Several outbuildings have been destroyed. But they dont know the specific number. Triple digit temperature, humidity in the teens, dry fuel, steep terrain. Once daylight come air tankers will return and drop retardent. Theres Evacuation Center for people and animal. Heres a picture of the photo. Wow. You can see how close the flames came to an apartment complex. It is the rocky fire. Flames were spotted off rocky road. I want to go to another perspective. Theres so much smoke, its picked up on radar. The National Weather Service Posted this radar image of the same fire. 4 01 is the time, its a good time to check in with steve on the weather conditions. Its hot. Were the last ones to cool off, lake county. Not too bad, shows favoritism to the west, they dont get fog up there. It will take another day to cool off. Maybe cloud cover coming in later today but most likely tomorrow temperature the are very warm, 104 yesterday in clearlake, the temperatures are warm, in the 70s right now, hum
Bank. Stewart is sending in terrifying images from the fire, photographer up there on twitter. Rocky fire blows up wednesday in lower lake and the conditions, i mean are just really warm. Its in the 70s, again, this is its tough to get information right at the site but what im seeing is 74 degrees, 29 percent humidity. Closer to home, our own paul here, hot gang, no kidding, 104 in martinez on wednesday. A welcomed breeze, 62 and clear. Thats because theres a big fog bank and its making a good push along with the delta braze which has cranked up. Very windy conditions, a sea breeze west, northwest or a westerly breeze. These are the strongest weve seen in while, 50s and 60s for most, a lot of tropical clouds on the way as well. The combination of these two are going to give us a little change. So far everythings in southern california. Its on its way later tonight. More likely on friday. Theres a big fog bank. Fog will hug the coast here, 90s through the interior. Coming down a good 10
Plaster mining is still being conducted. Unfortunately unelected bureaucrats have targeted these small mom and pop, usually retired people, family miners from getting regulations. So, mr. Chairman, this is a sound piece of legislation which should be accepted by this committee and this body to make sure those people that would like to participate in mining on lands that are owed. The b. L. M. Has decided to take these little miners and put them out of business. Mr. Tcharme, i urge the passage of my amendment. It is very simple and protects the smaller people in america and let them wish what they want to do and have an activity after they retire. It is absolutely important. It was adopted before and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition . Ms. Mccollum i rise in opposition to this amendment and i listened very carefully to what the gentleman from alaska had to say
There is more brush now than there has ever been in the past they have had to change where they go. This is real. I just left and there is no snow on the ground in fairbanks. It was 30 degrees when i left. That has a real impact as well. When it ices over they have a harder time getting to their food. I hope to see that this body recognizes that. Thank you mr. Alexander. Thank you. Senator lee. Thank you very much. I want to add my support for the opening up of a coastal plain region. This proposal makes sense on a number of levels, from an Economic Perspective opening up this small small remote area will provide billions of dollars in federal revenues alone over the next few decades which could be used to chip away at our staggering budget deficits that we are guessing. And new development will be for alaska, a state struggling for high unemployment and for its own budget shortfalls. Opening up the coastal plane makes sense. Energy development meets some of the most rigorous in the en
Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be