In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including Fire Management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighterrers and First Responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and thats the largest fire in california. Thats the biggest. Yep. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters. We want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, to their lives and extreme danger. Lou and the president is now on his way to phoenix for a Campaign Round table with latino voters there. It will be his seventh state that the president has visited in as many days. And where is joe biden . Well, well find out later in the broadcast. And red storm rising, the
County School Officials say students will be filling classrooms and hallways as early as next week. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us at 9. This is the list these transitional kindergarten through 6th grade schools were cleared to open their classrooms on tuesday september the 8th tonight from 4 say sacking talk to the counties, Public Health officer and the assistant superintendent of schools. Taylor joins us now with more on what they had to say taylor. School Bayside Martin luther king Junior Academy is one of the few Public Schools on that list actually. Majority of the schools on that list that were cleared are smaller private schools. They were cleared based on 30 recommendations or orders for the safe reopening of schools in marin county. Students at 15 schools in marine county will be back in their classrooms as early as tuesday ryan county out is in tier one of the new state framework for which means that in order for schools to reopen the c
Fight the wildfires. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including Fire Management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighterrers and First Responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and thats the largest fire in california. Thats the biggest. Yep. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters. We want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, to their lives and extreme danger. Lou and the president is now on his way to phoenix for a Campaign Round table with latino voters there. It will be his seventh state that the president has visited in as many days. And where is joe biden . Well, well find out later in the broadcast. And
Lows the ceo will be here to tell us how he and his company delivered. Plus the university of arizona claiming it has found a new way to prevent covid outbreaks, testing the sewage coming from dorm rooms president Robert Robbins will join us, as power lunch begins right now. I cannot wait for that story. We wait for the beige book from the fed. Dom chu has more on the markets. So the dow is up almost 300 points at this stage, the highs of the session more importantly were keeping close to dow reclaiming record territory. Anybody who has tuned into power lunch or cnbc in general the last several months knows we continue to make these record highs with the s p 500 gold star there. The nasdaq always creeping higher here. Believe it or not, that 12,000 market was hit early today it open up at 12,050, roughly that level just to put things in perspecti perspective, if you look at the nasdaq over the last year, from the lows we saw up until where we are right here, were talking north of 80 ga
Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th