joaquin river delta to the north the sierra nevada mountains to the east and hoover dam on the colorado river four hundred kilometers away but all three sources are in decline we have seen pressure on climate change which has been reducing winter snow pack over time in the snow in future not falling points nineteen too quickly and the early months and then were dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles's water dilemma according to its mayor are conservation recycling and better use of local sources of water conservation was proven effective in the recent multi-year drought when l.a. residents reduced water use dramatically we have plenty of water in los angeles it's whether we choose to use it efficiently and effectively recycling waste water is another challenge about sixty percent of our equivalent water usage every day we

groundwater drying up, much of the western united states turned to the nearly 1,500-mile-long colorado riverm the rocky mountains all the way to mexico. the colorado supplies water for 30 million people. but getting the water to the people in arizona took an astounding level of engineering. >> we have this huge canal system that transports it 336 miles uphill to deliver it to communities, farmers, industries. >> the central arizona project was constructed in the 1970s and '80s. the massive system brings the water to the population centers of phoenix and tucson. >> it cost over $4 billion to build. there was a 300-mile- long excavation, several tunnels bored through mountains, siphons going under rivers. it's an engineering marvel. and you can see it from outer space. >> on average, more than 5 trillion gallons flow through the canal every year. >> what we're looking at behind me here is a map board of the system itself. it's 336 miles long, controlled by two dispatchers that are sitting behind us here. >> we have 15 pumping stations along our 300-plus-mile canal. we have to basically pump th

joaquin river delta to the north the sierra nevada mountains to the east and hoover dam on the colorado river four hundred kilometers away but all three sources are in decline we have seen pressure on climate change which has been reducing winter snowpack over time the snow is either not falling for it's nineteen too quickly and there are only a month and then we're dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles's water dilemma according to its mayor are conservation recycling and better use of local sources of water conservation was proven effective in the recent multi-year drought when l.a. residents reduced water use dramatically we have plenty of water in los angeles it's whether we choose to use it efficiently and effectively recycling waste water is another challenge about sixty percent of our equipment water usage every day we treat clean and wash out to the ocean that means that we can have sixty percent more water if somehow that water came back to us if we could just take that water make sure as many places do that it is sanitary to drink and then bring that to the homes that

joaquin river delta to the north the sierra nevada mountains to the east and hoover dam on the colorado river four hundred kilometers away but all three sources are in decline we have seen pressure on climate change which has been right dancing winter snowpack over time the snow in either not falling points now team to quickly and the early months and then were dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles is water dilemma according to its mayor are conservation recycling and better use of local sources of water conservation was proven effective in the recent multi-year drought when l.a. residents reduced water use dramatically we have plenty of water in los angeles it's whether we choose to use it efficiently and effectively. recycling waste water is another challenge about sixty percent of our equivalent water usage every day we treat clean and then wash out to the ocean that means that we could have sixty percent more water if somehow that water came back to us if we could just take that water make sure as many places do that it is sanitary to drink and then bring that to the homes

meanwhile, we have excessive heat watches out for the lower colorado river, the southwest.res to creep up into the 90s and even over 100 in phoenix. this weathercast brought to you by expedia.com. more local news and weather next. >>> "good morning america" is sponsored by bush's beans and >>> "good morning america" is sponsored by bush's beans and beans and beans. beans. >>> hey, good morning. i'm natasha zouves from "abc7 mornings." now, it is gloomy, it is gray, but meteorologist mike nicco, you promise it will get better. >> oh, absolutely, much faster than yesterday, and it will be much warmer. but yeah, you can see the cloud deck out there. it will be brighter at the beaches but still cool in the 60s. out on the bay, tranquil with a ton of sunshine. wear the sunscreen. and more comfortable, won't need a jacket, except along the coast maybe in san francisco. everywhere else, we have 70s, even 80s in inland neighborhoods. it's going to be just a little bit cooler as we head through the weekend. alexis? >>> okay, we do have a new problem if you're doing the bay bridge co

