Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
Sabotage diplomacy. Nationanal strike over Pension Reforms in brazil. We will be live in sao paulo. And in sport, the cricket world cup, guiding the host to winds. Welcome to the program. Our top story britain has joined the u. S. In accusing iran attacking two oil takers tankers in the gulf of oman. The United States released grainy video to back up its claim, but iran denies it is to blame. Stephanie decker has this report. Happened to the tankers in the gulf of oman . That depends on who you ask. An iranian tv video shows a norwegianowned tankerer on fir. U. S. Centralal command released on frfriday,early claiming it t shows Iranian Revolutionary guards removing an unexploded mind from the japaneseowned ship. The timesestamp according to americans shows it happened after the vessels crew has been rescued. Nothing is clear, but the message from the u. S. Administration is iran was behind it. It is the assessment of the United States government that the Islamic Republic of iran is res
A sling to rescue group the White Helmets his heroes and russian planes and targeting civilians. For the latest on these stories head to our team dot com stay with us now from going underground discussing the trial of julian a song and if youre watching in the u. K. Sputnik is next talking about the rise of the brics they are saying. No mention returns here were going underground as wiki leaks founder Julian Assange clings to life in belmarsh prison in southeast london coming up with a show the United Nations special on torture professor condemns british torture of Julian Assange just the worst case in 20 years of work with victims of war violence and political persecution and the biggest betrayal enough of American History well ask the man who 1st gave. Former ecuadorian president Rafael Correa wants as a. Case means for a legal u. S. Backed regime change in latin america although some more coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st straight to our top story which its no exaggera
Prison. The Barrett Brown case is probably one of the most significant threats to suppress freedom that is happening in the u. S. In the last two decades at least. Amy in a democracy now exclusive, we speak with the journalist when greenwald and Barrett Brown himself, still under house arrest in dallas. Then we look at black mamas bail out day, an efforto raise money jeffrey as many africanamerican women from jail as possible before mothers day. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump has once again changed his story about why he fired fbi director james comey. Now admitting on nbc he made the decision in part due to comeys probe russias meddling in the 2016 election. Pres. Trump regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. Just do it him i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. It is
Massive Voter Suppression and help republicans stay in power. Then we take a look at the case of Barrett Brown, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist t rizzi released after four years in prison. The Barrett Brown case is probably one of the most significant threats to suppress freedom that is happening in the u. S. In the last two decades at least. Amy in a democracy now exclusive, we speak with the journalist when greenwald and Barrett Brown himself, still under house arrest in dallas. Then we look at black mamas bail out day, an effort to raise money jeffrey as many africanamerican women from jail as possible before mothers day. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump has once again changed his story about why he fired fbi director james comey. Now admitting on nbc he made t e decisision in part due to comes probe russias meddling in the 2016 election. Pres. T trump regardless of recommendatio