Well have that coming up a little later on this hour. But as American Television has lost its collective mind over this happy announcement today, the networks jockeying for position trying to attract to their network the largest proportion they can of all the people who are interested in this happy story, as the networks fall all over themselves to outdo each other on this story, quietly back home, the news has broken out quietly about who is winning the overall fight among all the networks to attract viewers. And among all the networks, all the big ones, among nbc, which is our parent company, and abc, and cbs, and fox, you know whos number one right now . None of them. Look at the number one most watched network in the whole country right now. Tada. Univision. The month of july, the spanishlanguage Network Univision has had more viewers under the age of 50 than cbs, nbc, than fox, than everybody. They put out an open letter to all the other networks taunting them with the news today.
Us. Hes at the area of the coco fire in san marcos fire. Its doubled in size in the past 24 hours. Whats the very latest . Reporter well, wolf, the winds have kicked up within the last few hours here which is grave concern for firefighters. They have been attacking this fire all day long. There are 11 fires, there were 11 fires total in Southern California, all in San Diego County. Now its down to five and three are of concern. This one here, were in escondido, the san marcos fire and two fires burning in Camp Pendleton. All three of those are still out of control. This was only 10 here. They had a great day early on attacking from the air. But now the last two hours the within has picked up, this fire has increased in size. Weve seen air drops throughout the day. They are trying to gate headway. Mother nature should help out in the back end of this into tonight and tomorrow. This is a crucial time here with the winds picking up. Ted stand by. I want to get right back to. But we have t
More bombs whistling through the sky as american jets try to save a city under siege. And now the United Nations warns of a civilian massacre if isis gains control. Also in world, north korea and south korea playing tag with heavy machine guns. And kim jongun still nowhere to be found. Dear leaders disappearing act has the world asking, whos in charge . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were going to begin with the world lead and a warning that the ebola crisis is at an absolute tipping point. That warning comes from the former uk foreign secretary whos on the ground in the ebola hot zone in west africa seeing with his own eyes the dying and the dead who have not been properly buried. Fears growing in europe as well with seven more people hospitalized in spain where nurses aid, Teresa Romero, the first person to contract the disease outside of africa, is being hospitalized. Ebolas now killed more than 4,000 people, more than 8,000 confirmed cases remain. Cn
There. No, christi. It is important to stress that baghdad doesnt appear to be under threat at the moment. Keeping in mind saz sprawling city of 9 million. And the majority certainly would not welcome isis. Where they are making progress is of course in Anbar Province, iraqs largest province. Provincial officials tell me more than 80 is under isis control and they continue to expand. We understand now the town of hadifa is now completely surrounded by isis. Some good news, apparently what we hear from also provincial sources, a police official, that this afternoon there was a strike on a large isis convoy by Coalition Aircraft describing many military vehicles including two apcs being struck in that hit. But by and large the worries are the Iraqi Military simply isnt capable of keeping isis back. We heard this provincial official appealing to government in baghdad to get the americans to deploy Ground Troops but the Iraqi Government has rejected that and certainly it is a political hot
Of this. We know theres a lot of Law Enforcement surrounding what is building 26. This came out on twitter and facebook initially. Warning to people via social media. Something new when this came out. And that was hide, run, or fight. Those were the instructions given to people. This is obviously a campus more heavily armed than most, it being a navy facility. Not open to civilians in san diego. But perhaps, the Largest Military complex in any american city. Its in the, really, the Northeast Corner of the san diego metropolitan area. These aerial pictures are coming in knsd, our local station in san diego, is covering this story. That theyve been on the air live. It happened just after 8 30 local time this morning on the west coast and really, these pictures which were all seeing for the first time, are all we have to go on. Law enforcement hasnt said anything about where this stands. There are ra there are various reports that this building on building 26 is mostly gymnasium space, fi