Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Ram 2500 Grew Cab Short Box Bighorn Level A Night Edition is stock number 13664Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2022 Ram 2500 has the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This one has a max towing capacity of 17,790 pounds and has a max payload of 2,244 pounds. Found those on Ram's tow guide website. I'll link that in the description below. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath. Start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the truck possible. Bright white is the color and I showed all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities, turn them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck. Front bumper is in fantastic condition. See, it does have the front bumper parking sensors. It also has the engine block heater cord right there. Didn't see any major dents or dings on that front bumper. The hood is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender is in great shape as well. No dents or dings. The hood gives you the 20-inch painted alloy wheels, no major scuffs or scrapes on there, and it comes with Firestone TransForce AT tires. These are LT28560R20s, and they have just a little bit under half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody looks exceptionally clean up front. And as you go down this side of this, 2022 Ram 2500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, if you're interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you can get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back wheels in excellent condition as well. And the back tires have just a little bit more tread than the front tires, those closer to half the tread left on there. Even underbody, once again, excellent conditions. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car facts out of Idaho. Has all the remaining factory exhausts, so it hasn't been altered in any way, in the lower rockers and cab corners, and underbody all looks really good on this truck. Passing your side box, no dents or dings in there, and coming around to the back, the rear bumper is just as nice as the front bumper, no dents or dings in there, and you do get the rear bumper parking sensors. Full towing package, which includes the M7 pin wiring, and the tailgate is in excellent condition as well. Do note that you get the blacked out 4x4 RAM and big horn logos back here, all part of that night condition. Comes with the spray and bed liner, side box tie downs, and the bed's in excellent condition. Spray and bed liner goes onto the tailgate, which is really nice as well. Coming around the driver's side, driver's side box looks really great, no major dents or dings on there, and this back wheel is in excellent condition as well, no major scuffs on there. Driver's side cab and doors all look really good. Didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Note the blacked out RAM and Cummins logo, and for full disclosure, this front wheel is in really nice condition as well.  They do have built in directional signals in them as well. Inside big horn level A package gives you the dark charcoal and cloth bucket seats in the front, no major rips or tears on there. Smells very clean inside of this truck. Power driver's seat with lumbar, factory, all other formats. Auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks and mirrors, the cloth bolsters and the wood grain trim on the doors. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. Does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window. Seats are in really nice shape. They fold up like so. You get a load floor, which is nice to have muddy boots or tools, put them on there, you're not going to get to nice seats dirty, or if you got pets, put both sides down, they get a nice flat place delay. Storage underneath. Get the all-weather floor mats back here. And you get in-floor storage with removable bins. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Or if you're now in Wisconsin just extra storage space. Side curtain air bags. And the back doors have child safety locks on them. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic as they should on a 2022. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 29,131 miles. On it you do get a digital spinometer, compass display, instrument clusters, very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. You do get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Push button start, push button four wheel drive. This one comes with the Uconnect 5 touchscreen radio. You can see it does have AMFMN Sirius XM radio capabilities. This is also where your backup camera would show up. You can see that is really nice. They made those HD for the new Rams. And you can zoom in on your receiver hitch to get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time. You can also do Android Auto, Apple CarPlay this radio where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, project your cell phone up there with Waze or Google Maps and it's like you have nav right on the screen. Down here you have more tactile, climate volume and tune controls.  Two USB's, two USB's and an aux jack keyless entry with the remote. Start from the bottom. Get your coin slot holders and your cup holders there as well. 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Good evening and welcome to Tiske Sauer which is back in the Navarra media studio it feels like complete luxury compared to the nine months I've spent trapped in my bedroom hopefully the transition is going to be very smooth although do forgive us for any glitches I'm joined by Ash Sarkar how are you doing ash. Now release me from my home imprisonment so what's going on then you want me around apparently we've got to do this as a step by step process obviously there is nothing more. That I would love them to have you sing opposite me at the Tiske Sauer table but I likely tell will get there in the coming days and weeks I am sure. We do have a great show lined up you tonight we're going to be talking about Boris Johnson's plan to break a manifesto pledge in order to fund. Social care and we are talking about Marcus Rashford coming out against the cut to universal credit and Lisa Nandy going on a Murdoch owned radio station. To say she would personally campaign against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North. First of all as ever we do want to know your comments your question so please do let us know those on the hashtag Tiske Sauer or in the YouTube comments most importantly hit that subscribe button first story. In his first speech as prime minister in July 2019 Boris Johnson made the following promise to the British public. My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home to pay for the costs of care. And so I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve. Boris Johnson there said his government had a clear plan to fix social care yet more than two years on there is no plan and there is certainly no agreement on what it should look like this was from Laura Coonsburg last night she tweeted sounds like haggling still going on over social care delay in reaching agreements created plenty of space for a backlash before the details have even emerged as Laura Coonsburg makes clear in that tweet the issue causing controversy is how any new plan for social care will be funded and Boris Johnson's government is in a particularly tight spot because of another promise made by the prime minister in 2019 this was a pledge in the conservative manifesto to not raise the rate of income tax VAT or national insurance. Those pledges were personally signed by the prime minister according to numerous briefings that promise will be broken when Boris Johnson announces that national insurance will be increased by at least 1% so as to pay for a cap to the cost of social care to discuss the row over tax rises and the care crisis. I'm joined by James Meadwey welcome back to the show James hello nice to be back enjoying the office I love it here I've been a bigger advocate for flexible working saying people can work at home I still am don't get me wrong but it on one level it is as I say nice to be on my bedroom my first question for you is not so much on the tax rises but on the care crisis itself everyone seems to agree there is a social care crisis I want you to explain what that is what is the problem that we're trying to fix the fundamental problem here is is actually the fundamental problem really remains one of funding and financing that we have a much older population which has many more care needs and perhaps a relatively younger population would have had in the past so there's a lot of pressure appearing in the system just as a kind of demographic factor the country now live in. There is then also a series of separate issues that have come through with the relationship between the NHS and people getting treated to the NHS and passed on to the care system and the final bit of course is the terrible situation pushed on to the care system during the coronavirus crisis and what you've got to during the pandemic over the last 18 months or so what you've got to say with all of this is that to a very large extent if there is a problem in the social care system now this lands very squarely on the party that's been in power for the last 10 years if you mind your memory back to 2010 there was a cross-party almost agreement between Labour and Tories on how to secure funding for social care into the future and the reason this was presented as a cross-party issue is that you want to be able to say okay both Labour and the Conservative Parties have agreed that because this is a very long term issue like we have an ageing population this is going to happen into the future we have to find some way to pay for social care we will therefore come up with something that both parties agree on as the funding system and if they both agree we know to be secure regardless of what happens in various elections and things it was Andy Burnham now Metro Mayor of Manchester at the time Secretary of State for Health who presented his plan for what it's basically an estate tax, a tax when people die that will cover the costs of any care they might have needed the Tories were inching towards signing up to this and then last minute with the election approach and just blew the whole thing open and said we're not going to touch this it's a death tax and that was the slogan they used in the election help them just creep into victory there they then launched the deal not condition in 2011 