those might be good questions to ask of gavin newsom, jay inslee, the governor of oregon -- does anyone even care? the answer of course is no,

those might be good questions to ask of gavin newsom, jay inslee, the governor of oregon -- does anyoneven care? the answer of course is no, nobody cares. they don't care about the lives of people they govern, they don't care about facts or science. it was just last week that the mayor of los angeles admitted on the record that l.a. has become completely third world, which it has unfortunately. of course he didn't blame himself for the degradation of one of the great american cities that he runs, he blames you -- you did it. it's almost 3:00 p.m., he tweeted, time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees, or use a fans instead. unplug any appliances are not using, we need every californian to help conserve energy, please do your part. >> tucker: you got to wonder if you are able to go to his house which you're not, you can't get past the bodyguards you pay for, but if you were, is he following these recommendations? no.me it's not about him, it's about the people he supposed to beg helping, the ones he's now blaming. he wants them to suffer to fix a problem that he

here for example is the governor of washington state, jay inslee.e's a proud graduate of willamette law school. >> these are conditions exacerbated by the changing climate we are suffering and i do not believe that we should surrender these subdivisions or these houses to climate change exacerbated fires. we should fight the cause of these fires. >> tucker: so i mismanage my state, now it's on fire, you're required to give me more power. you see how that works. as a factual matter, this is a crock. there's not a single scientist on earth who knows whether or by how much these fires may have been exacerbated by warmer temperatures caused by climate change. all we have is conjecture from a handful of scientists and many politicians, none of whom have reached a definitive conclusion. daniel swaim a scientist at ucla conceded its hard to determine whether climate change played a role in sparking the fires -- okay. that's what science is. it's gradual, incremental, often it's tentative. we don't say things we don't know for certain, it's the opposite of

we're joined now by washington governor jay inslee and oregon senator jeff merkley.me begin with you. you spent the day traveling your state yesterday, what have you learned and where do things stand right now? >> george, it's apocalyptic. i drove 600 miles up and down the state. i never escaped the smoke. we have thousands of people who have lost their homes. i could never have imagined -- envisioned this. the winds proceeded to turn the fires into blow torches and incinerated small towns, you have community after community with fairgrounds full of people, refugees from the fires. >> governor inslee, how is the situation in washington state this morning? >> the same situation, the skies are a smoke that we have never seen before. except two, three years ago. it's apocalyptic. it's madden, george, and i'll tell you why. i was in a town the other day that was decimated, 80% of the homes were burned down in southeastern washington. talking to a woman who moved there to try to have a peaceful existence in a small town and she just broke down and could not stop crying an

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. >> reporter: jay inslee, the democratic governor of washington, said president trump needs to take climate change more seriously. >> and these people whose homes were destroyed that i've seen ys, ey deserveion n the last few ag >> reporter: in oregon, more than a million acres burned last week alone. double compared to a typical year. and president trump is blaming california's wildfires on bad forest management, though much of the land that's burning is federally owned. and scientists say that drought and high winds are to blame. anne-marie? >> hopefully mother nature will give a little bit of help today. thanks a lot, laura. >>> and now to the other big weather story -- tropical storm sally is expected to slam louisiana and mississippi as a hurricane tonight. strengthen and pack up to 100 mile-per-hour winds with stronger gusts and life-threatening storm surge. right now hurricane warnings are posted for portions of southeastern louisiana and eastward to mississippi. the mississippi/alabama border that is. the storm drenched parts of south florida over the weekend. sally could dr

governor jay inslee calling the event catastrophic. >> people who have lost their homes lost their sensesecurity, lost their family memorabilia. >> reporter: the u.s. forest service caused the closure of all areas. >> yeah. like there's been more upsetting ones, but this is the fieriest one. >> reporter: officials said smoke and haze from the fires could remain in the air through next week. jeff paul reporting. >>> the town of paradise is in the path of the flames. evacuation warnings are in effect for paradise. the town was already under a public power safety shutoff and the community was worried it wouldn't get information including the bear fire. we found some people packing up and preparing to leave. >> there have been people hauling boats, trailers. they're packing up and going just in case. >> i have some stuff in my car, you know, those things i can't live without. >> the town of paradise is still trying to recover from the 201 2018 campfire. >>> san mateo declared a health emergency because of the czu fire. the public health officer said the problem is from hazardous waste that's

washington state, 100 student-athlete gathering at the state capital, they want democratic governor jay insleethe student athletes worries without a senior year of football he could miss out on a college scholarship. new body cam video of a jacksonville police officer getting attacked with a knife by a woman rushing out of her residence. the officer was responding to a dispute at a home in april when the woman opened the door and lunged at her cutting her arm. the woman was ultimately shot and killed when she lunged at officers again. richardson with the latest development in a couple of other officer involved incidents. >> 24 hours after a police officer shot and killed a young black man in washington dc the police department released the officer's body camera video. officers saw a video of a man with a gun, they arrived, chased down a suspect, second later one officer fatally shot 18-year-old dion k in the chest. police have slowed down the video showing k turn towards the officer with a gun in his right hand. >> we are in the infancy stage of an investigation. there's a lot of work yet to b

