it missed it to the east. it got the back side, the wrap around dry air winds that only made the conditions worse yesterday. so today, we don t have critical fire danger, we don t have red flag warning that s up. that s the good news. the winds will be lighter. it s not going to be any more moisture. and it s not definitely not going to rain, but the winds will be lighter and the temperatures will be a little cooler. i tell you, what from the firefighters that i ve talked to over years of covering fires like this, they ll take cooler winds, cooler temperatures, and they ll certainly take lighter winds. they don t necessarily need a complete dumping of rain from a tropical system to get a handle on this fire. so the hope is today they do that. chris welch i believe is on the line with us via phone. what can you tell us as far as the latest stats of fire, ac rage, containment. we re still hearing about 25,000 acres so far. we got a new number, i guess that number was update
thank you for waking up with us. i m live in new york. let s start in texas, shall we? it s a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you re looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let s go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we re going to get to chris welch who s in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they re going to get any relief from mother nature. we don t see a whole lot coming down the pipe there, carol, and what s the good news today, is that lee, or what s left over of lee is pulling off towards the north and east and that really, the past two days, has what s been causing the biggest problem ironically. we were hoping to get lee s moisture over there. it didn t. it missed it to the east. it got the back side, the wrap around dry air winds t