And after the wildfires. This comes as the number of dead continues to climb. It is 67 tonight, but will likely go higher. Firefighters are making progress in getting the fires under control, the one that ravaged lahaina is 85 contained. The kihei fire is at 80 and a third fire is at 50 . However, there is a new evacuation tonight for kaanapali because of a fire. We are continuing to get harrowing tales from people who survived and barely escaped. There were people jumping into the ocean, swimming to boats to try to escape the fire. There are people on the ground crying, unsure where to go or not able to breathe because of the smoke and we were minutes away from that potentially being us just that close. Search and rescue teams are on their way to help, including some from california. Abc News Reporter Melissa Arden has a look at what is hawaiis worst natural disaster. Everything is gone. This is this is terrible. Heartbreaking images show the aftermath from hawaiis largest and deadlie
60s. Lunchtime, clouds at the coast, and climbing into the low 80s. Warmest inland like antioch may hit 90 today but along the coast, it will stay in the 50s with clouds this afternoon. Then this evening, sun sets at 8 30, we have another cooler day in store for us, with the accuweather sevenday forecast and ill have that coming up. We have developing news out of contra costa this morning. A Police Officer is recovering after a car hit him in walnut creek at park side drive and hillside avenue. Police say the car was involved in a hit and run before hitting the patrol car. Police have arrested the driver. The officer was taken to the hospital, his condition is unknown it. That accident is under investigation. Now to the latest on the deadly terror attack in nice. Security camera video shows dozens of people running into a restaurant the moment a truck barrelled into the crowd outside. Isis is calling the truck driver a soldier. The French Interior minister says Mohamed Lahouaiej bouhle
The train station when this unfolded. He took out his phone and started recording the scene. At the point he started recording, a lot of the people had been taken out. There were others in there that they are desperate to get to and rescuers have brought in other equipment, mainly shearing equipment, the jaws of life. That is how they will cut open the train and get to the people still trapped inside. We are getting reports of upwards of 100 people injured with the severity ranging from bumps and bruises all the way to spinal injuries and possibly head injuries as well. Well cycle through some of the photographs on the left too that people have posted to social media showing you the terminal. You can see the ceiling has collapsed. There is steel, concrete, electrical wiring. There is water pipes that have ruptured. It is a mess this there. The fbi is on scene. They say it is too early to rule anything out in terms of a cause t could have been an accident, human error. They are just now
With an update for us. Reporter hi. Were getting ready for a briefing. Well have updates about the victims conditions that were injured in the crash yesterday and hes also going to discuss the way the city of chester is helping in the investigation and aftermath of the accident. Take a look. The at 8 00 a. M. And 300 passengers and 30 were taken to the hospital and that includes the locomotive engineer and two amtrak workers who were on the tracks were killed and the event data recorder and the black box from in and outside of the train have been recovered and theyll be examined in washington, but the big question remains why was the backhoe on the track that was in use in new york senator Chuck Schumer says it is normal to do track maintenance when train traffic is lighter and it is unclear if it was scheduled maintenance or cleanup after the heavy rains and storms and there is a 20step protocol to get Maintenance Work cleared for the tracks and theyll try to find out if all those saf
Drivers are being told to avoid the area at constitution avenue because of a fire in the basement of the i. R. S. The Fire Department said the type of the call and that it is a Federal Building prompted the overwhelming response. It can be dangerous. It worked out for the better. Leon constitution avenue is reopened. Investigation in cause of the fire is now underway. No word on the extent of the damage. Keep you posted. Major step in a fight over d. C. Minimum wage. A judge cleared a way to put 15 minimum wage plan on the ballot. Sam ford is live in northwest to explain the new sam i am outside the head of the board of elections. They will move ahead. The measure held up for months because the opponent had said that some of the members of the board stayed past the Expiration Date and that the terms were expired and their decisions were not valid. When the judge rejected that supporters of the 15 minimum wage were cheered. We found a cafe owner very upset. It might put me out of busine