we are joined by the governor of washington state, jay inslee. thank you for joining us. you describe the wildfires in your state and oregon and california as apocalyptic. can you tell us a little more detail what your state is facing tonight? >> well, at the moment virtually the entire state is covered by a cloud of smoke that's unbelievably irritating, downright unhealthy and dangerous, so people literally can't go outside their homes to care for their health. we've had dozens and dozens and dozens of homes burned down, had entire towns destroyed like maldonma maldon. lost one beautiful child. that is a tragedy. california had more fatalities than we have had. this is such a disaster in any dimension, but a particular disaster because we had our state turned into a tinder box by climate change. we have grass now that's almost like gasoline. a spark will make it explode. we have fires that just create walls of fire, 20, 30 feet high from grass and sage brush. those fires and grass and sage brush consumed whole towns in our state. and that's why frankly it is so in few in

your governor, jay inslee, ran for president on that very platform.sed are you that climate change wasn't on the topics list? >> well, thanks for having us, first of all. number two, it is extremely disappointing. wherever you live in this country, climate change is impacting you. for those of us on the west coast, as you said, the results in the past weeks have been heartbreaking with the loss of property and the loss of life. people just being shut into their homes due to the smoke and from the wildfires. governor insley from my state was right when he was campaigning on this issue. i do hope in the coming days that there's more of a focus on this critical issue here with upcoming debates. >> attorney general healy, coastal massachusetts is at risk from the increasing number of hurricanes, as well, plus rising sea level. if you were moderating tomorrow night's debate, what would you ask both candidates? >> i'd ask them for a plan because not only is there a moral imperative, craig, to deal with the issue of climate change -- we see the devastation a

for months washington governor jay inslee was on the front lines trying to help everyone in his statespoke with him just before air time. governor inslee thanks for joining us. washington state was the first to report a death. how is the state doing and where do you see this going? >> i think what this is, we're turning the tide. this has been a long struggle obviously. we started this has been a long struggle. we started as the first hit and the hardest hit. we have been making 3r0 guess. our numbers are coming down. the good news, i think we have shown that when you make decisions based on science and common sense and a reasonable degree of compassion you can knock down this virus as we have done. we still have a considerable distance to go to be in a place where we can open our activities. we remain extremely dill gant and extremely concerned about the fall. we are both successful, confident that we're doing the right thing. pleased that people are masking up. business insist that the patrons wear masks. >> as a governor, you have access to your own state's health officials. tradit

jay inslee says more than 626,000 acres have burned there this week. >>as we continue to track the deadly wildfires in our state will go to oroville where the deadly north complex >>welcome back a local expert says climate change is potentially responsible for the wildfires we've seen over the past several decades, but also human behavior. kron four's gayle ong has the story. >>so many of these are ignited by people and by mistake a lot of times you know it does seem like. you know one of the mitigating factors has to be you know better education the eldorado fire burning at least 13,000 acres in the san bernardino national forest is one example of a human-caused wildfire ignited after a mishap with a smoke generating device at a gender reveal party during scorching hot temperatures. according to calfire california just getting into peak season already burning close to 2.3 million acres a new record we spoke to patrick brown a meteorology and climate science professor at san jose state university of the modeling that's been done on this has suggested t

amy: in washington state, where firefighters are tackling 15 large fires, governor jay inslee also emphasizedclimate crisis is most responsible for the wildfires. >> these are not just wildfires. they are climate fires. we cannot and we will not surrender our state and expose people to have their homes burned down and their lives lost because of climate fires. amy: meanwhile, in oregon, six of the military helicopters operated by the state's national guard that could have been used to help fight the wildfires are not available because they were sent to afghanistan earlier this year. this is oregon governor kate brown speaking friday. >> well over one million acres of land has burned, which is over 1500 square miles. right now our air quality ranks the worst in the world due to these fires. there is no question that the changing climate is exacerbating what we see on the ground. we had, as we mentioned earlili, unprecedented weather event with winds and temperatures come in addition we added a ground that has had a 30 year drought. so it made for extremely challelenging circumstances and has c

protest in washington state, 100 student athletes gathering in the capital, they want governor jay insleell sport season paired one of the student athletes worries without a senior year of football he could miss out on his collar's college -- college scholarship. new body cam video of a jacksonville police officer getting attacked with a knife by a woman rushing out of her residence. officer elizabeth mechling was responding to a dispute at a home back in april when the woman opened the door and lunged at her cutting her arm. the woman who was ultimately shot and killed when she lunged at officers again. correspondent rich edson with the latest developments and a couple of other officer developments. good evening, rich. >> good evening, mike. less than 24 hours after a police officer shot and killed a young black man in washington, d.c., the police department has released the officer's body cam radio. police say the officers saw the video on social media of a man with a gun. they arrived, chased down the suspect and seconds later one officer fatally shot 18-year-old dion k in the chest. p

democratic party that put climate change as the center point of the primary process it was governor jay inslee of the state of washington that led those 20-plus other candidates in pushing for rather intense climate change proposals and currently in the state of washington, there are 15 wildfires. the joe biden campaign over the summer put forward a $2 trillion plan itself calling for a net zero carbon emissions over the next 30 years. kamala harris just yesterday in an interview said that this campaign's goal is to acknowledge science. something the president of the united states struggled to do just yesterday here. >> from the vice president to the president. the president was in california yesterday. he's back at the white house today. i want to bring in nbc's peter alexander. peter, i want to play part of an exchange with the president during his meeting with california officials yesterday please watch this. >> we want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests. and actually work together with that science that science is going to be key. if

