With scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. The floodwaters in louisiana have started to recede, but the death toll is rising and the danger is far from over. The flooding is blamed for at least six deaths. More than 20,000 people have been rescued so far, and more than 2,000 homes have been damaged. This was one of the more swallowed this car. The driver screamed im drowning, and david fong jumped in. My dog shes gone. No, she better not be. We have more on this disaster now from Omar Villafranca in baton rouge. Reporter from the air its hard to find dry land in southeastern louisiana. Tangipahoa parish just east of baton rouge is covered in several feet of brown water. Sergeant paul meeker of the Louisiana National guard took us on a searchandrescue mission in the flood zone. A lot of People Choose to stay until the power goes off. Reporter the National Guard pulled more than 7,600 people from the floodwaters. At least four rivers stretching across southern louisiana reach
Pelley this is our western edition. It hit hard, it hit fast, it hit with an intensity we hadnt seen before. Those are the words of fire chief mark hartwig describing the wildfire in San Bernardino county, california, that has forced a mass evacuation. The runaway fire exploded overnight, torching more than 30,000 acres and an untold number of homes. Nearly 83,000 people have been evacuated, 34,000 homes are in the path of the fire. Tonight, carter evans is on the fireline, 60 miles east of los angeles. Reporter massive flames tearing through miles of dry brush, unstoppable. This is the nightmare wildfire chief mike wakoski has always feared. In my 40 years of fighting fire, ive never seen fire behavior so extreme. Reporter unprecedented, they fire directly into desert communities, consuming local landmarks and homes. That building totally gone. Reporter after home after home. It looks like it just incinerated everything here. Correct. It was very nondiscriminate in what it chose to ta
Crooked hillary clinton. Im running against the crooked media. With his poll numbers plummeting and in mustwin battleground states, will this new strategy work . And going out with a gold. Michael phelps last performance in the pool making it count. Phelps has grabbed the lead. Snagging his 23rd gold medal. With fellow teammates in a medley relay. The greatest swimmer ever. Now in an amazing olympic farewell. And good sunday morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Dan, once again, off. Its great to have ryan smith next to me. Hey, you came back for more. You let me come back twice. Thank you. What a night in rio. Michael phelps taking in his winning moment. Swimming his last laps in an olympic event. Going out with a gold. Phelps and his family unable to contain their tears as the most decorated olympian. Says goodbye. Makes you think. Will he feel the itch . He says, no. Hes out. Hes done. Thats what hes saying for now. Well see. First, lets get to the breaking news out of milwaukee
Make its way down the california coast and start to push moisture and more cloud cover our way starting thursday afternoon. Also, high temps will continue to drop first to 105 on thursday, 102 on friday and saturday and 101 on sunday. By monday the system will start to push inland off the Southern California coast and will improve our chances for rain to start next workweek. Right now a man is dead killed in an Early Morning house fire investigators and neighbors tell us they believe he was squatting chopper 13 fast and first to the scene this morning you can see the damage left behind. 13 action News Reporter Marissa Kynaston tells us why Officials Say this was a squatter home. Take vo this cell phone video we got from a viewer shows just how high the flames got earlier this morning when the home near sahara and lamb caught fire. Take vo fire crews say when they got to the scene the utilities were all turned off. Locked telling them nobody was at least legally living inside the home.
Working on the phone problem. It hopes to get it fixed very soon. Right now in baton rouge. A state of emergency in effect in louisiana. Historic rains triggering massive floods. Taking out entire communities and forcing tens of thousands of people to ask for rescue. And the waters are still rising after 6 people are dead. The Louisiana National guard is on the ground but more than 200 roads are closed or impassable. Sot gov. John bel edwards d louisiana we have road louisiana. The water is dangerous in terms of the coverage on the roads. President obama declared louisiana a major disaster. 12 thousand people are in shelters. Many of them grabbed whatever they could, others escaped with just the clothes on their backs. ad lib and toss to wx will continue that trend into today high temperatures look to range between 107 and 112 common along with uv indices being very high starting up around noon and continuing into 4pm. Winds will kick up to 1020 mph with occasional gusts between 25 and