on canned with watch abc and the watch app. see you again at 6:00. welcome to "world news tonight." fires on the move. thousands of firefighters battling more than 80 major wildfires. now burning across eight states. homes destroyed. crews overwhelmed. why there's no relief in sight. flying high. republican front-runner donald trump gaining momentum. tonight, his controversial new immigration plan. and just how much money he's prepared to spend to win the white house. hero clerk. the man who came face to face with a suspected killer. how this man helped end a nearly three-week-long alleged crime spree. deadly blast. new images tonight that shows how massive that blast was.

massive crater in the middle of a big city. and renter beware. the grandmother renting out rooms in her home now facing a massive fine. tonight, the profits and pitfalls of home-sharing sites like airbnb. good evening, thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. and we begin tonight with the growing wildfire crisis, tinder-dry conditions, erratic winds and soaring temperatures have created the perfect recipe for a series of raging infernos. those fires are stretching resources thin. with firefighters working overtime, many brought in from across the country. and many residents are staying behind, protecting their homes and their livelihoods, like this rancher in washington state, and tonight, another worry for the region -- a blanket of smoke stretching hundred of miles creating a toxic smog. we begin our coverage tonight with abc's kayna whitworth.

>> reporter: the west under assault tonight by flames, with no end in sight. >> being defense ive -- >> reporter: resources stretched so thin here that smaller fire departments can't afford to send crews where they're needed. and on the front lines, firefighters working 12 hours shifts in temperatures over 100 degrees. in washington state, the national guard is using black hawk helicopters for water drops. 9,000 people in the area without power. the fire taking out a substation and power poles. at alta lake, residents who had rebuilt after last year's fire -- >> three that way. one burnt down to the ground. >> reporter: -- evacuated again. evacuating with her family and her dog as fire threatened their home, now staying at this red cross shelter. >> it concerns me that we have people here who don't know if they've lost their home or not. >> reporter: in idaho, a 70-year-old woman died while

getting ready to evacuate for the lawyers complex fire that destroyed 30 homes. in oregon, where dozens of homes have burned, courtney fox snapping this photo as she fled the flames returning an hour later to find this. all that smoke now spreading over 155,000 square miles, affecting the air for more than 3 million people. here you can clearly see what years of extreme drought has done to the mountains. in california, firefighters say their fuels are so dry that they're about two months ahead in fire season. tom, they're calling these conditions explosive. >> that area absolutely charred. kayna, thank you. let's bring in rob marciano. rob i know we're tracking a storm heading that way, is it going to help? >> it's not going to help. it's going to bring cooler air in, but no rain and more wind. we got more red-flag warnings up tonight and also critical fire danger for idaho, parts of wyoming. where it's not windy, it's going to be dry. look at sacramento and fresno. single digit relative humidity again tomorrow. hot in san francisco and l.a. today.

phoenix, palm springs near record-breaking, will cool down a little bit as we go through midweek, but not much. want to talk about the extreme weather threat tomorrow. the high plains, on tuesday and wednesday, we stretch it out across the midwest on tuesday and wednesday, this is a very strong system. tom. >> rob, thank you very much. we turn to heat being turned up in the 2016 presidential race. at the head of the pack is donald trump, hovering over the competition in more ways than one. abc's devin dwyer has the story. >> reporter: tonight, a so-called trump tsunami still sweeping iowa. >> he doesn't pull any punches. >> i'm not supporting. i'm talking about him. >> reporter: the gop's front-runner's private helicopter spotted above the fair for a second day after that dramatic arrival saturday and free rides for kids. our martha raddatz exclusively tagging along. >> but you know where we were four years ago here, the people at the bottom of the polls didn't do so well. >> who was here? who was?

>> you have michele bachmann and rick santorum. >> but they're not me. they're not me. >> reporter: tonight, trump getting more serious and specific about his policies. >> we're building a wall, it's going to be strong. >> reporter: in his first pomsy paper on immigration, trump says he would force mexico to foot the bill for his border wall. by hiking fees on visas. he tripled the number of immigration officers and end birthright citizenship which he calls the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. it's full steam ahead for trump who's willing to spend more of his own money on campaign than all his rivals have raised combined. >> i would do that if i had to. >> reporter: trump still way i head in a new national poll since that first debate, while jeb bush has taken a hit, down to fourth place. ben carson surging to number two, arrived today at the fair. can you catch trump in iowa? >> it's a marathon not a sprint. >> reporter: and iowans have been casting their kernels all day here at the fair. no surprise, donald trump, hillary clinton right out front. tom.

