unpredictability, large growth fires. reporter: sadly scenes like this are the new normal world wide, in greece, experts say extreme summer heat accelerated the fire that turned these iconic white hill sooisd black with ash. the flames rose so quickly, some families rose into the sea for relief. the temperatures were so high, so normal. they could do anything as you can see, houses, cars, everything destroyed. reporter: the greek fires claim more than 80 lives so far, in just the last few weeks, more than 3400 daily high temperature records have been broken or tied, including unprecedented numbers in the north. montreal canada at 82. in sahara desert, they packed at 124 degrees this month. so are we ready for triple digit temperatures and consequences to go from extreme to expected?
if are you in redding, the answer is no. it seems part of my heart is gone. reporter: as can you see the fire continues to smoldner faces and folks are bracing for more potential problems as the area remains under a red flag warning. derek is here to talk more about these fires the two words that stuck out for me in that report are new normal. this is the near normal to that mart of the world. and climate change. even though we can t directly pin these individual events on climate change, what we as meteorologistsed on scientists around the world are recognizing, all these things are occurring more frequently. so the fingerprints there of climate change definitely quite invisible. all right. so let s re-visit the car fire,
it looks as if firefighters are getting a handle. it is hot. we re talking triple digit heat today. that will last through the course of the weekend. it will make it difficult for the fire to be put out and extinguished. in terms of largest fires, it doesn t register on our top ten list, that puts that into perspective, remember thomas fire in ventura county. that was over 110,000 hectares. there are 89 large wildfires amongst an extreme heat wave that continues. there has been some relief in california. look at the sacramento valley. still we have heat advisorys and warnings. triple digit heat continues and really there is no ryan i sign of letting up from this extreme heat. so, natalie, i m sure you can see where i m going with this,
live from atlanta. i m natalie allen. firefighters are trying in hot conditions to battle the fire, two people have been killed and it s only 5% contained. the deaths consumed nearly 20,000 hectares, that s more than 48,000 acres. japan is prepare foing for type. the storm expected to hit the region around tokyo the hardest. officials warn it can pass of person japan where more than 200 people were killed by flooding and landslides. on top of all that, they re having a heat wave in japan. chinese president xi jinping is finishing off a trip in south african the leaders there promise more open and multi-lateral trade. they introduced to support the paris climate change agreement.
we re focusing on. the california national guard has 800 troops that will help battle the blaze. look at some of the night visuals out of that region. just unbelievable to see. this could be your home, my home. you re he seeing cars burn. there is a basketball hoop in the front driveway. there is a 30,000-foot shadow from a plume of smoke from this fire that is blanketing much of northern california at the moment. the fire has also led to evacuations of nearly 40,000 residents. and you know, what latest numbers, we have had over 500 structures destroyed. nearly 75 structures damaged from this particular fire. and another fire this is just south and east of los angeles, the cranston fire, look at how it is approaching some of these homes. can you believe it? authorities believe that this series of fires was the cause of arson. let talk about the details. but what i don t like to see on 24 particul