Want to protect its. They just want to make sure that the fire does not reach to the towers. Here is video that we proceed from yesterday. It started about 1 20 p. M. And they are not sure how its started. They believe that it is 100 homes that have been evacuate. There has been one person and injured. It is very difficult, and the reason is because it is just high temperatures and it is very dry. If you have all these things together it will not take them one day but days to get under containment. I had a chance to talk to the battalion chief earlier and this is what he had to say. Right now it is moving towards that is specially dispatched fire engines to the summit. To protect some of the historic structures. And again, the fire didnt run actively all night and it has been a very remote terrain. We have had difficulty to get to a. This morning, we have more firefighters on the way. There will be approximately 500 of them on staffs today. They wont have a least two aircraft in the ai
September 9th. Im james fletcher. The bay area has seen warmer than usual temperatures as we were hit with a mini heat wave. Lets check in with erica now for your forecast. Good morning erica. Good morning, with 50s and 60s. Some areas are warmer, livermore. Have and the satellite and radar showing that the cloud coverage is certainly back. Along the coast and it is pushing its way into the bay. You can see the clouds on the that cloud deck with twin peaks. Sunny skies, the afternoon,. Temperatures mostly in the 80s in the south bay a bit cooler compared to yesterday. Santa clara, 85. As we focus our attention on the east bay inland spots. No triple digits but still nine these in danville and castro valley, 84 degrees in richmond. Downtown San Francisco 60s and 70s. We are continuing to monitor the wild fires and it looks like it is starting to turn the corner. The cool down will continue. As we go for this weekend, next weekend, more sunshine with temperatures in the upper 80s. Keepin
Show me your dagger. The love for the blade in yemen, a report on why these dagsers are a symbol of social status. Theres a continuing battle of words between the white house and the government of Bashar Alassad as the u. S. Prepares to vote on military action. In an interview with u. S. Broadcaster cbs ass ard warns of retaliation by his allies if the u. S. Attacks. He denies involvement in the chemical attack. Secretary of state john kerry is in europe and is continuing his drive to get support for military action. Following meetings with the arab league in paris, john kerry travels to london to meet William Hague in london. The foreign minister of syria is in moscow, and is meeting with his foreign minister counterpart. Barnaby phillips is live for us in moscow. What do we expect to come out of that meeting . I would imagine that the syrians will be looking for reassurances of support. The regime doesnt have too many friends internationally, but a handful of them are extremely impor
Im betty nguyen. All eyes on congress as they return to a hard sell of military intervention. President obama is gearing up for the sixth Network Interviews that he is going to be taping this afternoon. Very busy man all part of his fullcourt press strategy and ahead of the nationwide address tomorrow night. A new moveon. Org commercial is urging congress to reject the proposal and its apparently how congress is leaning right now as it returns today from a fiveweek recess. In the house, 227 are against military action or leaning towards a no vote. 25 are for military action. 181 still undecided. Now, in the senate 27 are against it or leaning no. 23 are in favor, with 50 undecided. We have Team Coverage with nbcs tracie potts in washington and nbcs jim maceda in turkey. We begin with tracie. Lawmakers facing a momentous vote there in washington. What do you know about that. Reporter that process starts this afternoon, betty, good morning, everyone. Thats why the obama administrations m
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockerfeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Were so happy to have you back. Its really fall out. Its back to school here. My kids at home. Sorry about that. Back to school day. Did you get a new lunchbox. I did. I got the star wars one. Oh, cool. Dont leave him hanging. Meanwhile, this did seem like a good idea back in august, didnt it . Were waiting for our new set. I had a dream about it over the weekend. I had dreamed it had a jacuzzi. Did it . Nice. Well find out in about a week they say. Mean team, wooif got a lot of news to get to. Were going to begin with air strikes in syria. Intensifying in washington as Congress Ends its summer recess today and prepares to vote. Peter alexander is at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Good morning. Within the last couple of hours secretary of state john ker