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Firsthand. >> it's terrible. it's unacceptable for it to repeat. what do we do? regardless of whether you are a believer or not a believer in climate change, there are things we should be doing to manage our forests. it so it doesn't happen every y. prescribed burns late in the season. remove the dead and dying trees. make sure there's access to forest so if you get a spot fire, the fire department can get there sooner. make sure that you prioritize around buildings, evacuation routes, remove the fuel. we are not talking about clearcutting. we are talking about forest management and that's wha...

What has happened with the major slides that have occurred on this hill. but when you have clear cutting, all of those trees that intercept and absorb the water are gone. and some of that water is going to work its way down the slope. that's going to add weight to the hill and that's going to add pressure to the base, to the toe. so they're all working together. you have weight working on the river, which is eroding the base. at the same time, you have all these streams that are feeding water into the same slope. and you have precipitation, both from rain and from snowmelt. >> and you have eco...

Area get serious about securing their trash, bubba and his below bears have taking to breaking and entering, well over 100 incidents reported so far this year in california and nevada. that's significantly higher than in years past. and gregg, what's sad here is that it often ends tragically for the bears, officials in the two states have had to exterminate 20 of the so-called nuisance bears this year, so far, thankfully, no people have been seriously hurt but those home at the time of this incident say it's terrifying to encounter a four or 500, even a 700-pound black bear, busting down the d...

>> yeah, sure, there is across the nation and certainly the southern half of america is dry. water is really important. but you know, the other thing with rising temperatures, is we're getting -- we're seeing more ferocity of storms. like, for instance, the grand ole opry, a couple months ago, was under a truck load of water and that was a one in 1,000 year event. if we dial all the way down to the amazon basin, they had a storm there, contessa, that was 620 miles long, 124 miles wide, and it wiped out, snapped or uprooted at least a half a billion trees. >> wow. and when you're talking about ...

Of the o spill, clinton would be down there, how you doing, i want to help you out. he wouldn't be outgoing on his third vacation. he wouldn't be playing golf every weekend. >> let's remember, when one talks about obama having no experience. a governor of the state has to learn about hurricanes, forest fires, clear-cutting, tornadoes, all kinds of stuffs, they are lawyers, politicians what do they know from forest fires? they have to learn how to learn about it. obama has never had that experience and nobody in the white house has. but the problem is, for you and me this is an issue of incompe...