We decided that we really needed to celebrate america and not let this incident destroy us but help us come together. We wanted to choose love over hate and courage over fear. Ifill endangered waterways, a new report finds development threatens the Colorado River and the ecosystem of the grand canyon. A grand challenge to build a better suit for Health Workers fighting ebola. How can a group of novices address a problem and come up with solutions that are better than what the establishment has come up with . We decided to just give it a try. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill
We decided that we really needed to celebrate america and not let this incident destroy us but help us come together. We wanted to choose love over hate and courage over fear. Ifill endangered waterways, a new report finds development threatens the Colorado River and the ecosystem of the grand canyon. A grand challenge to build a better suit for Health Workers fighting ebola. How can a group of novices address a problem and come up with solutions that are better than what the establishment has come up with . We decided to just give it a try. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill
A tree that fell killed a driver around 8 30 this evening. The man was killed by a falling power line along the 2700 block of austin street. And cheryl herd joins us from oakland with more. Reporter as you can see, its pretty windy out here. The trees are sweeping back and forth. But just around the corner on east 22nd and austin street, a man was killed because of the wind. A 30foot tree limb came crashing down on a man who was on his motorcycle in a driveway. This happened about 8 15 tonight. Power lines came down with the tree limb. And right now, police are not ready to tell us if he was electrocuted or not. The guy was getting on his motorcycle or getting off his motorcycle. And the tree branch fell over and killed him. When i got here, everything was blocked off. Reporter down the road, firefighters were battling a twoalarm fire in an abandoned grocery store. And the wind didnt make things easy for them. This happened around 7 00 tonight. But around 10 00 tonight, it was all unde
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