A couple of cases. A very warm welcome you watching on C International with me carrying now residents of towns in northeastern france are creating a stink by trash talking belgian neighbors theyre accusing them of some serious cross border fly tipping. Visit to the region. This may look like part of a landfill site but its not all of this waste has been dumped here illegally were just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with what you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby red its a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. At 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. Theyre throwing everything away. Yes but here we see its far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste its enormous as far as the pollution we dont know wh
Far . [ laughter ] i didnt return anything. Reporter so what have you returned today . Absolutely nothing. Not really returning anythi anything. So you have a lot of returns it looks like. Um, what do you mean by that . [ laughter ] reporter the fact is we didnt find Single Person who toll us they were looking to return anything. I feel like if they do return theyre not going to do it with the people that they just had christmas with. Thats not what we came here for honestly. Well come to the mall well buy stuff. Reporter most telling us taking returns back to the mall thats old school. I feel like most of shopping is done online on honestly. I did 50 this year online. Reporter easy to order and easy to send back and this may be another reason. I think gift cards are the way to go these days. Reporter using those gift cards is what brings people here today that and the sometimes ridiculous deals. Take it from this retail employee. You have to shop the clearance racks. I was able to buy
Now, earlier today, we got our first real look from the air at the devastation of the fires. These pictures are from santa rosa. Also, there are some staggering new numbers tonight. 21 people have now died. 185 are injured. And 560 people are still missing in Sonoma County alone. At least 3500 buildings have been destroyed. Thousands of homes are still threatened. And 4500 people are in shelters. For a short time, we were trying to get people back in a their houses to get medication and urgent things. We were doing some escorts. We cant do that anymore because of fire safety issues so we have stopped that. So please, all the citizens, dont come to any site and expect to get in. Stay away from the evacuation areas. We still cant get in there. The tubbs fire in santa rosa at the top of the map has burned 28,000 acres and has zero containment. In napa county, the atlas fire on the right of your screen has burned more than 43,000 acres and is only 3 contained. Five other fires are burning
Announcer coming up next, author Sharon Tosi Lacey talks about american strategy in the pacific. Highlighting the battle of saipan. She explains how u. S. Army soldiers and marines worked together during the campaign. She described their successes and failures. The event ran an hour and a half. It was hosted by the new York Military affairs symposium. Sharon tosi lacey thank you very much for having me. I want to thank my mom, daughter and husband for being here to support me. One of the earlier mend mentioned that there were four general smiths in the pacific. 3 were involved in the operations. I titled that chapter a tale of three smiths. I will talk to you about the battle of saipan. I look at the Lessons Learned as the military drove through the Central Pacific in world war ii. We traced their development and amphibious warfare as they go from the canal to the gilberts and ultimately a chronology. Trying to build on the mistakes they continued to make. Saipan is the most interestin
Announcer coming up next, author Sharon Tosi Lacey talks about american strategy in the pacific. Highlighting the battle of saipan. She explains how u. S. Army soldiers and marines worked together during the campaign. She described their successes and failures. The event ran an hour and a half. It was hosted by the new York Military affairs symposium. Sharon tosi lacey thank you very much for having me. I want to thank my mom, daughter and husband for being here to support me. One of the earlier mend mentioned that there were four general smiths in the pacific. 3 were involved in the operations. I titled that chapter a tale of three smiths. I will talk to you about the battle of saipan. I look at the Lessons Learned as the military drove through the Central Pacific in world war ii. We traced their development and amphibious warfare as they go from the canal to the gilberts and ultimately a chronology. Trying to build on the mistakes they continued to make. Saipan is the most interestin