rid of the bone dry bub brush that goes up in an instant. this is what s left of a ranch in austin, texas. a pile of twisted metal and ash. the texas forest service says more than 700 homes have burned in the past two days. the largest fire in bastrop county is up to 30,000 acres and only a fraction of it is contained, even though the winds did slow down a bit. jim spellman is live right there now. jim, you ve been following this for several days now. are things getting worse, better, what s the situation? yesterday, they had some they made some progress, 33% contained now. they took advantage of low winds and cooler temperatures to get in there and build these fire lines and get rid of some of this fuel, some of this dried vegetation to try to stop this fire. they re far from out of the woods here, though. this is still a dynamic fire. the smoke is laying down. they ll try again to take advantage of getting on top of this as fast as they can. ali, these fires are breakin
so lets call on meteorologist wyatt everhart. mr.fix it. he is outside. wyatt? reporter: guys, no question about it. it is coming down lightly here now, i don t know how well you can see that in the light. but it s a wet night after a wet day across maryland. we re going to see this again tomorrow. take a look. flood concerns will continue not just tonight but through the day tomorrow. we have have widespread flood concerns especially on the northern and eastern shore right now. we ll keep that flood watch going for another 24 hours at least, most of the state. take a look at we go forward here, i want to show you the radar picture and right now, as we go this radar shot, you can see heavy rain on the western part of the state, way west, then those showers on the eastern shore. we have zoomed in radar view, as we go to that you can see relatively heavy rain on the northern eastern shore right up through cecil county and extending south into kent county now. that s where we