Been kind of focusing my attention in this direction because were constantly hearing these falling limbs and the possibility that were talking about weakened trees that could fall down any second. This is a dangerous fire. It has shown its ability to be unpredictable. Reporter today the only predictable thing youll find in south Lake Tahoe, this Communitys Gratitude for our firefighters. And what better way than to show that appreciation than by obeying Cal Fires evacuation order. Cal fires captain says those who live just outside south Lake Tahoe in the Christmas Valley area also did an excellent job of fireproofing their homes. A lot of prep work was done ahead of time, and a lot of good work by the people who own these homes and come to maintain these areas. They know that they live in fire country. Reporter typically homeowners forced to evacuate leave their sprinklers on. But this homeowner took it one step further. To protect their home, you can see they completely covered it fro
Alice barr has the latest from washington, d. C. Reporter snapshots from the end of a 20year war. The last u. S. Soldier boarding a plane to leave afghanistan. The final diplomats carrying the american flag. As taliban militants celebrate in the streets and comb through equipment the u. S. Military made inoperable before leaving. President biden addressing the nation today. We succeeded in what we set out to do in afghanistan over a decade ago. And we stayed for another decade. It was time to end this war. Reporter the president faces fierce criticism for the deadly chaos of the final days in afghanistan and for sticking with his timeline, despite leaving as many as 200 americans behind and thousands of afghans who worked alongside the u. S. I believe there should be accountability for what i, what i see as probably the biggest failure in american government on the military stage in my lifetime. Reporter President Biden defended the evacuation, calling it a success that brought more th
729 structures are destroyed. 43 structures are damaged. Joining now is keith wade, a public Information Officer for calfire. Thank you so much for your time. I know its really busy. If you could start by giving us a very latest. The very latest. Reporter those numbers are the most recent ones we have. I think you will start to see a little bit of Acreage Increase as well. Hopefully acreage containment increase. The winds have not manifested as expected. We are in a red flag up until 11 00 p. M. Tonight, but as of right now, im down in the Tahoe Basin right now at the airport, we get a little bit of a gust once in the fire is letting down a little bit today. That is creating some windows of opportunity for the firefighters to continue extinguishing and continuing it. Containment is up a little bit, the ones are down, that could change in the next few hours. Where the Chances Today that the flames might move into south Lake Tahoe . Reporter the opportunity is there, that is why the evac
The big unknown tonight. All right. Peter, thank you the taliban quickly declared victory after the last american troops left, celebrating as they took over the kabul airport. Heres Richard Engel Reporter today was Victory Day for the taliban entering the airport. Their fighters inspecting the spoils the u. S. Left behind at what was the last american toehold in afghanistan. The taliban spokesman saying today the group wants new relations with the west and are even open to foreign investment they looked over the aircraft and weapons u. S. Troops abandoned and decommissioned so they cant be used but american forces did not damage the airport itself the united states is relying on the airport to reopen quickly to evacuate american citizens and translators who never made it out in the Air Lift some of them now in hiding from the taliban and who one day, once they have documents, will have to pass through here to leave the taliban insisting theyll let them go. The taliban also promising to
There today, a whole lot cooler than they were yesterday. So all in all today is bring an improvement of prada and as far as your weather goes, a look outside this morning also shows less fog than what we had. We do have a nice view of the Bay Bridge out there in the distance sitting under what is some low Cloud Cover certainly. But we dont have any visibility impacts across the Bay Area this morning. So as you are hitting the roads, you are good to go in that regard. Sure there are some moderate pockets out there. Theres also pockets of good things are actually pretty stirred up across the Bay Area right now. Youll get a little settling that occur sometimes, but we are overall going to see a better trend of Air Quality as that smoke starts to get sent more more so out of the region and less of having the opportunity to settle in with us 50s and 60s for current temperatures with alameda at 61 degrees oakland at 56 San Francisco, san mateo each at 58 will conquered in pittsburgh right n