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The forests that won’t grow back Sofia Jeremias When Jonathan Coop was 4 years old, he watched ash rain down from the sky. The year was 1977, and a fire was burning on the Pajarito Plateau, canyon country in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. From his backyard in Los Alamos, Coop saw a plume of smoke rise from the mesa just outside of town. The paradigm of forest ecology had yet to shift when he explored these charred forests in his youth. Fire was destructive, but eventually the trees grew back. The ponderosa pines that dominate the dry landscape of the Southwest, trees t...

like around 5:00 into the evening is when we have that chance of storpms. radar not picking up any storms. perhaps a sprinkle in montgomery county and the southern shenandoah valley right just south of harrisonburg. and temperatures around the region near 70 in the suburbs and rural areas. near the bay and at the atlantic beaches, low to mid-70s. it's in the mid-70s in washington. over the last 12 hours, the storms we had come through last night have really pretty much dissipated over the atlantic ocean. we do have considerable cloudiness this morning. there's the cloud cover from ca...

novec has 40 customers without power right now. >> making progress getting the numbers down. tom, more storms possible later in the day? unfortunately, yes. late this afternoon and for the events on the mall, there is the possibility of a passing thunderstorm this evening. right now no travel problems weatherwise. we have a dry sky over washington and throughout most of the region. although those little blips of blue that you see on radar on the left of your screen, those are light showers in the central and southern shenandoah valley. they're drifting off to the east. temperatures...

that was his main question for me is what do you see on the tree limbs? are they still leaves? they're still leaves and what we're dealing with here again is high winds that caused this damage throughout this neighborhood. i've got to tell you, folks, do not take for granted that fire crews are going to be out here and police are going to be at every intersection where there's damage. as we said, driving up here, it almost looks as though this neighborhood is untouched. the fact we have this one power line labeled with yellow tape to keep people from going through that way and one co...