Evacuated. The exterior of one Apartment Building was slightly damaged. No one was hurt. Four firefighters wounded, one seriously while battling a wildfire in the sierra foothills. They were airlifted yesterday to Uc Davis Medical Center in sacramento for burns. The lowell fire began saturday and burned about 1,500 acres near alta and nevada county. That fire is just 15 contained. About 1,800 structures are threatened including homes in nevada and placer counties. In madeira county the willow fire has grown to 1,500 acres. Its just 5 contained. People have been evacuated from 450 homes and a campground southeast of bass lake. There are concerns about rising temperatures forecast for later this week. Heres a map showing the major wildfires in the west. Much can be blamed on the lingering drought. Last year at this time 1. 6 million acres had burned in the u. S. , that number has more than tripled this year to about 5. 6 million acres. I was up in the sierra foothills over the weekend ne
Is the generational transition which holds great promise. Still as i mention the ongoing problem it is hard to imagine that despite all the efforts, more than 70 of afghans over the age of 15 cannot read or write. Half of all afghan girls are still not in school even though they are 40 and 9 million are back in school. Of those who are back in school, if you stay long enough to make it through secondary school, forced marriage, Child Marriage is still a reality. So how do we address this, what are what are the tools in our toolkit . The afghan women, i often get asked by audiences dont we try to take solutions, or possible solution and we try to prescribe something that would never work in their culture. There is never a onesizefitsall. One of the best approaches that we have used in afghanistan, the lowcost, sustainable effort effort has been because the partnerships. Judy mentioned before my basic approach to a lot of International Global issues and challenges, is is finding a way to
Walker. For a look at the next step towards getting on the ice. Patrick . Patrick Walker what a big milestone last night. But the Vegas Golden Knights still have a long way until the puck drops on their first regular season game. Remember. This is a team without players or a head coach. Lets take a look at whats still to come for the nhls newest franchise. On june 20th. The Golden Knights will have its expansion draft. Theyll pick one player from each of the other 30 nhl franchises. Most of each teams roster is fair game. Teams can only protect part of their roster from the expansio team staff will introduce the 30 players at tmobile arena in front of fans. Thatll happen just ahead of the nhl awards ceremony held there later that night. Two days later. The nhl draft kicks off in chicago. The Golden Knights will get one of the first 6 picks. Determined by a lottery system. Then. Theyll get the third pick in each of the subsequent rounds. The team will hit the ice for the preseason in la
now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on this thanksgiving holiday im brian loftus. Kirsten Joyce and im Kirsten Joyce. The macys thanksgiving day parade in new york city kicked off. brian loftus heres a live look at at the floats and festivities itlle a half Million People in new york and on tv by some 50 million americans. There will be a total of 42 balloons in todays parade. Includ ing an updated charlie brown. Snoopy is the parade character with the most balloons in history. And felix the cat was the first giant balloon character. Unveiled back in 1927. Thousands came out out last night to see the balloons come to life thankful for, that were lucky to be here and live in america, live in the best city in the world. meanwhile nypd is taking unprecented steps to beef up security this year, despite no Credible Threats against the parade or the country. For the first time in the parades 90 year history. Dozens of sand filled sanitation truck
now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on this thanksgiving holiday im brian loftus. Kirsten Joyce and im Kirsten Joyce. The macys thanksgiving day parade in new york city kicked off. brian loftus heres a live look at at the floats and festivities itlle a half Million People in new york and on tv by some 50 million americans. There will be a total of 42 balloons in todays parade. Includ ing an updated charlie brown. Snoopy is the parade character with the most balloons in history. And felix the cat was the first giant balloon character. Unveiled back in 1927. Thousands came out out last night to see the balloons come to life thankful for, that were lucky to be here and live in america, live in the best city in the world. meanwhile nypd is taking unprecented steps to beef up security this year, despite no Credible Threats against the parade or the country. For the first time in the parades 90 year history. Dozens of sand filled sanitation truck