How she died. The outpouring for the daughter of superstar Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, Whitney Houston. She died three years ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. But we do want to begin with the wildfires as we come on the air in the west. 20 large fires burning now, including two new ones. High winds make it difficult to fight the flames. Matt gutman is in nevada city. Good morning matt. Reporter thats right. Theres dozens of wildfires in california right now. Perhaps one of them are like the dangerous behind me. With sunrise its gotten hotter and starting to creep up this hill. You can see it burning up this hill right now. Firefighters out here in force. Dozens of crews trying to stop this from cresting the hill because, on the other side, are homes. Overnight, wildfires raging across california. Fires burning very, very qu
The outpouring for the daughter of soup star Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, whitne she died three yores ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. Were going the begin with the flooding in parts of the east coast this morning. Alerts across the east coast. Nearly a foot of rain falling in the tampa area over the past three days. Ginger a lot more on the way. You want to see what over a foot looks like . It looks like this. You had from 6 to 12 inches of rain. We still are under flood watch from ft. Myers up to tampa as we go through the next couple of days. How much more rain could we get . Two to four inches if youre there at the coast. All the way to orlando, you could get up inches. Flooding concerns along of the east coast. We have to turn to the headline of Severe Weather. Three reported tornadoes. Today from kansas enhanced up in
Overnight. The outpouring for the daughter of soup star Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, Whitney Houston. She died three yores ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. Were going the begin with the flooding in parts of the east coast this morning. Alerts across the east coast. Nearly a foot of rain falling in the tampa area over the past three days. Ginger a lot more on the way. You want to see what over a foot looks like . It looks like this. You had from 6 to 12 inches of rain. We still are under flood watch from ft. Myers up to tampa as we go through the next couple of days. How much more rain could we get . Two to four inches if youre there at the coast. All the way to orlando, you could get up to two inches. Flooding concerns along parts of the east coast. We have to turn to the headline of Severe Weather. Three reported tornadoes
Providers who actually started off as Telephone Companies in areas where the Large Companies chose not to provide service eesti and 100 years ago because it is rural, it is remote, hard to make a business case, so they built up Telephone Networks and have evolved Service Lines that are broadband providers. Half of our people do wireless. They are truly a onestop shop for Communication Service in Rural America, covering 3 of the land mass. They are close to literally live and work and raise their families in the communities where they provide Communication Service, and we represent them. We do everything from advocacy to education and training for them, to finding ways with synergy to bring Business Opportunities that is hard to do for small carriers. Host who are some of your Member Companies . Who do they represent . Shirley bloomfield i have carriers in various states. I have coops that are as large as 100 subscribers down to Community Health companies with 200 people in the middle o
Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to Shirley Bloomfield who runs an Organization Called the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Ms. Bloomfield be, what is that group . Guest so thank you for asking, peter. It is a national organization. We represent about 850 communitybased communication providers who actually started off as Telephone Company in areas where the Large Companies chose not to provide service 50, 100 years ago because it is rural, it is remote, hard to make a Business Case for a large corporation. So these folks actually built up these Telephone Networks and have evolved service wise and are now, essentially, broadband providers. Weve got about twothirds of our membership that also do video, about half to a wireless play of some sort. So they are truly the onestop shop for Communication Service in Rural America. Cover about 40 of the land mass. They are folks who literally live a