. >>> let's bring in our jennifer delgado at the international weather center. i believe she is a native of missouri. it would seem the wildfires in arizona can now be added to that costly list of natural disasters over there at home in the united states for you. >> absolutely. we're talking about the flooding, the wildfires and the tornados it has been an incredible year for weather across the u.s. the total is $15 billion in damages. we're still dealing with the fire threat across the u.s. state of arizona. it's really across the eastern part of arizona, moving over to areas like new mexico. we are talking about more than 90,000 hectares, actually burning. anywhere you are seeing orange, that indicates firing burning. this is the third largest wildfire in arizona history. more than 2,000 firefighters working to contain this fire. let's go to video and give you an idea of what it looks like across arizona. the third largest wildfire. and we have some of that video, hopefully we will be able to pull that up for you. you can see fires burning across the region li

jennifer delgado joins us from the cnn weather center.fires have been devastating. >> absolutely. we're talking about arizona. you said we'll see improvement there. the area we were talking about, the wallos wildfire there, it will be spread over more towards the east. we're still talking about a critical fire danger for areas, as you can see, new mexico and over towards texas and oklahoma. we were following that area in arizona. let's show you more of that video to give you an idea of how bad the fire is there. keep in mind, a lost acres have been burning there. thousands of people have been evacuated. they're still working to contain the fires across the region. we'll still be dealing with that fire threat. the winds will still be breezy. we're talking about low relative humidity val use. want to talk more about the story in depth. with the fire, we can tell you more than 100,000 hectares of land burned across that region. 150,000. it's the second largest wildfire in arizona history and in fact more than 2,500 firefighters there from as

so it's not just the american south and midwest getting hit hard this year, jennifer delgado is at thenternational weather center with more on that. how is it looking? massachusetts, not where you would expect to see tornadoes, is it? >> you're right. typically you only see about two of those a year, that's since data has been taken back in 1950, that's according to noaa. it was an incredible day indeed. let's go to some video and show you exactly what it looked like. this is video, actually, of a man who was driving and captured a tornado video while driving this is dylan mcdonald. you have to take safety first. if you look closely, you can see that debris and the trees being whipped around. you are also going to see that tornado in the background. we saw some of the damage that's left behind. four people died. you know, they have not had a deadly tornado since 1995 across massachusetts. and that was an ef-4. things are quieter. we did have that tornado watch in place across the northeast. since then things have quieted down. we had that cold front, it shifted off. now we are left beh

you were going down a storm there jennifer delgado at the international weather center. >>> coming up, looking at the an american baseball team seems to be striking out. hard to see who it's playing against. here on "wbt." >>> welcome back. over to the united states where the los angeles dodgers baseball team has become the latest casualty in a summer full of financial trouble for professional sports. the team is one of baseball's most famous names. but even that hasn't kept it from a bankruptcy calls aits owner struggles to block a takeover by major league baseball. cnn's candy reed has more on that story now. >> the los angeles dodgers have filed for bankruptcy protection a week after major league baseball blocked a new television deal which would have given the franchise a much needed cash injection. the dodgers owners are locked in a bitter divorce case. frank mccourt filed for bankruptcy protection after mlb officials threatened to take over the team if he could not meet the dodgers' payroll. commissioner bud selig blocked the $3 billion deal with the fox sports network. past and

jennifer delgado, i understand people can't even go outside their homes because the smoke is so overwhelming this is certainly a danger. anyone who has any type of health problems say asthma or even the elderly, when the temperatures get so hot and you get the smoke out there, potentially that is going to cause a lot of problems. for today, we are still dealing with a fire threat. we're talking about a critical fire threat for areas including parts of arizona, new mexico, even spreading over towards oklahoma. but the fire in arizona is one we're really watching right now. we're talking more than 200,000 acres burning across the region. go to some of the video to give you an idea of what it looks like. you see the smoke out there and that's what monita was saying that residents are complaining about, the breathing quality -- the air quality is so bad there, thousands of people have been evacuated. and again, a widespread area, we're talking more than 230 acres actually burning right now. the problem is no rain out there. take you back over to our graphic. low relative humidity and also dealin

