that is one of the biggest concerns for those fighting the flames. it is a ways wa way from the tourist center. they tell us it s still blue skies in the area, but there s a long road ahead for the fire officials working to put out this flame. at last check, only 5% containment. more than 2,000 firefighters working to put it out. thank you so much. dry conditions have been feeding those fires. could any changes in the weather help them out? alexandria steel in the severe weather center. give them some good news. we don t have much. the images were really good. you can see with those google maps what s happening there with the ridges and canyons. it s really a function of two fa factors, the wind and terrain. when air or wind goes through canyons, we call that the canyon effect because that air is getting squee getting squeezed and then accelerating. it s a similar and same principle if you re ever in new
the ground can t take it that quickly, wolf. what about california where wildfires are threatening as many as 600 homes, 1500 people forced to flee. are weather conditions helping contain all of this? you know, we re going to have rain in the northeast. we love to spread that around. no weather help at all in the west. look at the gusts right over the fire. i mean, we re talking palm springs and just off to the east and banning 32 mile per hour gusts. this is taking those embers and sending those embers for miles, so the firefighters think they might have a line, they might have a handle and all of a sudden two miles further down, another fire popping up. this is a mess out there and this weather doesn t get better for many, many days. the winds down to 12 and gusting to 20 and later tonight they will go to zero but this thing is 10% contained. look at the rest of the week, 94, 96, 9 and gets worse from here. brutal. let s get the latest on
questions these house law headache makers are asking next. crews battling a massive wildfire out west. already it s torched several homes, threatening dozens more. will the weather help them out?
authorities tell wway-tv that about 24 people were standing on the deck when it came down causing cuts and bruises and possibly a spinal injure. fire cruise making slow but steady progress in san diego county. officials say the fire has burned 7,000 acres, destroyed 120 structures. right now, it s 40% contained. officials expect to have it fully under control by sunday. will the weather help them at all in fighting the fires, chad myers here. i hope so. i never get to say yes to that answer but today we do. we have above-normal precip expected for the next ten days across southern california and new mexico. all of the moisture coming here, we call it the monsoon. rain is coming. across the southeast, rain is coming but why? because chantal is coming. not a big hurricane here. chantal south of the dominican
the little bear fire which destroyed more than 220 homes is now more than 50% contained. and, the whitewater fire in the southwestern corner of the state is about the size of los angeles. and is considered new mexico s largest fire on record. now, thankfully that fire is more than 60% contained. and, as for the colorado fire, gregg, it is soon to be under control, we understand, sometime in the next couple of weeks but firefighters don t expect to have all the flames out until sometime this fall and keep in mind the fire season out west is just beginning. gregg: oh, my, all the way until the fall. talking about a couple of months and that is amazing. anita vogel live in our west coast bureau, thanks. heather: gregg, we want to know, will the weather help or hurt firefighters efforts to bring the massive blaze under control? maria molina is live in the fox weather center with those answers for us, hi, maria. hi, heather. unfortunately i don t have any good news. we have seen the