This is thanksgiving. Good morning, live from new york city im random pinkston. In Northern California, firefighters are racing to contain the rocky fire. It has trade 67,000acres, but thanks to a slight dip in temperatures and a little rain, theweekold wildfire is now 20 contained. 3500 firefighters are on the scene, but Officials Say it is still burning strong, spewing smoke and hot ash that flashes the fire in all directions. Jacob ward is there. Firefighters areyearold on Northern California. Theyre from democrats all over the state and when they get here, they find out its a different world. Yesterday the fire jumped highway 20 burning north. Theres a large big pocket of green in here. If that is established its a chance to make a big push. I. C. S. Is basically an agreed upon structure a way of bringing hundreds of departments together at a moments notice. This is the equipment warehouse. If you need a nozzle, clamp or piece of equipment you come here. It doesnt matter where youre from. You dont have to worry about your budget. You can say i need a hose, requisition a helicopter if you need to. The whole point is to keep these democrats from feeling they have to horde resources protect their turf or territory. The concept is known at mutual aid. You bring it back, emergency Lending Library for fighting wildfires. The system does away with rental and does a hierarchy on qualifications best suited for each fire. Here, im a division chief here i work for a battalion chief, actually one rank blow me. This fire is unpredictable occasionally explosive. We know californias experience and lack of rain. It seems every fire season as far as the with Northern California and they tend to get the dry lightning strikes that cause all the issues. In a changing climate where the violence and duration of fires is growing the i. C. S. Structure is more important than ever. The core i cant go recovery that allows thousands to Work Together and save property and lives. Firefighters with 30 and 40 Years Experience said they saw an unprecedented fury in these fires. The question for the five is can this incredible system cope with that kind of danger going forward. Even though the weather seems to be helping a built out there on going drought continues to dry up the land. Those dry conditions are providing fuel for the fire. Lets bring in Nicole Mitchell for todays environmental impact. Nicole, the drought now in its fifth year. How long will it take to recover . When it takes you four or five years to get into a drought, even normal rainfall, youre looking at another three or four years to get out and we havent even anything close to normal since 2011. You know those gallon milk jugs that we have . If they were to figure it with water and dump it over the states, it would take 11 tripleun of those. We are thinking about that in olympic sized swimming pools which hold 7,000 gallons, we would need 7,000 dumped across california to get us the water we need. Of course thats not how were going to get out of the drought. This is what the rain we would need. Youre looking at the answer is it would take a couple years of steady rain and getting back in the flow once again. The other side effect of this and all the dry terrain is the fires weve seen. We do get temporary relief, the humidity goes up a little, maybe theres a little rain shower, but widespread, the weather has not been cooperative. Remember those dry reservoirs . Those are places sometimes that the water is collected from, so the firefighters themselves are having to conserve water the best they can while still using what they need to put out the fires and even lets say there was a farmers duck pond that they used to be able to buy water from, grab water from, a lot of people think water is such a limited resource right now, they wont allow the government to use that water if it even exists. A lot of those ponds are dry in some of these fire areas. Problems on top of problems. Thank you, nicole. The f. B. I. Is now looking into Hillary Clintons use of aattorn clinton and her team are actively cooperating with the investigation. Last week, the fib contacted the denver based company that managed the system. A federal intelligence Inspector General referred it to the Justice Department to see if any classified material was mishandled. The state is set for the first republican president ial debate. Thursday night it will feature donald trump jeb bush, scott walker ted cruz, Marco Rubio Chris Christie and john kasich. Those who missed the cut rick perry. As Michael Shure reports that does not mean we should count them out of the race. With all the fanfare of the ncaa tournament bracket draw, fox news announced the top 10 in their debate for thursday night in cleveland. It combined five different polls. The polls they used were cbs, of course a fox poll, they used three others. All had a varying margin of error between three and five for the cbs poll. It seemed as if the one candidate who didnt make it, who had a shot of making it and was in the debate was rick perry. He took it on the chin. Thats because john kasich joined the fray recently and pushed periout of it. Perry was somebody who made a big mistake at the debate last year in 2012. This was supposed to have been a sort of redemption for rick perry. Its not to be. Hes going to be on the second stage. The second stage is one people should be watching as well, because from jim gilmore to george pataki, licensed graham and Carly Fiorina and rick perry, those