A woman in Critical Condition after an alligator bite. Tonight new details about that desperate moment and who helped pull her to safety. The 11second victory lap. Katie ledecky shatters a world record. Tonight the final swim from Michael Phelps and simone manuel. The gold rush is on for team usa. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecelia vega and we begin with two major and deadly threats tonight. Dangerous heat for millions in the east and in the deep south historic flooding. Louisiana in a state of emergency at this hour. This is the scene near baton rouge. More than two feet of rain falling in 24 hours. Entire neighborhoods now under water. The National Guard called in. More than 1,200 rescues. Residents say they barely had time to escape. 136 degrees, more than 50 million americans under a heat alert tonight. But now the biggest threat those rivers are still rising and rising fast. Abcs phillip mena starts us off from hardhit baton rouge. Reporter floo
Says she came to her house to find the whole thing a mess thanks to squatters. But they say theyre the victims in this case, and they have documents to prove they belong in that house. Reporter this house trashed by total strangers. Floors scratched. The kitchen filthy. Garbage everywhere and no one is in jail. It was awful. It looked like i was in a homeless shelter with mattresses everywhere. Reporter alleged squatters moving into this oklahoma house, all while she and her fiance are on vacation. Crystal rushing home when neighbors alerted her. They broke into my home. They crawled underneath the garage door. They vandalized the home, and nothing is being done. It should be breaking and entering. Reporter police responded, but the alleged squatters providing a lease, claiming they were victims of a craigslist scam. Well research the house before we move in. Reporter authorities investigating but making no arrests. Once the police are called and brought to the property, they dont have
Coming from behind to beat Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. The amazing photo thats going viral this morning of bolt in front of everybody else smiling at the camera. We begin this morning, though, with the massive flooding in southern louisiana, especially around baton rouge. Theres a federal declaration with five people dead. The numbers are simply staggering. More than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes, and 10,000 spending this morning in shelters. Also rescued the approximately 1,000 drivers and passengers stranded for 24 hours or more on interstate 12. The National Guard used their helicopters throughout the day to deliver food, water, and well as to remove people from their positions and bring them back to a place of safety. The governor says he wont say the flooding is worse than a hurricane but says its very bad. Thousands of people are without power, and thousan
Walk away from this completely uninjured. A woman in Critical Condition after an alligator bite. Tonight new details about that desperate moment and who helped pull her to safety. The 11second victory lap. Katie ledecky shatters a world record. Tonight the final swim from Michael Phelps and simone manuel. The gold rush is on for team usa. Good eve for joining us on this saturday. Im cecelia vega and we begin with two major and deadly threats tonight. Dangerous heat for millions in the east and in the deep south historic flooding. Louisiana in a state of emergency at this hour. This is the scene near baton rouge. More than two feet of rain falling in 24 hours. Entire neighborhoods now under water. The National Guard called in. More than 1,200 rescues. Residents say they barely had the sidewalks here in new york, 136 degrees, more than 50 million americans under a heat alert tonight. But now the biggest threat those rivers are still rising and rising fast. Abcs phillip mena starts us off
A crash landing. The plane demolished. How a family of four managed to walk away from this completely uninjured. A woman in Critical Condition after an alligator bite. Tonight new details about that desperate moment and who helped pull her to safety. The 11second victory lap. Katie ledecky shatters a world record. Tonight the final swim from Michael Phelps and simone manuel. The gold rush is on for team usa. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecelia vega and we begin with two major and deadly threats tonight. Dangerous heat for millions in the east and in the deep south historic flooding. Louisiana in a state of emergency at this hour. This is the scene near baton rouge. More than two feet of rain falling in 24 hours. Entire neighborhoods now under water. The National Guard called in. More than 1,200 rescues. Time to escape. That heat, take a look at this, the sidewalks here in new york, 136 degrees, more than 50 million americans under a heat alert tonight