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In perth on monday as roberto bautista agut and rafael nadal each dropped only three games in comfortable straight—sets wins over franco roncadelli and pablo cuevas respectively. argentine driver 0rlando terranova led the dakar rally after the second stage in saudi arabia on monday, but the roaming camels were having more joy than double formula i world champion fernando alonso, who smashed his toyota on a rock and fell hours behind. alonso was running fourth in his hilux pick—up after 100km...

Forecast at this stage. the bureau of meteorology is saying we could see some relief in february or even march. what about maintaining your colleagues health and fitness? you worry about their safety but in terms of the gruelling continuance of this, day in, day out with no sign of relief, may be into march. we have more than 70,000 volunteers who help their local communities. the hard thing for us is to get them to ta ke the hard thing for us is to get them to take a day off to try and take a s...

Tackle. it is easier for a fire team to try a that is a forest fire. put all that together, record temperatures and exceptional drought over many many months, in fact even a period of three years, below average rainfall, you put that together and you have got a very combustible mix. add to that in a lot of questions about how effective oi’ lot of questions about how effective or not be various local governments have been creating what we call fire breaks, these are areas in which wetter times ...

Evacuations and and other powers to control the fires at this time of crisis. the worst possible combination of factors in the forecasts you mention. and how hard is it for people to get away even if theyre attempting to do so because of smoke in the air and reports of shortages we have heard of as well in fuel. some of the major highways in southern south wales are open and there is a restricted speed limit because of poor visibility because of the smoke as well. there isnt enough fuel to go ar...

People will have seen the devastation that the fires have caused in that part of eastern australia and will want to be as far away from those areas as possible and we expect strong temperatures into the 40s with strong winds from central australia. they will be warm and dry and all of those factors will conspire to elevate the fire risk. what this state of emergency does is give fire authorities in new south wales to enforce evacuations, and have all the powers to control the fires at this time ...

They have been behind in that work over a number of years. so the combination, as one scientist i spoke to today put it, you have got a perfect storm. add to that record temperatures and this looks set to last. now you used the phrase "in wetter times". the problem is the havent been wetter times recently, as you say. there are those who see this is manifestly the result of climate change. well, climate change is definitely raising the average temperatures. globally it has gone up 1 degree over ...

Effect? the hottest months of the year here are traditionally january and february but already in the last couple of weeks we have seen australian temperature records tumble. so no one really knows what the next two or three months hold, except for more danger. what australia needs more than anything, more than the military, more than the efforts of volunteer firefighters and all of those things that are vitally important, but what australia needs more than most as fire drenching rain, flooding ...

Dozens still remain hospitalized. many of the victims were passengers from a royal caribbean cruise ship. royal caribbean tells cbs news its now suspending tours of active volcanoes, and the new zealand government is facing questions about why tourists were allowed access to an active volcano site. danya bacchus, cbs news, los angeles. >> ninan: today marks the tragic anniversary, seven years since a shooter killed 20 children and six staffers at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut. in...

Rescue teams in gas masks and wearing hazmat suits are only able to stay on the island for 75 minutes at a time. scientists say the volcanic gases being emitted on the island are so toxic that a single breath could be deadly. >> we know that time is of the essence, but the reality is, for the time being, weve recovered the six obvious bodies but we have more to do. weve got two more, and were determined to get them back. >> reporter: brenda ingarangi gordons nephew, tipene maangi, is believed to...

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