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Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. Well, good morning, everyone. And welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies hearing on accountability and oversight of the federal communications commission. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been serve months since we had you before us and i know that you have all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. But despite that passage of time, many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carriers selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me that even after more than a year had passed, we still couldnt tell whether this practice had stopped. Couldnt say whether the impacted individuals had been notified. Couldnt tell us if members of congress and Law Enforcement had their locations sold or tracked. In june of this
Power to parts of 35 counties 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfires in windy conditions. According cal fire, the majority of the states destructive while wildfires have happened in october. Joining me no are anthony sehgal and jonathan cox welcomef to botyou, jonathan i want to begin with you give us a season is a shapup compared to last year with the camp fire and now we are approaching november, which was whenthe camp fire broke out, in early november. Thats right. In comparison to the last few years we experienced under 200,000 acres ofland burned california. This time last year, we were over 1 million acres of land burned, a relatively mild co season in arison to the last few. Maybe the biggest reason for that is because we have some more stens that we hahad in the last two years thats due to the rain and much we havent had earlier into the year. However we are nointo the timeframe that we tend to get large instructive fires in california. As we have seen over the last few da