that's 10 years ago now that recommended basically the funding system that looks like the Tories are trying to put in place now with the idea of a cap on the total payments of care that you might be expected to make so if you have particularly complex care needs late in life you've got Alzheimer's for example which can be very expensive they'll cap on how much you would ever have to pay for that which is of course fair you know there's no way to control who ends up in that situation who doesn't it's kind of fair to do this that was 10 years ago and then they haven't actually advanced this system ever since then so it's entirely of the governments making this lands on them and then there's not quite the last minute but when they really really can't avoid this any longer when there's at least four billion pounds worth of shortfall that's built up inside the system when there's one and a half million people not getting the care they need when they really can't avoid this any longer they come up with about the worst possible way of trying to fund this which is basically saying lots and lots of people in work 26 million people paying natural insurance contributions have to pay more so that in effect a smaller number of actually potentially really quite well off elderly people can have the value of their assets protected which is redistribution in completely the wrong direction you're taking very substantially from younger working people and transferring people with large amounts of assets it's not a fair way to do this almost anything else that's been proposed and there are several different ways you could try and fund this is a fairer and better system let's talk about some of those other ways and I suppose in particular just to hammer home what is the significance of national insurance how is it different from income tax I mean it's obvious how it's different from VAT but I suppose yeah let's talk about how it's different from income tax I mean look there's a myth around it and this states back to when national insurance was introduced the current system really stems from the beverage report in 1944 and it was intended to be what sometimes people think it is which is a kind of insurance pot you pay into it you make contributions and because you put into this pot when you need it like you're unemployed or you retire potentially you have social care needs you take out of the pot often at the end of your life it's never worked like that the Treasury has really only ever treated it as just another income tax it's just a bit more of the income tax that you pay the really perverse thing about actually there's two things that are really peculiar that start to just make it really unfair especially for social care funding first there's a thing called the upper earnings limit where the basic rate of national insurance is about 12.5% and then once you earn more than about 50,000 a year that drops to 2% so it's exactly the opposite of income tax income tax increases as you earn more national insurance you pay less proportionately as you earn more so it's kind of built in on fairness the second bit is that if you are over the retirement age at state pension age 66 you don't pay this in your earnings and of course final bit is that it's not taxed on earnings from things like bank accounts and rental income and this sort of thing so it appears literally on you're in work you have to pay this but if you are a landlord and you're a retired landlord in particular you are not going to face any costs of this so it's really not a very good way at all of trying to fund social care costs the mechanism here is shuffling money in exactly the wrong direction let's look now at some of the alternatives being proposed Andy Burnham this morning supported the principle of a wealth tax in my view we should not be taxing work we should be taxing wealth to pay for the reform of social care because you know it's that generation if I can say it put it this way Kate it's my mum and dad's generation who are coming to the point now where maybe they might need the care system at some point but they didn't pay through their taxes through their working life for social care because social care wasn't in the post war settlements if you like so you can't ask younger workers today you know we would call them generation rent wouldn't we people who've got big student debt it can't ask that generation to pay for the care of a generation who've not contributed through the tax system that isn't right I would say ask all older people through the assets they've got the property assets to make a contribution the beneficiary should make a contribution but then turn to other wealth taxes like capital gains tax to make up the difference that I think is the basis for a fair funding solution Andy Burnham of course doesn't speak for the Labour Party he's a directly elected mayor and once again the official position of the Labour front bench is to not have a position especially when it comes to alternatives this was Liz Kendall shadow minister for social care speaking to Kay Burley the government has started with a with a as it seems we've yet to see the details a tax rise that would really penalise younger and low income workers in fact some of the very care workers who we already know are struggling so I think they need to think again about this okay shadow minister how would you pay for it then well we'll set out our clear proposals before the next election in our manifesto shadow minister you've had two years to come up with a plan we know that Boris Johnson you know we're criticising him for not having a plan you're in opposition you've had plenty of time to tell us what your plan is well I want to see any any increases in spending properly costed and funded and in a way I would say here Kay that is is not just fair across the incomes but fair across the generations we'll need to see what the economic conditions are now shadow minister why have we not seen it till now you know you you would have costed it ahead of the last election in your manifesto presumably you've had two years since to criticise the Prime Minister for not coming up with one where's yours well look we need to see what the economic conditions are at the time and just as the last election we put forward costed plans that's what we will do next time round because I think it's you know people want to know that if you make a commitment so Labour again saying they're going to wait potentially three years before they come up with the alternative they would be in favour of when it comes to paying for social care a familiar liner from the Labour front bench James and what I want to know from you is what alternative you would back and also whether you think it's time for Labour to take a concrete position on how they would pay for social care of course it is on the last part that this is it's not something close to an open goal that the Conservatives have opened up they as you said they went into the election with a promise and it's still up on their website that Boris Johnson sign saying we will not increase national insurance and they're just going to break this and we're going to break it in a way that involves a plainly unfair readers we've just lost James Midway hopefully we'll be able to get him back in a moment while we're waiting for that I will show you some data on public opinion about this James saying it's an open goal I think it's clear the logic behind that statement at the same time the public seem to be fairly positive about rises to national insurance and more so than rises about income tax we might be able to get up this data from you gov and the times they show that 64% of the public say yes to a national insurance rise to pay for social care only 23% are opposed to that national insurance rise and support is also there for an increase to income tax but that support is much lower or significantly lower than support for a rise to national insurance we might have lost James Midway we'll get him back at some point I want to know what Ash thinks about this particular topic if we still have Ash Sarkar on the line what do you make of the politics of all of this okay so in terms of the politics of all of this obviously Boris Johnson is in a sticky position because he has made two contradictory promises one is no increases in taxation and the other is sought out the social care system you can't have both those things at once now in order to sort of square that circle there's also another ideological pressure which is how do you increase taxes without it being seen as an attack on Tory donors and attack on wealth and attack on the interests of capital so I think that's why we've ended up with this appeal to national insurance because one it's got very good brandings called national insurance as James said it enjoys this kind of historic and imaginative connection with the NHS so it's not seen in quite the same way as say income tax or a different form of flat tax like VAT the second thing is that people can only really respond to the choices which are put in front of them so when the messaging going out is okay you're on a social care system like it or lump it you're going to have to swallow this increase in national insurance well the fact is that many people in this country not just the elderly but working age people who have care needs you've got disabilities and also working age people who are interacting with the care system in order to secure care for one of their loved ones they're like hang on we have dealt with this burden of dealing with a really confusing and Kafkaesque bureaucracy in order to get care for one of our loved ones so for myself and also dealing with the financial pressures as well so when you present a choice to people which is do you want this thing on now well they've been suffering for its lack for a really long time and that's where I think it's so important that Labour actually come up with a different idea a different vision a different narrative now it's actually one which is really quite simple in James's article which he wrote for The Guardian one of the things that he pointed out is there are lots of really popular wealth taxes that you could implement which do broadly enjoy public support so one would be a 1% tax on millionaires which would I think garner over 240 billion pounds over five years you've also got an old Tory policy an old Nigel Lawson policy of equalizing capital gains tax with income tax that's also something which would bring in an awful lot of money for the Treasury the other thing you do is