Whitehouse leave me alone. [laughter] i am telling you, if we ever clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks in senator leahy and i will be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to create some kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know they are doing it at the world bank, but i like the global fund idea where the world comes together under American Leadership to solve a problem. Thank you colleagues, for your leadership. Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the joking that goes back and forth, it is safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do want to help. Were inwhitehouse and i vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meetin
Fine. Im sure their lawns are full of smoke and look at the left side of your screen you can see the smoke and the flames still there they easily could have been killed. Look at the hillside right behind them completely charred and then to the left of them as well thats also charred so those flames easily could have jumped into their field, but it never did. Apparently according to sources that people who live here they water this area very well for the llamas to have their food and because of that you can see the grass is much greener here then on the other side. Yes, its burned, but there are patches of a lot of yellow indicating dry vegetation. So because of that it looks like the llamas are saved and i just noticed over there on the right side of your screen a couple of cows. Theyre doing just fine as well among Pleasant Valley road driving into this location. There are many homes great news to pass along there are many homes that are still intact, theyre not allowing people to go
The ocean. Why are we having this hearing . Sullivan and the white house will leave me alone. [laughter] evertelling you, if we clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks and senator lee and i will be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to thate some kind of fund people can contribute to. I know they are doing it at the world bank, but i like the you comend idea where together to solve the problem. To our two colleagues, to live for your leadership. Senator lee . Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the joking that goes back and forth, it is safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. Vietnam last year and we met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meeting, an
Much more on all those stories coming up in just a bit. But now its time to get a check of the Weather Forecast for the first time this saturday morning was the high today of spark a good morning robin good morning, good morning everybody in a live shot coming in from the golden gate fog checking in again this morning looks like an. Fairly think is what we got going on not much the way of wind circulation here we keep it to the Single Digits to calm dont expect that to improve outside of just local winds to some degree and im pretty re here. We have of the fog going on which will mix out to only give us kind of hazy sky conditions into the afternoon comes back again in greece has to tomorrow with promises of not being quite as intense although we saw this yesterday like this. But it looks like it may not be as intense. According to the forecasts projections here looking forward into tomorrow morning. But we do have a heat wave coming our way though beyond that right now we have lower 6
Damaged. Four people have been slightly injured by the wind. People called the Fire Department after buildings had their roofs blown off. Local Power Companies say over 30,000 households in okinawa had no power as of 7 00 a. M. Tuesday morning. More than 240 flights to and from the prefecture have been canceled. Many bus and Ferry Services are not operating. For more details on the typhoon and what to watch out for we turn to our meteorolologist. Yoko . The typhoon is pushing through the islands of japan at this moment. Heavy rain and destructive winds are reported. We saw gusts of nearly 200 kill meters per hour at the airport and rainfall of 151 millimeters fell in just 12 hours. On top of that additionanal rainfall of 200 millimemeters i expected through the next 24 hours. S. Heavy rain and typhoon strength winds will continue to impact okinawa through the day on tuesday. This is a large storm system packing gusts of 234 kilometers per hour. Most of the okinawa region is under stron