This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Scenes of devastation today in california where raging wild fires are burning up even more land with no sign of stopping. 23,000 people slept in emergency shelters last night. 700 homes destroyed. Three major fires tearing through residential areas to the north and east of San Francisco at a pace firefighters have never seen before they say. Reporter breakfast served at an evacuation center. This one at the county fairgrounds. Most residents are not allowed back into town. Many people here dont know if their home survived the fire or not so theyre waiting. But not donald wood who saw his business go down in flames. Have 10 in my wallet. Put it in the tank when i got here. Last money i had. Other than that, my shop went down in, like, five minutes. Reporter our team tracked down what remained of his business, an auto body shop. Absolutely nothing salvageable in this rubble. Its time for a new beginning. Fresh start. Clean slate. Got to
Faculty brought here to reunite families. Seen a lot of very sad scenes here. Obviously people not hearing what they hoped to hear and leaving in tears in the arms of their loved ones. A chaotic scene on campus this morning as you can imagine just after 10 30 in the morning. Police reporting single shooting opening fire in a classroom and then either being shot or shooting himself. We dont know but engaging in a shootout with police. The current president of the Umpqua Community college described that scene and the response this morning. A plan in place for campus violence and we went into lockdown immediately and people did exactly what they were supposed to do and pulled in people who were outside and sheltered them. So, adam, as you see, theyve been told there was a quick and tremendous response from police here. That they were on the scene four to five after the very first reports of the shooting came in. We also want to go to a little piece of comment that we have from somebody wh
Race there. I want to share with you this Microsoft Web video that explains how technology will affect the results coming in on february 1st. Heres a portion Available Online via youtube and on the Microsoft Website. Every year the world watches iowa cast their opinions. Its the First Official event in the nation in the election season and is known famously as the iowa caucuses. What is a caucus . A gathering of neighbors. But in reality, theres a bit more to it. The process differs between democrat as and republicans, but their goal is the same, choose delegates to represent their candidate at the county, district, and state conventions and at the National Conventions where president ial candidates are officially nominated. On a designated day in an election year, in 2016, around february 1st, iowaens are called to discuss the candidate they prefer. Turnout ranges anywhere from hundreds of people to just a few. Eventually discussion ends and voters cast a secret ballot and then eventu
Donald trump is in the lead with nearly 31 . Senator marco rubio has surnld into second place with 16 . Texas senator ted cruz and john kasich are close behind. Our correspondent michael shaw joins us live. Good evening to you michael. So lets first talk trump. This will be his first debate since he boycotted the last one and then he lost in iowa. Do you think we are going to see maybe a different possibly more humble donald trump on that stage tonight . Good evening to you. I dont think the words humble and donald trump are ever uttered together. You may see a donald trump who is much more direct in his criticism, also maybe in explaining why he thinks that he is doing better than others think he is doing, but he will be going after marco rubio. Marco rubio came a lot closer to donald trump in iowa than donald trump had hoped. So i think youre going to see a regularly engaged donald trump and maybe a little bit of the sort of what weve gotten used to, a couple of the singers. You will
President obama. Now that suit has sold to a very high bidder. Growing tensions in venezuela tonight. The president says opposition figures were plotting with the u. S. Government to overthrow their government. The obama government has denied that and condemned the arrest. We have a report on what the role the u. S. Is alleged to have in the crisis. Reporter this is the moment Security Forces arrested the mayor of caracas. Witnesses said to get to him agents broke down doors to his office and fired shots in the air. Hours later, venezuelas president went on national tv accusing him and others of plotting to overthrow his government. On the orders of state prosecutors, he was captured and will be processed by the Justice System for crimes committed against the peace of a country. Reporter he has promised to release hours of video proving the u. S. Orchestrated the plot. Washington calls the allegation ludicrous. The United States is not promoting unrest in venezuela. Reporter hundreds o