charged with domestic violence, the first test of the muscle s strict new rules for domestic abuse and midair mystery. the pilot of a small plane loses consciousness, and strays into restricted air space near the nation s capitol. scrambling fighter jets, how could this happen? good evening on this sunday night i am rebecca jarvis. we do begin with the severe weather battering holiday weekend plans more than 40 million americans looking to the skies tonight. the storms putting a damper on the start of college football season. the florida gators game not just delayed but postponed to a new day because of dangerous lightning. rain wash go away in louisiana, nearly eight inches in a day. the forecast for the nation in just a moment. first abc s linzie janis with the wet start to the weekend. reporter: tonight, millions of americans in the southeast are cleaning up, after devastating floods damaged homes and cars. in alabama, mississippi and louisiana, heavy rains triggeri
of denver have died. ntsb investigators say the single-engine plane went down a few hundred yard away from a local airport. the cause is still unclear. no victory lap for nascar champ tony stewart, his return to the track at atlanta motor speedway, three weeks after his car struck and killed a racer. halfway through the race, hitting a wall twice and blowing a tire. those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 1st. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. oh, labor day. almost, unofficial end of summer, right. i hate that term. not exactly right for summer to go away just yet. are you? no the i want a couple more weeks. kids are going back to school. it feels like that. start with pumpkin spiced lattes. the serious official end of summer. starts it all. halloween, christmas, it all falls into place. uh-huh. we ll be gin this half-hour with holiday weekend of wild weather for much of the u.s. there is more on the way. that s right.
could this happen? good evening on this sunday night i am rebecca jarvis. we do begin with the severe weather battering holiday weekend plans more than 40 million americans looking to the skies tonight. the storms putting a damper on the start of college football season. the florida gators game not just delayed but postponed to a new day because of dangerous lightning. rain washing away records in louisiana, nearly eight inches in a day. the forecast for the nation in just a moment. first abc s linzie janis with the wet start to the weekend. reporter: tonight, millions of americans in the southeast are cleaning up, after devastating floods damaged homes and cars. in alabama, mississippi and louisiana, heavy rains triggering flash flooding. neighbors wading through streets to help each other. this man in the process of fixing his lake charles, louisiana home from a flood earlier this summer must now start all over again. everything inside this man s garage now saturated.
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, happy labor day, i m brandi hitt. i m dan kloeffler. did you have a nice weekend? i did. did you enjoy yours at the beach, huh? i did. we had a lovely time with friend at the beach. now back to reality. you got a little sun there. you look good. you know, i cause chaos in the makeup department. why don t you put sun block on. because the sun is out. you know? easy to forget when you are having fun. completely forgetful. uh-huh. we begin this half-hour with the millions of americans, cleaning up this labor day after taking a beating from a weekend of severe storms. everywhere east of the mississippi, concerts. sporting events washed out. dozens of flights, delayed or canceled, and entire neighborhoods flooded. in the midwest, ominous clouds, high winds, torrential rains. this is dennison, iowa, one person struck by lightning. severe storms, hammering the nation s midsection right now as
we may have more pop-up thunderstorms today. we have breaking news we ll show you right now, a fire that has stubbornly continued to burn at a roxborough clearance in philadelphia. firefighters have been at the award custom clearance since 5:00 a.m. pouring water on the structure with the flames emerging from the business. this is at ridge avenue and schurrs lane, this is a family-owned dry cleaning service. looks like it could be a substantial loss for the owners for this. , as the fire continues to burn and firefighters try to bring it under control. they have not been able to do that just yet. this is a story we re following this morning. we ll head over to matt pellman an karen rogers, i believe matt has details on the detours the fire is causing, too. reporter: right, let s go to karen, though. reporter: that s right, as you head out on this labor day. it s warm and humid and missing. the storms from yesterday are well off the coastline. just couple of sprinkles