Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. This hour, dozens of people stranded on a California Mountain surrounded by flames. A fire official tells me those people are in a safe zone and no immediate danger for now. That conversation coming up in just a few minutes time. Just to give you an update. That same fire known as the creek fire is burning out of control. 0 contained. A local official says its grown into unprecedented disaster and forcing mandatory evacuations in two counties. This is one of 20 currently that arent burning right now. Taking measures to avoid adding to the crisis. Tens of thousands of administrations could spark more fire. Dan simon was at the sight of the creek fire. Dan . Reporter the fire is getting dangerously close to some of these mountain communities. The town of auberry had to evacuate as the flames overtook the hillside. For the most part, this fire is burning the rugged sierra force. We have a lot of campers who need this area. That
D. Hubbard has coauthored an number of books that remain prolific included the health care system, the role of Business Development in africa. And his most recently takes on a broad topic with balance. He has formed a Great Partnership with coauthor tim kane in the latest book. As a chief economist economist at the good hudson is to also a large banner in investor. In addition to a Senior Research tools at the here today foundation, and he served twice as a senior economist at the joint Economic Committee of u. S. Commerce. Their block balance and economics at. Com and he also offers leading talents with u. S. Military that has been reviewed by the New York Times and the national review. More information on both can be found on the information sheet on your chair. So i will ask d. Hubbard and Glenn Hubbard to talk about their partnership in the book then we will move to a question and answer session i have a few questions up my sleeve i welcome you to start thinking of any questions yo
To pay for solar electric systems and solar Water Systems over the life of those systems and thats an impediment and right now the vehicle for that is Third Party Ownership and Investors Group and wallstreet owns the systems on peoples homes and only addresses the solar electric system and not how we reduce the natural gas usage, how we reduce hour water usage and how we decarbonize our transportation and those three issues are actually major issues with respect to Climate Change and how we respond to that, so we have a huge opportunity to respond to Climate Change and by engaging a local work force to do that work and skill people up. We have many Old Buildings in San Francisco. Many Old Buildings that would benefit from the upgrade of those buildings to be more efficient so people can spend their money other than on their utility bills. Right now the barrier to that is being able to pay for that. Paying for that over the lifetime of the system so that you can pay it with the savings
Very much and i am looking forward to participating in it. Thank you. Much appreciated. Supervisor mar any comments or questions . To all the speakers if you have any other comments and again mr. Chin or commissioner arsy if you want to come back up and any other questions or comments otherwise we will wrap it up. Thanks supervisor. Just one thing i wanted to say and you mentioned city build on the work force side we are exciting about city build and the role pat mulligan can play and the department of the environment and we have them here and there is capacity and infrastructure with cal and rich at the department to be really supportive so i wanted to add that component and everything is set and ready to go and were excited about the potential moving forward with the program. Supervisor mar. I did want to ask if rich can elaborate more on how this is legally defensible given the changes at the federal and new changes at the state level and how this is privately financed as well . Sur
Police in riot gear and helmets. Moving at speed. Telling people to push back, pushback as the corridor expands we believe that these are the signs of an active hunt. Nothing from the police of course to confirm that but having them just invite here with helmets, with their shields. At least suggests they believe that there is a possibility that people armed are on the streets still. Right police are telling us to move back. Police are doing what they believe in a variety of locations. Eyewitness reports that a van drove their pedestrians in London Bridge resulting in a number of casualties and that police opened fire. Scotland yard is saying that there is another instance at Borough Market and vauxhall. The control room of British Police say there is an incident possibly involving a knife in a vehicle. We know it never people in and around the area have been asked to leave. Just as soon as they could. One presumes that was the advice of the police. There is video being circulated on s