Dryer Summers News Today

Convention in orlando. >> down here is one here that said 75%. at a normal time if the cost of building material were to increase by 75%, people would be coming unglued. but look what it is. most of them are 200% or more. >> reporter: there are a few reasons why, but the problem begins in the canadian rockies. one in almost every three boards hammered in american homes and where a plague of beetles arrived with the power to kill 100,000 trees a day, so many you could hear them over the phone. >>...

Beachfront property in scranton, but somehow it doesnt grab people, especially the older people get, that this is such a critical issue. how do you as a candidate translate the importance of paying attention and doing something trying to get elected? how do you do it? >> in our state its two things. one, its climate-dependent jobs, its putting food on the table for families. two, its a public safety issue. with longer, dryer summers, weve had an increase in incidents of forest fires over the las...