>> the all-important kernel front. abc's devin dwyer from des moines. let's turn overseas to china where rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors in tianjin, new images tonight show how massive that blast was. that death toll is up to at least 112, nearly a hundred more remain missing, most of them firefighters. chinese officials say deadly sodium cyanide stored in that warehouse, may have been 70 times the allowed amount. next to another airline tragedy. this time in the skies over indonesia, a plane packed with passengers suddenly disappeared from radar. the indonesian airplane flying with a troubled safety record, forbidden from flying over the european union. tonight, the search for that plane and those passengers, abc's jennifer eccleston joins us now from london. jennifer, good evening. >> reporter: tom, it's a routine commuter flight. just over 170 miles in papua, eastern indonesia. but just ten minutes before touch down, the plane vanished. the flight was heading into the airport in oksibil. 54 people on board, 5 of them children.

air traffic control saying there was no distress call. but villagers telling local police, a low-flying plane hit the side of a mountain. weather, also a key factor. with heavy rain, strong winds and fog. it's a harrowing wait for the family of those on board. well known in southeast asia, trigana air service is blacklisted elsewhere. >> the european union won't even let them in because of their safety compliance record in the past. >> reporter: it's daybreak now in indonesia, and the weather forecast call for more rain and fog, but villagers are providing more clues. they say they have found more wreckage. tom. back here at home, another aviation disaster is playing out on the west coast. late this afternoon, two small planes collided in mid-air over san diego, crashing near otay mesa, killing at least four people. police are reporting fire and debris scattered across a wide

area. both the faa and the ntsb are looking into the cause of this crash. next to a very different kind of aviation accident. outside of philadelphia, a summertime sightseeing excursion aboard a hot air balloon, ending with all three passengers rushed to the hospital. electrocuted after their balloon came into contact with power lines. abc's karen travers has more. >> reporter: with darkness setting in, chaos and confusion. >> hot air balloon crashed, down over the wires. >> reporter: the balloon actually landed safely in a field. but when it was deflating the top flew over hitting power lines, the impact sending a surge right down into the basket. >> now we're getting reports of one of them in cardiac arrest. >> the basket was laying on the ground. by that time, all the, you know, the ambulances were coming. >> there were three people in the balloon. all three were injured and suffered electrical burns. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: it's just the latest terrifying incident involving a hot air balloon and power lines.

last july, in massachusetts, a balloon with six people onboard crashing into electric lines, setting off two explosions. a similar incident just two months earlier in virginia, killing three. accidents are rare. over the past decade, government statistics show only around 120 involving hot air balloons and less than 20 deaths. the faa is investigating this weekend's incident in pennsylvania. officials tonight list one passenger in critical condition. the other, stable. the pilot treated and released from the hospital. karen travers, abc news, washington. a nearly three-week manhunt for a suspected killer in california has ended, with the suspect gunned down by a sheriff's deputy. his alleged one-man crime spree cut short, thanks to an eagle-eyed store clerk. here's abc's aditi roy. >> reporter: tonight, nearly a three-week manhunt for benjamin

peter ashley is over. ashley hiding out in a remote area 40 miles east of bakersfield, recognized by store clerk gary welfl. when he entered the local mini mart. >> just came in, got food. dirty. looked like he had been hiking for days. >> reporter: unable to call for help, he texted his sister who then called authorities. officers finding ashley on a remote road, shooting and killing him after the suspect brandished a firearm. the manhunt for ashley began after three men were reported kidnap at gun point, those men escaped. the next day, a body is discovered in a cabin. later identified as a dentist. august 1st, two officers are shot in a gun battle with the alleged suspect, both survive, but the suspect flees the scene. two days later, police release a sketch of ashley and link him to all three crimes the next day. investigators say ashley walked more than 30 miles over 18 days before authorities tracked him down.

