Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our roof cam as we can see the transamerica pyramid. Does that mean skies are clearing out today . Well have to see. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, september 16th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning to you. Glad to have you with us. Lets get to mary lee first with more on air quality and my drive was much clearer this morning, mary. Oh my goodness. Yeah, it is amazing to have that cleaner air, breathing in that fresh air. And check it out. You can see current air quality conditions, many of us waking up to good air quality as start off our day. That is incredible to see. So were breathing in some of the cleanest air that we have seen in nearly a month. And r s shows that were going to continue over the next couple of days to see that better air quality as we head at least through the workweek. So some good news with that ocean breeze kicking in for us. And were looking at those temperatures because of a lesunsh
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Grandmother in west bank on humanitarian grounds. On twitter, the michigan Lawmakers Said silencing me and treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. Israel said today that it will let her visit her family one day after refusing entry along with fellow congresswoman ilhan omar. Trump administration has informed congress it plans to sell f16 fighters worth a billion dollars to taiwan, a move that issue to escalate already high tensions with china. Two u. S. Officials and a congressional aide says the administration have informally notified lawmakers of the proposed sale. The deal would behind the controversial because china loosely opposes all arms sales to taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im ritika gupta. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am vonnie quinn
Part of a history of humiliation which remains Unfinished Business good evening. Im fareed zakaria. Welcome to a special hour on taiwan the National Palace museum holds much of chinas most precious works of Arc Treasures from the Song Dynasty Vases from the ming dynasty 8,000 years of priceless history its chinas metropolitan museum of art. Its louvre but it is not in beijing it isnt taipei, the capital of taiwan race for territory began in 1949. There has to be no compromise at the end of a brutal civil war chinas leader, Chiang Kaishek, shipped those treasures to taiwan. The communist or in the young phi valley to keep them from im his rival. Mao zedong they carried those treasures with them because as the guardians of the chinese civilization, they felt that they had to also be the guardians of those objects. Year after year. The civil war goes on, chang and his nationalist party had been fighting mao and the communist as party since the 1920s in one of the bloodiest civil wars the
In a conversation with Henry Kissinger in the 1970s, chinas leader mao zedong said he could live without taiwan. For now but in 100 years, we were wanted. He said and whats more . We are going to fight for it maos one on hundredyear deadline may arrive ahead of schedule in a chinese documentary called chasing dreams the countrys bravest warriors declared their willingness to die. In an allout invasion of taiwan it was accidental. If its too hard to remove the mines and taiwanese waters. One says we would use our bodies to clear a pathway but we shouldnt go to my fighter jet would become a missile rushing towards the enemy if i used up my ammunition says a pilot i want to see the other side of the strait. A soldier declares ive been preparing for that day a war over taiwan would be an act of Madness Tens Of Thousands could die nearly one million jobs have disappeared. There could be a global Great Depression Nuclear Weapons would be on the table and attack would be a massive gamble for