This morning. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. Because the wildfire is moving so quickly, firefighters arent sure how many homes have been lost. It is feared the number is roughly 75. This property and others in the Tourist Destination still smoldering as flames race toward even more neighborhoods. This morning in washington state, this is what they face a firefight so explosive, so unpredictable the National Guard was called to help from the air and on the ground. The so called chelan complex fire has been nearly impossible to stop. What began as four small lightning fires here merged into a monster blaze. Neighborhoods, a warehouse, a lumberyard lost. 2,700 people forced to flee. The fire stretched 14 miles in some spots, jumping a river, hopscotching toward homes. There was fire everywhere around you could look. Reporter this morning the west is raging out of control. More than a hundred large wildfires spreading resources dangerously thin. In oregon, idaho, and
Lived here 33 years. So its hard to see this. Reporter tonight lives in ruins as this fire rages on. Miguel almaguer, nbc news, washington state. This is joe fryer in simi valley, california. Wildfires are tearing through miles of parched wilderness grassland and creeping dangerously close to neighborhoods. You can see the flames just about maybe 20 feet away from that one fence. Reporter a small brush fire in simi valley spread quickly. Hundreds of homes in its path. Started over there. And it just came like a whirlwind through. The only thing we had on our side was it was not windy that day. Reporter with a quick aerial attack and strike teams on the ground staying ahead of the flames, all the houses were spared. Firefighters fear conditions are ripe for a perfect storm here. The ground is so dry fires are moving unusually fast and the warm santa ana winds are still to come. If we get to the point where we have a santa anadriven fire, were going to be looking at some real scary condi
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with a remarkable number. Right now 95 wildfires are burning in the western u. S. And tonight the u. S. Military is answering an urgent call for help. At least 100 troops have been called up in Washington State. The first deployment of active duty soldiers to battle fires in nine years. The fires are burning across at least six states. The stakes are high, and so is the cost. 100 million a week. At that rate Officials Say the money will run out next month. Our team is deployed across the region. Lets start in chelan, washington with National Correspondent miguel almaguer. Miguel . Reporter hey, lester, good evening. Heavy smoke hangs in the air here. Behind me there is destruction. In front of me two miles ahead a wildfire is moving in multiple directions. At least 56,000 acres here have been destroyed. More than 32 homes are gone. This as that fire is on the move.
Serving as secretary of state. And weve also learned this week a federal judge in washington is set to hold a hearing on another issue touching on this email controversy surrounding a wellknown member of clintons inner circle. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has late details. Reporter the fbis forensics experts are now examining the server once located in hiltry clintons new york home, the device that hosted her private email account. Two sources familiar with the process say analysts are optimistic they can recover at least some data even though theyve determined, as was previously disclosed, that it was wiped clean when the account was deactivated. The fbi is examining whether any government secrets were improperly sent or received on the private server, which was not a classified system. It was never designed to be secure. It was designed to be a way of sharing information, not protecting information from being shared. I do want to be the champion reporter the emails have be
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Well get to the impact of that big selloff on wall street in a moment. But right now weve got late details coming in from france where two americans are injured and are being called heroes in a shooting attack aboard a highspeed train from amsterdam to paris. Without the intervention of the americans were told casualties could have been far worse. French Officials Say a man opened fire with an automatic weapon in whats being called a possible terrorist otack. Nbcs keir simmons is on the story. Reporter the attack left three passengers injured including two americans. At least one of them a member of the u. S. Military. A womans bag is left splattered with blood after a gibman reportedly opened fire aboard a highspeed train from amount ststerdam to paris. The French Interior minister at the scene say the two americans intervened to stop the attacker who was reportedly armed wi