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president met with diplomats at the u.s. embassy. and fiat chrysler hit with a record fine up to $105 million to settle legal problems stemming from nearly two dozen recalls. those involve some 11 million vehicles including some of the company s most popular models. those are some of your top stories on this monday, july 27th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. good morning, everyone. we begin this half hour with a battle against wildfires. 24 major fires burning in five states this morning. four of them near sacramento, california. hundreds of families have been forced from their homes. hundreds of others are ready to go. abc s clayton sandell on this already tough fire season. reporter: an air war. planes and helicopters knocking back flames in hard-to-reach terrain, 45 miles northeast of sacramento burning so hot, you can see it from space. we re hitting it with everything we have. reporter: firefighters ....
donald trump still leading the republican pack. those polls were taken after his controversial comment that john mccain was not a war hero. and the polls are becoming increasingly important because only the top ten candidates will be allowed to participate in the first republican debate. that is set for next week in cleveland. new world record. we ve been talking about this on the show. we need a world record of some kind. we wouldn t have been able to do this one. the largest balloon sculpture ever created. let s show it to you. it s a huge inflatable dogging ing whatting? that s lying on its side. i don t make it out just yet. there we go. i see it. it reminds me of a poodle. measures about 65 feet by 32 feet. the artist who created it an is a guy named jerry tellford. took him around 80 hours, over four days to create this thing. we have got to find a world record to do. yeah. this one looks like pink zwr ujubes. okay. that could be a record. how quick ....
stemming from nearly two dozen recalls. those involve some 11 million vehicles including some of the company s most popular models. those are some of your top stories on this monday july 27th. from abc news this is world news now with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. good morning. we begin this half hour with a battle against wildfires. 24 major fires burning in five states this morning. four of them near sacramento california. hundreds of families have been forced from their homes. hundreds of others are ready to go. abc s clayton sandell on then already tough fire season. reporter: an air war. planes and helicopters knocking back flames in hard to reach terrain 45 miles northeast of sacramento. burning so hot, you can see it from space. we re hitting it with everything we have. reporter: firefighters are working to protect about 2,000 structures, hundreds of people told to evacuate their homes. we decide to get home start packing and loading up the camper. ....
that s just human nature and it s disgusting. reporter: now police are looking for your help as we said they are asking anyone who recognizes the man in the picture to call crime stoppers. and the number is 1-800-577- tips. once again the number 18577 tips. and by the way, fortunately, the police precinct was only feet away from where this occurred. i m stacey sager, channel 7 eyewitness news. police in new jersey have opened an investigation after two women were killed in a crash on route 3. the driver lost control of al toyota on the exit ramp on to valley road in clifton. this happening around 3:30 this morning. the vehicle ran off the road and smashed into a pole and flipped over. two 21-year-old women were ejected and died. the driver and in the car suffered injuries. the new york man accused of a killing a jeweler to the stars remains held on bail. charles jordan appeared before a judge late last night and jordan a driver for mta is charged with second degre ....
you re making plans. august 1st. i know, i don t like it. it s moving too fast. slow down, mother nature, slow down, relax. well, really, if you think about it, summer is like two months. here, yeah, exactly. what s up with that? it s too short we re robbed. i know, it s brutal. i m not ready for it yet. i m rob nelson. i m michelle charlesworth. a nice day ahead and i think less humidity than a few days ago. exactly. keeping with yesterday. if you like the hot stuff, amy, this has been your week, huh? that s right. i like the hot stuff we all like the hot weather, the three of us. amen. temperatures have been in the upper 80s, low 90s. we had 89 yesterday, we re going to go for 90 again. a beautiful blue moon, by the way, last night. a lot of pictures sent in to social media. thanks for all of those. love to see what you saw last night. from brooklyn into lower manhattan, we have a beautiful look day in front of looking day in fr ....