get rid of the upper income limit on national insurance contributions that would also bring in an awful lot of money these are all things which when you put it to the public enjoy broad support but what you have to do is I think connect it to an overhaul of the social care system not just plugging the funding gaps but actually making it simple and good and easy to interact with you've got I think around 1.4 million people going without the care that they need in this country one of the reasons is because it is such a nightmare of a system to interact with and just simplifying the whole thing at the moment interacting with the care system it's not like interacting with the NHS so if you're somebody who has got regularised migration status interacting with the NHS even though it's been privatised and bits of it have been sort of parceled off and there have been cuts it's still relatively straightforward I know what the care pathway is if me or a loved one need care because we've got medical conditions for instance like heart issues but if I or my loved one has dementia the care pathway the treatment pathway is not clear so you've got this really quite I think traumatising system which I think was Ellie Mayo Hagan said is like interacting with the worst of the American healthcare system just for this particular set of care needs so I think this conversation is really important as James said to talk about funding but also we need to talk about what kind of care is going to be offered so I think that yeah different story talk about wealth taxes and also talk about just making the system not a complete nightmare to have to deal with because it does seem the issue what all the political sides are talking about is how you would cap costs so people can protect their inheritance and yes we might not be particularly in favour of inheritance but it does seem unfair that whether or not you can pass money on to your kids depends on the lottery of whether or not you get dementia so there probably should be some cap but maybe that is slightly missing the point James do you think we are bogged down in a conversation about capping care costs and not enough on other elements of the care crisis I mean look if you are going to have a system where you make a contribution a cap is not a bad idea because of this erratic distribution of who ends up being really seriously requiring a large amount of care particularly later in life you can't say right now who is going to end up outside the series most obviously but Ash is absolutely right in this the proposals to say something like we would like a national care service which provides similar to the NHS care free of the point of needs and of use and that is funded out of general taxation in some form this would be a dramatic simplification of the system and make the whole thing rather fairer than it is now I mean what has been happening on the slide here is a sort of quiet privatisation of care over a number of years about 80% of care beds now in certain care homes are basically privately owned and it is not just any old private ownership by the way it is private equity ownership that has come into the care sector in a very big way that has gone alongside the fact that you have care is one of the sectors of the economy that just has chronically poor conditions we actually saw this I think during coronavirus with the outbreaks of Covid in care homes but these are care workers are on average paid less than the real living wage they are subject to short term contracts they are not giving the training and resources they need if you really want to start funding all this properly you have to look at significantly more funding going into the system the Kings Fund estimates it is sort of £14 billion by the next five years or so in five years time to actually pay people properly, expand care provision and then potentially on top of that you want to say well ok we want this to be a national care service which like Ash says is clean and simple and integrated with the healthcare system and that requires more money at that point you can't just say oh we will put a penny on national insurance or five p.m. national insurance or basically just trying to absolutely impoverish people who by the way have seen their wages go nowhere for a decade that's the situation for the most working people in this country you have to start saying let's tax well so I think Andy Burnham is right I think equalising capital gains tax is the amount of money you pay for instance if you sell assets like shares or second home or whatever equalise the amount of tax you pay or the amount you pay on income something that exactly as Ash says Nigel Lawson as Tory Chancellor back in what, 1986 did this equalising that is £90 billion over five years bringing the genuine wealth tax of the kind that the LSE Warwick Commission last year suggested would be 1% tax in billionaires and you get £260 billion over five years there are plenty of other ideas out there that would provide the secured long term funding basis to make social care equivalence to the NHS and better than the NHS we have now that would solve the crisis now and get us something better and for the Labour not to be taking even the kind of baby steps to get out of there to not start to set up an argument so that never mind what we're saying right now they can win against the government on this but they want to set up the argument so that when it comes to the election we're having a serious conversation about wealth taxes, about funding public services properly that means starting that conversation now and saying now what they would want to do rather than saying three years time we'll just surprise you all with some manifesto you have to set these arguments up now failing to do that is putting them further and further away from winning the election in three years time James Meadway thank you so much for coming on this evening always a pleasure to have you on to decode the wonkiest stories of the day and I don't say that in a disparaging way I mean genuinely you make the wonky stories interesting I wave my hands a red affair bit I think that's the key to it Perfect speak to you soon Thank you Let's go to some tweets, conmac tweets on the hashtag Tiskey Sour the fact that the government are considering national insurance increase before a wealth tax or a land value tax demonstrates how the Tories are not capable of guiding us out of a crisis without harming the working class in the process and the PLP are just weak when it comes to having an alternative not just on tax but on anything that might perceive them as too radical and by proxy Unelectable which is a MS myth mainstream media maybe mainstream myth mainstream myth exactly I would agree with that I mean I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Keir Starmer at his conference speech comes out in a wealth tax but I also wouldn't hold my breath for it Rory JL2014 on the YouTube comment says as a disabled adult I can confirm that accessing social care in this country is a nightmare it literally took me years to get and I currently pay more towards more towards it out of my PIP than council does that's a personal independence payment I mean yeah the stories you hear about people who are trying to access social care and it's also important to recognize isn't just an issue which faces elderly people also many many younger adults use and rely on social care Richard Herring on YouTube says BBC had its economics experts on tonight setting out the options guess what wasn't an option a wealth tax that's very interesting I have to look at those clips afterwards Victor Burring on YouTube says house price is up by 11% this year or 23,000 pounds on average achieved by doing sweet FA instead of taxing this toys are instead tearing into the stagnant pay packets received by the working young and penny wise on YouTube says tax wealth not wages I know someone who pays himself 7,000 pounds in wages and 50,000 pounds in dividends avoiding loads of tax his wife does the same I mean we should tax wealth more than wages at the moment we tax wages more than wealth so the first thing we could do is equalize the two that would be the first step towards something that looks a little bit more fair now we can go on to the next story once again Marcus Rashford England striker and Britain's most successful campaigner is attacking the government about their abandonment of poor families this time he has his sights set on the 20 pound cut in universal credit due to come into force in October Rashford tweeted instead of removing support through social security we should be refocusing efforts on developing a sustainable long-term roadmap out of this child hunger pandemic up to now Rashford's campaigns have focused on food poverty and in particular the provision of free school meals over the holidays Rashford also tweeted the following 4.3 million people including 2.5 million children the reality of food insecurity in the UK over the last six months figures higher than those recorded in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic and a massive 27% higher than pre-COVID-19 the intervention from Marcus Rashford is likely time to coincide with an opposition day debate which Labour will be putting forward this Wednesday this has happened before Marcus Rashford makes an issue popular Labour put it forward in an opposition debate and they try and peel off Tory MPs to threaten the government with a loss in the Commons Labour are speaking out against this cut Labour Shadow Work and Pension Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Labour is giving Conservative MPs the chance to do the right thing stand up to the Prime Minister and defend their constituents from this devastating cut once again this government's record doesn't stand up to reality they promised investment in the North and Midlands but are instead pulling billions out of local economies letters the government last week signed by groups including the Royal College of Pediatricians and Child Health similarly called on the government to scrap the planned cut they said it would amount to the biggest overnight cut in social security since World War II and that it would push 500,000 people into poverty Ash Marcus Rashford has forced you turns on this government before do you think he's going to manage it again? I mean look he may well do and I think we've danced this dance before which is Marcus Rashford essentially operates as an outrider for the social safety net Labour follow the government is forced into doing something