20 threw thousand people sleeping in emergency shelters last night. Serve hundred homes have been destroyed. Three major wild fires they aring to the north and east of san francisco. Firefighters say they havet never seen before. Breakfast served at one of the evacuation centers. This one at the county fairgrounds. Firefighters have not allowed most residents back into town. Many people here have no idea whether their home survived the fire or not. So, they are waiting. But not donald wood who saw his business go down in flames. I had 10 in my wallet. Put nit the tank when i got down here, the last money i had. Otherren that that, my shop went down in five minutes. Our team tracked down what remains of his business, an auto body shop. During our visit later that day, nothing salvageable. Time for a new beginning. A fresh start. Clean slate. Have to rebuild life. Residents have shown incredible resilience. They say good lord wont give us anything we cant handle, but some days i wonder.
This is Al Jazeera America live. I am tony harris. A major reversal from the white house. On the plan to withdraw troops from afghanistan. President obama says the u. S. Will now keep a hand full of bases open through 2017. The u. N. Security region, the the current force just under 10,000 troops will stay on through most of next year. They will cut back to 5500 troops by the time he leaves office. That scales back the previous plan which would have seen that number go down to 1,000. Al jazeera natural security force, from the pentagon, tell us more about the new strategy, and then what promised the change. This about face comes in face of this the fall of con dui that was held by the taliban briefly just for about two weeks. They insist this is something that has been in the work for months that he was con sacramentoing with the Afghan Government who by the way requested an additional u. S. Presence and the president arrived at this after the cost and the risk of keeping additional tr
Development you cannot get beyond a certain point. Talk about entitlements you cannot have that discussion too long before you say what about health care . You cannot talk about the u. S. Budget and the trajectory of spending. You cannot recognize to have three or four diseases to drive spending with diabetes her cardiovascular on the health care side. So i get to hang out with some smart guys with Health Care Reform and whether the things that really need to get done to reform the system . Over the next year we will talk more specifically about the policies that we have but i have to say the number one issue, aside from coverage is you have to have more affordable, portable, access ible Health Care Insurance policies. That is a huge problem so few have pharmaceutical costs and insurance costs costs, you have some things that have to be addressed. The biggest challenge of all in health care is the escalating cost. It is unsustainable. What is the biggest expenditure with the department
New details emerge in the Police Shooting of a black teenager now ten days ago. Racially charged protests in the streets again turned violent with shots fired leading to chaos and confusion. Some demonstrators clashed with police who fired tear gas and smoke canisters. And now the National Guard is on the scene trying to help restore order. Abcs Tahman Bradley is in ferguson now with the latest live for us this morning. Good morning, tahman. Reporter devin and michelle, good morning. The governor lifted the curfew and ordered in the National Guard to protect peaceful demonstrators, but once again things got out of hand. At least two people were shot and there were more than 30 arrests. Overnight, the streets of ferguson again looked like a war zone. The missouri National Guard assisting state and local police, but there was little order. Angry demonstrators lobbed molotov cocktails and other objects. Police fired back with tear gas. There were multiple arrests. I want to encourage the
New detls emerge. The streets again turned violent withhots fired leading to chaos and confusion. Some demonstrators clashed with police who fired tear gas and smoke canisters. Now the National Guard is on the scene trying to help restore order. Abcs Tahman Bradley is in ferguson now with the latest li for us this morning. Good morning, tahman. Reporter devinnd michelle, good morning. The governor lifted the curfew and ordered in theational guard but once again things got t ofhand. At least t people we shot and there were more than 30 arrests. Overnight, the streets o fergon again looked like war zone. The missouriational guard assisting state and local police. But there was little order. Angry demonstrators lobbed molotov cocktails and other objects. Police fired back withear gas. There re multiple arrests. I wan toncourage the good op of this area toome out and protest tomorrow during the daytime hours. Make your voices heard wheoun y can be see and we are not the cover for violent a