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the rain is triggering mixed feelings for the people in the santa cruz mountains, they want the water, but worry about what it can do to the thousands of acres that were ravaged by that fire in september. robert honda is at the lexington reservoir. what s the biggest concern tonight where you are. there are concerns and there are some benefits they hope to get out of it the water district says it hopes to get up to 4,000 acre feet of water from the storm. as you heard, the storm could cause problems in the fire area. and make it hard for keeping the reservoirs from being clogged there. many property owners are watching today s rain with dread, sandbags can be seen along the road, diverting fire away. the fire burned 1500 acres since september. norman noble lost a utility shed and flames scorched his property. he s worked hard to divert water. the areas burned hotter than other places, so everything s gone. that s going to be they have the water district taking ....
well, good tuesday morning. right now the second american infected with ebola is on her way to the united states. yes, nancy writebol s journey from west africa will end in just a few hours when she arrives in atlanta. she ll be the second patient treated at emory university hospital for the deadly virus that s killed nearly 900 people. abc s tahman bradley has the latest. reporter: this morning, doctors are fighting to save the lives of two americans infected with ebola. nancy writebol is said to be improving after receiving a dose of an experimental drug. the 59-year-old missionary from charlotte was in liberia helping to decontaminate doctors and got sick. she was eating a little bit, able to take in fluid, so, you know, we re cautiously optimistic. reporter: according to the president of writebol s missionary group, nancy s condition has improved enough to make special requests. she asked for her favorite liberian meal of potato soup and coffee. report ....
nancy writebol left liberia in serious condition. she s expected to arrive around 11:00 a.m. eastern time. now writebol will join kent brantley at the hospital. both are being treated with an experimental drug. a director of the national institutes of health spoke with chris hayes about the drug. this is an intervention that was developed with federal funding by nih, my institution, and now it s with a company that s trying to scale it up. there are only right now as we speak three treatment doses available, so it isn t like there s a lot of it available. we really have to scale it up. the ebola outbreak in west africa is causing doctors around the world to be cautious. a man with ebola-like symptoms has been tested for the virus. it s unlikely he has ebola. i m joined by jay grey in atlanta. what can we expect today? hey there. well, a lot of people expecting the arrival of the second american missionary. as you talk about nancy wrightbol with the specially equip ....
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 in lincoln center in new york, this is hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said today that israel has accomplished many of its goals during its nearly four- week-long conflict with hamas. and israeli troops and tanks began to pull back from parts of gaza. netanyahu signaled that a wider pullback could be coming after the last of the hamas tunnels leading into israel from gaza are destroyed. ( translated ): the military will prepare for continuing action in according to our security needs and only according to our security needs. sreenivasan: an estimated 1,650 palestinians and 66 israelis have been killed during the fighting. meanwhile, the egyptian leader, abdel fattah al-sisi, is hosting a meeting in cairo with palestinian officials to try to broker ....
good evening everyone, i m natasha brown. thank you so much for joining us. this fire broke out while many were sleeping and tonight investigators are combing through the rubble trying to find out exactly what happened eyewitness news reporter matt rivers is lie at the scene in southwest philadelphia with this developing and very, very sad story. matt. reporter: natasha, this is a terrible situation here in southwest philadelphia. let s give you a live look right now at what the scene looks like. you can see crews beginning to clean out some of these affected homes and for the first time this afternoon we are learning the identity of the children that died in this fire. they are two twin sisters maria and mariella a four year old boy patrick and his little brother taj. they died after they could not escape the flames. the grandmother of the two boys overcome with grief this afternoon unable to talk for more than a sentence or two at a time. i want them back. i lov ....