i mean, lytton is somewhat _ gone? i mean, lytton is somewhat in _ gone?ddle gone? i mean, lytton is. somewhat in the middle of nowhere. the nearest communities are, you know, 50— 100 kilometres away. it is a pretty rural area. there are smaller communities in this area, so people have essentially fled to the neighbouring communities in the area. i am about two hours away, and this is one of the areas where many people have fled to. a mustang with family members if they have people in the area that they can go to, some are staying in hotels. all of them are pretty much booked up here where i am. people are able to get some support through the emergency centre. there is an emergency shelter if people have nowhere else to go. if people have nowhere else to to. if people have nowhere else to go. 0k. monaco, corresponded with vancouver _ go. 0k. monaco, corresponded with vancouver radio, - go. 0k. monaco, corresponded with vancouver radio, thank. go. 0k. monaco, corresponded. with vancouver radio, thank you for speaking with us here on bbc news. for speaking w

have you had any idea what happened in lytton since you | what happened in lytton since you have left the places you knew around you?— but to the people in the places you knew around you? there have been a coule of knew around you? there have been a coople of photos _ knew around you? there have been a couple of photos that _ knew around you? there have been a couple of photos that have _ knew around you? there have been a couple of photos that have come - knew around you? there have been aj couple of photos that have come out. i am not sure took them, but i am assuming they were news crews that were up there, which are, and this is not hyperbole, they are apocalyptic. whole blocks of the village are just completely disappeared, it is not even... you would not even think there had been anything there. they are burned so far to the ground that there is no... you cannot see anything. it just like an empty street. there's definitely been asked of destruction. when we left, a lot of those buildings were still standing, our house was still standing, we were able to grab our 22 of our pets.

residents in lytton were forced to evacuate, as fires engulfed the area.n recorded the country's highest ever temperature of 49.6 degrees celsius. some 250 people fled the fires, some filming as they left. oh, my god, look at that! our house is actually doing pretty well so far. holy bleep! spences bridge... cos at least we sort of know a few people there. those ones have just gone. the whole village is going. that footage was filmed by gordon murray and his family as they fled lytton. he is now in safety in vancouver. it is... we're still in shock. it all happened so fast. and as you know, there was the record heatwave before that, and before that fully was over, the winds picked up and this conflagration happened so fast that nobody really had a chance to fully comprehend it before we just had to basically run. we gathered up... i literally have the clothes that are on my back, they still smell of smoke, and we grabbed our pets and most precious things that we could quickly find and left behind all kinds of things, like passports and things that we reall

really sad what is happening and what happened in lytton. and i guess it is a preview of what could happen in many other places in canada and the u.s. if this hot dry weather continues. >> yeah, we recognize the links between climate change and extended heat durations and long duration heatwave events just like we experienced across british columbia and the pacific northwest of the united states. but i think that it is port for our viewers to really let the magnitude of that situation sink in because it was unprecedented and it was quite profound. we are talking about the period from june 27 to june 30th, first day of that period we set our canadian all-time daily record high, it had never been that hot ever, and then the second day it beat that very record it set the previous day, and then on the third day once gone temperatures soared to 49.4 degrees celsius, roughly 121 farenheit. and then what happens after that, the location where that record high was set burns down with a wildfire. so the wildfires over canada have been devastating, th

were breaking records and that's particularly more so in british columbia, western canada, where lytton hit 49.6. now you see the forecast the heaters moved eastward systems extreme and the thunderstorms are taking the place and drop temperatures. but that's a forecast the saturday for the next 24 hours is still the problem. far as it broke carriage cover, heat, and lytton was completely surrounded by 5 of this. hopefully will help at least in dumpling, down. now the picture in winnipeg whether he's going is attempt his will rise, a record is $42.00, so don't expect that to be beaten, but the obvious $26.00. so again, this is rather poor by day and by night is too warm. it's dangerously hot. in fact, and he's moved to the right dancer, the u. s. stays down towards the gulf states leaving dry behind, which must be a relief for many or i have to say. and that just keeps going south during saturday, leaving dry behind. the temperature is still high, those, you know, i've been winnepeg sponsored car cut on airways challenging the way mainstream media record. the news stories like these shou

