Acres. Already forcing evacuations overnight. Plumes of smoke seen 40 miles away. A lightning bolt strikes a resort, igniting a fire. As the record heat has millions on alert right now. And Chain Reaction. And the big one happens behind them a massive nascar crash in daytona just hours ago. One car flying into the fence at almost 200 miles an hour. A massive cloud of debris injuring fans. The dramatic scenes. How did this driver walk away . And good morning, america. How about that win for the u. S. Women . Boy, what a game. Here are some scenes. A look behind the scenes. All the celebrations with the trophy. The third u. S. Womens world cup win. Three goals for carli lloyd. She was just spectacular. I was watching while making dinner. My little girl said, mommy, they just scored again. I said honey, thats an instant replay. Theres no way they just scored again. Then sure enough. Then 20, 30, 40. Everyone was on twitter. Millions and millions of tweets about the game. From celebrities
Team usa clipped japan in last nights world cup final. Reaction coming up. Those are some of our top stories on monday, july 6th. Captions paid for by abc, inc. From abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with a financial crisis in greece. Voters overwhelmingly refusing the strict terms of the international bailout. Greeks celebrated in the streets following the 6139 vote. Siding with their new Prime Minister hoping to negotiate a better deal with creditors on the country. Greece is in danger of having to stop using the euro. And maybe forced to introduce its own currency. In the end, a lot of this is political. You have a european elite able to say we know what were doing, trust us. Instead, its starting to look more and more like they have no idea what theyre doing. The European Union called a summit for tomorrow and greeces finance minister announced his resignation. The decision is having an impact on world Financial Markets and o
With t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Good morning, everyone. Good to see you. What a game. I decided to give the kids a bath was like the first 15 minutes of the game okay, i was livid when i came and it was four goals by the 16th minute, there were four goals. You missed it for bathtime . Let the kids stay funky for just a few minutes and catch the game. I wish the women had told us this was going to happen. 16 minutes in i thought, wait, did i miss the timing of the game . Was this last 16 minutes left . It was real. Let me tell you, carli lloyd, you know her dees are only going to skyrocket. Her agent was popping champaign three minutes in. She could sell me depends this morning and i would buy them. Anything she sells, i dont need i would buy. She is a rock star. Something a little inappropriate of all products. Were going to start with team usa. They are once again world champs of the world cup. The victory lafferty night against japan was quite the memorable one. The americans came
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
Well, good morning to you. Im reena ninan. And im phillip mena. Lets start with that Severe Weather rolling across the middle of the nation. At least two tornadoes were reported in the chicago area late yesterday. The areas they were spotted in are very rural. No initial reports of any damage from the tornadoes. Take a look at this. The scene at Wrigley Field in chicago. A strong thunderstorm bringing the tigers cubs game to a haul. The delay lasted more than two hours before the game could start again. Several suburban chicago areas were hit hard by the storms. Its believed a Lightning Strike ignited at least one house fire. At one point nearly 15,000 customers were without power. The radar, you can see the system swirling in the midwest. Lots of rain coming from those storms plus triple digit temperatures. Accuweathers Justin Povick tracking it all. Good morning, justin. Reporter phillip and reena thanks, good morning. Another steamy start, another steamy afternoon on the way for the