budget. reporter: consumed over 1 million acres in california. caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on $1.8 billion budget. approaching half the agency as entire budget halfway through the fiscal year. $275 million more than cal fire set aside as emergency fund. we always watch budget closely. be fiscally responsible. but it s clear in the climate we re living in, we have to have the resources to battle the fires. stay focused and be able to respond to changing environment we re experiencing in california. reporter: says it s working closely will the department of finance and legislature to keep funds available for fire lines to be staffed. on track for new record. compared to past three budget years. complicating the process is how the fire season, compared to four years ago, is running longer. fire seasons today on average 75 days longer than they were. we have to change our mindset. one of the reasons we ve invested additional money in staffing yea
season isn t. rolling into 2018 now as fires are still burning right now. i m dan ashley. i m dion lim in for ama daetz. this is unusual year. 2017, cal fire battled more than 7,000 fires. that s correct fire. about 50% more than last year, pretty average year. burned more than twice as many acres. biggest fire in modern state history, thomas fire, still burning. 91% contained and not expected to grow any more. destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in little over three weeks. and we can never forget north bay wildfires. late sunday night in october, merged into six massive fires, killing 43 people in napa, sonoma, lake and mendocino counties. took 23 days to fully contain and fire season isn t over. reporter david louis shows you what the cal fire is doing now and what it s doing to budget. reporter: consumed over 1 million acres in california. caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on $1.8 billion budget. approaching half the agency as entire budge
reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2% objective over the medium-term. cory: the fed is indicating an increase remains unlikely at the april meeting, and not necessarily occurring in the june meeting either. swiss officials have frozen more than $400 million in assets with accounts linked to a massive corruption scandal of the brazilian oil giant, petrobras. steps have been taken to return more than $120 million back to the rightful owners in brazil. a terror attack in a museum, the capital of tunisia. holding hostages and opening fire. these 19 people were killed, at least 70 tourists. two of the gunmen were killed in a shootout with police. it is the worst terror attack in tunisia s history. two former executives at clecs pharmaceuticals left after accounting errors are getting a big payday. the former ceo and cfo get a combined $46 million. salix and recorded sales in the wrong period, counted rebates as business expenses, and failed to account for mi
inflation will move back to its 2% objective over the medium-term. cory: the fed is indicating an increase remains unlikely at the april meeting, and not necessarily occurring in the june meeting either. swiss officials have frozen more than $400 million in assets with accounts linked to a massive corruption scandal of the brazilian oil giant, petrobras. steps have been taken to return more than $120 million back to the rightful owners in brazil. a terror attack in a museum, the capital of tunisia. holding hostages and opening fire. these 19 people were killed, at least 17 tourists. two of the gunmen were killed in a shootout with police. it is the worst terror attack in tunisia s history. two former executives at clecs pharmaceuticals left after accounting errors are getting a big payday. the former ceo and cfo get a combined $46 million. salix and recorded sales in the wrong period, counted rebates as business expenses, and failed to account for millions of dollars in poten
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