Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
Devastation of this fire because apocalyptic is not out of the question. If hollywood wanted to create a movie set for after a nuclear bomb, this is probably what it would look like. Let me go ahead and ask for chopper 5 video. If we can show you whats happening, chopper 5 above the flames, they are still burning out of control across parts of sonoma and napa county. The latest for you now, 73,000 acres have burned in multiple fires. At least 1,500 structures are destroyed. We dont know how many of those are homes, but earlier we were talking even if 1,000 of those are homes, weve lost 1,000 homes in a four county area, 20,000 people evacuated. 10 people were told have died. We have some video from just after midnight last night. The flames were the most fierce then. Its just a firestorm. Kpix5 reporter Wilson Walker arrived in that fire zone, captured just some absolutely amazing video right in the heart of it, fire swarming across the Sonoma County hillsides and the roads, taking ove
Evacuate. Rescue crews have been trying to reach anybody trapped by the flames and this is what theyve been up against. In napa county the chp has rescued at least 44 people by air. Crews have also been going door to door, trying to make sure everybody got out okay. A curfew is in effect right now for parts of santa rosa, thats in effect until sunrise this morning. It appears to the area it applies to the areas highlighted in red there on your screen. Those are under mandatory evacuation orders. This is just one example of why the Santa Rosa Hilton hotel burned to the ground, just one of several businesses destroyed. Guests of the hotel had to evacuate. Most left their belongings behind, then consumed by the flames. And a number of people are still trying to locate their loved ones. Sonoma county has received more than 100 missing persons reports, although authorities arent sure how many of those are multiple calls about the same person. But if youre trying to locate a loved one or rep
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