embarrassing sending out people to defend the indefensible in the morning TV round and then there's a U-turn I think one of the things that is going to be interesting with this one is that it's not necessarily something as immediately emotive as free school meals provision during half term and summer holidays it's something very very tangible and immediate about that it's food out of the mouths of poor children with this then you kind of have wrapped up in it how people feel about benefits claimants who we know have been stigmatized because of a you know well more than two decades now but a really concerted drive towards seeing benefits claimants as lazy scroungers feckless and all the rest of it so it will be interesting to see whether that moral clarity that Marcus Rashford possesses and I think quite a unique place within popular culture if that's going to be the beginning of something of a fightback and a pushback against those years of negative stereotyping I think one of the things to bear in mind is that when it comes to talking about the social safety net the British media is shit it's just it's just complete trash I'll never forget when this proposed cuts to the £20 uplift was first proposed you had Laura Koonsberg going on TV saying well it's not really a cut but you know it does kind of feel like one as if taking £20 out of the pockets of some of the most deprived families in this country is simply a matter of perception as though it's merely subjective and the way in which I think you know the establishment media in this country talks about the social safety net simply as kind of another chess piece in a grand political game I think is one of the reasons why politicians have been able to get away with such brutal and draconian policies for so long and the positioning of Marcus Rashford because of how strong his independent social media following is because of the fact that he is unconnected to the kind of horse trading and dirty business of self-serving and venal Westminster politics he can often cut through that kind of noise and obfuscation so I really hope that he's able to inflict another U-turn on the government and it's something which I think Keir Starmer could learn from which is don't get tied up in process and procedure and all will have a look and I'll be subject to a review and rest assured that I will float an idea or hint of a policy in six to 12 months time just say the thing you want to happen and fucking go for it You talked about the dishonest media there this is also a topic on which Tory politicians are consistently dishonest and the main driver of this cut is understood to be Rishi Sunak who wants to find ways to lower government spending as the pandemic nears its close or at least moves on from its emergency phase this is how Sunak defended the cut to universal credit back in August One of the things I'm proudest of over the past 12 to 18 months is that we have looked after the most vulnerable in our society and all the figures show that that those on the lowest incomes have seen the most support from this government at what has been a very difficult time and we're not done supporting people my firm belief is the best way to help those families is to make sure that they can have well paid work and we've got a suite of things that we're doing the national living wage is going up we're also helping them with new skills training to find better jobs the kickstart scheme where the government is fully funding high quality jobs for young people at risk of unemployment those are the types of things we're doing and they will all make a major difference Extending that temporary uplift in universal credit though is clearly going to help the most why won't you do that? No, I don't think that will help the most that temporary uplift was indeed temporary it was the right intervention for the particular part of the crisis that we've experienced but now as the economy is reopening and businesses are hiring again the right thing to do is to help people find really well paid jobs which is why the kickstart scheme is important it's why we're giving companies huge cash incentives to create new apprenticeships for people and it's why the Prime Minister's lifetime skills guarantee is crucial 10 million adults who don't have a level 3 qualification will for the first time be able to get one from the government we know that that can have a transformative impact on people's ability to get a new job or get a better paid job those are the right ways to help people There's a really disgusting argument there by Rishi Sunat because again he's sort of making it this zero sum game between having a decent social security system whereby families don't have to live in poverty and struggle to feed their kids or good well paid jobs and there is no association between the two of those it's not the case that bosses think oh I won't bother to pay people more because they're getting money through universal credit anyway that's not how it works that's not how bosses decide on wages bosses decide on wages based on who is willing to work for them at what wage and things like the power of trade unions so if Rishi Sunat really cared about increasing the wages of Britain's workforce he wouldn't be cutting social security benefits he would be empowering trade unions he would be raising the minimum wage to something which is genuinely enough to live on not just something he's called the living wage even though he's plucked it out of finair and it has nothing to do with what the living wage foundation say is actually a wage that people can live on it is potentially a smart argument though it's Rishi Sunat trying to sound progressive trying to sound left wing I care about high wages and that's why I'm cutting benefits Ash do you think the public will buy it? Well maybe because we've got really stupid media ecology as I've already pointed out so what the public will believe is often a reflection of how hard politicians are being pushed on the hypocrisies and outright lies within the arguments they're making so maybe maybe not one of the things which I think is really important to point out is that over a fifth of universal credit claimants are in work and are judged to be earning so little from the work that they're doing that it's not come subject to work conditions like you have to prove that you're searching for work x many hours a week so that means that somebody is essentially in a full time form of work and not earning enough to survive to feed themselves, to clothe themselves to keep a roof over their heads to look after their kids and their loved ones and what Rishi Sunat is saying is well what we need to do in order to encourage people into full time work which as we've seen universal credit claimants are already in is hurt their income even more by taking away this 20 pound uplift it doesn't make sense it's a completely dishonest argument which I don't see either Rishi Sunat or anyone in the government being pushed on hard enough and I also don't see Labour I think doing nearly enough to get these kinds of arguments out there because what it would require is taking a step back and saying actually it's not just the welfare system that's broken it's employment it's the way job creation is working is what kind of jobs are available for people you don't see that kind of political sense making and that kind of narrativising which links together these seemingly disparate bits of people's economic and social existence into a unified explanation of what's going on and I think that that is the single biggest weakness in Labour at the moment and that's also conversely one of the biggest gifts given to the Tories because it creates all of this room politically for Rishi Sunat to come out and spend some absolute fraff about how he cares about high wages and how he cares about quality employment and that's why he's getting rid of the 20 pound uplift which is actually helping support people who are already in work and are on poverty wages sorry I'm angry about this the level of outright deception and dishonesty and the room which is given by some of the best paid and most well regarded journalists in the country for that deception and dishonesty really winds me up I mean you should be angry about this and I suppose you know what's particularly upsetting about this is Rishi Sunat is still the most popular person in the Cabinet and as we talked about in the first part of this show the Tories are about to break their manifesto pledge to increase income tax national insurance or VAT because they're going to increase national insurance which as James Meadway explained is the most regressive way to pay for social care and now they're ending the 20 pound uplift or I mean essentially let's call it what it is it's a 20 pound a week cut to universal credit which is going to put some of the poorest families in this country into further poverty and he's still incredibly popular and as you say that is because this isn't covered in the right way how often do we hear people who are claiming universal credit on the television I think if we if we gave them the same kind of access we give to people like Lawrence Fox and it would be pretty hard to make these kind of cuts which are going to hit so many working families and so many people out of work I don't want to do this sort of moralizing good benefit claimants versus bad benefit claimants it's often very difficult to get a job and as we're seeing with things like you know shortages on shelves employers are going to have to pay people more if they want people to go into work that's brilliant but that is not happening in every sector right which is why we should not start by cutting social security and hoping that wages will rise no if Rishi Sunak wants less people to be in poverty on the kind of wages where they need to claim universal credit then make sure everyone is earning enough that they're not even eligible for universal credit if no one was eligible for it because wages were so high that would be great that's not the case that's not what we're currently seeing in this country so instead what he's doing is cutting it while wages still remain incredibly low let's go to a couple of comments thank you Tarana Amadi Parker on the YouTube Super Chat we know you're a regular viewer so thank you for that and of course all our regular donors you are what makes all of this possible I'm particularly grateful to all of our regular donors now I'm back in the Navarra Media Studio I can see the beautiful surroundings you have helped us yet let's