the park fire last year. 400,000 acres from chico all the way up to mount lassen. the dixie fire. one million acres. this is all northern california. now, southern california is getting international coverage and rightfully so. so what are we going to do? what is newsom going to do? well, he wants to blame it on climate change. so we see time and time again, we're hearing about climate change. we're hearing about carbon dioxide. well, here's the same chart i show often on this floor. carbon dioxide represents 0.04% of the atmosphere. it's barely changed. look at the rest of the chart, what isn't co-2. they want to just make it a climate change story. so, what are we doing to make things more fire-resilient in southern california? this is a reservoir just up the hill from the pacific pal sides -- palisades. the portion on the right here is what it looks like more or less when it's full. here's what it looks like presently. it's empty. it's been empty since last february. they've been fooling around for nearly a year, supposedly repairing the cover over the thing. it holds 117 milli

of lassen hospital. and he served in a wide range of civic organizations, including rotary international, boy scouts of america, the chamber of commerce, and the veterans of foreign wars. i first met rocky campaigning for congress in 2008 and was very fortunate to have him join our office the next year as district director and then chief of staff. i, my staff, my constituents, and especially our country are all extremely fortunate to have had the benefit of his good judgment, calming influence, team building leadership, and, above all, an innate ability to soothe the ruffled feathers, an art that's in high demand in my office. he's maintained good relations with our local officials, district leaders and a diverse range of constituents. john boehner once told me that a good chief of staff allows a congressman to be a congressman. and rocky's been successful in that throughout this last decade and a half. the progress we've made on forest management in this district that spans the western slope of the sier

steve lassen.- with some golden flecks. - oh, i never noticed that. - mm-hmm. they're nice. - yeah, no record of that name here. - yes! we got him. - are you sure? maybe you can check again. - uh, just checked again. still nothing. - ok, um, well, thanks for your help, and, uh, blessed be the fruits of your day. [phone beeps] as if i don't have enough to do today already. fire a chaplain, hire a chaplain. paperwork, paperwork. - feels pretty good, though, right? should we take this across the board? i could start looking into some of the doctors. - no! no, no, not needed. oh, because i have already checked, and they're fine. - win for matt. - so with dr. taylor out, i'll be handling the gutierrez appendectomy. i could really use your help. - sure. what's up? - so it looks like uranus is completing its cycle, which, i don't have to tell you, it could be alarming. what do you think? - you've eaten today, right? - hey. hi. hey. i need you here, alex. come on. this isn't [bleep] pluto we're dealing wit

california, near my home, 400,000 acres, from that area east all the way up to basically right near lassen park, 407,000 acres. we can't get used to these six-digit numbers for fires. and the amount of resources it takes, the amount of firefighters and people that put themselves in a dangerous way to do this, it's just unnecessary. so let's defeat these environmental lawsuits, let's defeat these naysayers because this makes sense here. this doesn't. we keep losing this. and so many see that the issue -- we'll take southern california, since that's the topic right now. and for good reason. we have to manage these grasslands and these brushlands that are around. they're not forested, per se. that's a little farther east of l.a. but it's the same thing. if this brush is managed, then they have a much better chance when the santa ana winds come up every year, of being able to control or stop the fire. it won't be perfect every time. but it gives you a fighting chance. and they had been doing it. but for some reason this year they suspended that work. budget cuts, what are they spending the mon

let's go over to meteorologist angie lassen for a look at those winds today. >> angie, what are you seeing? >> hi there willie. we're seeing just what steve said, basically a fluctuation. so we've got these four main fires that we're watching. >> we are still dealing with that red flag warning, as steve said, 10 million people right now, though under that risk, it stretches from san luis obispo all the way down to the border. >> winds have, as expected, ramped up over the past 24 hours. so 45 to 65 mile per hour gusts is what we're expecting for the peak of today. but notice the areas that we're looking at, that particularly dangerous situation, wording that extra level of danger, because we do have those extremely critical fire conditions in these places. >> so parts of the san gabriel mountains, simi valley, san fernando valley, those are some of the spots stretching up into ventura, where we're still see that high risk for these kind of large explosives fires to grow at a rapid pace. >> the current wind speeds right now ten, 15, 20mph, for the most part, we've got a couple of spots, esp