Some of the worst wildfires the state of california has ever seen have killed at least ten people and forced around 20,000 from their homes. At least 1,500 properties have been destroyed as the flames spread in hot weather, whipped up by strong winds. Governorjerry brown has declared a state of emergency in the wine counties of napa, sonoma and yuba. The bbcs dave lee reports from san francisco. Fierce winds and low humidity the perfect conditions for a raging blaze to spread across californias famous wine region, north of san francisco. Late sunday night, dramatic videos posted to social media showed locals desperately fleeing towns that were being engulfed by the flames. Slow down. Stop winds as strong as 70mph meant the fire spread quickly and unpredictably. What started the initial blaze is not yet known. 11 oclock somebody came around honking their horn, like, just crazy. Were just like what is going on . And i dont know what inspired me to look out my bedroom window, necause its
Stop fence will help stop those attacks. Live in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where President Trumps testy relationship with Top Republicans has reached new levels in a war of tweets with senator bob corker. It began on sunday when mr trump said senator corker, didnt have the guts to run for re election in the state of tennessee. Mr corker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shot back, calling the white house an Adult Day Care Centre and that someone obviously missed their shift. Later in the day, during an interview with the new york times, senator corker went on to accuse donald trump of treating the presidency like a reality show with actions that could put the us on the path to world war iii. Our north american correspondent Anthony Zurcher told us more. We see donald trump and bob corker picking a fight here and donald trump has picked fights with lots of republicans in the past
Seen have killed at least ten people and forced around 20,000 from their homes. At least 1,500 properties have been destroyed as the flames spread in hot weather, whipped up by strong winds. Governorjerry brown has declared a state of emergency in the wine counties of napa, sonoma and yuba. The bbcs dave lee reports from san francisco. Fierce winds and low humidity the perfect conditions for a raging blaze to spread across californias famous wine region, north of san francisco. Late sunday night, dramatic videos posted to social media showed locals desperately fleeing towns that were being engulfed by the flames. Slow down. Stop winds as strong as 70 mph meant the fire spread quickly and unpredictably. What started the initial blaze is not yet known. 11 oclock somebody came around honking their horn, like, just crazy. Were just like what is going on . And i dont know what inspired me to look out my bedroom window, necause its in the back of the house and the car was in the front of the
As it recognizes its 90th year, the membership at St. Joseph’s Parish say they are “on the move,” proud of the church’s nine decades, and still going strong.