the pilot was dropping fire retardant on the flames when the pilot slammed into a canyon wall. far off the east coast, folks in bermuda are cleaning up from the battering from tropical storm fay. it slammed into the islands with heavy wind and rain, and it knocked out power to 30,000 customers before moving out over the ocean and briefly strengthening into a hurricane. an advancing cold front is expected to neutralize fay at some point today. much further south, another storm is brewing. flash flood watches and warnings have been posted across puerto rico as it races toward the eastern rim of the caribbean. gonzalo is expected to swing out into the open atlantic missing the u.s. east coast. take a look now at today s weather. a band of severe storms is covering a wide area from the texas gulf coast up into the great lakes. 40 million americans are in the storm zone. torrential rains could dump five inches in some places. showers also for the pacific northwest and south florida.
forestland. how challenging is the terrain? extremely challenging. reporter: this is where trees are torching. we watched as the fire made a run up a canyon wall. it s a challenge to keep the fire from crossing the road edging closer to hundreds of homes. the steep, rugged terrain makes it too dangerous for people. that s why they have the helicopters. nine helicopters are part of the air attack dousing the flames with 2,000 gallons of water in each run. the elite, highly trained hot shot firefighters are on the ground watching the weather, especially the winds. it wasn t even a year ago a deadly yarnell fire claimed the lives of colleagues. back to the basics, be prepared. make sure there are escape routes and safety zones. they are evaluating them so they have a place to go.
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he said they were able to do something that s never been done before. they figured out the plane s direction of travel by using a particular calculation to analyze the jet s automated satellite data. a formman walked us through how they did it. what this search is coming down to is basic mathematic detective work. if you were to shout out to a canyon wall somewhere and wait for the echo to come back, it would take a certain amount of time. if the wall were further away, it would take longer. you combine that with the doppler affect and that s how we got this arc of where the plane might be. they have this satellite in geostationary orbit. it s at the same spot above earth. we moved it into particular position so we can see it. 22,000 miles up. it s every hour sending a ping or electronic handshake down to