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
Month to put yourself and ourselves in the shoes of the less fortunate. He wants those, catholic or not, to hear francis cry for the poor and for 40 days until the pope arrives in philadelphia consider this an invite, more or less a challenge to get involved and to help Fund Programs to focus poverty across south jersey. There will be open houses that benefit dinner, and a food relay drive by High School Students in the area and all efforts led and organized by the Diocese Catholic Charities Program and important to note that all of the proceeds will fight hunger to address some 200 homeless vets in new jerseys six counties that make up the diocese. Some of the worst poverty felt far beyond camden city and also in cumberland, atlantic and cape may counties and the bishop also did not forget to include mentioning the dire need of 8,000 families who suffered a tremendous hardship of losing their jobs in last summers casino crisis. So all around us in the diocese we are faced daily with t
Precipitation rate well over two inches an hour. We hope that continues to move. We will talk more about increased showers along with decreased temperatures with the sevenday. Thanks, glenn. Our First Alert Team coverage continues with nbc 10s tim furlong live in wilmington. Local groups are taking precautions to protect children from this heat. Reporter absolutely. You have to. We always try to be live in front of something interesting. This is pretty uninteresting, athletic fields with no kids on them. Thats because they worked hard early so they could cut out of here before the worst of the heat rolled in. Its too hot to do lots of things today. It is really hot for football. You got to work through it. Reporter the Concord High School players are working hard but only as hard as their trainer lets them. Im here to keep them healthy. Reporter the coach played for concord way back when. I graduated high school in 1981, when water was a sign of weakness. Reporter water isnt a sign of
Reporter trump also plans to force mexico for a paying for a wall on the u. S. Border. They will pay for the wall. They are sending drugs and they are taking money out. They are making a lot of money. Mexico is making a lot of money. Reporter the details angered some of his republican opponents. Others agree on the walls importance. So our leading contender, mr. Trump, is going backward on immigration and i think he is going to take all of us with him if we dont watch it. Finish the wall and make it clear anybody that comes over that wall, once we have done t youre going back. Reporter trump says if mexico refuses to pay for the wall, the u. S. Will raise fees on visass and Border Crossing cards. Donald trump will take a break from campaigning today and plans to report for jury due to in new york city. It will be interesting with that. Thank you so much. Some sad news to report this morning. Actor morning freemans granddaughter has been killed. A man has been arrested at the scene and
You know how strong and how hard that is . All brian brian and the crowd chanting his name. All Brian Brian Brian brian looks like hes gonna go for an early dismount. Come on, brian and hes through [cheers and applause] brian arnold hoping to be just the second finisher of the night, but now facing the invisible ladder, an obstacle hes never tried before. [both yelling indistinctly] and right now he is well ahead of ian dorys time. And i know he wants to make it all the way to the top. Hes not gonna be the guy that didnt make it. He wants to be right there with ian dory. And hes up. Gonna need that willpower. Hes closing his eyes. Ten feet. He doesnt want to feel the pain. He doesnt want to see the pain. 20 feet it will take moxie. Get the elevator punching up to 30 because hes making his way all the way to the top. And there he is. Wow. Yeah [howls] brian arnold is going back to vegas and he has the fastest time of the night the wolf pack howl. [howls] brian arnold, could this be his