holidayh. or pkets soaring. i ielesith aokow fliers are with busy airports. on the ground, some lodges and campgrounds in the west still closed by snow. plus, training mission gone wrong. an f-18 fighter jet crashes, but the pilot survives. smoke alert. wildfires in canada choke skies as far south as colorado and utah. and later, staying the course. why this teacher at 94 has no plans to retire. i m going the try to come next year if they ll take me. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin tonight with a bold move by ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy to shore up allied support against russia. zelenskyy arrived in hiroshima, japan, for face-to-face meetings with leaders of the world s richest democracies. he is urging them to stick with ukraine as russia bets on the west growing fatigued by the cost of the war. moments after landing, zelenskyy tweeted that peace will become closer today. cbs s elizabe
Fighters. An escalation in syrias war an israeli Fighter Jet Crashes while targeting a rainy and positions inside syria. North koreas leader uses be a limp dick backdrop to invite south koreas president to pyongyang. In sports swedens show a color when its the first cold Winter Olympics color taking the song title its five goals up for grabs on day one of the. Turkish military helicopters being shot down in syria during an operation against kurdish fighters turkeys president rajapaksa about of the way and says it happened near the southern had type province hes warning the perpetrators will pay a heavy price turkey has been battling syrian kurds across the border in the region since last months goes straight now jim he joins us from the turkish city of gaziantep near the border with syria so were hearing that claims of responsibility starting to trickle through what do we know at this point jamal. Was a Turkish Military helicopters or mention that was downed initially or was it wasnt c
This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are working to contain hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in california. Theyve burned more than 100,000 acres of land, destroying homes and roads along the way. We have more. Fires are burning all along the west coast but the worst hit area is northern california. The largest fires burning north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalate, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an
Rides off road. More weapons, more intelligence sharing and special forces training for the gulf states. Thats what the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is promising after a meeting here in doha. But hes been talking to gulf leaders to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal and discuss the region. Were covering the story on both sides of the atlanta. In a moment well cross over to roslind jordan in washington, d. C. And first, we go to jamal in doha. It sound like john kerrys answer to the concerns in the region is that well sell you more weapons and share more intelligence. Yes, essentially, that is what concrete steps his visits were going to present in terms of reassuring the gulf countries. He specifically spoke as you say selling more weapons, particularly antiballistic missile capabilities, which have been held up. What is ironic about that is that president obama right after the iran deal announced said if iran was to adhere to the deal would be sold Ballistic Missiles in eight years. Th
Hello everybody, this is al jazeera america, live from new york city, im davidcali have nd their homes, with the threat of a number of wildfires. In the bone dry landscape the fires are moving quickly. Just north of san francisco, ines ferre has the latest. Day and night, firefighters are racing across the clock. Dooms dictate is what it looks like. Reporter the flames are fueled by lightning. Those prettiful escalated and took over the whole side of the mountain. Reporter firefighting planes are making the round including dc 10 tankers releasing fire retardant. Evacuation orders have been issued in communities north of san francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an rv with his pet. See when we can get back in and they give us the okay. Crews are mourning the loss of life of one of their own. At least four others have been injured. Ines ferre, al jazeera. Earlier we talk with daniel berlin, the chief are fire protection. The lingering California Drought is helping to fuel the