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gaze back at our earth and do nothing more than that. >> among the spectators and v.i.p.s watching here, roughly 60 people who want their astronaut wings. they're on a longer list of 600 people who are future virgin galactic flight, something branson hopes to start sometime next year. errol. >> barnett: mark strassmann, thank you. tonight firefighters are battling more than 55 major wildfires out west. just take a look at the beckworth complex fire in northern california. just one of several blazes destroying homes and forcing evacuations. fueling the flames, extreme draught and intense heat, lilia luciano is in palmdale with more, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, errol, the heat is brutal. where i am in palmdale, north of los angeles, right now it is 106 degrees, bone dry and also windy. all of that together making conditions in the west perfect for devastating and also deadly wildfires.