Prosecute you to the full extent of the law. Thank you for joining us, three massive wildfires are burning across the bay area. They have scorched over 1100 square miles nearly 7 times the size of san jose. Flames are forcing new evacuation orders this evening. Right now firefighters are bracing for dry lightning and gusty winds that could ignite new fires. The biggest fire is the l and you lightning complex burning in the north bay. More than 500 square miles have been scorched, and containment is at 17 . Katie nielsen is in the Dry Creek Valley area and what are ns l this is actually the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively. The winds have not really picked up yet, we are not seeing any of those thunderheads but we are seeing a lot of these helicopters, this is the national guard, a blackhawk helicopter with what they call a bambi bucket. A 600 60 gallon bucket pulling water out of this pond in the dry creek area then taking off, headed back into the fire lines on the ot
Have been downgraded to warnings and while calm conditions helped firefighters make some progress overnight a red flag warning is in effect, bay area wide through tomorrow afternoon. We want to get to darren peck. The thunderstorm complex sitting off the coast right now, take a look at the High Definition doppler, its a complicated picture. You see a big mass of a thunderstorm of the coast of san mateo county, that is not actually there. The Weather Service has set this radar to its most sensitive so we can pick up the leading edge of the storms. That is clutter, not rain. But here is a Lightning Strike and it is moving, all of this stuff is stationary. The stuff that is moving is the wave of scattered thunderstorms that will get here later tonight. Over the next few hours, look down here. We have a few more coming up the coast so unfortunately we are still on schedule, the forecast is not changed a whole lot. Tonight through tomorrow morning is our highest concern, a 40 chance for iso
Caught between the fighting and the pandemic to tragedies that are putting yemens people a greater risk. Of severe Flooding Forces hundreds of thousands of people flee their homes across east africa. The u. S. Vaccines expert has told congress that he was removed from his job by the trumpet ministration of the raising concerns about the governments Coronavirus Response dr rick bright led the federal agency in charge of developing a covert 19 vaccine he said that lives were lost because of government inaction aboard the was to the pandemic may yet be to come Heidi Joe Castro reports. A dire warning from the medical expert formerly in charge of the u. S. Governments effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Without better planning 2020 who would be the darkest winter in modern history immunologist rick bright told a house subcommittee he was removed from his position as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority after resisting pressure to expand access to an unpro
Mask over 1000. 00 testing ramps up across the worst affected parts of kenya but many are worried being forced into quarantine. Company welcome to aljazeera as many countries cross the peak of the coronavirus pandemic World Leaders are now being forced to make a decision open up the economy or reduce the risk of a 2nd outbreak that thailand has announced it will be reopening Department Stores Shopping Centers and food courts as it winds down its restrictions however International Flights are still banned which is bad news for the countrys vital Tourism Industry chinas economy is showing signs of improvement after its lockdown was eased its industrial output is up 3. 9 percent in april compared to last year but manufacturers are struggling with cancelled and reduced orders from outside of china and in the philippines a powerful typhoon has forced tens of thousands of people to pack into emergency shelters homes have been destroyed leading officials to override social distancing rules sc
Any covered 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. Rotavirus has entered the Worlds Largest refugee camp with 2 cases reported among the remainder population in bangladesh. But in this news all with jobless figures out of the United States there are 3000000 people have filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last 7 days and brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began and mid march our White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb joins us now live so kimberly these numbers are really painting an increasingly grim picture. Yes and the numbers are expected to rise for a few more weeks at least were in the mid 30000000 mark of the number of americans that are filed jobless claims its supposed to go at least 10000000 higher once all of these claims have been processed because what were seeing initially was the 1st wave in the areas of restaurants and retail but as businesses other businesses sort of realized that this economy is not going to open