Hello and welcome to the d. W. P. Bait of the World Economic forum to our viewers watching us from home were coming to you from the most visited city in Africa Cape Town my name is edith kimani now according to u. N. Figures by the year 2050 every 2 out of 4 people will be african thats quite staggering when you think about it that then mean that if the population is going to quadruple here but i also quadruple and what does that mean for the future of data on the continent this morning were asking the question is data africas new oil and im going to be helped to answer that by my student and im going to be introducing them now im joined by sylvia my carry on my extreme right shes the head of geospatial technologies on the cofounder of have to analysts experienced in kenya but also joined by mr alex q who is the managing partner and chairman at kindy if youd been to the World Economic forum a few times you might have seen his face. On my right my immediate right is mr moore at sun miss
It is extremely hot outside. Because of that, calfire says they are going to have a tough time fighting this fire. In a few moments we will have a live report from San Bernardino county. Right now we want to take you to some live pictures there from this fire. You can see that structure right there has been destroyed. Its one of several that have been consumed. Yeah, we dont have a firm count exactly how many structures have been burned. 24 hours ago, cristina, we had live pictures of homes and buildings being burned by this fire. 1300 personnel. We saw an air tanker. The air attack very important today. Obviously still very dangerous fire conditions there . Have you noticed the fires that are breaking out, the humungous ones are in the south. Thats a function of the drought. El nino did not deliver at all this past winter. So the explosive growth. Of course, the weather conditions a big factor. Also the drought. Extremely dry. Taking a look at the temperature pattern out there and the
The blue cut fire and has been going strong for 36 hours. The latest numbers show 25,000 acres have burned, fire crews are trying to assess the Property Damage but a number of homes have been lost. Here is video from earlier this evening before it got dark. Firefighters said there was nothing they could have done to stop the advancing claims. The local battalion chief in San Bernardino told the l. A. Times, we got our butts kicked. Another said they were no match for the combination of wind, dry vegetation and steep terrain. Tens of thousands of people in the area have been ordered to evacuate. Some of them wont have homes to return to. It was devastating. A lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing. We want to show you where this fire is burning using data from cal fire. We created a map showing the fires perimeter. You can see it burned on both sides of interstate 15 north of the cajon pass. And west toward highway 138 and the resort town
We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Bill martin is tracking the condition that firefighters are facing. Ted is and San Bernardino county, what do you see . Reporter the wind had picked up dramatically in the passed three or four minutes. You can see behind me there is some fire activity on this ridgeline. Were just outside of the town of brightwood. They have been doing an excellent job of keeping the fire in check. It is trying to keep down the ridge line. On the other side of this valley our homes up in the hillside. This is the front line of the town of brightwood. This is one of the most concerning parts of the fire. Right now, there is a town so close to the flames. But Mother Nature is helping with this firefight. The winds are sustained it this point. And they are blowing in the right direction, away from the town of brightwood. This morning it got worse and worse. We smell the fire. And the smoke started getting thicker and thicker. We packed up our necessities. It is coming do
Day for our firefighters. Reporter an unknown number of homes and buildings have been destroyed. Flames can be seen creeping towards the local mcdonalds. More than 700 fire crews are battling the fire. In the work, it is devastating. There were a lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families to come home to nothing. Reporter fueled by five years of drought and high winds, the fires here are not expected to end until november. Back now to our live pictures over the blue cut fire. We have been watching these pictures all day. This will coming to us from near the small resort town of bright with. You can see, he saw the smoke on the roadway there. The fire has been blowing smoke through the fire all day. It can be seen for miles. It is expensive. Ted bolin has arrived in that area. He is right there and tedamet in San Bernardino. What are they telling you . Reporter they are telling us to get out. They are getting out finally. A lot of these bowls were told to get out yeste