issuing a state of emergency for san francisco and the cities, and it gives you a sense of how wide the impact is and how big the fire is and how wide of an area it is affecting, i should say. >> nick valencia, thank you. at first glance you might think that this is snow, but actually it's not. this is hail. it's a blanket of ice chunks coating parts of denver, and the hail hit the streets so much that the snowplows had to be called in. it came with toreants of rain, and one driver said the water came up so fast it quickly covered the hood of his car. >> let's talk hail and fire with alexandria steele. >> this is the time lapse from thursday night into friday morning when the incredible storm moved through, and it's