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. Residents say they barely had 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. But now the biggest threat those rivers
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 disaster de 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 medicine to those stranded as 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 pow
We look back at the natural and historic measures. We take you to National Park Service Across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, we are live at the National Parks services most visited home at arlington memorial cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk to robert stanson. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service, live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. This week on the presidency, a conversation with author Geoffrey Ward of the documentary of roosevelts. He spoke with our correspondence lesley stall and her relationship with her son and her many grandchildren. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Todays program, grandmother, the roosevelts is apart of the bernard and irish distinguished series and i would like to thank there shorts for his support and near historical, lets give mr. Shorts a hand. [ applause ] the program this morning will last an hour in collicluding q
Theres more to the storych suspect is a military veteran who is suffering from ptsd. And as bill shields shows us he is trying to get help. Reporter 25yearold ian bacon investigators say he went into road rage and pointed a handgun at another driver. But his Attorney Says his time in afghanistan was difficult. And left him scarred. It was his responsibility and his mind to care for the guys and when they die that frustration not being able to help doesnt go away. I think that bothers him now. Reporter it was thursday here on route 9 in wellesley a traffic tieup and year driver wouldnt let him emergency he waibd a handgun and the other driver notified let him merge, he its waved a handgunand the other driver notified police and he was arrested. He cooperated with police. Pistol but two rifle as well. The rifles as well. The judge remand him to the va who. He acknowledged that this is a problem that he really needs help in dealing with. Which is why we are going to over to the va hospita
Harper lee, a. A sunny warm up just in time for the weekend, this is a look from the roofcam, was just outside a moment ago andt the wind catches your car door is kind of hard toi pull it backa she said he got to keep both hands on the wheel while driving. Thats okay, we know that it can be landing this time of year and february now we take a look at the forecast with jenn harcher. Glands, are pretty strong, we have to be grateful for those southerly winds that is driving couple of days. Winds are sustained between 20 30 gusting up to 30 at hopkins. Earlier gusting at times up to 51us there could be some pretty strong wind gustst. Perhaps some isolated Power Outages, expected a stronger winds with a wind advisory for the western counties from ottawa , sandusky, erie county, richlandf and offering to ashland county. They wind advisory until 9 00 p. M. Talk about our temperatures. Currently 47 degrees cleveland and 44 akroncanton andl 50s to the west, findlay with 57 degrees todaye and e