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Any kind of questions the media have. >> being how close you are to the police chief and seeing the man about identifying crash zones about landing and takeoff, is this something that you practice for? >> yes, sir, we do. its a drill and a training exercise we do on a very regular basis through our office of management is one of our highest priorities. other areas it could be tornadoes and even ice storms and for us its downed military aircraft. >> have you been able to see why the pilot had to ...

Infrastructure package. you have not signed on as yet to the 3.5 trillion human infrastructure package. storms like these and the damage weve seen, going up to the northeast, seem to confirm your view that we need to do this. >> absolutely. to be clear, ive already voted against the 3.5 trillion. but we have to move beyond politics. we cant care about who gets credit. we have to take care of the american people. when george w. bush made a commitment to build levees, 16 years later, we benefit. w...

Pandemic. we had historic wildfires last fall that we are still rebuilding and recovering from. we had terrible ice storms in february, over half a million people lost power. and then most recently, as you know, we had the heat drome event. >> yeah. >> recently lost 100 oregonians. climate change is here, its real, and its like a hammer in the head. we have to take action. >> do you think enough is being done at the federal level to mitigate these type of crises? im not talking necessarily about...

And they are a sign of the changing climate impacts. in the last year, oregon has had four federal emergency declarations in addition to the pandemic. we had historic wildfires last fall that we are still rebuilding and recovering from. we had terrible ice storms in february, over half a million people lost power. and then most recently, as you know, we had the heat drome event. >> yeah. >> we unfortunately lost over 100 oregonians. climate change is here, its real, and its like a hammer in the ...

Carbon fuels. secondly, we have got to mitigate these fires. with legislation i just signed this week, we are going to invest in more modern firefighting equipment, more people on the ground, and frankly the efforts to create more resilient landscapes. and thirdly, obviously, we have to be better prepared for these climate emergencies. just to give you a perspective, since april of 2020, we have had four federal emergency declarations in oregon. in addition to the pandemic, we had the horrific w...

The ground is obviously the climate change is impacting everybody. our farmers are hurting. our tribes are unable to access native fish species because of the die-outs, and the fish are incredibly important both spiritually and economically for the tribes, and agriculture is an important sector for oregons economy, and devastated by the heat dome that we saw a couple of weeks ago, and obviously the ice storms were extremely challenging for many communities throughout oregon. first of all, we are...

You asking for in the long term? >> well, obviously, the west is the canary in the coal mine in terms of the climate, and the signals are not subtle ones. in the past, here in oregon, we have had historic wildfire, unprecedented ice storms, and devastating heat storms and drought and of course, flooding. so clearly the climate changes are happening and our people are dying and the forests are burning and the rivers and lakes are burning up. we must take action and politics cannot get in the way....

Read more about Delhi records minimum temperature of 22.2 degree C, light rains likely on Business Standard. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 22.2 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal, on Wednesday morning while light rain is likely during the day, the India Meteorological Department said

Stormy winds and heavy rains caused by Cyclone Tauktae claimed two lives and uprooted more than 1,000 trees in Goa, disrupting normal life and road traffic and causing power outage in most parts of the coastal state on Sunday. "Two people lost their lives because of the cyclone. A woman of around 30-35 years died after a coconut tree fell on her at Mapusa town (in North Goa). Another accident occurred at Marcel where two youth were going on a scooter and an electric pole fell on them and one ...

Gary Borders / Gary Borders Airs Friday, May 7, 2021, at 7:45 p.m. This week commentator Gary Borders brings us "The Tale Of Big Red," his 1965 Ford F100, which survived the Ice Storms of February, but may not survive Garys lack of mechanical skill. Tags: