The world series. Its monday, august 3rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, we start now with investigators in new mexico looking for clues after two bombs went off outside las cruces churches during sunday services. As federal investigators move in today, worshipers describe the moments of terror and confusion after the blast. Abcs Kayna Whitworth has the details. Reporter the fbi investigating two terrifying explosions at churches in new mexico. It sounded like something had fallen off and, like, shattered the glass in the back. Reporter 8 00 a. M. An explosion in a mailbox outside cavalry Baptist Church. Parishioners left with their ears ringing. 30 minutes later, 8 30 a. M. Just as worshipers were receiving communion, another explosion shattering the glass front doors at Holy Cross Church in las cruces. Can you contact the daso bomb squad . Reporter that bomb exploding in a trash can near the entrance. Police arrived, escorting
Collisions . Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the growing danger from californias raging wildfires. The worst of them, west of sacramento. The fastmoving rocky fire. Take a look right there. Nearly doubling in size overnight. More than 12,000 people evacuated. The fire, only 5 contained. California. Major fires burning in nine states tonight. Clayton sandell starting us off tonight. Clayton . Reporter good evening, tom. You can see the flames flaring up here. Firefighters actually set that fire. Theyre trying to burn through all of this dry, unburned fuel. The goal is to try and hold the line at this highway here, trying to stop a monster fire that has doubled in size in the last 24 hours. Firefighters are working day and night in close handtohand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed through nearly 50,000 acres. Destroying at least 24 homes. Threatening thou
Now, new yorks number one news. Channel 7 eye witness news. A party in brooklyn shattered as gunmen open fire on guests. First responders rushed nine people to the hospital. New at 11, one of those victims talks to eye witness news and describes the chaos during the shooting. First, breaking news in new jersey. A Police Officer struck by a car that also injures numerous others. Good evening im joe torres. Im sandra bookman. This happened after 8 00 in jersey city. Were being told an out of control car caused a Chain Reaction crash. One Police Officer was struck. Its unclear how many others were injured. This happened on ocean avenue near myrtle avenue in jersey city. Lucy yang is the scene with the latest. Reporter sandra and joe, thats where im standing on ocean avenue near myrtle avenue where you can see theres an active scene behind me. They are towing this truck as we speak. This after a wild accident left multiple injuries including, were told, a jersey city Police Officer. Accord
The airline said it was 30 feet away as he was landing last airport. Those are some of our stories on this monday it, august 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with those devastating wildfires in california. The largest fire doubled in aggressive effort. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter firefighters are working day and night in close hand to hand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed 50,000 acres, destroying at least 24 homes, threatening thousands more. The u. S. Military called up two more c130 firefighting planes from colorado sending them to california where theyll join large dc10 tank percent right there is a dc10. Hes coming in. Hes going to drop fire retardant. This plane can carry 12,000 gallons of retardant at once. There it goes. The terrain here is bone dry. And lightning isnt helping since thursday, 13 ,000 lightning stri
Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the growing danger from californias raging wildfires. The worst of them, west of sacramento. The fastmoving rocky fire. Take a look right there. Nearly doubling in size overnight. More than 12,000 people evacuated. Two dozen homes gone. The fire, only 5 contained. But the threat not just in california. Major fires burning in nine states tonight. Clayton sandell starting us off tonight. Clayton . Reporter good evening, tom. You can see the flames flaring up here. Firefighters actually set that fire. Theyre trying to burn through all of this dry, unburned fuel. The goal is to try and hold the line at this highway here, trying to stop a monster fire that has doubled in size in the last 24 hours. Firefighters are working day and night in close handtohand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed through nearly 50,000 acres. Destroying