Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
May be threatened and 50 to 100 of those already may have been destroyed. Peter. Gadi schwartz, thank you. Te whns of thousands of travelers faced long delays or cancellations by major problems at an air Traffic Control system in virginia. It started on the east coast and spread well beyond. Kristen dahlgren is at Laguardia Airport tonight. Kristen, good evening. Good evening to you, peter. The faa says the system is back in service. Things slowly getting back to normal. I just checked the board inside laguardia. Only three departure delays. Still a dozen on arrival. Tonight up and down the east coast there are many passengers still stranded. At d. C. Reagan nationalhihis afternoon, the only thing going up was frustration. It shouldnt be like this. Planes werent going anywhere. According to the faa, the glitch was in a tracking Computer System based in leesburg, virginia. Supposed to help route High Altitude traffic near the nations capital. So this is what the airspace looked like for
Nightly news. Reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. Good evening. Its already been an epic summer of fierce wildfires and punishing heat. The temperatures again soaring into the triple digits out west. At least 17 fires are burning across droughtstricken california, well ahead of last years pace. And dangerous months there is still to come. The situation in california is so dire that the u. S. Forest service pulled firefighters from all 50 states and puerto rico to help. A move veteran fire Officials Say they have never seen before. We begin with Gadi Schwartz on the front lines. It means even more wildfires. It means two separate fires near los angeles overnight. One threatening 500 homes. The other torching cabins and scatters wildlife. Its brutal. When you get the temperature and the wildlife involved. It makes for very challenging physically. More triple digit temperatures as 13,000 firefighters now battle 17 wildfires. These crews are working in extreme heat. Its 103
Is a huge victory for donald trump. Trump we are going to win so much, you are going to be so happy. John good evening from South Carolina where we have set up shop in the candidates have ready fanned out across the state in anticipation of the South Carolina primary. Lets start with the billionaire king of the Granite State outbox. After his 19. 2 New Hampshire victory, donald trump arrives for one of his patented mega rallies here in South Carolina. He poses serious challenges for anyone who wants to stop them. The republicans have a debate here in South Carolina and then the primary is one week later. Trump has a big lead here. Two days after the nevada caucus they go to houston for another debate. On march 1 11 states will cast their votes. By then Trumps Campaign may have too much momentum for anyone to derail it. Account,l this into and there is a little bit of a sideshow about the establishment candidates fighting the others, is it possible that no one can stop trump. John it is
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