top searches of the year that you re looking for. are you ready? here is the list. hurricane irma is number one including matt lauer, tom petty, super bowl. las vegas shooting and how-to searches. ready for this? how to make slime. how to make solar eclipse glasses. that was probably me. how to buy bitcoin. sandra: that is hysterical. anybody with a toddler at home gets that with slime. slime is necessary. bill: fascinated by the topic. there you go, america. sandra: all right. thank you. meanwhile, firefighters in southern california are making some progress in putting out the raging wildfires. the flames now about 25% contained. more than 236,000 acres are burning in ventura county forcing thousands from their homes. will karr is live in california with more.
across southern california. we have also learned the cause for the skirball fire that started in bel air in los angeles. it was from an illegal cooking fire. as for the cause of the thomas fire behind me, that s still under investigation. sandra: will karr, thank you for your reporting on the ground there. bill: republicans in congress trying to deliver on the president s promise. tax cuts for christmas. will that happen? kevin brady is behind all of this. he is writing the bill. he is live to tell us how the process is going today. sandra: looking forward to getting an update if him plus the suspect in the new york city subway bombing getting set to appear before a judge today. as we learn more about his plot to kill americans. officers also found a passport there in ullah s name with handwriting that included one particularly chilling note. and i quote, oh, america, die in your rage.
in just moments. congresswoman marsha blackburn. thank you for coming on. bill: two memos came out of the department of justice last week telling federal workers about religious liberty and what they are constrained for because of the law and what they are allowed to say. this is my right under the constitution. we should hear more on that from the president coming up. in the meantime, sandra, this story from the west coast. man, breaking news now and the news only gets worse by the day. 31 confirmed dead. that number will no doubt rise as wildfires still rage in california wine country. first responders facing a grim task in the ruins of so many homes. will karr live from napa valley and how are they dealing with trying to find the remains of those who were lost, will? good morning. the sun is about to come out. that means the cadaver dogs will be out in this neighborhood navigating past charred cars, going property by
fire outside. i can t get out of my house. and i hear the smoke alarms going off and she is coughing, coughing and i m telling her i love her and she tells me she is going to die. she can t get out of her house. she is going to die and then the phone call drops and i can t get her back on the phone. bill: imagine how quickly the flames came. the mother s remains were found in the charred ruins of her home. 3500 homes and businesses destroyed since sunday. 20,000 forced to evacuate. as of today, 22 large wildfires burning across nine counties. 1,000 firefighters battling those flames. will karr is seen in
night stand near his shooting platform. i could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was going to be for those for the crowd. so he had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there. he must have done the calculations or gone online or something to figure it out what his altitude was going to be on how high up he was, how far out the crowd was going to be and what at that distance what the drop of his bullet was going to be. sandra: so many questions still. will karr is live in las vegas. what else have we learned what happened inside the hotel room on the 32nd floor? sandra, there was chaos playing out everywhere. that relatively small group of officers raced up to that room on the 32nd floor of mandalay bay. once they got inside the room they say there were tool boxes,