noaa will form a task force to make recommendations. noaa will conduct a nepa review. we have great many people doing incredible work. i want to thank the tribes. mr. lamborn: i yield an additional minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. schrader: i want to thank everyone's support, the tribes, our conservation community, curt at odfw, shawn, ed, our friends on the other side of the river. all these folks have been tremendous partners. can't thank them enough. i can't thank my colleague from across the river, jamie herrera beutler. it's been a great partnership. i urge my colleagues to support our region to protect and support our salmon. i ask for your help and to support this legislation today. and i yield back. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio. the chair: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr. defazio: for many, this is an e

guest: wii's satellites for everything from monitoring the weather -- and noaa will tell you one of their biggest honor abilities is cyberattack. there have been documented instances in the past where what we believe our state actors have hacked into the command and control system for some of our noaa satellites, and could have destroyed those by taking control of them. we use satellites for things like missile mornings. to detect a missile launch coming at the united states so we can respond in time, we rely on space to do that. use satellites for communications of all kinds -- commercial, civil government, and the military as well. communication signals can be jammed from space. we don't have a lot of protections against that right now. our satellite communications that our military uses is not protected. those are all things we need to improve. there are many other missions we use for space as well. imagery, signals intelligence, and gps -- one of the reasons we don't have as many collateral damage victims in conflict today is that we have precision guided weapons. if we do not have gp

noah follows those standards -- noaa follows those standards. and eventually got to the point where they are required for commercial operations as well and promulgated throughout the community. nasa has promulgated this. i will be clear that not all of the countries follow the same standards which is often a challenge. i do believe it's important for us to lead and those hundreds could eventually get to the point where there is enough international pressure around the world and countries will follow the standards. >> thank you very much. i now recognize ranking member mr. cooper. to i too would like to thank the witnesses and welcome them. i think this is very helpful in helping us understand the debris problem. i am worried that the chart underestimates the difficulty. as you point out in your testimony, and secretary ross does as well, we have 600,000 pieces of tiny debris to monitor because each one of those pieces could be deadly. as all the witnesses said, this problem is only increasing and it's probably increasing exponentially. right now

also, noaa released its 2017 state of high tide flooding and 2018 outlook. during 2017, the average high tide flooding in the u.s. was the highest ever recorded. and in 2018, noaa predicts that high tide flooding will be 60% more frequent across u.s. coastlines than it was 18 years ago in 2000. primarily because of the local sea level rise. now, doesn't this suggest something? in the lower latitudes, our seas are rising. it should not surprise us. it doesn't surprise this senator. and we got a glimpse of this when four years ago, i took our commerce committee to miami beach and in fact had a hearing. one of the witnesses was a nasa scientist, dr. pierce sellers, a very prestigious scientist and former astronaut who, unfortunately, we lost to cancer just recently. and this is what he said at the hearing. he said by the end of the century, the intensity of hurricanes will increase, but even if hurricane frequency and intensity were not to change, rising sea levels and coastal development will likely increase the impact of hurricanes and other coastal storms on

and noaa for imaging, that kind of regulation. f.a.a. responsible for launch and reentry and of course, nasa is responsible for giving advice on, you know, protecting the space environment when it comes to orbittal debris and even, you know, preventing harmful contamination of planets and things like that. there are a whole host of agencies involved in space at different levels. the question is how do you create a one-stop shop and it's increasingly difficult all the time. and this is the key that, ranking member johnson that we have to recognize. how do we create the maximum regulatory certainty with the minimal regulatory burden and if we can consolidate these activities in one federal agency or another, that minimizes the regulatory burden for the commercial operators especially. ... . >> on the american space commerce free enterprise act and supported it in the subcommittee and the full committee. which i was on the other side of the aisle here. the skey is i think it needs to be done. the think commerce is ready to do it. >> thank y

my legislation will re-authorize he acts through 2022 and allow ola -- noaa to conduct studies around the u.s. including around the arctic. alaska is what makes the united states an arctic nation my state has more coastline than any state in the country and don't know what's under the surface. we're seeing a significant increase in vessel traffic, resource development in arctic waters. hydrographic surveys are a critical part of the maritime safety and environmental efforts nationwide, they're especially important in the arctic. mr. speaker, there's 550,000 square nautical miles in the u.s. arctic exclusive economic zone, otherwise a 200 mile limit. it would take decades to survey even half of that space. noaa designated 35,000 miles as survey priority areas and estimates a range up to 25 years to survey those areas if resources remain at their current level. alaska waters are under survey. they were last surveyed in 1899. the river is the most effective route to deliver food and goods to coastal and inland villages in western alaska and the last on-the-ground surveys were completed t

