kangaroo island 2 people died as their car was overtaken by a blaze that broke containment lines a stratus prime minister says the fire crisis has reached a new level and has ordered 3000 army reservists to help the sky all of the farmers is stretching resources on the ground and they are clearly communities that need additional help and in response to that we must move forward 1st as a commonwealth particularly with the work of our defense forces and then integrate with the local operations that are in place in those local communities. the announcement comes after weeks of intense and politically bruising criticism for the prime minister has so far insisted that managing the fires was a matter for individual states and rural fire services alone fire services that have been stretched to the limit. the australian navy has also been deployed to help with the evacuation of fire affected coastal areas. these people were the 1st to be rescued from in the state of victoria where a mega blaze forced 4000 people to flee to the waterfront on new year's eve many of them are still trapped in the town

>>this is what's happening at the golden gate still dealing with some stratus out there to shake thatl suspect by the late mning hours so no, here's a picture coming in from there to the un st y perspective. so kind of dark and some of the valley's a little bit there with dealing with some of thcloud cover so here it is kind of a sheet of that the stratus that we have to start the day. again some thinning expecting to let the clouds co out let the sun come out a little bit but we're all lking for like wall to wall sunshine by any stretch. the father of th leftover business in the east bay looks like but by well before noon that ill be mixed out and will be into good scenario 30's up to the north bay, mid 40's cover the east bay shoreline, 35 still chilly degrees in livermore this is a from yesterday but still bit on the chil side and considering es will be in climb from where we stand ood right now by comparison sake, we're a little bit warmer today than we were from sterday 49 by high noon to 3 o'clock we'll try about 51 going on here we'll take a closer look at your special your wee

this is what it looks like from space kind of just a sheet of stratus all over the bay area for today little bit last minute fog hanging around the delta kind of getting caught a little bit that that may take a little while to mix out because of the overcast conditions. so maybe about high noon before we can put the shake that off. temperatures now not quite as cold as yesterday, but we do have couple 30's on here, 38 santa rosa. and also for any aac elsewhere we're looking at 40's, although redwood city coming in at 38 along with san jose. for contrast sake, we're actually a little warmer in most of the region that we were from this time yesterday breaking it down for you today, let's keep it cloudy through but the balance of today getting those temperatures in the lower 50's by early afternoon. but we poking into about 60 or so. donna santa clara by the mid afternoon of course how that forecast so much you know it's coming wh this rain coming up in just a bit martin all right dave, thanks a lot. we begin this hour with breaking news out of san mateo that's where the chp is investiga

there will be very little wind, and i think more likely than the low stratus clouds, we'll have a few high clouds and you'll barely notice them. i'll be back with the rest of the forecast in a bit. morning lows tomorrow look fine. see you in a few minutes. >>> now to a developing story in oakland where a man was killed while chasing after the thief who stole his laptop. it happened just outside the starbucks in the montclair district. joe vazquez is there. >> reporter: this ordeal started right here at this cafe behind me. oakland police say a man was killed after trying to get his laptop back from the thieves who stole it from him. it happened around 11:30 this morning. the victim was working on his laptop at the suspect, and suddenly one suspect or several snatched the laptop and ran away. the victim chased them to their car. >> the suspect or suspects got into the vehicle with the laptop. the victim continued to try and get the laptop back, and at that time in the 6100 block of antioch, the victim was critically injured. >> he was injured very badly. the right eye and right forehea

most of it should be fairly high, although there could be patchy low fog or stratus cloud around the city. but the temperatures are great. mid-50s by 8:00, and only 50 degrees for midnight tonight. so grab a light sweater. if you plan on going to the show, i don't think the clouds will be a major impact, but there could be some patchiness to this. we'll have more in the forecast in a bit. >>> and bay area transit officials are offering free rides and extra service tonight to ring in the new year. muni is offering free rides from 8:00 tonight through 5:00 tomorrow morning. they'll also be doubling the amount of late night owl service on several routes. and cal train is free tonight. bart will not be free but will run until 3:00 a.m., instead of its usual midnight cut off. and if you're planning to hail a ride share, be aware that uber and lyft are warning about no cars being available during certain hours. we'll explain that at 6:00. >>> the times square ball drop is less than 2 hours away in new york city, and hundreds of thousands of people are there. thousands of nypd officers are

from washington since in hundreds of extra troops also on the program the new year begins with a stratus bushfires claiming more lives despite rescues and evacuations some of the victims were people who stayed to try and see.

