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hot tomorrow. this is a wonderful shot that we had. if those of the original from the capital, a fund-raiser out beautiful sunset tonight. a high temperature outside now, degrees. it makes you feel a little bit cooler. hottest last year, our of all time, we had six. lookit the high temperatures today, onlyountry mid 80's. only about 3 degrees above average. the compared the last june, folks in oklahoma, remember was above 90 last year? the humidity, that as measured the duke point. if feels like 80 degrees outside and it will feel even hotter than that tomorrow.
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there is the heat index and the heat advisory. there is an excessive heat warning around philadelphia. early tomorrow, the heat comes humidity really expand during tomorrow afternoon and it continues on into thursday. the weather front of the coming get in the friday. it will not be one of those extended the times of humidity. tomorrow, it will be one of you open there door at of the into the air when go outside. if the temperature only about 73 degrees tomorrow afternoon, that when the heat advisory really kicks in. high temperatures near 95, it will feel over 100. ofs is the first real shot real excessive heat and
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humidity. and on thursday, the record is 98. wheat could be setting a record little bit with a to theeak as we go weekend. sometimes, cool your will cool yout down. the. >> i could hear him all the way the howard theatre. the peak in battles at out in miami. they find a little something the ballpark. coming up next, in spor
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the >> of the national's ran
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streak to four straight tonight. strange night, he was rejected pitcht even throwing a asked him to check his glove. he was ejected. shot, tohnson a long deep center field. he chases it, but he can't get there. he was a 5-2 ballgame. like was the big guy, had a home run to close the gap. new yorker, the bottom of the sixth. to be right field, it is gone. the mets shut out the nose final there was 5-0. game 4, the most physical game of this series. back to miami, he was unstoppable tonight. he scored early, he scored
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often. at one point he scored 11 for oklahomats city. with just over five minutes ago, lebron james had to leave the game with cramps. miami hold on. the 1 01-96. takes the 3-1-98, series lead. the wizards needed a good draft below 500 but the wizards more. northon barnes in the carolina tar heels. remember when the nationals were week and intot the reporter's question by question,is a clown bro? i want you to listen to the nevada,enator from reid. >> if you have any intention of
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bringing the dream back to the for the next couple of on record. >> i don't want answer that question,it's a clown bro. >> keep in mind, harper is from nevada. the braves beat the yankees the bill win streak at 10. inthey are doing that colorado. that is funny. [laughter] ♪
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be bearing down on you. that is the reason we have the be ondvisory as it will thursday. it will be hot. [laughter] >> that is it for us, good night everybody.
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. tonight on "nightline," fast and furious. high-speed chases with police in hot pursuit. life imitating movies, imitating life. we take you to the car-chase capital of america. extreme seal camp. jump out of a chopper.
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take a swim tied up like a hostage, shoot and be shot at, one tough vacation where campers train like a real navy seal. plus, ever wonder if you have what it takes to battle the undead. well, now you can be stalked and surrounded by terrifying horde of zombies for a price. we'll take you to a zombie apocalypse. >> good evening. i'm terry moran. there's nothing like a high-octane car chase down narrow city streets in a crime drama approximate. in the movies innocent bystanders seem to escape in the nick of time. but the harsh reality is these high-speed pursuits kill over
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300 americans every year, and abc's david wright comes to us from the car-chase capital of the country -- california. >> reporter: the thrill of the chase, an adrenaline rush, so much so that movies like this are little more than vehicles for the vehicles. in other movies the car chase is what makes the drama that much more dramatic. who could forget pop eye doil racing through brooklyn in the french connection, possibly the most famous police car chase of all. in real life, that high-speed drama happens almost every day on america's roads. today in dallas, police chased a big rig truck down a texas freeway, tossing spikes in its path to force it off the road. last week, a toddler was bounced out the window of a careening
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suv. mir akerous lousily. the child survived. that's him there running around on the road. and over the weekend here in los angeles, a real-life fast and furious. the driver of this mercedes topped out at 125 miles an hour, but finally crashed head on into a family vacationing from miami. >> just swerving away from a car coming at me. then i just rolled over. when everything stopped, i took a look at my son, hanging from his car seat upside down and my wife screaming. >> his 3-year-old son was one of five people taken to the hospital. luckily no one seriously injured. police say the driver was under the influence, and that's often the case. in real life, these don't tend to be bank robbers fleeing the scene of a shoot-out. 90% of the time it's just a routine traffic stop gone awry. why do suspects flee? nearly half are driving under
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the influence. nearly one out of three of driving stolen cars. one out of four, driving without a license. and presumably, without insurance either. california is the hands-down capital of the high-speed chase. ever since the slow-speed chase with o.j. simpson and that infamous white bronco. there's a youtube channel devoted to them, they're so common. local stagdss break into normal programming and follow along until the chase is done. >> he's now bailing. >> oh, boy. >> reporter: new data from the california highway patrol shows more than 10,000 people have been injured in ten years. more than 300 killed. stephanie yaploss' parents were killed outside a shopping mall. >> a car came around the corner and literally slammed into them in the crosswalk. >> so they were badly injured.
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>> horrifically injured. i'd never seen anything like that. >> a lot has changed since the old chips tv show when ponch and john seemed to end every episode with a chase. these days the highway patrol tries to discourage dangerous changes deploying stakes to deflate tires. boxing cars in to force them to a stop. or watching from the sky. the chp now has planes that can read a license plate from a while away. >> the officers can say, we don't need to pursue at a high rate of speed because right now we have our airplane that's following them. we can make sure we have officers at different locations. the california highway patrol notes that out of four million traffic stopds last year, fewer than one-half of 1% ended with a motorist fleeing the scene. >> it's important to realize that traffic stops are one of
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the most dangerous things that law enforcement officers do. we don't know what else is going on when we make the stop. a let of times there's nor serious crimes involved. >> reporter: stephanie wonders, why bother chasing when there's such high-risks involved? >> i think they should be held to higher standards. >> she and others would like to see fewer crazy car chases out on the road. the thelma and louise ending should be strictly a movie vehicle. i'm david wright for "nightline" in los angeles. >> 90% of were traffic stops. just ahead, crawl in the dirt, do target practice, pop out of a speeding helicopter at a camp where you can train like the real navy seal teem six.
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