that was in a setting made of heavy brush and being in that brush as the fire came through put them in direct physical contact with the flames and that, the investigators say, that was not survivable. investigators adding they have made seven recommendations, including providing real-time gps tracking technology for crews in the future, not just for arizona where this took place, but nationwide. back to you. arthel: yeah, cause that was a very sad and unfortunate outcome there. dominic, thank you very much for that report there in los angeles. gregg? gregg: rebound in the stock market, as well as housing prices driving up u.s. household wealth in a really big way. we re talking nearly $75 trillion, according to the wall street journal. that is an historic high, but all of this may surprise you a bit after we reported and everybody else, last week that a record 15% of americans are now living at or below the poverty line. scott joins us now with help save my dollars.com. good to
state history. dominic dinatale is live with more for us on this story. officially the cause is still under version and to be determined according to fire chiefs as it has been since it started 16 days ago. but fire chief from one of the towns threatened by the blaze today told fox news that it could have been sparked by elicit madge operation. the chief said based on the information the authorities already know, activities at the pot farm are suspected to have started the blaze. now the fourth largest in california history. mcneal first brought the suspicion to light almost a week ago during a community meeting. now a video of that has appeared on youtube, although we should point out it wasn t meant to be the official word from cal fire. in describe how it was, quote, highly suspect there might have been some sort of illicit grove,
a marijuana grow type thing. the spot is so remote, it takes a real effort to get there, usually by a helicopter. huge pot plantations keep being discovered on national forest, and they say they re run by mexican drug cartels who lynch worker downs into the sights. this is turning out to be an expensive fire, the rim fire. $18 million so far and 22,000 acres now gone that is bigger than the city of dallas. at least firefighters are getting close to controlling half of it, though, but it is by far the worst we have seen so far this season. heather? dominic dinatale live for us, thank you. kentucky having a tough time of it as well. extreme weather leaving serious damage in the wake. lexington hit with very strong winds, lightning and dangerous flooding. lightning in one neighborhood bringing a tree crashing into someone s front yard, briefly starting a gas fire there. another part of the town, high wind just toppled a tree on cars in a street. opened the door and there is a car th
mountsenous terrain. the firefighters are having a hard time get not guilty there because of the mountains. they didn t receive the snow pack they typically receive in the wintertime. so that has led to more dry brush and the fire has really exploded within the last 24 hours. so taking a look at the forecast, temperatures, a little bit cool, but as dominic mentioned, winds gusting from 15 to 20 to 25 miles per hour. when you have a fire this size, it s erratic. it can create its own winds. sunday not much difference here. lot of sunshine, very dry conditions and only 5% containment. we do have a tropical storm offshore in the pacific. we were hoping we would get some of the moisture to move into this region. however, it is skipping the san francisco and yosemite area. you can see the moisture filtering in to the southwest. really not getting into the area that we really needed. so ivo is the tropical storm
mixed relief in idaho as storms drop rainwater on a fire near sun valley. but lightning sparked new blazes. let s go to dominic dinatale. in northern california, a city is threatened and it s threatening san francisco. give us the details, dominic. certainly. yeah. the weather here is getting hot this afternoon and that s going to keep the fire going. they re saying this could jump out of its containment area partly due to bad weather. the big worry is what might happen in san francisco. part of the yosemite park caught fire near one of the major dams that provides 85% of the water supply to san francisco. on top of that, some of the power lines coming out of this area that also feed the city have been affected by the fire. the governor, jerry brown, saying it might disrupt both power and water supplies. they re already taking power from elsewhere on the grid because some of the power had to