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,
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Melissa Hillary Clinton, happy to be the peoples champ as long as you keep cutting those campaign checks. Announcing the 2016 bid with a lowkey video where she spoke 94 words. She actually didnt even appear on camera for the first minute 1 2. But the humble approach at odds with some lofty fundraising goals. According to New York Times, clinton supporters aim to raise 2. 5 billion. This time around. Here to discuss all of this, wow, charlie gasparino, dan henninger, wall street journal. Jon podhoretz from the new york post. Call you jpod. Like j. Lo. You got it. Melissa 2. 5 billion. I thought it took a billion dollars to run a president ial campaign. This number is so astounding, raises two questions, one is this part of the effort to continue to scare democrats out of the race . Melissa which is working. Or scare republicans or if it is serious. Or if it is serious, then you have a real conflict between her hessage wanting to be champion of the suffering middle classes and somebody r
Forecast. We are in the 40s this morning, which is cooler than the last want a jacket. Winds are light but will turn to the northwest around 5 to 10 mph for this morning and will take over the state. Any rain will be mainly to the tonight as a cold front tracks through. Some of us will have more clouds than in the mid 60s to low 70s. That front tracks through. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Front tracks through. Some of us will have more clouds than other. Mainly partly sunny to mostly cloudy today with highs in the mid 60s to low 70s. Still above normal, but cooler than yesterday. We get even cooler as decision 2016 sharing a stage for the final time. The third and final president ial debate of the election season is tonight. Gop nominee donald trump will nominee Hillary Clinton at the university of nevada, las vegas. Since the last debate 10days ago, several women have accused donald trump of sexual harrasment. Wikileaks has released what it says are incriminating emails fro