Drought Perspective News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

declared it a public health emergency earlier this month but critics argue they have not moved fast enough. yesterday the deputy a mmonkeyp defense coordinator defended their response. >> we know what we got in terms of this outbreak. it's acting differently than any mo monkeypox outbreak before. we need what needs to be implemented to control the outbreak and clear which populations we need to focus on. it's more about the right time as opposed to there being a delay. >> those comments came one day after the white house announced a new plan called for boosting vaccine supply making ...

Central valley of california to essentially transform into a temporary inland seat. so in that study we're talking about, we looked at events like that. what would it be like if there were a reoccurrence of something like the great flood of 1862 and climate change about doubled the risk of seeing an event like that today. while it would be nice to see more water from a drought perspective, there very much is such a thing as too much water at once and that's really what the situation would be here where we'd essentially get multiple weeks in a row of really intense winter storm systems in calif...

Some areas. want to get more on this and the fire conditions. let's bring in our meteorologist pedram javaheri again. what is the situation there on the ground? >> the situation is not looking good, rosie. this is something we have seen in the works over the past several months with the historic drought across much of the western united states. i want to show you what is going on in california, nevada, oregon, idaho and washington state. 106 fires that are considered large fires. over 6 million acres of land have been scorched. and when you look at the drought perspective, 8% of the western un...

Being built. there's one in southern california that could go into operation this year. you've said you've become an unlikely supporter of desalination. kbha what what are the upsides and downsides? >> i'm a supporter in certain circumstances. we've found on the peninsula, the time is right for desalination. it will hopefully be the largest new component of our water supply. that's because we've already exhausted all other options. water conservation and other water supply sources. the problems with desalination are threefold. first of all from a drought perspective, it takes years to plan per...