medford, same to you. po portland today, 90 and sunny. the deserts have been in a hot stretch, easily the hottest stretch of the summer around phoenix, continuing tomorrow at 109. throughout the week, does look like things change a bit, especially over the weekend, could even get clouds in the area, maybe a shower or two. temperatures should be dropping a little bit, hopefully not triple digits, maybe 100. >> phoenix liking sunday, thank you, bill. >>> entertainment news, elmore leonard has died from stroke complications. the 82-year-old was hailed for turning crime fiction into an art form. >>> taylor swift continues to have fun with her infamous mtv awards show encounter with west. the singer mocked the singer's comments with a label she attached to homemade jam she gave to a friend. yo, ed, i'm really happy for you, and i'm going to let you finish, but this is the best jam of all time. >>> major buzz with comments he made to "rolling stone" magazine referring to his success and the song "thrift shop." he says, even though i'm cussing m

our nbc station in medford, oregon, kobi, celebrating 60 years on the air this month. like other broadcast pioneers, this family, which still owns the station, gave out 3:00 free tv sets to create an audience back in 1953. folks in medford started watching and the station is still going strong today. >>> well, old ships don't fade away. they just go to the scrapyard of cultural history. we're talking about the pacific princess. the ship you probably know better as the love boat which is making its final run. nbc's michelle franzen tonight on the end of a love affair. ♪ the love boat >> reporter: the love boat set sail in the '70s. >> they don't make programs like that any more. >> reporter: each weect flash of celebrity guests and favorites like charo along with the funny antics of the crew members like the captain and gofer. >> why me? >> reporter: helped launch the idea of a cruise vacation for millions of americans. >> it's something you watched as a kid and said, oh, i'd like to do something like that some day. >> reporter: the real life love boat made-the-final vo

clip to medford and raining to the north on i-5 as you go throughout your morning drive. still warm in the pacific northwest and back to sunshine in the deserts. that's your national forecast, coast, like santa rosa at 69. >>> and it looks like the forecast doesn't change either. those poor people in missouri tomorrow morning are going to be talking about the same thing again. we need a change of the weather pattern. >> you work on that. >> i wish i had that power. >>> straight ahead, the story of a sinking ship and the man who actually gets to face his dog first before rescuing his wife. >>> plus, the donald is about to get his hands on one of washington's most historic landmarks. we're back after this. >>> a house of horrors where three young women were held for upwards of a decade is set to be demolished today. it's part of a plea deal that spared ariel castro the death penalty. jay gray is live in cleveland with what's next. good morning, jay. >> reporter: hey, there, good morning, betty. always good to talk to you. it's an important day for this neighborhood and this

a little hotter in medford, oregon. but in los angeles, about 79 degrees. partly cloudy later on. so we will lose some of those clouds. and then tomorrow, we're looking at temperatures to be even nicer. 94, very hot in boise. up and down california, cool in san francisco in the 60s. but we should be warmer, down in southern california. >> looking good, right? >> thank you dylan. >>> four new films to talk about battled for moviegoers over the weekend. when the smoke cleared matt damon "elysium" edged out the competition. the sci-fi action film claimed box office supremacy bringing in $30 million. "we're the millers," "planes," "percy jackson: sea of monsters," and "2 guns" round out the top five. >>> usher emerged victorious in a custody battle. the ruling allows urber to retain primary custody of the former couple's two boys. >>> swiss tourism officials apologized to oprah after she said she experienced racism inside a zurich boutique. a salesperson reportedly refused to show the media mogul a $38,000 bag telling her it was too expensive. >>> he was very special to me and also to

medford, maybe a stray shower tomorrow. just boom, boom, boom, day after day. i mean -- >> so far this sum ear. >> summer to remember. >> if you had to pick one part of the west it would be northwest. seattle just had a great year. >>> in entertainment news, alex rodriguez's suspension from baseball made him the butt of jokes on "late night with jimmy fallon." >> alex rodriguez has been suspended from baseball for 211 games but he's going to appeal the decision and keep playing. >> ooh. >> even anthony weiner was like, man, some people just don't know when to quit. >> wouldn't you love to see the two of them talk, though? >>> no one dies at a hunger games camp in florida, thankfully. instead of killing off tributes like they do in the popular book and film series, they claim lives by stripping away flags. the competitor with the most flags wins. >>> radar online is reporting sources close to teresa guidice says the real housewives star expects her husband, joe, to take the fall to keep her out of prison. the reality show couple is facing 50 years in prison and

