Worlds fastest man yet again. Coming from behind to beat Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. The amazing photo thats going viral this morning of bolt in front of everybody else smiling at the camera. We begin this morning, though, with the massive flooding in southern louisiana, especially around baton rouge. Theres a federal disaster declaration for four parishes with at least five people dead. The body of a woman whose car was swept away was recovered late last night. The numbers are simply staggering. More than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes, and 10,000 spending this morning in shelters. Also rescued the approximately 1,000 drivers and passengers stranded for 24 hours or more on interstate 12. The National Guard used their helicopters throughout the day to deliver food, water, and medicine to those stranded as well as to remove people from their positions and bring th
Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. That breaking news is out of lake county. A wildfire has destroyed homes and businesses and forced people out of their homes. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The clayton fire started near lower lake and expanded this afternoon. The fire burned 3,000 acres. Right now it is only 5 contained. Cal fire has confirmed 10 structures has been destroyed, though it appears many more are now gone. Right now more than 500 homes are threatened and have been evacuated. Abc news president arer lilian News Reporter lilian kim has more. Reporter we are on main street here at lower lake and structures or what is left of them are still burning. This is what we are seeing in the neighborhoods as well, pure devastation. Firefighters are calling it the clayton fire because it started near Clayton Creek road. The crews seemed to have a handle on it until it blew up this afternoon taking over the town. In a matter of 20 or 30 minutes you look around you and th
That image is going viral on monday, august 15th. Hes just chilling out front. From abc news, this is world news now. That photographer nailed it. Hes in focus and everyone else is blurry. He has that perfect smile. And the photographer had 9. 8 seconds to get that sort of shot. I want to show you. This is what jamaica looked like overnight. [ cheers ] they had big screen tvs out in kingstontown, and man, they were pretty the announcers compared him to bob marley. Reggae fans would say its impossible to be that big, but you look there and realize, wow, all of jamaica is one with him. And belize must have been so excited at their medal. Belize are one remaining tuesday. Were all going to be cheering for him. There wont be celebrations like that in the capitol. Lets move on to the story thats topping news here in the u. S. We begin this morning with new protests in milwaukee as the black man who was killed by police, that case is touching off some righting there, and that man is being re
The skinny on this monday, august 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Im diane macedo. Im kendis gibson. Were going to start with the crisis that is taking place right now in louisiana. Historic flooding. At least five people reported dead. 20,000 rescued from their homes. The governor says 10,000 people are now spending the night in shelters and many drivers are stranded on roads and highways. 1,000 were evacuated fr senate from an interstate, interstate 12. Many having spent more than 24 hours without food or water. Drone video shows the extent of that flooding. Some rivers are crossing overnight. That will mean more flooding. The federal government declared a major disaster for the area. Officials are praising the acts and courage by ordinary citizens. Abcs phillip mena is in the flood zone. Give me a knife. Reporter thousands caught in the flood zone still trying to reporter the convertible sinking by the second. A woman and her dog trapped inside. Nothing is
The heat of the afternoon. Not so much around denver. Now for the Eastern Plains, its been a little more rough with some of those strong thunderstorms moving through. Those are leafing the state but in ken leaving the state. But in denver, high cloudiness. Thank you. Eight horses have been killed in an Early Morning fire in brighton. A barn caught fire just after 2 the fire happened on private property but this is the area where it burned. The call first came in as a weed fire but when firefighters arrived, they found the burning barn. New at 5 00, a thief caught in the act. Surveillance video shows a man stealing from a garage in the middle of the afternoon while the homeowner and his fiance were home. There has drastically spiked. Reporter when we first got this tip, i went to the crime map. This is the baker neighborhood in blue. So i did a search, burglaries only from the beginning of this year to present and there were 60 plus burglaries alone. The problem here is that last year,