tonight, a community on edge, breathing a sigh of relief. while authorities believe the man deputies killed is ashley, they're still waiting on finger prints and dna evidence to positively identified him. an autopsy is scheduled for monday. tom. >> abc's aditi roy, thank you. turning now to the closing of an important chapter in the struggle for racial quality. civil rights icon julian bond has died. the tennessee native was a pioneer. helping to lead a generation against racism. the former naacp chairman was also the first black american nominated as a vice presidential candidate. president obama, on vacation in martha's vineyard tonight, is calling bond a hero who helped change america. julian bond was 75 years old. and to affecting another change in america, beating even the optimistic expectations. "straight outta compton" has gone straight into the record books, raking in more than $56

million this opening weekend. unlike other summer blockbusters there are no superheroes. no fancy special effects. its success lies in telling a far bigger story. >> reporter: moviegoers flocking in record numbers to see this. the portrayal of black youths' struggles with police resonating today just as it did more than 20 years ago. when these artists "straight outta compton" first broke on the scene. pushing back against alleged police violence with music. ♪ >> reporter: nwa's rallying call, "f the police." in this era of ferguson, freddie gray and sandra bland, these images fueling today's black lives matter movement. but before there was a hashtag, nwa's lyrics struck a similar nerve. >> it was our only way to shed light on what was going on. >> reporter: the group formed in an era when crime in compton was at an all-time high. >> we're trying to check these bangers to make sure they're clean.

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finally tonight, a birthday girl who wanted one gift -- a lot of money, only to give it all away. after overcoming a rare bone disorder in her legs she's now walking, running and determined to help other kids at the hospital that got her back on her feet. tonight, why the money is rolling in. here's abc's john donvan. >> reporter: standing on that street corner near her home in north texas, addie bryan is collecting money, because for her 8th birthday, as a present to herself, she wants to give some money away.

>> for my birthday wish, i want to raise $8,000 for texas scottish rite hospital. >> reporter: that's a thousand for every year she's been alive, to give to the hospital where she knows there are a lot of kids wanting to get back home. >> i think all the kids are going to be happy and they can get out of the hospital faster. >> reporter: because she herself was born with a rare bone disease, her knees basically backwards, but years of treatment at the scottish rite hospital that, and her own pluck, literally got addie on her feet. >> she's the one that's helped probably pulled us more through than the other way around. >> reporter: plus, look at this, addie can fly down the sidewalk. well, when her story caught the attention of our affiliate, wfaa, and "people" magazine, a lot more came in. in fact, she bagged $19,000. >> wow, that's a lot of money. >> reporter: and then this happened.

a letter came into the hospital pledging another $50,000. >> she has big dreams. this is something that she wanted to do. >> the big donor anonymous. the credit's alled aie bryan's. >> her birthday wish definitely came true. >> reporter: only today, she reached that 8th birthday with a plan to try something next year. >> and when i'm 80. >> reporter: $80,000 well, for a girl like addie, that should be easy. john donvan, abc news. "good morning america" first thing in the morning. david muir is right back here tomorrow night. i'm tom llamas in new york. have a great evening. good night.

next at 6:00, a body found after an rv explodes in wine country. the summer heat peaks. which areas hit record highs and show you how people enjoyed the sunny sunday across the bay area. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. abc7 news starts right now with live, breaking news. >> the breaking news out of los angeles county, a fire burning out of control in castaic, up to 200-acres and destroyed six structures. the dry and windy conditions to help it spread to 2,000 acres tonight. stay with abc7 news for breaking updates and follow us an twitter. good evening, i'm katie marzullo. and like southern california, the bay area is baking under hot

temperatures. some communities even saw record highs today. so let go to abc7 meteorologist drew tuma for more on that. >> official numbers came in moments ago. 14 cities in the bay area had new records today. look at this, napa, santa rosa, a record high of 104. downtown san francisco, high of 90 today. 92, a record high in oakland, and san jose, record high of 97 degrees earlier this afternoon. out there right now, current temperatures, it is still hot in many spots. 102, concord. 104, antioch. what you're noticing along the coast, half moon bay, refreshing, 73. tonight it's going to be haze where and hot, between 72 and 100, and by 11:00, a rather warm night once again. another "spare the air" day has been issued for monday before we see relief from