holding the line that they have already been able to create in some way on the north end using kind of a back burn operation as well as throwing down fire retardant. they do have a lot of resources as you mentioned here today. that s been a big improvement over what they had here yesterday. at least 800 fire personnel. 15 hotshot crews. we re expecting to see five more hotshot crews arrive here in the next few hours. we also know they had five helicopters up working, three air tankers. they re throwing everything they have at this right now, brianna, in the hopes of keeping this fire under control. we re sitting at just under 5,000 acres. that number has not gone up in the last 24 hours or so. but, again, it s still an unpredictable situation. we re going to keep watching it for you. and do we have any sense of how this started, ana? we don t know specifically. fire officials say they re still investigating. but they believe it is human-caused.
elisabeth city. the pictures we showed you with the tornado damage was between baltimore and d.c. and moved very close to bowie, maryland. and then across the chesapeake bay into maryland itself, the eastern shore, across toward dover. and that s where all that damage came from. and what it looks like here, the trees are just twisted. the tops of the trees are gone. when all the trees fall in one direction, it s wind. but when the tops of the trees get twisted away, then you know there was a tornado involved there for sure. and not that this is a big tornado like kansas or oklahoma city. but there are so many more millions of people in the way than would be let s say in the texas panhandle. that s when the weather gets scary in the east. yeah. such a heavily populated area there, chad. thank you. and let s go west now to arizona. hundreds already evacuated outside of a popular tourist area. thousands of acres burning. ana cabrera is in flagstaff following this. so ana, you 840 person
5100 homes are threatened in this resort area. this part of idaho where celebrities like tom hanks, arnold schwarzenegger and bruce willis own vacation homes. hotshot crews, country s dc-10 retardant bombers are there as well as the national guard. i mentioned the homes being threatened n addition to the homes more than one thousand businesses are right in the path of the flames, martha. martha: there are some other fires as well that crews are dealing with out west, right? reporter: that s true. a water treatment facility for the city of in oregon is being threatened by a fire burning in that area. that will impact everyone in that entire city. now this is a fire being called the government flat fire complex. it is burning about seven miles southwest of that city. homes are threatened and evacuation order was sent out for this one ignited by lightning. in call bass is a california a car fire got a brush fire going
takes center stage in missouriment the state s republican-lead legislature papses a bill that in affect nullifies federal gun laws making it a crime for federal agents to enforce those laws and making it a crime for journalists to publish the names of gun owners. the state s democratic governor is firing back vetoing the legislation and saying the bill violates the constitution and first amendment rights of free speech and a free press. to override nixon s veto they need a two-thirds vote in both the state, the senate and the state house. lawmakers are set to return to session come september. a national team of investigators are on the scene and working to understand more about a team of 19 firefighters who were killed fighting a fire in arizona. preliminary reports say the firecrews were highly trained hotshot crews that were killed as they were trying to build a line to block the fire from getting into the town of yarnell. they shifted the winds and cutting off the path to a
and a half minutes or less. because of the physical endurance required, most hotshots tend to be younger, in their 20s and 30s. it s certainly not an easy gig. hotshot crews are on call 24-7 during fire season, about six months out of the year. they re sent to where the terrain is most severe and the weather is typically hot and dry. they re exposed to wind and dust and all kinds of poisonous plants. crews sleep on the ground and if they re lucky, they get to shower every couple of days. the job keeps them away from home for several weeks at a time, working 14 days on and two days off. the hours are long too. often stretching into 16 hour shifts. they travel all over the country. so it is very difficult. it is very difficult to maintain a family life. our firefighters are just that, family as adjust to it just like