you re listening on radio, the only way i can describe it is north pole stuff with horizontal snow. she s got the goggles on. when did this start like this? reporter: it s been off and on. we ve heard, you mentioned the thundersnow. we heard that all throughout the night. i heard it a couple times this morning and then it was so clear, not even ten minutes ago and this just started probably a couple minutes before our live shot. so this is lake effect snow for ya. you can t predict it. wow. marissa, thank you for being with us from a snowy morning in buffalo. and now to washington and the beginning of a new era for house democrats. after 20 years in leadership including eight as the first woman house speaker, nancy pelosi says she s passing the torch. for me, the hours come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect, and i m grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome
and you think about what he has gone through. he had an affair with the housekeeper who had a kid and he was praising the gift like she was bringing the kids along on family functions with this married family and the kids look just like him and he is like whose fault is that? no, the white but the goggles on. no, it shows major man attitude. you know the thing is you want to talk about the car. they don t. they should call it the pry us. they re going to have to pry us out of it. i m just talking about the sanctimony when he became anti- trump and then compared january 6. that s crazy.
you re certainly going to get a big volume of rain coming in to the crescent city. and the other thing that a point we made the last time we were up, is that the time to get out and move around, the time to evacuate, that s over. off couple peopl you have a couple people, like the reporters who will come out on the street but most of us have a good retreat plan in place. you do see some people who want to get out on the street, walk around, and see what the hurricane is like, that has happened. keep in mind, this is going to get more intense. as i look at the barometer another news crew out driving around as i look at the barometer, not quite to hurricane barometric pressure. so that means we re not quite into hurricane-force winds. anticipate as this hurricane ida moves rapidly, this is going to get worse in the coming hours. so we ll see how the damage develops, but certainly, increasing intensity with the wind and the volume of rain out there. eric? eric: you know, mike, you
they earn between two and $5 a day. if they re putting out active flames they get a $1 a day bonus. the aclu and other justice folks say it s akin to slave labor but they volunteer. homes are burning down. the reagan library is imperilled and he s worried about the aclu depicting volunteer criminals working as firefighters. slave labor. laura: what would you rather be doing? would you rather be inside some filthy prison or outside in the smokey air? they volunteer. there are 3,000 who did so. laura: learning a skill they can use whether they get out. as kamala harris it saves the state money. laura: i love the fact he had goggles on. the later clip, the goggles the smoke is bad but then he seemed to have no problem taking them off with the wind blown
here. wow. reporter: you can imagine how quickly these pockets pick up. crews have to get in on foot and those aircraft have to come in and make precise drop in. in a wind storm like this one it is difficult to get a handle on something like this even if it is a smaller fire. take a look up here, you can see one of the drops right now, these helicopters are coming. i would say maybe one or two or three minutes or less than that at the height of this fire storm. if you don t have goggles on, you will get debris in your eyes. if you don t have anything covering your mouth, you will have debris in your mouth. that s amazing. the drop that we are used to seeing have got to be seriously complica complicated. the calculation has changed because it has to hit what you