Im don lemon, welcome to early start. Im christine romans. It is july 19th, 5 00 a. M. 23 states are under heat advisory. Its affecting 141 million americans sweating out triple digits. In new york it felt like 105 degrees yesterday. Workers reporting scores of patients suffering from heat, stroke and dehydration. Its so hot, firefighters are being rushed to hospitals with heat exhaustion battling fires. An 11monthold girl died from the heat after being locked in an suv. By the time they got to the infant, it was 130 degrees in the car. Amtrak is warning passengers to expect delays today. Trains are being slowed down. The heat wave is driving the internal temperature to 120 degrees. At the iowa state fair, theres a lot of concern for the farm animals. The cows, goats, pigs are getting hosed down. The stalls are being equipped with cooling misters. We know what to expect, when are we going to get a break. Indra is outside. Good morning, indra. You are talking about the two minutes you a
Louisiana coast line. It forced dozens of workers to evacuate, then came the flames, now a possible disaster in the making. A hot air balloon on a coalition quowrs a city and the pilot forced to make a lastsecond decision to try to save his passengers. Tonight, the landing in the lake. [cheers] plus, the most famous baby on planet earth finally has a name or, in this case, three of them. But first from fox this wednesday night, officials in washington are warning russia of a diplomatic crisis. Fugitive secret spiller ed snowden is still in limbo at that airport in moscow thanks to the refuge of the russian government. The u. S. Has been calling for the russians to send snowden back to america to face criminal charges. So far russia is ignoring that request. Just like officials did in hong kong when snowden was hiding out there in the first place. And while all of this is going on, the nsa leaker seems to be enjoying his time in russia. His lawyer tells us today he plans to stay there.
Firebombs and grenades, a capital city turning into a combat zone. 100 people were killed today in kiev after a tentative truce quickly fell apart. Ukraine government blaming the protesters for trying to stage a coo. Ukraine sits at the crucial crossroads. A tug between the east and west making the stakes enormously high. We must caution you, some of the pictures that youre about to see are extremely graphic. Nick paton walsh is joining us from kiev with the very latest. Nick . Reporter wolf, as the protesters behind me grow in numbers, somber in the atmosphere, we heard a lot of massive prayers being said for the loss of nearly 100 people, according to act visits in the bloodshed. This morning, we are possibly seeing maybe the beginning of a solution. The polish president who is here with the french, german, and Dutch Foreign ministers have been in meetings with opposition leaders and the ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych. This may bring elections forward to this year and may perhaps
Course and an area with no significant land masses. So the focus is still on finding that aircraft. We have just learned that that search is expanding. Its pushing further east and further west. The u. S. Is also trying to help. They are sending in the uss kidd to the indian ocean. And also activity on the sea floor hours after the plane went missing nearly one week ago. We are turning to our reporters all around the world. We will start with jim clancy in kuala lumpur. Reporter let me give you a little bit of perspective on what were talking about about the deliberate track the plane took. Malaysian officials are in a press briefing right now. They told us that the pilot may have attempted a turnback. Transponder went off. They can turn that off if they think theres a short and its causing a problem. Maybe thats why they turned it off. They had a problem. Then the pilot turned. They think he was trying to turn back to come back right where i am. But he didnt make the turn sharp enough
Air. U. S. Investigators tell abc news they are considering the possibility, based on new clues, that what went on inside the cockpit of this plane may not have been an accident. All of this as a u. S. Ship races to a new location in the indian ocean. And Abcs David Kerley brings us the breaking details, right now. David . Reporter good evening, diane. Tonight, two sources tell abc news, that two Communication Systems on this 777 were shut down separately, suggesting there was not a catastrophic failure. American ships are on the move, tonight, looking for that 777 jetliner, even farther away from its original flight path. Then, the transponter reporting altitude and position, shut down about 40 minutes into the flight. A systematic shutdown. This, as we learned the plane flew up to four hours beyond its last sighting on radar. They know this because the jet was apparently pinging a satellite every hour. Its part of a monitor system airlines can pay for to keep track of their jets in t