go to oh and if you aren't already you know the score do go to Navarra Media dot com slash support Phil tweets on the hashtag Sunak saying the government have looked after the most vulnerable is a disgraceful lie the most vulnerable are those on legacy benefits the majority of which are sick and disabled and can't work the Gov chose not to increase their welfare payments at all during the pandemic that is completely outrageous the people who were left behind during the pandemic so people who are on universal credit yes they weren't living in luxury but that 20 pound uplift really did help people who are on legacy benefits who hadn't yet got moved on to universal credit got nothing and there were many other people who as we talked about on this show the government's COVID policies completely left behind telling people to shield without providing any kind of proper system whereby they can get the support that they need just saying oh you've got a shield and we're not going to help you help you do it we're not even going to give you the right to not go into work if you have been told you can't go I mean completely outrageous policies this government towards people who are disabled or for various other reasons cannot go to work or need extra support from the state let's go to our final story Labour are continuing their campaign to regain power with only one policy being nasty to Jeremy Corbyn in public Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy continued that trend in an interview with the Murdoch-owned Times Radio this weekend can you envisage a situation where maybe he then would stand as an independent in Islington North and do you think he'd lose he'd lose the Labour Party you know Paul I've got no idea absolutely no idea what he intends to do I know but what if he did the party would win wouldn't it well I mean look we we stand in seats we stand to win and we fight them very hard and we would and I would knock on those doors for our candidate and do what I could to support them but I would just say this to you as well is that Luciana Berger who I know you know well and it was a very good friend of mine through our years in Parliament said when the EHRC report was published this is no longer about Jeremy Corbyn he's tried to make it all about himself and this is about the Jewish community the hurt that has been caused to them and the trust that needs to be repaired and that's what I care about that's what I'm focused on and it was heartening to spend time at an event in Manchester with hundreds of members of the Jewish community just this week and to hear how slowly and painstakingly we are starting to rebuild that level of trust and that's what I'm focused on not the individuals who've caused so much pain over recent years Asha I want your take on this can you imagine Lisa Nandi canvassing the residents of Islington North to boot out Jeremy Corbyn Can I just say something about Lisa Nandi's comments about the hurt caused to the Jewish community and how seriously she's taking it if she was taking anti-Semitism and racism seriously she would not be on Tom Newton Dunn's show she wouldn't be on there for even a second and the reason why is that man a political editor for the sun he published an article which was this mad conspiracy theory map which had all these different little fact files and you could click on them and it supposedly exposed a hard left network surrounding Jeremy Corbyn I was named in it many people you know you might have been named in it yourself I can't remember Michael and when you clicked on those fact files you can see who was cited to put this map together Arian Unity literally a neo-Nazi organisation there's another one called the Millenium Report which is notoriously anti-Semitic and it also seems that this map this mad conspiracy network map was actually lifted from you know far right bits of the internet from something which was called the Traders Map so this is something which I think had the real risk of perhaps inciting violence inspiring what's called stochastic violence where you create an environment which makes political violence more likely and also was steeped in and drenched in far right conspiracy theory and anti-Semitism so if Lisa Nandi cared at all about these issues which she's supposedly taking so seriously she would go I refuse to be on a show being interviewed by this man on issues to do with anti-Semitism and racism you know what the hypocrisy would be staggering so I have a real problem with the way in which Labour MPs supposed progressive, supposed anti-racist normalised this man who has never been held accountable for what was published under his name so that's the first thing that I would like to say the second thing is about this question of you know Jeremy Corbyn and the way in which Keir Starmer's leadership and also members of the Shadow Cabinet have sought to define their own political identity against Jeremy Corbyn so one, it's stupid absolutely nobody in the electorate is one over by simply making a negative case by going here's what I'm not we've seen that time and time again which is voters outside of very specific circumstances like perhaps with Trump they actually don't like that they're like can you just tell me what you're going to do what you're not going to do the second thing is that for all of the attacks leveled at Jeremy Corbyn and for all the ways in which his personal approval ratings suffered because of those attacks in 2017 40% of the electorate and in 2019 32% of the electorate still went out and voted for him so when you go out and you say Jeremy Corbyn has caused so much pain he's essentially second only you know to botchalism in terms of you know poison and evil the thing that you're doing is you're essentially saying to that 40% and then that 32% and so are you you are associated with this person if you liked this man's policies if you liked what he stood for if you respected his integrity and his principle that means you're also trash so you're kind of insulting a large portion of your potential voters and then the third thing is whether or not Labour could win in Islington North if Jeremy Corbyn contested the seat obviously people tend to vote more so based on party and who it is that they want to be prime minister polling has borne that out however you do have these isolated cases where the appeal of a particular politician who they are what they stand for and their name recognition is able to upset that general political trend that's exactly what happened with Ken Livingston who had to run as an independent for the London mayoralty and won and beat the Blair selected candidate Frank Dobson I believe it was Ken Livingston was the victim of a procedural stitch up in order to try and keep him away from the London mayoralty and he won because he was offering something which Londoners liked and his name had a significant amount more recognition than Frank Dobson's when it comes to Islington North what plays in Jeremy's favor should he decide to run as an independent candidate I also wouldn't blame the guy if he just wanted a break from the daily smears and lies and his stereo of presenting him as the greatest evil this country has seen since Coronation Chicken I couldn't blame him if he wanted a break but the things that run in his favor is that one regardless of whether or not you agree with him politically or you like what he stands for he is a famously dedicated constituency MP there are so many people in Islington North who have stories about when their council flat was in the state and Jeremy Corbyn said I'm going to make sure this gets sorted for you, stuff to do with immigration status, stuff to do with attempted deportations Jeremy has been really dedicated and committed to his constituents and then the second thing is name recognition Islington North is a safe Labour seat sure but also when he was excluded from the Labour Party there were these vox pops being done and somebody said this is Jeremy Corbyn country and it's because what he was offering in terms of his economic vision, his social vision the fact that he wanted to achieve a more just economic settlement without throwing minorities under the bus it made him really popular in Islington North so I would be wary of hubris in this case and I also think that to run against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North in aggressive hostile way and all that entails I think that it would hold back the Starmer leadership and Labour's chances more generally it would just look really unattractive the most sensible thing that the Starmer leadership can do is go okay this man is an MP he was elected as a Labour MP and he is a Labour Party member that means he's a fucking Labour MP and just get over it just take the L and move on but instead they're in this impossible position about once having no leg to stand on about why this man shouldn't be a Labour MP so nowhere in the rule book there's absolutely nothing that says that this man shouldn't be a Labour MP but so you know holding to essentially defying their own guidelines and their own laws and internal structures but also saying we define ourselves against this man we draw all of our political identity from not being him it's a contradictory position to be in and it's a stupid one it's a rod they've made for their own back so yeah Lisa what are you doing on Tom Newton Dunn's show do you actually care about racism and anti-Semitism at all or is it just a cheap political line she cares about it when people in the Murdoch press have decided that someone is a racist they've decided Jeremy Corbyn is a racist she'll lean into that if the racist is actually within the Murdoch press she wants to keep her hands clean she doesn't want to upset those people Lisa Nandi of course doesn't just speak for herself and Keir Starmer's front bench and so is subject to collective responsibility Labour supporters have responded to her comments on Times Radio by therefore re-sharing some of the statements Starmer made during his leadership election about the then outgoing party leader well look the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn in that election we've just had were terrible and they came back at us on the door they vilified him and they knew what they were doing and they knew why they were doing it that was Keir Starmer when he was courting the votes of Labour members he said the media vilified Corbyn and that they knew what they were doing and they knew why they were doing it when Corbyn said the same thing after the release of the EHRC report