Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
Is exercise. Psychology professor said the smoky conditions can contribute to anxiety, angst and depression on top of everything else. It can also disrupt sleep especially on days like yesterday. Heres how the smoke looks like in space. The satellite show winds pushing south to Southern California from as far away as oregon. Smoke advisories continue for our region. Of the National Weather service said there will be little change in the smoke across the bay area in 18 hours. Were joined now with more on the air quality. There will be a change in the atmosphere over the next 24 hours. We do have the winds blowing the right way. This is a smoke and i want to show you the surface winds. Which way are they blowing . Thats at the surface, thats a good direction. We are getting that went. Lets go up to the next level above the surface, by thousand feet. The winds are blowing southwesterly or blowing in a southeasterly direction. Now what weve discovered is that layer from 5000 feet down to t
[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Weeknights this month, we are featuring book to these programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on cspan2. Tonight, starting at eight eastern, the theme is world war ii. First, Eric Larson Lisette Prime Minister Winston Churchills leadership during the london blitz. Then, catherine provides a history of the female pilot who served in the u. S. Army air forces during the war. And later, journalist jack fairweather, recounts the efforts of vito plus key, member of the polish resistance and volunteered to be deliberately sent to sabotage policy operations and report on the atrocities in the camp. Enjoy book tv, on cspan2. Joining us now, via zone for conversation about state and federal Unemployment Insurance and a senior economist in the nonpartisan nonprofit. And for Employment Research in kalamazoo, michigan. Lets start with the plaintiffs more earthly backwards from there. President trumps executive action when he came to an emp
In this clip he recounts the aneurysms that mr. Biden suffered in 1988 following his failed run for that years president ial nomination. And how it impacted his life and political career. You have to member joe biden was forced out of the race in september of 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were kind of minor and almost laughable when you look back at them. But by the time they were digested from the great long snake of the press corps, it was biden have been drummed out. And he really did not come out speaking again until 1988 the first part of the year. I was february, the first time hed been out talking on a college campus. It went to the university of rochester as a matter fact. Host were there . Guest no i was not i was in New Hampshire with all the good members of the pack. And joe gave a speech at the university of rochester. And then he asked questions for several hours. When he got back to his motel room all the sudden bang he got hit by a brick hit h
Program,ve callin washington journal. Heidi shierholz, former chief economist at the u. S. Department of labor earned the Obama Administration from 2013 to 2017. Now with the Economic Policy institute. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thanks for having me. Host wanted to talk about the impact of the pandemic on workers. What do you see . Its pretty grim. Its really bad right now. So as of mid april, the official Unemployment Rate had jumped to 14. 7 . But because of some misclassification and undercounting of people who had lost their jobs as a result of the virus, i think that a more accurate description of where we were in mid april is more like a 23. 5 Unemployment Rate. And weve had another five weeks of deterioration since then so its pretty grim. Really sachs which has a good Economics Research shop, they are forecasting that the Unemployment Rate average 30 in may and june. So its going to get worse before it gets better. Its pretty grim for workers out there right now. Ho