Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and might not be celebrating in larger groups. And as a result, many will be separated from their loved ones on this very special day. Bu folks, this is a very familiar feeling for anyon who has ever served in our Nations Armed forces. Protecting our nation. Rom at any given moment, thousands of men and women,oms and dads, brothers and sisters, are stationed arnd the world standing vigilant in the defense of freedom. Those wearing the uniform arent the only ones making a sacrifice either back home ther
Defense secretary, christopher miller, who was only installed in the post last week by january 15th, 2021. Our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops, or 4 sides in iraq will also be 2500 by that same date. This is consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives supported by the American People and does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Shortly after the announcement on troop withdrawals was made, several katyusha rockets landed in baghdads green zone. At least 7 rockets were fired. Some of them landing near the u. S. Embassy. The u. S. Air Defense System crime was deployed to intercept and destroy the rockets but one child was killed. Now ethiopias government is saying that troops have achieved significant victories in its conflict with forces in the north and to region. The National Army is carried out air strikes near the regions main city of mikheil. A is the primary primary base for the Peoples Liberation front ot p. L. F. Which go
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage with specifics on just how hot it could get and searing heat around the bay area, not just your normal he way we see go to a 100 to maybe 103 degrees were talking maybe a 110 maybe even warmer in some spots breaking down your temperatures along the coastline, even heat advisory stated in orange here in effect even up toward the beaches, Half Moon Bay pacifica daly city youre in that heat advisory, but you do see temperatures mainly in the 70s and the 80s well above the average. But rather reasonably compared to the rest the bay area you can see just over the hill 90s maybe some triple digit heat in redwood city the south bay talking temperatures as high as a 104 degrees and then you get the east bay and were really going to get cooking youll see in place like new work in san lorenzo a cast valley but then as you get into Pleasanton Livermore tomorrow topping out about a 105 maybe a 110 by sunday similar temperatures to be found in
Lake berryessa safe again and in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties, Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be. Taking care of cleaned up repaired. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its burned more than 310,000 a
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co