Taliban prisoners despite a deal between the group and the u. S. That with the support and 145 days until take your host the olympics the japanese capital holds a scaled down barrier with just 200 runners in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. Welcome to the news are turkey says its launched a renewed military operation in northwestern syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes in the province on thursday turkeys defense minister says the operation is in selfdefense against the assad Regime Syrian state media says turkey has shot down 2 syrian warplanes and but the pilots are safe. Is our correspondent on the turkey syria border near hotter and lets just begin with this very confusing picture about planes either being shot at or shot down. While this this is because of the series of reports weve been getting over the last few hours about spectacular spike of events now in syria particularly in the province of idlib this is absolutely an in
Enough for snow but it is snowing in the sierra. This is not far from tahoe in fact near the shores of north lake tahoe. I will leave that for you, and lets talk about back here at home. That is the scene across the bay bridge. It is cold. 40 degrees in santa rosa. Some places are 9 degrees lower than yesterday at this time. I think this morning will feel better than yesterday if you were out and about because of the next map i will show you, which is the winds. Much better, we had a strong an shore flow. We are not experiencing a lot in the way of wind at the moment. But that is not going to last as we get into the afternoon there is a wind advisory, even though the focus is in the mountains. That is where we will talk about the wind advisory for today. There is a small chance for an afternoon shower. I will show you that as well. Dont get your hopes up for too much rain. And the hdline is the warm up. A 4 alarm fire is now contained. Itef0 last night. The fire also destroyed a restau
C berkeley quite a bit of cloud cover we have a this morning compared to yesterday and that its going to linger a little bit more so today than yesterday so i can see as much sun. Going on today, heres the shot from the golden gate weve got to get the kind of stratus above us broken up or broken clouds if you like to. The radar looks quite active here. Yes, but a lot of this is for a ca looking at the reporting stations nothing is actually hitting the ground. The official reporting station so a lot of this is upper air precipitation. Not yet getting to the ground. Current winds, weve got calm the Single Digits for now, but that will pick up as well. So the wind advisory, a technically hasnt kicked in yet, but it will this morning until 09 00am tomorrow. Were looking at and theres the coverage zone, the same as yesterday again east of the east bay hills in the peninsula coast included a map. Heres im talking about here look at this how those blossoms up this little wrinkle right here. H
Now its a deal that lasts only a week but u. S. Officials say if its a success it could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the taliban american negotiators have agreed to a proposal for a reduction of violence in the country the announcement is the result of ongoing peace talks and qatar a senior u. S. Official says if this deal holds it could be followed by a more permanent accord well the u. N. Secretary general spokesman has welcomed the agreement he says its important to curb violence thats harming civilians in afghanistan. If this were to succeed it would obviously be a notable step in bringing peace to the country. And the dialogue is a vital pe is of is vital to paving forward the constructive in traffic and negotiations on peace i think its very important. To find ways to reduce the levels of violence in afghanistan is specially the violence that is harming civilians while correspondent Deborah Townsend joins us live now from washington d. C. She had this does so
President ial debate gets a much needed boost in South Carolina next on super tuesday. Welcome to the Program Turkey has announced a full scale military operation against the Syrian Government dubbed Operation Spring shield it follows the killing of 34. 00 turkish soldiers in italy province on thursday turkish jets have shot down 2 syrian army warplanes that were carrying out a combat mission in the rebel held area of reports stuff from the turkey syria border. But you arent turkish and syrian fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo and it with 2 syrian warplanes down the confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warned that turkish troops will retaliate against and if air that attack. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. We do not aim to face off with russia our only aim is to stop syri