This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are battling two of californias fastest burning fires in decades. The valley and butte fires consumed 115,000acres. That is roughly the size of new orleans. Now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. More than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25 contained after five days. The valley fire close to napa is still raging. It began over the weekend. Strong winds and hot weather be making it difficult to stop. Melissa chan is live for us this morning in middletown, california, close to that valley fire. How much progress is being made fighting that blaze . Well, randall, the latest information that we have on this particular fire is its 0 containment. Thats the last figure we had. The valley fire has grown very quickly. In just the last 36 hours, its gone to 50,000acres and the deployment has been very fast in terms of the number of fir
To find relics of the bombing in his effort to let the souls of the victims rest in peace. A top scientist in japan who supervised internationally discredited research has died Police Believe Yoshiki Sasai committed suicide. He was found hanging near the niken center for development alibi ol in kobe where he was deputy director. Sasai apologized in april for the doubt raised on research on socalled stap cells initially hailed as revolutionary. He oversaw the compilation of papers by a riken scientist haruko obokata. Their work suggested the existence of a phenomenon known as stimulustriggered acquisition of pluripotency. They said the method could reprogram mature animal cells into embryoniclike stem cells and that those cells could be turned into any type of tissue. But scientists elsewhere began to raise questions about the findings. And riken investigators said they found fabrication and falsification in the study. They criticized sasai for not properly supervising his teams work. S
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