the mayor of lytton told the cbc "the whole town is on fire." indigenous leaders and climate justice activists blockaded access to the white house wednesday, calling on president biden to invest more in climate justice initiatives in his infrastructure plans and to stop fossil fuel projects including enbridge's line 3 pipeline and the mountain valley pipeline. this is indigenous water protector taysha martineau who is a member of the fond du lac tribe. >> when they approve the line 3 pipeline, they declared war. i have beehere for thousands years. if we do not stop pipeline three, none of us will be here long. amy: greenpeace has tricked a lobbyist at exxon mobil into sharing secrets about the oil company's efforts to fight climate initiatives in washington. the lobbyist, keith mccoy, spoke candidly about his work thinking he was speaking to a corporate headhunter. >> did we aggressively fight against some of the science? yes. did we hide our signs? absolutely not. did we join some of the shadow groups to work against some of the rly efforts? ye

on tuesday — the town of lytton recorded canada's highest ever temperature of nearly 50 degrees celsiusnly a consequence of global warming. from edmonton — brandy yanchyk reports. the hotter temperatures across western canada have led to destruction — in the small western canadian town of lytton in british columbia when a wild fire broke out causing an evacuation and then destroyed most of the town and damaging a nearby hydropower station. it set a record of 49.6 celsius on tuesday. the previous high in canada was 45 celsius. in british columbia, at least 486 sudden deaths were reported over five days. according to the bc coroner's service that is nearly three times more than usual over that period. this prolonged, dangerous and historic heatwave has also affected the province of alberta. daytime high temperatures have been above 30 degrees celsius. in edmonton on thursday, which was canada day, residents flocked to spray parks, trying to cool off. so there have been some deaths in bc and any time you have people that end up passing because of something like a heatwave, which is avoidab

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lytton recorded a temperature of 49.6 celsius on tuesday.very short notice. we had reports of people walking on the side of the road on the highway nearby and people were being told, jump in my car, let's go, because it was so sudden that people didn't have time to go back, pack their things. in fact, basically, a quote from the mayor saying a miracle if everyone made it out alive. we are still waiting to see what the devastation is, but so far it seems like it is not looking good for the town of lytton, which is about 200 kilometres north—east of vancouver and the temperatures were nearly 50 over the last three days. it is completely unprecedented, we haven't seen temperatures like this ever. i mean, these temperatures recorded in canada, it has broken three days of records and most of the world has not seen temperatures that hard. parts of the states, las vegas, never seen it this hot. and it was the worst thing to see, that what was expected to happen, is the wildfires could become worse this season and we are seeing it now with a town al

back to the town of lytton in canada, it was nearly wiped out by a fire and this is california.ern canada and the us, it's been over a thousand wildfires since april and many in the last two months. and the link to the heat is explicit. it is all related to extreme heat and with extreme heat is that triggers a drought which will also be experienced in california, extreme drought and with that drought, the wildfires are also more severe. and if that fire was caused by the heat, next to step back again and look at why these two heat waves have happened. a vast storm of high pressure above western canada, and it's like a lid in the atmosphere, trapping warm air and pushing it down to where it gets even harder. the heat is held in place in the path of the jet stream and so the heatjust kept climbing. that is the double danger — high pressure that cannot move on. no weather systems can move in so we get no relief at all. thunderstorms, showers, pure blue skies and sunshine — it is very dangerous. fires happen because the temperatures have been rising because the heat domes happen. le

