Congressman along with james to her funeral, david webb and congressman ryan babb in taking on the big stories, we have that debate, what is going to happen next in the 2020 base, also this new hot debate in washington, President Trump fires the pentagon chief, it was a longawaited move, who else can be on the chopping block and now this new debate, will President Trump barden Michael Flynn whose case is still in legal limbo, that talk on washington ratcheting up in stocks or ripping higher as pfizer says the new covid19 vaccine is 90 effective, there is a chance to return to normal byex next sprig and we have news coming and david bossie trump advisor in ben carson have tested positive for covid19, those reports coming into the studio now, also this next big fight, republican control of the senate, two races in georgia and run off that could determine that all as Top Democrats admit they botched it and they botched it badly with historic losses at the federal, state and local levels s
Evacuation orders have happened in san matteo county, take a look. We are live over the fire. Look at all the smoke coming off of the mountains. Man, that is certainly intense as sky 7 gets a closer look for you us. You can see a bit of that orange glow coming off the ridge of the mountain right there in the trees and that dark smoke. We are covering this closely right now. Good evening, thank you for joining us tonight as we follow all of this. Reporter glad you are with us. Immediate evacuations are ordered for the communities of lo mamar and deerborne park and the state park including the baronco community and theres an Evacuation Center at pescidaro high school, now, we are there live, bring us up to date, please. This fire continues to rage inching up to a community of 200 to 300 people i spoke to several residents who gearing up and getting ready to evacuate the area. You can see behind us, the white smoke expanding and picking through the trees, you can see the flames rages as t
Fukuoka, and hiroshima prefectures overnight raising river waters nearly to the point of overthrowing. It also means a strong possibility of landslides. Already hard hit areas wont see any relief soon as the search continues for more than a dozen missing people. 72 others have died. This weather expert says the rain that hit kumamoto e earlie thisis month poured in like a river and spread overr an area s wide as 500 kilometers and carried more than 500,000 tons of water vapor per second. Transnslator the amazon, th Worlds Largest river, carries about 200,000 tons of water per second. A rough estimate of twice that amount was flowing into the region. The situation has not changed much, so we can still expect a substantial amount of vapor to flow in. In the aftermath of the intense rain, communities are also pulling together to help those in need. Officials say more than 14,000 homes and other buildings have been damaged. Chinese media say heavy rainfall along the yanghtze has left 140 p
We hear it in the news a lot these days, the idea that we all need safe spaces from me in words,tr trigger warnings and opeds that might constitute a microaggression. This is the language of the campus social justice seminar but increasingly its the language of our workplace and our culture. Besides just last weeks. At the news york times. I published an oped there that said simply while we respect Peaceful Protesters we have zero tolerance to looting and rioting. If the police are overwhelmed or outnumbered the National Guard and if necessary the federal troops have to restore order. That p support from a large majority of americans if you look at the polls. The Editorial Page Editor admitted publicly, the publisher defended the decision publicly rosethe news york times up and amended the oped be taken down. They demanded the grownups or i should say the suppose the grownups did run the news york times apologize and thats exactly what happened. What could only be called a struggle ses
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