candidates are going to be trying to get a little attention on a night where its going to be difficult. You may see a little mud on the stage there. Thats what they want to do. They want to make a name for themselves. One of the other problems for the Republican Party is Carly Fiorina not being on the main stage. With Hillary Clinton the first female candidate who looks like theyre going to win the nomination, it happened to her before on the department side, it seems really important for the republicans to them to have a woman on the stage to be able to talk about those issues. Already, jeb bush and Hillary Clinton got into it a little bit on the issue of planned parenthood, a little on the issue of Womens Health. Jeb bush said something and Hillary Clinton came back and said wait, you really said that we should cut by a half billion dollars or shouldnt spend a half billion dollars on Womens Health . Thats what happened. Hillary clinton said you should be ashamed of yourself jeb bush and turned it to planned parent hood. It would be nice if they had a woman in that stage. Not to be. But it will still be a debate that a lot of political watchers will be watching thursday night. Rick santorum isnt happy about being left out of the. He ran for president in 2012 heres what he had to say the man who assisted an american dentist killing cecil the lion was in court this morning. He faces poaching charges in zimbabwe. His hearing was postponed to september to give his defense more time to prepare. Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer allegedly paid him 50,000 to shoot a lion. The guide insists he did nothing wrong. On the money beat this morning, you could soon know the difference between how much you make and how much your boss gets paid. The securities and Exchange Commission is set to approve a new controversial rule today requiring public u. S. Companies to disclose the gap between the c. E. O. s pay and median employee pay. Groups like the chamber of commerce lobbied against the requirement, saying getting the information will be costly and time consuming. Pay packages for c. E. O. s grew for the fifth Straight Year last year. Benjamin netanyahu calls for jews to reject a a nuclear deal with iran as president obama warns the threat to israel will be even greater without one. After years of helping american forces, waiting for the visas to escape the violence. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. It is 7 43 eastern time. Taking a look now at todays top stories. Secretary of state john kerry is raising concern today about chinas move in the disputed south china sea. He met with his chinese counterpart in malaysia. Recent slight images show china has almost finished building a 10,000foot air strip on several islands in the south china sea. Several countries lay claim to the same waters. Investigators in france today begin to examine a piece of metal debris found on a French Island in the indian ocean. They hope to learn if it came from flight 370. A jewish citizen jailed without trial. He is expected of participating in an arson attack on a palestinian home that killed a baby. Its the first time the controversial measure known as used to detain palestinians. President obama speaks out about the Iran Nuclear Deal one day after telling American Jewish leaders bombs may fall on israel if the accord is not approved, but israels Prime Minister had his own message for members of the same audience. U. S. President barack obama and israel Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu of battling for the backing of american jews. Netanyahu appealed to them directly in a webcast arguing that the iran deal was dangerous. The deal does make it harder for iran to produce one or two Nuclear Weapons in the short term but it does so at a terrible price because the deal makes it far easier for iran to build dozens, even hundreds of Nuclear Weapons in a little over a decade. Theres a lot at stake in the iran nuclear negotiations. Some are among the most vocal opponents in the United States, targeting members of congress who have until mid september to approve the deal with ads and rallies like this one in new yorks times square. Here they called out influential democratic and israel supporter new york senator charles schumer, who has yet to say how he will vote. Members of congress have been under intense pressure from opponents to the deal and thats left many democratic lawmakers torn between their vocal constituents and loyalty to the president. Not are against the deal. Some polls suggest the majority favor it. Outside the nonpolitical Jewish Community center of new york the place where families come to swim and take classes opinions were mixed. I dont think its a good idea to give them all that money. I just dont not considering where some of the terrorists came from, but i am not familiar we any means with the entire situation. There were plenty of supporters. Its definitely better than nothing, yeah. This deal is better than nothing. Give me something better. Show us something better. I dont like it. Its 10 years though, 10 years better than nothing. Israeli Security Experts say this agreement is the best exiting option. The left leaning jay street lobbying group is scaling up Advertising Campaign in favor of the deal. President obama has been meeting Jewish American groups at the white house. This deal with iran is a strong deal. Its a historic opportunity. I think diplomacy is almost always better than war and