A place for 6 months. When we receive. A dollar only 0. 25. Is what we were able to use it by inflation aid agencies helping the flood victims in sudan say their work is being hampered by an economic crisis. And a prominent critic of the chinese president is sentenced to 18 years in prison for corruption. And with all the days sport Michael Jordan has entered the world of motor sport. The board hes only got 3 minutes partnering with the sports only black driver bubba wallace. We begin this news hour with open hostilities being played out on the world stage between the u. S. And china over the coronavirus pandemic the backdrop of the heated rhetoric is the Virtual Meeting of Global Leaders at the 75th Un General Assembly and his speech is host nation u. S. President donald trump accused of spreading what he called the china virus and demanded the u. N. Hold us accountable. We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world china in the early is days of the vi
Here in the bay area by this power safety public shut off. Thats just coming from pg e because of the high fire danger thats coming our way this week. Cities impacted include ag win calistoga deer park. Pope valley saint helene and also unincorporated parts of napa county. The estimated shut off time is anywhere on the 7th which would be monday between 10 00pm and 02 00am with power not being turned back on. I assume this means the earliest on the 9th which would be 2 days later at 07 00pm this will impact about 2700 customers that just for napa Sonoma County only has about 3 customers are saying impacted in cloverdale were still working on getting all the information about this a p s p s people who are impacted should be getting an alert at some point tonight that this is coming. Meanwhile earlier this evening cal iso the state Energy Monitoring agency declaring a stage 2 emergency. Which meant rotating Power Outages were possible. But once again that flex alert that we were under end
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow begins our Team Coverage with specifics on just how hot it could get and searing heat around the bay area, not just your normal he way we see go to a 100 to maybe 103 degrees were talking maybe a 110 maybe even warmer in some spots breaking down your temperatures along the coastline, even heat advisory stated in orange here in effect even up toward the beaches, Half Moon Bay pacifica daly city youre in that heat advisory, but you do see temperatures mainly in the 70s and the 80s well above the average. But rather reasonably compared to the rest the bay area you can see just over the hill 90s maybe some triple digit heat in redwood city the south bay talking temperatures as high as a 104 degrees and then you get the east bay and were really going to get cooking youll see in place like new work in san lorenzo a cast valley but then as you get into Pleasanton Livermore tomorrow topping out about a 105 maybe a 110 by sunday similar temperatures to be found in
Lake berryessa safe again and in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties, Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be. Taking care of cleaned up repaired. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its burned more than 310,000 a
Counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week corrupt. Banking and political have destroyed lebanons economy people cant get access to their Bank Accounts billions have been moved out of the country. President trump wants to install his own man at the bank oversee latin americas recovery from the pandemic but some nations are opposed to the move. And the case of the gas power plant that wasnt built but the company was awarded billions of dollars nigeria goes to court to reverse that decision. Lebanon is bankrupt its been brought to its knees by the powerful Banking Industry and its ties to the political elite sometimes those times have been indistinguishable over 2 decades money flowed from citizens to enrich bankers and as the currency crisis unfolded they extinguished any hopes of a recovery by blocking reforms and restricting access to money ordinary citizens cant get hold of their money and are limited to taking out just 200. 00 every 2 w