireworks will be launched from the hudson river. and the weather seems ton cooperating. the forecast calls for clear skies. you can watch nick cannon and allison sweeney sunday night on macy s annual fourth of july fireworks spectacular. the excitement starts live at 9:00 eastern on nbc. a mammoth cruise ship in new york is billed as the largest ship to ever dock in the big apple. it s huge. you re going to check this out now. among other things, the ship fittingly named epic boasts the largest spa, water park, and casino at sea. so if you were standing on the end of the ship, it would be among the tallest skyscrapers in manhattan if it was set upright. 200 feet short of the empire state building. wnbc s peji chang has the story.
shannon: right now, crews are battling a 600-acre wildfire in arizona and the weather is not helping. malin i m wilkes is standing by with the top of the news. about 178 homes near flagstaff under an evacuation order. helicopters and air tankers are dropping water and fire retardant on the flames but the weather didn t cooperating. the forecast calls for winds up to 33 miles per hour. ingsar, no homes or buildings have been damaged. police say a manufacturer was testing explosives at a factory and a blast did no damage. in los angeles, a gunman opened fire on his step daughter s family at a taco restaurant, killing her husband and six-year-old son before taking his own life. the woman and her five-year-old son were injured. police say no one else at the