and how it accelerated, sped up, became so big so fast what is the deal with that? we ve seen it with several storms. we tried to explain before the year that there was a certain type of pattern setting up in the atlantic basin that was very favorable for these storms at the height of the season to ramp up and keep the general movement towards the united states. it s a pattern that is different from the last 10, 11 years, having to do with the surface pressure pattern across the united states in the north atlantic, a lot of higher than normal pressure. we saw how cool the month of august was in the united states. when you have an oscillation with the atlantic in the warm stage and an area that gets cool like over the united states, that is literally a resistance to the normal flow that is
there. 224 active fires are burning across the province. it has been under an active state of emergency since friday. u.s. state of california also seeing a growing number of wildfires there. whittier fire has burned more than 3100 hectors, that s about 7600 acres, in santa barbara county. at least 2,000 people there have been evacuated. even bigger fire, the alamo fired burned almost 25,000 acres. that fire only 10% contained. california s governor declared a state of emergency in northern part of the state because of the wall fire. it started friday and leaped to more than half its present size by sunday morning. almost looks like that video sped up, but no. tno, that s the actual fire. we came off such a wet season. it s been raining so much in southern california and looked like maybe we could escape in of the fire. summer is only a beweek, two wes
i know the terminology being used is sped up. but he increased the vertical speed. you can dial in and basically make the airplane go down faster or make it go up faster also. he increased it. maybe he was looking for a specific spot and was trying to increase the rate of descent so he could get to that spot. it s hard to say exactly what you re saying to me i m trying to envision what honestly was going on in that cockpit for those harrowing eight minutes. i ve had visions of him sitting back and waiting for his demise without any regard for 149 people behind him. and now i m getting visions of him toiling away frantically to make it happen as if it s just another day on the job. well, once again, the whole thing is just baffling and crazy. it seems to me from the data that we re being told that he maintained a heading or at least what we call lnap, it was
they have until noon tomorrow. one of romney s advisers say they are not going to be contesting the results. president obama got a lot of congratulations and a lot of calls for winning. the election including one from chris christie. but there was no phone call to his friend mitt romney. the governor only sent him an e-mail. you want to know what a romney presidency looked like with they gave a preview. a victory rally website pop ped up. it calls him the president-elect. featured bios of him and p pr. steven colbert is still keeping up but isn t sure whether he can weather the storm. yes, a nor easter. a storm so powerful it can wipe out a region s supply of t s and h s. and folks, i m afraid that this new storm could hurt romney s