Playbook. The Campaign Senior digital advisor also discusses the decision to film and share the moment where mr. Biden called senator harris to be his running mate. From earlier today, this is about 40 minutes. Morning and welcome. Im anna palmer, coauthor of the politico playbook. Thank you for tuning in to politicos virtual programming during the reimagined political conventions as we come down to election day. This week has been all about the Democratic National convention and joe bidens campaign for president. You can follow the conversation all week on social media. In a moment, we will be talking to the Senior Advisor for the Biden Campaign, but todays playbook will include a new segment on swing state maps. Todays edition is about wisconsin and why it is one of the states that is likely to shape the electoral outcomes in just 75 days. All right, without further ado, lets get started. Welcome, simone sanders. Thank you. Great to be here. Great to see you all. You are coming off a
Bulldozed dirt. That stood between the flames and homes. Is a big concern yesterday and last night that we might have a thunderstorm event that could create a dry lightning and increase winds along the ground. The weather conditions never materialized and lines of defense held. It did not mean that neighbors who had stayed behind slept easily. Or at all. What we did was we slept in shifts to watch and Pay Attention to what was going on. Well, what is it going to take to get that fire out finally . Any idea . First of all they will need some help from mother nature. One of the ironies is on the map it is the biggest of all of the fires plaguing the bay area, but in terms of actual Property Damage it might be the least destructive burning in some open woodlands away from homes generally speaking. What firefighters are ultimately going to need to do is look at the map, figure out where they can set up some defenses in terms of where the fire is headed, and hopefully get it to burn itself
Million acres. Most of it came within the last week kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has details on what officials are doing to prepare for another threat of more fires in the coming days. 14,000 california firefighters are on the front lines working to put out more than 600 fires burning across the state included in that number the second and 3rd largest wildfires in state history. Each caused by lightning strikes in Northern California last week we are deploying every resource at our disposal governor Gavin Newsome said monday emergency leaders are bracing for even more fires to flare up after 300 lightning strikes hit the state between sunday and monday sparking 10 new fires with now a major disaster declaration from the president california has requested 375 fire engines and crews from out of state about 100 of them have come in from nearby states with air support coming in from the National Guards of kansas idaho, utah this week. Is going to be a profoundly importa
Mountains and also in southern San Mateo County thousands of people have had to evacuate these communities where the fire is burning and also where the fire continues to threaten theres been extensive damage in areas near Boulder Creek and also in bonny doon homes. Theyre just incinerated by the fire hundreds of other buildings have also been destroyed and many more are still threatened fire crews have been dealing with these intense fires for days now fire Officials Say that it is actively burning in heavy timber and thick undergrowth one of the big concerns has been burning trees which have been breaking apart hitting the ground and then causing the potential for more fires to spread however, firefighters have reported that there have been better firefighting conditions, thanks to improved. The weather. More aerial attacks and an increase in the number of crews that are working the fire. But evacuees that have been staying in nearby santa cruz have been patiently waiting for more upd
In the terms of fresh firefighters, theyre stretched thin, but they are making a lot of progress 17 can tame and thats up from 13 and good news to pass along they hope to make significant inroads in the fire over the next several days because the conditions look really good meaning winds are down humidity is up and that means they can launch their aircraft once again which yesterday they did for the First Time Since the fire started more than a week ago and they were able to drop 200,000 gallons of water down to the flames. They hope to do as much if not more today unfortunately because the fires are still burning in a lot of times theyre in rugged hard to reach areas that the new number to pass along this morning. 330. Thats the number of structures are homes destroyed thats up from around 280 yesterday so the fire has been destructive although not as deadly. No fatalities in the overnight hours, no major injuries as far as evacuations people. 77,000 people have been told to evacuate