according to the national oceanic, spheric administration, noaa, coral reefs support upwards of 12% of global fisheries and an estimated 25% of all known fish species. in addition, coral reefs are the world's greatest source of biodiversity, covering less than 1% of the ocean floor but marine species. of all known u.s. territorial waters in the pacific support the majority of our nation's shallow water corals. guam, my home, sits adjacent to the western pacific ocean's coral triangle, one of the most biologically diverse and important marine ecosystems on the planet. yet the planet's coral reefs are in crisis. 2017 marked arong unprecedented global coral bleaching event. guam and the western pacific long home to some of the most well preserved reefs in the world were impacted severely. ocean acidfication, warming sea temperatures, co pollution, invasion species, and other stressers linked to human activity and global climate change threaten to wipe out these incredibly productive ecosystems. these threats have necessitated special protections and listing under the endangered species ac

come over areas like santa rosa, napa and noaa auto. we will be in the 50s as we get through the next couple of hours but once the sun is up, temperatures will take off. 53 in san francisco. 57 in livermore. so we will be in the 60s by 8 am or so and then as you go to the lunch hour, 84. low 90s in the forecast for the second part of the day. 95 fairfield. 95 antioch. in the water -- coastal area cooler. 87 san jose. here's a look at the extended forecast. we begin to see a drop in temperatures tomorrow although the inland cities will not get the seabreeze until thursday. then we all begin to cool off. in the weekend upper 80s and 60s at the coach. >>> pam doesn't like it when it's too but then the fog rolls in and we can head into the beach areas. >>> the company behind one type of delivery robot is taking notice of how some people react to the robots. starship technology says about 80 percent of people ignore the robots that roll on the sidewalk but it is starting to see some people kick at the robot as it passes by. they say that if

past where what we believe are -- have been hacked and to the command control system for some of our noaa satellite. they could have destroyed them i taking control. we use satellites for missile warning. we rely on space to do that. we use satellites for communications of all kinds. commercial, civil government and the military as well. communication signals can be jammed from space. we don't have a lot of protection against that right now. about 95% of our satellite communications that the military used is not protected against jamming. those are things we need to improve. there are many other missions were used for space as well. imagery, signal intelligence and gps. one of the reasons we don't have as many collateral damage victims and conflict today is that we have precision guided weapons. if we don't have gps or all of the great imagery from space that we get from our satellites, we can't find and can't hit target precisely and there would be more collateral damage. it would alter and weaken the way that we are able to fight and defend the country if we didn't have space. >> todd h

but persuade them and house at npr now, and -- i do want to say one thing i heard this from trevor noaa and people on the left it is funny so in the -- subtitle i've got the rebirth of tribalism and identity politics is destroying democracy all of the liberals agree with populism and nationalism and pretty much with me on tribalism and get furious at the identity of politics an i've done conservative talk radio and they're all with me on the antipolitics but they don't like the other side, and -- you never get rids are of ethnic politics i have no problemwet nick politics right from ben franklin talking to germans in pennsylvania to those in tammy hall not necessarily a good thing but it can go too paren all of the rest. but it's -- it's very different than this -- than the identity politics thing which is essentially trying to create an abstraction of, you know, that -- that i can tell all i need to know about you by some abstract adherence to something and one of the things that make it is possible an so great is is that we can have many different identity one of the thing about triba

noaa just released its first high definition picture from its newest satellite.hat satellite will eventually be placed right over the pacific. it's going to help us here in california identify wildfires earlier and where they are spreading and how cal fire will use that information and the jien nor mouse budget that hopefully we don't have to use like we've had to to get a head of the fires. >>> here is a look at our beach forecast. we'll show you tomorrow's. tomorrow total sunshine after a partly sunny start. low to mid 60s and even 70s around monterey to near santa cruz. we'll have your accuweather forecast coming up next. >>> thank you very much, mike. take a look at this. the wind-driven fires that broke out wednesday in byron and mountain house are fully contained. cal fire says seven fires burned 484 acres. they broke out in the altamont area. one home was destroyed. flames wiped out an out building, some cars, a trailer and a boat. >>> in today's "gma first look." samantha bee is apologizing for using a vulgar slur to against ivanka trump. >> late night ho

