Drought and treacherous terrain. This fires so challenging because the fuel is so extremely dry and because the terrain is very very steep and those two combined were not able to put tractors or people been destroyed some areas have been evacuated and residents are worried. Scary. Yeah, we gotta house down there. A nasa photo shows how are. Smoke billowing up to 10thousand feet in the air. Right now there is little rain in the forecast and its not clear when the fires will finally be controlled. Dan scheneman nbc news. At least 14 fires totaling almost 15thousand acres are burning in the 14 more people have been taken to hospitals because of the fires. Calmer weather here but for how long . Storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team clouds tonight produce a few showers are expected wednesday with the higher chances the closer you are to thursday and friday are mostl
Socalled renegade delegates promising more chaos today when the party officially called the vote for Donald J Trump to be the nominee. We begin live this morning from cleveland with republicans only, and get your reaction to the efforts by some to gum up the works. If you support donald trump, dialin at call 202 7488000. If you are opposed, call 202 7488001. You can join us as well on twitter, if you go to cspanwj, or you can go to facebook. Com cspan. We will get your calls in just a minute. This is republicans only, with your thoughts on what happened , yesterday afternoon, when the convention kicked off at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. The socalled Never Trump Movement, a variety of different groups, decided to try to force a rollcall vote on the rules package. And what happened after that was chaos, as some described it. Senator mike lee was talking about all they wanted was a rollcall vote. What was wrong with that . And then also, you saw the former attorney general talking this was not ab
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
Sheriffs office says a car crossed the center line on 130th street and crashed with the semi around 8 30 last night. The cars driver died at the scene. Deputies are not releasing that persons name, pending notification of family. As were watching the flooding along the turkey river this hour, a focus is on clermont and elgin in fayette county. After more than a day of rising water, the turkey is cresting kcrgtv9s brea love has been reporting on the flooding all morning and joins us live from fayette county. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Chris, im standing at skip a way the resort its an rv camp ground thats been evacuated. Pretty much everything is gone except a couple campers theyre having issues moving. Weve been here since early the water began rising. Now according to Emergency Management the river has crested. Hopefully the water wont get to this area but residents spent a lot of time last night sandbagging just in case. This entire Community Came together to hel
Small chance of storms exists, with a better chance tomorrow night into wednesday. Heavy rain is possible with any storms that come through the region both tuesday and wednesday. Thursday, we should remain inbetween system with dry sky likely. Friday, a strong cold front approaches from the west and should generate some more showers and storms. Going into the weekend, plan on highs to fall well down into the 70s with dry conditions and pleasant humidity. Today partly cloudy early, then turning mostly sunny. Breezy and warm. Wind s 1020 high 87 tonight ryldy. S ssible late in the night. Wind s 515 low 71 tomorrow a chance of storms early, then again in the late afternoon. Warm and muggy. Nd sw 1020. Gh 88 tom. Night stormcome li possibl wind sw 515. Low ank leads meeting in china for day 3 of the group of nations, or g20 summit. Putin met to discuss several topics. That includes trying to end the violence in syria. They agreed to keep up negotiations over a cease fire. More details abou