good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a sunday night. we do begin with the extreme weather. from deadly lightning to flash floods, nearly sweeping cars off hears, and all of this as millions prepare for yet another heat wave. first, the pictures from washington state, this image. the racing waters on a highway, stunning drivers there and bringing traffic to a near crawl. in arizona tonight, street vanishing under the rushing water there, and the mud rushing down the street. drivers suddenly finding themselves in the middle of it. tonight, as it always seems, the rain is not where this country needs it most. a new warning about the drought and more than half the country right now. and the newest heat wave moving in and quickly. already, highs in the 90s where americans were just dealing with this. that system on the move and our extreme weather team is tracking it all, beginning with abc s clayton sandell. reporter: dangerous storms in texas today made a deadl
that stage. why those steps had never been taken before. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a sunday night. we do begin with the extreme weather. from deadly lightning to flash floods, nearly sweeping cars off hears, and all of this as millions prepare for yet another heat wave. first, the pictures from washington state, this image. the racing waters on a highway, stunning drivers there and bringing traffic to a near crawl. in arizona tonight, street vanishing under the rushing water there, and the mud rushing down the street. drivers suddenly finding themselves in the middle of it. tonight, as it always seems, the rain is not where this country needs it most. a new warning about the drought and more than half the country right now. and the newest heat wave moving in and quickly. already, highs in the 90s where americans were just dealing with this. that system on the move and our extreme weather team is tracking it all, beginning with abc s clayton sandel
tonight to explain how this story john took an unexpected twist. police and firefighters never know what they are going to encounter when they go on call. more often they are finding indoor pot farms. lake the one they discovered covering this wind driven brush fire today. this is what firefighters stumbled upon. 28 fully grown marijuana plants that police packed into evidence sack. street value, estimated 75,000 dollars. next door neighbor is michael williams a local pastor. to me when you said weed i don t think about stuff growing next door in the house. reporter: what brought firefighters here in the first place was the raining °fire which spread up the hill behind the 2 homes on charter oak avenue. that s right next to the 101280 interchange. flames got as far as a back fence. firefighters kick in the front door next to the williams residence to get the hoses through. that s when they found the marijuana grows in two back bedrooms. it had an extensive lighting and
lights go out twice at candlestick park and on monday night football. blackout at the stick. good evening. tonight power outage delayed the game twice just before the game started and then again in the second quarter. now after the first outage pg&e tweeted that only one customer was affected. not including the 70,000 fans the stadium. the customer was candlestick. and a little while ago pg&e said there is no indication that the equipment was involved in the second outage but it sure is strange. and embarrassing on national television. lillian is live at the park with the latest on all of this. lillia lillian. reporter: most of the fans we talk to are irritated by the whole thing especially since it happened during such a hay profile game. the first outage happened at 5:30 just before kick off. aerial view show what is appears to be a transformer exploding. p gechl ge hasn t confirmed that s what caused the power to go out. second outage at 6:45 during the second quarter. bo
and good evening on this sunday night. the skies darkened, the winds howled, and this was the scene in tornado alley, as the funnel clouds descended. the violent stormed this weekend, more than 20 twisters reported now across four states. the small town of reading, kansas, taking a direct hit. the local newspaper there saying not a single inch was spared. 200 buildings were destroyed. millions of americans now on alert. tornado watches are posted from texas to michigan. and clayton sandell leads us off. reporter: spring has been a season for the record books. go that way! go that way! reporter: one twister tore apart the small town of reading, kansas. one man was killed. other than that, all the medical issues we ve dealt with to this point have been stress-related from the aftermath. reporter: the stress and shock of seeing more than a dozen homes destroyed and hundreds of others damaged. reporters giving a tour of the destruction today came across the battered but