Breaking overnight, at least three officers shot in a standoff in texas. The suspect barricaded inside holding multiple family members hostage. What we know about the standoff right now. Plus, in the dark, the dangerous heat wave in california leading to rolling blackouts and massive wildfires. Back on the court. The first round of the nba playoffs starts today. What to expect in the bubble. And the new shortage that could be a big problem for pizza lovers. Good monday morning. Im mona kosar abdi. And im will reeve in for kenneth moton. Good to be with you, mona, but we begin with yet another grim milestone in the battle against the coronavirus, more than 170,000 american lives now lost to covid19 and there are 5. 4 million confirmed cases nationwide. College campuses across the country are having a tough time coping with new outbreaks as students ignore social distancing rules and attend jam packed parties and more grade schools are being forced to switch to Remote Learning with a gro
Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Nearly a dozen shark sightings off cape cod forced the closure of several beaches on monday. Swimmers were held out of the water for an hour or more until the allclear was sounded. Sharks come to cape cod to feed on the seals. Sightings this year are slightly off from previous years, but that may be because the pandemic is keeping the shark spotters away. Turning now to that deadly explosion in baltimore that leveled three homes and killed ateast one person. Firefighters scrambled through the wreckage. Heres abcs rachel scott. Reporter the search for survivors after a catastrophic gas explosion shook his Baltimore Neighborhood leaving one woman dead. The call coming in just before 10 00 a. M. It appears as if i have at least three dwellings that have completely exploded. I was sitting in my house, all i could hear is boom when i got into the alley, three houses, they were collapsed into each other. Reporter firefighters digging through the rubble. I have three children trapped in the d
Hurricanes are nothing new for destin, max who is originally from texas. Already stopped up so much for the pandemic. And because of the pandemic family should also have enough medical essential is to last for 14 days were already stocked up on sanitizers. We have a lot of that some people feel the Global Pandemic has prepared them for Hurricane Season as theyve had to stock up on food water and toiletries but now theyre going out to buy bungee cord sandbags and even boards to protect their an arm or keep up was in place and then die. What happens in pain for the covid on then just the windows were we just got some by the things out by a way to tie down with the storm ahead in covid19 cases rising people remain optimistic. We care for each other. We help each other. Much anything with the pandemic. That was joe on the martinez reporting for us tonight now lets turn things over to meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez has been tracking the hurricane for us and has the very latest recent yeah,
Not the season would ever happened during this pandemic baseball is officially back thank you for joining us at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis well today game one of 64 the oakland as taking on the anaheim angels and kron 4 sports director jason dumas he is live. In oakland at the coliseum with what baseball looks like in this age of coronavirus jason. Well catherine it looks very different to say the least were outside the stadium now but were inside. It was just me. A photographer daniel and about 30 other media members in you know, then the players and staff of the as and the angels so a much different scene but as weird as this covid shorting season is theres a lot of excitement surrounding this oakland as team. This is a team with a lot of talent coming off backtoback 97 win seasons back to back playoff appearances and theyre loaded with talent, a pin down the roster matt chapman map all san Marcus Semien this does stem they have th