Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
Tweets, trump accusing newsom of doing a terrible job, saying the first time he met the governor, he told him he must clean his floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, demand of him. The professionals currently battling fires like kincade say Governor Newsom has shown a commitment to fighting california fires since he took off. He passed the 45day plan which identified 35 various projects in the state as priorities in field reduction, Forest Management to bring our forest back to resiliency. We started work on them several months ago. Reporter next week, criticism ofl aid, telling newso get his act together because other states dont burn like california. And finally, accusing the state of wasting a valuable firefighting resource. Water. Saying open up t down from the north. Dont pour it out into the pacific ocean. Cal fire says access to water is a nonissue. We can pull out of ponds,cre. Swimming pools if we have to. Again, we do not have any issues with that. Repo
And perhaps even some liquid beautiful. We need to the rain. It has been dry recently sell it would not hurt to get a few drops. A lot of folks are hoping that the rain holds off. We still have a 40 chance of the wet stuff as we work through this sunday. Right now we have rain to the west and a huge system that brought the rain and the flooding through the southeast is inching ever so much closer to us. Not a cold front that extra moisture and we could see extra moisture turning into rain by later today. Lets look at the temperatures now, as you start off on the senate morning, 69 in tampa and largo, 67 lutz and apollo keach, 66 myakka city, sebring and a warm start and we will be getting warmer later today. It looks as if we have the chance of showers especially in the afternoon. From noon through 4 00 should top out at 80 degrees. Will look at the forecast and try to timeout the showers coming up in 12 minutes. 24 hours ago we brought you breaking news of a wrong way crash that claim
Quintanilla. Good evening. The historic wildfire season in california has taken another turn for the worse. This one is called the valley firl north of sacramento, and in just 224 hours its grown to some 60 square mete miles. Thats more than double the size of manhattan. Its destroyed hundreds of homes, gutted cars on the highway, and forced thousands to evacuate. Its one of a dozen major fires now raging across the state, and nbcs Gotti Schwartz is there starting us off. Good evening. Good evening, carl. The devastation out here is absolutely staggering. This right here used to be a row of ten houses. You can see they have been completely incinerated. I also want to show you this right there. You see that. That is natural gas still burning, still flaming. Last night we saw and we heard natural gas and propane blowing up all around us. Reporter the roads are surrounded. Its a town set ablaze. Now, this is main street middletown. You can see theres all kinds of torching going on. Theres
Miles per hour so at least were down from yesterday, but the big story is the spotty flooding across the area. Still, moderate flooding in the forecast. I wanted to show you video from earlier this morning where we had it the road to check out the road conditions. This is coastal highway. What it looks like as we made our way up the wet surfaces and even down towards ocean city, that area that was covered with water yesterday, there was as much as 10 to 12 inches covering that area down around division street all the way down to the inlet yesterday. It was covered because at high tide, all the water came back over the road. They had to close the road, then they reopened it, then had to close a portion of it again. We may see the same thing today because tide rrs expected to run high around 1 00 this afternoon. So theyre asking some of the folks around town, theres a car show in town, theres a number of things still going on. Quite a few people. Theyre asking them to stay alert, whether