Not helping and we speak to the daughter of angolas former leader who is now accused of corruption charges she says are politically much. So supporters of iranian backed groups have now left the fortified green zone of the iraqi capital where theyve been surrounding the u. S. Embassy they were responding to an order by leaders of the Popular Mobilization forces but earlier on wednesday the crowds were there throwing rocks setting fires once again outside the compound angry over sundays airstrikes by the United States on the hezbollah brigade scams that killed at least 27 fighters in addition irans Supreme Leader ayatollah how many condemned the u. S. Strikes and warned tehran will defend itself if threatened it will be as you know me i get if youre on decides to confront a country it will do it without hesitation we are strongly committed to the interests dignity and progress of our nation and anyone who threatens that will be confronted we wont push any country towards war but if othe
Cool anything also cutting fire line and clearing brush all to do what they can to prevent the red flag winds from picking up the still burning embers and blowing them up to a half mile ahead of firefighters. Everybody is still and test pay thing the high rates of spread. Erratic fire behavior. We are seeing that push some of the fire embers back into the main burn. Reporter right now, the goal is to keep all the burning embers inside those containment lines and protect the homes and buildings still standing. That fight has been nothing but short of amazing. 27 helicopters been assigned to battle the fire. They have 2. 1 million gallons of water that has been dumped on flames. Fire has made it to the edge of the tubs fire burn scar. That is about two years old of expected to be fully contained until next thursday we are talking about. Mary lee has the forecast and the wind gusts are serious this morning. Thats right. Tracking that all across the kincade fire. Jackie, and near the pine
You should be good to go for the most part. Were seeing no major delays. You see traffic is light. An easy ride out of the east bay. This is across the upper deck. And traffic looks good as well. Most of our area bridges are very quiet. Not a lot of cars on the roadway right now. If youre wondering how 80 is doing, all lanes are open. This was closed yesterday due to a fire. This is highway fire and crockett and hercules. Were seeing a lot of censors. So both directions look good. The east shore freeway, it will take about you a 14 minute drive. Highway 4 going good with good with 26 minutes. Crews this morning are still on the scene of a large fire that destroyed two storage tanks at a fuel city in contra costa county. It began just before 2 afternoon at the new star energy facility. It was finally contained last night after burning for more than 8 hours. Jackie ward is life on the scene where the crews have been out all night. Reporter we have seen people Walking Around here behind m
Record at 96, it advisory is st effect, and as we go into tomorrow, big changes. That is sort of the story, its record hot, two days in a row, and then we get this recipient is dropping temperatures starting tomorrow. Theres a trough of low pressure that gets closer to us, and it brings the chance for some snow flurries to lake tahoe as we go toward the weekend. So the plan for tomorrow, today santa rosa, 103, tomorrow, 84 degrees. 94 and six San Francisco, the go to 95, so temperatures drop off. You will notice the cool down, but in the meantime, its still pretty warm, in the next few hours things will start to cool down as the wind shifts and we see more of an onshore flow. In the meantime, one more day with lots of records. If you live in the north baker you may hear helicopters flying overhead. Those are pg e crews that are inspecting the condition of powerlines after they shut off power to about 1500 customers in sonoma and napa counties. Tom vacar continues our coverage now, hes
All this, leading to a big day tomorrow, when the director of National Intelligence will testify before the house and senate committees. Its a joke. Impeachment, for that . When you have a wonderful meeting, or you have a wonderful phone conversation . President trump remains defined, denying any wrongdoing in a phone call with ukraines president , volodymyr zelensky. They released a memo reconstructing the call, and it mr. Trump asks ukraines leader to do us a favor, referencing a Company Involved in the Russian Election investigation. President trump goes on to urge zelensky to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani and william barr to investigate potential corruption by former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter. The two leaders held a News Conference after meeting at the un. Zelensky defending President Trump. We talked about many things. Nobody was pushing. The july call is part of a whistleblower complaint about the president s actions, and what pushed House Democr