Good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. We begin with that breaking news from las vegas. A massive fire at one of the strips most popular high rise hotels. Flames erupting at the Cosmopolitan Hotel today. Thousands of people inside at the time. Take a look at this. The raging fire that guests saw from their windows. Several hotel floors evacuated. Firefighters rushing to contain the blaze, but not before it struck fear across the citys crowded tourist center. Abcs alex perez starts us off with these latebreaking details. Reporter a towering inferno on the las vegas strip. Parts of the Cosmopolitan Hotel up in flames. One of the trendiest Luxury Hotels in the country. Lets evacuate all floors above pool. Reporter smoke billowing across the desert sky as firefighters battled the blaze. We have a rapid spread across synthetic cabana covers. All palm trees in the area are on fire. Reporter one person was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. The cause of t
President met with diplomats at the u. S. Embassy. And Fiat Chrysler hit with a record fine up to 105 million to settle legal problems stemming from nearly two dozen recalls. Those involve some 11 million vehicles including some of the companys most popular models. Those are some of your top stories on this monday, july 27th. Announcer from abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Good morning, everyone. We begin this half hour with a battle against wildfires. 24 major fires burning in five states this morning. Four of them near sacramento, california. Hundreds of families have been forced from their homes. Hundreds of others are ready to go. Abcs Clayton Sandell on this already tough fire season. Reporter an air war. Planes and helicopters knocking back flames in hardtoreach terrain, 45 miles northeast of sacramento burning so hot, you can see it from space. Were hitting it with everything we have. Reporter firefighters are working to protect about 2,000 stru
Donald trump still leading the republican pack. Those polls were taken after his controversial comment that john mccain was not a war hero. And the polls are becoming increasingly important because only the top ten candidates will be allowed to participate in the first republican debate. That is set for next week in cleveland. New world record. Weve been talking about this on the show. We need a world record of some kind. We wouldnt have been able to do this one. The largest balloon sculpture ever created. Lets show it to you. Its a huge inflatable dogging ing whatting . Thats lying on its side. I dont make it out just yet. There we go. I see it. It reminds me of a poodle. Measures about 65 feet by 32 feet. The artist who created it an is a guy named jerry tellford. Took him around 80 hours, over four days to create this thing. We have got to find a world record to do. Yeah. This one looks like pink zwr ujubes. Okay. That could be a record. How quickly can you pop the dog . Its still i
Stemming from nearly two dozen recalls. Those involve some 11 million vehicles including some of the companys most popular models. Those are some of your top stories on this monday july 27th. From abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Good morning. We begin this half hour with a battle against wildfires. 24 major fires burning in five states this morning. Four of them near sacramento california. Hundreds of families have been forced from their homes. Hundreds of others are ready to go. Abcs Clayton Sandell on then already tough fire season. Reporter an air war. Planes and helicopters knocking back flames in hard to reach terrain 45 miles northeast of sacramento. Burning so hot, you can see it from space. Were hitting it with everything we have. Reporter firefighters are working to protect about 2,000 structures, hundreds of people told to evacuate their homes. We decide to get home start packing and loading up the camper. This is always going to be our get
Raising for jenna, especially across Cheshire County and they are moving toward northern rhode island as well. We had some thunderstorm activity these are much weaker than the last round that came through an hours time ago. That they are producing a fair amount of lightning as well as they continue slipping off the east. These are heavy rain producers as well. Wee building to the west as they try to move eastward to the 495 belts. They are not having a lot of success because it was so cool there. We had rainfall estimations about an inch the past hour. That is why we have a flood advisory until 630. We have 70s to the north and east. And our direction over the last 24 hours. Heat advisories once again tomorrow, excessive heat warnings down over connecticut. We will talk about how high the thermometer will read tomorrow as well as another round of storms in just a few minutes. Diane . Diane breaking news in north carolina, reports of shots fired at a busy mall. Police in raleigh say the