LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: In New Mexico, firefighters have the 28,000-acre Pecos wildfire 80 percent contained. That is the season's second large blaze. The fire that burned out of control last month in Los Alamos is the focus of hearings on Capitol Hill today. CNN's Bob Franken is there. We go to him now for a preview -- Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And Leon, now comes the time when Congress gets into the act. And members of the Republican- led Congress are going to be asking very tough questions of the administration: How is it that its Forest Service, its Park Service could, in fact, ignore the weather conditions, could in fact start those controlled burns, as alleged, and actually, instead of containing forest fires, cause the fires that were so devastating, destroying about 200 homes in the Los Alamos area? -- all of those angry questions that are going to come up at the hearing. There's also going to be considerable discussion about a controversial technique for preventing the forest fires. Environmentalists hate the idea of what the experts call "mechanical thinning"; that is to say, to chop down trees and clear out underbrush. It's going to be recommended -- it has been recommended in a draft report put out by the U.S. Forest Service. Now, the reason some environmentalists don't like it, because they claim it is just an entree for logging interests, who would then devastate the areas and probably destroy many species of animals. Nevertheless, the Forest Service report is going to be put out and there's going to be a long discussion, Leon, at this hearing.</s>HARRIS: All right, thank you, Bob.
Congress to Inquire Into New Mexico Wildfires Today