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Agriculture through the state of florida and hits tremendously the last few years. so we have a lot of of eyes on different environmental areas below. make sure we're clearing the ways and people in the community and make sure the water that would stand closerer to the east coast is being drained as much as possible. but we are monitoring all of that included in close 60 of our state forests. and working with our humane society to make sure all of our pets are being removed from shelters across the state. >> have you spoke to the governor? >> we're both in the emergency operations centers all ...

Droughts, winds. every october, every november, since time in memorial, there have been fires in california. there's a question about how you manage state forests. those are interesting questions to be talked about, not right now necessarily. you're talking about federal disaster release. talking about what we can do to deal and mitigate these fires in the moment instead of going after and blame victims at this point. >> the other part of this story is, it is an excellent to the 8,000 firefighters working open the front lines and the tens of thousands of people who have been evacuated. especia...

And though governor brown would not respond directly to president trump's tweets, he did weigh in on climate change. watch. >> this is part of a trend, a new normal that we have to deal with. we are dealing with it humanly, financially and governmentally. >> as for president trump's argument that california has to they and it's for us to reduce the risk of wildfire, numerous fire experts by greasing the state forests are clearly overgrown. but other state officials also blame that on the federal government, saying most of those forests are federal land which is true. ryan zinke tweeted" we mus...

Billion below average in per people funding for education. >> we've got a map we can put up that shows some of the states where, for instance, those are the nine states that were represented. interesting that california not represented. we've got one more map that shows some of the proportions. look at the state of nevada. 81% of it is owned by federal. you've got half the state in wyoming, 61% in idaho. let me ask you this, ken. if the states control the land rather than federal government, how would things be different? >> what we're seeing, steve, when you have a forest side by side, a stat...

We have cleanup crews hired by bp, subcontracted out through companies that are cleaning up but the tar balls are pretty significant along here and this will take a lot to clean this up and it might even take some machinery. it looks like seaweed that came up but it is all tar balls here from very small dime size to large patties like this that you see here and residents here, of course, have been very devastated this morning up and down here. of course, tourism and reservations for condos off as much as 50% in this area. in the next hour, we're supposed to get a visit from governor crist who ...