Wildfires are a regular part life. This has been the driest year on record. Rebecca stevens is here with more on that. The santa ana winds can become powerful. Typically camerillo has been getting the gusts. As you get the strong winds, they are warm and dry. They bring in heat. In this very area we have temperatures, record temperatures. San francisco has a new recordhigh temperatures, and a california did hit records, while we were one or two degrees away from a record for places like los angeles, who hit 85. Looking at the areas of drought across the u. S. 75 of california is included. The percentage of normal rain fall is barely over 51 . Other cities below the percentage of normal. We get well into the water here, starting in july. The water year starts in july. We are threequarters of the way through it. Californian mountain snow, compared to 2012, we are now the driest on record, comparing the snow pack in the mountains to what we have now, this january of 2014, its an impressiv
Our special report how the nsa Surveillance Program has changed over the year and how much your privacy remains at risk. There is a measure of good news tonight out of california. Five of the wildfires are now contained. But for thousands of firefighters, the battle is far from over. There are still several fires raging like in camp penl tonl where staff pendleton. Request 20,000 acres have been steroid there. Many communities are in harms way tonight. A plan was charged with arson in san diego county. Some residents are returning home and finding nothing left. Brian rooney reports from san marcos where residents dont have much to return to. Whats remarkable given the number of fires and theyre intensity and the size of the burning area is how few houses actually burned to the ground. This unfortunately was one of them. This was a bi big front door. House was three or 4,000 feet. Big plume of smoke coming out of Camp Pendleton today. The house rambles along there, blue trash can, parts
Hundreds of thousands of people die each year because the prescriptions they need arent the real deal. We begin in Southern California where seven people are dead after afternoon overnight shooting spree near the campus of uc Santa Barbara. They say people were gunned down in drive high by shootings. Al jazeeras brian rooney is there right now. What do we know at this point . Reporter isla vista is a student residential area off of the Santa Barbara campus. It is crowded with students at any time of day or night. Last night, friday night obviously, a lot of people were out. Apparently a black bmw pulled up to a group of people and the driver started shooting. There wereples nearby who engaged him. We dont have the exact sequence but there ended up being as many as nine locations where gunshots were fired. It ended with the gunman in the bmw dead. Six other people were killed by the gunman. Seven were injured. The police are still sorting it out. Its a big crime scene. It covers an area
San diegos wild fires are controlled, but what next a billion deal that changes the way millions watch tv. Good to have you with us. The worst floods in decades are devastating the balkans. More than three dozens are confirmed dead. Authoriti authorities expect it to rise. Thousands have been forced from their homes, stretching from croatia, bosnia and serbia. In croatia hundreds of soldiers have been helping residents flee the waters. The worsthit arse are east in bosnia. Police describe a tsunami of water. It is concerned the water could dislodge landmines planted during the civil war. The Prime Minister says the situation is catastrophic, threatening their biggest power plant. We go there. Reporter in the air and on the ground the priority is to get to the old and the sick. This is 88yearold woman. We meet her after she was rescued by the serbian army. She tells us her house was submerged under 1. 5 metres of water. She was alone, without food and drinking water. This is a massive l
Is a new call for a new government. This time from the spiritual leader of that countrys shia majority of the grand ayatollah said that iraq needs a government thats effective for all iraqis, and he issued a stern warning, saying that the military will be treated as occupiers. Talk goods on in baghdad as Prime Minister maliki tries to call together a more stable government for this crisis. That has been a big part of the problem, not only the fighting around the major refineries and the cities, including iraqs second biggest city, and key cities near the syrian border, essentially theres not a government here, and thats one of the things that they are hammering home to Prime Minister maliki. If he wants to hammer it home, he so desperately wants, hell have to come up with a more inclusive government. Including sunni iraqis and kurds. Those relationships have been strained for years, and out on the streets on what normally is a friday holiday, with people out in the morning, going about