Been more than 2200 buildings have been destroyed and others have been been destroyed and others have been damaged at a cost of 6 billion been damaged at a cost of 6 billion. But far more devastating than any material loss is devastating than any material loss is the loss of precious lives, loss is the loss of precious lives, of loss is the loss of precious lives, of mothers, fathers, grandparents, sons and daughters, wives that can never be replaced. Now, we are engaged in the difficult work of searching for survivors, reuniting of searching for survivors, reuniting separated families and identifying the remains of those and identifying the remains of those we and identifying the remains of those we have lost. There are now those we have lost. There are now 470 those we have lost. There are now 470 Search And Rescue workers now 470 Search And Rescue workers and 40 search dogs combing workers and 40 search dogs combing through the hundreds of burned combing through the hundreds of burn
Was located roughly 400 miles thats 615 kilometres south of mexicos southern edge. President joe biden spoke about the preparations under way. I also want to note that my team is closely monitoring hurricane hilary, which has the potential to bring significant rain and flooding to southern california. Fema has repositioned personnel and supplies in the region, and they are ready to respond as needed. Repositioned. I urge everyone, everyone in the path of the store and to take precautions and listen to the guidance of state and local officials. Were tracking multiple wildfires in canada as the country faces what is being called its worst fire season on record. Fires in the kelowna region of british columbia, and 1,200 miles or 2,000 kilometres north in the countrys Northwest Territory capital of yellowknife are some of the more than 1,000 active wildfires across canada. 186,000 residents in both kelowna and west kelowna are under a State Of Emergency Afterfast Burning and unpredictable
this comes as a new omicron subvariant, eris, has become the predominant covid strain in the us. health agencies in the uk, us, denmark and israel have also detected the emergence of a new highly mutated strain of the virus. dr peter hotez is dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. he says the new variants may be more transmissible but not necessarily more dangerous. so i think for the immediate future over the next couple of months, i think you re going to see these xbb variants loom. but there are, as you point out, others that could take off, or may not we still don t know. well, they may be more transmissible, they re not necessarily more dangerous than previous variants, in terms of severity of disease. but when i talk to people about these xbb variants, here s what i tell them generally speaking, among large populations, although the number of hospitalisations may increase, it s unlikely
and i guess there s a couple of new ones that we re actually seeing around the world. there s a one in the us, the eris variant, and then there s also a new one in the uk. have you been tracking these, and how concerned are you now about the appearance of a couple of what look to be new strains of covid? well, you know, most of them are variants of what s been known as xbb, which is a shoot off of 0micron that first took off in the winter of 2022. so eg5, which is also eris and also known as eris, as well as the xbb variants, seem to be the ones that are really starting to ramp up now and accounting for most of the increases in the uk and the us. and on the us side, now we have a new booster, a monovalent, a single booster that s supposed to be ready by the fall, hopefully by next month. and that specifically