. >> reporter: noaa has already released its list of names for the season but you won't hear harvey,pact last year. heather, frank? >> thank you. >>> we want to head to our chief meteorologist bill martin to check the forecast. we were talking about the winds especially in antioch as firefighters were tackling this two-alarm fire. we have more live pictures now and it looks like firefighters now have a handle on that. >> yeah. when you get a fire up these areas, you always worry about the refineries. when you have windy days like this you see how quickly the plume of smoke is being dispersed. it's an open space event more structure related so we are not seeing it running through the grass like last week with the fires by altamont. so good news there. it's cooler out there, too. temperatures down, humidities are up. fires are easier to fight when its cooler and moisture. 60s and 70s in the area today. that's a ridge and trough, warmer and cooler, so that pattern, that mean pattern like a s sine curve, it's cloudier and cooler in this trough. it's simple and it's not simple. winds in f

look what noaa is calling for. 10 to 16 names storms.ent yelly than what we experienced in 2017. they're calling for 1 to 4 of those storms becoming major. colorado state slightly below that. we've already had subtropical storm alberto that made landfall early last week. but one thing that is interesting to note is how the damage increases exponentially with the increase in wind speed. and what is also a common myth is that the most death and destruction comes from the wind speed but that's not true. it comes from the inland flooding that can occur. we talk about hurricane harvey as that made its deluge up to 60 inches of rainfall in parts of texas, including the metro houston area and that was where over 2 million vehicles were impounded and it was just incredible to see all those scenes unfolding. excellent reporting by leyla. >> as always. >> and this story will continue in the 2018 hurricane season. >> let's just hope hurricanes bypass puerto rico this year. my goodness. >> derek, thank you. >>> let's go to hawaii next. the kilauea v

noaa has been one of the key federal science agencies working on climate change. but a recent presentation revealed the agency has now dropped the word "climate" from its mission entirely. in more climate change news federal judge has thrown out a , a lawsuit in which the cities of oakland and san francisco were suing fossil fuel companies for the costs of dealing with climate change. the cities had sued to force companies, including bp, chevron, conocophillips, exxon mobil and royal dutch shell - to pay for the cost of projects like protecting coastlines from flooding due to sea-level rise. but the judge ruled -- "the problem deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case." presidenent trump's attack maxie waters on twitter calling her an extraordinarily low iq person and ending his tweet with a threat "be careful what you wish for, max." congressk comes after woman waters encouraged people to continue protesting members of the trump administration in public. a number of top trump officials have

a very good report, but we also oversee, you know, the multibillion dollars satellite program that noaa has and this little thing called the census. those things are important too. i will tell you that sometimes it is frustrating as an inspector general and i promise you it's extremely frustrating for the auditors and evaluators who do that work that that work doesn't get as much attention from the stake holders. senator levin mentioned the 88 billion dollars in savings that came from igs for the last five years. it's really important work and i think sometimes it is really overshadowed by some of the other stuff. i would be curious to hear from our panelists what, if anything, we think can be done to kind of change the paradigm on that a little bit and make ourself more noticed. and again, to echo something that michael horowitz said which is absolutely right -- [inaudible] -- then the agency won't pay near as much attention to that work as well because they have limited resources. they have a lot of things they are supposed to be doing, and they care a little bit more deeply about you

guest: wii's satellites for everything from monitoring the weather -- and noaa will tell you one of theirest honor abilities is cyberattack. there have been documented instances in the past where what we believe our state actors have hacked into the command and control system for some of our noaa satellites, and could have destroyed those by taking control of them. we use satellites for things like missile mornings. to detect a missile launch coming at the united states so we can respond in time, we rely on space to do that. use satellites for communications of all kinds -- commercial, civil government, and the military as well. communication signals can be jammed from space. we don't have a lot of protections against that right now. our satellite communications that our military uses is not protected. those are all things we need to improve. there are many other missions we use for space as well. imagery, signals intelligence, and gps -- one of the reasons we don't have as many collateral damage victims in conflict today is that we have precision guided weapons. if we do not have gps --

