Stories thousands of volunteer firefighters are to be offered compensation for loss of earnings after battling the australian bushfires for weeks. Somalias president says his country will not be demoralised after a bomb attack kills more than seventy people. Democratic president ial contender joe biden says theres no legal basis to force him to testify at Donald Trumps impeachment trial. And the french crowd funding plan which aims to return a zoo full of animals to the wild. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The Australian Government says thousands of volunteer firefighters in New South Wales will be compensated for loss of earnings during the bushfires. More than a hundred are still burning in southern australia and conditions are expected to worsen. Meanwhile, sydneys mayor has insisted the new years eve fireworks display will go ahead despite calls to redirect funds to the firefighting efforts. Briony sowden reports. For those living on the edge of the fires, this is now the new norma
Good morning, leigh. Reporter good morning. Yes. And its very busy. Very crowded in this kitchen. So im doing my best to stay out of everybodys way. We have all the volunteers here. Theyve been here earl 84 this morning. And they are doing an Assembly Line of the meals. And it looks like the potatoes that is now on its side which means we are probably getting low on that end. And they will have to put in the second shift of potatoes. They are moving along pretty quickly. There are more than 4,000 meals that will be packaged here and hand delivered to thousands of San Francisco residents who cannot leave their homes either to illness or age. Now we have more than 500 volunteers coming to pick up these meals and deliver them. There are some longtime volunteers that are here. We did meet a guy in the first hour named zach who is here with both of his parents. We have also met tourists from germany that came early to help out. We were thinking what to do with our christmas. And we thought
What changed . So they could vote as early as thursday. Stay with us for continuing coverage, tomorrow morning, the briefing is scheduled for 6 00 a. M. Our time, and mornings on to have complete coverage. Bloomberg is headed to utperformances. The assisted Living Center may have 16 days to move. There is a lot of stress for those seniors right now, right in the middle of the holidays. It really is bad timing, julie, very stressful. There are 80 seniors who are here at the san pablo assisted Living Center. Many of them have serious disabilities and now they are all scrambling to try to find another home before this one closes. Home for the holidays at the brookdale san pablo assisted Living Center has not been married. You can feel the anxiety. They learned they have 60 days to find another place to live. It is very hard this time of year. Stressful, frantic search for housing. I was devastated. The first thing that came to mind is the fact i dont have a lot of money. Im living on my 2
Inland. That sun coming up just before 7 00 setting before 5 00. Then looking at gusty winds arriving for your monday and then a whole different story for the rest of the week. Liz . Thanks, lisa. Neighbors in union city are mourning the loss of two young boys shot and killed in a School Parking lot early yesterday morning. Police are still searching for the suspects. The deaths mark the first two homicides in union city this year. Abc 7 News Reporter anner has san has the details. Reporter family and friends gathered at union city. Thats horrific and terrible for the families. Prayers go out. Reporter police say they got several 911 calls reporting gunshots. When Police Arrived they found two boys in a parked minivan. It wasnt a few fireworks that usually go off in this neighborhood, they like to do that here, but yeah, it was just a very long, long, drawn out range of shots. Reporter the 14yearold died on scene. The 11yearold died on wait to the hospital. The motive behind why they w
Cool numbers in place as well. Right now santa rosa 42 and heres our live camera at sfo this morning. Once again there is a slight chance of a sprinkle l or light shower today or tomorrow. We are tracking some more rain. The 5day forecast well have more on that in a little bit. Thank you mark. 7 01 now and some last minute preparations are under way. Hundreds of volunteers will help put together free meals for the homeless and others in need. Alyssa harrington joins us live at glide doing some of that preparation work chopping away. Good morning. Thats right. More than 9,000 meals will be prepared over the thanksgiving holiday. With me i have karen hammer head to talk about whats in store. Behind us were seeing a lot of turkeys what does it take to make this event happen every year . So it takes thousands of people, it takes a lot of volunteers. It takes hundreds of turkeys and hams and donations from across the city. It takes the glide family which really comes from the entire bay are