Asian american sworn in his Vice President. The oath administered by Justice Sonia sotomayor. The First Latina Supreme Court justice, so help me god. Congratulations mr present. Moments later, joseph r. Biden jr took the oath of office becoming the 46, president of the United States of america. This is americas day. This is democracys day day of history and hope of reno and resolved on the west front of the capitol. The peaceful transfer of power mostly followed tradition. Former president s obama, clinton and george w. Bush attended. All three branches of government were represented in a bipartisan show of support. Weve learned again, democracy is precious democracy is fragile at this hour, my friends. Democracy has prevailed beyond the stage an inauguration unlike any other due to the covid19 pandemic, and security concerns, the new president and vp faced 200,000 flags representing the usual crowd that would attend more than 25,000. National guard troops fortified the area after riot
President joe biden has now been in office for only 10 hours, but already he signed 17 executive actions. Good evening, everyone. Im Frank Somerville and im Cristina Rendon in tonight for julie. During his inaugural address, President Biden called for unity and compromise in just a few hours ago. He camped off todays historic inauguration with the Virtual Event called celebrating america. 90 minutes celebration featured a dazzling fireworks display, as well as messages and performances from average americans to a list celebrities. President biden addressed the nation from inside the lincoln memorial, telling americans that together we can overcome the challenges facing this country. Will we meet the moment like our forebears have . I believe we must. And i believe we will you . The American People are the reason why ive never been more optimistic about america than i am this very day. There isnt anything we cant do if we do it together. We have a team of reporters tonight on reaction t
This giant pine. Pg e says the unusual event has left thousands of people without electricity. Tonight its all hands on deck as crews work to repair the damage. Its the hazard of living in a beautiful area with lots of trees. Reporter in the east bay, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Strong winds wreaking havoc in the north bay where a tree fell onto a house. Two people were inside at the time, fortunately, they were not hurt. The gas station attendant at this 76 in milpitas says the powerful winds broke the signs. Power knocked out all over the bay area. Check out this map. Its an outage map. You can see thousands of people are still without power this evening. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Hes been tracking the winds, the fire. Weve been having ongoing conversations since last night about this. We thought by early this evening wed see the winds die down. Is that still the timeline . It really is. I know for a lot of folks it doesnt seem like it, but the winds are
The last 24 hours. About half of those still actively burning two of them, forcing people to evacuate from their homes and Boulder Creek and watsonville. This peach jeannie camera captured the wind whipping up the freedom fire in Santa Cruz County, burning tuesday off freedom boulevard in watsonville. It was just one of more than a dozen wind driven fires that started between monday and tuesday in both santa cruz and san mateo counties, including these six that were actively burning. Cars and horse trailers packed this area where watsonville meets app. Toss. Cal fire says about 100 homes around newness road were under mandatory evacuations. There was a work and i got a call that were under immediate evacuation, including the home belonging. Toe worried resident joel silver. Yeah, looks like the fires on the ridges just directly above my house. He and others forced from their homes by wildfires in the middle of january were left pondering some big questions. Whats going to have. The nex
Feet of flames and we were in the middle of evacuating animals. Reporter it is not clear what sparked the blaze but what lay in its path, was. Several dozen skittish and scared rescue animals. We take care of a lot of animals here. We had a robust evacuation plan which we had practiced. So, we knew what we needed to do. Reporter swirling out gusting wind sent a spray of embers across the valley sparking new fires. The horses can hear the crackling, they are very sensitive, to their surroundings. Reporter when sue arrived to join the evacuation, a 12 yearold horse named bonnie was still stranded above the ranch. I just ran. I grabbed a halter and coaxed him off the hill. They were panicky at that point. Reporter castlewood ranch rescued 30 animals from a fire that came perilously and uncomfortably close. Very scary. But, we got all the animals out within an hour. They are trained and had a plan. Devon, where did all those animals go . Reporter they moved those animals to the Santa Cruz