eyes and when she looks i m behind her, always be there for her. she makes me feel like home. so far away. she feels like carolina. new york city, today. it s hard to understand the way i m living. and i know she thinks i m never coming home. but i m lawrence: if you re just waking up, you are not dreaming, that is parmalee performing. just away, the girl is mine, take my name, and this is for ain ainsley. ainsley: i love this song, it is very popular in the carolinas. any time you include a city or state in your home, it s a hit in that state. brian: even in a different state. ainsley: if he plays that at his concert in south carolina, the place will go crazy. like when billy joel sings about new york or even sings about here. brian: he is stopping residency at madison square garden. ainsley: i heard you were buying his house. brian: very close to it, but it does not have a big enough helipad. ainsley: if we pool our money, can we stay in the house?
massive forest fire in new jersey swelled to 5000 acres. crews in burlington are battling the blaze. nearby campground has been evacuated. officials expect the fire to burn for days. tennessee man is going viral after losing a whole lot of weight by only eating mcdonald s. tell me more. kevin mcginnis decided he needed to slim down and 100 days later, he is down 60 pounds and loving it. three meals per day everyday for the last 100 days, nothing but mcdonald s. 118/75, blood pressure of teenager, triglycerides down, every way you can measure me healthier. carley: since meeting his goal, he plans to start a different challenge focusing
waters pending an environmental review. we re going to start to properly manage lands and waterways. in april of last year, the interior department finished the review and announced reformed leasing procedures. royalty rates for the portion from oil and gas sales that companies pay to the government rose from 12.5% to 18.75. a 50% increase. the land nominated for drilling by the oil and gas industry was reduced by 80%. we all pay 50% more for 80% less. i think this is them trying to thread the needle, split the hair saying okay we are going to go ahead with a leasing program. we are not going to put much out there. overall oil and gas production has risen in the past decade including on federal lands which make up about 25% of total output. but the first step in the oil producing process has fallen significantly behind. in 2021, just 407 new leases were issued by the bureau of
tom, this has been weeks of storms right now. what s your biggest concern with this latest round? reporter: bianna, it s staggering to know at christmas when we knew this atmospheric river would begin, that it would last a few weeks. think about how far we ve con in just weather forecasting. we ve had six events, today is number seven. we re going to have eight, nine and ten. i ll let you know when those are going to come look at southern california numbers. ventura, over 18.75 inches. san marcos pass, we were almost freaking out in the weather center when they hit a foot. but 17 inches. santa barbara breaking an all-time record. san luis obispo as well. the ventura river rose 17 feet in just 12 hours, reaching an all-time crest of 25 feet, all-time highest. it s now down to eight.
reversing course with oil and gas leases on federal land, but some say it would make the crisis worse in the years ahead. madison has the story from fox business in new york. this is the first time since bride took office the federal government is offering new fossil fuel leases on public land. the issue, the amount of land offered up is much lower and the royalties are higher. the government is increasing royalties on the new leases to 18.75%. that is up from 12.5%. so the government is taking a bigger piece of the pie. and the land being offered for drilling is much less. taking a look at the potential drilling sites, bureau of land management expected to make 144,000 acres of land available in these states. and while that might sound like a lot, that is 80% less than what had been under evaluation for leasing.