he was suspended and now Keir Starmer has his shadow cabinet ministers saying they'll campaign on the doorstep of his LinkedIn North to boot the guy out of Parliament there is more though than Keir Starmer's acceptance speech I want to pay tribute to Jeremy Corbyn who led our party through some really difficult times who energised our movement and who's a friend as well as a colleague that video there where Keir Starmer calls Corbyn a friend shows that he isn't just a liar he's a snake Ash it's plain to see how duplicitous Keir Starmer has shown himself to be will he get away with it No, I don't think he will and I would think that the reason why this will go badly for him actually has very little to do with Jeremy Corbyn and how people feel about him as a former party leader it's got much more to do with what it says about Keir Starmer because as you said saying one minute he's a friend and a colleague I pay tribute to him he's led our party through really difficult times he's been attacked, he's been introduced he's been smith and then to turn around no way actually all of those attacks and smiths were completely correct I never even liked that bitch everyone can see that for what it is which is naked opportunism one of the things that the electorate really responds to is a politician who is who they are do you know what I mean they just are who they are that's it Boris Johnson you know who he is he's someone who will say anything to get elected he's made that clear he's done the Brexit done and he did he's both slippery and lacks integrity but he's never promised to be anything else you know what you get with Jeremy Corbyn his strength was his weakness and vice versa which is there was no changing who he was he couldn't really be super agile and responsive to the moment but that's also what made him an appealing conviction politician whereas Keir Starmer has ended up with no policy no vision he says he's a man of conviction and integrity but also turned on someone who he said was his friend you know merely a year ago what do you end up with it's absolutely nothing and I think that you know you can see the desperation in the Starmer project at the moment which is despite the government having handled this pandemic in a completely catastrophic way in a way which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in this country despite there being rampant runaway inequalities despite people being in meshed in a housing crisis despite there being climate change happening now extreme weather events and you know completely inadequate responses from this government Keir Starmer has failed to make a dent in this government's polling and he only has one idea that's punch left and it's not working and the more it doesn't work the more he punches left because you've got Mandelson and that whole gang of you know ancient Blair rights around him dripping poison into the year saying well if you just do this a little bit more it will definitely work now it won't work what it will do is get the Labour Party in a shape which is more conducive to someone from the right of the party winning the leadership they'll do this by disempowering the membership by presiding over prescriptions and expulsions and that's what they hope will happen is that they'll end up with you know Blair 2.0 to rule over the ashes of the Labour Party and not win any elections right that's all they want and Keir Starmer is either I think to blinkered or perhaps to unstrategic as a politician to see that for what it is Lillia I think it's I mean it's what do people know about Keir Starmer other than that he doesn't like Jeremy Corbyn I mean and even that his one selling point to the public I don't like Jeremy Corbyn falls apart because just two years ago he was saying he was a brilliant colleague and a friend and he said oh things have changed since now and then things have changed because he made a statement after the EHRC report which changed everything and I mean that just doesn't wash you know even the people who think that Jeremy Corbyn mishandled the anti-Semitism crisis none of them think that his comments after the EHRC report were worse than what came before yet for Keir Starmer that was the dividing line the dividing line was before he said oh actually the media did exaggerate the extent of the problem that was when he suddenly became persona non grata he suddenly became someone we should be actively campaigning against on the doorstep before that he was a friend who he wanted to be prime minister doesn't make any sense so it because also what Jeremy Corbyn said after that EHRC report wasn't anything new it was what Jeremy Corbyn had been saying the entire time that Keir Starmer was in his shadow cabinet campaigning for him to become prime minister which was to say yes there is a problem but also it was exaggerated that wasn't new no one heard that statement from Jeremy Corbyn he said oh I didn't didn't realize he believed that no we knew he believed that right he said it consistently throughout the whole period now some people might say oh that was a bit strategic maybe you should have used a different tone fine whatever the point is nothing changed between 2019 when Keir Starmer was trying to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister and 2021 when Keir Starmer is saying he's trash on the bottom of my shoe and I wish he would have nothing to do with me I want to deselect him as an MP I want to stand someone else against him you know it doesn't stack up you can't have your only selling point as I'm a man with integrity and I hate Jeremy Corbyn when just two years ago you said I'm a man of integrity and I think Jeremy Corbyn's the bee's knees it doesn't stack up it doesn't make sense let's go to one final comment Robert Scully with a fiver Ash I love your measured and interesting points of views Corbyn borrowed my vote from the Tories in 2019 and thanks to Keir and Co I will be going blue again now obviously none of us at Navarra Media advise you to go blue to vote Tory but I am pleased that we have one with very different viewpoints to our owners watching the show Ash do you have many Tory voting fans do you normally hear from them only in the DMs from anonymous accounts never openly no I'm actually really glad that somebody with different political views is watching our stuff and I hope just in case there are Tory voters watching I hope that you can see that we take the Tory party seriously and that we are actually interested in the differences in thinking and outlook and ideology and strategy within the Tory party and that it's certainly not about just being like they're all ogres we might come to a different view but we have dealt with the Tory party and as rigorous a way possible that for me is the mark of a media organisation which is both partisan and fair but you're not just relying on the same cardboard cut out narratives all the time that you're actually looking through it in detail and assessing it with the kind of discerning and critical eye that news media deserves that's what I hope that any potential Tory viewers are getting from our stuff Ash you were describing something very different to Tom Newton Dunn's interview with Lisa I agree with you that's what we aim for thank you so much for joining me this evening thank you for having me maybe next time it will be in the same postcode Michael what are you afraid of small steps, small steps we will get there and thanks to all of you for joining us this evening and for your super chats we'll be back on Wednesday at 7pm so make 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Good morning. This is the 6 a.m. press conference here on the CZU complex My name is Jonathan Cox deputy chief for Cal Fire San Mateau Santa Cruz Division and Line officer here on the incident Just a few things as always if you could please mute your telephones here in the press conference area Take any conversations away from from the the area and also keep your masks on at all times We'd appreciate it everybody who's speaking here this morning They will be available for questions and answers at the end of the formal presentations With that we'll get right into the incident update here on the CZU lightning complex the fire this morning stands at eighty two thousand five hundred and forty acres and Containment has increased to twenty six percent to six percent containment There are still thirteen thousand three hundred structures that are threatened by the fire and we can confirm this morning that 799 structures have been destroyed of those 799 11 of them are in San Mateo County and 788 are in Santa Cruz County within that 554 of the total number are confirmed to be single-family residents We do have over 2,000 firefighters that remain on scene and that number continues every day We stand right now at 2019 firefighters assigned to the incident with that I'll pass it over to the team for an operational update from IMT three operations section chief Mark Brennan Good morning. So yesterday. We had a really good productive day a couple minor setbacks and Last night nothing of super significance Lines were holding weather helping mitigate And we believe that we're gonna be moving forward with some really good work today with our plans for the day Up on top of the fire in the north zone fires holding really well in division Golf and kilo was able to fly late yesterday afternoon get a good look at the entire fire Up in the butano colony a lot of challenges up there a lot of the fire weekend trees are beginning to fall had a structure destroyed Yesterday from a falling tree that was fire weekend and there's a lot of fire weekend trees in there we're in there assessing that and Developing a strategy on how we're going to address that issue It's throughout the fire, but but we have a significant amount in that that particular area that we're concerned with Fire was was very active in that area burning down to our control lines Which is by design what we wanted to do with the winds that we had yesterday. That's where the big push was But it did it did move a little bit more rapidly than we've been seeing at the past few days That's fine. It just brings it down to the control line sooner. We have resources there Ready to deal with that issue and so yesterday they were dealing with that today It's gonna be another big day of dealing with that before we have a wind shift Which will push against that that advancing of fire front Moving down the the coast again. We're getting more lines put in All the way down to the community of Davenport the