latest. what are conditions like where you are, paul? reporter: fortunately right now, anderson, the winds are not whipping through here. if they were, you would see even greater flames over both of my shoulders. fire is burning in these foothills right now as far as the eye can see. there are no significant population centers near here. there are some homes, by the way, on the other side of what is a major freeway, the 101 from this fire. they re very expensive beachfront homes. one of the concerns is these fires can throw up all sorts of burning embers. you can almost see them in the lens. if they drop on a roof or so, it can touch off other fires. what they re going to do is they can t send firefighters up into those canyons, that s extremely dangerous, but they ll have to wait for the fire to come down and make a stand right here. to recap, though, the winds right now are calm and that is good news. but you ve seen and heard over the last few days, anderson, those santa ana winds
alisyn: wildfires are forcing about 1500 people to evacuate a town in texas. firefighters are taking on dozens of fires that have burned more than 200,000 acres this week. the flames reportedly destroying at least one home in the town of rotan, and there s no word yet on whether anyone was home at the time. high winds and dry conditions are stoking the flames and spreading burning embers, sparking new fires. bill: they ve been dealing with that all week. this is the next major battle in washington and the party lines already being drawn, $14 trillion in debt and now president obama admitting that as a senator he played politics with his vote against raising the debt ceiling, that s the amount of money the nation can borrow. heresy on abc s world news. when you re a senator, traditionally, what s happened is, this is always a lousy vote, nobody likes to be tagged as having