Theyre the guys that are going to fight this thing and get us hopefully back to normal. Crews battle fires throughout the west. Idaho seems to be getting the worst of it. Right now, the fire east of boise has burned more than 100,000 acres and has forced thousands from their homes. Hosni mubarak could be released from prison. Cleared him of his corruption case. Youre going to have an armed insurgency, not protesters on your hands. Were going to have to suspend the aid. He remains free on bail charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend. Bob filner is expected to return to work today, just as a recall effort gets under way to try to remove him from office. As long as the people of san diego and the council want it, he will be removed. Its futile to hold on. Southwest is bracing for floods from the gulf to the carolinas. Threatening to bring even more heavy rain covering a nearby city with a thick layer of ash. People there are using masks. All that. Arod drilled. Ill be reall
Reporter lawrence, you are spot on. Very dry. This is the grass athat surrounds this area. This is a very fast burning type of grass here and i want to show you a map right now that shows us different fires going on around california. We have 5,000 firefighters battling blazes in calaveras, lake caster, san bernardino, humbolt. 2,000 acres burning. Threatening 400 structures. Right now 45 contained. We have about 900 firefighters on scene. A lot of numbers that boils down to this bay area firefighters had to go to the fires around the state to help out. This is while the red flag warnings are up for much of the bay area. The foothills, the mountains and along the coast. A good portion of Northern California is at risk for this combination of dry lightning and gusty winds. That with the already dry conditions is going to elevate the fire danger extremely high. Reporter although its rare, we have lightning storms. This is video from lightning storms back in april. This weekend last night
Military jury kicked ma dal hasan in the fort hood shooting. He faces the Death Penalty for the 2009 attack that killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others. Nadal hasan was convicted. Firefighters from the San Francisco Fire Department are on the way to the rim fire. Five strike teams with 20 crewmembers plus a battalion chief left this morning to help battle the fire burning near Yosemite National forest. Now, that fire is the largest of the 50 wildfires currently active in the western states and since this morning, the flames have reached the park. Cbs reporter Teresa Garcia joins us live on the front lines with the very latest. Teresa. Reporter frank, began. Yes, indeed, the fire has pushed into the borders of Yosemite National park. We are at Pine Mountain lake airport. Now, behind me this is the community that is under evacuation orders. We have been seeing some flames just pushing up and then subsiding a little bit so you may well see some behind me eventually but what the
And stand back and say were going to do fog about it. What britain should be doing is fighting for the changes we want so then we can ask for the consent of the british people to settle this issue once and for all. Order. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Can the Prime Minister tell the house what the government is doing to keep pensioners warm in this cold weather, and will he join me in congratulating the Suffolk Foundation for the success, for the Great Success of their surviving [inaudible] what this government has done is, first of all,tive the biggest give the biggest increase in the state pension of five pounds, 30 last year. Weve kept the cold weather payments at the high level, and were replacing the warm front scheme, and while that helps Something Like 80,000 houses a year, the eco could help up to 230,000 houses a year. That is what were doing, and its a record we should be proud of. Thank you, mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister should know that the ons have recently released figures th
That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and science and medical research all the things that help us grow. Now, step by step, weve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, i signed into law more than 600 billion in new revenue by making sure the wealthiest americans begin to pay their fair share. When you add the money that well save in Interest Payments on the debt, all together that adds up to a total of about 2. 5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years not counting the 400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. So weve made progress. We are moving towards our ultimate goal of getting to a 4 trillion reduction. And there will be more deficit reduction when congres