The white house after two weeks vacationing on marthas vineyard. He travels later today to nevada where he will deliver a speech on green energy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 24. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you. Weather. Still extremely dangerous wildfire situation in Washington State. Across that state, 16 large wildfires are still burning. They cover more than 2920 square miles, more than a third of that area has been consumed by a massive complex of fires. Abcs Kendis Gibson is there. Reporter tonight, the wildfires in washington growing to a staggering 374 square miles. Authorities fearing the return of extremely dry conditions and no rain in sight could make fighting these fires more difficult. The atmosphere instability has the potential to affect all fires in the comrix. Reporter thousands of residents under evacuation orders. Mark desdier rushing to save his lake house at the height of the fires, caught in a firestorm. Inst
Companies. Kron 4s kate cagle reports. the problem with running a start up is that you never have enough cash. Reporter Steven Hoffman or captain hoff knows a lot about running a start up. His incubator founders space helps start up companies all around the world. And todays giant market swing. Has him a bit spooked. i lived through the dot com bubble burst and the financial collapse of 2008 and if it happens again. It wont be fun. I wont be excited about it. But hoffman says todays young start up workers have a short memory. An opportunitynot a worry. im an optimist. I think the stock market will always go back up. And when it does, i wont have regret. theres a lot of starts ups who get funded when we have good tiems, who shouldnt hoffman warns it may be time for some companies to trim the fat. And look at their long term if strategyespecially if funding from venture capitalists gets tightjust like it did in 2008. the best start ups ccome out of the downturn. Air bnb. Twitter. They ca
And surprise wedding. 14 months after nearly dying in a tragic crash, tracy morgan marries his longtime fiancee, walking down the aisle without a cane. We have photos from the emotional ceremony today, august 24, 2015. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Youre thinking, wow, it looks different. We are doing work in studio 1a down stairs, taking advantage of the twoweek timeshare in kathie lee and hodas studio. We had a weeklong series on Plastic Surgery so the studio decided to have work done. A facelift. To our top story. The men who overpowered an attacker on a plane honrd with a b big award. Reporter from stormy paris, what a weekend for three americans on vacation in europe, never imagining they would be invited to the president ial palace in paris. They are going home with frances highest honor. Arriving at the president s palace in paris, spencer stone, Alex Ska
Neighborhood watches. Has 50 news area block captains trained in the last three weeks. That is something we should have right away. Is afer kevin taylor brandnew captain, motivated after becoming a victim of crime. If it happens to you, you realize how him and it is to be part of the neighborhood watch. Jennifer his house and garage were broken into. Its a wayr for the neighborhood to get involved. Jennifer she is a block later. There are 1500 trained block captains of the city, with an estimated population of more than 658,000 residents. If the goal is one captain for every 50 residents, to help the police come you would really need 13,000 block captains. Being involved in looking at for each other. Jennifer some neighborhoods are more involved than others. 800 block captains are in northwest in the second district. The remaining 700 block captains are spread out across the city, a city where crime is striking across the board. Jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. Supreme court chief Justice
I saw spencer and alek get up. I couldnt get them go alone. If it wasnt for them i would have been dead. Reporter alek and spencer are headed to germany next with their families. Anthony is headed back to the United States with the medal and his family as well. In case you didnt notice, no suits on those young men. The weekend was so hectic they had to go in vacation khakis and polos. They are wearing their bravery. Thank you very much. Awfully proud of them. All eyes on wall street amid a global selloff. The dow inching closer to correction territory coming off its worst week since 2011 including the 530point fall on friday. Well get jim cramers take in a moment. First, whatle exactly is a Market Correction . It occurs when values decline 10 or more, stopping an upward trend. Many analysts believe a correction fixes an over priced or inflated market bringing prices down to their actual value. For some it is an opportunity to get into market that may have been been out of reach. Their