Combined. Thats whats on fire on the west coast. Californias governor says the air quality, so bad its, quote, the equivalent to smoking 20 packs of cigarettes. In a matter of hours, President Trump will meet with fire officials in california. Joe biden will be giving a speech of his own about the Climate Crisis gripping our country. In a few moments, ill talk with speaker of the house nancy pelosi about the devastation in her home state and district. First, nbcs Erin Mclaughlin is in barry creek, california, one of the areas just leveled by these wildfires. Vaughn hilliard is in phoenix, arizona. President trump will be holding a Campaign Event there after the visit to california. And mike memoli is in wilmington, delaware, covering the Biden Campaign. Erin, ill start with you in california. What are you seeing on the ground now . Reporter hey, craig. Here in california, scenes of complete devastation. The community of berry creek totally destroyed. The firehouse burned out. A school totally leveled. This home is gone. Thousands of homes like it gone in oregon, as well, including the home of cecil reynolds. Shes a single mother of five, now living in a motel. She told us that she had to leave everything behind. We just had to grab at that moment what was valuable to us, and i knew that i needed the boys and is birth certificates, so we can identify ourselves if need be. Immunization records. That was it. Thats all we had time for. Well, i was feeling sad and scared at the moment, because i knew we were most likely going to lose our home. Reporter it takes years to recover from this kind of destruction. I was speaking to a couple who lost their home in the paradise fire two years ago. Theyre still homeless, staying at a campsite. Theyve had to evacuate that campsite because of this fire. Craig . Erin mac layoclaughlin, your goes out to those people. Thank you. Vaughn, the president getting a briefing, as we understand it, on the situation in california. He is going to be heading to california the next few hours, then the Campaign Event where you are. Whats on the agaenda for him when he heads there . Reporter before he arrives in arizona for the Campaign Event, hell be stopping just north of sacramento to meet with fire officials, including democratic governor newsom, who hes had a contentious relationship with. The governor over the course of the weekend attempted to shift blame onto the democratic governors, consistently calling out this idea of Forest Management. Of course, weve heard this rhetoric from the president dating back to 2018, when he said, quote, that the fires needed to be that the forests needed to be raked out. He said this again in 2019 and again is pushing this idea now. Of course, the governor there saying that Climate Change needs to be addressed. This is the same president that threatened back in november of 2018 to withhold federal funds to states if they did not take more action on this idea of Forest Management front. You know, this is a difficult position though for the president because as he was in nevada over the weekend holding campaign rallies, there is a haze of smoke over those events. The president , over the course of two Campaign Rally speeches, in which he talked for more than 150 minutes, he spoke about those wildfires only twice. Its not just california. There are currently active wildfires taking place across 12 states, including nevada. On saturday night, he was in nevada, and he was just 30 miles north of a nearby wildfire. Even here in phoenix, there is a slight haze over the city here where he will be arriving. This is a difficult situation for this governor or for this president here, as he attempts to go and hear out these concerns about the wildfire. He has given no indication in these recent years of any substantive policy suggestions beyond this idea of, quote, Forest Management. Craig . Vaughn, thank you. Mike memoli, former Vice President biden giving a speech about the environment just a couple hours from now. Senator Kamala Harris heading to her home state on tuesday to meet with Emergency Personnel fighting these fires. How is the Biden Campaign trying to contrast themselves with President Trump on this particular issue . Reporter craig, as you remember when joe biden accepted the democratic nomination at the convention here in wilmington last month, he talked about the four crises this country is facing. He focused in the weeks since mostly opt first t lly on the f. Of course, the pandemic and the economic crisis that followed. Also heading to kenosha to deal with the third crisis, the racial injustice, the issues of violence in cities across the country. When you see those pictures, my gosh, from where auerin is, you understand why the campaign wants to focus on the fourth crisis, the Climate Crisis. From the perspective of the Biden Campaign, the theme is a president who has not done enough to address them and, in fact, is denying the causes behind them. You saw a statement from the former Vice President over the weekend saying that these the president wants to deny the science, but that Climate Change, as he called it, was an existential and imminent threat to this country. There is no action more consequential that we can take as a country than to get ahold and defeat the Climate Crisis. Were also seeing Kamala Harris traveling to her home state. The Biden Campaign feels these contrast moments, where they can lay out the former Vice President speaking strongly about these issues versus what the president has been doing, really plays to his advantages in the contest of president ial leadership, craig. Thats what