community. We've got feel that's that's quite safe We have some good lines around that. We do have fire established in San Vicente Canyon Just a little bit south of that area. That's something that is a target. That is a priority for us today We're gonna be putting a lot of resources in there. We've had some limited resources in there It's a very steep canyon a lot of vegetation in there We have some challenges to be able to get aircraft in there because there are power lines that run through there and Aircraft and power lines don't mix so we we really can't fly a lot in there so the ground troops are gonna have to really dig deep get in there and take care of business and we're gonna be Hammering that pretty darn hard today Along the south where our control lines are holding we continue a mop up phase there There is some smokes that pop up But they're deep interior and some of the drainages that we just really have a hard time accessing and they're just gonna Are strategy let those burn out burn up to our control lines and get our folks on them and to engage When it is safe and appropriate to do so moving up the the nine corridor Felt in the community felt and looking really good. We had that burnout operation a couple days ago That's doing very well with the last bits of it. We're we're burning out So some of the smoke that's visible from the Scotts Valley area a lot of that That's that's what they're looking at in piece and part is that and then also like I mentioned before some of the deeper drainages That's where the smoke they're seeing is predominantly coming from from that community So we're feeling a lot better about the protection of the community and and moving forward there up towards Ben Lohman Brookdale we we end up having a little setback yesterday. We had about a third acre. What's called slop over It's a it's a move fire that's crossed her line And a lot of that was due to the fact that again the the there hasn't been fire history here for such a long time The the matter that's on the decaying matter. That's on the force floor is very thick We call it duff you hear that term. It's very thick material and when we put our control lines in We we scrape those lines down to bare mineral soiled or bare soil that that won't burn and When you're dealing with a this kind of environment, you really have to have those lines dug very deep It's almost it becomes a trench at some points because it's so thick and we have to be very cognizant and very detail oriented on that because Sometimes and in this case, this is what we believe happened is that fire was able to creep Slowly within that and then pop up on the other side of our line. So again An area that has been a challenge because the topography and the fuels in it with all the homes Here's yet another challenge for us And when we're constructing our lines is this this thick matter that's on the floor that we have to cut through So that we don't have another one of those so we hit we are With more people there we're increasing our patrol of those lines so that we can detect that even sooner But that is unfortunately something that we're just going to be dealing with Throughout the rest of this event The rest of the line is continue to be put in play Up through the rest the north part of the fire all the way up past the north of Boulder Creek and tying into our division kilo up there the Bonnie Dune area again Continued a lot of work to be done a lot of work has been done a lot of homes in there We're working around a lot of those homes and it's a lot of just tedious work Been a lot of questions about the National Guard and the National Guard We've got them here a couple days ago. So now we our plan is we're going to be employing them in that area And it's because of the the sheer numbers that they're bringing This is actually a really good mission for them because again their training is of a basic standard And that's great because that frees up our more advanced hand crews to attack the other areas like we said Sente Canyon and then also open some of these lines here And we're going to put them to work where and they can do the job they do best in what we call gritting and making sure we go Through a very thorough process through that community and make sure everything's mopped up We have good line around where the homes and that sort of thing and to help render that safe Again our road crews are clearing the roadway so that our inspectors can get in to do more inspections The utility companies can get in to do their work to re-establish the infrastructure of those communities and The highway 236 corridor a lot of work being being done there and a lot of work to be done It's it's it's a mass lot of down trees and with the power lines and poles and so forth So that's that's a number of days worth of work just to get that that opened up there And they're working really hard working with Caltrans and and other resources to open that up Our aircraft we do still have the six water dropping aircraft. We anticipate that in the coming days We should see a few more of those coming in that's going to be a big help to us Mother nature if she cooperates we can get more flight time past few days We've had a thick marine layer. It hasn't burned off till late our aircraft as I mentioned before cannot work in those type of conditions safely So we've had to wait until that clears up as soon as it clears up on any part of the fire We're flying those missions and those those crews are doing a fantastic job when they're up to fly when I was doing my Reconnaissance flight yesterday all our aircraft were up and going and they were they were hammering it They were just it was turned constantly getting through their dip source getting their water bringing it back dumping on on the targets So as soon as we get more clear air, we're going to max out the hours we can on the aircraft We're going to be dumping hundreds of thousands gallons on that to support the mission and the in the mission of the in the helping the crews on the ground to Get another day closer to completing this this mission. Thank you Up next from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is Chief Deputy Chris Clark. Good morning So some good news obviously last night and yesterday and getting folks home in the unincorporated area Scott's Valley So we hope to continue that good news as these days go on and so I would encourage people to pay attention obviously to Cal Fire's website to our social media our Facebook page For continued updates with regards to repopulation and then also we'll be discussing it at press conferences So, you know again good news on another front. We did get any any further citations or arrests last night I'll talk about the device we found yesterday here in just a moment But but no arrests or citations, which is which is a good thing and another good thing is that For the folks that went home last night. We had no reports of burglaries So they came back to homes that had not been broken into which is I mean who would want to who'd want to come back to that and so It was good in the sense that nobody that didn't happen We had 56 people 56 officers and deputies run around last night. We'll have another 56 today With 21 of our folks 15 from in County and in 20 mutual aid in terms of calls for service We had six suspicious people calls that that we went out to and our missing person still stands at one So again, we cleared up to three people. We were looking for that. We'd posted on our on our social media And so we developed one new one yesterday will be our detectives will be actively looking for that person in terms of the device That we found yesterday. I spoke about that last night Our bomb team went out there. They made that they made that situation safe and our detectives are continuing continuing to investigate So there's going to be there's likely going to be more to come but but obviously we're heavily involved in in that And then in terms of repopulation again I just just stressed you to just pay attention to to Cal fire Their website their social media and then our social media We want to get people home as absolutely fast as possible and we're going to continue to do that And then obviously that's that's our mission with In combination with the security checks that we're doing so that people don't come home to to missing stuff So anyway, that's that's all I have. Thank you Next from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is Lieutenant Vince Badola. Good morning We are have good news similar to Santa Cruz County We did our saturation patrols overnight and had no reported burglaries in our areas and We did have a few calls for service for suspicious Suspicious vehicles that is driving slow in the area, but nothing panned out One of our volunteer crews that were there Volunteer sheriff's personnel called one in and then a couple residents called those in and no contacts were made with those Vehicles, so we are happy to report that Everything has been good safe and we are happy that our residents are getting back to their areas We want to again reiterate the fact that if you can please do not travel in these areas of San Gregorio Lahonda and Pescadero areas if you're not a resident don't travel through there, please We want to get everybody in to our residents our resident areas and we want to keep them safe and continue the efforts of getting everybody back so please stay away and Lastly, we want to continue and reiterate Look at Cal fires websites for updates and then our San Mateo County Sheriff's Office websites social media platforms as well. That's all I have. Thank you Speaking next on behalf of all the unified incident command agencies is Cal fire incident management team 3 IC Billy C Good morning. Obviously you're hearing a lot of good news about the firefight out on the ground There's still a lot of areas that have active flames We're aggressively getting our control lines put in place Well, I want to remind everyone this a multi-phase situation to mitigate this incident We have a lot of roadways that have damage to them The thick duff is starting to burn out underneath some of these roadways and collapse the roadways So we're going to be working with both County EOC's Caltrans and County roads to identify Problem areas and to make them safe for people to travel and obviously a lot of the damaged trees out there Are starting to come down. So we're going to have to start removing trees that are unsafe That potentially take out additional power lines Cross roadways or in danger structures. So like