Im Megan Mcgrath live in harp percent ferry. If you look behind me you can see the damage caused by this Early Morning fire. This is the Business District along high street. All four Historic Buildings were destroyed. Actually, thats my shop. History up in flames in Harpers Ferry. Cindy dunns shop the vintage lady is no more. The building which dates back to 1840 is now a burnedout shell. What this has done not just to me personal le but to the fabric that is Harpers Ferry is devastating. Reporter flames raged through a section of the historic Business District on high street this morning. Four buildings, home to several businesses and apartments were destroyed. It is quite a blow to this tightknit community. When it actually phappens in a small down like this it is affected. Now who the poor people are. You know everybody. Reporter while the loss of property is extensive, cindi dunn takes comfort in the fact that no one was hurt. People love this town. It is heartbreaking to think how
Neighborhood the Golden Bear Community last evening. The fire burning away from those homes thanks to calmer winds yesterday. Its in a remote area. The terrain is so rugged fire crews are not going to bring in heavy equipment and they have to build containment lines by hand. We dont have to worry about homes threatened but its going to be ugly terrain trying to get in there. Reporter mandatory evacuations are still in effect for the quail ridge and the canyon creek area. The red cross has an Evacuation Center set up at the Winters Community center. We stayed until, um, the flames were out the back window. They were 30 feet tall at that point. Thats when i decided, we need to go. Reporter there is a large animal Evacuation Center as well located nearby. Theres a lot of ranches in this area with cows, horses, you name it. We are going to hear from some of those people still under evacuation orders coming up in the next halfhour. As for the cause of the fire, still under investigation. Pr
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Thousands of acres of bonedry lands are on fire today. Firefighters are working around the clock to contain a growing number of wildfires in the state. In just stays the fires have destroyed 100,000 acres more than 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. Good morning steph, fires are burning all along the west coast but the hardest hit is northern california, fires north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday is what it looks like. The winds are driving the fire through dry trees and timbers. The fire got pretty big. Firefighting planes are making the rounds including dc ten tankers releasing fire retardant. Evacuation orders effecting 12,000 people have been issued in communities north of francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an rv with h
Politics. Amy the look of silence. Three years after releasing the act of killing, oscarnominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with a new film about the u. S. Backed genocide in indonesia, this time, looking at the victims. Joshua i returned to make the film i set out to make at the beginning, what is it like for the survivors to have to live in the midst of the still powerful regime . Amy we will speak with Joshua Oppenheimer and the role of the United States in the indonesian genocide. Joshua they provided aid weapons, money to carry out the genocide. They him may have been involved in masterminding it. Amy all that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is unveiling a new set of power regulations highlighted as the strongest actions taken in the United States to combat Climate Change. It could shatter coal fire power plants and fuel a shift toward wind and solar power. The final rules are
Politics. Amy the look of silence. Three years after releasing the act of killing, oscarnominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with a new film about the u. S. Backed genocide in indonesia, this time, looking at the victims. Joshua i returned to make the film i set out to make at the beginning, what is it like for the survivors to have to live in the midst of the still powerful regime . Amy we will speak with Joshua Oppenheimer and the role of the United States in the indonesian genocide. Joshua they provided aid weapons, money to carry out the genocide. They him may have been involved in masterminding it. Amy all that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is unveiling a new set of power regulations highlighted as the strongest actions taken in the United States to combat Climate Change. It could shatter coal fire power plants and fuel a shift toward wind and solar power. The final rules are