were going to expect to hear from the former Vice President when he speaks at the center behind me this afternoon. All right. Mike memoli there in wilmington, mike, thank you. Vaughn hilliard in arizona, thank you. Erin mclaughlin on the ground in california. Thank you, as well. I want to bring in House Speaker nancy pelosi now, a democrat who represents san francisco. Madame speaker, lets start in california with the wildfires racing. First of all, have you talked with the president directly about getting your district and state some additional relief . No, i havent. Let me first say, extend the sympathy of all of us in congress to those who lost their loved ones, lost their liveliho livelihood, lost their homes, and the rest in all of this uncertainty in many states, including california. A large number of people have lost their lives. Let me salute our firefighters who are so courageous, so brave, risking their lives to save other lives. We lost one. Hopefully no more. But you see the danger that is there and the courage that it takes to fight it. The governor of the states, the governors of the states, as well as our members of congress who represent these districts, are in communication with all of us here. When i left california over the previous weekend, the air was unhealthy and terrible. Its even worse now. So, again, there are short term and long term issues that have to be dealt with. The denial of the science of Climate Change is something that is some people are going to have to answer to their children and grandchildren for. I just had a meeting of World Leaders virtually, of course, of the speakers, the president s of the parliaments from the seven the g7 plus the eu. The theme was addressing the Climate Crisis with economic and environmental justice. That will now have to include covid, which descended upon us since we establish that theme one year ago. There is agreement among everyone outside of our country that there is that this is a fact that has to be dealt with. Why the president ignores that, i dont know. In the short term, however, we did make a change in a bipartisan way in the congress in 2018, where we stopped the b borrowing from the fire funds. People were borrowing the money for cleaning up rather than using the money earlier on for prevention and increasing the amount of money that we had to mitigate for future damage as we went along. That is an improvement. But we have to do much more. When the president says all they have to do is rake the leaves and ignore the climate challenge that we face, its really quite sad. I understand he had an anti antiscience rally, is what the press reported. It was an antiscience rally in nevada. So you see the challenges, a clear one. But i dont have any complaint about any of the cooperation that is being received from the National Level to our state in california. I cant speak for the other states. Madame speaker, lets talk about the pandemic that continues to grip this country. Specifically, another relief bill. The senate not taking up the houses bill. The senate couldnt even pass its own bill. Here we are approaching some 200,000 deaths. Millions of americans are unemployed, underemployed, as well. Will we have another round of negotiations before the election . I hope so. That is our goal. We all want to have an agreement, but it has to be real. What the senate did was not real. The fact is, though, one of the focuses that we must have if were going to come out of this is to attack the virus. We must crush the virus. Thats one of our big disagreements, is to crush the virus, to have sufficient funds for the testing, treatment, tracing, social distancing, wearing of masks, sanitation that is necessary to drucrush t virus, to stop the increase in the numbers. Especially in our communities of color. Thats what we do in the heros act. We have 75 billion. They have 15 billion. They said, well compromise and go to 16 million. In 16 billion. Were, in addition, honoring our sanitation workers, the teachers, teachers, all fighting the covid fight. One major disagreement between us is that the administration and the republicans in congress are disrespectful of the role that state and local government plays in fighting the virus, as well as in educating our children and meeting the needs of the American People. So we came down 1 trillion. Then we came down further and said, well meet you halfway. We have tried to cooperate in terms of now, were not being selfish, saying, well feed these children and not these, were just cutting the time of the authority that we are giving, with the hope that the need will not increase and that we will have a Different Administration in january to meet the needs of our children. Children, millions of children in our country are food insecure. Millions of their families are on the verge of being evicted. These people that i talked about are heros on the verge of being fired because the sources are simply not there. When theyre fired, theyll go on unemployment insurance. Is that smart . I dont think so. But the main way that we can open our economy and open our schools is for us to crush the cry vai rus virus. Instead, the administration is trying to crush the Affordable Care act in the courts, doing away with the benefit of preexisting conditions, which is so important to over 150 million of americas families. Even more so now with the coronavirus. To your point, yes, we all know that we need to come to agreement. Coming to agreement is not, though, to say, whats the least we can do . Lets ignore the states. Lets ignore the need for the testing. Lets ignore the hunger, the evictions. I