almost three dozen dead. thousands forced to flee from their homes over 100 wildfires burning and neighborhoods destroyed. is relief on the way >> astronomer sally is churning off the gulf coast right now forecasters expect it to make landfall as a hurricane today. >> $100,000 reward for the gunman accused of ambushing two police officers. >> ignoring coronavirus guidelines president trump held an indoor rally on sunday night at a factory in nevada as the death toll in the u.s. approaches

200,000. >> microsoft got the cold shoulder from tik tok. a new u.s. company is ready to step in. it's monday, september 14th. "early today" starts right now good morning i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. it's almost difficult to grasp the amount of devastation the west coast is experiencing dozens of wildfires is carving out a path of deconstruction 35 lives have been lost and that number will climb. erin mclaughlin has this report. >> reporter: in oregon, devastation and desperation after scenes like this massive fireball exploding million acres burned 16 active fires. entire towns in ruins. dogs searching for bodies. thousands evacuated and sheltering in parking lots >> i wased >> it feels like armageddon.

>> reporter: this family lost everything >> we didn't have a destination. we didn't know where we were going. >> reporter: the single mother just staying with her boys at a hotel. their town leveled their home gone. dominic struggling to understand >> i was feeling sad and scared at the moment because i knew we would most likely lose our home. >> reporter: thousands lost their homes in california. firefighters recovered three bodies from the north complex fire now more than a quarter contained. conditions has improved and progress has been made but that can change and quickly fire crews are hosing down hot spots by the highway they are concerned the wind could pick up tonight. residents far from the front lines are feeling the effects. the toxic haze so bad fears the san francisco 49ers woul opener.

for this couple this has been a two year trauma. >> it's terrible >> reporter: 2018 the couple lost their home to the paradise fire they've been homeless ever since. four days ago their campground was evacuated because of the smoke. >> we need help. >> reporter: here at the north complex fire firefighters are bracing for wind is a 9 miles per hour through monday. fire officials said they are prepared and ready tropical storm sally is churning through the gulf and it could hit as a category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall the storm has shifted east overnight as it heads towards the louisiana-mississippi border it's expected to make landfall early tuesday and people living in those coastal cities are preparing for impact as flooding and storm surges pose the biggest athlete. while sally's track is pushing

away from florida, ft. myers was still feeling the impact the they saw seven inches of rain and saw winds of 60 miles per hour >> let's turn to our meteorologist michele grossman >> it's been a busy season and it's not slowing down. we're in peak season you can see looking at the snapshot it doesn't take a meteorologist to say we're active and remain active over the next couple of months. this is the latest on tropical storm sally. still a tropical storm at 60 miles per hour you only need 74 miles per hour to make it a category one storm. that's what we're expecting later today. moving west at 12 miles per hour it's not moving that slow. we have a category 1 storm later on today expecting landfall of

at least category 1 maybe category 2 storm we'll watch that in the next several hours. landfall somewhere along southeastern louisiana if it makes a little bit of a y jog to the east we could see mississippi landfall we're looking at a lot of rain, that's the biggest takeaway from sally. we'll talk about that in just a few minutes. back to you. shot in the line of duty a massive manhunt is under way in california for a lone gunman who shot and wounded two l.a. county sheriff's deputies. the ambush style attack was captured on surveillance video and now officials are offering $100,000 reward for information to the arrest and conviction of the suspect. >> reporter: the surveillance video released by the l.a. county sheriff's department shows one gunman opening fire on

two deputies sitting in a patrol car while they kept an eye on a train station. >> he walked along the passenger side of the car. he acted as if he was going to walk past the car and then he made a left turn directly to the car, raised a pistol and fired several round in the vehicle striking both of the sheriff's deputies >> reporter: the deputies were taken to a local hospital and underwent surgery. a manhunt for the gunman started immediatedly >> i can tell you at this point we have a very generic suspect description of a dark skin male and that came from one of the deputies, one of the victims >> reporter: the deputies identified as a 31-year-old female, a 24-year-old male, both sworn in 14 months ago >> two deputies were doing their job, minding their own business, watching out for the safety of the peoplen train, and somebody just walked up and started shooting on them

>> reporter: the deputies are now in the hospital. the gunman remains at large. in georgia a sheriff's deputy has been fired after being caught on camera brutally restraining a black man at a traffic stop video shows clayton county deputies hitting walker to the ground one deputy repeatedly punches him in the face. there's no video that shows what led up to the incident according to walker's attorney someone was driving walker, his girlfriend and children when police pulled him over for a taillight violation. when they asked for his i.d. he said why the deputy asked him to step out of the car it's unclear why things turned violent. walker rear mains in jail because of a felony probation warrant. criminal investigation has been turned over to the district attorney's office.

