around 142,000 plus acres burned but at this point last year, it was about 38,000 plus acres that were burned. this is all very concerning as you see that we have several fires burning in the state right now. i was also just checking in on this number because i wanted to make sure i had it right and cal fire telling me last week alone there were 392 wildfires that burned in california. so that shows you how much they are working to battle back these blazes and all of this comes back to the fact that we re dealing with record heat. we re seeing super high temperatures really early in the year this year. they were starting in the springtime and that led to some melt off of the snow pact and as you know, the snow pact is where we derive our water. the other issue is because the ground was so parched, a lot of that water went back into the earth and then didn t make it down and then with these high temperatures, we re seeing evaporation being a huge problem for the reservoirs not state. th
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February 2, 2021 GMT
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recovering from a hell scape of a fire event. crews are at work tonight on ten separate fires. right now the worst of which over the past 11 days ate up 80,000 plus acres, destroyed the homes of 174 california families. more than that, the power company out there has preemptively cut the power to hundreds of thousands of californians prior to any big wind event this season. it s a terrible hardship randomly impacting everybody involved, families and their kids, the sick, schools and businesses and traffic lights and the food in everybody s freezer. noting that hardship would be one nice thing. marshalling our people to work on a fix is apparently way too much to ask. our president from just yesterday, and we quote, the governor of california gavin newsom has done a terrible job of forest management. i told him from the first day we met that he must clean his
your occasional digestive upsets, 24/7. so, where you go, the pro goes. go with align, the pros in digestive health. last thing before we go tonight, it wasn t all that long ago for any of us who were raised in this country and came up under presidents of both parties who spoke of one nation. they were stewards and boosters and protectors of everyone in all 50 states. it was neither strange nor exceptional. it was expected. it was normal. so, it s still shocking when our president attacks a state. at any time and for anything. say nothing of a state that is home to 40 million of our fellow citizens. you see, california is still recovering from a hell scape of a fire event. crews are at work tonight on ten separate fires. right now the worst of which over the past 11 days ate up 80,000 plus acres, destroyed the homes of 174 california families. more than that, the power company out there has preemptively cut the power to hundreds of thousands of californians prior to any big
hey, anna. well, this area is under mandatory evacuation orders. in fact, there is a wide, wide swath of suburban los angeles that is currently out of their homes because of the fire. you can see some of the damage that came through. we re in malibu, california. about a mile from the ocean at point doom. . the power lines are partially melted down. there s really not much left at all. you can imagine just how quickly and how hot this fire was when it came through late yesterday and into the early hours this morning. they re now 75,000 plus acres that have been burned through by this fire, and, of course, it s