i think this deal brings iran under an International Framework of monitoring its nuclear capabilities. Many democrats are watching the lobbying and the polls before saying how they will vote. Al jazeera, new york. During the afghan war, 15,000 afghanis worked for the u. S. Most were interpreters. The Obama Administration promised visas in exchange for putting their liches on the line. Thousands are still waiting while facing Death Threats at home. Former naval officer eric gardner and his interpreter john havent seen each other since units left having a. He put his life on the line for our unit and he was a part of our unit and everyone came back here, except him. Johns identity has been concealed for his safety. He receives regular Death Threats from the taliban because of his work with u. S. Special forces. As a linguist, he was assigned to some of the most dangerous missions. Now he lives under self imposed house arrest with his elderly parents, fearing for his life. If they find me we knew there was a lot of risk when i started i never thought theyd leave us behind. The u. S. Congress created the special immigrant visa program to help iraqis in life threatening situations come to the United States. In 2009, the program was expanded to include those who also assisted the u. S. In afghanistan. The special immigrant visa program has been mired in bureaucratic delay. The u. S. Congress required the state department to process applications within nine months, but in many cases it has not inter reportedly captured by the taliban, tortured and killed. Like john, hed been waiting four years for the u. S. State department to process his visa. We recognize frankly that the process is changing for some of the applicant. Applications are often left idling for years without explanation. Individuals wait five years for their special immigrant visas to get. The indicated. He applied for his in 2011. Hes still waiting for an answer. We have a moral duty to bring him back to the United States, because of the work that he did for us. The state department currently has 4,000 visas to issue to afghans like john before the end of the year. Its requested an additional 5,000 more but that will take another act of the u. S. Congress, currently set to go on its summer recess. Al jazeera washington. Pope francis wants to keep the doors of the church over to divorced catholics who remarry. The pope said those parishioners and their children deserve better treatment from the catholic church. He said children suffer the most because the policies make it harder for their parents to raise them as catholics. The worlds greatest free diver in history goes missing. The questions this morning over what happened to him off the coast of spain. A reality check on president obamas Climate Change initiative. What is really possible when it comes to shifting america away from fossil fuels . One of the worlds greatest free divers has gone missing and is presumed dead. He was diving off the coast of spain where she disappeared. The russian diver was not wearing fins and may have gotten pulled in in an undercurrent. She could hold her breath under water for nine minutes. She won many World Championships in free diving. Lawmakers are work. President obama said he has a plan to stop Global Warming if other countries join in. He pledges Carbon Emissions will be cut by nearly a third in 15 years. Lobbying groups like the National Mining association are sending dire warnings to congress and the American People about the consequences. The big impact the country will feel will be the result of higher electricity prices feeding through the economy. There are only 8,000 coal miners in the u. S. They could be impacted. The bigger impact will be Rising Energy prices. They say that will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs every year. If you look at the numbers the percentage of comb used to create power in the u. S. Has fallen by nearly 20 since 2005. In that year, it was 8 cents per will cat hour. The president says Renewable Energy can make up the difference, saying this during the announcement. We are generating three times as much wind power, 20 times as much solar power as we did in 2008. Again look at the numbers. In 2009, the year the president took office, solar power contributed less than two hundredths of a to the Nations Energy grid. Energy from wind supplied less than 2 , now just over 4 . Environmental activists are pinning hopes on new technology being created because of the new regulations. If we actually eliminate the barriers in states to moving clean energy and get away from old Energy Sources that are holding us back, well see a breakthrough in these technologies and people have better choices well have cleaner air that will protect Public Health and will deal with Climate Change. The president says the country cannot afford to do nothing. Hit critics say hes overstepped his power and the countries economy cant afford to do this. This is likely to end up in the court, meaning the nine justice of the Supreme Court will decide who is right. One year from today the summer Olympic Games i can kick off in rio de janeiro. The city will spend today celebrating, but security is still a major concern. 85,000 police will be deployed over the month long games. Authorities have been cracking down on crime in the borders shanty towns. A reporter in brazil said some residents welcome the increased police presence. Unfortunately violence is a problem especially in big ci