Breaking news from maui. The head of its Emergency Services resigned just days after defending his agencys response to the wildfires. What were learning. Plus, the wildfire crisis unfolding in canada. An entire city evacuated as the flames creep even closer. The suspect in the university of idaho killings in court. Why brian burgers attorney asked for the indictment to be thrown out just hours before todays appearance. Plus, the teacher fired at a Board Meeting last night over the book she read to her fifth grade class. A new health alert. Why doctors are sounding the alarm about the plastic band on your smartwatch. And one couple explains their bizarre bedroom habit switching, which side they sleep on every night. Its friday, august 18th. From abc news in new york. This is america. This morning. Good morning, everyone. Im andrew dymburt. Good friday morning. A Morgan Norwood in for rhiannon and we begin with the rare phenomenon a hurricane churning in the pacific near mexico. And its
Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
And right now 61 Million People on alert for extreme heat from new mexico to florida. Summer of the strike. Thousands of city workers in los angeles now join hollywood actors and writers on the picket lines. The disturbing brawl on the water front in montgomery, alabama. So many sharing the video. The shocking moment of attack when a dock worker was doing his job. How did it get so out of control . Four active warrants now out and what the montgomery mayor is now saying. Also this morning, could the georgia mother of three accused of plotting her husbands murder be out on bail . Sandra bullocks heart break. Her long time partner passed after a private battle with als. A woman critically injured after getting bitten by a shark in new york city. A fedex driver reunited with the man he pulled from a burning car on the highway. I dont think i would be here without his help. His parents saying to the driver thanks to you we have our son. New warning about the popular scam targeting zelle us
spy on private citizens. house lawmakers say the feds asked banks to using terms like maga and trump. if you think that is bad, wait until you hear the rest. we have financial surveillance, big government working with big banks and corporations to surveill, spy on americans, surveillance of the american people. todd: democrats are launching a full-court press to keep trump out of the white house and attack his supporters. i am scared as heck. yeah. which is why i m traveling our country. we don t run away from something when we re scared, we fight back toward it. it is a vengeance tour this time around. we talk about trump, we need to talk about his voters. it is not economic anxiety, it is racial anxiety. todd: you are watching fox and friends first s, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. we ll unpack all of it throughout the hour. todd: u.s. forces striking dozen houthi sites overnight after a second carrier ship was hit in the red sea. carley: tr