Will that lead to the reopening of more businesses . From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning, thank you for joining us. I am dave clark. I am pam cook. It is wednesday, august 26. Mark tamayo is in for steve paulson. Mark, you said it is hard to predict air quality. I can imagine. Yesterday, we had clear blue skies, then smoke rolled in. It is one of those things. I look outside and see not much smoke. It is quite a gift. Its a break from the smoke filled skies. Nothing is permanent, especially with these conditions. There is great news. It has been cleared out as a result of the spare the air alert. This has been extended through friday. It has been extended into your friday forecast. Here is the plan, this morning. Into the afternoon hours, hazy sunshine is on track to reach low 60s to 70s. The hotspot is near 90 degrees. Santa rosa, 54, san jose, 64, fairfield, a bit of a breeze. Here is the camera looking out towards sfo. We have patchy clouds out there. There are
Naturalization ceremony on night two of the Republican National convention. The first lady delivered the keynotes each. And my husband you have a president it will not stop fighting for you and your families. I see how hard he works each day and night and despite the unprecedented attacks from the media and opposition, he will not give up. In fact, if you tell him it cannot be done he just works harder. We will have more from the convention, coming up. First, we want to bring you the latest on the wildfires. It has been another productive day for fire crews and now some evacuees in napa and sonoma counties are being allowed to return home. Heres where we stand on the three major fires. The scu lightning complex fire is the largest in the state. It is burning in seven counties from the diablo ranch in the east bay to the Central Valley and it has now burned 363,000 acres. Cal fire says that as of tonight it is only 15 contained. Me czu lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
A deal that was supposed to be a step towards peace in afghanistan is due to began in a few hours time on the taliban in the u. S. All began with her calling a were duction of violence starting at midnight if the 7 day deal proves a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for peace talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the New York Times has published an opinion piece by the deputy leader of the taliban titled what we the taliban want. Shit. Conny says the withdrawal of Foreign Forces of the 1st and foremost demand of the armed group he goes on to say a liberated afghanistan will have an islamic system where all afghans have equal rights and that includes the rights of women granted by islam to access work and education despite 18 months of talks and qatar accordion says washington does not trust the group completely and that the feeling is mutual he also says the taliban will be committed to all International Conventions as long as the
Minister heads to south africa hours before he was due to be charged in connection with the murder of his 2nd wife. And im he said with your support the u. S. Womens Football Team on 66000000. 00 in damages in a discrimination case plus a 16 year old gives india a flying start in the opening match of the womens team to win the world cup the games champions australia. Ok lets get going to afghanistan where an agreement thats supposed to usher in peace is to take effect in just a few hours time the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a quote reduction of violence as of midnight if the 7 day deal proves a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups and the u. S. Has said it wants to pull it strips out of afghanistan live now to washington and my colleague our current correspondent she has she have just take us through the choreography of the next week in theory. So we have the 7 days o
18 years of war in afghanistan could end in a little more than a week a deal that calls for a 7 day reduction of violence is now in effect and after that the taliban says it will sign a peace deal with america u. S. Involvement in afghanistan began in 20011 month after the 911. 00 attacks washington launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power within 12000. 00 american soldiers are still in afghanistan thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spent more than one trillion dollars during its mission. Joins us live from washington d. C. So a lot is resting on this reduction of violence do we know what will be judged to be enough of reduction we dont know lauren and that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting to a signing ceremony in doha on february 29th both sides the United States and the taliban have agreed that there needs t