have been sponsored by lightning strikes. meanwhile, a forensic came has been sent to the town of lytton, which was almost completely destroyed by a wildfire in a matter of minutes. last week, 2 people confirmed to have been killed by that fire. a former president of the european council, donald pers case hoping to make a political come back in his homeland poland to escape taking over as the leader of the main opposition party that he founded the liberal civic platform. he wants to challenge the ruling right wing law and justice party in elections in 2 years time . the government has clashed with brussels over law reforms and l g, b, t, q, and women's rights. earlier, we start to date every correspond. magdalena, palate caught in war, so we also what to plan, come back is likely to mean for polish politics. it could be dangerous for the really party, for years of cookie, and we know that he happened to win the next election, which will take place in 2 years in poland. and his ambition is for now. yeah. and it's clear he will buy the property and get his name if it's going to happen. we

these are the latest images of lytton in british columbia.a temperature of 49.6 celsius on tuesday. a record for canada. kareem gouda is a reporterfor news 1130 radio in vancouver. the entire town was evacuated with very short notice. we had reports of people walking on the side of the road on the highway nearby, and people are being told, jump in the car, let's go. it was so sudden that people didn't have time to go back and pack their things. basically, a quote from the mayor saying a miracle if everyone made it out alive. we're still waiting to see what the devastation is it, but so far it seems like it's not looking good for the town of lytton, which is about 200 km northeast of vancouver. the temperatures were nearly 50. it's completely unprecedented. we haven't seen temperatures like this ever. these temperatures like this ever. these temperatures recorded in canada have broken three days of records and most of the world has never seen these temperatures. parts of the states, las vegas, neverthis these temperatures. parts of the states,

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after the village saw 120 degrees, all 249 lytton residents are being advised to go to a safe locationis scary. >>> a florida law that would allow fines on social media companies is on hold. it was scheduled to go into febt today but a federal judge issued an injunction wednesday saying it likely violated the free speech rights of tech companies. the legislation was inspired by former president trump's social media ban following the attack on the u.s. capitol. >>> after missing the playoffs for the last ten years, the phoenix suns are now in the nba finals. andy scholes has the beach er repor report oig. >> great day to be a suns fan. the team is heading to the nba finals and it is thanks to an epic performance from chris paul, putting the team on his back scoring 31 points in the second half. the most points he has scored in any half of his 16 year nba career. frustrating patrick beverley to the point that he shoved him to the ground near tend of the gay. paul finishing with 41 points as they win 130-103. paul heading to the nba finals for the first time in his career. >> i was just h

lytton recorded the temperature 49.6 degrees celsius on tuesday.a report from 11:30 in vancouver. >> the entire town was evacuated with very short notice. thereere reports of walking on the side of the highway nearby, and people were being told, jump in my car, let's go. people did not have time to go pack their things. a quote from the mayor saying, a miracle if everyone made it out alive. we are waiting to see what the devastation is, but so far, it's not looking good for this town, about 200 kilometers northeast of vancouver. the temperatures were nearly 50. it's completely unprecedented. we haven't seen temperatures like this ever. temperatures recorded in canada, it has broken three days of records and most of the world have never seen temperatures that hodge. it was the worst thing to see, with expected happen -- what was expected to happen, the wildfires are expected to get worse and we are seeing a town almost destroy in a matter of hours. we have people and communities in small towns opening up shoulders, trying to get as many people out o

in british columbia, the village of lytton almost reached 50 degrees, shortly before it was largely destroyedsearchers say that without all of the carbon from cars and other human activities, it would have been virtually impossible for the deadly heat to occur. a big worry for climate researchers is that their models do not predict heat on the scales seen in canada for many decades to come. they are concerned that the climate might have passed a threshold where small amounts of extra carbon will trigger big temperature rises. while the situation in canada injune was extreme, but it was not the only place to endure intense heat. india and pakistan both saw soaring temperatures and deadly outcomes for many. scientists believe the global nature of warming means that every heatwave occurring today is made more likely and more intense by climate change. it is little wonder that heat topped the charts of deadliest disasters in both 2019 and 2020, according to the red cross. the rising tide of scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change will put added pressure on the world's political leade

