Contain at least two dozen large fires in the middle of a historic heat wave. More than two million acres have burned so far this year, making it the worst on record in california and thats before the usual peak of the season. Hot dry gusts are blowing tonight, whipping up blowtorch conditions. Over the weekend more than 200 people had to be air lifted as a fire ripped through this campground. And just take a look at this tourist town tonight. Big creek, nearly wiped out by the flames. And on this labor day, the 2020 president ial campaign is in full swing. A new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows joe biden leading the president in a National Poll of likely voters. The president today also suggested a Coronavirus Vaccine could be ready by election day despite several of his own Top Health Officials saying that is unlikely. Meanwhile the country is bracing for a potential surge of new covid cases after Mass Gatherings over the weekend. We have a lot of news to get to with teams co
Really good to see you again. I hope you had a pretty good long weekend. Im annemarie green. We are going to begin with the raging wildfires out west. California is getting hit especially with a record 2 million acres burned. Its not over yet. One of the newest wildfires is the bobcat wildfire northeast of los angeles. Its scorched 5,000 acres forcing some evacuations in the Angeles National forest. Today santa ana winds are expected to fuel this fire even more. The el dorado fire remains a problem. Allegedly sparked by a gender reveal party. In fact, its gotten so bad the National Forest is closing all forests in the southern half of california with no reopening date. Elise, the power was turned off in california as well to deal with these wildfires. Reporter yeah. Those outages will impact more than 170,000 customers. But the utility says they will help improve safety. 80 miles east of los angeles officials believe the el dorado fire started during a gender reveal party. They used tw
Hour in the Higher Elevations. We have a dry cold front pushing through, kicking up the winds. We have a red flag warning in effect now all the way until 8 00 on wednesday due to these a dry and gusty offshore winds. There is low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains today into tomorrow morning and we have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the north bay mountains for today, at a possible chance of downed trees and power lines. It will be hot but not quite as hot as yesterday. Were looking at mid 80s in San Francisco and low 90s in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and dealing with triple digit heat in concord. 103 for a high in concord and because of the extreme heat, still for inland locations, concord is opening up a cooling center at the Concord Senior Center from 1 00 until 6 00, to give some relief to people, so go out there if you need some safety from these hot temperatures. It is from 1 00 until 6 00 in concord.
staying power. he is still making a bad bet that the conviction and the unity among united states and our allies and partners will break down. he still doesn t understand that our commitment, our values, our freedom is something he can never, never, ever ever walk away from. it s who we are. [applause] i mean it, it s who we are. it s who we are. throughout this horrific war, the people with lithuania and the brethren, champions of ukraine s right of a future to its own choosing, one that is free because you live so long with freedom denied. many of you who are older know better than anyone how precious the right to determine your own future is. precious to people everywhere, everywhere. not just in ukraine, belarus, muldova, georgia, and all the places around the world people continue to fight to make their voices heard. so my message, my message to all of you tonight is keep it up, keep it going, keep reminding the world of hope that lithuania embodies and that s what you e
First he was booed and then getting right in the face of the cubs fan. What caused this confrontation in the first place. Dont drop the nachos. It is 7 01 on this monday. Last day of july. Yes, byebye july. True. That means it will get hotter. Yes, absolutely. We are in the middle of the dog days. Yesterday was one of the nicest days of my life. It was beautiful. We can keep it going. Interestd in the number of the day. I really a. M. You should be, because it is double digits. A 10. yah. Oh, for the love. Right. We will love it. Dont forget your sun screen because on a day like today you will want to spend time out of doors. Bus stop buddy celebrating phillies winning streak that they hope to keep going to day we have an afternoon game for the phillies and it should be excellent weather, look at that sunshine 66 degrees and we will head after a delightful sunday and a high of 83 of 88. That is high, but not too, too humid. Yet. That is humidity coming back and the 90s are coming back