Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dom
Respected states by fire by our own 30000 buyers in this space that is affecting mostly remote locations not quite here in the city but were told that 345 hours away from here theres already fires in those areas the government has announced that theyre going to be using the armed forces to fight this fires around the hundreds of thousands of them people here are telling us they still have not seen anything as whole as we also heard from the governors of at least 6 states that have been affected by the fires theyre asking for an urgent meeting with the press and they say that they need help the police to fight the fires but in order to cope with what is coming next and let me tell you where we are right now this place 30 years ago used to be filled with trees and biodiversity that has obviously obviously changed this is now a city but over the past decade brazil has pulled him place a series of controls of laws of agencies that help protect the amazon rain forest watch environmental gro
Wildfires in the normally humid, tropical Amazon rainforest have been supercharged by a disastrous combination of elevated temperatures, historic drought and deforestation. In Roraima State, in northern Brazil, the number of fires in February were more than five times the average.