High pressure systems to the north. What it is doing is putting the squeeze on the Hawaiian Islands and allowing those winds out of the east to gust. We just checked, over 40 Miles Per Hour in some of those locations. That is going to complicate fire efforts. Look at the aerial video that you are seeing on your screens right now. This is imperative. The fire that impacted the west side of maui, the location, the economic hub of hawaii where all the resorts and businesses are generally located, where people go as tourists to visit, well, the fire ran out of room to burn. It literally moving into the ocean as it had nothing else to char. It was incredibly harrowing. Adjectives use like dyer and apocalyptic. You can see exactly why with some of these first aerial visuals that we are getting. Now, everyone in hawaii knows how to handle a hurricane. Everyone knows how to handle volcano as well. As difficult as it can be. This caught people off guard. As a meteorologist, we were watching Hur
centers is set to expire next month, it s about to get worse. what is going to happen if congress does not do anything in the program ends? so, if our support for child care, our nationwide support, goes away, about 3.2 million children are going to lose their childcare spots. there will be childcare centers across this country that just close. that is going to have a terrible economic consequence because that is a lot of moms and dads who cannot go to work, who cannot work a full shift because they cannot get adequate childcare. so, we are urging, tina smith and i and others, to say, as the president is talking about emergency funding, emergency funding for ukraine, emergency funding for the various problems that we have seen so far, the key one that we should
families. let me focus on cultural issues like banning books and sex education rather than passing paid leave and making childcare affordable. in this moment where we re about to talk about the triple pandemic,, again it s parents that are missing work. not able to make payments, not able to pay their mortgage. because we don t live in the nation that provide some support. the issue was really strong in the midterms. i think it s going to be even stronger in 2024. the cost of childcare is greater than the cost of inflation. 40% of parents are going into debt because of preschool. it cost $18,000 a year for every child. these are real, real pocketbook issues. these costs are exacerbating and increasing because childcare spots are not available. because as many experts have said, it is actually a failed markets. it is something that needs a systemic change. it is not something that individuals are going to be able to tackle on their own. i remember sitting with, the russia, talking in