The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a commune cane from the speaker. Communication from the speaker. 2020, ik september 22, hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to highlight the inequalities that covid19 assistance distribution. Back in march,
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. August 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house gathered here at the capitol for an extraordinary session in extraordinary times. Inspire them with wisdom as they hope to address the needs of our nation in such a difficult period of our shared history. Continue to bless those who labor to attend to the sick among our citizens and those also who strive to find effective treatments and vaccines. Keep us all safe in your divine mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Ame
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
On the firefight from cal fire in just a few minutes, but this is what we know right now. Overnight, the fog and cooler temps did help firefighters make progress. The fire only burned another couple thousand acres overnight and stands at 79,000 acres and containment up slightly at 17 . We start with the scu complex fire raging across five separate counties, including santa clara, alameda and contra costa counties. 3363 acres burned. 15 contained. 20,000 homes threatened. The lnu fire is the deadliest of the three. Sadly, five people have died. Its on the western side of Sonoma County and over napa county and 27 contained, five deaths as we mentioned, the czu burning along the coast, one person has died, seven others are missing, but the containment, 17 , and were expecting an update in a few minutes. Who do you call when you need rescuing . In the north bay, henry 1, the helicopter operated by the Sonoma County sheriff. The mission saved firefighters surrounded by fire in almost comple
The fire to drop water and retardant. Cal fire at any moment is scheduled to begin their evening briefing that the Community Center in scotts valley. As soon as they do, well bring it to you live. Right now, we want to bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. What are the weather conditions looking like, bill . Well, just kind of like what you said. Weve had a good run of weather for firefighters. Cal fire has made exceptional progress. Most of this great weather has to do quit what im showing you here, this live shot of the fog coming in. Its cool, moist, doing its thing, and that has increased humidities in the fire zone, doubled and tripled the humidities, which is huge. Any firefighters will tell you that. We saw more smoke today on the peninsula, with more of a southerly wind bringing the smoke in from the santa cruz fire. So we have a lot of smoke. Thats why the air quality district has issued or extended their spare the air alert through friday, and thats just how its going