Arseou winds picking up fire crews do admit with that red flag warning continuing through the weekend their work is not finish yet. S e tharaw that the fo that . Res porter that is er right. Ive been covering wildfes in Southern California for seven years. I believe this is the first time i have seen all the Evacuation Centers that had been opened for this fire come full. They have at least six Evacuation Centers. They started with a r number. They had to continue to open more shelters. People here because of the dfad w ildeirfi tni teeslyha taking he warnings. The oakland Fire Departments deploying a strike team to help crews in southern the strike team arrived in los deoy an extra Engine Company if needed. Ifhey go out on the state resource which is our 8232 which is deployed right now. It is 14 days up to ndout addit Engine Company from the city of oakland it is 7 to 10 days. Up to 14. Before we starttohe uise. Alameda county and San Francisco fire has sent strike teams to help batt
For laundry and flushing the toilet. There is a lot of protocols we have to follow. It is timeconsuming. We work as fast as we cant get the peoples lights back on. Reporter pg e crews and their assorted contractors were working to get the lines reenergized out here. Among them brian and gordon contractors from washington state. Assigned to a line near sonoma mountain. Every bit of it has to be eyeballed. We have to have ice on it. Storm damage and make sure there are no limbs. No wire down. Reporter their job is to get their ice on every inch of this line no matter where it goes. Out here that can present some challenges. Probably agood mile or a mile and a half. We had to walk through brush and trees. Reporter this is how the event winds down. Little more waiting for some and a lot of work for those line crews. This is what we have done so far. Reporter one corner of an outage that affected so much of california. Back at five i said i expected the lights to come back on. In this area
cameras the way they re talking about digital cameras! at least they ll get old one day, i suppose. it ll happen to all of us? i m afraid that s all we ve got time for. full length version of the programme can be found on iplayer. thanks for watching. we ll see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up, the bbc gets it from both sides as it reports on the third anniversary of the uk leaving the european union. and an expert review says bbc news needs to brush up its coverage of economics. i ll be talking to the author of a new report. a lot of numbers have been thrown around this week, including a welter of economic statistics, which is a subject we ll come back to later. this week also saw the 100th day of rishi sunak s premiership on thursday. and the day before that, it was the third anniversary of the uk leaving the eu. love it or loathe it, brexit is three years old. it s still in its infancy, but the economy does appear to have taken a hi
for his metal clothing designs and fragrances has died at the age of 88. he made his name with space age designs in the 1960s. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from the historic university city of cambridge in the uk. now, it s the beginning of term and students are coming back and like many generations before them, they ll be benefiting from some of the best educational resources in the world. and that includes valuable treasures looted from afar on colonial expeditions. but we re here because the university has recently announced it s actually returning some of those, specifically benin bronzes, to nigeria. and it s there in what was once known as the kingdom of benin that i want to start this story. for centuries, this street igun eronwan, has been famous for one particular craft bronze casting. its name literally translates to the place where bronze works are made. just five min
Well to an expanded edition of Eyewitness News tonight im Natasha Brown many very latest on our top story. The search on for a gunman who police say abducted a woman and sexually assaulted her in cobbs creek. The Woman Told Police she was forced into the suspects car at 49th and lancaster around 4 00 oclock this morning. She says she was then tied up and sexually assaulted. The vick testimony was able to free herself around 3 00 oclock this afternoon at 57th and large wood and she was taken to the special victims unit. Tonight, the community is on edge. Im just glad she got some help cause because thats scare reach stuff like that dont happen around here. Just after that i went to grab my sister from somewhere, and its like i told her stay where she was, wait for me. You want to be careful. Theres too much going on out here. Police are still searching for the suspect. They say he has dread locks an long beard. Meantime pop super star prince has been laid to rest two days after his sudd