[indiscernible chattering] hello, everyone, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those watching on cspan and our livestream. I am william wexler, and i lead Atlantic Councils work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you to. N event today this event is on the record, and please tweet if you are so inclined and if so, use the shapingsacntions we are here to learn more about hezbollah and its finances. Hezbollah is one of the most sophisticated terrorist organizations and stabilizing factor in the middle east. Iran reportedly provides the terrorist group with hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining balance, challenging the Lebanese Armed forces as the sole legitimate protector of the countrys security, providing ondemand proxy Ground Forces for iran;s moore in syria cup irans more in syria, maintaining top terrorist ability in the region and around the world, and directly threatening israel. But
And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
Hegenberger corridor. Kron 4 s Charles Clifford has the details. Well, every year millions of people use the hegenberger corridor right behind me here to get to and from the oakland airport. It is a very important part of oaklands economy. And today, the city in the county wanted to reassure the public that they are working on addressing the issues on monday morning, oakland mayor sheng thao along with the Oakland Police department, the california Highway Patrol, the Alameda County Sheriffs Office and Community Leaders gathered to reassure the public, but they are working on addressing problems along the hegenberger corridor. This is a key gateway to oakland and its a vital element to our citys economic engine. The city says that auto burglaries, robberies and larceny along hegenberger have actually decreased over the last year, but admit that theres still a lot of work to do to restore public confidence. The city says they are increasing the number of Oakland Police officers along heg
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