Hi, everyone.
The Spokane County commissioner discussing the ongoing efforts in the
Oregon road fire clean up right now here at noon,
the cost of removing dangerous trees.
We'll have that coming up
and we have some rain moving its way through our region right now. Coming up.
I'll let you know where it's falling hardest and how long it sticks around.
Plus in our ongoing environment Northwest series,
we're taking a look at the shrinking snow pack and
its impacts all across the Northwest today at noon,
a look at the Cascades.
Hi, everyone. It is so good to see you. Welcome to CRM two news at noon.
I'm Laura Petty and we do begin with breaking news just into the crem two newsroom
in the last hour. According to a press release sent out by the White House.
President Biden has approved the dis major disaster declaration
for both the gray and organ road fires that destroyed hundreds of homes last August.
So what will this do?
It will provide federal aid for public and individual assistance,
the individual assistance program ensuring that disaster survivors have access
to a wide range of authorized programs
and services such as unemployment assistance,
crisis counseling,
case management and much for more for those impacted by the fires.
The public assistance program helps to connect state,
local and tribal governments
with grant assistance for debris removal facilities restoration and more
anyone affected by these fires can begin applying right now.
And to find that link, you can head to our website that is on CRE m.com.
Go there and take a look wrapping up only in a few hours ago as well.
The county commissioner was at the courthouse discussing the clean
up of damages sustained during the Oregon Road fire.
Today,
they are specifically discussing federal funding towards marking and removing
dangerous trees specifically along
Salnave Road
and
Blanchard Road as well.
Salnave Road has an estimated 14 trees that need to be removed.
Why Blanchard has many more? What they're estimating about 234.
Today, the county commissioner discussing costs on marking those trees,
which is estimated to be over $3000 which would be paid for by federal money.
The next step is then of course, removing those trees.
The estimated cost of removing the 14 trees of Sal
Name Road is about $6000.
While the cost of removing the trees on Blanchard Road is just over $65,000 in total.
The cost of removing all those trees
will just be over $70,000 federal money covering
85% of those costs, which is about 61,000.
But again, 73,000 being the total,
it costs that much because of the cost of crews and equipment
to get out to mark and remove all of the dangerous trees.
All right, it
is 1202. Right now we're gonna take a break from the headlines and talk about,
uh, a little bit of snowfall that happened, of course earlier and then, and
taking a look ahead as well. Hi, Nicole.
Hi, Laura. Yeah, we did get some snow over the weekend, but now it's all rain.
We are warmer than we were when we were getting the snow.
So now it's all coming down as rain.
You can see that as all of the green that's falling across the region right now.
You can see some heavier rain right now moving its way just north of the pollute
and potentially gonna make its way towards the Coralline
area.
You can see Spokane if we zoom in closely is
about to get hit with that next batch of rain.
If you haven't already started seeing it
also, the poll
is underneath a good amount of that rain right now. So starting to move its way east.
So hopefully in the next, you know,
30 minutes to an hour or so, Pullman Moscow will be out of that batch of rain.
But then by that point, Spokane Quarter Lane will likely be into the batch of rain.
And then beyond that,
there's just kind of scattered showers all around that heavier rainfall as well.
So look forward
for that for the rest of the day right now, temperature wise, like I mentioned warm.
That's why we're seeing the rain.
We're actually already in the forties right now at 42
degrees here in the Spokane area and across the region for
pretty much everywhere.
Which is why, where we're seeing moisture, we're seeing rain as opposed to snow,
of course, higher elevations, your mountains,
they're gonna be seeing some snow as they're colder up there
as we look forward to the rest of the day though,
warming up even more potential of reaching
high forties for your afternoon high today.