Cornish, Ron Brownstein, kate bedingfield, geoff duncan. Thank you. And thanks to all of you for joining joining us im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now homes burned in almost every direction. Thats the word from texas as multiple wildfires are burning right now and breaking just moments ago, we just got word that pope francis was taken to the hospital. Were getting new information in on the condition of the 87 yearold pontiff, hunter biden about to take questions face to face with a republican lawmakers trying to impeach his father. Im kate bolduan with john berman. Sara is out today. This is Cnn News Central we are following this Breaking News. People in texas are being forced to flee communities, burn to the ground. There are multiple wildfires burning in the Texas Panhandle right now that is terrifying. If you come upon that, of course, overnight, the fire called the Smokehouse Creek fire became the fifth largest fire in texas state history, scorching over 300,000 acres. And right now, it is not at all all contained. Its even crossed into oklahoma also right now, local Officials Say theres no further information on how many buildings have been damaged. Theyre really in the thick of it right now. But heres a but to quote, one county official homes have burned in almost every direction were going to show you some video of how quickly the fires are moving. Youre going to see. It just jumps this road. And this is from the Texas Forest Service right here, moving right across that road, the leaving at least one county in texas without power and water. There are at least five fires burning this morning. One major area of concern is amarillo, where there is a nuclear a Nuclear Weapons facility. Were going to show you images that were taken near the plant showing how close the fires had reached . And last night the facility was temporarily shut down because of the fires were told us back open today. Lets bring in cnns meteorologist derek van dam, and also cnns Lucy Kavanaugh is Lucy Kavanaugh who is in amarillo. Lucy. What are you seeing . What are you hearing this morning . Well, kate, let me set the scene for you here in amarillo, texas. The air is full of thick smoke. Its very difficult to breathe. That makes her eyes staying and burn and that is because of those five separate wildfires that are burning out of control in the surrounding areas. Im a really i should note is one of the safer places that folks are being encouraged to evacuate tool though even here, one of the neighbor of neighborhoods near amarillo had to be evacuated late last night. Now the high winds up, not dry air, you can hear the winds right now is what is fueling these blazes . Governor greg abbott . But declaring Disaster Declaration for 60 counties here in the Texas Panhandle. Thats 60. As of this morning, we are looking at more than 370,000 acres burned. The largest one of those buyers, as you pointed out the Smokehouse Creek fire that is predominantly impacting hutchinson county. It alone for more than 300,000 acres so far 0 contained it is the fifth largest wildfire in Texas History. Now, the main facility, as you pointed out in the intro, that is simples disassembles, pardon me, Americas Nuclear arsenal is located about 17 miles northeast from here. That is the pentax plant. It was shut down on tuesday. It is reopen this morning and here is the National NuclearSecurity Administration spokesman addressing the issue. Take a listen. We are responding to the plan, but there is no fire onsite are on our boundary, but we do have a well equipped Fire Department that has trained for these scenarios. That is onsite watching and ready. Should any kind of real emergency arise on the plant site we also have a fully staff Emergency ResponseOrganization Mission who has activated now, the plant might be safe, but so many counties in the surrounding areas or not. And this is a largely rural area which means livestock has been impacted in some places. It wasnt possible to evacuate the animals. We saw dramatic footage some animals fleeing the smoke, fleeing the flames. The city of fritch had asked its residents to evacuate natural gas was actually shut down in that city on tuesday, residents were asked to limit the use of water so that fire trucks can have access to that. Theres another town called Canadian Texas where the hospital had to evacuate all of its patients. One of the motel owners, theyre spoke to cnn. She described the scene as armageddon. There was white ash covering the trees. She had to shut down her motel and get out for safety in another area. We saw weve heard reports of more than two 100 people sheltering in a church because they had nowhere to go. It is chaos residents are being asked to try to stay safe. And of course, these fires now spreading to neighboring oklahoma. And worse, and were showing, as youre speaking, were showing some of the images from Canadian Texas, from fritch texas where these conditions look horrible from yesterday, well see what happens today. Lucy. Thank you so much. Lets bring in derek now, derek, what talk to me about what what what the conditions are. Broadly, its moved into oklahoma, at least it with one of these fires. What are they going to be looking at today . Yeah kate, the video that we were playing during lucys live shot was showing extreme fire behavior. It is all driven by the strong winds and advance of a cold front. And during the passage of this cold front, which youll see now, not only our residents and firefighters on the ground contending with this erratic fire behavior, but so is the agriculture and the cattle. I mean, this is very dramatic footage of cattle just running away. Its simply fleeing for their lives away from the flames, away from the billowing smoke, which you can see in the distance behind it. I mean, that is really, really please saying something about this rural area that is impacting a wide range of industries. Now this is a Satellite Imagery ive very, very important to show whats happening here. This blue line