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As we await the leader of the opposition as well question number one. Thank you, still had meetings with ministerial colleagues three weeks ago the community wanted you to think about the entire was rocked by the events from the railway line which three men, lost their lives. I am sure my honorable friend will join me in sending deepest condolences as well as thanks and heartfelt gratitude to the men and women of American Services working in difficult conditions from that incident. And the full ...

Right now if youve been levels of the atmosphere. Until the wind picks up, were outside, you no doubt know the still seeing sites like this. Haze has been sticking around. Warmer today if you look at the walnut, unhealthy air, 91 satellite view. We did manage a little thinning degrees. Of some of the upper level smoke similar toward the trivalley. Across the region. Maybe just a mile or two of you see here on the map, still visibility through the smoke. The fires off to the south and east. San j...

Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with Andrew Ross Sorkin and joe kernen. Welcome back both of you some big moves we are looking at today. Lets look where things stand with the markets dow futures are off by 34. The big news is happening with technology stocks. Down 343 points. Thats big you are talking 3 of the market or 3 decline for the index. Thats a big deal when you look at what happened last week on thursday, nasdaq was off 5 on friday, another one and a quarter percent. ...

She was able to get out, walked to the side and i had a broken ankle but didnt know it, for a few days. Another car came up, a man got out of the car and went to the person lying on the ground, my friend judy said that is the persons father on the ground, no, i said it couldnt be, that is mister bassett. When we got taken to the hospital we were in a room with a cloth draped separating us, judy and i were, we had very minor injuries, no one was there with us. I could hear mrs. Douglas crying on ...

In the video you can see that the gunman just walks up to the deputies were sitting in a patrol car and opens fire without warning or us the Sheriffs Department put it without being provoked one male and one female deputy were hit multiple times. Theyre said to be in Critical Condition right now and undergoing surgery. Once again this happened in the city of compton, this evening. That area where theyre at is a metro station of the metro station there in los angeles where those officers were par...

Investigators say it happened near a metro station in compton. A 31yearold female officer and 24yearold male officer were both shot as they sat in their patrol car. They are out of surgery tonight. The sheriffs says both deputies are, quote, fighting for their lives. The sheriff says both deputies were part of the same class and have been on the force for a little over a year. As we mentioned, there is Surveillance Video of that shooting, but we do want to warn you it is disturbing. Okay. The vi...

National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, R...

So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling an...

Areas biggest fires. Tonight we start in the north bay where the l a nelightning complex fire is that is the deadliest and most destructive fire here the bay. It remains a serious threat tonight once again it exploded today in size having now burned more than 300,000 acres in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. Tonight, we know 5 people died in that fire for more have been injured during the fire fight almost 500 structures have been destroyed 125 others damaged and more than 30,000 other...

Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week a...