Compassion with which we want [ indiscernible ] reporter francis told congress not to be afraid of immigrants. He called for the end of the Death Penalty. And he made an indirect reference to samesex marriage which the Catholic Church opposes. Yet i cannot hide my concern for the family,. Reporter people were impressed. I thought he did a great job in addressing the needs of congress and the people of america. Reporter the popes final event in washington was a meeting with Homeless People and charity workers. After a dc sendoff from secretary of state john kerry, francis landed in new york. That was Kenneth Craig reporting. The popes plea to end the Death Penalty comes at a critical moment in the debate over its future. Society transformed benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes. Pope francis has long been an opponent of Capital Punishment and is also against life without parole sentences. The majority of americans are still in favor of the Death Penalty. But suppo
This as the fire continues to burn. It has spread to 73,700 acres. The containment is up from 40 earlier today. And schools in middletown could reopen next week. Alan wang picks up our coverage tonight in calistoga. Alan . Many of the evacuees are from middletown. An iron clad community where football brings them together on a friday night. This was day six of sitting in tents and waiting for another red cross meal. And before this latest news morale was taking a huge plunge. News middletown residents can return home tomorrow comes as nerves are beginning to fray at this evacuation camp. People who are fighting everywhere. Everyones emotions are running wild right now. We are all ready to get home. They could use a moral boost here, especially on a friday night when the Middletown High School mustangs are supposed to be playing their homecoming game. It brings everybodys hopes up. Everybody loves it. A pile of face masks is all thats left in the burnt out shack. He has more than 200 wi
Lines today. Shows your dedication. It does. It makes us proud that they are part of our department. Reporter thank you, captain. We have been talking about the rain and that certainly helped. Help from mother nature. Lets take you to some video that we shot earlier and have some pictures from middletown. Rain on the roads. This is the town of cobb close to the start of the fire. This is gives you an idea how intense the flames were as they tore through on saturday as the rain fell today, we saw many spots still smoldering. They are keeping a close watch on the weather and also keeping a close watch as our chief meteorologist Paul Deanno Paul are they going to continue to get some rain . They need it. The rain is tapering off this evening but im happy to report, juliette, we received more rainfall than we were expecting. We were hoping to get about a quarter inch to half inch of rainfall in the north bay mountains. Some spots got more than an inch of rainfall. Its tapering off but that
A lot more to come as eventually theyre going to let evacuees back in. That day has not yet arrived. Its still the case that these roads are dangerous. There are downed power lines. The roads are not navigable to some point. We had to hike a 3mile roundtrip to get up to that neighborhood where the woman died this weekend. Im just thinking as fast as this thing got started on saturday especially, it seemed like the emergency crews just like the homeowners were pretty overwhelmed by this thing. Absolutely. It happened so quickly. We just heard it from fire officials, from people who evacuated, theyre watching those flames come over the hill. Theyre going, theyre not going to get here that quickly, then bang. They raced down the hill right in to this community and people grabbed what they could and left. In the case of this women, they had people calling in to the sheriffs department, there were so many calls and they were helping as many as 20,000 people evacuate. They just couldnt get t
Check out the shaking out traffic cameras, the moment it quake hit. Within hours, after the quake strong aftershocks were felt, the strongest one 7. 0 so far. Many more. Were also getting new images of the damage. Parts of the ceiling collapsed in buildings and reports of damaged homes. Inside stores, lots of broken glass and items off the shelves. There is flooding on the streets as cars are trying to get out, people trying to get cars out of dangerous areas. Residents in Southern California in the meantime are on alert. This is Huntington Beach in orange county. The tsunami advisory extends north and expected to bring strong winds to Southern California or waves, rather, to Southern California in a few hours. They are on alert for this. Lets get to weather, that is pretty rare. It is indeed, ama and dan. The last time we had a tsunami advisory was in march. Let me show you the large, powerful earthquake. The engineer he traveled northwestward across the pacific ocean, which is why we