fourth,io we manage data collection and distribution through noaa. fifth, we enforce the export administration regulations as they were -- apply to spaceat objects through the bureau of industry and security. number six tost promote the industry abroad through the international trade station. and finally, once the payload is separated it is usually a different owner it is usually a different entity from the one who has the payload. there is noth continuity once the payload is in outer space. often that comes under our orbit in any event. i hope that explain why we think we are quite logical. >> yesterday. so now what agencies currently carries out the research on ssa in the orbital debris into what extent are those coordinated? >> nasa course says a lot of the research and technology that that standard that is both be followed by the other agencies. nasa is very involved. we partner with universities and commercial industry to come up with best practices and the technologies and research. when it comes to the s&p piece has to take the. >> we have a l

it simply makes sense to have the navy at the table when noaa is working on citing of and makes sense to have the croum when oil rigs are being decommissioned and it's a no-brainer that n omp aa and ports work together to have these massive ships that can move in and out of our ports safely. the need for an overaftering policy only grows. sea-level rise are too big and too serious for any one community or agency to tackle alone. increased ack what culture development are creating economic opportunities, but they must be thoughtfully implemented. the national ocean policy is the tool we have. right now, to promote smart shared use of our ocean resources. all of our districts benefit from our oceans, whether we represent coastal districts or not. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> i rise in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gosar: on july 19, 2010, president obama signed executive order

fourth with the data collection and distribution through noaa and with those export regulations as they apply to the space objects to the bureau of industry and security. six. we promote u.s. space industry abroad through the international trade administration. and finally once the payload is separated from the rocket it is usually a different owner the launch system from the one who has the payload so there is no continuity between launch and what goes on once the payload is in outer space. often that comes under our orbit hope that explains what we think is logical. >> so now what currently carries out the research and to what extent are those activities coordinated? >> nasa does a lot of research and technology we have set the standard that ultimately is followed by other agencies so we partner with universities and commercial industry to come up with the best practices and the technology and research when it comes to that s&p piece nasa takes the lead. >> we have a lot to cover that but i would agree with the administrator that we are the lead we take most of what we do and we chara

climate change in science, i have talked a scientist across the country that study climate change from noaa, the federal government, from overseas, from texas to florida, to california. the majority, almost all of them, just in line with the scientific consensus, tell me what i am telling you, which is that climate change is a serious problem that makes rainstorms more intense on the east coast coast and increases the risk for damaging economically weather events across the country. host: one more call from liz in alvin, texas. caller: i experienced flooding from hurricane harvey. it was devastating. those of us with insurance, some were able to get settled. my neighborhood has 1000 homes. a lot of the homes were hit and a lot of them have not gotten started with repairs. we just moved back into our house last week. money thatry little is being seen for any of these people. if you did not have insurance, you are screwed. because there is no hope -- help. red cross did not give any money and fema did not give money. you could apply for a small business administration loan but most people can

noaa says there's a 75% chance the atlantic hurricane season will be near or above normal. and that's why we must act now to prevent damage from huge floods like harvey. congress worked in a bipartisan manner to pass the bipartisan budget act to provide critical army corps funds to rebuild our communities and prepare for the next storm. it even -- even though that money has been allocated, the work has not begun. and while that is partly due to red tape at the corps, once work begins, we have to move that process quickly. my amendment is simple. it says the army corps needs to expedite previously authorized projects in declared disaster areas of texas, florida, georgia, louisiana, south carolina, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands. these projects will provide critical help for communities that are still recovering and mitigate future flooding damage. mr. chair, i yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from texas, mr. green. mr. green: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i stand in -- the chair: the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. green: thank you, mr. chairm

fossil fuel industry front groups continue to deny and disparage the work of scientists at noaa, nasa, and other federal scientific agencies. the polluters have an obedient mouthpie in "the wall street jourl" editorial page, which just last month ran climate denier fred singer denying that rising sea levels observed around the globe are the result of global warming. and, of cows, saying it's not -- of course, saying it's not the result of carbon pollution or fossil fuels. the journal page, of course, neglected to mention this denier's connection to the heritage foundation, heartland institute, and cato institute and other climate denier front groups bankrolled by the oil industry and the koch political apparatus. we even heard a republican congressman claim that erosion and rocks falling into the sea are what's driving sea-level rise. anything but fossil fuel. he said, every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you have less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. it's laughable