president trump is heading to sacramento today to thank the firefighters and crews on the front lines of those devastating west coast wildfires last night the president spurred controversy flouting coronavirus safety guidelines told an indoor rally at a manufacturing plant in nevada. tracie potts joining us with the latest the president violated the state's social distancing rules. >> reporter: that rally defied the ban in nevada on gatherings of more than 50 people but president trump went ahead with it anyway ignoring criticism from nevada's governor and health experts first indoor rally since june when he held that big one in tulsa, klahoma during his speech last night president trump delivered a standard stump speech ignoring the pandemic and took aim at president obama and that garnered a familiar refrain from supporters >> they made it up it was a made up statement

it was from a third rate magazine whose best friend is obama. [ chanti inin ining >> reporter: nevada's governor called the rally reckless and putting countless lives in danger it's not just the president, though, on the campaign trail today. we learned democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris is heading to california this evening and joe biden will focus on climate change and the fires in oregon and california he and his wife jill also voting in delaware's primary election today. all right. less than two months out from election thank you so much. mike bloomberg is putting

his money where his mouth is horsepower he's planning to spend $100 million in florida to help joe biden beat president trump in the swing state a spokesperson for bloomberg said it will go towards television and digital ads with a key focus on hispanic voters israel is said to become one of the first countries to lock back down prevent the spread coronavirus. face spike of about 4,000 new daily cases the government voefvote to lock down for three weeks schools and shopping centers will be locked down and no more than ten people can gather indoors. phase three trials starts in the uk for astrazeneca >> we have to watch sally and the gulf here's michele grossman. >> reporter: hi, there we're looking at really busy in the tropics and sally the big story over the next several

days we do have watches and warnings posted along the gulf coast states from louisiana, mississippi, alabama, florida panhandle. you can see some hurricane warnings in place along louisiana. so the biggest takeaway from sally is the rainfall. rear looking at historical rainfall up to two feet of rain in some spots, generally though six to 18 inches of rain this will be a big problem over s. a thunderstorm or two. same thing in the desert southwest. 103 in phoenix today we'll talk about the gulf coast states because we're looking at flash flooding, storm surge, life threatening storm surge and wind impact and take a look at the week ahead

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let's turn back now to that emergency on the west coast where thousands of homes already destroyed and many more still in danger as firefighters work to contain dozens of massive inf infernos here's an update >> reporter: the president this morning is expected to meet with local and federal fire and emergency officials at the base for cal fire operations in sacramento as fires continue to burn all around. evacuees in the fire ravaged western states have a harder time making to it safety the longer they wait >> i was just paralyzed. i didn't realize what was happening. >> there's electrical wires down damaged structures out there things that can be hazardous to the general public >> reporter: fires in oregon already havemed more than

800,000 acres and forced half a million people out of their homes. one of them this 11-year-old >> well, i was feeling sad and scared at the moment because i knew that we were going to most likely lose our home >> reporter: and little time to prepare to go they lost everything they owned as well. farther north more than 600,000 acres burned in washington state. to the south 3.3 million acres and counting in california an area larger than the state of connecticut burned behind the fire lines crews are working with lists of missing people and looking for remains in burned out communities along escape routes and sometimes finding the unexpected like this puppy in a burned out house whose name is now trooper. today could be crucial he we have had a break the last few days with cooler, breezy conditions but we're expecting a return of the critical fire

weather later on today and red flag warnings and the officials here say that could test the fire lines this fire here is 26% contained but it could blow right through those linesif the wind shift the way they are expecting it could with this weather coming in today. a number of missing people, seven. the death toll is at 14 from just this fire hopefully they won't see those numbersry at all thank you so much. how sweet to have a story like that out of everything that you're making headlines, that little puppy named trooper >> one bright spot we have this is just hard to wrap our head around. she said 14 dead just where she's at many more missing. we're hoping for the best out there. godspeed to all those firefighters out there thank yo

right now at 4:30, breaking news. a devastating discovery. the death toll from the wildfire burning in butte county grows. new concerns, a big concern today, all of this as president trump and senator kamala harris prepare to visit california in just a few hours. plus, relief and reopenings. the shuttered businesses getting a second shot at recovery today in san francisco. and b.a.r.t. looks to resume more service today amid the pandemic just one day after a system wide shutdown left riders stranded. "today in the bay" starts right no