after the house speaker kevin mccarthy met with taiwan s president in california. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall leading the delegation in taiwan, warning that china better think twice before launching or even considering launching an invasion. so being here i think sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan, we re going to harden taiwan, and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. our correspondent there has traveled to taipei, taiwan, with the delegation, beating them there along the way. what are they saying to you today? hello. good morning to you both. look, things are getting very seserious around the island rigt now after two public shows of support from congress. this is angering china. we have learned now that there are three chinese ships that have encircled taiwan, and on top of that the chinese have announced that they will stop and inspect any ships in the taiwan strait for the next three days. t
and the suicide bombing at kabul s airport. an intelligence failure, chaotic scenes and americans and afghan allies stranded in that country, some still today. yet, the white house officials say they were proud of how that exit went correspondent mark meredith at the white house with the latest on that live at the north lawn tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. tonight the white house is essentially blaming former president trump for out how the end of the war in afghanistan was carried out even though the war ended in august of 2021 under president biden s command. critics are saying this report out today is an obvious attempt to try to shift the blame over how america s longest war came to an end. the president s decision to end the war in afghanistan was the right one. the white house is defending how it ended the war in afghanistan. even after images like these showing afghans fleeing for their lives sent shock waves worldwide. today the white hou
A peninsula. Smoke was about, id say 100, 100ft up. Its probably been the biggest fire ive seen. That firefighter, it was a long one, but it has come to an end tonight. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach. And im Heather Holmes. The fire is at sims metal in redwood city, and it broke out just before 3 00 this afternoon. The flames sent smoke into several nearby cities, prompting air quality concerns. Our joey huerta joins us now live from redwood city. And joey, firefighters have pinpointed where in the yard this fire first began. Thats right. Heather and mike all clear now. The fire is out. You can still smell a metallic odor in the air now. And as i step out of the way, you can see crews who work at this scrapyard are still at it, moving things around with their heavy equipment tonight. And were told by the fire department, this all came down to a pile of cars that caught fire. Thick black plumes of smoke billowing over the horizon. Skyfox shows the view from above. Sims metal, a s
Possible. We do have a crew on the way. We want to give you also a little look at the map. If youre unfamiliar withhe area in redwood city, you can se again on the east side of 101 between the dumbarton and san mateo bridges. There. As i mentioned, we do have a crew on the way. As soon as we do get more information about this one, of course we will bring it to you. Meantime, new at five tonight. One step closer to learning the fate of the coliseum as the as prepare to say goodbye. The city of oakland looks ahead now to its future. That potential specifically here in deep east oakland, that it will finally be realized. And that is why this moment is so important. Well, the city of oakland is selling its share of the coliseum, all in an effort to redevelop the site for oaklanders. Ktvu is crystal bailey joins us live tonight from the city of oakland with more on the big news here. Crystal well, mike, the sale of this coliseum could bring the city more than 100 million, more jobs and more
Firefighters it looks like better access to the metal that is in the center of this fire. At this point, we did just see some flames jumping up over the fence just a few minutes ago. You can see some water being thrown there from the equipment as well. Fighting these flames. The Fire Department got the call here about 3 00. We do have some video from sky fox. We want to show you give you a better perspective of what this looks like from above. Sims metal, a scrap metal yard here on seaport boulevard in redwood city. Oftentimes you you find cars being recycled and scrap yards which have that flammable material, maybe gasoline still in the tank. And if theres a spark that lands at the right spot, youve got the potential for a fire. Of course, although theres no indication yet from the Fire Department of what may have caused this firefighter fire out here. Rather, we did hear from a witness a few minutes ago. He says that this is the biggest fire hes seen out of the several hes seen worki