on sunday when you had president biden, he went to the southern border for the first time during his during his entire tour of el paso, he did not see any migrants at all. and if you look at the numbers, we have had in 2022 the better part of 2.5 plus million encounters at the southern border. our cameras have been down there every single day and every single day we have seen dozens, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands of migrants cross the rio grande on a daily basis. the president didn t see any of those migrants. did not meet with any of those migrants. you can see the leaders are now kind of up on a balcony about to make their way down. what this whole conference is primarily about is the crisis at the southern border. they are talking about some trades, some kind of, you know, semiconductor business with chips and so forth as they walk down to the microphones. but this has primarily been about the crisis of the southern border how these three countries appear and wil
state with a seemingly endless drought. we pray for rain. the challenge, of course, is storing it. although right now, it seems that it isn t a lack of money but urgency and political will, most of this will be lost. not something that happened overnight but cumulative effect of these water cutbacks continue year after year. from drought to record setting rain. we have the most variable climate in the country. because of that, california needs to store more water. challenge is where to put it. the time to get these dam projects is ridiculous. california hasn t built a new dam in 40 years. with environmental opposition stopping new major reservoirs like this one. we only have so many good notches in the mountains. and most of those good notches collegially have dams on them. for decade s california s network of pumps and canals kept
Former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman will be the next general manager of the Arizona entity that distributes much of the state's water from the Colorado River to major metropolitan areas.
an historic drought. this year alone there have been more than 2,000 wildfires. that s a lot more than usual. and the snow pack that provides much of southern california with its water is at a 500-year low requiring drastic water cutbacks. simi valley is no exception. more on this. reporter: wildfires tearing through miles of parched wilderness grassland and creeping dangerously close to neighborhoods. you can see the flames just about maybe 20 feet away from that fence. a small brush fire in simi valley spread quickly, hundreds of homes in its path. we re on the northern end of the rustic fire that burned up here about a month ago. how many acres burned? 190 acres. reporter: how far are we from the reagan library. two miles. reporter: could we see a fire like this up by the reagan library? absolutely. as a young chief officer, and we had a fire called the simi fire