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welcome back to the viewers here in the united states and around the world. good to have you with us. i m george howell. the headlines are the u.s. forest service said a firefighter battling one of many wildfires raging in california has died. rescuers found his body on friday at the site of a blaze in north eastern california. jerry brown declared a state of emergency on friday to mobilize additional resources to fight the wildfires burning in his state. thousands of acres have been scorched. trade minsters for 12 countries are leaving hawaii after failing to negotiate a transpacific partnership. they met for more than a week in a joint statement they will continue working to find a
canada, texas and milan, italy. the buyers and the sellers willing to force an animal into ex-fink for a worthless cure or a trinket. you are watching cnn newsroom. the state of california is sinking and it is sinking fast. ahead, what s causing the damage and what if anything can be done to fix it? in a city and you need a last what to dominute hotel?stranded a priceline tonight only deal! stuck out on the range? nowhere to rest your beard? choose from thousands of hand-picked hotel deals at the very last minute. only on your phone. only from priceline. wake up with back pain? if so, call now!
parts of california are sinking and the signs are everywhere. you need to know where to look. this site is compacting while we are standing here. since the 30s, early 30s, about ten feet. we should stand at least my body height on top of me. that s where we could have been in the 30s. yeah. that s the gradual sinking of an area of land as a drought continues to grip the state, many have turned to underground water to fill in the gaps. now 60% of the state s water is being pumped out of the ground and mainly for agricultural needs. without that cushion of water, the ground is collapsing down to where the water once was. this is happening because of
rainfall totals over the eastern half of the u.s. this is 40 inches plus, near oklahoma and texas remember we had the flooding there. see the colors missing over the western half of the u.s., an extreme drought across the u.s. state of california. come back to my graphics and you can see the monitor indicating that exceptional drought taking place across central and northern half of california. in fact, so far, to date we have 5.6 million acres of wildfires over the western u.s. that s about the same size as new jersey. you can see they are trying to contain these fires, even from above. unfortunately it is not working too well for some of the areas like the rocky fire in lake county as well as the frog fire where 480 acres have been burned. unfortunately there was a casualty with one of the firefighters starting to put out the flames there. you can see the stronger winds impacting this region. there s some dry heat.