environmental regulations. this is according to the washington post. he s also assuring subordinates he will pardon them for any wrongdoing in his rush to build the wall. a white house official claims the president is joking about the pardons. the u.s. army corps of engineers has completed about 60 miles of replacement barrier during the first 30 months of the trump presidency. all of it in areas that previously had border infrastructure. president trump also set to allow logging trucks into alaska s pristine national forest. the washington post reports the president has ordered the 17-million acre forest exempted from logging restrictions. the move would open up more than half of the world s largest intact temperate rain forest to potential logging, energy, and mining projects. the tsongas has been off limits since bill clinton exempted it days before leaving office in 2001. that move has survived repeated legal challenges. some good news of sorts for
the temperature of the water which is warm and the speed of the storm at 13 miles per hour, that s a good clip. it s when they slow down if they slow down and gather ahead of steam is when we start to get very worried. and, ali, we do expect it to slow down towards the weekend. so that s good news. we are just going to see it strengthening as it gets closer to florida. michelle grossman for us. all right. we will continue to monitor the situation in the u.s. virgin islands thanks to this earth cam we bring you the news as it breaks. critics of brilzan president jair bolsonaro. that many call the planet s lungs. here in the united states president trump is pushing to allow new logging in a rainforest in alaska. the washington post reports that trump has instructed agriculture secretary sunny purdue to exempt the tongass national forest from logging restrictions that were imposed nearly 20 years ago. now, tongass is in the alaskan
here. so, ryan, in the current situation, as we are looking at the unfortunate statistics that came out in the last 24 hours, up to a thousand missing right now. that therefore means more resources needed to be deployed. we have the president of the united states on the ground hoping to help the situation. what does the locality help to gain from the president s visit? well, i mean, one of the things i thought was the most striking about what trump just said was he talked about he kind of extended an olive branch to jerry brown in terms of we re both on the same page what needs to be done. when you look at what jerry brown has done in terms of forest management, the trump and brown administration are largely on the same page. i know that s probably not what you re hearing through some of the pundits, but this summer jerry brown signed senate bill 901, which relaxes logging
those is media scares i was asked to cover during abc career. and lawn chemicals and all its crisis and all that is required giving more money and more power to government. the so spotted owl story hits home to me because my first tv job was in oregon. i know some of the loggers that lost their job because the owl had to be protected. this year, the ap reports despite all the logging restrictions, despite the 30,000 jobs lost, the number of spotted owls continued to fall. now, they say obama administration plans to shoot barrel owls, rival birds that crowd out the spot owl and what about 30,000 humans that lost their jobs? no, not much. not to the regulators who are always protecting us from crisis. crisis that they inconvenient. they may indeed, in vent.
you cancer, so will ddt, breast plants, nutri sweet and all those is media scares i was asked to cover during abc career. and lawn chemicals and all its crisis and all that is required giving more money and more power to government. the so spotted owl story hits home to me because my first tv job was in oregon. i know some of the loggers that lost their job because the owl had to be protected. this year, the ap reports despite all the logging restrictions, despite the 30,000 jobs lost, the number of spotted owls continued to fall. now, they say obama administration plans to shoot barrel owls, rival birds that crowd out the spot owl and what about 30,000 humans that lost their jobs? no, not much.