And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
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Democracy, theyre all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for, most importantly who we want to be, thats all on the ballot. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, i think the message of this convention to me boils down to character and covid19. That is the democrats trying to make the case that trump failed in controlling the pandemic and the reason is his flawed character. Did they succeed in delivering that message well enough in your view and strategically, politically was it the right message . Daniel yeah, i think so. What the heck . They could not have possibly have overstated it one speaker after another went after donald trump. I believe joe biden opened his address last night by describe ing a season of darkness which sounds to me Netflix Series rather than political campaign. [laughter] daniel this is a poll tested convention, make n
Pale more the increase in temperatures also bringing the increased risk of fire danger tonight, utility leaders have been going back and forth on whether or not to turn off the power to mitigate the chance of a possible wildfire outbreak we have Team Coverage tonight noelle bellow has more on cal iso is latest developments and dan thorn has reaction from residents who were left in the dark last night but first happening tonight, a red flag warning will go into effect at 11 oclock tonight it will last until tomorrow morning at 11 across the bay area. Monterey and san benito counties are already in a red flag warning fast moving storms can lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start wildfires. So not only is the fire danger really increase our fuel is already the critical level or grass crops you see in the hills are already a groundout or brush component now a very critical levels lower than weve seen in years and our timber component is right behind it so that makes the latter fu
Places. Even in this room full of proud manhattan democrats. I cant shake that the link that some people here are pulling for me. [applause] i am delighted to see you here tonight. I was thrilled to get this invitation. I feel right at home here because it is often said i share the politics of alfred e. Smith and the ears of alfred newman. It is an honor to be here with al smith. I never knew your great grandfather. Everything senator mccain told me, the two of them had a great time before prohibition. [laughter] i am not surprised by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. When this matter was submitted, they would readily see it had no place in our constitution. It would be very difficult if not impossible to explain to those who come to this country to make it their business to seek that no such matter as this is ever again made the subject of a federal constitutional laws. You have been listening to the 2008 president ial nominees talking at that yours Al Smith Dinner followed by a