Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
May be threatened and 50 to 100 of those already may have been destroyed. Peter. Gadi schwartz, thank you. Te whns of thousands of travelers faced long delays or cancellations by major problems at an air Traffic Control system in virginia. It started on the east coast and spread well beyond. Kristen dahlgren is at Laguardia Airport tonight. Kristen, good evening. Good evening to you, peter. The faa says the system is back in service. Things slowly getting back to normal. I just checked the board inside laguardia. Only three departure delays. Still a dozen on arrival. Tonight up and down the east coast there are many passengers still stranded. At d. C. Reagan nationalhihis afternoon, the only thing going up was frustration. It shouldnt be like this. Planes werent going anywhere. According to the faa, the glitch was in a tracking Computer System based in leesburg, virginia. Supposed to help route High Altitude traffic near the nations capital. So this is what the airspace looked like for
Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
The humidity levels remain manageable, pretty low. But were on day two of what looks like a sixday heat wave. It is amazing outside. Great morning for walking a dog, going for a run or going out on the bicycle. 61 degrees in ft. Belvoir and 63 in gaithersburg with mainly clear skies. Heres your morning planner. Showing you skycast 4. Plenty of sunshine around throughout the Morning Hours and here your temperatures. 8 00 a. M. , 74, but well warm up quickly. Very similar to yesterday. 10 00 a. M. , in the low 80s and today, great day for a pool. Maybe an isolated lateday thunderstorm. And guys, the humidity does creep into the area. Ill let you know when its arrives in ten minutes, adam. Thanks, amelia. We learned that a teenager died in a crash near a Prince Georges County school. Maryland National Capitol park police say a 17yearold was riding a utv with two other minors outside the Stephen Decatur middle school. They were on an athleticism field when that crashed. The 17yearold died.
The morning im james fletcher. It is running us on this thursday may 8th. But his third over to the weather center. Erica keep your umbrella handy. It looks like were looking forward to some spring showers and thats pretty shortlived. Take a look at your 7 day around the bay forecast. The type who will see warmer conditions dry rather as we head into the weekend. By next week the house to the shoes of the season upper 90s expected inland would be surprised if a suit few troubled double digits. Upper 80s inside the bay and upper 70s for the coast. More details on that arm and train coming up in a moment. Right now taking a look at traffic around the bay area if you live in the house heading to one of the bridges youre good to go right now we dont have any major problems to reports. As we take you live outside to the bay bridge toll plaza looking good for that westbound trip 72 bridge Holding Steady with the drive time of 12 to 13 minutes last but not least if youre heading to the richne