The cause. Reporting continues. Right now on twitter follow us at 7 news bay area we have more in this newscast of course and on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Good evening. Thanks for being here. We have developing news in oakland where fire investigators ask looking for the cause of 3 suspicious fires in the oakland hills. 2 of the fires started this afternoon about half mile apart near Diamond Canyon park off highway tlaechbility while crew were putting those 2 out, another smaller fire started just up the hill. Firefighters have them all out in less than an hour though it took some work running hoses 300 pet down to the canyon there are as you can see. The fire burned more than 5 acres in total. Investigators consider them suspicious because the wind was only blowing 5 miles an hour and while that was Strong Enough to blow some embers and start 2 other spot fires its unlikely the wind could have carried them half mile away. Half mile apart from each other odd in nature so we ha
Welcome metros first new rail line since the green opened in 1991. My company moved a week ago to take advantage of the silver line. This is a game changer for virginia. Among the more than 10,000 people who entered or exited the silver line station today, heres the governor. This is truly history today. Getting phase one up and the trains opened, we anticipate as many as 50,000 daily trips in about a year. This is a big deal. For this region, it means for choices commuters. Its awesome. Its actually a lot cheaper. And i dont have to drive. Among the 11. 7 new miles of tracks, passengers and poll situations alike rushed through the fare gates with a new way to commute. Looking forward to it. And also launching today, the silver line express bus service. It will run between dulles and the reston east station. Bus fare will be about five each way. Business owners five each way. Business owners you know, the big beneficiaries of these new metro stops will be the shoppers and merchants her
The horse makes the prayer list. Reporter they embrace god and the cowboy culture. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, the u. S. Is warning americans not to fly a regional carrier out of the south American Country giana and they have unconfirmed threats of the flights to the u. S. From Caribbean Airlines and it was posted on the u. S. Embassy website on sunday and the message specifically sites a possible attacks on flights today from guianna to the u. S. And its rare and not specific and in effect through wednesday and this is not the first time they have been connected to a u. S. Threat, they foiled a 2007 threat to bomb jfk airport and four men connected to a militant group was connected and one was a citizen. They have access to a taliban propaganda video and shows the planning and execution of an attack on a cia compound in afghanistan last year. As al jazeera reports it also shows the talibans increasingly complex tactics. This is not the Training Exe
They did that. Deciphering dogs, and the unique relationship between dogs and humans. And we begin with controversy over u. S. Security and drones and this question, should the u. S. Launch a drone strike on an american citizen suspected of being an alqaeda member . Richelle carey joins us with more. U. S. Officials have not named this person. All they are saying is that he is suspected of planning attacks against meshes overseas. So the question is, can the administration legally kill him with the drone because he is an american citizen . The u. S. Government is now facing a troubling decision. As it considers Lethal Action against an american citizen suspected of working with alqaeda. President obamas stricter drone policy states that an attack may not be possible because the man is a u. S. Citizen. Last year the president addressed the use of drones. For the record, i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any u. S. Citizen with a drone or wi
Member of the nfl . His grant mother has thoughts. Mans best friend, how much do we really know about them . Our jake ward on the surprising science of dogs. And we begin with a promise from georgia governor nathan deal, a promise that his state will be ready for the ice storm now on its way. The last time his state was brought to a virtue standstill virtual standstill, theres also warnings of Power Outages and things that will get worse in the days to come. Kevin corriveau is here to get us started. Kevin. Yes, john, things are going to get worse. Computer models run every six hours, they crunch the data in the atmosphere. And what were seeing is yes, its going to be much worse than it was six years ago. The amount of snow across the areas as well as the ice thats going to be a big problem. First of all this is what you were talking about, the winter warnings, the advisories in effect, you can see how many states are affected by this winter storm here. Tonight were going osee the ice