Winding down and tiger woods is in contention but he is not in the lead. The latest from harding park coming up. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00 and streaming entrce eight, tonight beirut is grappling with devastation from tuesdays huge explosion. Right now, the bay area is coming together to support the victims. Good evening. We are on the embarcadero in San Francisco with the vigil that is just getting underway right now. Reporter the vigil will get underway shortly. They will hold a moment of silence for 48 seconds reversing the numbers in arabic with that horrific blast happened on august 4, two days gich for help. Reporter like so many others, her friend and beirut couldnt believe what she was seeing the reliance. She was taking a video of it and from the blast impact she fell with a glass of everything. Reporter her friend made it to the hospital and survived the blast. With the death toll topping 130 and thousands injured and hundreds missing and hundreds of thousands witho
That rocked the region was a powerful Hydrogen Bomb. The u. S. Is warning of economic penalties and a possible military response. And an American Space ninja is back on earth. She spent 665 days in space. More than any american and more than any woman in the world. At 57, shes also the worlds oldest female astronaut. Those are some of our top stories on this labor day, monday, september 4th. From abc news, this is world news now. A good morning to you all. We begin this half hour with the recovery effort in texas new evacuation orders are under way. The fires triggered by harvey at a Chemical Plant near houston are finally out. Completely extinguished after several controlled burns to avoid additional explosions. And soggy belongings turned to trash are lining the streets of houston and other towns looking to dry out and get back on their feet. This is happening as more people are being ordered to leave their homes. Victor oquendo has more. Reporter a lifethreatening emergency in west
It is now home to the Titan Missile museum. The mission of the titan 2 was peace through deterrence. Our job was to project the credible threat. Day, demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and withiate quickly and enough force that we could demonstrate to the soviet union, even if devastate the soviet union. Even if they launched first. We are about 85 miles south of Downtown Tucson. We are in the Launch Control center of the missile site. Essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. From here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile. It is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. One, theder to launch crew needs a number of things. First of all, they have to receive a launch order that would tell them to execute their missile and what time they are going to do that. In order for them to do
Valero joined the program and William Youmans follows at 8 30. Washington journal begins with your phone calls at 7 00 a. M. For the next 55 minutes, an American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits tucson, arizona. For five years, weve traveled across the u. S. To explore literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. The mission was peace through the torrents. Our job was to project a credible threat, to be here every day, demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise for strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force that we would devastate the even if they were to launch their missiles first. Were going to take you to a museum about 25 miles south of Downtown Tucson. We are in the Launch Control center of the missile site. Here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. It is also from her
Now, new yorks number one news. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. The tristate tonight preparing for two storms straight ahead. The first, a soaker of a system with potential for flooding. And then, joaquin. Now a category 3 hurricane in the atlantic and where it ends up, well, thats the big unknown tonight. Mr. Goldberg working overtime in the weather center. Good evening; everybody, im bill ritter. And im sade bederinwa. Coastal communities building up sand dunes. The mta preparing for the worst. Just in case that hurricane heads here. Of course, thats just one of many possibilities. Lee goldberg tracking all the scenarios for us, hes at the weather wall. Lots of challenges to start october. First of all, its about cooler temperatures and a gusty wind coming in tonight as the weather pattern begins to change. Were down to 63. A north wind gusting at 17. Responding to the idea well have an on shore wind. Through the weekend with moderate coastal flooding a possibility. Also a high wind watch