Thousands evacuate as wildfires engulf California

Thousands in the Los Angeles area were forced to evacuate due to rapidly growing wildfires on Thursday night. Roughly 300,000 residents remain without power after Pacific Gas & Electric intentionally cut electricity to curb wildfires. RT America’s Natasha Sweatte reports from Los Angeles. Reports of an attack on an Iranian oil tanker on Friday morning pushed crude prices higher. To tell us why they’re unlikely to last, RT America’s Sayeh Tavangar has the details. Lawmakers in New York are proposing a new bill that would make vaccination data public. The proposed legislation would require all New York schools to report their student bodies’ immunization rates to the Sate Dept. of Health. RT America’s Trinity Chavez gives us the story. Another cold case was solved with DNA testing. Patrick Leon Nichols was officially charged for a 1991 murder after his DNA was matched up to a genealogy website. But is this new technology encroaching on privacy? Legal and media analyst Lionel chimes in.