Stranding thousands of passengers on the biggest vacation weekend of the year. And greek tragedy . Critics slam a sorority video. Is it all in good fun or does it send the wrong message . Today is sunday august 16th, 2015. Sdwlrchlg this is today. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. A lively crowd outside, we will get there in just a minute. We will. We want to get to our top story, a outbreak of dangerous wild fires. Thousands are being evacuated, homes have been destroyed in oregon and idaho where a 70yearold woman died while fleeing the fire. We find Gadi Schwartz in washington. No one expected it this fire to grow so fast. It is now 10,000 acres and dozens of buildings and homes like this one have been destroyed. And now, the entire town is surrounded by fire. Overnight hundreds of firefighters working to beat back the flames that threatened to consume this popular tour rest destination in central washington. The fire stretches 15 miles in some places closing ro
Will the nightmare continue for them today . Were live at la guardia. And greek tragedy . Critics slam a sorority recru recruitment video parading around in short dresses and bikinis . Does it send the wrong message or all in good fun . Announcer from nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer here. A lively crowd outside. We want to get to the top story and thats the outbreak of dangerous wild fires ravagingro. Thousands are being evacuated, homes have been destroyed in oregon and idaho where a 70yearold woman died while fleeing the fire. A massive fire exploded in size. We find nbc gadi schwartz. Reporter good morning. No one expected this fire to grow so fast. Its 10,000 acres and dozen of homes and buildings like this have been destroyed. The entire town in washington is surrounded by fire. Overnight hundreds of firefig
Temperatures in Southern California pose another challenge for firefighters. With the heat around you, depending on the flame length and whats burning, maybe 130plus. Reporter the situation all too familiar for some trying to protect thefl selves from fire dang remember for the last several years. This is a third time that we got threatened by a fire. Reporter many back in washington have seen the fears realized. The question now is, how much worse will it get. Reporter later today, more help is on the way. Were expecting an additional 250 firefighters to arrive. Were told this area is so squares with resource that is help has been requested from as far away as australia. Erica. My goodness. Gadi schwartz, thanks. Dylan is here with a look at the sheer number of fires and what the firefighters are up against today. Were at the peak of fire season right now. It lasts through basically the middle to end of october. We have 85 uncontained large fires right now, including parts of montana,
Of any local pta comes to mcc pta so the revenues are depending upon the number of people. What is this money spent on. Typically in a given year, we do well do programming, well do advocacy events, we have a performing Arts Festival coming up this saturday in rockville. Well do cultural art support and programming and a lot of our programming depends on what our membership is interested in what is the biggest challenge right now 40,000 . What are you looking at our biggest challenge we dont know how much money we have to start our year and developing the programming and events that we want to produce for our members and kids in the teachers and the community and the mcps this year i know there hasnt been a suspect named but its believed its somebody inside of the mccpta, which would be a parent or teacher . Was misappropriating the fund had access to the accounts or the ability to access the checks on the accounts. That would tend to be somebody got to be involved in our organization
This is bloomberg surveillance. Final trading day of this week. Next week is a shortened trading we cure him london because of the main bank holiday. May bank holiday. Also on track for the Third Straight monthly advance, which is the best run since may 2016. Investors buoyed by the first round of the french president ial election on sunday. The next one is next sunday. Strolling up against the dollar. The best run since december. Highest since september last year. The best run for a month, also gaining for a second month. Gdp data at half past. That stopped sterling in its tracks as gdp comes in line with estimates, relative to the prior quarters. Today gdpr could see the economy expand at 1 annualized. Historically, the First Quarter has been week. Will the rest of the year make up for it . Will there be a shutdown, to name one issue . Trumps tax plan renegotiating. Geopolitical risks. Crude today is up, below 50 after a rally in the first half of april. Oil is set to end the month b