Roberta gonzalez is standing by with an update. Jackie ward in mill valley with the latest. Joe is in san jose where there is major flooding. Reporter this rain is nonstop, continues to fall here in the south bay. Were live at a river that is normally dry. But it is pull and flowing. What a sight. When the rain falls this quickly in a short amount of time, it carries a lot of debris, and this morning it was a big problem. As if bay area traffic wasnt bad enough, now weve got to worry about trash slowing us down. The storm drains were clogged, nooding the a jace flooding the adjacent lanes and snarling traffic. The same thing happened three quarters of a mile up the road at the king road exit. Scraping and scooping the debris away took about two hours. What do you want to tell drivers about littering . Keep trash in your cars. Dont throw it out. Keep california clean. The storm dropped a steady rainfall for several hours after midnight. Heavy downpours of an inch and a half in three hou
The same token we have a powerful dangerous hurricane near the bahamas and Hurricane Joaquin is now a category four with winds sustained at 134 Miles Per Hour. Its a classic looking hurricane, with circular motion and there is the eye in the middle and now its drifting to the south and west and has not made the turn to the north yet and it eventually will over the next 12 to 24 hours, the storm has deepened because of the very warm waters down near the southern atlantic and temperatures in the mid to upper 80s, that is where its getting its juice from, we take a look at the spaghetti plots, there is still a widespread where it could go, however the general trend now is to keep it over the open waters over the atlantic as it shifts away from the coast and push its to the east. Very much like the european model who has had that trend since joaquin has become a fix your we are watching, the chance of a landfalling hurricane, a 40 chance for new england hit and 10 chance and now 50 chance
Hungary is an eu member, but the government there the leadership has basically said we have our own conception of the of state interests, and we are going to emulate russia more than were going to emulate the e. U. , so your seeing a real crackdown on media and civil society. There was a recent protest, as im sure youre aware, bat new internet tax. Its really interesting. No one was really reacting to all these threats and attacks on journalists but when they started taxing the internet, that got people agitated. Goes to my point about linking the struggle for Media Freedom to the broader struggle for freedom of expression. But hungary is absolutely going the wrong direction. We just sent a mission to hungary led by our cpj board member, who is hungarian american and knows the country well, and her report was very chilling. She wrote about it in an oped for the times but this is a country that is an e. U. Member bus it rejecting e. U. Values. You mentioned earlier that the Chinese Gove
Schmidt genocide. On stage in new york, the syrian refugee who didnt have a piano lesson until 18 months ago. Welcome to the program. We begin this news hour with the fight against isil. The iraqi miami and shia militia are declaring victory. The fight has been led by the badr corps. The group is now ready to move north into isil strongholds. We have a report. The celebration illustrated the growing power of shia groups here including the badr corps. The badr corps dont like to be called a militia but in effect are in control of their own operations. They are working with the Iraqi Government and with those forces have now taken over according to the militia members leaders and Iraqi Government officials pretty much all of the province, a major stronghold of isil. It hasnt been without a cost. As they drove is through part of the territory, you can see abandoned villages, houses destroyed, even mosques destroyed in some areas, we were told. What we saw really indicated a region, the fo
Apple gadget and all of that, which is great and i love those things and theyre worth celebrating. We dont spend enough time talking about the people who made that clean glass of Drinking Water part of our lives. So i want to with this book stop and look at these objects go back and tell these stories, and also to talk about the kind of unexpected places that these technologies ultimately led us. This is the idea of the hummingbird effect. Elaborate metaphor for nature. I was writing the book in california and we have hummingbirds in our garden and i was obsessed with them and how they worked and crazy anatomy. And the hummingbird evolved in an interesting play. You have flowering plants and insect developed this complicated dance of pollennation, but its a connection that doesnt really have anything to do with birds. And then all of a sudden this bird kind of over time figures out theres a way to get in on the action of all this nectar but has to evolve this wing structure to be able