Fire burned multiple towns to the ground in 2018 and you felt like that was the worst that it could get . Dixie has already burned 1,400 square miles of land. Dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. Its only about half contained at the moment. It is the second largest fire in california history. The Caldor Fire just outside of Lake Tahoe has destroyed even more homes. At least 622 homes and counting. It is raging right now toward even more populated areas. Only about 25 of the Caldor Fire is contained. Both of those fires have multiple Evacuation Orders and warnings in place. But the Fire Season is just unrelenting and merciless. Firefighters working in basically inhuman conditions now for weeks on end fighting unprecedented fire after unprecedented fire. Just a huge devotion of resources, human and otherwise, and so far no end in sight. In the northeast we have watched all day as the Death Toll has climbed from the floods that left behind by the trailing ends of Hurricane Ida Last Night
Situation . Reporter as you mentioned, the haitian Prime Minister has confirmed that there are deaths, and were expecting those deaths to be significant and casualties also to be significant. I spoke to people in portauprince earlier this morning and the person i spoke to did not report any damage from this earthquake, that he could see, whereas back in 2010, the damage in portauprince, the capital of haiti, was catastrophic. This Earthquake Hit further to the south. So theres at least hope that the Human Cost will not be as cataclysmic as it was back in 2010. This earthquake comes at a difficult time for haiti. Last month the Prime Minister sorry, the president , the head of state, jovenel moise, was assassinated. Foreign powers have selected the acting head of state, the Prime Minister, a Core Group led by the united states selected that Prime Minister. And Joe Biden has just been informed of the earthquake and he has authorized a humanitarian response to be headed up by usaid. Ed au
I am totally going to launder my blazer because thats going to be a big day. Yeah. Because that might be what we chat about friday night. I dont think so. Katie benner is the soundtrack to the survival of democracy. Were getting most of our information from her. Im curious about one thing she said to you about the Ig Report of necessity is methodical and thorough and could take a year. And as you get more information about the fact that this was a plan, this Insurrection Attempt this Coup Attempt was a real plan, how do we even translate that . How do we sit around and wait for a year for a inspector generals report about the fact that Donald Trump was calling up people and saying, flip this election for me . Right, exactly. I mean, theres a i appreciate the sort of balance that shes talking about, that when you are talking about people having committed crimes in a political context in this case trying to overthrow the government, keep somebody in power, we dont criminalize politics. Y
InsurrectiOn Attempt, was a real plan, how do we even translate that, how do we sit around and wait a year for Inspector Generals report about the fight that Donald Trump was calling up people and saying flip this election for me . Exactly. I appreciate the balance that shes talking about that when youre talking about people having committed crimes in the political context, in this case overthrowing the government, and keeping somebody in power, we dont criminalized politics. You can commit a crime in a political context, but it has to be approached so much that if you get voted out of office you end up in jail, that has to only happen if you are definitely a crook committing crimes while you are a politician. And so there is a balance that has to be found, but Merrick Garland has a Justice Department where all of these former high ranking officials may have participated in very serious crimes, and the Justice Department has to Self Police its own officials in a way to fix that faster
To get your shots, a bunch of them. The pentagon has long required allu. S. Military personnel to get shots to protect against things, like measles and mumps and smallpox and diphtheria. I mean, depending on where in the world you might be serving for the u. S. Military, u. S. Troops are required to receive upto17 different vaccinations before they are allowed to deploy, before theyre allowed to serve. Well, as of today, the Covid Vaccine will be one more addition to the existing, long list of mandatory vaccines for people in the u. S. Military. This is a big deal. Its a big deal for the military. Its a big deal for the country. Its a big deal for the fight against covid19. President biden had, previously, asked Defense Secretary Lloyd austin to study whether activeduty u. S. Troops should be required to take the vaccine. Today, Secretary Austin announced that, after studying the matter, he will ask President Biden, as commander in chief, to, in fact, require those vaccinations. This a