Adding more rain to what is already a pretty nasty situation. Matt, really good to have you across that, i know you will follow events throughout the day and that new red Weather Warning that comes into force later. Matt taylor in the bbc wetter centre. Full detail on the bbc website and with your local bbc radio station. You saw some of that weather coming in and the disruption it is causing not only for homes but infrastructure train lines and other Public Transport heavily affected by that weather. Now, let us get more on what is happening in the middle east and that conflict between israel and gaza, earlier we were showing you the un Secretary General, he was at the rafa crossing between egypt and gaza, he was there with hundreds of lorries that are lined up trying to get goods into gaza, just 20 have so far been given the green light to enter the territory, we had to interrupt that to take you to keir starmer s speech, earlier, so let us bring you the rest of what we heard there f
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo