still, that did not stop the president from blaming and threatening californians writing, quote, so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forest. no more fed payments. within the past hour, the president relented on that threat and approved disaster funding for california. i want to bring in l.a. times state policy and politics reporter liam dylan, who wrote this week about the destruction of the town of paradise and kendra pierce on climate team who recently wrote about why california has so many wildfires. let me start with you in california. you wrote about paradise, and you wrote about the scope of this devastation. this is outside of the bounds even for california of what it s used to. this is an public horrific fire. it s the most destructive wildfire in the state s recent memory. 6700 properties, including 6500 homes. this is really outside of the bounds of what we ve seen sort of overtaking over what the most destructive fire was in recent memory last yea
no more fed payments. within the past hour, the president relented on that threat and approved disaster funding for california. i want to bring in l.a. times state policy and politics reporter liam dylan, who wrote this week about the destruction of the town of paradise and kendra pierce on climate team who recently wrote about why california has so many wildfires. let me start with you in california. you wrote about paradise, and you wrote about the scope of this devastation. this is outside of the bounds even for california of what it s used to. this is an public horrific fire. it s the most destructive wildfire in the state s recent memory. 6700 properties, including 6500 homes. this is really outside of the bounds of what we ve seen sort of overtaking over what the most destructive fire was in recent memory last year when there were big fires in wine country. i tell you, i was up there over the weekend, and i have never seen anything like it, smoke for you could barely see five f
it also damaged utility poles and destroyed at least 26 homes. hundreds of people are still without power. on friday, president trump approved disaster funding for the state of hawaii allowing for the swiss release of federal funds. thursday was the last day tourists and residents could get their last close-up pictures of the volcano, the state park is now shut down indefinitely. evacuation orders are in place for about 2000 people who live near the volcano and at last count roughly 300 people and pets were in american red cross shelters. and the scary thing is, scientists say lava eruptions and the spewing of toxic gases could really go on for months. they really just don t know. leland, back to you. leland: all right, anita vogel as we watch this across the pacific ocean, and anita, thank you. liz has more. elizabeth: that s right, let s bring in victoria, the senior science editor from national e goe
if you are a federal worker, have you got to turn that alarm back on because have you got to go in. carley: going to work which is a very good thing. something in this for everybody. republicans get military funding. democrats domestic founding to break those numbers down, this budget deal has 165 billion more dollars for military spending, 131 billion for domestic programs. a debt increase through march of 2019. that s where the two year deal comes into play. disaster funding for hurricanes. the government is going to be open through march 23rd, which is actually just right around the corner. todd: interesting to see what happens between then and now. in case you are wondering what s happening with daca. dacdaca will. they will try to sell it to constituents over the weekend and be back on monday. time now for a little good,
problems. this deal does present a problem for nancy pelosi. a lot of the congressional black caucus wanted these community health centers funded. the disaster funding included in this bill. i think it s going to be hard for some of these democrats to say no to this. money for puerto rico, for example, is included. for texas and florida as well. yeah, this is how compromises used to work, which is if you re the majority, you sweeten the pot. things like domestic spending, nonmilitary spending. you give some while getting some. the issue is we live in a politics of extreme polarization. the question is, is good good enough f enough. for the liberal wing of the democratic party and, not really the tea party, but the fiscal deficit hawk wing of the republican party, there s some overlap. just to be precise, the