>>you know this uh overcast a shredded a stratus we have goinon here the kind of snucup on us when thel thin out a little bit says so the forecast goes let no miake about it they'll be back again this afternoon anotheambush another ambush and that with everysome couple spotty showers with them to southe bring some gifts so that we got going on the gold gate. there you can see kind of that kind of gloom and doom imagery looked a little different about a couple hours ago anthen the east bay shot here this is a from coming in from a u c bekeley that we have going on here over looking towds the seen there as well so on be satellitradar there. it is unclear form clear over most of the night d then boom here it comes we'll get a thinning out a ttle bit and thenthis next system will drop in next collection. and they're carriewith it again. spotty is the word we wa to use because tomorrow night it's scattered showers that will be at work here. here's futurecast to note the fog in e wake of the spotty showers but have to contend with a little bit in the east bay tomorrow morning. and a perhaps

what we've got going on here you've shot om u c berkeley is the overcast stratus cloud cover again thatl be handled for this afternoon but prably the morning hours as pretty much cloudy and going shake these clouds off by the time we get to around the noon hour. here's what it looks like. for the golden gate bridge again calling it somewhat overcast the future cast for let's watch this opens up nicely for this afternoon looks pretty good. that will be late in the afternoon is still some leftover cloud covered on the monterey bay as you can see lookdecent for your sunday but note for to t to the north bay. mike it ome stray showers returning a little bit in the early afternoon that's tomorrow now just a little bit of a hiccup there and it really doesn't get further to the south and off to the east either so we see upream, we see series of waves hereso the long-term forecast keep the umbrella handy because we're going to see the rai return in the forecast kind of in and out just about l week long that looks like this shot coming from channel when the sun to join us here early showers afte

and it's not just this particular stratus of the iraqi society that is vowing revenge or infuriated at the united states, we also went down to the square where for months iraqi protesters have been demonstrating against their own government. there they have actually been demonstrating against outside influence, against iran, but even down there, fredricka, there is little love for iran but at the moment there is even less for the united states. because, as they keep saying over and over again, america is once again using iraq as an arena for its proxy battles. iraqis know one thing very, very well. at the end of the day, they are the ones that end up paying the price for all of this. >> so, arwa, for u.s. troops in baghdad and nearby, what has this potentially done for them, their disposition. are they now put greatly in a kind of self-defense mode as opposed to iraqis, many iraqis feeling like they were allies? >> reporter: well, our understanding is that the u.s. here, whether it's the embassy or various u.s. military installations is now in a higher position of alertness. they have

>>but lok at the improvement we have filling in what kind of the stratus it looks like that we expect some puppy ki cumulusgoing on today, it's what vaable clouds are probably work it's going to vary throughout the different time of day difference toward the golden gate, you'd expe it right vice for si the inland eas looking better but those leftover showers have not yet clear the whole bay again looking go at the golden gate. so let's go ahead future with this and future cast for 2 goes on. there's the opening up the skies tonight we got breezy conditions while that's going then some spotty showers develo. tomorrow afternoon. this is spotty rain showers not a major deal and then monday night comes the more earnest rain and we expect some by the latter portion of next week too an that's going to be mountain snows to look out for as well, this is all bottom up here in the gulf of alaska we're just getting the pieces of it down south we're going to get more that thrusng drop here, it looks like by the time we get to the middle of t week that's where the reasons why we're not getting the

making government bigger, no, what works to get people in the lower classes up out of their income stratusyet, stay right there, presidential candidate elizabeth warren repeated the claim that bernie sanders told her some time ago that a female candidate could not win the presidential race, bernie denies he ever said it. lauren: that was in 2018, a video surfaced from 1988 that shows bernie sanders saying this. >> the real issue is not whether you are black or white, whether you're a women and a man, in my view a woman can be elected as president of the united states, whose side are you on, are you on the side of workers or poor or are you on the side of big money and corporations. lauren: there's been a progressive peace pact, without clear front-runner everybody including sanders and warren attack each other. stuart: sanders said, yes, a woman could win the presidency but allegedly according to warren, no, a woman cannot win the presidency. lauren: bernie said in december of 2018, bernie calls out ludicrous. stuart: liz, come back this, please, is this identity politics run rioting and y