And good morning, everyone. We begin this monday with crews battling wildfires in 11 western states. The biggest fire burning right now threatens thousands of hopes in the idaho resort town of ketchum and sun valley. With more heres wendy gillette. Reporter the sky glowed orange in central idaho last night though fire crews say the flames are spreading a little less quickly. Firefighters battling the beaver creek wildfire were helped by cloud cover and plenty of manpower sunday. More than 1200 people including the national guard, 19 aircraft and 90 fire engines. The fire has burned 160 square miles but only grew about 12 square miles yesterday. 2300 homes near the celebrity vacation spots of ketchum and sun valley were evacuated and thousands of others who live here were told, be ready to quickly leave. You never stop thinking about am i going to lose my house . Coming down the mountainside right there so now its wait and see what happens. Cant control it. Reporter some ski resorts are
Theyre obviously getting the impression that no matter what they do, our aid will continue, so we do need to exercise our influence by saying were going to follow the law, particularly in light of your recent violent crackdowns, suspend aid until you restore democracy, until you move to an inclusive process for elections, and obviously, a new constitution that allows all people to have a say in it, to respect peoples rights. I think thats what we have to do at this point. Weve tried to go down a road to get them to do the right thing. Theyre not doing that. And also, i would say this, david. The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. In fact, youre just going to encourage them to martyrdom, rather than just defeating them at the ballot box. They blew it when they were governing, and if we go to a democratic process, if the military does that, rather than taking this over in the power grab theyre involved in right now
For fire crews in the west. The beaver creek fire has scorched nearly 160 square miles. Its located about two hours east of boise. Officials ordered the evacuation of some 2,300 homes but have some optimism at the moment as more crews arrive to fight the flames. Its emotional to see our landscape changing and to know that people that we love could possibly be in danger. We need an army out there and weve got it. Hundreds of firefighters. I know they are doing all that they can. Some 90 fire engines are on the ground working to protect homes and businesses. The fire started almost two weeks ago. Its only 9 contained. More bloodshed in egypt. Islamist militants killed 23 policemen in an attack this morning and 23 prohaumd morsi prisoners were also killed during a prison transfer on sunday. The Obama Administration is taking preliminary steps to withhold economic aid there to egypt. Something many lawmakers are calling for. With the recent violent crackdown, i do not see how we can contin
Justice reporter joy lepola is here now with new information from the fbii. That might impact the debate much of thh focus of new calls for stricter gun control has focused on assault rifless like the ar15 used by adam adults in ewtown connecticut. But statistics ccmpiled by rifles is tte firearm least likely to be used in murder. In fact,clubs, knives ann other lunn force instruments account for faa more deaths thaa assault rifles. A fact that former Baltimore Police commmioner d norris says. Shows gun conntol is ot the answer. 9 45;52think about this, if some ne is willing to murder innocent children at a school, are they goiung to worry about gun laws. 9 45 39your ennt going to ban any one tiee any tool and gunnand sttp school shootings, malls shootings, any of this stuff joy norris says sshools phould hire retired ops and beef up security to improve safety. Joy lepola fox 45 new t 5 30. Cecil county steppping up their investigation in tth shooting death of the 10year old ggrl hit b
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