Oh, my god. Mom, she got the scholarship. But first the nightline 5. Number 1 in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Its been one week since harvey tore through texas, unleashing historic devastation. Tonight as the flood waters recede new threats surface. With a town waiting desperately for clean water while the young victims in the shelter get a safe space. Heres abcs gio benitez. Reporter a week after Hurricane Harvey rode ashore in texas the Lone Star State is on the long hard road to recovery. Some cities seven days later still underwater while others picking up the remnants from the battering winds. So many displaced. And tonight at a volatile Chemical Plant fires continue to explode. This is still an active, ongoing incident, and our focus really is dealing with the remaining six containers and the safety of the citizens in the area. Reporter but in orange, texas signs of relief. Were with the Army National guard and one of the things were seeing is that a lot
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
Interrupted the mayor at a city council meeting. Today the mayor caused reporters in and showed us video of what happened on Christmas Day. The video shows what happened the moments before javon hall was kill and the mayor released transcript of the 911 calls that hall was beating his girlfriend. My sister is locked in the house. Her boyfriend is crazy. He got a knife. He turned on the gas. Im locked out. When police arrive, the scene was chaotic but the girlfriend coming out, sitting on the step. The boyfriend in the doorway with a knife. [gunshot ] no, no, no. Move, move. Sam an officer retrieved the knife and r another ran to get first aid. Mayor bowser met with reporters who viewed the video afterwards. Its our decision that this is in the interest of Public Safety to make any and all information we have available. The regulars today does it make you feel you made the right decision in insisting all Police Officers have those cameras . Absolutely. Sam afterward the officers are hea
In southeast. Look at the video here and you can see for yourself. Right around 10 00 last night, someone began to fire out on the street in the 2500 block of naylor road. Some of bullets went through the window there. You can see the shattered glass pierced the window and went into an apartment complex. Some of the bullets lodged in the walls. People were home at the time including a family with a person, a woman with a couple of kids. Fotu a very, very scary and dangerous situation and there was another shooting that happened about the same time around 10 00 last night as well. That happened in the 3400 block of 12th street in southeast washington. Someone opened up opened fire on that block and a number of cars were shot up in that incident. At this point, investigators are trying to figure out what, if any connection there is between simply dont know at this point and no information about the motive behind this and theyre looking for help from the public. Anyone who has information
A 72 degrees high today. We will be very quickly drop in te 30s it d looks like saturday overnight lows in the 20s. You see the highlevel clouds decorating be some nice just the sunrise just from the geauga 47 at akron canton by this after noon you will be able to shut t and you will need your shades for sure the sunne will be out n in generous amounts. 13 degrees warmer than it was yesterday at this. Pretty impressive stuff we have the southwind talking up the temperatures, it is very easy to have this recordbreaking eyes. You definitely need the gusty winds that time of year. Visibility everyone elses doing well in good shape compared to yesterday that is because winds are coming in with more of our guests of five of 15 Miles Per Hour High Pressure sliding to the east here is our weather system producing blizzard like conditionswe across the western part of minnesota into the dakotas. That will add to the northeast in the meantime, a northwest flow over the lakes the cold air lininge