So looking at a few more thunderstorms and with that, the Lightning Strikes which is the reason why red flag warning remains in ef0 orct ffe today. Lightning strikes could lead to fire starts. We had about 50 fires that started because of lightning over the weekend. And the excessive heat warning and heat advisory that remains in effect for the bay area, because of the dangerous heat, that is all the way through wednesday nine a clock p. M. As we are going to see temperatures soar once again. We are looking at 17, triple digit in concord, 103 in santa rosa. Into the 80s around the bay. I will show you the future cast hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. This morning a brush fire burning in the south bay has tribute triggered evacuations outside milpitas. Lets get to kiet do who joins us live from Santa Clara County with the latest on this. Reporter good morning. Ife ar a alongcas ro couple of miles south of 680 around the area of reservoir. We can see orange flames and
Of the cost of a serious devastating bushfires. And mourning the conscience of Congress Civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capitol. Hill is former Prime Minister najib razak has been found guilty of 7 corruption charges the verdict comes from the 1st trial linked to the one n. D. B. State Investment Fund scandal from when he was in power continues to die deny any wrongdoing and says he will appeal. This is the 1st case is centered on the transfer of nearly 10000000. 00 from a unit of one m d b into personal accounts is being convicted of abuse of power 3 counts of criminal breach of trust and 3 counts of Money Laundering and he belongs to one m. T. B. As a state Investment Fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 songs louis has the latest from college im poor. The judge took a couple of hours to read out his verdict and he found not guilty on all 7 counts and now the defense lawyers are now arguing for a stay in sentencing so were not yet sure whether the judge i
Very important from volunteers start rolling up their sleeves to the United States 1st large scale vaccine trial. Also ahead 3000000000 animals killed or displaced scientists give an alarming reassessment of australias devastating bushfires. Im johnny gosch roscoe with the sports 500 and up england cricket the surf boards joins an elite club with his latest test against the west indies. We begin this news in malaysia with the former Prime Minister najib razak has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption he wont go straight to jail though and says hes appealing this verdict is from the 1st of 5 trials not she was facing linked to the one n. D. P. Scandal he launched this state fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 we are always positive we believe. You know innocence we believe that. We have a strong case. But of course we have to convince the judges and we would do our best. Chef we would continue to lead a team and he is very determined. To get the
David w very blake burman in washington, d. C. With the latest. Reporter treasury secretary steve mnuchin, chief of staff mark meadows set to meet with the top two democrats. Nancy pelosi and shuck Chuck Schumer. It was this time yesterday that the Mitch Mcconnell released Senate Republican plan. You can fast forward 24 hours to this moment. There is very real acknowledgment from Senate Republicans in this town, even though they have that framework what they want going forward, there is still not a consensus among republicans about whether or not they stand behind this plan. Watch here. At the moment we seem to have unity and disagreement. Thats the bad news. The good news is, how can i put this . Were for the most part were gnawing on the same bone. Were just gnawing at different ends of the bone but at least it is the same bone. Reporter many issues of contention for schumer and pelosi they say the republican plan tries to quote, bully schools to get open. They take issue with tax br
A paltry one trillion dollars,. Only in this day and age can one trillion seem cheap. Democrats want 3 trillion. Well follow battle back and forth. In texas where were seeing a spike in cases but some are finding positive signs that the spikes are not quite as high as they use to do so be. Also that, and the vaccine push right now that has some promising implications for texas. To silicon valley, what is going on there. A lot of tech ceos on wednesday will be on capitol hill. Lets just say the environment might match the weather, hot and getting even more heated. So lets get to it with chad pergram with republicans with their own coronavirus bill, that also tackles that sticky subject of those jobless benefits. Courtesy of uncle sam. Chad, where do we stand on all of this. Reporter neil, they released their plan yesterday, about five or six distinct proposals. Frankly republicans are in a pickle. There is a lot of disagreement, there is a lot of disowe nance on the republican side of t