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this is aljazeera america. good morning, live from new york city, i m randall pinkston. we begin again this morning with those rapidly spreading wildfires burning through towns in california. the flames forced 20,000 people to spend the night in makeshift shelters. the three largest fires have scorched 406 square miles, an area about the size of san antonio. the ruff and butte fires are burning to the north, 20% under control after consuming 600 homes. we are live in middletown, california this morning with the valley fire tearing through over the weekend. how are people coping with the devastation? we are back in middletown and you can see there s more wreckage of homes behind us, just by eyeballing it, i would say a third to half of homes in this town are completely droid. there are very few residents in middle town right now because officials have not let them back in. as early as today, they are going assess the damage of their homes. a lot of people do not know ....
this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i m stephanie sy. as the sunrises on the west coast this morning, people are getting a first look at the damage. california s raging wildfires caused overnight. 23,000 people slept in emergency shelters last night. more than 700 homes are destroyed. three major sfiers are tearing through residential areas to the north and east of san francisco, at a pace firefighters say they have never seen before. melissa chan is live in middletown, california right now. a town the valley fire turned through over the weekend, and we can see what that looks like behind you, melissa. reporter: absolutely. this is just one of the many homes destroyed by the fire that went through middletown, as i would say that our team feels that about a third to half of the homes in middletown have been destroyed and look just like this. all of this rubble. all that really remains, large metal frames, stoves, ovens are remainders of that. we decide ....
preorders for the new iphones were coming in strong. could the ipad pro be causing problems next quarter, that s coming up. plus there s the fed. the decisions impact on biotech of all places. we will break down how thursday s big meeting could shake up that sector. plus we ve got two stocks that could break out no matter what the fed does in that space. we will tell you what those are in just a moment. we will start with alibaba whose shares with falling, down 3% right now after bare ron s put that report out saying the stock could fall another 50% in price from here? in the past alibaba s jack mau has said he doesn t pay much attention to the company s stock price. listen. i don t watch t i think we will let the market take care of themselves, we should watch and take care of the business. when it goes down i m not excited, when it goes down i m never depressed. this is how people look at and what we should focus on is our business, our customer, our employees a ....
amy: as six baltimore police officers face charges in the death of freddie gray, we will speak with kevin moore, the baltimore man who filmed gray being violently arrested and thrown into the back of a police van. by the time gray left the van, his spine was 80% severed at the neck. then to seattle where schools are closed for a fifth day as teachers continue their first strike in 30 years. we will speak to socialist city council member kshama sawant and public school teacher jesse hagopian. we can fight and transform public education to make it something relevant to our students lives, to make it something that will help our students deal with the problems they re facing rather than just filling in another bubble to enrich a testing company. amy: and then to bolivia. very interestthe of capitalism. [inaudible] amy: for the past decade, bolivian president evo morales has spoken out against the actions of the u.s. drug enforcement administration. many critics called hi ....
and we say good tuesday morning to you, everyone. we re going to get started, of course, with that breaking news taking place right now on the utah/arizona border where eight people are dead and five are still missing swept away in a surprise wave of flash flooding. emergency officials in the sister towns of hildale and colorado city say a van and an suv carrying 16 women and children were swamped by a wall of water that washed them downstream. three managed to survive. the flash flooding was triggered by heavy rains falling in the canyons just north of those two towns. power and water service still out in much of that area. and taking a look at the radar, you can actually see all that rain stretching north of arizona. some of these storms bringing heavy downpours and lightning and we ll stay on top of the situation in the southwest. that same system is bringing cooler, wet weather to northern california, as well. a bit of a break for exhausted firefighters who ....