The ground and from the air. Reporter by nightfall with over 800 acres burned, it is still hard to tell who is winning this firefight, man or mother nature. The fire started right here with, you know, a lot of fuel, a lot of potential for rapid spread because of slope. Reporter monday afternoon mount diablo erupted in flames looking more like a volcano with a huge plume of smoke in the air and 50 to 75 homes on the ground in the fires path starting on sunday afternoon those residents told to lock unand leave immediately. Especially on Morgan Territory road they have a long way to go for Fire Protection and they have a lot of animals in here, you can see theres a lot of fuel for the fires. So, yeah, its a big concern. Reporter on the attack, 250 firefighters, dozens of fire trucks, a handful of aircraft, even a couple of bulldozers to do the heavy lifting. Temperatures were very high and the fuel and topography on the back side of mount diablo is Fairly Extreme so those were the two pri
This is bbc news. Im simon mccoy. The headlines at 9am thousands of people seek refuge on the beach and in the sea to escape bush fires in Australia Military helicopters and the navy are deployed to help them. Its gut wrenching. You dont know whos back there and whos not. You know, i cant. There was homes that i knew people in and ijust couldnt even hear to watch. Former nissan boss carlos ghosn flees to lebanon, despite being under house arrest in tokyo on financial misconduct charges. The National Living wage is to rise in april by 6. 2 four times the rate of inflation. Heterosexual couples in england and wales will be able to enter into Civil Partnerships from today, giving them similar rights to people who are married. The government says it will raise concerns with the cypriot authorities, about the fairness
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A terrifying reallife scene that looks like a Science Fiction movie. Hundreds are hurt after a meet yore slams meteor slams into earth. Reporter were live in San Francisco where a car thief sets off a police chase but ends in a fivecar crash. Well tell you why one officer opened fire and show you where the bullets landed. Reporter were live here in antioch where a 14yearold girl was killed as she was trying to cross the street. Well bring you the very latest on the investigation and what some residents are saying about this very busy intersection. Mornings on 2 starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Its friday, february 15th. A Russian News Agency is reporting that nearly a thousand people were injured from meteor strikes overnight. People have been posting on the internet amazing home videos of the meteor streaking across central russia. The tentown media entered the atmosphere at 33,000 miles an hour. It was the size of a Kitchen Ta
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Again on social media. After that tax rally in pennsylvania, as hes making his way to the white house, hes tweeting again, talking about what he was talking about earlier, about fake news, as he often does, but shes escalating that, going after the idea of network licenses, broadcast licenses, which, of course, are the purview of the public air waves. This is what he said in a tweet. Lets lack at this, with anderson. He says this. Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public. Anderson, this has echoes of the nixon administration, when similar things were tried in the nixon white house, with some local licenses of tv stations owned by the Washington Post at the time, that was breaking all of those stories. Of course, this is difficult to do. The president is largely just venting frustration. His aides said earlier. But, again, extraordinary for a president to go after network tv licenses. Preside