Good evening, welcome to bbc news. The fires which are currently ravaging the amazon rain forest in brazil are prompting the leaders of france and ireland that they wont support a major trade deal with south america unless the president of brazil does more to bring the situation under control. Campaigners have blamed Jair Bolsonaro for the spread of the fires, which are threatening a major source of the worlds oxygen. While the places which are scattered widely across the amazon, most notably in the north of brazil, are the most intense in the region for almost a decade. The issue is due to be discussed at the g7 summit this weekend in france. But bolsonaro has criticised foreign governments or interference. James robbins reports. The fires in the amazon forest continue to rage. And as more and more trees are lost, the threat to this great carbon capturing region of the world grows. Reports suggest there may be 2500 separate fires in the brazilian amazon. Farmers and loggers are being
what are you seeing? yeah alex, after a click glance at these two statements, we are learning the big big news here is that there have been more classified documents uncovered from his wilmington home. this is coming from the statements according to richard s of, or the special counsel to the president, as well as bob bauer, president biden s personal attorney. basically, bob bauer is saying that as a personal attorney, he went to the penn biden center, and he and his team, as well as president biden s wilmington, home went to the home, and because he does not have a special security clearance to be able to handle, these he then informed the doj and the national archives, and then richard bauer, the special counsel to the president in his statement says, quote, because i have a security clearance, i went to wilmington thursday evening to facilitate providing the presidents personal counsel found on wednesday to the justice department. while i was transferring it to the doj
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This out of texas. This morning, the search for two missing in this massive flooding continues. We want to show you this video. Two people already reported dead. Teams from the National Weather service are planning to investigate whether tornadoes actually touched down in central and southwest regions of the state. The storms and suspected tornadoes are remnants of hurricane patricia. We want to get to tom kierein for more on our forecast. As we look at those images, a rough setting down there. Yes. They had over 30mile traffic backup on interstate 35 between austin and dallas yesterday afternoon. Because they got over 14 inches of rain, i35 was under several feet of water in texas right now, still getting hammered with heavy rain which has now pushed into the eastern part of the state around houston. For us were off to a clear and dry start this morning. Dont have any rain anywhere in our vicinity. We are cold, too. In fact we have patchy, dense fog here right over the Potomac River,
Off. 217 passengers and 7 crew are on board that flight. Well continue to follow updates throughout news 4 today. Well post any new information we get to our nbc washington app. Now to the latest developments. Another serious story out of texas this morning. The search for two missing in this massive flooding continues. Take a look at this, two people already reported dead. Teams from the National Weather service plan to investigate whether tornadoes hit the central and southwest regions. The storms and suspected tornadoes are remnants of hurricane patricia. Theyre still getting heavy rain in texas. Interstate 35 was backed up over 30 miles with traffic yesterday afternoon. Take a look at the radar there now. They are still getting heavy downpours in central texas. Unfortunately adding to the woes overnight. This line of strong storms with heavy downpours, now cruising through there. For us, no rain around the metro area. We have a clear sky starting 0 of this halloween morning. Its fi