bases tat island of cuba. now the white house is saying that the chinese have been in cuba for years, quote, china conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in cuba in 2019. this is well documented in the intelligence record. this is an issue that this administration inherited. of course, the u.s. has been spying on china for years. remember rc135 in south china sea that got buzzed by the fighter jet, mike, that wasn t exactly sightseeing as used to spy in china. now back to our shores. the gop-led house oversight committee say they have fbi document that the biden family took bribe up to $10 million. the top democrat saying he found no doing. the investigation of the allegations made in that document were not closed down. as i repeatedly said, i set up a process at the beginning in 2020 to vet evidence before it went to the open-pending investigations. lucas: president biden remains under federal investigation under his handling of classified materials
now if we get the hot, dry windy weather again they will flair up and the smoke will go wherever the wind directs, could be back to eastern seaboard or across atlantic to europe, it s hard to say. smoke forecasting is difficult. it s more difficult than weather forecasting because you the weather and the fire to handle and you re seeing the imagery there, it was just, a smoke front, okay, canada is great for shipping hockey players, cold fronts and now smoke front. i m sorry, folks for sending all the smoke down there, but fires are natural and we have to learn to live with them. so it s a multifaceted issue and we are going to need a multiprong approach. there s no quick fix here. we have to learn to live with fire and unfortunately the smoke. mike: we love your hockey players, your beer and you re generally friendly people but we could do without the smoke. i agree. i don t like it either.
The Crooks Fire burning south of Prescott is now 29% contained after burning more than 9,100 acres so far. Current evacuations remain in place. Smoke is expected to impact surrounding areas Friday and through the weekend.