maybe a slight chance of a shower or two portland to medford but not there. but again, more miss than hit. >>> we have been keeping track of fairbanks, alaska, and how many 80-degree days they've had. >> how hot is it? >> i'll let you know if they hit 80 again today coming up. >>> jackie robinson defaced. >>> plus, the ft. hood shooter working toward his own execution. >>> also, the best and worst performing small cars when it comes to the crash test. "early today" is back in two. >>> welcome back. here some are stories making news. the house in cleveland where ariel castro held three women captive for more than ten years was demolished wednesday. this time lapse video shows workers tearing down the house of horrors. even google did their part by wiping the house off their virtual map. >>> police continue their search for the two california children who have been missing since sunday. amber alerts have been issued in both oregon and washington as authorities widen the search for james lee dimaggio. he's the man suspected of abducting the children after killin

nine days lifted off mere to parts of oregon and washington, keeping most of the lightning across medford and eugene and portland and we're looking at clear skies currently and that will give us very incredible results for our friday forecast. starting off at near 60 for tomorrow morning with a low cloud from the coastline back to the interior valueousley. sunny skies and we'll hold on to cloud cover throughout the late morning by the bay with temperatures in the mid 60s. live skycam are network looking impressive in san jose. we have a bit of haze but air quality not suffering too much at this hour. off to the north, we have winds, 15 to 30, especially across the hills of the peninsula and you see the marine layer tack up at 1500 feet. a flawless view in san francisco with plenty of blue sky. the system as it moved off to the north helped to drag out the marine layer for a good part of the kwlooirn and it's beautiful this afternoon. as far as the fog forecast goes for friday, the immediate coastline will have low cloud cover. we highlight north bay counties. by the afternoon, it will be

medford, massachusetts, and these guys have gathered up like nine people to go in a line here. and this dude you are seeing back here is going to run and jump over them. now i would not want to be the end people. >> right. >> these guys know what they are doing. they perform for a living out on the street. they rely on people's tips. they want to do a good job because this is surely a street performance out on the street. the guy runs and jumps and honestly, wasn't even close. it looks like he kicks this guy with the white shirt in the head. >> and the ribs. >> yeah. the performer's reaction is what startles me the most. watch him. he starts giving himself a hand. you just karate kicked some guy. >> that's awful. that guy probably had to go to the hospital and couldn't walk the next day. >> last week we've been doing these guys. let's try and jump nine. >>> a race car driver makes a hard left and then -- >> good-bye. >> he disappears. >> see how a zip around has his tumbling down. >>> and dude offers a homeless man some food and beer to help him paint his house. >> he's doing a

dead with a pair of nylons wrapped around her neck in 1977 say the district attorney called them in medfordoregon to tell them the news. they say they're relieved. >> just knowing he's locked up and has to live with it for the rest of his life. thank goodness, they got him, and i'm sure the other families are the same way. >> i wish he could get the death penalty. >> reporter: he served as his own attorney in the case and showed no emotion when the verdict was read. no

dead with a pair of nylons wrapped around her neck in 1977 say the district attorney called them in medford, oregon to tell them the news. they say they're relieved. >> just knowing he's locked up and has to live with it for the rest of his life. thank goodness, they got him, and i'm sure the other families are the same way. >> i wish he could get the death penalty. >> reporter: he served as his own attorney in the case and showed no emotion when the verdict was read. now they will decide whether to recommend the death penalty. >> i hope that he goes to a main line prison and is treated the way he treated these girls. >> reporter: the death penalty phase will begin on september 4th. >>> this has been a sad story for the families involved and a twisted trial. were you in the courtroom. you followed this trial. did joseph have any real chance here representing himself? >> absolutely. and i think the best evidence, absolutely not. the betts evidence of that is that this was four cold case murders and the jury only took six hours to convict him with very little forensic evidence, with no confes

in the northwest, we have dozens of fires burning in and around boise, 95, 96 in reno, 95 in medford. not getting a lot of moisture in the area. dozens of wildfires, many in idaho area, including haleigh where we have a red flag warning, meaning conditions are favorable for starting or spreading of wildfires in the next 24 to 48 hours. there's the five-day forecast. a little moisture working in tuesday. but looks like none of the moisture hits the ground because it is so dry in this area. we've had severe drought across the west as you can see. much of the west is into dry to extreme to even exceptional drought while the east has seen incredible amounts of rain. no drought here, especially across the southeast, where they continue to see all of the moisture stream in from gulf of mexico, from the atlantic. i am sure they would love to donate some of their moisture to the west. look at some precipitation we received in the last 48 hours in some cases two to four or six to eight inches of rain. on top of that, we're going to see potential for three to five inches more of the wet weather

