john sudworth, bbc news, kenosha. angeles, which is itself still counting the cost of deadly fires earlier this month. the hughes fires has quickly taken hold of a large area near lake castaic, strecthing to an area of more than 9,000 acres. more than 30,000 people have been moved from their homes. 0ur correspondent in los angeles, peters bowes has been giving us the latest. this is a very familiar situation. extremely dry brush, tinder dry hillsides, there's been no rain here for months and strong winds. that perfect storm scenario that meant that this fire that started to the north of castaic lake spread extremely rapidly, like so many of the other fires that we've seen in the los angeles area over the last couple of weeks. thousands of people had to be evacuated from their homes, mostly in communities to the south of castaic lake. many others had to be put on to evacuation warnings, meaning that they had to be prepared to leave their homes at a moment's notice if they were told to do that. now, the firefighters say

the county of kenosha helped send donald trump to the white house.e, was a narrow one. a divided town in a divided nation. in frank's diner, some won't even talk about politics. we're a few days into a trump administration. what do you think, casey? about what? trump so far. 0h, let's not go there. let's not go there. i don't really have much of an opinion on that one. we're going to leave it at that one. residents here know the cost of division. in 2020, the police shooting of a black man triggered three nights of violent protest. and i guess this was instrumental in getting... scott carpenter's furniture store was burned down. five years on, he thinks it's no accident that the black lives matter movement seems like ancient history, as president trump orders the closure of federal diversity programmes. i'm not corporate america, so destroying our store did absolutely nothing for your cause. so this picture here is when at the time 1542 00:19:

their freshwater systems in places like flint, detroit, toledo, cleveland, youngstown, milwaukee, kenosha, chicago and so many more, freshwater is life. the old expression, go west or south, young man, still appeals. but our planet is teaching us there are limits to what the earth can sustain. living in the past is not an option. onward america together. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon today.therd organization as executive director. >> in between, i went to harvard university for two years. >> i want to ask you about concerned veterans for america. the 990's from that organization, i ask that that be made part of the record. >> without objection. both of those are part of the record. >> at the end of 2013, a shortfall of 100 $30,000. at the end of 2014, a shortfall of 128,000 dollars. another deficit of 437 thousand dollars. by the time you left that organization, there were deep debts including credit card transaction debts of about $75,000.

their freshwater systems in places like flint, detroit, toledo, cleveland, youngstown, milwaukee, kenosha, chicago and so many more, freshwater is life. the old expression, go west or south, young man, still appeals. but our planet is teaching us there are limits to what the earth can sustain. living in the past is not an option. onward america together. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon today.