Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court of the United States’ failure to block a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks: “I am outraged that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Texas’ ban on most abortions to take effect. Silently, in the dead of night, the Supreme Court has […]
Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he has signed legislation by Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) to accelerate implementation of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act, first-in-the-nation legislation signed by the Governor in 2019 to allow college student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness. The law inspired a […]
Sacramento, CA…At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as Hurricane Ida maked landfall in Louisiana, Governor Gavin Newsom approved the deployment of urban search and rescue (US&R) specialized personnel to the region to assist in life-saving disaster response. California maintains robust search and rescue resources within the state and the deployment does […]
Tokyo, Japan…The United States and Japan, alarmed by the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and other indicators of the growing need for accelerating and deepening emission reductions, are committed to making the 2020s the decisive decade for climate action, and to ensuring their collaborative efforts on the climate crisis a pillar of the […]
Grizzly Flats, CA…The top map is the NASA/USFS heat map. In the heat map you can tell it burned across Hwy 89 and is racing behind South Lake Tahoe on the ridge towards Heavenly Ski Resort. Yesterday Sierra at Tahoe today Heavenly & Kirkwood? Time will tell. On the southern leg the fire has crossed […]
Washington, DC…I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled – in the early morning hours of August 31, Kabul time – with no further loss of American lives. The past 17 days have seen our troops execute the […]
Washington, DC…Good afternoon, everybody. We’re waiting for a few more people to get on, but we’re going to get started if that’s okay with you all. And thanks for joining me. I’m here — the FEMA Director is on. FEMA Director Criswell — she’s on. And I’m here with my senior advisor and boy who […]
Vallejo, CA…August 30, 2021. To better provide public and firefighter safety due to the ongoing California wildfire crisis, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region is announcing a temporary closure of all National Forests in California. This closure will be in effect from Aug. 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. through September 17, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. […]