A rainy and gun boats to try to intercept a British Oil Tanker but iran denies that any confrontation took place. And their sports dream lives on madagascar are in football fever as its National Team prepares for the quarterfinals of the african cup of nations. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us for the next 6 months the European Union will be putting Climate Change at the top of its political agenda finland has just assumed the block 6 month rotating presidency in the finnish Prime Minister says the e. U. Should provide Global Leadership on Climate Change he says its important to take seriously the demands of europes young people. 16 year old spent many fridays travelling 2 hours each way to protest at the Finnish Parliament Holding Signs pleading for Climate Action the climate itself wasnt too cooperative as he stood there through the winter its really horrible in front of the its always been the end it will be raining so snow or snow or ice and most of the politicians jus
Those taking part in fridays for future demonstrations across europe and as he assumes the e. U. Presidency he says solving Climate Change should be europes quote next heroic act. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us britain says 3 rainin boats tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the persian gulf now london says they were driven off by royal navy forget the h. M. S. Moat montrose escorting that tanker in the strait of hormuz the frigate seen here escorting other ships aimed its deck guns at the iranian vessels as a warning no shots were fired. Iran has denied that any of its boats tried to stop that tanker saying they were simply carrying out routine duties now the British Government called for calm after the incident we are concerned by this action. They said and continue to urge the iranian authorities to deescalate the situation in the region while this incident comes after a warning yesterday from the iranian president Hassan Rouhani he said that iran was ready to
But it could it couldnt be anything further than the truth there. Um, tell us your initial thoughts on this operation by the name of alqot flood. Thank you very much. This is not a merely an operation, because this is the we can call it as the cross border or border cross operation for the first time after many years, you know, because Israel Government itself regime say that produce a meeth, that invincible meth. Merely with wall call it iron dam and it was not destroyable right now we can see that this this wall is simless and its better to say that its suspected and all of the world of of especially the partner and the the the states that they have tie israel uh such as security ties, Defense System and others has to reing and value the tie with this right because you know because where is country intelligal this morning and where is iron dam . So it means that there is a big hole in all your Security System in in israel, mean me, this is the fact, the second is they have the very v
See half inch or threequarters of an inch of rain including city of philadelphia it comes through remainder on this evening into the overnight hours but that is not all there is to talk about in our forecast, temperatures are poised to plumet, i will tell you how low it goes, couple snow chances in the forecast as well and tell you which day stays in the 30s, stay tuned for that, ukee. A explosive wild fires are being stoked by strong santa ana wind northwest of los angeles, scores of homes have been burned in tens of thousands of been evacuated. Largest fire burning right now is near town of ventura, growing wildly to more than 70 square miles, and a smaller fire has erupted on the edge of los angeles threatening the philmar and lake view, terrace neighborhood. Most scary thing i have ever seen in my life. Helicopters going in. Reporter you heard from michael, who moved to the l. A. Area from philadelphia, a few years ago. He shared this video with cbs3. This is from the 210 freeway i
I think theyre afraid im going to take alabama values to washington. One gop lawmaker went so far as to send a democratic opponent a donation. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning the fire thats engulfed parts of Southern California is forcing new evacuations. There are three fires near los angeles. Nearly 200 structures have burned. More that 150,000 residents have been forced to evacuate and major freeways have been shut down. Officials say the worst is not over yet. A state of emergency has been declared in Ventura County where most schools are closed today, and Kenneth Craig is there. Good morning, kenneth. Good morning, annemarie. This is a look at the kind of devastation residents will wakes up to this morning. Behind me is a home that burnt to the ground. All that is left is a car frame. Three fires burned in Southern California alongside some smaller ones. Amid reports hun