no rains in the forecast. we ll talk a little bit about that in the detail forecast. the temperatures how they re playing a role. pretty interesting what happened yesterday morning and how that has impacted the fire and not in a good way. can i ask a stupid question. there are no stupid questions. why do we call it a rim fire? well because when you look siel show you that again why it s named the rim fire. you see kind of the topography of it too. you ll notice it looks like a big rim. remember yesterday i was hearing someone tweeting and what they said was they were standing on one side looking over. the fire was on two sides of the canyon and it almost created this circle looking like a rim as well. that s maybe why they re calling it the rim fire. thanks for answering my stupid questions. never a stupid question. we ll take a look at the incredible video. a sinkhole in parish, louisiana, swallowed an entire row of
for people caught near the growing arizona wildfires. about 7,000 so far getting prepared to evacuate the towns of eager and springerville. that s near the new mexico border. scary because i know the fire is only about five or six miles over the big rim in front of us and that fire can be here in a matter of hours. so far, more than 230,000 acres have been scorched. no serious injuries have been reported. some fires reaching as far as iowa. robert gates is on his way to brussels for nato meetings after wrapping up his farewell tour of afghanistan. before leaving, he toured u.s. bases, thanked service members and told the troops they re on track to deliver a knockout blow to the taliban as long as the u.s. military stays the course. i think you have to ask the question what s the cost of failure, we ve invested a huge