Cups of coffee as a canvas. Baristas making art out of laites. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city, im Morgan Radford. Thousands of firefighters continue to battle the rash of wildfires in san diego county. Three me have been arrested in connection with the fires, and one has been charged with arson, two others face similar charges. Some of the evacuation notices have been lifted as fire crews gain control of the wild fires. Reporter the weather is cooperating with firefighters in southern california. Cooler, more humid positions are preventing flames spreading further. Its helped crews giping two of the child fires north of san diego under control. The focus is to secure the perimeter and go interior and work on the hot spots. Reporter for so many the damage is done. 20,000 acres burnt. Dozens of homes destroyed. In all, an estimated 20 million in damage. In one of the worsthit towns. We have a plan on living our lives here forever. The stuff he
Kurdishs. Reporter could obama stance to iraq lead to a rocky relationship with israel and also ahead. We keep finding carcasses poisoned by poachers using cyanide and i will show you what is happening inside a game park in zimbawbe. Reporter but first it is one of the Biggest Challenges facing Southeast Asia in years and that is thousands of refugees setting off by boat to australia and many drown to the journey to what they hope will be a better life and at least 13,000 have already made that journey in the First Six Months of this year. The newlyelected Prime Minister tony abbot made immigration a priority and he is in indonesia where the boats set out from and this is days after 28 people died after a boat carrying seekers sank off the coast. And he wants to send boats like that one back with the help of the Australian Military and im joined by Al Jazeera Steph who is in west java and tell us more about where you are and why you are there. Yeah, im here at the place where actually
Not our best. Ample sunshine six degrees above average and wind out of the west a light breeze today the greece will pick up tonight. 71 degrees right now. Typical high is only 80. It is 66 degrees in bartlett. It will be a warm day. We have a clear indication of the moisture once the reach 60 we know you can build that humidity. And to be a relatively muggy and warm day. With a drive for much of monday chance of showers and thunderstorms and maybe some heavy downpours after the sun goes down. Youll hear that under an see that lightning in her neighborhood. We have a 40 percent chance by 9 00 of rain. Heres that miami weather. Chance of rain every day in the seven days forecast. He cant be right but you cant be wrong. Todays high 86. Taro up to 90 degrees. Accuracy takes a nosedive this week. Were talking about the kennedy construction began all lanes are reopened. It wasnt as bad as everyone had predicted. That was because everybody took the advice and stayed off the kennedy. They sai
Season system is what we are dealing with and you can see on satellite here. It is dropping down from the coast of alaska and ushering in some cool air appeared it is a wet start to the week end and we will have a chance of thunderstorms this morning in north bay appeared we are expecting clear skies tonight and it would get pretty cold. Well take a look at that later in the forecast. As the bart contract negotiations drag on the Transit Agency is already teaching managers how to operate trains in the event of a strike appeared the training is taking place inside a vallejo warehouse appeared where bart managers have been learning or in some cases relearning how to operate trains appeared barred union says again today they are strongly opposed to the plan appeared it is reckless and dangerous. Theyre taken very likely what a train operator does spirit alive management would need final approval from above bart board of directors before managers cant run trains. Meanwhile negotiations wil
From Comedian Bill Cosby who said he obtained a powerful sedative for young women he wanted to have sex with. This comes from cosbys testimony during a 2005 Sexual Assault case that he settled out of court. I spoke with Deborah Feyerick earlier in this of development. Reporter Comedian Bill Cosby testifying in 2005 that he obtained quaaludes, intending to give them to young women he wanted to have sex with. He was asked when you got them were you intending to use them for young women that you wanted to have sex with and he answered yes. A lawyer then asked cosby whether he gave these coirquaaludes to other people cosby again says yes. These are part of a lawsuit brought by andrea constand. She accused him of giving her three blue pills. Cosby told her the pills are quote, your friends and Three Friends to make you relax. Constand says she was unable to fight back because she was in a semiconscious state. In a deposition, cosby says these pills were benadryl an antihistamine and that th