Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. The controversial spying program that collect millions of american phone records will be limited. Thats a commitment president obama made on friday. The proposed reforms do not put an end to mass spying but provide more oversight. They assure allies that they will not monitor phone calls. Theres no guarantees that theyll be implemented. Patty culhane explains. The extent of the spying carried out by the United States, hugely controversial overseas. Beside president obamas speech only a handful of the usual protesters showed up to demand changes. The president took to the stage, promising to change little. When it comes to spying outside the u. S. Allied leaders can by assured they will not listen to the phone call. Every text, call and video chat will be stored. The u. S. President says that shouldnt bother most people in the world. The bottom line is that people around the world. Regardless
I am pleased to announce that our giant panda and gave birth pam zookeepers going ga ga over the newest addition at our im pam moore. A full hour of your prime time news at eight. Starts right now. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam the yosemite fire now inside the national park. The flames exploding aggressively overnight new fire crews arriving on the scene. Struggling in dry and dangerous terrain. We have to make sure we are cognizant of the conditions around us. Pam tonight, thousands of people are forced out by the flames. And now more evacuations are being urged. As the rim fire grows to 165 square miles. More than twothousand firefighters are struggling for control of the fire. That is only twopercent contained. Heres kron 4s grant lodes, with some of the incredible pictures. Grant . Grant pam images like this tell the story a wall of flames. Firefighters struggle to compete with mother nature. Some officials are calling this an epic fi
And good morning everybody. Welcome to mornings on two. Its saturday august 24th. Lets head right over to rosemary for a look at how warm itll get for us today. Its going to be a mild one out there. Even the warmest locations only into the mid80s for the afternoon. At this hour a mix of sun and clouds as we start the day. Temperatures on the cool side, as we get into the afternoon similar temperatures expected from what we felt yesterday and its going to be a nice one in most case. Extended forecast only small changes, we will look at that,ly have your numbers for today coming up. We start with developing news. Oakland Police Gearing up for a search this morning for a child who vanished more than a month ago. Investigators say they may have new information about her possible where abouts. Reporter we expect authorities to start searching just about an hour from now. Somewhere in this location near the college and i want to show you the scene. We are in the parking lot and you can see t
The fire has torched more than 1 25,000 acres and just 5 percent contained. W3 this is hw big the rim fire was wednesday morning. By thursday morning it had tripled in size and by last night nearly doubled agai again. We have the very latest from the frontlines. Be advised directly to the north we have a column buildin building. Reporter large plume of smoke signs the rim fire is still burning out of control. Firefighters now totalling more than 2000 captain catch a brea break. Fire behavior extreme. Long range spotting. Incredibly dry fuel. Second year of very dig drought and forest is just tinder dry. Reporter Smokey Valley delayed the aerial attack so ground crew work harder trying to keep the fire away from the park but they lost that battle. It went in park boundary near the area hivrment crossing yot might in the northern section right now its just pick up spot fires as we can and depending if it gets ahead of statement will probably burn deeper in the park. Reporter they worried
To make it into the middle 80s. Today cooler with a stronger sea breeze. What about tomorrow . I will tell but that and we will update you on the fire in yosemite. We are looking at a pretty decent week ahead, but come back and we will detail it for you. We will need it. We have developing news on the wildfire burning into yosemite. It has swelled to more than 125,000 makers. Heres the latest map showing just how large the rim fire has grown. Abc7 News Reporter john always stan has more on the fight to bring it under control. Names to continue to hold the hillside. The night side makes it easier to see the actual fires burning under all the smoke. Some crews were put on standby to make sure the flames dont jump over to the south side of highway 120. A few miles away from groveland, hundreds of people gathered to hear an update and to and questions. We have folks that are east, but before the park gate thats correct didnt even get evacuation notice. They had to leave on their own. We ne