The American West is burning

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On today’s Post Reports, record-breaking wildfires are already spreading up the West Coast – and the fire season has only just begun. How a Homeland Security whistleblower was told to stop reports on potential Russian interference in the 2020 election. And, the issues with the new “Mulan.”

The Bay Area skies changed basically overnight, says Washington Post reporter Heather Kelly. One day “it was orange. It looked like Mars. It was dark. It was depressing.”

As wildfires in the western United States rage on, it’s difficult to imagine the size of the wildfires, says extreme weather editor Andrew Freedman. “It is the entire distance, essentially, from the U.S. border with Canada in Washington state, to the U.S. border with Mexico in Southern California. That entire expanse is affected to some extent.”

A DHS whistleblower was told to cease intelligence reports on the threat of Russian interference ahead of the 2020 election. National security reporter Shane Harris says the whistleblower was told to stop in part because “it made the president look bad.”

High expectations for Disney’s remake of “Mulan” have been tempered and riddled by geopolitics. Foreign affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor says it’s a battle that Disney did not plan on having.

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0:25.6	Post Sarah Kaplan. Hi, this is Ella Heizladi with the Washington Post.
0:30.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.
0:35.5	It's Thursday, September 10th.
0:39.7	Today, why fires are raging everywhere at once? How the government is handling Russian
0:45.5	threat to the election, and a controversy around Mulan.
0:49.7	So for the past few days in San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area, we've been going through a
0:57.4	cycle of smoky days, days where you can't go outside, brief windows where you can go out and get
1:02.6	a breath of fresh air, usually at the beach. And then everybody woke up and it was much,
1:07.6	much different. It was orange. It looked like Mars. It was dark. It was depressing.
1:14.0	That's Heather Kelly. She's a reporter for the post-based in San Francisco.
1:18.3	We're in the middle of this record-setting wildfire season. It's actually just the beginning
1:22.5	of wildfire season. There are fires above, below, and to the east of San Francisco. They're up
1:27.7	in Oregon and Washington. A lot of it started when there was a lightning storm about two weeks ago,
1:32.9	and it's just been non-stop since. It doesn't smell as much like smoke as it has before. A lot of
1:38.5	the smoke is high enough above the city that you're not really inhaling too much of it, and the air
1:43.2	quality sensors say it's pretty decent outside, but as soon as you go outside of your door,
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