medford. there were much more complicated balls in the political era over the texas annexation era, especially in those months after the election, people know that james polk is going to be the next president. the treaty to annex texas had already been defeated by the senate. and they have to come up with a new way of trying to accomplish this. they had to come up to a new -- not terribly constitutional i with a of trying to accomplish this if they're going to accomplish it at all. so they have to go through the match nations of the joint resolutions set for december of 1844. but that involves much broader political questions in terms of where people are in this political realignment in america that's going on at the time. there's -- the whigs are breaking down. the republicans have long broken down. anti-jacksonians. but she firmly believes that she's responsible. john tyler believes that she's responsible, when on march 1, 1845, he signs the joint resolution to annex texas. he gives her the

medford, 97, 97 in reno. not only the idaho area, but all up and down the california coastline we have red flag watches and warnings in effect. but i also want to point your attention to hailey, which is where we are talking about where that wildfire is burning, they are under a fire weather watch as well as a red flag warning, meaning that conditions are favorable for wildfires. very low relative humidity, in the single digits, not much moisture and we could see gusty winds. so the past 48 hours we have some monsoonal moisture across the southwest, but it's not making its way into this region, unfortunately. so hailey, in and around the hailey area, sun valley, dry conditions for the next couple of days. now, on tuesday, we have a slight chance of thunderstorms. but because it's so dry in this area, any moisture is probably going to evaporate before it hits the ground. and we could have dry lightning, which means no moisture and the lightning which could spark more wildfires. so that's going to be a big conc

medford, redding, a bull's eye there. sometimes the thunderstorms, not so much.ll wet. . >>> good morning maryland. i'm meteorologist lynette charles, and we do have areas of fog this morning as we go throughout the afternoon, though, that high temperature coming in at 87 degrees with scattered showers and storms. that will linger into thursday and friday. drier by the weekend. >> this weather report brought to you by bounty. >>> i have to tell you. this is doc mcstuffins. if you don't know her. that's about the coolest thing you can get on disney jr. i want to show you what's happening. you see this huge mobile behind him. i'm going to get inside. kids can come down from 10:00 to 4:00 here today and in a lot of other places, to get their toys checked up on. this is a movement that's started. you are part of the movement. the kids come in here. they're learning about medicine. that's what you do. why did this all get you guys going? >> when we saw dr. stuffins. and we thought it was parent for young people to see that image to become a doctor. when i was 4 years

medford.here were much more complicated balls in the political era over the texas annexation era, especially in those months after the election, people know that james polk is going to be the next president. the treaty to annex texas had already been defeated by the >> the treaty to annex the had been defeated by senate. they had to come up to a new -- not terribly constitutional i trying to accomplish this if they're going to accomplish it at all. so they have to go through the nations of the joint resolutions set for december of 1844. ut that involves much broader political questions in terms of where people are in this realignment in america that's going on at the time. here's -- the whigs are breaking down. the republicans have long broken down. the anti-jacksonians. he firmly believes she's responsible. john tyler believes she's 1, onsible when on march 1845, he signs the joint that annexes texas, e gives her the gold pen and she wore it around her neck and wore it as a trophy. >> from gr

because we haven't had those santa ana winds come through, but look up by the border of oregon by medfordg about three fires burning there, one if in butte county north of sacramento, idaho really on fire all around the state and near a couple of areas in wyoming, up in helena, montana. fires burping in areas that have really caused the west to be stretched thin. firefighters have had a long fire season, and the fire season's almost year round because you have such dry conditions in southern areas like california and arizona. it used to be you'd get a break in the winter time, but now that really doesn't happen. as you're seeing these dramatic fire flames and these dramatic situations that men have to fly into and women have to go into to battle the flames, now imagine we haven't really had it in southern california. we haven't had those horrible wind conditions that are expected when we move into september. martha: we wish everybody well and always homes that are in harm's way. adam, thank you very much. >> reporter: all right. gregg: responding to the unrest in egypt, washington continu

medford, there are were much more complicated in the political area of the texas annexation issue that julia tyler would solve, especially the months after the election. people know james polk will be the next president. the treaty to annex -- the treaty to annex texas had already been defeated by the senate. and they have come up with a new, not terribly constitutional way to accomplish it if they're going to accomplish it at all so they have to go through the machinations of the joint revolutions through december 1844. but that involves much broader political questions and in terms of where people are from -- in this political realignment and of america that's going on at the time. wigs are breaking down. obviously, the republicans have long broken down. anti-jacksonians. but she firmly believes that she's responsible. john tyler believes that she's responsible, when on march 1, 1845, he signs the joint resolution to annex texas. he gives her the pen, the pen that he sign it's with. and she put it around her neck and wore it as a trophy. did his wife julia try to redeem his good name