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This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are battling two of californias fastest burning fires in decades. The valley and butte fires consumed 115,000acres. That is roughly the size of new orleans. Now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. More than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25 contained after five days. The valley fire close to napa is still raging. It began over the week...

Worlds smallest and isolated countries could save the global bee population. The e. U. Has signed off on an agreement that creates a 2. 2 billion dollar Emergency Trust fund for africa to help tackle the refugee crisis. They have been meeting in malta. What is this money exactly supposed to buy for the europeans . Reporter well, its a sweetener, to be honest. Thats not my opinion. Thats what a senior european official described it to me last neat night as being. It is basically trying to get ove...

Buyer of u. S. Weapons. Country that is invading other countries and actually killing lots of innocent people. It is saudi arabia. Look at yemen, the thousands of minute people killed. Crushed the uprising in bahrain where i have been teargassed and saudis crushing this beautiful nonviolent peoples uprisings, and where were most of the hijackers from on 9 11 . So i could go on and on. I should go on and on. I should say, what. The internal rerepresentation door re repression in saudi arainarch a...

Host Medea Benjamin, one of the books youre reading this peter schrag dares clinton cash. Why . I am reading that book because i have been looking at saudi arabia. And why is it that there is all this talk about iran and the bad regime, but if you want to look at a really bad regime, look at saudi arabia. A country that has been responsible for spreading extremist ideologies all over the world, the country that is the largest buyer of u. S. Weapons, the country invading other countries and killi...

Snow. Abcs rob marciano is in mexico, new york, and starts us off this morning. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, robin. And hello, winter. How about this . Its the middle of october. Yes, this is an area no stranger to snow. But this much coming this early, not too many people are happy about that. And this cold, bitter, arctic air mass extends across the entire eastern half of the u. S. Its too early for snow. Reporter this morning, the sentiment of millions. Early snowfall bringing tr...

Transitioning into a snow mix later this evening and toninit. Weather today. Its currently gathering strength in the Southern Plains and looks to deliver showers by the mid morning with t storms also possible current temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. Theres a wind blowing in from the northwest between 5 and 15 Miles Per Hour which will school. Heres susan risisier with the details. The planned career academies for norfolk senior high students will require some renovations and expansion at the...

An alternative. We are going to respect the people by representing the people the house is set to vote on electing a new speaker tomorrow morning jejea while the rereblican president ial candidates prepare for tonights debates in colorado democrcric frontrunner Hillary Clinton spent her day campaigning in new hampshire. And clinton had plenty to say about the gop debates. I know that the republican candidates will have a debate t night. And i for one hope that they will address the challenges th...

Event at Morningside College it starts at 8 45 a. M. At the ups auditorium. Also, on friday, republican Rick Santorum will visit quad city corn processing in galva at 9 a. M. Then on friday night theres a big gop rally in orange city at northwest college. The main event starts at 7 p. M. Those expected to attend are carly fiorina, governor chris christie, senator marco rubio, and senator Rick Santorum. Also, this weekend there will be even more Campaign Events including congressman steve kings p...

For the first time in months, a National Poll shows donald trump is not leading the republican president ial race. A new cbs News New York times poll says 26 percent of gop primary voters surveyed back ben carson for the nomination. Compared to 22 percent for trump. The retired brain surgeon has seen his stock rise in recent weeks at the expense of trump. Three other polls show carson in the key early state of iowa. Responding to the new National Poll today, trump said hell stick with the presid...

His first two matches of the threeweek season grappling with nerves. A student with autism, i never thought id see a student t me back and want to get involved with all the contact involved, said ch wilmesherr. Thth190pounder dropped d s first wrestling bout. But, remained optimistic. Nobody wins their first match, said michael powell. Hes not the only one learning. Its forced his coach to rethink his game plan with other athletes. As a coach it made me stop and think about am i teaching them th...