Not. To w. s november focus. This is d w news live from berlin and the fire engulfed the entire communities in california nine people have been killed in the blazes. Hundreds of thousands of residents have fled their homes. Also coming up. In german song her its the clash of the titans leaders dortmund take on champion fire and we
take an indepth look at the game thats gone everyone talking. Welcome to the program im marion evans dean. Nine people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced as wildfires continue to rage across california on thursday flames engulfed the town of paradise in the north driven by strong winds and fed by A Parched Landscape the blaze destroyed thousands of homes separate fires have forced Two Hundred Thousand people from their homes in Thousand Oaks in Ventura County on friday the entire city of malibu also had to be evacuated. Earlier today President Donald Trump weighed in on the blazes blaming them and what he called gross mismanagement of the
Sergeant ron helus, one of the first officers to respond died in the line of fire. They immediately exchanged gunfire with the suspect and thats when Sergeant Helus was shot several times. There is no doubt they saved lives by going in and engaging with the suspect. Harris Jonathan Hunt is there now, jonathan . Harris, it was, according to the sheriff in Ventura County, a horrific scene and when Law Enforcement arrived a scene that in his words was covered in blood. The blood of 11 victims, the blood of Sergeant Ron Helus, the first Law Enforcement officer to enter the scene after the shooting began. It was packed, the borderline bar and grill with largely young people attending college at night, many of them dancing on the dance floor, 150200 people in total packed into the bar and grill when the shooter first arrived, throwing smoke grenades, according to eyewitnesses, and shooting randomly. Listen now to one of those witnesses. As a student he walked in the door, when the Security G
Im christine will go welcome to the Program Europe mocks the moment hundred years ago when the battlefields fell silent at the end of world war one the leaders of france and germany coming to this day in a highly symbolic ceremony president Emmanuel Crown of france and german chancellor Angela Merkel laid a wreath and unveiled a call in the forest at the armistice clearing in cold pena the moment highlights the special alliance at the heart of here. The culmination of a decades long process of reconciliation this was the first visit to campian year by a german leader in decades and emmanuel micron greta chancellor merkel with demonstrative warmth. Reviewing the troops of the euro corps Franco German brigade the two leaders cross the clearing that there is testimony to a defining moment in european diplomacy. It was here that germany capitulated to france and its allies on november eleventh one thousand nine hundred anding more than four years of carnage on the western front. Mccrone an
Dead in the bar of a suspected selfinflicted gunshot wound. Today there was an honor procession for ron helus, a 29year veteran of the Ventura County Sheriffs Office and a hero. He was one of the first officers who within three minutes of first reports of gunfire rushed into the bar. He was shot multiple times before he died at the hospital. He was about a year away from retirement, leaving behind a wife and a son. The white house has ordered the u. S. Flag be flown at halfstaff in honor of the victims until sunset on saturday. With that, lets start the hour with the latest on what we know so far. Joining me now is nbc news ron mott. Hes outside one of the local hospitals in Thousand Oaks. Also with us, nbc news investigation reporter, tom winter. Ron, lets start with you and the latest from the scene. Hi, there, ali. Good afternoon to you. This is the second mass shooting ive covered here in the past 12 days, 23 people have lost their lives in just unspeakable horror. And what happene