Burned. Ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Firefighters are bringing in more resources ahead of sundays red flag warning. Start with abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Strong wind storm. Could be the storongest of te season. Winds are not strong near the pope fire. Gusting to ten miles an hour, if stronger, would be harder to contain. Problem is the vegetation is so dry. Hopefully get it under control quickly. Winds in surrounding area may be gusting to 16 miles per hour, not that windy, but thats going to change. Red flag warning 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 a. M. Tuesday. Wind gusts over the ridges. 5 to 15 humidity, extreme fire danger. High wind watch sunday 4 00 p. M. Until 10 00 a. M. Monday. Entire bay area. Power outages, possible trees falling. Winds picking up 2 00 in the north bay, begins in hills and translates to the surface. Midnight monday over 40mileanhour winds at lower elevations. Ill be back with closer look at fire danger and winds coming up. Firefi
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A century paves the way for more frequent heat waves. We begin with the unrest in thailand where thousands of antigovernment protesters have been cleared from outside the Prime Ministers Office in the capital riot police marched on to the streets and the government declared an emergency in the Early Morning banning large gatherings tensions flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the heart of bangkok on wednesday Rights Groups say at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others have been arrested scott hyla has more now from bangkok. About 5 hours ago that they were removed those protesters those hardcore protesters if you call them that a few 100 of them that stayed out around the Government House area overnight and then there was that emergency decree 4 am local time that allowed the riot police to to clear them out because they this enacted a law a rule that no more than 5 people will gather at one place so thats what they used to for them to leave not what
Gus gusts mt. Hood 19 miles an hour that will change, 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 am tuesday. It covers valleys and hills. Gusts up to 50 at the lower elevation, 60 and 70 over the ridges and humidity 5 to 15 . Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected. Damaging winds are possible. A high wind watch until 10 00 am monday. There is a possibility of downed trees and power lines as you look at the hour by hour wind forecast, the winds pick up first in the north bay and then spread late sunday night into monday. Were going to toss to cornell bernard with more on how people are preparing for the upcoming fires. Reporter hey, sandhya, were in santa rosa where this air attack for cal fire is very busy. Check it out. This tanker just returning from fighting that wildfire in rural napa county. Planes have have been coming and going about every 15 minutes. Its about 4 00 p. M. Reloading with retar dent. Done the for but extreme fire danger is ahead for a lot of firefighters all over North
General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait