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In our news wrap Monday, dozens of wildfires are still burning on the West Coast. Southern California’s Bobcat Fire has doubled in size over the past week, fanned by high winds. Flames have scorched 165 square miles of Los Angeles County hillsides. Also, Tropical Storm Beta is due to ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Thousands of firefighters in California looked to the weather forecast today for relief from a scourge of wildfires. Lower temperatures and higher humidity helped crews trying to contain the biggest fire. It's burning near Lower Lake, 100 miles north of San Francisco. Thousands of people have ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: The governor of Texas is sending up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border. They would join some 3,000 Border Patrol agents already working the area. Republican Rick Perry announced the move today to help stem a surge of children entering the U ...
... in states such as Texas that, in 2011, faced the worst year of drought in its history. California's drought conditions have been fueling the wildfires, which is especially troublesome for a state with an intensifying fire season. Cal Fire has fought more than twice the average number of wildfires ...
... in the state's history. Dallas alone has seen more than 60 days this year in the triple digits. The extreme conditions have contributed to wildfires that destroyed 25 homes in North Texas on Tuesday, wreaked havoc on the state's agricultural economy and forced residents to ration water. For ...
... to create widespread drought. Fourteen states across the South and Southwest, from Florida as far west as Arizona, have been parched for nine months. In Texas, where conditions are among the worst: MAN: We need rain. We really need rain. GWEN IFILL: Lack of water also fueled massive wildfires in ...
... heavy snow will hit, there's potential for a significant ice storm, said meteorologist Jeff Masters with Yale Climate Connections. Big winds are coming to Texas An area stretching from Kansas south through Oklahoma and cutting through to Texas to the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to get high winds ...
... risen almost 30 percent since 2021. But Hamilton says data centers are just one of many reasons. Katherine Hamilton: Prizes are going up because of wildfire mitigation. Utilities are investing in storm recovery. This is where things like the tariffs make a big difference, because there's a lot of ...
... a great thing," Trump told reporters. Over the years, Trump has threatened to intercede in California's long-running homeless crisis, vowed to withhold federal wildfire aid as political leverage in a dispute over water rights, called on police to shoot people robbing stores and warned residents that "your children ...
... temperatures were forecast for parts of south Texas with the potential to break daily records. The hot, dry air also sets the stage for critical wildfire conditions through early this week in southern New Mexico and West Texas. Up to a foot of snow was expected in parts of Idaho ...
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