Process is a massive selfinflicted wound on our country. Its disgraceful. Denying our people muchneeded investments in their community. And i want to show you this. It was just shown me. I think im going to show it to the media. Both real and fake media, by the way. This is what it takes to get something approved today. Elaine, you see that . This is what it takes. Permitting process flow chart. Thats a flow chart. So that can go out to 20 years. Shows about 10. That can go out to about 20 years to get something approved. This is for a highway. Ive seen a highway recently in a certain state. I wont mane chun its name. Its 17 years. I could have built it for 4 or 5 million without the permitting process. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars and took 17 years to get it approved and many, many, many pages of Environmental Impact studies. This is what we will bring it down to. This is less than two years. This is going to happen quickly. Thats what im signing today. This will be less th
Thinking. A lot of real science doing on. They launched two weather balloons to take photos at about 100,000 feet. Not only aiming cameras at the Solar Eclipse but also looking downward and watching the shadow of the eclipse moving across the earth. Clemson was also one of several places along the path of the eclipse setting up a total of 68 identical telescopes and digital cameras to take photographs during totality of the suns corona. So instead of a clip lasting several months, you have a 90minute video of the corona so they can study it. Researchers are hoping to get better at predicting space weather. Sun activity that is hazardous to satellites and can disrupt communications on earth, neil. Neil the last time we saw Something Like this was really affecting a few northwestern states back in 1979. Jimmy carter was president. A lot of people interpreted what happened that year in what would be a wild ride for the stock market and the economy and jimmy carters presidency. It was unca
Charlottesville and the Police Department in charlottesville and the Mayors Office of charlottesville before saturday mornings riot happened that they were not to make arrests without the explicit approval of the mayor, of the city of charlottesville. Were going to ask that question of the police chief. I know that other people will want to ask of the police chief, whether he intends to resign. Thats one of the rumors ive heard of it from reporters that told me that they would ask that question of the police chief. Theyre under a lot of fire for the way they handled this. There is certainly an easy and benign explanation for the way they handled it. Theyre a small police force and a small city. Weve heard from the police chief, for example, in philadelphia, pennsylvania who said the way major cities handle this kind of thing is with a demonstration of overwhelming force and proactive policing. And once people that are demonstrating see that and understand what the outcome will be, they
Some people waiting over a mile just to get bottled water. Governor abbott says 440,000 people have registered for fema assistance. The Corpus Christi ship channel is back open. The Energy Secretary says approving up to 4. 5 Million Barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum reserve will help ease any fuel crunch. That did help do something we havent seen in a week. Gasoline futures closing down today 2 . That is the first drop weve seen in nine sessions. The retail gas situation does show a speak. We are up 17 cents a gallon in the last week alone. Now we go to rich in texas where the rescues are underway. Chris . Were about 40 miles southwest of texas. What you see now is an active rescue. Theyve been called in from flooding by the colorado river. This is the board coming in. Troy nehls called in the board. Theres about 12 houses that have people that need rescuing and were told that they have 60 dogs because a woman had a shelter here and people would pay to send their dogs here. N