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lytton is the same village that recorded the highest temperature during this week's heat wave at 121rees. more than 300 deaths are being blamed on the heat in western canada. meanwhile, across the border in the u.s. at least 108 deaths in washington and oregon are now blamed on this week's heat. >>> let's take a look now at your friday forecast. travelers in the northeast will be facing rain all day today. flash flooding is possible from king today's high the teer an70s in nthst and around the g the northwest, and we're tracking tropical storm elsa churning in the atlantic at around 30 miles per hour. it's projected to move into the gulf of mexico early next week. >>> coming up, new protection from sky high medical bills. >>> also ahead, what bill cosby is planning now that he's out of prison. >>> and the plane crash caught on camera with a student pilot at the controls. >>> one day after bill cosby was released from prison, he left philadelphia to reunite with his wife at their home in massachusetts. the first time they're seeing each other in three years. his sexual assault convict

. >> every day this week we have talked about the village of lytton.ntinues to set records in canada. it set an all-time high of 100 -- over 121 degrees fahrenheit tuesday. it set records on sunday as well. they heatwave is caused by a dome of static hot air. here is been read from bbc weather to help us understand. -- been rich -- ben rich from bbc weather. >> the air has been sinking in warming, allowing temperatures to climb day by day. this is not an uncommon situation in the summer. wire the temperatures so high -- why are temperatures so high? scientists suspect climate change. >> journalist brandy engine lives in edmonson, canada. she spoke to the bbc earlier and it was 9:00 a.m.. she is describing living in her basement to get away from the heat. >> we got up early this morning and let our dog out. sadie is beside me, our seven-month-old puppy. we are living in the basement were but this cooler in our 1957 bungalow. the temperatures are cooler downstairs. i have been watering my garden like crazy. the temperatures can burn the leaves and kill p

a forest fire that ignited after days of record breaking temperatures has destroyed most of lytton, a small town in central british columbia. this week little broke canadas all time. hottest temperature record 3 times. hitting nearly 50 degrees celsius on tuesday. local media are reporting that a couple in the 60s have died due to the fire. many others are missing a more than a 1000 people have evacuated their homes. the world is heard about british columbia, which birds almost essentially to the ground. and there's been multiple fatality reported there and other people not accounted for. some people are happy to go 2 to 3 hours wages to get check in with emergency social services. so this is something that we've never seen before in this province or really in this country anywhere. more than 170 wildfires burning across british columbia and western all berta. that fuels by record breaking heat wave, that in turn led to more than 700000 lightning strikes on wednesday and thursday, up tenfold from a year ago. health officials in british columbia say more than 700 deaths have been repor

people living in lytton in canada's british columbia have had to abandon their homes. the mass, as it took just 15 minutes for the flames to engulf the village. 3 days in a row in the last week. listen from the old time hottest temperature ever recorded in canada. reaching 49 degrees celsius. even if the world wasn't warming, the pacific northwest and south canada would be having an exceptional way right now . but it wouldn't be quite as severe. it wouldn't be blowing past existing records, or if it did, it would not people and pass them by very much to put it in perspective. both canada and oregon set temperature records that are higher than any temperature ever experienced in las vegas, nevada, which is in the middle of a hobby desert. so this is truly an unprecedented and exceptional. meanwhile, parts of southern brazil are experiencing unusually low temperatures and even ref. snowfall. it snowed in santa katerina state for 3 days. something that hasn't happened in more than 20 years. temperatures are also fallen below 0 in a state, usually known for sunshine and be

lytton in british columbia has recorded the country's highest—ever temperature, 49.6 celsius on tuesdayave been her 60th birthday. the brothers, whose relationship has been strained in recent months, met for the first time since the duke of edinburgh's funeral in april.