that im drawing, you can see it in the Satellite Imagery is the approaching cold front. Those of course are the hotspots. Heres the Texas Panhandle and the winds before the colon what move through. Were moving from the west to the east at about 50 miles per hour. That Cold Front Move through and change the Wind Direction. And you can see the shift in the fire behavior. So basically that fire takes advantage of the dry fuel conditions. On the other side, and it allowed for this to explode overnight to 300,000 plus acres 0 containment. Weve mentioned this already, the fifth largest wildfire in Texas History so far. Its already spreading into portions of oklahoma as well. So what does the future hold for the immediate future . Winds are dying down. Thats good news, but they start to pick up throughout the course of the day to today. And then into the overnight hours again, were going to monitor that lucy mentioned the thick smell of smoke in the air. Will there it is. This is our near surface smoke forecast. You could see where the wildfires are located. Theres canadian, theres amarillo, and you could see as the Wind Direction changes, it will also take the smoke along with it as it moves towards towards the north temperatures today cooler than yesterday, but warm up once again by the weekend. Back uk, a lot to watch derek. Thanks so much for run through for us really appreciate it. John, with us now is Courtney Kirksey . She is the childrens pastor at Celebration Family Church in fritch texas where i know people have been taking shelter. Thank you so much for being with us. Describe what it has been like outside the last 24 hours so we opened our shelter are about 11 00 a. M. Yesterday. And at the beginning, there wasnt very many people, but then the people did start coming in when the Evacuation Orders came out. And we had several inside our church as well as several in the parking lot because they had animals and weve had all kinds of animals here at our church as well. But it has been it has been devastating, but yet encouraging just to see the way that community has come out to help us. And Even Companies here in our town but just being here and being able to help and love on people has been a blessing for our church. That that is a blessing. You also say the conditions have been devastating. Your shelter and community members. What stories have you been hearing from the people coming in . We have heard from weve lost everything to we have a house but most of the people that have come in, they have lost everything and we even have people here that are helping to help with the community that have lost everything. But yet theyre here showing compassion and love to one another. We have lost everything. People are telling you how are you holding up where were holding up . We have our moments and when we have our moments, we walk away and then we come back together and were here for the community as they come in our doors. When you say people are telling you theyve lost everything did you have warning . Did you know this was a threat or did the fire has just come in too quickly to save anything . They they gave warning to the community to be prepared to evacuate. But with a fire, its so unpredictable and starting out the day the wind was blowing out of the southwest and then probably about 04 00 it switch to the north. And that sent the fire in another direction. You are the childrens pastor, as i said, how of the children been holding . Yes, my fn is the same i do know that there are several Community Children here that theyve lost their house and so i havent seen any of our children here from our church. Theyve probably all have been at other houses, but were going to be here to support them through this this isnt our first time that weve had to deal with a wildfire in our community Courtney Kirksey, we do appreciate you being with us. We appreciate the work youre doing. I know it must be exhausting, but im sure it is valued in the community. Let us know how we can help. Thank you. All right. Thank you, john okay we are following more Breaking News this morning. Pope francis in the hospital overnight. Hes back at the vatican. Were told now, lets get to ben wedeman. Hes in rome for us with more the details are starting to come out, ben, how is the pope doing . Whats the latest youve learned what we know is that he held his general audience this morning at the vatican and at that audience, and weve seen the video of it. He looks as one might expect, an 87 yearold road man whos lost part of his lung to be at this time of winter of the year. Then he apparently in the dirt before i mean, at the beginning of the audience, he did say ive got a bit of a cold. And so im going to pass to my colleague whos going to read my address after that general audience he was taken to a nearby hospital in the tiber island, the gemelli hospital, where according to a statement put out by the vatican, he underwent diagnostic tests and then returned to the vatican. So it wasnt staying there for very long. He just had those tests. We dont know exactly what but they were but we do know that as of late he has been suffering from a cold on sunday. He did hold his usual audience addressing the faithful in saint peters square. But then on monday, he canceled all audiences because of flulike symptoms. According to the vatican tuesday seem to be a normal day. And of course wednesday, it started off normal. He met with our median bishops before addressing this general audience so we know he has not been in the best of health recently, but is this simply a seasonal thing or something more . Serious not clear at this point ben. Thank you so much for the update were gonna continue to monitor this, bring everyone updates as they come out. Ben wedeman in rome for us. Thank you so much. Im gonna for us, we have new cnn reporting what President Bidens campaign is saying about the uncommitted protest, vote against him in michigan plus hunter biden back on the hill. 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