never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? number one, he s ugly. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, to all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. it s not a question. rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s foo
it s estimated that could cost more than $5 billion. one of the buildings which was destroyed was the grace baptist church. our correspondent sophie long is in hawaii and spoke to some of the congregation. the fire left more than a city devastated, and charred black buildings behind. questions hover above the emptiness. how can you rebuild from this? what will exist here in the future? a now churchless congregation gathers at a coffee shop to share their pain. one of the police officers sent me pictures. it used to be my house. i wept, but weeping is not a lack of faith. thank god that he gave us tears. # amazing grace.# there are so many questions that remain without answers. why did one survive to sit in a makeshift church when their neighbour didn t? what will become of their community so crippled by a loss that s still being counted? i don t think it will ever be the same. i hope it will be better. that s my prayer. and i believe that, i think one day, you know, it can be
0llie, thank you so much forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. now, i understand you ve been able to flee these fires. just bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happened and how you re coping where are you now? yeah, so i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it probably sounds like a huge distance it really isn t in northwest territories terms. this place is twice the size of france, it s got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that we re talking about. this is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. and you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. this is the mackenzie river behind me. yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. we came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. what were you seeing that led you to th