cooling temperatures across canada that are slowly slowing the fire activity. but canada s wildfire season is off to an unprecedented start and it s not contained to the east, and you can see the massive blaze burning in british columbia on the west coast, there are at least 78 active wildfires, in that province alone. cnn s paula newton has more. canadian officials say that there are fewer fires burning now than there were earlier this week, having said that, you have to keep in mind there are fires burning right across this country from the west, to the east. it is on track already to be the second worst fire season ever in this country, and it will likely be surpassed, given the fact this is still early in that wildfire season. now, having said all of this, what is going to help the most is some cooler, wetter weather moving through some critical regions like quebec, hopefully in the next few days. this will continue to be a problem, though, and i want you to see why.
year of destruction. in the north, the state s largest blaze has consumed nearly all of a historic gold rush town. residents were told to evacuate before the three week old fire tore through the downtown area. barbara plett usher has this report. it is called the dixie fire, the largest blaze burning in california. greenville didn t stand a chance. this historic downtown muscle of the of that era. that s gone now. as the fire roared closer, residents were ordered to leave immediately. we re all evacuating. everyone s driving home as fast as they can to get there. well over 100 homes were destroyed as well as businesses. a swift and brutal loss that left both people and politicians in anguish. we lost greenville tonight,
[ ] eboni: live from america s news headquarters. election news out of florida where a recount will begin not snant governor races. the race for senate republican governor rick scott has a 12,000 vote lead over democrat bill nelson. and the race is tight with ron desantis with 33,000 votes over andrew gillum. 11 people are dead from the wildfires in california. the biggest so-called campfire in northern california. nearly 7,000 structures have been destroyed. also there is another blaze burning in the southern part of the state. president trump issued an emergency declaration providing
lobbying by tech giants like facebook. it will begin with scrutiny and that s why members of congress are demanding that mark zuckerberg come testify. there are at least three congressional committees that want zuckerberg to answer some questions. so far facebook hasn t been super clear about whether it will send zuckerberg but he should expect to see a pretty tough grilling if he does submit to that in a couple weeks. when it comes to massive companies like this, here you have it and we saw theresa may standing before parliament, they wanted zuckerberg to come, he said no. that he s going to send some of his top people, their chief technology officer instead. what are the tools available to get them to pay attention? well, i think part of what the company has to realize that there s a blaze burning in europe, a widespread view that u.s. regime is inadequate and the european union and its member states have to fill the gap. germany is doing this.
ordering the pizza as the curtain moves east with the rain. thank you, alex wallace from the weather channel. coming up in a few minutes we ll have a live report from north dakota which alex was talking about there for an update on the flooding situation there that was what so many worried about. crews are struggling to control a brush fire that devoured 125 square miles of land in west texas. it s the largest blaze burning in the country now. both high winds and dry conditions are only making it worse. texas forest officials say the biggest is a stone wall county fire which covered 71,000 acres. this morning the fire has not been contained. investigators saying the fires were sparked by pipe-cutting work. coroners are trying to figure out why a pair of 17le-year-old boys died while scuba diving off the california coast on saturday. authorities say the teens were part of an oceanography class.