rivers in ft. collins, colorado. that is hail covering entire swaths of the city. looking at the radar this morning, powerful storms are moving across the ohio valley and up into the northeast. meanwhile, down in the caribbean there's a 40% chance of those storms turning into a tropical system in the next five days. by friday they'll bring heavy rain to florida and southwestern u.s. >>> coming up, congress gives the banks a big break just as they post record profits. >>> but first the growing sinkhole problem in this neighborhood and one woman's terrifying ordeal in the middle of the night. >>> plus, a crane carrying a boat topples over. see the dramatic moment caught on camera. >>> well, we're back with that terrifying scene as a crane lowering the boat toppled into the water. this happened at a dock in russia. the crane landed in the water damaging the boat in the process. the good news is the crane operator was able to jump out in time. >>> now, back here at home authorities in central florida are keeping a close eye on several sinkholes that have opened up in a

and heavy rain flooding streets in boulder, colorado, and turning roadways in south florida into rivers. the spring storms turning deadly in north carolina. a polk county woman killed when her home was crushed by a mudslide. >> all right. let's get right to rob. he joins us live in studio. as we look at the map tonight, there's a lot going on. >> busy again and obviously the soil saturated, especially across the southeast. watches posted for missouri and tennessee. and storms moves across houston, and the rains continuing tonight across florida. some severe weather, storms to chicago by tomorrow morning. severe threat looks like it will impact indiana and parts of ohio during the day tomorrow. strong winds, hail, maybe an isolated tornado. that's into tomorrow morning. across much of the southeastern third some heavy rain in the next 48 hours from ohio to miami. >> rob, thanks. >>> we want to turn to a developing story we've been following. a saturday night jailbreak in south carolina. three men on the run, two of them accused murders. and now police say they assaulted a guard as well.

i am i'm proud to have the support of the arizona association conservation district, salt river project, colorado core producers council, and organizations and elected officials. urge all my colleagues in the congress to support this commonsense amendment, improve forest health, and bolster water restoration. it puts more power in the hands of local community who need the work done but have nowhere to turn under the status quo. i'd now like to yield 30 seconds to my good friend and colleague from montana who is co-sponsor of the amendment, mr. gianforte. gina haspel i rise in support of this -- mr. gianforte: i rise in support of this amendment that will expand the good neighbor authority for counties. good neighbor authority allows the forest service to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with states and puerto rico to execute projects that perform watershed restoration, forest management services on national forest systems lands. the current text of the farm bill includes language to expand the good neighbor authority to include indian tribes. this simple amendment seeks to build on

river rock casino. >> good evening. the giants opened a four-game series with colorado tonight.gh we're more than a quarter of the way through the season, these division rivals met for the first time tonight. klay thompson at the yard. not worried about the dubs. enjoying a little popcorn. 3-1 rockies in the sixth. brandon belt deep to right center. is it ray double, a homer? posey thinks it's a double so he's sprinting. upon further review, it is a home run. hit the railing above the concrete there. so let's jog on home. what's his fourth straight game with a homer. tied at three. in the 12th, carlos gonzalez two-run single. and that's the game winner. rockies 5-3 in 12. the a's in toronto, no team in baseball has more homers on the road than the athletics. had three more to their total. khris davis, he should change his name to crush. officially. because that's what he does. 4 for 4 in the game. here it comes and there it goes again. olson a three-run bomb. it's a 6-1 a's lead. matt chapman, this is demolished. not quite jose canseco territory but way up there. his eighth. a's

river rock casino. >> good evening. the giants opened a four-game series with colorado tonight.he way through the season, these division rivals met for the first time tonight. klay thompson at the yard. not worried about the dubs. enjoying a little popcorn. 3-1 rockies in the sixth. brandon belt deep to right center. is it ray double, a homer? posey thinks it's a double so he's sprinting. upon further review, it is a home run. hit the railing above the concrete there. so let's jog on home. what's his fourth straight game with a homer. tied at three. in the 12th, carlos gonzalez two-run single. and that's the game winner. rockies 5-3 in 12. the a's in toronto, no team in baseball has more homers on the road than the athletics. had three more to their total. khris davis, he should change his name to crush. officially. because that's what he does. 4 for 4 in the game. here it comes and there it goes again. olson a three-run bomb. it's a 6-1 a's lead. matt chapman, this is demolished. not quite jose canseco territory but way up there. his eighth. a's win. playoffs all about making a

