hundreds of firefighters busy, and residents on edge. stay until i know that my house is still here. as long as our family and our dogs are safe we can get through this. reporter: fire sprouted up in four southern california counties over the last couple of days. two of the fires were contained quickly. we staffed up several weeks ago. we brought on air tankers, hired seasonal firefighters. what it bodes for us is what the rest of the year is going to be like and are we going to wear people out. that s the bigger question. reporter: but as firefighters were getting a handle on the summit fire burning about 25 miles west of palm springs a blaze in ventura county began to spread quickly, on 25-mile-per-hour winds. erupting between the 101 freeway and the pacific ocean north of malibu, the so-called spring fire charred about 6500 acres in just five hours. now we re getting those hot, long days, winds, and the low humidities, and this stuff is just ripe and ready to burn. rep
well. happening right now a massive wildfire threatening homes and this fire is still growing. the ventura county fire in southern california has now burned some 8,000 acres the flames spreading from the mountains all the way to the pacific coast highway. several communities had to evacuate. cnn s stephanie elam is live on the fire line in ventura county, california, for us right now. stephanie, what are the conditions like? right now, john, things have calmed down a bit. over the past couple of hours we watched the hillside behind me actually just engulf in flames and then burn down, jump over the pacific coast highway, and run into the ocean, the pacific ocean here. running out of real estate. that s one good thing. but when you have seven fires burning throughout the state, there s a lot of resources all over the map. reporter: high winds, soaring temperatures and dry brush are giving california fire season an early start. wildfires across the state are churning toward home, kee
churning toward home, keeping hundreds of firefighters busy, and residents on edge. stay until i know that my house is still here. as long as our family and our dogs are safe we can get through this. reporter: fire sprouted up in four southern california counties over the last couple of days. two of the fires were contained quickly. we staffed up several weeks ago. we brought on air tankers, hired seasonal firefighters. what it bodes for us is what the rest of the year is going to be look and are we going to wear people out. that s the bigger question. reporter: but as firefighters were getting a handle on the summit fire burning about 25 miles west of palm springs a blaze in ventura county began to spread quickly, on 25-mile-per-hour winds. erupting between the 101 freeway and the pacific ocean north of malibu, the so-called spring fire charred about 6500 acres in just five hours. now we re getting those hot, long days, winds, and the low humidities, and this stuff is just
morning about a man who opened fire near a ticket counter at houston s bush intercontinental airport. he s been identified as 29-year-old carnal moore. officials say moore fired shots into the air yesterday sending everyone in terminal b ducking for cover before a federal agent confronted him. then the agent recordedly shot moore at the same time the suspect was shooting himself in the head. there was two shots about six or seven second delay, and two more, and then the final one. bunch of screaming, people running. at that point we all just made our way to the back and the elevator down. moore left behind a suicide note indicating he was struggling with quote, a monster inside. a disturbing report from the pentagon to congress. it says north korea will eventually have a long-range ballistic missile that can deliver nuclear weapons to the united states. the annual report to lawmakers cites the north s advances in ballistic missile systems as
that s making this outbreak unusual. we don t see this type of activity usually until august, september. reporter: in the wake of the summit fire, one man is dealing with immeasurable loss. his mother, who bought this home in 1973, passed away just one month ago. thank god i wasn t in the house when it happened. thank god i was able to get my dog out, and my mom was watching over me. and so are the neighbors that are around. unfortunate for that one man since his was the only home to burn in that summit fire. that fire is about 65% contained. it did burn about 3,000 acres in total. good news on that front, here in ventura county they say that the containment is only 10% and as the hours wear on and the wind kicks up, that s when firefighters will be looking to get back in there and keep this fight on. stephanie, give us a tense of the terrain. what are the firefighters up against there? it is really rough terrain, john. because they ve got to climb in