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The bridge. At 4 31, lets go back to the desk. Thank you. More witnesses are schedule to testify this week at the impeachment hearings on capitol hill. As doug luzader reports, the democrats say President Trump is welcomed the list. Reporter president t crit trump is critical nowdemocrats say he should join it. Mr. President. Reporter will President Trump testify in his own impeachment hearing on capitol hill . Seems unlikely to say the least but the invitation is there. The president could come before the committee and talk and speak all the truth he wants. You dont expect. If he wants to take the oath of office or he could do it in writing e has every opportunity to present his case. Reporter presenting his case on twitter the president wrote, the crazed do nothing democrats are turning impeachment into a routine partisan weapon that is very bad for our country and not wh ....
Life and meet the sisters who gave up a piece of themselves to save their father. Iran nuclear deal with wars in syria and yemen and the complicated relationship between the United States and the middle east all on the table at a highlevel meeting here in doha. We have the leaders of the gulf cooperation council, long time allies of the United States and rivals with iran. Saudi arabia is leading the coalition against Houthi Rebels in yemen. United states and secretary of state john kerry architect of the Iran Nuclear Deal and Sergei Fedorov one of irans closest allies and russia is a defender of russia president assad and here at the meeting in doha and important topics and what do you hear about what is suspec ....
County. The fire is behind us. The goal is to keep it that way. What you see now is calm compared with what we saw here an hour ago. Lets show you part of what youll be looking at those flames and billowing black smoke from an intentional fire to burn away fuel when the blaze changes direction. This highway section of highway 20 is where the firefighters were making a stand to contain it. They want to keep it south of highway 20, west of highway 16 but that fire has spotted in places. Wind is part of the problem. The extremely dry fuel is another. Here is cal fire spokesman who is not making predictions about that wind and the fuel and what they might do. Were starting to see the fire activity pick up. Its hard to speculate. This has been a very dynamic fire for us simply because this area doesnt have any fire history for the most part. Reporter when you say no fire history what does that mean mean . It has not burned in some of these areas, so the vegetation and the brush very very de ....
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 ligh ....
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 ....