Wildfire year response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Thank you for joining with the deputy chief for forestry at usda. After brief opening remarks, the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority, alternating between the majority and minority members. When you are recognized, youll be asked to unmute your microphone, and youll have five minutes to ask your question and or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible, the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and online. For this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california, oregon and washington. It is surreal, and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about what we can do to meet the needs and face the challenges presented by this unprecedented wildfire season out west and elsewhere. Deputy chief phipps, thank you for joining us today an
Destroyed. You can take a look over here and see whats left of a pickup truck. What appears to be an archway and the rest of the home reduced to a pile of rubble. Spot fires that broke out in santa rosa sparked by the larger glass fire led to mandatory Evacuation Orders. Thats when i saw a orange ball of flames. Right down the street. They destroyed homes in the eastern part of the city. Some reduced to rubble. Others were unscathed. Despite the destruction, santa rosas assistant fire marshal tells me improvements made to the Emergency Alert system since the devastating fires of 2017 saved homes and potentially lives. That allowed us to move into where the fire was impacting the city. And able to protect structures without being tampered by people trying to leave. For this man, this is the third time in three years he has been forced to evacuate because of a fire. It doesnt get any easier. You think youve got everything and you dont. You never know if youre going to come back to your h
We will hear from the u. S. Forest service at this u. S. House agricultural subcommittee meeting. This hearing of the subcommittee conservation and forestry titled the 2020 while very dear response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Welcome and thank you for joining todays hearing with mr. John phipps did deputy chief for state and private forestry. After a brief opening remarks the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority alternating between majority and minority members. When you are recognized to be asked to unmute your microphone and you will have five minutes to ask your question or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and on line for this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california oregon and washington. It is a real and it is terrifyi
18 structures have been damaged. More than 10,000 structures are still threatened. Currently we have multiple priority on this incident, not only over in the napa valley area. Trying to keep it out of the Populated Areas as well as trying to protect the city of santa rosa the best we can. This no reports of deaths or major injuries from the glass fire. We have Team Coverage of the fire for you. Ktvu meteorologist Rosemary Orozco is monitoring the weather conditions. Lets start with allie rasmus reporting live. Reporter although the fire did grow about 6,000 aches are overnight, it is still zero percent contained. The weather conditions have made the situation slightly less dire. Before sunrise, an ominous glow lit up the skies in the hills above downtown kal stowing a the fire line snaked down the hillside. This is part of the reason the entire city of 5,000 people in kal calistoga was ordered to evacuate. By this more than, there was no damage to the downtown buildings. It was a simil
Avoiding crowds. We learned last week that despite knowing in january how serious covid19 was, President Trump has been working to down play this is acrisis and on fri night, we learned that trump political operatives in hhs Communications Office have been manipulating cdcs flag ship for months to align with that messaging. Dr. Redfield, did anyone at cdc advise the president to down play this crisis . No. Did you agree with the president s decision to down play it . Im not going to comment on that, but no one advised the president to down play this crisis. Well, understanding the dangers, why have you not done more to push back on President Trumps political interference and his efforts to down play this . I want to make it really clear, senator, and i appreciate your question and the opportunity that, the respect for the science at cdc. At no time has the scientific integrity of the mmwor been compromise and i can say that under my watch, it will not be compromised. Well, i understand