the game. it allows you to hop on and arrive quicker than the golf cart. you can play two rounds in five hours. i m betty nguyen. this is first look on msnbc. way too early starts right now. did you wipe the server? like with a cloth or something? no. hillary clinton gets testy over questions about her private e-mail server even though her campaign acknowledknowledges th an attempt to wipe the server clean. a monster day for battling the inferno out west. the situation is so bad prison inmates have joined the fight. a failed pass. the senator goes long. marco rubio tries to connected, and wam, right in the head.
reporter: the inferno out west has refused to let up. so far at least 6.5 million acres have been lost across the nation. this is more than all of last year. in northern california, thousands of evacuations are underway. the fire truly wild and running rampant. officials saying it is completely uncontained. now threatening at least 3,500 homes. zachary pritchard s home is gone, and he almost lost his life. while evacuating on an atv, the wildfire caught up and singed his arm. fire everywhere. like you turn around, everywhere, on all sides of you. reporter: in idaho, more than 1,000 firefighters are battling to save the town of featherville. the fire has chewed away at more than 88,000 acres. at least 350 homes were evacuated there, families scrambling to pack up and move out. everybody s afraid. their nerves are shot. reporter: the biggest problem smoke. thick clouds have taken visibility down to less than ten
the president that again he believes in the american people, and the workforce here, and the president is traveling on to florida and also puerto rico where he will become the first president in 50 years, since john f. kennedy to come the san juan to meet the people there, and we will have much more on the stop in north carolina and what it means for the voters and for this president who obviously wants the american people to know that he is focused on the jobs situation in this country. also, we will talk about lart how the latino vote in north carolina, florida, and in puerto rico is factoring into the conversation. we will have more on that, and the newsnation is focusing on the inferno out west. firefighters say they are making progress in the battle against the massive arizona fire, but hundreds of communities are being evacuated. listen to these numbers. more than 700,000 square miles are charred and more than 200 homes and businesses threatened
this trial short for a third time in as many weeks followed by a blunder by the prosecutors. petersen is accused of killing his third wife in 2004. he was asked today if he agrees with his attorneys, and he told the court, yes. we ll talk much more about this dramatic case with our legal panel a little later in the show. right now news, some brand-new stories and breaking news this hour. jon: the race for the white house getting down and dirty. explosive comments from the vice president launches a whole new war of words. we ll break it down fair & balanced. an inferno out west, dozens of wildfires burning now, hundreds evacuated, homes going up in smoke. this could become the worst fire season ever. plus the defense secretary saying iran is deeply involved in the violence in syria. we ll ask ambassador bolton exactly what the islamic republican i republic is trying to do and what it means for the united states. it s all happening now.