Need to attack this fire on the ground and in the air. We have a significant air attack. Right now, flying this fire are air tankers, even some of the very large air tankers, lobbing retardant ahead of the fire trying to slow down the fire. The winds are not as strong as what we saw overnight and yesterday. That is welcome news for sure but experiencing dry conditions and the fire does continue to grow. Its good to hear we have a little bit of relief at least, those high winds still burning at Higher Elevations. Our weather guy in just a couple of minutes. When it comes to the overall scope of things, earlier, we heard from the governor who said there are 27 wildfires right now. Give us an idea of where the glass incident ranks among all of those fires as we speak. With 27 major wildfires across california, the glass fire itself actually has the most amount of evacuations, more than any other fire. In fact, today, in all 27 fires, there are 66,000 people under evacuation orders. 53,000
Fire. The governors visit comes as theres growing concern about the glass fire heading into the next few days. Reporter its hot, dry conditions with these winds, the vast majority of those embers will ignite fires. Its not exception, its almost the rule. Its incumbent upon people to take these mandatory and recommended evacuations very, very seriously. We continue the governors visit comes as thousands of people are still under evacuation orders and as we heard him say, weather conditions are worseningening. Lets bring in al li. We got an update from the batallion chief on the glass fire. To summarize the main points, it hasnt reached the city limits. Its active in the north, in the pal said area and mt. Helena. Theyre getting resources from pope valley and Sonoma County is optimistic that the containment lines will hold and protect the communities of oakmont and santa rosa and theyre hoping if the containment lines will hold the communities. And theres higher than normal temperatures
Cut out for us to deal with, not only suppression, but Prevention Strategies here, with the immediate, as well as strategies to address the long term. The governor visit comes one day after he declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire has grown 8300 acres since yesterday, it has now burned more than 56,000 acres. It is now 5 contained, but a red flag warning does remain in effect, strong wind could complicate the firefight is the concern for firefighters. Tom baker joining us live from the fire zone in napa county, where the impact has been really strong on the small community. The town . Except for the media and First Responders, this is calistoga, a virtual goes down, it has been that way for several days, and of course, recently, and you have First Responders and stuff like that but people arent allowed back in here, and because the fire isnt coming down into these towns a lot of people think the fire isnt so bad, well, we went just a little ways out
Todays talk by Matthew P Fink is something i have been looking forward to because i like matt. I dont know anything about the subject. I will be learning with you today also. Matt comes to us he is retired now. He spent the bulk of his career with the mutual fund association. He wrote what you described to me as a Landmark Book on mutual funds. He followed it up with this book last year. Carter glass and financial regulation. He has a few images to supplement his discourse and then he will take some questions. Come on up. I have a funny thing happening getting here, i live in ceviches maryland, and then i called for lift, and they came within a minute. I had purely barely put on my tie. I i got my lift as he was pulling away, i realized that i had not put a belt on my trousers. So i had a vision of being on here without having a belt and my trousers falling elm on air. So carter glass, i will talk for 2025 minutes and then take questions. So carter glass, was a major figure in American
Me as a Landmark Book on mutual funds by Oxford University press early in the last decade. He followed it up with this book just last year, the unlikely reformer carter glass and financial regulation. The format today, matt is going to talk for however long, we have a few images to supplement his discourse and then you will take some questions, right . So come on up. applause id like to take chuck and the other people for having me here today. I live in cherry chase, maryland and i did not want to drive and look for parking space so i called a lift and they came within a minute. I was barely putting on a tie in learning how to tie a tie again. When i got in the lift as hes pulling away, i realize i did not put a belt on my trousers. I had visions here being on cspan with my trousers falling down. Luckily chuck and one of his colleagues brought me a belt. You are safe from that at least not for my speech. I will talk for 20, 25 minutes and then take some questions. Carter glass was a ma