Areas biggest fires. Tonight we start in the north bay where the l a nelightning complex fire is that is the deadliest and most destructive fire here the bay. It remains a serious threat tonight once again it exploded today in size having now burned more than 300,000 acres in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. Tonight, we know 5 people died in that fire for more have been injured during the fire fight almost 500 structures have been destroyed 125 others damaged and more than 30,000 others are threatened tonight still a bit of good news at this hour cal fires now reporting 15 containment. Thats more than double what it was this morning. When the most impacted communities in Sonoma County is Healdsburg Kron fours dan kerman reports about the challenges fire crews are facing there. Right now the fire is progressing from mill creek to the Sweetwater Springs road area that south southeast. Firefighters trying to get a handle on things before those Early Morning hours when the fire h
Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid
A rethink is considered necessary america wants a more unified approach across the nation that call also mean tightening the rules such as limiting the number of people allowed to gather together and finding people who failed to wear a face mask when shopping or on public transport. Well that summit between the chancellor and the 16 state premiers is still going on their press conference was supposed to start roughly 2 hours ago were still waiting for it to happen so there are lots of crunch points in those phones to talk about you know as a Political Correspondent who has been waiting with me for this press conference to start meet every us up to speed whats this all about and why is it taking so long well 1st of all it is the 1st such meeting in 10 weeks this meeting was prepared by the Health Ministers but of course its a different thing when powerful people like that come together and have the opportunity to exchange their views and some of these views on how to handle the current
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A nazi war criminal a 93 year old is sentenced in germany for his part in killing thousands of people. And on a mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet. 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali to try to resolve its deepening political crisis 6 weeks of mass protests have demanded the resignation of president. At least 14 people have been killed in recent days the m 5 movement of all position activists leads the protests accusing president kaisa of corruption mishandling the economy and failing to improve security they rejected a unity government proposal on the Regional Organization ecowas. Instability in mali has helped to rebel groups linked to al qaida and iso gain strength using mali as a launching pad for attacks in neighboring nations nicholas hike has been following the story from dakar senegal and hes joining us from there live nic was this delegation why are there so many senior figures making it up. Well you know this is so