And if the power is shut off we heard from pg e it would happen early wednesday morning. All of this is a fluid situation as they watch the weather. Pg and e is preparing for what could be the 10th Public Safety power shut off. The Company Warning it may cut power to parts of marin, sonoma, napa and Solano County as well as parts of the east bay including berkeley and lafayette. I am ready. I do have a generator. And i am all for it. Reporter pgae says the Emergency Operation center is keeping an eye on strong winds expected to start early wednesday morning and last through thursday morning. The company may turn off power to thousands of customers to reduce the risk of a wild fire. I mean i would like a definite answer, maybe. That would be nice to know for sure. I just drank the last of the spare water thinking we are in the clear and now i have to buy all that again. Reporter pg e says double check your emergency kit and splice and have a plan ready. We are still monitoring the weath
A traditional way of life forever being altered by miners and loggers. Rival lula has promised to end illegal deforestation and mining. But is he really the man to save the amazon . Perhaps this is one of the most critical president ial elections we have ever had in brazil. As brazilians go to the polls, will who wins decide the future of the rainforest . We travelled to brazils Yanomami Territory, right up on the border with venezuela. Its the Worlds Largest indigenous reserve home to nearly 30,000 people who live as hunter gatherers, as well as tens of thousands of illegal miners, a number that keeps growing. The remoteness of the yanomami is what makes them so special, but also increasingly vulnerable. This woman is malnourished and dehydrated. The Health Centres become a Field Hospital on the front line of illegal mining. There are new cases every day old and young. Nobody escapes this scourge. Outside, a Makeshift Ward is full of patients with malaria the yanomami sick. Marilena i
marilena s two month old grandson has pneumonia. he doesn t have a name yet. yanomami people don t name their children for several years in case they die. it s a very real fear. five minutes walk from the health centre, a polluted creek doesn t stop the children playing. the mercury used to extract gold in the mine upstream has poisoned these once crystal clear waters. fishing and drinking here is now impossible. jenny played in this water as a kid, though much has changed not least the temptation for young indigenous to get involved in illegal mining. and this is the mine that s causing their pain. production in full swing, it s scarring the landscape and its people. there are as many as 20,000 illegal miners working in the region. we just passed one of the worst affected areas in the yanomami territory. we couldn t land. the polot said many of the miners are armed, and he was worried they d shoot at the plane. in the past few years, monitoring of illegal activity in the
More and more people trying to escape venezuela. For years the south american nation of venezuela has been mired in crisis mismanagement and corruption have brought the country to the brink people are starving local shops are often empty there are regular antigovernment protests and those who can leave according to the International Organization for migration almost one point six million venezuelans have fled the country most to neighboring colombia hundreds of thousands of others have left for the u. S. And chile and a growing number and now heading to brazil. Many have been on the road for days those who could afford it took a bus part of the way theyve now finally reached brazil. Desperate venezuelans who no longer see any future back home. We have no money in venezuela you can no longer make enough money to survive it might be enough to buy one chicken a month. Back out im on the border between brazil and venezuela is a gateway its also become a hub of smuggling and illicit commerc
Mired in crisis mismanagement and corruption have brought the country to the brink people are starving local shops are often empty there are regular antigovernment protests and those who can leave according to the International Organization for migration almost one point six million venezuelans have fled the country most in neighboring colombia hundreds of thousands of others have left for the u. S. And a growing number and now heading to brazil. Many have been on the road for days those who could afford it took a bus part of the way theyve now finally reached brazil. Desperate venezuelans who no longer see any future back home. We have no money in venezuela you can no longer make enough money to survive it might be enough to buy one chicken a month. Back out im on the border between brazil and venezuela is a gateway its also become a hub smuggling and illicit commerce. Most venezuelan refugees pass through here in search of a better life in brazil. Jenny romero and her children have m