Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be hot pink because we were fivesy women but it was already it was taken by a foreignut group. We game pink. How do you pickos your issues . We started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. And so we did that, we got involved. We had tremendous support around theme country without without really trying we had hundreds of groups that formed in places around the country and we were part of a much Larger Movement that did things that come out to protest on days like february 15, 2003 which is r
Santoli. Carl has the morning off. We begin with our coverage of Hurricane Harvey, which continues to wreak havoc on texas and louisiana. The houston area alone receiving 20 inches of rain already with more to come the president is set to travel to texas tomorrow. We have Team Coverage for you. Jackie deangelis is live in Corpus Christi, angie lasman monitoring the storm track at hq jackie, over to you first for an update. Reporter hi, there, sara it appears, at least for the moment, that the weather has calmed here and some of the dust is settling, but now there are a lot of questions with houston under water how Corpus Christi is going to get back on its feet, get power restored, get the plumbing going again some of these coastal towns were really hard hit over the weekend. We were in rockport. We spoke to some folks who were speaking to the solidarity of the texans and praying for those in houston, but we spoke to some who said we need help and we need it now. I dont think so. This
Temperature throughout the afternoon. Right now in concord, its 82 degrees, and all clear there. The excessive heat warning continues until 9 00 this evening. It mostly includes the inland hills and elevations above 1,000 feet. Thats where we will have the driest conditions and also the highest fire danger. For the interior valleys, we have a heat advisory in effect. Thats all of these areas shaded in red where we could reach up to 103 degrees. And we are going to continue to have unhealthy air quality so the spare the air alert continues for today, especially for the east bay and south bay. Well talk more about this and how hot it gets coming up a little bit later. Thank you, kari. Firefighters are battling the wildfire and the heat in the east bay. Crews spent their time at this fire, the mines fire, just south of livermore. There are no homes nearby but there are high voltage power lines, so it is a critical fight. We just checked and cal tran says the fire is 40 contained but the p
Peace have been accused of using unjustified brutality to shut down the vote at least seven hundred sixty people have been hurt according to the Regional Government john hendren has the latest from barcelona. Catalans lined up by the thousands devote many paying a high price for the. Spanish National Police in riot gear battered their way to one Voting Center after another passing gas for voters downstairs striking them with the tonton as promised confiscating ballot boxes. They did not discriminate by gender or age it dancing on those peacefully protecting the polls sometimes retreating and sometimes clashing verbal ewood pattern is local most of the elite apparently over the use of force what they chose that is a cry. They stole materials they violate that human rights they. Injure people that east a crime still voters lined outside by the thousands here at the polls on election organizers a special tactic they gave the entire voter registry. For one place so that if police shut down
The but. This was the final night of a festival in las vegas when gunfire silenced the music. Witnesses say they were an absolute panic and pandemonium we were the furthest v. I. P. Stages away from mandalay bay and they were ricocheting everywhere we were saw it was they were firing in somewhere high and they were unloading clip after clip after clip after what. Police say the shooter sixty four year old steven paddock was on the thirty second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel across the vegas strip. Officers responding to the shooting say they killed officers responded to that location and engaged the suspect at that location he is dead currently he has been a den a fight he is a local resident i will not release his name at this time but we are interested in a companion that is traveling with him. And her name is is Mary Lou Danley investigators were quick to tell the public that rumors of multiple shooters at several locations were false this is now the deadliest mass shooting attack