Monster Fire News Today

Next week hi everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We got a lot to get to today. Were going to start with Breaking News. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza gaza three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies President Biden pledged the aid friday at the white house paid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough. Now its nowhere nearly en...

the author sir salman rushdie has reportedly been taken off a ventilator and is able to speak again after he was stabbed in new york state. theres been no official confirmation from the hospital in pennsylvania where hes being treated although us media outlets say the news was confirmed by his agent. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports. a day after sir salman rushdie was stabbed, he is now said to be awake and off a ventilator. the authors condition has not yet been ful...

Were technical issues at one of its treatment works, and that fixing it was taking longer than theyd hoped. and it isntjust humans who need hydration. one farmer in suffolk has been filling 70 water troughs each day to make sure the wildlife have enough to drink. an amber heat alert is still in place today and the drought in parts of england could potentially last into next year. with me now is andrew harvey, a helicopter pilot trained to do airdrops on wildfires. thank you forjoining us. how ch...

Beginning of march, and the ukrainians have said they are going to launch an offensive to recapture this region of southern ukraine, even though it seems that, so far, the ukrainians do not have the capacity or the weapons needed to go ahead with this major offensive. several european countries have seen a wave of deadly wildfires, triggered by record temperatures and drought across the continent. here you can see there are currently major fires in much of western europe. officials are concerned...

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Europe. he is talking about this attack on salman rushdie strengthening the calls for the iranian guard to be recognised as a terrorist organisation. focusing a lot on the next prime minister for domestic issues, but rishi sunak are certainly using the salman rushdie stabbing to talk more about foreign affairs. at least seven people have been injured by gunmen injerusalem. the shooting, which happened in the early hours of the morning, is being treated by israeli police as a terror attack. the a...

They are still out there trying to tackle this fire, we know that they want to make fire breaks in areas clearly undergrowth and make sure that sparks dont continue to fly, and this doesnt grow any more. the hot weather has already seen several wildfires erupt across england. firefighters say a huge fire which tore through a popular nature reserve at studland heath in dorset and forced the evacuation of a beach was most likely caused by a disposable barbecue. the hot weather and drought conditio...

We really are appealing to members of the public to consider what youre doing. if it is going to start a fire, try to avoid it if possibly can. this field fire was one of 75 in essex. it covered 91 acres, and containing it required the help of local farmers. if you are downwind you wouldnt have kept up with it running. luckily, the wind direction was away from the houses, and so it wasjust a question of stopping it spreading back towards the houses again, but when the wind changed direction, sud...

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Jacqui: dixie wild fires barely a quarter pertained. christina coleman joins us from los angeles on whats being described as a monster fire here, christina. christina: thats right, jacqui. massive last night the dixie fire has scorched 1700 square miles, larger than the size of new york city. the sheriffs county office says 5 of the towns residents are still missing. search efforts are under way. the fire, though, raging on and forced mass evacuations and destroyed 370 structures and threatened ...