Judy Woodruff:

In Southern California, firefighters are also bracing for potential mudslides. The Woolsey Fire there is now more than 98 percent contained.

We will have a closer look at the challenges of recovery efforts in Northern California after the news summary.

The humanitarian aid group Save the Children estimates that 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 have died of extreme hunger since that country's civil war broke out in 2015. It attributes that tragic toll to a Saudi-led coalition's intervention in the conflict and recent fighting in and around the port city of Hodeidah.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said peace talks between Yemen's warring parties will take place next month in Sweden.

Members of the international police organization Interpol today elected a South Korean to be the agency's next president, in a surprise defeat over a Russian front-runner. Kim Jong Yang edged out Russian general Alexander Prokopchuk, whose candidacy had stoked fears that Russia could use the role to target political opponents.

Interpol's secretary-general reaffirmed the agency's impartiality when he spoke after today's vote in Dubai.