Dana thanks for being here today, set your dvr and never miss an episode of the five. He is the news guy you cant help but like, up next its mik mike. Mike the final frontier becomes the next frontier, russia says the new u. S. Sanctions over the poisoning of a spy are unacceptable and a deeply disturbing look inside the mind of a teenager behind the Parkland High School massacre. This is special report. Good evening, while welcome to washington. A new kind of space race is underway tonight and it does much more concerned with weapons and war than peace and exploration. The Trump Administration is formally launching its new Military Branch called the space for submitted what the
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extraordinary to watch, mike. they have been going around and around constantly over the last 30 minutes or so because of a big flare-up we saw right behind me here. immediately that the flames come up there, you see the fixed wing aircraft and the helicopter coming in. they drop some of them, a pink fire retardant. that seems to do a very good job and, of course, there are also water drops. they are a very, very important part of this fire fighting effort. and i can hear a helicopter now coming in. again, we are probably not going to see it through the thick smoke. but they are essentially going around and around. they do drying out again. the flames pick up once again and the helicopter noise very loud here for us but the smoke, mike, right now so thick you can t even get to see them. they are doing an incredible job, mike. mike: jonathan hunt on the fire front lines in lake elsinore, california. thank you very much. west virginia s house usual
climate change even though it s in california far enough to the east coast. things on the west coast get less attention and this is a terrible thing for the people out there. but if it were happening in new york and washington it would get much more attention. mike: no question. morgan? i think what you are seeing here once again misuse by the federal government. when you look at the federal government owns 68% of all the federal forests. and you are seeing an abuse by the endangered species act here. spotted owl is protected, right? they can t go in and even get rid of the dead trees for forest fires. people i talk to on the ground out west are furious about how the government is treating this fire. climate change vs. success what s going on on the ground are actually two different things on the ground at the moment. these people need help and the endangered species act is being used in a way that i think is endangering and
right now. the holy fire continues to grow doubling in size overnight. now more than 30 square miles. that s half the land area of washington, d.c. more than 20,000 people have been told to evacuate. many leaving very late. thinking the fire wouldn t come as close as it has. it is a nightmare. it s so horrible. i want it to be over. never would have think it was going to burn like that. it changed so drastically. we were running out of the house. flames continue to creep down the hillside above lake elsinore some 60 miles south and east of los angeles. one spark away from destruction. hey, backyard is on fire. more than a thousand firefighters are battling to save homes backed up by helicopters and fixed wing aircraft dropping fire retardant and water.
51-year-old forest clark is accused of deliberately starting the holy fire. he was arraigned in court today and asked if he could immediately pay his bail. can i handle a million right now easily. clark may or may not have been joke but tonight, mike, the holy fire is no laughing matter for the 1,000 or so firefighters on the front lines here. cleveland national forest, which is the lead agency in this fight tweeted today that they, quote, cannot get ahead of the fire. and with the winds kicking up quite significantly here now that dire outlook set to hold with firefighters facing another long and exhausting night. mike? mike: jonathan, you showed us some of the aerial drops involved with the firefighters out there. what more can you tell us about some of those efforts above from, you know, helping the firefighters on the ground? they are pretty