the town of lytton, british columbia hit a record record 121 degrees. well, doctors are urging caution, warning that even young and healthy people have a breaking point. and tonight, new yorkers received this emergency text alert urging them to limit their energy use in order to prevent power out annuals, including the last thing you want to lose in a heat wave, norah, air conditioning. >> o'donnell: exactly. mola lenghi, thank you so much. so the big question for everyone, when will these heat waves break? let's get the forecast now from cbs' lonnie quinn. lonnie, any relief in sight? >> oh, yeah, you betcha. by tomorrow we will no longer have the heat wave in the northeast. it comes at a price with strong storms. take a look at temperatures today. record set for newark at 92, record set in boston at 98. currently of storms around pittsburgh, albany, moving through the area, a chance of severe weather tonight. the weekend, get this, the northeast is not the greatest. cloud cover, a little rain chance, temperatures in the 70s. out west, we are still loo

it took just 15 minutes for flames to sweep through the village of lytton, which has been at the center of an unprecedented heat wave. the mayor says, 90 percent of the area is destroyed. lot of burton money reports all lucid, entire town, destroyed by wild fire. some of the 250 residents of listen in western canada had little warning to escape the flames. many of their homes now reduced to cinders, which we're going to go this after temperatures in the area smashed records on this 50 degrees. i can tell you that at best it has been unnerving and at worse, it has been downright terrifying in british columbia. we drove up here to kamloops yesterday for our vacation and saw a plume of smoke, so big coming from linton all that distance from here in kamloops. and my son said to me, is there a volcano or wrapping over there? this map from now so shows the area where the days of reco, temperatures have hit the entire northwest of the united states and canada. the unusual whether it's being linked to the so called heat don't wear high pressure zones trap hot air. the emergency cruise has been

i mean, so within the space of a week we went from seeing a wildfire wipe out the village of lytton and british columbia to scientific being able to say, quantitatively, to what extent climate change affected the heat wave but kind of drove very below the suffering. the 2nd reason, which is made more important, and i mean on the same day that listen, broke is heat, hit, record temperature record 2 days before the wildfire hit. another study published in the journal nature found that climate law seats on keeping up with late of climate science and what this means that we can hold people accountable for kind of the damage that we're seeing much better. if scientists can quickly attribute that quickly and confidently attribute the extent to which global woman played a role in an individual extreme weather event do using this study or this weather event, in fact will lead to any real change. yeah, you can already see people waking up. you can see politicians taking notice and talking about the effects of climate change much strongly. we know public awareness around extreme weather event doe

buyers continue to burn around lytton, british colombia.consecutive days, topping out at 49 point six celsius. now, the growth in the numbers of electric cars means there's more demand for minerals like lithium and tin — both essential components of car batteries. finding them means going underground. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports from cornwall in south—west england. having underground. work stop the ago, but these covenants could open up again. demand for the minerals found here is soaring. fix, demand for the minerals found here is soaring.— here is soaring. a circuit board. _ here is soaring. a circuit board, whatever, - here is soaring. a circuit board, whatever, it - here is soaring. a circuit board, whatever, it has| here is soaring. a circuit i board, whatever, it has tin here is soaring. a circuit - board, whatever, it has tin in it. all of these objectives and uses we are using to get to this carbon neutral economy requote into some degree. to have that domestic supply on your doorstep, it makes sense to see this

on tuesday, the town of lytton recorded the country's highest ever temperature of 49.6 degrees celsiusy out.— he made his way out. we are still in shock. _ he made his way out. we are still in shock. it _ he made his way out. we are still in shock. it all _ he made his way out. we are still in shock. it all happened so fast and, as you know, there was the record heatwave before that and before that was fully over, the winds picked up and it happened so fast that nobody really had a chance to fully comprehend it before we just had to basically run. we gathered up... i have the clothes on my back. they still smell of smoke. we grabbed our pets and most precious things that we could quickly find and left behind all kinds of things like passports and things that, if we had the time, we would have been able to get, and just got in the car and drive and had no idea even which direction to drive because there was so much smoke and fire and we picked the direction we thought would be the most likely to get us out of the fire and go for it. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: a royal reuni

it's just 15 minutes for flames to sweeps for the village of lytton, which has been at the center of it. unprecedented heat wave. the man says 90 percent of the area is destroyed nor burden. manley has all lucid, entire town destroyed by wild fire. some of the 250 residence of listen in western canada had little warning to escape the flames. many of their homes now reduced to cinders, which way are we going to go this after temperatures in the area smashed records, it will be 50 degrees. i can tell.

