And the gift of guns. One Police Departments valentines day suggestion, a firearm for that special someone. There have been plenty of headlines about the winter that just wont stop. Rain has been falling in some parts of california and that is big news but its not nearly enough rain to help desperate farmers teelg dealing with extreme drought. Theyre not the only ones struggling. We begin with melissa chan in californias Central Valley. The worst drought in her memory has her worried. It grabs you from down deep. And youre making me cry but when you see the soil and you touch it and you know that it may not be here for your next generation of family, thats thats big. Reporter she says she had hoped to plant pistachio trees this winter but without water, she will abandon that notion. Many afternoons assessing the effect of the drought. And it will be dry like this all year. All year. She takes us to stoneland farms. They left land fallow, because they dont have enough water. When were n
Clouds are back as you can see from this live look from our roof camera over of the estuary. That means more rain on the way. Ktvus rosemary oroscoe is tracking the wet weather and joins us with more. We have another storm on the way. It will get us wet during part of the weekend. Lets take a look at the satellite and radar right now. A very moist air in place, even mist and drizzle reported earlier this morning. Well be mostly cloudy for the afternoon. I dont think well see any rain, though. If you do get a sprinkle consider yourself lucky. To the north, though, you can see theres some moisture that. That moisture will be sinking south on saturday and we are expected to see some rain move in by saturday evening. Heres the time line. We wake up saturday morning, mostly cloudy. Notice that rain line to the north. As we get into the evening urs who, if you have plans for saturday evening, maybe thinking about attending the Chinese New Years parade, bring the umbrella. By 7 00, its over t
Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie si, it has now been five days since typhoon haiyan devastated the philippines and in the aftermath there is a humanitarian crisis and people are without shelter and there are reports of mass braves and bodies lining the streets. Some desperate survivors resorted to looting and they have a state of National Calamity. We declare today a state of National Calamity to hasten the movements of the government on rescue relief and rehabilitation efforts on the provinces effected. Reporter aid is coming too late for those without food, water and medicine for days. The government now estimates the death toll at nearly 1800, support for storm victims is trickling in from the u. S. Military and 5,000 troops we deployed today aboard the uss George Washington and will arrive in 23 days and with the recovery we are joined in the philippines by Al Jazeera Craig Leeson and you were at the airport today and what is the situation on the ground
Approaching 1,800, but it is expected to go into the thousands. The challenge is to get that crucial aid to those most in need. Every building is either significantly damage ord didestroyed. Everything is wiped out. There has been looting. People are desperate. A lot of people will see some snow today especially on the eastern seaboard, as this arctic front is heading to the south, really cold air. Thats not even factoring in the wind. The wall street journal reports fewer than 50,000 people under the obama care website. The manager in charge of building the website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in security. The bucs get win one and for miami a loss. Dolphins owner steven ross forms an Advisory Committee on conduct for his players. Ross says he plans to meet with Jonathan Martin tomorrow. Id like to hear from him what happened and what we could have done to prevent Something Like this from happening. Some european airplanes will lifting their ban on carryon liq
Between channel and channel basins street on fourth. Right now this is the view from news chapper two over that sight. You can see it is still a very active scene. There are also still flames burning and firefighters as you can see here are pouring waters on whats left of the building. We have coverage beginning with Ken Pritchett. Ken you just learned a firefighter was injured tonight. Reporter i talked to a Fire Department spokesperson. And he said that engine was on the last ladder truck to arrive. The fire was too hot. The flames too intense they had to retreat. They had to leave their truck behind for fear that the building would collapse down on the trucks location. That injured firefighter continued to fight this fire for hours. Only later to report that he had minor to moderate burns to his face. As you can see, they are still pouring water on this building. At this point there are still hot spots. Before this fire in mission bay was an inferno, a 911 call came in at 5 01. This