Crazy bolt of lightning followed by a crazy thunder jolt that sounded like a bomb. One person is dead and more than a dozen are injured after a rare Lightning Storm in southern california. Nine people were hospitalized and one is in Critical Condition tonight. Good evening. Im ama dates. 13 people including a 15yearold boy were treated at venice beach and a 57yearold man was hit by lightning on nearby catalina island. A 20yearold man was killed. Th all happened during a powerful thunderstorm. This is video from the scene right after a bolt of lightning hit the beach which was under a Clear Blue Sky minutes earlier. Abc News Reporter with the latest. A beautiful summer afternoon turned into tragedy at the world famous venice beach in los angeles. A rare summer storm moved in quickly striking the beach with lightning. It sounded like a sonic boom. It literally shook the building. We started to hear storm activity and i said, you know, this is not a good place to be. We should go inside.
More evacuations have been ordered in the sierra foothills because of a fastmoving brush fire. 500 homes have been evacuated as the sand fire burns. Flames have destroyed ten homes since friday. Dry brush helped the fire move quickly and spread from the ground into the tops of trees. The fire has burned 3800acres and is 35 contained. A fire burning on the west emof Yosemite National park forced officials to call for more evoke situations. 100 homes near highway 140 have been evacuated. Cabins and campgrounds as well. The park is open but several roads are closed. The fire has burned 2100 akers. Fire destroyed one home. Firefighters dont know how the fire started. A popular east bay salon has been destroyed by fire the stylist hair salon just off east 14th street in san lee san leandro. We have a look at the damage. Reporter the fire shut down two popular businesses here, the stylist hair salon and a nail spa. Flames broke out this morning at 9 15. Firefighters came quickly and were abl
The wait is over, the stars of fifty shades of grey in their first Live Television debut together. This morning, thursday, july 24th, 2014. 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 7 oompl a. M. On a thursday. Extremely busy. Lets jump to our top story, the disappearance of yet another special airliner, this time it is a flight in western africa, nbcs tom costello covers the investigation for us, what can you tell us . Reporter this is the nigerian airline, 116 crew members on board. An official said within the past hour the plane has crashed, but we den foe where or how they know that. It left about 1 17 a. M. Local time. It disappeared 15 minutes into the flight from radar. The transport minister says the plane asked to change routes because of a bad stand storm in the airline. The Airlines Says half the passengers were french. It was an older Mcdonald Douglas plane built in th
Are waking up this morning to the aftermath of some Severe Weather. This includes nearly 87,000 without power. Check out this small yet powerful tornado in tennessee. Looking into the distance, you can see a house being ripped apart. Sparks from power lines as well as the tornado touches down. Its just one dramatic example of a storm system that left 100 Million People at risk. Nbcs john yang has more. Reporter large hail, intense lightning, high winds and dangerous thunderstorms pushed through several states including illinois and kentucky triggering a dozen tornado warnings and watches. A tornado touched down in central connecticut with estimated winds of 85 miles an hour. Trees and power lines were down. And several homes damaged in walcot. Heavy rains caused flash flooding in worcester, massachusetts. Drivers pushed through roadways. This round of weather produced a severe string of storms that made its way from canada to the great lakes and now stretches to the southeast. John yan
The other victim was a man struck on catalina island. He is in stable condition. Frances dinglasan shows us what caused the Lightning Strike with a look at live doppler 7hd. Were seeing a lot of warm moist air from the south, and ring the afternoon hours, this has triggered some thunderstorm activity to the areas from los angeles, down through avalon, Santa Catalina islands. Between 1 00 and 3 00 is when the Lightning Strikes happened and injured the folks, and you can see right here the Severe Weather moving through the area. Also during the 1 00 hour, i want to show you the numerous Lightning Strikes that hit the coastal waters off monterey. Right now, all were seeing is high clouds move into the bay area. But theres still a chance of a thunderstorm, and even an isolated live shower. Ill let you know when and where we get a chance of this Severe Weather in our area. The breaking news reporting continues on twitter. More evacuations have been ordered in the sierra foothills because of