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his hair in the green room. >> what? >> president biden finally getting off his butt to do something about it. but didnt sound too energized. i spoke yesterday with prime minister trudeau, and ive decided to dictate national interagency fire center response toes canadas request for additional firefighters and thes fire suppression assets such as airtankers trying to put the fire to sleep. meanwhile climate change parrots are chirping away and high profile democrats using wildfires to p...

top of a brand-new hour on "cnn newsroom." im victor blackwell. >> im alisyn camerota. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack is questioning donald trumps former cabinet members. sources tell cnn the committee has a particular interest in conversations that trump officials may have had about re removing him from office in the aftermath of the capitol siege. a source says the committee is speaking with former chief of staff nick mulvaney this afternoon. >> its possible...

Them. you can talk about spaghetti and a supermarket and theyll figure out some way to divide it into the left or -- >> other guy -- screw spaghetti. [laughter] >> the thing is these environmentalists, i mean, its not just the environmentist. right? the climate change is latest pretty issue that were going dump billions into weve already dumped billions into. but if theyre so concerned abouts environment what theyre saying is, you know, that theyre not involved in the controlled burns. where you...

Northern California's fire season might be over, but the hard work is just beginning. Fire crews plan on spending the next few months to try and eliminate the fuels responsible for making recent wildfires so fierce.

Of a job telling us to put out forest fires. the land scape in california needs the fire, but we have to care take the landscape in such a way that theres not fuel there that it gets out of control. so some of that is control burns, so i got to set some trees and -- not trees, but i got to set some land on fire surrounded by the cal fire people and other experts. >> please, not the trees. always good to see you. looking forward to the new episode. and tune in to "united shades" airing this sunda...

It was a terrifying experience. stephanie elam is live in newbury park, california, this morning. where do things stand right now? any improvement? >> reporter: well, we can tell you that as of this morning, fire officials say the fire is 30% contained and still just at 28,000 acres burned. that number did not increase overnight. thats good news. obviously residents are very concerned about the progress of the firefighters because we are across the street from a trailhead. they are doing control...

Welcome back to the cnn news room. we are on day 73 now of this gulf oil disaster. to give you an update on where things stand. let me tell you how one coast guard admiral puts it. he says quote here, weve been held hostage by the oil. now weather is holding us hostage. what weather are we talking about? the storm weve been keeping aen eye on. its tropical storm alex. back to tropical storm alex. still causing some fits for folks, about 500 or 600 miles away from where the oil is happening. this...

Barges back out today. there will be barriers set up in the bay to redirect some of the oil that is coming in and they can do control burns and skimming operation thr-s. we can sadly report that according to the experts we have now surpassed the world oil spill in gulf history. the spill in the gulf of mexico in 1979 that left 140 gallons of crude in the gulf, well they say that today we are surpassing that number and there is no end in sight,. jamiejaime. >> reporter: thanks so much, rick for t...

The sea surface. 275 control burns have gotten rid of another 238,000 barrels, as well. and then 460,000 barrels have been siphoned at the leak site, knew that cap and whats called the q4000. but bps plan siphoning operation, the cost, bp says it has spent $300 million in the past three days alone, bringing the clean-up recovery for them to about $2.6 billion so far. thats where were at. at 70 days in to this spill. bp is not the only business, though, paying a high price for all of this. and, o...