Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Under way to a critical Water Pipeline damaged by the czu lightning complex fire in Boulder Creek impacted by the broke away from our fighting in Oregon Health airlifts this badly needed pipe to the fire. Ravaged it the the work was done in the Santa Cruz Mountains kron fours rob fladeboe talks with the helicopter crew rob joins us live now with the latest rob is the water. Okay to drink now. Well it is for some folks and not so much for others up am i here at the fire camp in scotts valley, this is all going on farther up the seller on valley high above Boulder Creek where the fire destroyed a key Water Pipeline that supplies for Boulder Creek and the only way to get the replacement pipe up to this remote site is by helicopter, lets take a look. This was downtown Boulder Creek Tuesday Morning as a helicopter airlifted heavy duty replacement pipe to a remote job site in the fire zone, a nearby been lowman mountain at the controls was veteran pilot glenn smith whos been fighting wildfir
So this is a challenging year. Its historic in terms magnitude skull. And it also has required us a deep reservoir of resource. California is experiencing a record wildfire season with more than 2 million acres already burned our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how state leaders are bracing for the months ahead. With still months left in whats considered californias traditional fire season in the fire fight is far from over so far this year 2. 3 million acres burned for more than 7500 fires compared to 118,000 acres burned by this time last year its rather the challenge that we faced again so far this season, the governor said there are 900 active wildfires, 25 of the major including the second 3rd and 4th largest wildfires in the states modern history, 8 people have died in a more than 42,000 people have been forced from their homes while this record fire season. Rages on in september in the last few years some of the states most destructive fires happened in october an
Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at