Im jonathan karl, lots of news to get to this morning, including the countdown to the first republican debate. Frontrunner donald trump will be center stage, is he ready . What is his strategy . Trump will be with us live momentarily. But first, we start off with breaking news, this mysterious piece of debris has just been found near a fragment of a boeing 777 wing was found just days ago. That piece is set to undergo analysis to see if it is from missing Malaysian Airline flight 370. Lets bring in steve ganyard, many are wondering, is this part of that plane . I think well have to wait and see, jon. This has to go back for forensics testing. Now that we have one piece that washed up every piece that washing up from the ocean is going to look like a boeing 777. We need to continue to go deliberately, slowly and make sure we look at these pieces by themselves and figure out if this is part of the airplane. Okay, so, if this turns out to be part of that plane, is it going to help us pinp
The world series. Its monday, august 3rd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, we start now with investigators in new mexico looking for clues after two bombs went off outside las cruces churches during sunday services. As federal investigators move in today, worshipers describe the moments of terror and confusion after the blast. Abcs Kayna Whitworth has the details. Reporter the fbi investigating two terrifying explosions at churches in new mexico. It sounded like something had fallen off and, like, shattered the glass in the back. Reporter 8 00 a. M. An explosion in a mailbox outside cavalry Baptist Church. Parishioners left with their ears ringing. 30 minutes later, 8 30 a. M. Just as worshipers were receiving communion, another explosion shattering the glass front doors at Holy Cross Church in las cruces. Can you contact the daso bomb squad . Reporter that bomb exploding in a trash can near the entrance. Police arrived, escorting
The airline said it was 30 feet away as he was landing last airport. Those are some of our stories on this monday it, august 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with those devastating wildfires in california. The largest fire doubled in aggressive effort. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter firefighters are working day and night in close hand to hand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed 50,000 acres, destroying at least 24 homes, threatening thousands more. The u. S. Military called up two more c130 firefighting planes from colorado sending them to california where theyll join large dc10 tank percent right there is a dc10. Hes coming in. Hes going to drop fire retardant. This plane can carry 12,000 gallons of retardant at once. There it goes. The terrain here is bone dry. And lightning isnt helping since thursday, 13 ,000 lightning stri
To get to this morning including the countdown to the first Republican Debate frontrunner donald trump will be center stage, is he ready . What is his strategy . Trump will be with us live momentarily but first, we start off with breaking news this piece of debris has been found near a fragment of a wing was found just days ago that piece is set to undergo analysis to see it from missing Malaysian Air flight 370. Lets bring in steve ganyard, many are wondering is this part of that plane . This these to go back for forensics testing. We need to continue to go deliberately slowly and make sure we look at these pieces by themselves and figure out if this is part of the airplane. If this turn turns out to be part of that plane will it help us pinpoint where that plane went down in. Not really because theyll go back and theyll do some forensics on the metal, it will tell us what happened at the end when this airplane hits the water, its not going to tell us where the pieces of that airplane
And good monday morning. Our top story this half hour, the extreme weather in the midwest. A number of tornadoes touched down in iowa last evening. This one is in crescent, west of des moines, iowa. Yeah, another one was spotted in eastern michigan. As abcs rob martian knows reports, storms put a tragic end to summer celebrations all around chicago. Reporter a chaotic scene at the perry fest about 25 miles northwest of chicago. It was just hail and rain and just unbelievable wind. Reporter one person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a tent blew away with people inside. Victims carried out on stretchers taken to nearby hospitals. High winds, rain and hail sending debris flying. All of a sudden, you could see the rip in the dome, and it just kind of blew down. Reporter witnesses say the tarp hand landed on several people and rescuers had to cut hoes to get them out. It was the final day. Police say those in attendance were in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Storm briefly shuth down