We begin this morning with dozens of raging wildfires that are wreaking havoc out west. Three firefighters in Central California were hospitalized for injuries as crews rushed to rescue people trapped by flames. Officials are urging thousands in oregon to evacuate as unprecedented wildfires rip through the state. In fact, its getting so intense, firefighters are even being urged to leave some areas. Hurricaneforce winds are making it hard to combat the outofcontrol wildfires in washington state. So far at least 330,000 acres have been scorched. That is more than what burned in each of the last 12 fire seasons. Danya bacchus is in tollhouse, california. Tell me fire crews are working to get an upper hand here. How are they dealing with the fires . Reporter good morning to you, annemarie. They are working around the clock, nonstop to try to get these fires contained. Unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be happening yet. In fact, firefighters saying that they do not expect to have this creek
Epidemiologist. I will keep my remarks brief this morning. When we began reopening nearly a month ago, i was clear that covid19 cases, our count would rise. Unfortunate, we are seeing that happen in several parts of the state, in rural and urban oregon. As i said before, reopening comes with real risk, and thats why we are carefully monitoring the ability of the Public Health system to respond to covid19 cases without becoming overwhelmed. The noticeable increase in covid19 infections in oregon the past week is certainly cause for concern. To slow the transmission of the virus, i am putting all pending county reopening applications on hold for seven days. This is essentially a statewide yellow light. This oneweek pause will give Public Health experts time to assess what factors are driving the spread of the virus and determine if we need to adjust our approach to reopening. I will continue to work with doctors and Public Health experts to assess whether to lift the pause, extend the pa
Everyone and thank you for joining us today. I want to acknowledge that we typically have simultaneous spanish interpretation for us during our press conferences. We were not able to secure services this morning but we will provide translation online. Allen,e with pat director of the Oregon Health authority and our state epidemiologist. I will keep my remarks brief this morning. When we began reopening nearly a month ago, i was clear that covid19 cases, our count would rise. Unfortunate, we are seeing that happen in several parts of the state, in rural and urban oregon. As i said before, reopening comes with real risk, and thats why we are carefully monitoring the ability of the Public Health system to respond to covid19 cases without becoming overwhelmed. The noticeable increase in covid19 infections in oregon the past week is certainly cause for concern. To slow the transmission of the virus, i am putting all pending county reopening applications on hold for seven days. This is essen
but a complicated answer, i suspect. who s winning? clive murray, there, presenting the news at ten from ukraine, where he was all last week. the weary response of mike mckinnon. well, we asked bbc news, not for the first time, why it was felt necessary to send news presenters off on location in that way. they told us. do let us know your thoughts on anything we re covering in this programme or on any aspect of bbc news. there will be details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. you have already been letting us know your views on our new studio, as invited, and here are a couple of comments about, well, this sofa. first, john telfer. and irene mackinnon wondered. we can reassurejohn that this is actually a different, though admittedly rather similar sofa to that used for breakfast. and in answer to irene, i am very much hoping to have some guests to share it with in the coming weeks, and besides, several other bbc programmes use the studio as well. now, for a lon
in the weather center. let s start there jonboy bit foggy out there this morning. yeah foggy and smoky guys on top of it the smoke imbedded in that fog that you re seeing for a lot of the bay this morning as cfo under both smoky and foggy conditions to get things started the worst of the smoke that s up in marine county are noticing from the coast on through nevado and you re also just going to notice that all across the bay poor conditions in the east bay very poor conditions from the peninsula. up through solano napa and sonoma counties then there s the fog to hayward nevado santa rosa and half moon bay as well as portions of oakland, all seeing visibility falling. well below a mile this morning so visibility has been an issue also got a steady breeze some go ahead, give yourself enough extra few minutes to anticipate any sort of weather interruptions on your drive into work 50 s 60 s for your current temperatures again with that wind we ve got a brisk feel to the air outs