Tonight, try pure zzzs all night. Unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. And longer. Zzzquil pure zzzs all night. Aeep. More than 200,000 acres are on fire in california. Record heat, statewiildfires wde forcing the governor to declare a state of emergency. Experts say air quality in some areas may be worse today as winds carry smoke across fema is stepping in to help crews in a number of counties. Many of the 30plus fires are less than 50 contained. A bear decided to take a break from the recordbreaking california heat in a familys pool. They stayed inside the arcadia home while the animal took a dip. Scientists in Washington State say theyve captured one of those feared socalled murder hornets. Theyre the real de, a male asian giant hornet. They say this catch could be a positive development in the fight against these monster insects. Heres abcs Kayna Whitworth with more. Hornet invasion in Washington State. This was a little bit of a surprise
Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
China trade talks are off. President trump says hes postponing any talks as leaders, xi jinping reportedly facing opposition from within his own party. Its another big day for retail earnings this morning. We are waiting on lowes, target and tjx opening before opening bell this morning. We are talking with apartment ceo after reporting double beat yesterday. He will talk about the pandemics impact on Consumer Habits and concerns over stimulus checks drying up. Markets this morning looking for another recordbreaking day, take a look at future, indicating a gain, dow futures up 51 points, nasdaq futures up 18 and s p and nasdaq continuing in record territory as you see there they are up this morning after hitting alltime highs yesterday. S p 500 scoring fastest rebound from a bear market in history. Yesterday the dow was down 66, but the nasdaq was 81 and the s p up 7 points. New york city is about to get sweeter, krispy kreme opens Flagship Store in times square, ceo live here at 7 20 a
Is much larger. You can see it over my shoulder. The hen see fire is moving. It didnt have air support today. Those resources had to go to other areas that need the help even more. First came the smoke. Then a few licks of flames. Then they served notice. After a quiet note, this would be a day for moving and moving fast. Neil and his wife kathleen knew all about that firsthand. Looked down at the window and theres a small area of fire. It was rapidly increasing in size. They live a few yards from the Lightning Strike that started all this. It was thunder and lightning all evening. It really got loud. What had been one fire yesterday became three this morning. With the gamble fire and now the 155. Yesterday toward the end of the day, 155 and gamble were a couple hundred acres. Overnight they yue to 4,500 and 5,000, respectively. From 60 known line strikes yesterday. There are all little spots, smoking up there. Even some trees in the crotch at the bottom where they come out of ground.