Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. President trumps vow to get tough on north korea is being tested by todays first missile test by north korea since mister trump took office. This morning, north korea fired an intermediate range missile that flew 300 miles east over the Korean Peninsula and landed in the sea of japan, according to south korean and u. S. Officials. The pentagon says the missile posed no threat to north america, and reuters quoted an anonymous u. S. Official as saying this was no surprise. Still, nato the u. S. Led military alliance with europe condemned the test,
We begin with a fastmoving infur know. Firefighters are making slow progress in the foothills near los angeles. Police say the fire was likely started when paper was tossed into a campfire. It forced thousands to evacuate. Jennifer london is live with more tonight. Jennifer . Were at the command post where about 30 minutes ago firefighters held a press conference. The fire stands at 1700 acres. Five homes have been destroyed. Sever buildings have been damaged. They have had three people arrested in connection with this fire. They have got between 600 and 700 firefighters on the scene. They will be working in 24hour shifts throughout the night to try to bring that containment percentage up. Again, its at 30 contained right now. John, if you live in southern california, you live with the threat of wildfires, but because the state has seen multiple years of below average pain and precipitation, these threats se to be even all the more real and increasing, and the colby fire is a dangerous
Wildfires are a regular part life. This has been the driest year on record. Rebecca stevens is here with more on that. The santa ana winds can become powerful. Typically camerillo has been getting the gusts. As you get the strong winds, they are warm and dry. They bring in heat. In this very area we have temperatures, record temperatures. San francisco has a new recordhigh temperatures, and a california did hit records, while we were one or two degrees away from a record for places like los angeles, who hit 85. Looking at the areas of drought across the u. S. 75 of california is included. The percentage of normal rain fall is barely over 51 . Other cities below the percentage of normal. We get well into the water here, starting in july. The water year starts in july. We are threequarters of the way through it. Californian mountain snow, compared to 2012, we are now the driest on record, comparing the snow pack in the mountains to what we have now, this january of 2014, its an impressiv
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