next, idaho burning threatening to destroy thousands of homes. we ll go to the scene for the latest 37 plus there has been a huge jump in wild animal attack this is summer. why? and a new and disturbing development tonight in the hannah anderson investigation. her kidnapper left all of his money to one person. we have that for you. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a developing story. idaho burning. a dangerous wildfire out of control and threatening to destroy thousands of hopes including multimillion-dollar homes of celebrities like arnold schwarzenegger and tom hanks. here you just see a lot of fire. it s the beaver creek fire about six miles south of ketchum. it s just a few miles away from the resort town of sun valley. ted rowlands is in haley tonight. and when i look at those maps, it s right there along the highway. what are you seeing? reporter: well, it has been growing so quickly. and it is huge. you mentioned at 1
0 that. next time your cable is out, leave the 911 operators alone and just call us on the ridiculist. that does it for us. erin burnett outfront starts next. next, idaho burning threatening to destroy thousands of homes. we ll go to the scene for the latest 37 plus there has been a huge jump in wild animal attack this is summer. why? and a new and disturbing development tonight in the hannah anderson investigation. her kidnapper left all of his money to one person. we have that for you. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a developing story. idaho burning. a dangerous wildfire out of control and threatening to destroy thousands of hopes including multimillion-dollar homes of celebrities like arnold schwarzenegger and tom hanks. here you just see a lot of fire. it s the beaver creek fire about six miles south of ketchum. it s just a few miles away from the resort town of sun valley. ted rowlands is in haley tonight. and when i look a
0 i assume your cable is back on now and i would appreciate you not wanting to miss breaking bad, i understand that. next time your cable is out, leave the 911 operators alone and just call us on the ridiculist. that does it for us. erin burnett outfront starts next. next, idaho burning threatening to destroy thousands of homes. we ll go to the scene for the latest 37 plus there has been a huge jump in wild animal attack this is summer. why? and a new and disturbing development tonight in the hannah anderson investigation. her kidnapper left all of his money to one person. we have that for you. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a developing story. idaho burning. a dangerous wildfire out of control and threatening to destroy thousands of hopes including multimillion-dollar homes of celebrities like arnold schwarzenegger and tom hanks. here you just see a lot of fire. it s the beaver creek fire about six miles south of ketchum. it
big companies got these contracts in part by sending legions of lobbyists to capitol hill. they reminded lawmakers that if they can t build weapons for egypt, all those small town suppliers from lima, ohio to oxford, michigan will get buried. joe with company x has made this particular piece of a tank for 20 years and that s what he does. he s very good at it. but if i don t give them an order for six month, i m not sure what s going to happen to old joe and his workforce. reporter: jim colby used to control the purse strings on egypt. he heard that pitch year after year. and it worked. the contractors have a vested interest in keeping the process going forward. reporter: coal if i salby sa the aid will send up costing the taxpayers a lot of money and getting nothing in return.
here you just see a lot of fire. it s the beaver creek fire about six miles south of ketchum. it s just a few miles away from the resort town of sun valley. ted rowlands is in haley tonight. and when i look at those maps, it s right there think look tal highway. what are you seeing? reporter: well, it has been growing so quickly. and it is huge. you mentioned at 100,000 acres or 1,000 firefighters plus. we re expecting new numbers in the next few hours and the hope is that they had a good day today and have more containment. but there are 5,000 homes that are potentially in danger here. and you mentioned a lot of them are very high dollar homes. in fact private insurance companies or insurance companies have hired private firefighters to come in here and specific protect people s homes because they are so expensive. i m curious about that. how is that playing out with the firefighters and all the teams in place fighting this? is this something that they welcome or does