This hearing of the subcommittee conservation and forestry titled the 2020 while very dear response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Welcome and thank you for joining todays hearing with mr. John phipps did deputy chief for state and private forestry. After a brief opening remarks the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority alternating between majority and minority members. When you are recognized to be asked to unmute your microphone and you will have five minutes to ask your question or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and on line for this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california oregon and washington. It is a real and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about what we can do to meet the needs and face the challenges presented
Neighborhood, is it orange and smoky . Send us your photos. Because of the high fire danger pg e has shut off power to thousands of customers in napa and sonoma counties. Wilson walker is live in calistoga for us right now. Reporter anyone who lives anywhere between calistoga and santa rosa has been through these power shutoffs. Half dozen times, maybe more. So the same communities keep getting wrapped up in this. So power goes out today, although people like it or not, they know the drill. Hanging in there, it could be worse, we could be evacuated. At least we still have a house and our health. When the lights went out at about 3 00 this morning yvette and her family were ready. Weve been doing this since 2017, we are getting pretty good at it. Im ready this year. The easternmost neighborhoods of santa rosa have been through this so many times now that the city has a routine for major intersections and residents have a routine for keeping their refrigerators cold. My son and i bought
Lets turn now to our meteorologist Rebecca Strom whos in form of risa guest tonight. To get more on the conditions ahead about this heat wave that were currently experiencing hair rebecca. Hey good evening guys, yes, were definitely seeing this heat wave were going to ride it out through the entire Holiday Weekend. And then were going to see that dry wind event thats what were tracking here and a fire weather watch as a matter of fact because of the heat and the winds that were going to be seeing from monday evening into wednesday morning and then tuesday night is when were expecting it to peak the most and were going to when speeds of anywhere from 35 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour upwards of 50 at some bar higher libations this is all issued for the north bay mountains and our east bay hills and again this is going to go through the middle of the week and the low humidity as well that were going to be seeing over the next couple of days and High Pressure continuing to build thats oversee
And im naush nuanoushah ras. Its a serious situation across the bay area and the state tonight. Dramatic rescues under way near fresno as new fires burn out of control. In the bay area, a scorching sunday on tap, yes, hotter than today. Live look at the bay bridge. Parts of the bay area could see record temperatures. Lets begin our Team Coverage with vianey arana. Vianey. Hey there, terry and anoushah. You know, we saw some pretty hot temperatures today, but youre right. Tomorrow is expected to be the hottest day of this heat wave. So far right now, were not getting much cooling. Even right now nearly at midnight, look at the current temperatures. San jose still at 80 degrees. Livermore, 82. So not much relief overnight. Down to the 70s in San Francisco, but let me show you the 24hour temperature change compared to yesterday. So yesterday around this hour, we were about 14 degrees cooler in san jose. But look at oakland, palo alto. Were running 10plus degrees hotterment what are we exp
When you have the sun and you have the smoke moving through, different wavelengths of light are able to pass through. Red and orange is able to pass through that smoke while shorter wavelengths in the blue color are not. So it leaves us with this red to orange color. Now, check this out. Even though we have all that smoke i showed you, air quality is reading moderate to unhealthy, but the way it looks, youd think it would be reading very unhealthy. Ill explain why it looks very unhealthy but were not breathing in very unhealthy air. Pretty complicated but ill see you back here in about 18 minutes. That does sound complicated. Thank you, jeff. So how are we coping with 22 days of bad air . Live from San Francisco to continue our coverage. Pete, how bad is the air there . Reporter yeah, well, jessica, surprisingly the air quality isnt as bad here in San Francisco as weve seen recently, but as you guys mentioned, were in this long stretch of that 22 days straight of the spare the air aler