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out the window looking forward to catch

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a little side of home

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that the voice of nasa astronaut mike

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fossum who grew up in mcallen texas

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which is in the southern portion of the

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state he also attended texas a m

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university which is located in college

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mike is an avid outdoorsman and

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very active in the boy scout

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organization

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and has ex

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backpacked and hiked

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extensively throughout the state he's

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been following along with the fire

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wildfire activity and of course uh has a

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personal ties

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to the state and the current uh status

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an assessment was completed

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by the texas forest service on the

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bastrop county complex and reporting 785

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homes have been reported destroyed an

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additional 238 have been reported lost

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on other fires in the past three days

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again as mike reported this a view now

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from the international space station

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vehicle just uh closing in on the

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west coast again it'll be traveling over

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portions of mexico before making its way

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over

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dr wilkinson who is joining us here on

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the public affairs console in the space

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station flight control room is part of

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the team that works on the crew earth

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observations again thank you for joining

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us dr wilkinson can you tell us a little

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bit about what we're seeing at this

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point

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sure this is quite interesting in the

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foreground you see the dark green area

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and those are the forested mountains of

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the sierra madre let's think the western

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sierra madre and then at the top of the

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picture you see a lot of smoke you see

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there's a loss of detail there

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these inner valleys of uh north mexico

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uh have got this bright

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color to them the

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the the desert flats in between the

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again it's a live view from the

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international space station the complex

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uh now making its way over northern

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mexico just uh just west of chihuahua on

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over

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west texas this is sanjay i have

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completed my

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t2 exercise for protocol

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thank you okay we copy thank you for it

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for letting us know

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top right in the picture is a big

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massive smoke not a not coming from one

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fire but from several fires moving out

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over the gulf of mexico

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you can see the gulf of mexico

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top of the picture moving around to the

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right and then the smoke is moving out

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into the gulf of mexico in the

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foreground here in this picture you can

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see a broad uh semi-circle that's the um

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from the cupola

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that's the edwards placeholder and just

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north of the edwards platter burning

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across texas here and a kind of a haze

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across the whole area spreading to the

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uh spreading to the west

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right northwest you see it that is

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you can see the bastrop fire just

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starting to move out of the lower right

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corner of the image

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the other longer plume just above that

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is the the long view fire on the texas

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border

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you can see the gulf of mexico coastline

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and shannon what is that big fire that's

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uh west of houston

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i think that that fire with a long plume

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is the long view fire

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oh my gosh is that ever that is that is

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really sad

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yeah i better not plan on going camping

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i was planning to go camping there in

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january like every january with my boy

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scouts

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we may be planting trees then instead

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and we're already talking about it

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sounds like a good plan

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and mike just uh for your information i

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was just told that what you were looking

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at was the longview fire not the bastrop

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okay copy that lived in that area for a

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short time too

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and just coming up next to the sawyers

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is a massive smoke going out into the

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gulf and that fire is quite close to

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houston center is just moving out of the

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picture slowly to the top right you can

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that i believe is the longview fire and

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that's the uh

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the valley bottom of the red river that

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you see that with that lighter current

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colored line snaking through the picture

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you see and we can readily see each one

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of those plumes is a fire smoke

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yeah we're thinking that we can see it

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coming into the picture again are the

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the red river and in the middle of the

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picture right about now

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is the uh the long view fire with a big

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gulf of mexico top left

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and top right of the picture a bit hard

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to see but there's a massive smoke

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moving out into the gulf there that

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whole loss of

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detail that you see at the top there

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i'm distinguishing

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this is amazing we're flying uh right

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over the top of chicago at this time and

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we're still looking back the plumes of

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smoke over texas

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at the top of the image right now is a

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small fire right at the top a little

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white streak and then in the middle of

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the view you see lots of cloud and you

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can tell smoke from cloud because cloud

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is a little brighter and got sharper

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and station on two for a red

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station houston go ahead satoshi