Richard we think the additional fiscal support will likely be needed. I think, it is very clear that the cares act, which passed in march was a historic government response to a historic crisis. A thrill that a 3 billion dollar package provided significant support to the economy. The economy has made a lot of progress, about 11 million jobs have returned, but there is a deep hole. Steve, theng us is portfolio manager. I wonder if you can piece those two things those two things together. It seems like there is still a rotation. Fed official after fed official are calling for more fiscal stimulus that we will not get. Steve i think we are going to get it, but not before the election, because i think it is a political football, and now you have the Supreme Court battle that will show us that will suck all of the air out of the room. After the election, or in the new congress if one side or the other scores a victory. You will get additional fiscal support. I think it makes sense, the econ
Check, more than 66 those acres burned, equivalent to 100 swear miles. Firefighters have just 5 contained right now and today they are hoping to make progress. As the wind calms down the smoky air is settling. Here is a live look outside. Mitch of the bad air youre seeing and smells is coming from a large fire burning on griz by island. Looking at the east bay from San Francisco, this shows the skies getting more and more hazy as the hours go by. The air, so bad there, the Unified School District is letting students go home early. Here you can see the dark skies over the city. Meteorologist mary saying you can see and smell the smoke. Dealing with the smoke from two wildfires, one from the kincade and grizzly fire. You can see on our camera lacking north, the smoky skies this afternoon. That will continue as we go through the day. Checking current air quality conditions, up in windsor, closer to the kincade fire, hazardous dangerous air quality with a value of 619. Very unhealthy air i
Have been forced their homes. We have a map to show the entire evacuation area. There is essentially a concentrated spot in northern Sonoma County. The evacuation orders extend all the way out to the pacific ocean. The evacuation zone is massive. Sonoma county and cal fire officials are trying to figure out when people may be able to return to their neighborhood. At this point, all evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect. Allie rasmus joins us live on the windsor town line where the entire town remains under evacuation. Reporter evacuation orders are in effect and so are the road closures at the intersection shiloh road and old redwood highway. The National Guard on the parked behind me. Along shiloh road in this part of Sonoma County, the Windsor Santa rosa line is where the fire was very active overnight. Just about 100 structures have burned in the kincade fire since it started wednesday. Around 7 a. M. You could see smoke coming from the ridge near chalk line road. A short
Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
To protect american network, this is nearly one hour and 10 minutes. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex quinn and im president of elected officials to protect america. Eopa is a nonpartisan network of elected officials who are deeply committed to protecting our planet from the dangers of the climate crisis. Ensuring land and water production and democracy and helping to ensure environmental justice. We are here today to highlight the historic investment of the Inflation Reduction Act. It is a historic investment in our security, prosperity and health. I first saw the importance of this when i was deployed out with the marine corps in iraq. It was one of those blistering hot days, when you touch the rifle, marines can sometimes be overzealous and we tried to do competitions. Who can touch it longest in the heat . Unfortunately, someone tried to blow our vehicle up. Fortunately, he was not very good at his job. As the dost the settling, we managed to catch him and realized he was a