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The car was hot and opened the handle and he was still on fire, his head and pandre pants and shoes. the driver suffered severe burns but the first responders say he is expected to survive. >> a teenage boy, looked in a old safe with time and air running out and a run in between a military chopper and a small plane. those are the top stories as we go across america. florida, officials are looking into what happened after a small training plane ran into a black hawk helicopter. no one was on boar...

The car was hot and opened the handle and he was still on fire, his head and pandre pants and shoes. the driver suffered severe burns but the first responders say he is expected to survive. >> a teenage boy, looked in a old safe with time and air running out and a run in between a military chopper and a small plane. those are the top stories as we go across america. florida, officials are looking into what happened after a small training plane ran into a black hawk helicopter. no one was on boar...

Quest to cool off in dangerously hot fire weather. and 200 actively join the firefight in the northwest. they will free up more experienced crews to go into hazardous fire conditions, and the soldiers will focus on mopping up, watching for and putting out spot fires. cnn, los angeles. >> lets stay with the fires a little longer. pedram javaheri is with us. people want to know, whens it going to rain? >> its going to get cooler in the next few days. third day gets cooler. some improvement there. ...

Has shown roughly background traces of the chemicals you would expect in this product as it burns. so weve been lucky in that regard. it rained much of the day and helped to knock that plume down and probably didnt go as far. fortune has it it burned all the product up and as we are now, its just a matter of mopping up. >> maryville city manager, incredibly difficult circumstances for your town today. good luck, sir, thanks for being with us. really big evacuation there. scary chemical spill jus...

Fumes and we know a number of people are sick and gone to the hospital. are you satisfied that everybody in the surrounding area is out of danger in terms of inhalation of the fumes? >> yeah, we think at this point its pretty much just wrapping up. weve done air monitoring, epa and other haves been with us from the beginning doing air monitoring and what we found that host of the fumes have gone upward. all of the monitoring around it has shown roughly background traces of the chemicals you woul...

Evaluating how deep how far that may have spread but the vast majority of the product will burn. >> in terms of what did burn obviously this worry about those fumes and we know a number of people are sick and gone to the hospital. are you satisfied that everybody in the surrounding area is out of danger in terms of inhalation of the fumes? >> yeah we think at this point its pretty much just wrapping up. weve done air monitoring epa and other haves been with us from the beginning doing air monito...

Slabs of asphalt are in peoples yards. gio benitez, abc news, pensacola. >> incredible stuff. the street at the beginning we saw collapsing in baltimore. the residents had to be evacuated. they are being told it could be six weeks before they can go home. >> heres whats really sad. a lot of people in the new york and new jersey area that are flooded out now had just recently finished rebuilding after superstorm sandy. a lot of these people are dealing with round two of devastation. >> yeah. all ...

performing her former co-star kevin costner who we havent heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? >> report...

than 1,000 palestinians in israeli prisons. the exchange is expected to happen within the next few days. the worst floods in decades are wreaking havoc on the livelihood of thailands people and economy. theyre bracing for the next round which could reach them in days. flooding has killed at least 269 people and affected 8 million across the country. in southwestern mexico, soldiers have been deployed, tourists have been told to leave, and emergency shelters are open as a hurricane ...

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