Jesse gary. Reporter as firefighters worked to tap out a fire that is mostly contained. Word ever reinforcements are headed to the front lines. That is part of an effort to upgrade and improve the capacity to mitigate, prevent, and suppress wildfires. Reporter Governor Newsom announcing Additional Resources for cal fire seen at 285 million is being used to purchase upwards of 12 new blackhawk helicopters to aden suppression. He said that 172 fulltime firefighters are being work the they do direct Line Construction on the fire cutting vegetation down to the bare mineral soil. Including the control lines around the fires. Reporter there been over 41 hundred wildfires that exceed the average they believe the increase indicates drier and more dangerous fire season. Fuel moistures are lower than average. Epically what we associate with the drought. Reporter they said the university has hired five full time faculty members dedicated to research and prevention. His department is creating a fi
Stop spreading the virus. The Vice President accompanied by hhs secretary azar, doctors birx and fouauci, all wearing masks. Several times they spoke to those 35 and under. While the disease may not kill you, you could very well spread it to someone who might die. Making sure that while the coronavirus doesnt represent as significant a threat for serious outcome to a younger american, none of us would want to bring the disease back to our parents, grandparents, moms and dads, an elderly friend or a friend who has a immunodeficiency and cause a serious outcome, as well. Reporter a couple of numbers half of the people catching the virus now are under 35. Vice president pence twice warning younger people to be careful. Texas and arizona have the biggest growth in the pandemic. In california, the worst is in los angeles county. But there is a new flareup in the central valley, and the federal government is warning Governor Newsom about that. As we listened to Vice President pence and docto
Streets of chile. We put together a holiday cover for you guys. Quite a cover talking about softbank. We think this is one of the biggest stories of the year. It started with we work, which the magazine covered early on. Coverage developed and went on and on, there was another story we started think about, which was softbank. Softbank, we did talk about it so much this year. What i love about the story, you go into the layers of softbank. Obviously the leader of the role, but there are other players. The guy who is the visionary at softbank, especially the vision fund. This outsized force in silicon billion that can do a lot of things because it has so much money. It can go into we work and basically bankroll we work, which is a Business Model that might not have been right for the long haul yet. You were aggressive. Go big or go home was the strategy behind softbank. Sometimes that worked. Other times it doesnt. This story reveals the culture within softbank and the vision fund where
Bring that to you. Day two o impeachment hearings. A shocker in the room. Accusations that the president intimidating witnesses in realtime. And there have been several bombshells today. Susan, the former ambassador to ukraine is describing what is Smear Campaign against the president had to do was say he wanted somebody different. Thats right. She knows the president can remove any ambassador at any time for any reason, but this is mar marie yovanovitch, a 33year state department diplomat. She is telling her story today about how the Trump Administration treat ed her, while she was removed all as republicans try to defend the president. Day two of public impeachment hearings features marie yovanovitch, former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, abruptly removed from her spring, told she was recalled without cause yovanovitch said by Rudy Giuliani who said wanted her out of the way the conduct a shadowed ukraine policy at the the july call with president zelensky and someone who is going tlg
Back to our breaking news. We just finished listening to a live News Conference from pga be updating the situation as pertains to the power cut offs already, hundreds of thousands of customers in the bay area are without power now and other areas are coming on line later tonight. It had been scheduled for 8 oclock it may stay at 8 oclock. Theyre reassessing now it could be between 8. 10 the should also course are designed to reduce the risk wildfires. Amid these dry and windy condition of his dna. Just said that is going to shut off power in portions of 34 counties. Throughout the entire state due to the severe drive wind event its expected to create up. High fire danger. The estimate the shot off will affect some 800,000 customers across northern and Central California and in the bay area to estimated to to affect some 274,000 customers, those will be late delayed as we mentioned until 08 00pm possibly later the studies included berkeley oakland, lafayette raga san Leandro Alameda cou