. >> reporter: another governor making multiple disaster tours, washington's jay inslee. >> we are allmic fire. >> reporter: smoke from the dozens of major wildfires mushroomed into thick blankets of clouds so fast they could be seen from space. beneath those clouds, a suffocating haze. san francisco was in anñr ominous, toxic glow. all from fires that keep raging, stretching resources to the limit. >> if fires like this continue to be the norm, do we have enough people in this state to fight them? >> we don't. >> reporter: we met battalion chief seneca smith 80 miles east of los angeles. how many more personnel would you normally have on a fire like this? >> right now we have a little over 400, and i would say in a fire of this size and complexity, we would be looking at 800 to a thousand. >> reporter: by week's end there was at least some relief in sight. winds were starting to die down. rain may soon visit the northwest. and after going through such misery, it is hard to fathom that the worst may be yet to come. from within with dupixent. ur skin dupixent is the first treatment of i

washington's governor, jay inslee -- >> i think we have to start thinking they're more climate fires. creates the conditions that makes them so explosive. >> this is a climate emergency. this is real. and it's happening. this is the perfect storm. >> reporter: california's governor, gavin newsom, toured destruction north of sacramento where more than a quarter million acres burned in a national forest. >> the reality here is the mega fires that we're experiencing come from these mega droughts that we've experienced. >> reporter: people who did make it out have harrowing stories to tell. >> eight of us had to go down to the end of our road, go into the sand and get down in the water to avoid the fire. >> reporter: denies hendrickson left her home in lake orville, california, an area prone to fires. >> i've survived four different fires up there until this one. now i don't know if my home is standing. >> reporter: this man's house is gone again. two years after fire claimed his home in a communities nearby. >> it hurts more time this time i think than last time and getting things back t

here is the governor, jay inslee. >> california, oregon, washington, we're all in the same soup of cataclysmiche reason we're in the same soup is because the grass is so dry, the temperature is so hot and the winds are so heavy. >> trace: let's bring in janice dean live with us. where are the worst fires and how is the weather fueling all of this? >> i think we have fires all up and down the west coast and the storm that was bringing snow to the rockies was also fueling some of those strong winds. so the good news is the winds are starting to die down. the temperatures have come down a little bit. the problem is the dry conditions. we don't have any moisture getting into this area for the foreseeable future. so you have the dry to severe to extreme danger in terms of the drought and then you have the warm temperatures as well along the coast. the winds have subsided but these temperatures will remain with us for really the foreseeable future. no rain in the forecast. let's take a look at the next five days. very dry in all of the areas that we're seeing those wildfires burn. in terms of wildfi

in california, 17000 firefighters trying to fight back against the flames, washington governor jay inslees his state looks apocalyptic and who's to blame, climate change, that's according to west coast politicians, 3.3 million acres burned so far, some meteorologist say today can be the worst day yet with dry and windy weather in the forecast. later this morning they will travel to california where he will be briefed on the fires in the california national guard, he will be the governor gavin newsom, you could see a climate change clash. all that coming up today, let's bring in the futures, lots of green right there up 200 for the dow, up 140 for the nasdaq, market watcher keith is with us. you fessed up last week to having bought big tech on the dip, i'm sure you happy you did that because i think you got a bounce but are you buying anymore today? >> yes and yes, this is the kind of weekend where you really want to see something happen and boy did we get a deal making weekend, this is what $80 billion give or take and i like this because ceos don't traditionally make deals like this unle

. >> would you think that mayor durkin or governor jay inslee are domestic terrorists because of what's happened in seattle as has been suggested perhaps by this administration? >> i'm not familiar with the particular comments that you're referring to, so i really can't comment on that. >> well, i know, i'm just asking, do you think they would fit the category of domestic terrorist based on what's been happening in seattle? >> i'm sorry. do i think who is a domestic terrorist? >> mayor durkin and governor inslee? >> i wouldn't be describing them that way, but i will say, i don't tend to comment on people as -- ascribe labels of terrorists or criminal activity to people except when we're speaking through our charges. that's how i would communicate about that. >> i appreciate that. i wish some other members of the administration felt the same way. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> thank you. chair recognizes the gentle lady from new jersey, ms. watson-coleman. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you to our witnesses for the service that you render. the job that you do.