The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
In new york, they came and they went. It was kind of routine. I heard it only cost 15 to take a helicopter from the panam building to jfk. Wow. I cant even imagine that. You cant even get a taxi to go from 75th to 86th street for 15. [laughter] that was cool. They dont do it anymore. Lets take one more look at it, there it is. No more helicopters. Hey, its safer not only for the people in the helicopters, but on the ground. We dont do it. Beautiful, beautiful day. All right. So we are thrilled that victor espy victor espinoza, the jockey, lets go through it. Videotape. The horse won thanks to victor espinoza, i think. That horse and victor are unstoppable. They won at haskell. Let me tell you something, they brought out record crowds to monmouth, record crowds. And everybodys wondering, what is going to happen . Because this horse could retire right now, very happy and healthy horse. There he is, number two, but hes going to come on in, sir. But hes doing that on purpose. Here he comes
Who killed cecil the lion and the guide expresses remorse but calls the charges against him crazy. One year to rio, the open ceremony exactly 12 months away, natalie is on cope pa ka ban na beach. Today, wednesday, august 5th, 2015. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning, one year from today well be saying good morning d. , thats two years of the college portuguese. It will go by in a flash. Well tell you more about that later on. Well start with the top story, the field of ten now set for tomorrow nights highly anticipated republican debate. This morning it leaves one candidate not be on the big stage is slamming that process. Peter alexander is in cleveland. Good morning. Reporter hi, matt, good morning to you. Youve got the main event in prime time tomorrow night, the under card hour earlier. One candidate put on the earlier ticket is calling the entire proces
Against him crazy. And one year to rio. The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games 12 months away. Natalie has the preparations. We are throwing an olympicsized celebration on the plaza. Today, wednesday, august 5, 2015. [ cheers and applause ] good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. One year from today well be saying [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] thats how you pronounce it . Two years of college portuguese. It will go by in a flash. On this wednesday morning lets start with the top story. The field of ten set for tomorrow nights highly anticipated republican debate. This morning at least one candidate who will not be on the big stage is slamming the process. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is in cleveland. Good morning. Reporter hey, matt. Good morning to you. The republican contenders are converging on cleveland. We have the main event in primetime tomorrow. The undercard hours earlier. One candidate is already calling the process preposterous. John
Committee for what he called an incredibly flawed Selection Process adding they should not be picking winners and lose rs. Also, Rick Perry Donald trumps candidacy is a cancer on conservativism. And lindsey graham. Stop being a jackass. Reporter tomorrow night jeb bush will be asked about Womens Health programs after he reiterated the plan to defund planned parenthood. Im not sure we need half a billion dollars for Womens Health issues. I can assure you 500 million wont go to planned parenthood. Reporter Hillary Clinton pounced. He has no problem giving away billions to super corporations and the wealthy but Womens Health isnt a priority for him. Reporter bush said he misspoke adding he favors providing womens Critical Health Care Services but said federal money should not be spent on planned parenthood. Also bush released his Financial Disclosure forms and while hes not a billionaire like donald trump his net worth is estimated between 19 million and 22 million. Savannah . Peter, than