Hello again, I'm Arminolni. This is to the point. Everything I owned, except for a t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans, is now dust.

Martin Dugan of Malibu. More from him later. Meantime, President Trump's reaction to California's

firestorms demonstrates once again his denial of climate change and what it's

doing to the country. But the election of Brazil's new president may pose a danger of a different

order, the prospect of accelerating the process of global warming by deforestation of the

Amazon basin. We'll begin with our own national leader.

Before President Trump left for Europe last week,

California was on fire, and he declared a disaster.

That means victims will be eligible for federal assistance,

but the president created a firestorm of a different kind

by issuing a dark warning.

So I say to the governor or whoever's going to be the governor of California, you better get your act together because California, we're just not

going to continue to pay the kind of money that we're paying. Since the president made that

threat, California's fires have not just continued, they've multiplied,

and they've become more intense. In Southern California, the homes of booby stars are among those

destroyed. Malibu is one of several cities evacuated for almost a week. In northern California,

it's even worse. The so-called campfire destroyed the entire town of paradise. The death toll is at least 42,

setting a record for events of this kind in modern state history. Democrats and some Republicans

have denounced the president for suggesting he might withhold federal assistance.

Brian Rice and Tom O'Connor are leaders of firefighters associations.

That statement was idiotic. It was ill-timed, and it's ignorant. It's a statement of an ignorant man.

Now is not the time for politics. It's the time for leadership. It's not the red and blue

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