it s run out. the strike teams are waiting for reinforcements to come in. it s up to them to make sure embers don t flare up and these embers catch up with in trees. a lot of homes lost here in middletown, california. ari? i m seeing the glow of the fires behind you there. how close are you and the firefighters getting to the edge of this and how containable is it at this point? it s not containable. this thing is not contained at all. we re hearing it s 40,000 acres moving very, very quickly. it s hard to see in the dark but there s fire that way, there s fire that way. basically we re surrounded by fire. what you re seeing right here is nothing. this is stuff that you can walk up to and firefighters are really monitoring. if you saw some of the video from last night, you saw blocks and blocks completely going up in flames. that s the dangerous stuff. that s the stuff where firefighters can get hurt. we ve been monitoring all of that and seeing all that footage. thank you for yo
support, vigilance and patience in what is what they call a complex and ongoing investigation. that certainly does not suggest they re on the verge of making any arrests. as you said the 19-year-old person of interest taken into custody on friday is not considered a prime suspect. he has been jailed on unrelated charges. also somewhat frustrating to authorities, there hasn t been an incident confirmed since thursday. that, in itself, is not completely unusual. we had a stretch from august 31st to september 6th without a shooting, which speaks to the random nature of all of this. authority authorities saying that there are at least three different sort of motives here or patterns of activity. some shootings involving bullets, others involving bbs or pellets and at least one incident involving road rage. it is continuing to somewhat frustrate the authorities as they reach out to the public for help and continue offering a $20,000 reward as yet, ari,
bipartisan and doesn t rescue the fact that the public now opposes the content. you referred to 08, ari. i don t know that the president believed he could make everything more bipartisan or if he was saying that for campaign rhetoric. sort of the comments he was making back then sounded nice but they ignored all the data, which suggests most things were becoming two parties were increasingly divided. there are very few moderate republicans left verks few sort of the southern democrats left either. the parties are ideally divided. in fact, one thing the white house is doing now when you talk about the minimum wage or paid leave or community colleges making those free, the president talks about those in his speeches but he s not trying to move them in congress. he s trying to get cities and states like california, oregon. he s trying to move blue america in some ways without boring with congress because he knows these
championing the president s iran deal and knows about foreign policy. a former member of congress ousted by a tea party candidate in 2012. the best way to prevent and stop an iran nuclear situation. there are fewer and fewer richard lugars in the republican caucus. president obama faces a very different house and senate landscape and is responding, in some ways, by changing his approach to governing, bipartisanship that he promised in 08 to get things through however he can and with vinegar, when necessary. senior political reporter perry bacon jr., good morning to you. good morning. good to see you, ari. good to see you, too. little backstory on campaign politics. you and i were both on then senator s plane in 2008. you and i both saw him speak to
world and have ideas of how to get through it. scott walker, famously confident for staying in his backyard. the governor now canceling events in california to refocus on the state. so far an uphill battle for him and the other veteran politicians as poll voters continue to reject the status quo. it says they re looking for an outsider. it does say that. no question about it. on everyone s mind the debate on wednesday. just what will trump say or his opponents say to take him down a notch with rick perry out, the field is narrowing and the need to make a splash, and a big splash, is becoming more immediate for a lot of candidates we ll see on stage wednesday. ari? thanks to katy tur for that report. we take a lk the how women and even women s issues are driving this campaign season.