To the top of the box office. Early today starts right now. Good monday morning to you, everybody. Wildfires, they continue to scorch the west coast, triple digit temperatures and drought on fueling those flames. Nearly every firefighter in the country was on call overnight because of more than 100 large uncontained fires in several states. Thb nbcs Gadi Schwartz has the latest. Reporter a small resort town surrounded by fire and residents here are traumatized by the destination. Reporter the battle to protect the homes in washington is fierce. The National Guard called in to make water drops after thousands were forced to evacuate. But, so far, only 50 to 100 homes and buildings are believed to have been destroyed. Hard to see this. Reporter all that is left of this house is a chimney and its foundation and families like this one trying to find what is most important to them. Trim from my moms wedding band. Reporter the fire has also burned a local economy to its core where building a
Folks here . Reporter i can tell you directly, kris, marcus, good morning to you both. We spoke to someone 10 or 15 minutes ago. It was a dual citizen, dual russianamerican citizen who just came out here to get his passport renewed. He was here with his grandparents and now he told me, he is completely blind sided by this. He has no idea where it leaves him in terms of his travel or any other sorts of services. Thats how a lot of people are feel nothing doubt. Let me set the stage and tell you whats going on behind me. You see the van here, that has consulate plates on it. Not sure if its taking anyone away today. People have been coming in and out of the consulate building. Folks coming down the stairs. Earlier, a couple minutes ago, women with suitcases walking right out of there. They didnt offer any sort of comment. This has just been a remarkable turn of events. It staked out of these cameras here right now, you have to go back to 1986 to see this diplomatic back and forth in the
Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane
Shut down in Castro Valley. A story we ve been bringing you since 4 30 this morning on today in the bay. Bob what is the latest information you are getting there at the scene . Whats the latest youve got . Reporter good morning, to you scott and kris, as you can see behind me, headlights are heading in the westbound direction. The number three and number four lanes of westbound 580 are reopened here at eaten canyon, but if you look towards the right, number one and number two lanes, theyre shut down while caltrans continues to clean up the mess caused by this Early Morning crash. It is going to take time, an hour or two, that big rig needs to be offloaded and hauled away. Weve heard from commuters whove been stuck in this backup for four to five hours this morning trying to get from the outer rim of the east bay into places like oakland and San Francisco. This accident happened around 4 20 this morning. The chp tells us that the driver of a black sedan clipped a big rig on westbound 58
His speech to the General Assembly tomorrow. After slamming the u. N. For years when do you see the United Nations solving problems . They dont. They cause problems. How will he be received by World Leaders . All that, plus another Fraternity Pledge killed in a possible case of hazing. What needs to change. A special live event this morning. A ferris wheel worker survives a terrifying fall. And must see tv. All the highlights from the emmys. The big winners, the hottest fashions and a spicy surprise. Today, monday, september 18th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on this monday morning. Its 7 00 on the west coast. We thank you for joining us. Its one of those morningings where al is in the center of all the headlines. Theres a lot for him to be watching at this hour. Hes all over our top story. Three powerful storms churning in the atlantic. Including hurricane jose