Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Local news station. Breaking now thousands of californias weary wine country residents confronting yet another devastating wildfire. The glass fire burning through land that was saved from the other recent wildfires, we found out of our house. It gives you pause and it gives you a a moment to realize whats really important in life because. What we thought was important. Is now ashes. Hard work to build a home wiped away in mere seconds a sobering realization for families of last a lifetime of memories to the glass fire. We have live kron 4 Team Coverage to his own head of the cdc said if we just wore masks between now if there everybody wore a mask social distance between now and january we probably save up to a 100,000 lives. It matters and theyve all since i have to sit no serious person said the plus a night full of 5 interjections and contentious exchanges. President trump and democratic challenger, joe biden going face to face for the first time our political analysts are breaking
Reporting their first containment just 2 cal fire says that 80 homes have been destroyed so far 28 in Sonoma County 52 in napa county and more than 22,000 structures remain threatened tonight, this is the 4th major fire in just 3 years in the napa and Sonoma County areas kron 4 aqi. Continues our Team Coverage from santa rosa residents. Taylor unfortunately are all too used to these situations. Thats right ken the family spoke with theyve been through many fire evacuations before but of course this time unfortunately it was different this time they wont have a home to return to and you can see some of this area over here still smoldering right now im standing in what used to be the garage inside they had a gym you can see this barbell in way track Still Standing they also had a. Really important art studio and year. And unfortunately now thats gone with Everything Else in this fire. About halfway through its run what we could and the my husband and i dot really expect the snow started
Than 46,000 acres and that 2 contained and take a look at this brandnew video a crime viewer frank blew sent to us it shows the glass fire from above the Santa Rosa Calistoga area around 8 oclock tonight. Franc was flying into sfo from spokane when he saw the huge plumes of smoke and the orange glow of the flames and this is looking down from several 1000 feet and it gives you an idea of just how much landon area is burning in just how devastating these fires are. We have Team Coverage tonight on this last fire we start with kron fours 10 of us live in Santa Rosa Taylor. We just saw it looks like from the sky and youre there on the ground up close a lot more different situation there isnt. Vicki unfortunately were seeing situations like this homes reduced to rubble. This is what used to be the Saint Germains family home you can see some of the areas here still smoldering and right now standing in what used to be the garage. There was a weightlifting room inside this garage, you can see
Damage. More than 8,000 structures still threatened as we wake up this morning. Yeah, when you saw metal would go down just big recognizable places like big wineries and then peoples homes, this is the circle of where the fire is burning east of saint and Calistoga Napa county and east of santa rosa. In Sonoma County. They dont know the cause they just know that this fire spread rapidly with the heavy winds and were still under a warning for that so theres 0 containment were continuing to follow the latest 60,000 people have been evacuated, including the entire town of calistoga kron fours will tran has been live for us there in napa county. Bringing us up to speed on the latest firefighting efforts and will they were working to save a home this morning looks like they were successful for now. For now they are actually having their breakfast because theyve been working nonstop for pretty much 48 hours so those heroes are next and a fire truck in front of the house just finally getting