Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of
Im anna dates. The other story, the boisterous crowd out of a richmond high school. President clinton chanting president clinton president clinton hundreds of students went on a daylong walkout demanding the School District reverse the decision to fire a popular teacher. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at de Anza High School in richmond with the story. Laura . Reporter hi there. Some students still out here seven hours after their demonstration began. These Students Walk into class and leave for the day. They stayed right here at a sitin and demonstration. Administrators here were sent a loud message. What do we want . Reporter they walked out of class after the first bell hundreds of students from richmonds de Anza High School upset that a beloved teacher wont be back next year. With this teacher that we have now, she actually make us do work and she actually cares. She will make sure that you do everything you are supposed to do and if you dont you wont play in that game you
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In 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had just held on to the Nuclear Weapons that they had on their territory once they became an independent country, they would have become the fourth Largest Nuclear armed state in the world. But they decided when they became independent that they did not want Nuclear Weapons. They had tons of them, but they voluntarily gave up all of those Nuclear Weapons. They gave up bein
Watching tv. The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, laookig back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had