Job. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. Good afternoon, i am tori campbell. Fire crews are on heightened alert today because of a red flag warning in effect across parts of the bay area. We have Team Coverage with rosemary orosco, monitoring the wind conditions from the Weather Center. We begin with claudine wong, who talked to busy fire crews this morning and joins us live from the Oakland Hills. Good afternoon. Reporter good afternoon, yes, we are on title road just near they have tunnel and there is a brisk wind down here and gets windier as you get higher. Take a look at the sign. It tells the story, fire danger high today. It is those types of conditions that had Contra Costa County firefighters overnight calling in for some extra help. This morning firefighters packed up, trucks pulled out and everything was locked back up at station 87 in pittsburgh. It had been closed due to budget cuts since july but last night it reopened be
125 other countries ratified this, but in the full senate 38 republicans voted no leaving the treaty five votes short of ratification. What we learned today thats interesting is some of these same senators actually supported the treaty before they voted against it. Some even pledged their support very publicly. Senator roy blunt of missouri was a flipflopper and Kay Bailey Hutchinson of texas and senator jerry moran of kansas. We asked them all to come on the program and they declined. Theyre silent on this. Senator moran was a cosponsor of the measure to ratify the treaty. He even put a press release back in may proclaiming his support. Here he is with bob dole in june. Dole, a war veteran, former Republican Senate leader is a longtime supporter of disability rights and a strong advocate of this treaty. Just before tuesdays vote he came to the Senate Chamber 89 years old frail in his wheelchair. He thought it was that important to make a difference. It didnt. Some of the senators like
We. We have breaking news coming in to us. According to the u. S. Geological survey, a magnitude 7. 3 magnitude earthquake strug off the coast of japan. A tsunami warning has been issued. I know it was felt very strongly there, alex. What can you tell us . Well, atika, you mentioned some of the details. We were sitting in the office here in our bureau in tokyo, up on the ninth floor of this building. Its hard to describe, you cant really describe the feeling until youre into it. The one thing that grips me, im relatively new to living here in japan is the noise more than everything. Everything basically shaking violently, our filing cabinets shaking. Heres what i can tell you. You mentioned the 7. 3 earthquake. A few other details just coming in. There are advisories pardon me, im looking off my notes. There are advisories for japan, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not issued a further alert beyond that. Right now theyre keeping it just to japan. We are hearing reports of po
Around the world. 125 other countries ratified this, but in the full senate 38 republicans voted no leaving the treaty five votes short of ratification. What we learned today thats interesting is some of these same senators actually supported the treaty before they voted against it. Some even pledged their support very publicly. Senator roy blunt of missouri was a flipflopper and Kay Bailey Hutchinson of texas and senator jerry moran of kansas. We asked them all to come on the program and they declined. Theyre silent on this. Senator moran was a cosponsor of the measure to ratify the treaty. He even put a press release back in may proclaiming his support. Here he is with bob dole in june. Dole, a war veteran, former Republican Senate leader is a longtime supporter of disability rights and a strong advocate of this treaty. Just before tuesdays vote he came to the Senate Chamber 89 years old frail in his wheelchair. He thought it was that important to make a difference. It didnt. Some of
Be escalating the civil war. There are new concerns the assad regime is preparing to use chemical weapons. Lets get to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, how does this change the u. S. Militarys syria plan . Are we talking u. S. Troops, boots on the ground . Well, not at this point, clearly, deb. But what we do know is that u. S. Officials tell us that they are updating some of the military options for action against syrias chemical weapons capability, why are they doing this . Of course, we chatted about this in the last several days. Officials say they do have the intelligence now that syria has filled aerial bombs with deadly sarin gas. Havent moved it to airplanes yet, but this is very concerning because that, of course, would be the next step. So once you have the deadly bombs, the u. S. Has to look at what the options could be, what they might want to target to essentially take out that kind of capabilities. So thats the options that are now being worked on. Deb .