california tonight where at least a dozen people are now dead and thousands of homes and businesses have been incinerated in a fire season that is as devastating as it is historic. as we come on the air tonight, nearly 30 enormous and fast- moving blazes are burning across the state, forcing 20,000 people to flee their homes and leaving thousands more in the danger zone. from washington state to oregon, down through california, entire towns have now been wiped off the map, including berry creek, california, and the surrounding area, where tonight at least three people are dead and a dozen more are still missing. the deadly firestorm is now spewing so much toxic ash into the skies, the smoke trails from the blazes are visible from space and on the ground the devastation is even harder to fathom. tonight fire crews are trying to keep pace with the flames but just can t keep up as heavy winds continue to push the flames into a tinderbox of dry brush and houses. more than 100 maj
coronavirus threat. i didn t lie. what i said is we have to be calm. o donnell: flooding in the nation s capital, dramatic images of water rescues. football s back. the n.f.l. kicks off tonight with social distancing, face masks, but still 17,000 fans in the stands. how this season will be like no other. cashing in on the pandemic: how taxpayers foot the bill for this lamborghini in a brazen scheme to rip off $175 million in covid racing to a cure: the ambitious new innovation at this university, testing 50,000 people twice a week. could this quick saliva test be part of the answer to crushing covid? and finally tonight, from tv s avengers to we ll remember acting legend diana rigg. this is the cb news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin in california tonight where at least a dozen people are now dead and thousands of homes and businesse
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Lectures curated around the issues and challenges of global health, and that examine the diseases that kill more people each year than conflict alone. break - One billion people lack access to health care systems. - Around 11 million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases, each year. - In 2002, almost 11 million people died of infectious diseases alone, far more than the number killed in the natural or man-made catastrophes that make headlines. - UNAIDS estimates for 2007 that there are roughly 32.8 million living with HIV, 2.5 million new infections of HIV, 2 million deaths from AIDS. - There are 8.8 million new cases of Tuberculosis (TB) and 1.75 million deaths from TB, each year. - 1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal diseases every year, making it the number one vaccine-preventable cause of death worldwide. More than half of the victims are children. - Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least 1 million de
The highest temperatures in the US were recorded in Texas and Florida and malaria was also detected in these states. Is there any relation between climate change and certain diseases?