News World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Tonight, nearly every firefighter in this country is on call. As more than 100 large uncontained fires burn. Invoking the nations highest fire alert level, 5, is a sign of both the need and the scope of this fire season. In the west, tripledigit temperatures and drought are fueling the blazes. Many of them triggered by lightning strikes. Washington state has seen a rash of new fires, just since early friday, reducing dozens of homes to ashes and forcing thousands to evacuate. Some making it out with barely a moment to spare. Nbcs Gadi Schwartz is in washington for us tonight. Gadi . Reporter well, erica, this fire is now 60,000 acres. And as it roared down that mountainside, it incinerated cars and homes alike. It is only 1 contained tonight. And for the 450 firefighters who are out here in the fire lines, its only going to get worse. A small resort town surrounded by fire, and residents here
Annemarie green. Crews in five states hope calmer weather conditions will help their efforts. The fires have forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed dozens of homes. Relentless flames in california put this year on track to be more devastating than previous fires. Reporter Central Washington has been ravaged by wildfires all summer and now a sudden wind shift has made things worst as flames that had burst for several days suddenly pushed into this town. Matthew anderson survived but his home burned. This whole hillside was on fire last night. It was nuts. Reporter this is how the fire looked from lake she lan, a popular recreational spot. So far at least 100 structures have burned. Hundreds more are threatened. So far this year wildfires have burned more than 6. 5 million acres. Thats more than 2. 5 times what bushed in the same period the same time last year and theres little relief with the relentless drought and exceptional heat, especially in Southern California where a fire con
Joining me for insight and analysis this morning are jeff greenfield, contributor to the daily beast, molly ball of the atlantic, kimberly strossel, and Eugene Robinson of the washington post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. When he first began talking about running for president , a lot of people dismissed him, including myself. But theres no denying that donald trump is completely shaken up the republican race, topping national and state polls, drawing 24 Million People to the gop debate and simply dominating the coverage so far. I caught up with trump yesterday in des moines, iowa, for his first facetoface sunday morning interview as a had can. I wanted this interview to be less about personality and more about substance. We touched on a lot of issues. Birtherism, abortion, isis, illegal immigration and much more. Lets get right to it, starting with his standing with the conservative movement. Some of the criticism on you from conservatives is youre not a
Crews in five states hope calmer weather conditions will help their efforts. The fires have forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed dozens of homes. Relentless flames in california put this year on track to be more devastating than previous fires. Reporter Central Washington has been ravaged by wildfires all summer and now a sudden wind shift has made things worst as flames that had burst for several days suddenly pushed into this town. Matthew anderson survived but his home burned. This whole hillside was on fire last night. It was nuts. Reporter this is how the fire looked from lake she lan, a popular recreational spot. So far at least 100 structures have burned. Hundreds more are threatened. So far this year wildfires have burned more than 6. 5 million acres. Thats more than 2. 5 times what bushed in the same period the same time last year and theres little relief with the relentless drought and exceptional heat, especially in Southern California where a fire continues to rage ou
Eugene robinson of the washington post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. When he first began talking about running for president , a lot of people dismissed him, including myself. But theres no denying that donald trump is completely shaken up the republican race, topping national and state polls, drawing 24 Million People to the gop debate and simply dominating the coverage so far. I caught up with trump yesterday in des moines, iowa, for his first facetoface sunday morning interview as a had can. I wanted this interview to be less about personality and more about substance. We touched on a lot of issues. Birtherism, abortion, isis, illegal immigration and much more. Lets get right to it, starting with his standing with the conservative movement. Some of the criticism on you from conservatives is youre not a real conservative. When you hear that, some of them will argue on social policies that youre not a real conservative. Is it just different brands of con