A scary moment during a Major League Game as a pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. Lets see if hes okay. He walks off the field. How hes doing today, tuesday, august 18, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. There are certain moment s in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is those moments after letting it go. Brian mitchell is a rookie and that one instant after the followthrough the pitcher is exposed. Thats what can happen. Well tell you more. Well begin with active Duty Service Members being brought in for the First Time Since 2006 to contain raging wildfires out west. Lets start with Miguel Almaguer in Washington State with the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. This fire alone here has charred at least 56,000 acres, some 32 homes destroyed. The number could rise when the smoke here
The computer forecasts are clear cut for a while. Going straight to the north, not moving in our direction and then making a bit of a right turn. This helps protect the United States. And then an eastward motion farther offshore into colder water so it should continue to weaken. Then, we have more uncertainties. Well get into that part later. But in the meantime, a Tropical Storm watch in effect for the delaware beaches and the jersey shore as the storm tracks a couple of hundred miles offshore and weakens into a Tropical Storm over the next couple of days. More on the detailed impact hour by hour coming up. And at the jersey shore, people are preparing for jose. Not long after the beaches took a beating from Hurricane Irma. Jersey shore reporter Ted Greenberg is live in longport. Another potential problem that could be created for the shore, coastal flooding. Reporter it is, jim and jackie. And the wind is picking up. We have these waves are getting bigger day by day. For some people,
Tracking jose. A hurricane is riding up the coast, leading to a flooding threat for our area. Were tracking the path and impacts. Bracing for disaster. A different hurricane is barreling through the caribbean and setting its sights on puerto rico. The rush to get ready as Hurricane Maria gets ready to deal a devastating blow. Off the job. A new effort to end a teachers strike thats leaving thousands of local kids out of school. We have a lot to get to. Just past 4 30. Good morning, this is nbc10 news today, im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Weve issued a first alert for the jersey shore and delaware beaches as hurricane jose churns off the coast. While the storm is still far off the coast, its impacts are being felt here. Its leading to dangerous conditions in the water and posing a flooding risk. We have Team Coverage tracking the storm and its impacts. Nbc10s katy zachry is live along the jersey shore with more on the dangers. We begin with first alert meteorologist bill henley wit
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Spencer blake is there with details on what happened and how people in the area are reacting to it this ongoing problem. Even if you were allowed to walk down this trail you would never make it to the stairs down to the beach. This gaping hole left just a shell ofbase. I thoughtitwas going to cave in off of the front because it would undercut him and fall into the water just like the cliffs. Reporter hand support rails dangle over the blackness. People that live in the area say it did not just happen. 12 inches at that time. Came down this morning and i saw this. Onlookers watching the sinkhole grow in the past few days. Now, coming back, the hole is bigger. Now, coming back much bigger. Yes. The whole thing will fall off. Yes. Now, coming back 50 feet of land eroded away since the 2007. The crews built this walk way and stair case. We were hopeful it would work for awhile and i guess it did not work as well as we hoped. This is the same place where apartments in tkrblg danger of falli