. >>> meteorologist jennifer delgado has more on those rare and deadly tornadoes with more on that. >eed and rare. you typically only see about two across parts of massachusetts for tornado season. let me show you exactly what it looks like on the radar. things are fairly quiet. we have the tornado watch out there. that cold front has pushed over to the east and you're looking at quiet weather. it was certainly quite wild yesterday. let's go to the video and show you exactly what things looked like yesterday as we pull up that video and go over and show you what's happening at that time. this was actually taken by a man in his car. he was trying to get away from the tornado head. this is in springfield, massachusetts, located about 190 miles. the last time they saw deadly tornadoes back in 1995 and that was from an ef-4 when several people died there. as i take you on the radar and show you things are quiet today. we're expecting really just a slight chance for severe weather to pop up as we go later into the day. now, we are watching the caribbean. in fact, in the southern part of th

our meteorologist jennifer delgado is at the international weather center with the latest. good morning. tell us more. >> we are talking about tropical storm arlene. it's located roughly about 100 kilometers to the east of the mexico coastline. we're talking about tampico as i show you on the satellite imagery. it's been blowing up over the last several hours. it is moving towards the west, beginning to make landfall. there's the center of circulation offshore. we continue to see weather conditions deteriorating across the region. we're talking about the threat for a flooding with the excessive amount of rainfall and the storm surge. as i show you right now, the winds at 97 kilometers per hour, about 60 miles per hour. it will be moving over towards the west. it looks like it will be making landfall to the south of tampico and moving over. it will continue to weaken. as it weakens, it's still pulling out a considerable amount of moisture. that's why we've been talking about the threat for mudslides and landslides. here's a look at the warning. this is the hurricane warning

jennifer delgado has been tracking the arizona wildfires. >> bigger than los angeles or new york. we're ta-- we know 5% of fire i now contained. we're talking arizona. you're looking at apache county. the fire spread into that region yesterday. they actually were able to get a better hold on the fire but still, this is causing widespread damage across the region. we do know now 29 homes were damaged and thousands of people have been evacuated. the good news is for today, the winds will be a bit more favorable for the first time as i take you back over. we're not going to be dealing with a critical or extremely critical fire threat through parts of arizona. as i show you on this graphic right here, all the fires burning are in orange. 150,000 hectares burned, the second largest in arizona's wildfire history and 2,500 firefighters working to contain this. they had to call in firefighters out of california to get a grip of this fire. this image coming out of nasa and it's showing you how wide the fire is and how large it is and how that smoke plume is being pushed over towards the ea

meteorologist jennifer delgado has details on that.'s nice to look at this time. >> very nice to look at. in fact, monita, we haven't seen something like that since 2006. an unusual solar storm. let's go to the video so you can soak in what monita is talking about. you're looking at the video of the sun emitting the solar storm. this is a powerful one. we'll continue to see the potential for this to disrupt the earth's magnetic field later on today as we go through june 9th. this could play into satellite communications like radio, but also want to point out, you're seeing that video and that blast, that's the corronial ejection that is spectacular. we'll start to seat changing of colors as it comes to earth. and we're talking about the aurora lights. we'll tell you how you can enjoy that as it gets closer to the earth. you see the collisions of ions and the atom. anywhere in the northern latitudes you can see for parts of canada and northern parts of russia, some of the higher attitudes. on a scale of one to nine, we give it in a five

jennifer delgado has more on that. jen? >>> that was certainly a big disruption and for today travelers will still need to check ahead. the volcano is still erupting which means we will see the potential for more of that ash to be pushed over towards the east of chile. there is the site of the volume kay know that has been erupting. we are still dealing with the ash so with the winds coming in it's going to continue to push that ash over to the east. as i show you on the satellite imagery you can see how it spread over to areas including buenos aires yesterday and that's why we had those delays. so when you're dealing with volcanic ash like this, really just can't get too upset because it's all up to mother nature. winds will continue to come out of the west. we'll see the winds roughly around 70 will be very strong in the upper level so that's going to have the potential to carry it pretty far away and of course we talked about those delays through areas including australia as well as new zealand yesterday and that potenti

let's go to jennifer delgado at the world weather center. >> we're happy to report in argentina thingsg more smoothly. it looks like all the airports are back open. certainly we'll be paying close attention to the volcano. let's talk more about the flooding that's been happening. this time we're talking about in china. if you look on the satellite imagery, you see some storms popping up. but the area in southwest china has been dealing with incredible flooding. let's go over to it. this will show you the rushing water, reportedly 1,000 homes were toppled 14 people died and they're still looking for reportedly 35 other people. after flooding happened in the gaung jo province as well as the hunan province. reportedly 500 cars were actually just washed way way from the force of the flooding, this is video coming out of the province. this is showing you the power of the rushing water. they were dealing with mudslides and slanlandslides. the flooding that's been happening across hispaniola and haiti. they've been dealing with flooding since last week. as we look on the satellite, things are