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hello. reporter: bill, we got blue skies right now. as dan said, they save lives and homes. you see several were taken here. fire started. you can see the getty center right through here. all those embers jumped this canyon, then lit up the sides of this hill. took out this house and several more on this street called tiger tail. 9,000 remain evacuated here. the roads are narrow, so it s still closed in most individuals. however, we did catch up with a couple who got in and collected what they could. horrible. we left at 2:00 in the morn. we didn t take anything. what d you come back for today? clothes for the kids, a few things for us. we hope we can come back after the winds die down. reporter: wild fires are part of the california landscapes, but statistically, the seasons are longer, the fire s 70% more destructive. today we re entering phase 2, if you will. air attacking, and structure
president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. he s expected to testify he was only repeating what president trump himself told him. and bill taylor, remember he was the guy on the other end of that text who five hours prior had texted i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance to the help of a political campaign. that s the impeachable scandal. i think it s crazy. that man who wrote that, bill taylor wakes up every morn ing kiev and goes to job wheres we do not have an ambassador because the president recalled the last one because she wouldn t go along with his plan. that bill taylor, he took off from ukrainian today to return to washington, d.c. so he can tell congress in person what he witnessed. the process the state department officials are describing is part of the crime. it s the reason that you have this expanding cast of
and sondland you ll remember famously texted, quote, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. he s expected to testify he was only repeeing what president trump himself told him. and bill taylor, remember he was the guy on the other end of that text who fbi hours prior had texted i think it s crazy to with hold security assistance to help the political campaign. that s the impeachable scandal. i think it s crazy. that man who wrote that, bill taylor wakes up every morn ing kiev and goes to job wheres we do not have an ambassador because the president recalled the last one because she wouldn t go along with his plan. and that bill taylor returned to yeah crane to washington, d.c. so he can tell the congress in person what he witnessed. the process the state department officials are describing is part of the crime. it s the reason that you have this expanding cast of kaerks,
look at obama administration who expr expressed some concern about this. what about the timing of the morn of the debate? bret: i talked to a few democrats and they take two sides of it. one side is why do this today? why, just hours before a debate where potentially you wouldn t be asked a ton of questions about it. now it would seem the moderators and possibly even candidates on the stage will be compelled to react to what hunter biden said or how he said it or the whole thing. the other side i talked to here is yeah, clear the air, get it out there. put the onus back on president trump. you know, just put it out in the open. i will say that the biden camp usually has background briefing before debates, they cancelled that today. they said it is because the former vice president came early to the walk-through.