'm a torts in the race but a joyful tourtis. >> reporter: while trump is pack them in by the thousands, bush's crowds are far smaller. analysts say bush underperformed name. he's tried to connect his legacy to regan and reached out to latinos in spanish. [ speaking spanish] >> reporter: still with no traction, a republican insider insists that he needs to take the it to trump. >> he needs to take a page out of the trump play book and point out that ease rr not ready to be president. >> somebody comes at me, bam,ium i'll. >> back at him. >> and a superpack launching a

20 million dollared a ad by. >> that was peter alexander reporting. and a terrifying look that wild fires ravaging california. and a family's desperate escape with only moments to spare. a woman spotted smoke in the distance. she said they never received the mandatory evacuation order and spent time packing but the danger started to set in when they had to drive through the burning forest to leave. the family's home was destroyed and the fire is now just 15% contained. in just a few hours, volunteers will gather to search for the last missing victim in the deadly flash flooding in the utah-mississippi border. and for the first time, we're getting a tragic look at what happened. we want to warn viewers about

the images and the sound. >> reporter: it happened in an instant. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: raging flood waters and mud ripping across a road, two vehicles filled with three families, 16 people disappearing. swept away, hundreds of yards. three survived, as did others trapped. and unable to wade away to safety in waist high water. virginia black shot this on her cell phone. the water rose. >> we wished we could do something but started to realize we were in trouble too. >> reporter: search crews continue the efforts to find the missing and shelter for victims one moment, a tomb the next. >> i've lived here all my life and never seen anything like this. >> reporter: a small puligmist

community and its sister, dumping two and half inches of rain in just two hours. >> and over 1,000 feet and literally just a wall of water rushing into hildale. >> it hurts my heart hearing about all these people. well, a frightening accident in houston to show you. a school bus carrying four charter students slam under med into a guardrail and plunged off an over pass. two died and others and bus driver were injured. they say a driver of a beige buick claims she swerved to avoid another vehicle and hit the bus.

they're reviewing surveillance footage from the bus. and hungary's barb wire complete. and refugees, they are stuck. piling up at what used to be a main entrance to the european union. they're fleeing violence in their home countries and for many of them that is syria, where over 200,000 have died during a civil war. and they're battling a regime of assad. he's backed by russian president, sflad vladimir putin. things are tense. and yesterday, the white house opened the possibility of a meeting between putin and obama on the issue. mean while, isis has violently taken control of syria.

1 in 5 syrians in syria believe isis is a positive influence on the country and 81% believe it's a foreign or american-made group. now to something a little bit lighter at home. a life size hot wheels in action. for jaguar's 8th an vrs 0th anniversary, this is the first time a pedestrian car has done this truck and the driver, carry grant, said he had to train for two months to make sure his body was ready for all those g's. j now a storm causing a retaining wall to give way in southern california, leaving one house on the brink of collapse.

fortunately, no one was hurt. and meteorologist, bill karins is here with your wednesday weather. >> it's been hit or mis. l.a. yesterday, about an inch of rain and for them that was significant, especially in september. andm miami to fort lauderdale there, are some thunderstorms that are going to try to blow. and during the afternoon, we'll get that to merge a little bit in the middle. we're now halfway through the month of september and it's been historically warm in the great lakes area. and we have the last half of the month to go but the long-range forecast is for a warm end of the month. we're about four 1/2 degrees above the all time highest september we've ever had.

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a derailed freight train pulled from the tracks. what it means for the morning commute. plus, mayor dds dds laying out new goals. the major announcement that impacts hundreds of thousands of new york city students. and police need help finding these people who preyed on an elderly woman. how they swindled her for $90,000. good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, september 16th. i'm darlene rodriguez. >> and i'm michael gargiulo. chris cimino here with the forecast. >> michael, who's the one next to you? >> my friend darlene. >> beautiful in red this morning. >> it's a hologram.

>> we'll take that. 67 degrees. it's a nice morning. yesterday we went into the middle 80s. today i think it's upper 80s. still seeing a couple upper 40s in the distant suburbs. by noontime, a high of 81. we'll top off near 87 this afternoon. more weather news ahead. >> thank you very much. crews removed the freight train that derailed on long island. the train went off the tracks west of the hicksville station. 14 hours later, it's still impacting long island railroad riders. lauren has the latest from the liir, but we begin with katherine creag with with the latest on repairs. >> reporter: we're live here from the hicksville train station. we saw one train here early this morning coming from new york city, from penn station. commuters told us that it was going a little bit slower than they're used to, but it was running.

we know, according to the mta, that trains are running in both directions, but there might be delays, there might be cancellations. be ready for anything, the mta says, because repairs have to be made to 200 feet of track just west of here. that is where a freight train carrying construction debris derailed overnight. workers removed it. we have video. it took hours to remove it, but it is gone. but the tracks have to be looked at, inspected, and repaired. the derailment happened at 1:00 in the afternoon. it took seven hours for regular or close to regular liir service to resume. it was around 8:00 at night when trains were running but delayed. in the meantime, the afternoon rush was severely impacted. at one point, shuttle buses were running. people near the site of the derailment said it was loud when it happened. >> at the moment of impact, it was just the sound of, you know, brakes hitting. >> it's scary. don't get me wrong, but like i said, thank god it wasn't a

regular passenger train. it's just trash. >> reporter: the mta says there will be no eastbound train service at this point between 6:00 in the morning to 10:00 in the morning, darlene. but as far as where we are here in hicksville, trains are running in both directions. they're just going to be delayed. cancellations throughout the back to you. now we get to lauren with what commuters need to know. >> that's right. katherine just gave us a little bit of that information. just to e reiterate, you can expect 10 to 15-minute delays as well as cancellations on both the ronkonkoma and port jefferson stations. some westbound trains are going to be bypassing westbury and carle place. we'll continue to keep you posted on that. while we're on the trains here, we have downtown 4 and 6 and a

and e trains running express for