The good morning. We call this hearing to order. So far 2017 as all the guests of the panel know in 2017, fires have burned oregon 8 million acres in the United States. We need to find solutions to address this threat to their communities and wildlife. Today the committee is going to hear testimony on three bills related to catastrophic wildfires burning across the west. Senate 605 relief for Forest Management projects which would address conflict in Circuit Court decisions and prevent close the ways in the Forest Management as a result of duplicate of consultation requirements. The committee will hear testimony on the bill as 1417 the Habitat Conservation restoration act of 2017 in the opinion in juniper trees that are Invasive Species that we dod to wildfires had compromised habitat across the west. We also have the senators 1731 t1731the Forest Management improvement act of 2017 which provides the Forest Service with a series of tools to address the evergrowing wildfire threats fill
Central bankers including thatcher janet yellen. European markets and the positive endocrine. Lauren in asia, disappointing is that of china kept the lid on stocks. Shanghai composite down half of 1 . The nikkei in japan unchanged. Geri shares of Buffalo Wild Wings 30 after a Company Bought up the chicken wing chain for 2 billion. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren 5 01 a. M. In new york. Tuesday, 14th of november. Thank you for joining us. Im lauren simonetti. Geri and gerri willis in for cheryl casone. Good to be along for the ride. Lauren President Trump on his way back to the white house after his five nation asia tour. Traders of the major topics during his visits to japan, south korea, japan and the philippines. Weve had a tremendously successful trip. Tremendous amounts of work done on trade, not only on the dl and we have at least 300 million, but that will be triple that number in a fairly short period of time. More importantly, weve explained that the United States is open for t
Hit florida, in this morning tracking this monster storm. A lot of people talking about this. No question, women sitting for in front of what we havent seen in a long time, since 2007. In the caribbean, welldefined. National hurricane center, 150 mile an hour winds, incredibly lowpressure. Outer rain bands beginning brush against southerns manual as it moves to the north in east. Hurricane warnings flying. This will be a devastating storm for haiti no question, not only because of the wind, monday night 125 miles per hour, but they cant deal with the amount of rainfall that will come as a result of matthew. Also jamaica impacted along southeastern bahamas, and making the closest pass to florida. For the time we get into thursday and friday but notice the cone is quite large, forecast errors are significant , we still have to finetune that insurance the cone for you. But it still looks good for florida as it will be east of us, the reliable models, none have pushed this into florida so