heard the secretary of the treasury saying this morning, everything is great. The brightest spot in all of this is the housing market. No, millions of families are on the verge of eviction. The president wants a moratorium, but a moratorium without money doesnt really help. It certainly doesnt help the landlords who will face foreclosure. So we have our differences, but we also have our responsibility to find common ground. Thats why senator schumer and i, leader schumer and i, agree to come down 1 trillion if they went up 1 trillion, then we went further and said, well meet you halfway. Where they are in all of this is and its all to the intelligence of the American People and an antiscience, antifight against the coronavirus. Madame speaker, you just eluded to the election. We are 50 days away now. 50. The president , as you know, has made a number of unsubstantiated claims of mailin voter fraud. In fact, its been a bit of a centerpiece at a number of his rally speeches. This weekend, he said the democrats are rigging the election because its the only way your party could win. How do you counter this messaging from the president . Well, i have a motto. We dont agonize, we organize. I tell people, dont pay any attention to him because he either doesnt know what hes talking about or doesnt care that he doesnt know what hes talking about. The fact that he would persuade people that their vote doesnt count tells you everything you need to know and then more about this president. Forget him. Again, with the coronavirus, lets not dwell on what he did in the past. Lets go forward and crush the virus. Lets go forward and have a free and fair election, and whoever wins, we will honor that decision by the American People. But dont try to manipulate and dismantle the postal system so that peoples votes are in doubt, as to whether they received their ballot or whether it will be received back by the authorities to count their vote. Again, have the involvement of russia, which is fully documented by the intelligence community, that they have been 24 7 for a long time trying to manipulate this election. The president welcomes it. Its wrong. But, again, forget him. Were organizing to make sure i tell people to go to iwillvote. Com. Youll find out how you can participate. Madame speaker, with all due respect, you just said, forget him. Forget him. Talking about the president. You havent talked to him about the wildfires. I get the impression you probably havent talked to him about the Coronavirus Relief bill. Have you and the president just stopped talking . Is that where we are . Well, ive spoken to his representati representatives, and he says that they speak for him. I take that to be true about the secretary of the treasury. We had worked together. We worked together to pass the u. S. , mexico, canada trade agreement, a bill completely different from what the president sent us. When the democrats weighed in for americas workers and our environment, we had a bill that we could pass. People said to me, why would you give the president that victory . I said, it is a victory for americas workers, and its a different bill than he sent us. So we worked with his team on that. We worked with four covid bills with the administration. Four passed in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way. I hope we can do it now. Quite frankly, my experience with the president is it hasnt been on the level. You know, hell say something, then it doesnt really happen. So in the interest of time, well work with who he sends over to if he has their if they have his confidence, then well work with them on these issues. But on tv a number of times, the president said, you send me a bipartisan immigration bill, and i will sign it, and then walks away. You wonder who is in charge there, if he says that and then walks away from it. So i dont find it a good use of time, but i do know that the congress and the executive branch need to Work Together to get the job done. And the good use of time would be to follow the data, look at the science. Science, data, facts, and evidence. I do have concerns about this administration and what theyre trying to do, trying to mischaracterize what the data means and the rest. Im very pleased that the heads of the centers at the fda, food and drug administration, have said theyre not going to proceed any faster than science determines in terms of approving a vaccine. Im very pleased that, was it 1 1 leaders at the cdc said they were going to promote testing, testing, testing as opposed to the guidance put out by the head of the cdc at the direction of the president. I was very pleased that the, was it 8 heads of Pharma Companies said they will not promote, nor will they mark it, a vaccine that has not met the standard and passed the test of approvals at the fda and approval of the independent Advisory Committee that would be necessary. So scientists who are speaking out about the need to follow the science, the evidence, the data, the truth. House speaker nancy pelosi, well have to leave it there. Speaker, thank you. Thank you for your time this morning. Always my pleasure. Thank you, craig. Thank you. Folks, were following that breaking news right now all along the gulf coast. They are bracing for another big storm. We just receive ed an update on what to expect from the National Hurricane center. Just came in. Bill karins is going to walk us through that. And President Trump fighting hard for the states that he won in 2016, but where is his campaign looking on the map to flip some of the states that he lost . 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