Historic summit at camp david with the leaders of japan and south korea. On the agenda, confronting threats from china and north korea. Donald trump deciding to skip next weeks first gop president ial debate, and new reporting tonight, when will he surrender on new charges in georgia . Nbc news reports aboard an f16 fighter jet, the u. S. Today approving the shipment of f16s to ukraine, but how long will it take to train ukraines pilots to fly them . And after losing her restaurant in the fires, the top chef still cooking with compassion for maui. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening, and welcome. Normally this time of year, people in the south and the east are keeping an eye open for potential hurricane threats. Tonight, however, in a historic weather twist, americans on the west coast are on alert with an eye on Hurricane Hilary as it races northward off the Baja Peninsula Parts of california are under the first Tropical Storm watch ever issued for that st
with severe eye injuries get their sight back. lester holt joins us from new york right now. tonight, tracking the extreme weather. historic hurricane hilary threatening the west coast, and rare tornadoes striking new england. the heart-stopping video, a tornado crossing the highway in rhode island. the images showing extensive damage it comes as hurricane hilary, now a monster category 4 storm, barrels towards mexico and the west coast the national hurricane center warning of life-threatening floods and issuing the first ever tropical storm watch on record for southern california we have the new track. also tonight, the wildfire devastation in maui. maui s top emergency official abruptly resigning a day after he defended the decision not to sound emergency sirens as the fire spread. our team in maui president biden s
water. flash flooding shutting down i-44 in oklahoma city tonight. and a tornado crossing the road near convent, louisiana. tonight, new watches are in effect as more storms now take aim, and abc s marcus moore is in the storm zone tonight, he s in houston. reporter: tonight, powerful storms turning deadly in the south. dramatic high water rescues in baton rouge. watch as firefighters race to save a woman, as floodwaters carry away her car, after nearly three inches of rain fell in one hour. desperately trying to break the glass. moments later, pulling open the door and guiding her to safety. tragically, another driver rescued from his car did not survive. the storm s powerful winds, gusts up to 65 miles per hour, flipping cars at this baton rouge hospital. multiple tornadoes reported in the state. a dash cam recording as this one forms, churning up debris, crossing the road near convent, louisiana. and five people hurt nearby at this exxon mobil facility in sorrento.
is really an important point, you re pointing out that once this storm passes, once this tornado passes, there is another cell going to hit or at least has the possibility to hit so people, once this passes, should not believe that they are free and in the clear because there is another storm system coming. i want to show the picture that a player from the university of washington huskie football team tweeted out, just showing some of the hundreds of players and coaches and the like who have sought shelter now for this women s softball world series, which again, two games were to take place in oklahoma city tonight and of course, it s not just the players themselves. it is the thousands of family members and fans who have come to oklahoma city to witness that as well. storm chaser sean casey joins me now. he s just west of oklahoma city, saw the tornado crossing. it was too fast, he was following it as it was going to oklahoma. what are you seeing now? what have you been seeing? yeah
sergeant, can you get a sense of how, do you have any sense of whether folks were able to get out, folks obviously still in the midst of rebuilding and recovering. were folks able to get out of moore. are there shelter provisions for people that didn t have a place to go. we do not have public shelters. they have been warned all day there was potential of this as but as we cross i-35, it was literally a parking lot. so the area they are reporting a tornado crossing, i don t know where the people are going that are stuck in the cars. you are telling me people are stuck on the road right now as the tornado spins through. we are basically in rush hour right now and yes, i-35 was totally stopped, as far as we could see, when we left. . are you in your car right now sergeant? yes. we are in our car trying to get away from it right now. you are driving around in the darkness i guess. it is still a little bit light here. it is basically directly northwest of where we are at