The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. To learn more about this family or if you want to help, i have tweetedute link to their gofund me page. Its only 5 contained. Its already claimed the lives of five people. Theyre being fuelled by high winds. More than 3400 Fire Personnel are battling wild fires with more than 300 engines and 17 helicopters. But just 5 containment right now. I want to bring in meteorologist in our cnn weather center. What does Mother Nature have in store . Theres no break in site unfortunately from the very destructive conditions that weve been dealing with. I want to point them out to you. First all of the big area of High Pressure thats been baking the west, even as far north as portland and seattle, theyve been Setting Records and will penetrate that big dome of heat. There are big storms firing off
in the front range and in wyoming of all places today. But until this big dome of High Pressure moves, were not going to see mu
i want to point this out to you again. the car fire only 5% contained. that s about 125 square miles, city of kansas city.ize of the - and we can see that smoke stretching for a long way. a scene from the visible satellite. you see the plume and how much of the sky it covers. that was yesterday. i m going to show you what s goinging on today. pretty much the same story as the plume moves through. the other challenge is these fires are are creating their own weather patterns. you probably saw the dramatic pictures of the firenado. i want to break down how that is occurring. you have the heat from the fire. that allows temperatures to rise very quickly and the air rushes in where the fire is occurring. and what will develop is what we call a firenado. basically a tornado made of fire and just like a tornado spreads debris around, the firenado does