Really good to see you again. I hope you had a pretty good long weekend. Im annemarie green. We are going to begin with the raging wildfires out west. California is getting hit especially with a record 2 million acres burned. Its not over yet. One of the newest wildfires is the bobcat wildfire northeast of los angeles. Its scorched 5,000 acres forcing some evacuations in the Angeles National forest. Today santa ana winds are expected to fuel this fire even more. The el dorado fire remains a problem. Allegedly sparked by a gender reveal party. In fact, its gotten so bad the National Forest is closing all forests in the southern half of california with no reopening date. Elise, the power was turned off in california as well to deal with these wildfires. Reporter yeah. Those outages will impact more than 170,000 customers. But the utility says they will help improve safety. 80 miles east of los angeles officials believe the el dorado fire started during a gender reveal party. They used tw
Plus, americans on the move. Where more people are relocating because of the pandemic. Prince harry and duchess meghan declare their independence. The big bill they just paid and what it means for their royal future. A real life willy wonka. The unique new contest where you can win your very own candy factory. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. We begin with the fire emergency on the west coast growing more dire by the hour. New evacuations have been ordered in california where more than two dozen wildfires are burning. Flames from the massive creek fire near fresno have trapped at least 50 people at a mountain resort. A rescue mission late monday was not successful. New conditions are threatening to fan the flames today including high winds. The states Largest Utility Company has cut power to 170,000 customers to prevent power lines from sparking even more fires. This morning firefighters are battling dozens of wildfires fueled by recordbreaking heat. One of the largest fires exploded ov
Probably because my battery is dead, but assuming that our viewers can hear you, david, where are you coming to us from . Florida. We are in the Sunshine State of florida. All right. Well, thats great, so youre in florida. I want to ask you about this contest youve launched. You have a web site and a video. Tell us about the idea behind this Treasure Hunt. Heres how it got started. I was in philadelphia, pennsylvania, 1977. I was on the mike douglas show and that week, mikes cohost was anthony newly, the composer of the song candy man, and as i was running down the aisle, throwing jelly bellies to the audience and packages, the thought occurred to me right at that moment, some day, i want to have a contest where i give one of my candy factories away to a perfect stranger, willy wonka style. I apologize if viewers heard your answer, but im still working on my battery pack and ear piece. I do want to ask you though, if you havent yet, why did you decide to do this . Why did i decide to d
Start off with a live look outside where it is just beautiful as the sun starts to come up. A live look of San Francisco. Just a very little bit of low cloud hanging out in the bay this morning but not anything in the way of fog. San francisco 53 degrees, oakland about 49 and were at 50 in santa rosa and livermore 55 and san jose about 56. I wanted to mention the crews fire we were talking about, we are having better conditions for Fire Fighters and 90 humidity in gilroy and the wind is 3, 4 Miles Per Hour and that is really good news for them. Gives them a chance to get arms around some containment this morning. Wind is relatively calm all across the bay and we got breezy and gusty yesterday and not expecting things to get quite so gusty today and the marine layer not terribly successful this morning so its just a few low clouds out there and well see more of that tomorrow with a chance of fog and today mild to warm temperatures and itll be a Beautiful Day around the bay. 60s on the c
Government announced 621. 00 more deaths on saturday taking its total death toll to just over 28000 the Prime Minister Brian Johnson is due to outline how the government will ease restrictions in the next few days. Thousands of palestinian laborers are returning to work in israel for the 1st time since crossings were closed in march because of the pandemic it follows an agreement between israel and the Palestinian Authority it brought him has more from bethlehem. Thousands of palestinian workers are returning to their work in israel after it agreement has been made to allow them to go there and stay there for a couple of weeks this has been a daily commute for many workers but after the outbreak of coverage 19 an agreement has been made for them to stay in israel a similar agreement was made a couple of weeks ago but some of those workers said that they couldnt find suitable accommodation so they came back according to this agreement around 40000 palestinian workers are expected to cro