in colorado, hail helping transform this river into rushing rapids.in the nation's capital, all that rain creating flash floods and the severe winds more than 60 miles an hour causing problems too. the storm whipping through neighborhoods and a tornado warning at dulles airport forcing passengers into this underground tunnel. >> wow. >> reporter: the roads in and out of the airport deluged. lightning lighting up the capitol. falling trees making roads treacherous. in reston, virginia, a tree slices right through this home. >> it's always been a fear of living in this neighborhood. >> reporter: hundreds taking shelter where they could in nearby businesses. >> got people coming into our store, in the starbucks nearby saying, like, can we just sit in here and like be safe? >> reporter: more than 100,000 without power at its peak. about two third have electricity back this morning. at this house in takoma park, maryland, more than 70 firefighters called in to help put out a blaze started by lightning, and further north in frederick a man in critical condi

floods in kenya and i'll be explaining how this river has changed course completely destroying homes fall and cash crops. and after a long walk through the colorados of our enemy persian a sworn in for his fourth term as russia's president. is turning cooler now for some of us in australia we've got a little weather system that's be making its way across the southeast and behind that is a bit fresher than it has been so we're looking at a maximum temperature in adelaide of around eighteen and around seventeen for us in melbourne should be fine and settled on choose day but then we've got the next system that's working its way towards us so we'll see an increasing amount of cloud there in adelaide or like to see some rain by the end of the day as well the first system that was it works its way away from australia is making its way towards new zealand so there's already a good deal of cloud with us at the moment to that is bringing us some wet weather particularly to the south and it does look very very wet their own choose day they could even be a little bit of localized flooding in places all of that clears away there by wednesday and then for mos

colorado. cars and trucks under water, covered with hail. thunderstorms lashing washington, d.c. and virginia. a park trail turning into a rushing river there in arlington. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano, tracking it all for us, and just with the holiday weekend approaching. >> reporter: yeah, and, you know, we're still nine days away until the official start of hurricane season. we could have a named storm before then. as you mentioned, better than a 50/50 shot of getting some development out of this. you see the thunderstorms flaring up over cancun. the main threat is going to be rain, forced up over florida. some areas already seeing a foot of rain in the last ten days. could see another five-plus inches over the weekend, so, flooding is going to be an issue. >> reminds us that watching the tropics, that season is here now. all right, rob, thank you. >>> next tonight, the president of usc under fire this evening after several former students sued the university, accusing a campus gynecologist of sexual misconduct and assault. they claim it went on for years, and that the university failed to respond to complai

colorado and nebraska. but the track of what's left of alberto is going to track across the panhandle, through alabama, the tennessee valley, and then up through the ohio river valley. it will weaken as far as the winds go, but the rain is going to be there. so, we've got flash flood watching that are posted for as far north as southern indiana and across the carolinas. could see two, three, four inches of rainfall. this is an area that's seen a lot of rain in the last couple of weeks, so, very saturated and very prone to flooding through the midweek. tom? >> still very much a massive rainmaker. all right, rob, thank you so much. >>> next tonight, new developments in that violent beach arrest, caught on camera on the jersey shore. the wildwood police chief speaking out tonight, saying these viral images of a young woman getting punched in the head don't tell the whole story. we're also learning there's police body cam footage now under review. abc's erielle reshef picks up the story. >> reporter: tonight, this disturbing video of two officers violently taking down a young mom on a new jersey beach sparking new backlash. the cops seen punching the woman in th

river city science academy of jacksonville, florida, for winning the state championship in the science olympiad and for their excellent representation in the national competition that took place in fort collins, colorado, on may 19, 2018. this remarkable achievement was the first time a school from duvall county has won the state competition and i couldn't be more proud of the students, teachers and parents that came together to achieve this outstanding victory. my district is home to some of the brightest students in the country and the academic excellence of the river city science academy is just more proof of the robust stem programs that we facilitate back home. stem education is so important in a highly competitive, technologically driven economy, and i'm thankful for the educaters who dedicate their lives to training the next scientists, mathematicians and engineers. congratulations once again to the river city science academy for leading the way and i look forward to hearing of their many successes in the years to come. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. womack, for five minutes. womewome mr. speaker, -- mr. womac