gordon murray was filming as he made his way to safety out of lytton. he's now in vancouver.nd as you know, there was the record heatwave before that and before that was even over, the winds picked up. this conflagration happened so fast, but nobody really had a chance to fully comprehend it before they had to — before we had to basically run. we gathered up literally the clothes on our backs — and they still smell of smoke — and we grabbed our pets and most precious things that we could quickly find and left behind all kinds of things like passports and things that we really would've, if we had the time, would have been able to get. do you...? we got in the car and we drove. we had no idea even which direction to drive because there was so much smoke and so much fire that we had to kind of pick a direction that we thought would be the most likely to get out of the fire and go for it. gordon murray there. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: a royal reunion — princes william and harry unveil a statue of their mother on what would have been her 60th birthday. china m

they followed canada's all-time record high of 121 degrees fahrenheit set in the town of lytton on tuesday. the town was almost completely destroyed wednesday by a wildfire. in greece, authorities closed the acropolis to tourists on thursday as a scorching heat wave brought temperatures of up to 110 degrees. and in russia, the siberian village known as the coldest inhabited place on earth -- is baking in record heat with a high temperature of 89 degrees fahrenheit. siberia's heatwave is rapidly melting permafrost, releasing huge stores of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. house speaker nancy pelosi has named bennie thompson to chair the house select committee on investigating the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol. six other democrats will serve on it, including impeachment managers zoe lofgren, adam schiff, and jamie raskin of maryland. >> we need to figure out who organize the violence of january 6, how did they organize it, and why did they organize it. what were the purposes of the different critical actors who were present on that day. a mako speaker pelosi also said republi

the town of lytton in british columbia, 121 degrees burst into flames and is reduced to ash.eat itself set off clouds that made their own weather event. when you look at this, two things to keep in mind. one is that right now there's a fight in washington, d.c., over infrastructure legislation with a bipartisan group of senators having struck a deal that cuts out nearly all of the ambitious climate investments and regulation of the biden plan. number two, when you look at canada literally burning, people dieing and climate investments being cut out of the bipartisan deal, a big part of all of this, a huge part is the tireless work of fossil fuel companies like exxonmobile to pollute the planet while making billions of dollars and making sure no one can stop them. and one of the chief ways they do that is through lobbyists. they hire professionals in suits who lend their talents to an enterprise that has gotten and will get many, many, many people killed. that's what it's doing. now we have rare video of what that looks like, and they think no one's listening. in a sting set u

then lytton was engulfed and almost completely destroyed by wildfires.ver a thousand were hospitalized. people flocked to cooling centers because they never before needed to own air conditioners. and a group of scientists who are part of a global collective called world weather attribution began to look at how this might have happened. they performed what's known as a rapid attribution study which ames to find out how much climate change contributed to a particular weather event. they do it very quickly, in this case, in ten days. they used historical observations of the weather in the region going back as far as 1850. as the "new york times" notes, they use 21 models to simulate what the weather would be like if humans had never pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. they found that the heat wave in the pacific northwest would have been virtually impossible without the advent of climate change. but there was something else that stumped the scientists. the heat wave was so far beyond historically observed temperatures that it couldn't be captured b

this is officials from the tiny town of lytton say they are looking for missing residents after moste ground earlier in the week. now, it happened after the town posted the highest temperature ever recorded in canada at 121 degrees fahrenheit, or 49 degrees celsius. now, earlier i spoke with david phillips. he's a senior climatologist at environment canada. and i asked him about the sense of the magnitude of what we're seeing in this extreme weather, particularly in british columbia. here's what he had to say. >> this is scary. it's life-threatening. it's like an out of world experience for us. you mean, you know we are the second coldest country in the world, the snowiest country in the world. people think that winter begins in canada, and it's the land of polar vortex and windchill and frostbite. and to have these temperatures, which are just absolutely a head-shaker, i've been in the business 50 years. i've never seen anything like this, and neither has anybody in canada. i mean this broke records that stood for 83 years. but, paula, it just didn't break the record. it smashed it.