. >> tom coleman is an entomolgist with the u.s. forest service. >> there's a lot of dead trees right here. >> yeah, this is a nice little active spot for bark beetles. >> bark beetles kill more trees than any other kind of insect or disease in north america. when you look across the landscape and see this patch work of dead trees. the mortality is quite dramatic. >> so this tree here is full of thousands of bark beetles, does that mean all the trees around here are now susceptible? >> right now from what i've seen it's just basically across the entire landscape. >> have you ever seen it this bad? >> not here in california. >> so just 10 minutes away we were looking at the devastation caused by pine beetles and now we can see the damage done by forest fires, there's a lot going on here. so even though the wildfire's actually gone through an area and caused major mortality, we'll still see bark beetles coming in afterwards. >> scientists studying our forests are concerned about the impacts from drought -- not just in california, but

but tom coleman started to cut samples in july. >> reality is that we cut into them and find that there fuzzy piece in there. but no green. you can see this is just a white, kind of cottony looking substance. >> reporter: they're called blanks. a shell without a nut. the central valley produces 99% of all pistachios. but the fall out has shaked many growers. >> we have more blanking going on. some orchards appear normal, but others have blanking as high as 70%. >> reporter: coleman says a warm winter didn't ahow trees to go dormant and early bloom through off the timing of pollination. >> it's made worse by the drought we've been going through. we don't have rain to get the fog to get the chill to get the trees a sleep during the winter. >> reporter: last year, pistachio growers produced 520 million pounds of nuts. this year, because of the blanking problem, the industry could see a 42% drop off. >> we expect the crop for 2015 to be 300 million pounds. >> reporter: many of the trees are still full, but he won't shake them again. >> everything, i believe now is pretty much either blank o

but tom coleman started to cut samples in july. >> reality is that we cut into them and find that there fuzzy piece in there. but no green. you can see this is just a white, kind of cottony looking substance. >> reporter: they're called blanks. a shell without a nut. the central valley produces 99% of all pistachios. but the fall out has shaked many growers. >> we have more blanking going on. some orchards appear normal, but others have blanking as high as 70%. >> reporter: coleman says a warm winter didn't ahow trees to go dormant and early bloom through off the timing of pollination. >> it's made worse by the drought we've been going through. we don't have rain to get the fog to get the chill to get the trees a sleep during the winter. >> reporter: last year, pistachio growers produced 520 million pounds of nuts. this year, because of the blanking problem, the industry could see a 42% drop off. >> we expect the crop for 2015 to be 300 million pounds. >> reporter: many of the trees are still full, but he won't shake them again. >> everything, i believe now is pretty much either blank o

tom miller reports. >> reporter: rising from the ashes, they are resilient, magnified under the bright lights. >> means a lot, definitely. >> reporter: colemanrew's family lost everything. >> every single day it's a mission to get through the day. i'll be traveling back and forth to middletown, i have practice, got to help my parents with the trailers. >> reporter: technically a road game for middletown, you wouldn't know it based on the away team's turnout. >> fun for us to be here for the kids, i know if we can continue on as a community, as a town. >> reporter: lower lake is no stranger to wildfires either and welcomes this neighboring town as family. >> it is the same community. my teachers lost homes, you know, our community lost homes. yes, we're supporting middletown 100%. >> reporter: the team was forced to cancel last week's home game. you can see just how close this fire got to the field, actually singing these containers and destroying some equipment, but it hasn't slowed the desire to keep playing the game. >> getting these kids back on the field is that first step towards normalcy and starting the healing process. >> reporter: w

audience's right, david , robert koons, colonel cady coleman, frank jerry' jr., seemski, denny lnick, captain samantha sitov,andretti fairdous alfarouk, tom mcmann. welcome to you all. [applause] mr. hughes: i also want to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences and are live audience watching around the world on the internet. you can follow the action on twitter. use the hashtag #npclive. 100 years ago, one of the first transcontinental telephone calls themade from national press club. the photo documents the historic moment. it also marks the first time a high-ranking u.s. official was photographed at the national press club, then secretary of state william jennings bryan, who made that historical. year, a speech has been given -- asked the question, what would be the 20 15th equivalent of that 1915 phone call? well, some conversations resulted from that question, and some cooperation from nasa let us here today for another first for the national press club. livee press conference, messaging going up to space. it is a historic day. it raises the question for the national press club president, who are you going to call, and how far