I said, it's multi-phase when we start pushing forward With the entire mitigation process of this incident and it's going to take a while. I need everyone to be patient We're working diligently with both County EOC's all the all the Caltrans and County roads And we'll be working with the private timber companies to identify and secure all those safety hazards out there. Thank you Our final speaker this morning San Mateo Santa Cruz unit chief Ian Larkin. Good morning Progress we continue to make progress each day As I stated earlier You know, we're we're still got a firefight going on trying to get control lines in To fully contain this fire and then make it safe for residents to get back in But I want to emphasize that the recovery process has already started Incident management team has been working diligently In coordination with our emergency operation centers to give them information on starting that recovery process. So those EOC's are working to Get information so that when this is over they can get in there and make those sites even safer for those that have had Significant damage or there's been damage to their infrastructure roadways and such We have requested a emergency watershed response team to the incident This fire has impacted our watershed pretty significantly And they'll be putting recommendations forth on how to mitigate those hazards as we move forward So as I said, it's not too early to start that recovery phase. We've been working on it for about a week now So just want to re-emphasize to the public that we're going to try to make the environment as safe as possible for you But on a different note I just want to remind everybody that we are just moving in to our peak fire season here in San Mateo Santa Cruz And we have an 82,000 acre fire that we're going to be continuing with through that process So for those that have not done your defensible space It's not too late to start. You just need to be cautious where you're doing it So you don't spark a new fire So if you can get out there protect your homes and start working towards that defensible space For those that are still out there, it is still a hazardous situation There are a lot of trees that are still weakened as we keep re-interating their root systems are inundated They have burned out underneath roadways culverts have been damaged bridges have been damaged in the area So it's going to take a little while to get that infrastructure up and back to normal So please be patient with us as we work with the counties to secure that infrastructure. Thank you All right, we're happy to answer any questions you might have Yeah, so question about a more specifics regarding the pipe bomb Can you tell us whether or not this is related to An organization that we've seen or individual who is in custody now was reigned yesterday. Is there any Any connection at this point? So at this point our investigators are investigating that that's concerning right phil I mean Concerning the folks live in the valley you hear about, you know pipe bombs you hear about explosive devices and That's concerning that people live up there. It's concerning to us And so our detectives are going to be pouring through all that looking into every conceivable question with regards to Why someone would be possessing that and all all the questions of of why and and that so We're looking into that phil. Is there can you be a little more specific about what was discovered? Yeah, so um, what again It was uh, like a toolbox and in as I mentioned last night This really started with some uh, some firefighters doing mop up cleanup work and putting out spot fires in and around Kind of like the boulder creek golf course area And so in doing that they ended up noticing a toolbox. It was open looked down and it found what appeared to be A pipe bomb and by the pictures that I looked at, uh, that's that's exactly the impression I would have gotten had I looked down and seen it and so they did the right thing they backed out of the area They contacted us we dispatched our bomb team and then And then detonated that stuff in place as I mentioned last night to make it safe But that's not without taking pictures and there's forensics work to be done on that And so there's a lot our detectives are going to need to follow up on and a lot they're doing a lot They did last night and a lot they're going to continue to do until we know, uh Although like again all the answers to those questions that I'm sure you have and uh, we have as well We did and so uh, I they did execute a search warrant last night, but for the sake of the investigation I'd love to tell you more about what they found but just for the sake of that investigation being able to Um answer more of the questions we have I I don't want to release that at this time just based on Them continuing to do do work. Are you looking at any particular person or persons at this point? Yeah, so, uh, obviously somebody you know somebody built that and so somebody possessed it And so, uh, we're going to be and there our detectives are looking into that Right, so the question is related to are there any more anticipated repopulations today Do you want to take it chris? Yeah So that's um You know, that's the hope and so you know where we want to be specific on the areas that we're looking for Or that we're looking to repopulate because I know that if I was displaced Um, and I was in an area that hadn't been repopulated yet I'd want somebody to be standing up here telling me when can I go home The problem is is that uh, it's hard to do that because of the logistics of getting people in safely efficiently Uh, and then also because I mean just is just yesterday, you know, we we repopulated scott's family preceding that We had people lining up at the checkpoints And so it just presents it presents it logistical issues with getting people back Efficiently because we don't want people sitting in traffic for two hours. You know, I mean especially up here There's limited roads and limited ways to get people in so we want to do that efficiently and also you've got You know kind of the changing nature of the fires you heard chief fronton mention There's a little bit of slop over in that, uh on that fire line there, uh, just north of ben loman So so things can change and things can things are dynamic Um, so Yes, we hope to provide updates. Yes, we want to provide, uh More on repopulation, uh every day and hopefully today will be Similar to yesterday, but things can change what I mean is Like almost there we're almost ready to bring you back Yeah, so those are the and as I mentioned those are areas that are going from least affected to most effect Most fire affected, right? So I mean again, you're moving towards felton And then up the highway nine corridor, but again I can't place specifics on and as much as I as much as we want to We just can't place specifics on when those people can go back home I wish I wish we could but things can change and so I don't want to get anybody false hope because I know that um That people want to go back home, but I you know, we want to be careful on on how we release that Hey chris to piggyback that that that question. Um, initially when there were evacuees they were displaced They were kind of filling up the parking lots here in scott's valley, uh, and then the scott's valley was moved out They were moved out. Is there a concern that um Now the scott's valley is open those those folks are going to come back and it's kind of going to create a bottleneck And how will you address that? Yeah, so the question is uh, is that is it going to create a congestion problem? The city of scott's valley for people wanting to venture further into the valley as these repopulation Or as these evacuation orders are lifted and and yes, I think that all of that all that's you know, we're looking at That that's exactly what we're thinking. I mean we not only is it the roadways. It's you know, it's impacting It could impact the city of scott's valley There's still you know a fire operation going on and we have fire that that's made scott's valley their home And so they're operating in and out of this area. And so, uh, you know any congestion to hear only makes things harder So as I mentioned last night, uh, and as you heard, uh, lieutenant bedoula mentioned for the areas in san matale You know, if you don't live here don't we don't want you coming here because it just creates further Just further impacts what we're trying to do or you know, uh Specific well, so we're hoping to stay consistent on when we release information, but again things can change All right, any other questions? I had a question for I just wanted to find out you mentioned of all the road damage What particular area is the worst that has to be cleaned up? So the question is related to the what's the worst area that roadways need cleanup Gc The most damaged areas are going to be all the interior roadways in and around the communities Obviously, we've got a lot of rolling material coming down on highway one and a lot of infrastructure repair that needs to occur out there But all of the impacted area Is a concern anytime you have fire weekend trees that could cross the roadway and create damage To civilians driving through there damage to our firefighters and their equipment or just Blocking the roadway itself is a major concern. So we're having to go through and assess every Inch of that line to make sure that we create a safe environment for all the people that are going to be In and around that area Highway one just past there there's issues with the blocks coming down No, honestly when you have 82,000 acre footprint in this type of terrain Something that looks reasonably well at this point tomorrow could be another Changing dynamic. So we have to look at it day by day As the ground starts to cool down those trees the root system are starting to burn out A lot of those are unknown dangers to a lot of us so When they start coming down and we start seeing the depth of char underneath the ground That turns into a major concern for our firefighters We're used to it. We've seen it up and down this state in many many areas. This is just another example Mother nature cleaning up the forest floor and what we need to do to mitigate some of those situations that we're presented with All right, everybody up here is available for questions and answers one on one at the conclusion of this We will meet back here tonight at 6 p.m. For another Press briefing and update. This concludes the 6 a.m. Press conference. Thank you for joining us