Quarter Million Dollars . Lets get to it. Good thursday afternoon. We begin with a fox weather alert in south florida. This is the big picture look of these storms coming across the peninsula. Here is the serious part. Right in miami and the northern part of miamidade county. We can give you a closer look. This is north miami, and all of this just moving toward the north and east. The most recent report from Miami International airport, operations are normal because is passed by. The national, we service says there was a tornado believed to be over sunny isle, bay harbor island. And up towards fort lauderdale. All coming in this direction. Very serious storm. This shows the Tornado Warning area. Actually moved a little bit. I think theyll be updating this. North miami beach, hall lendale, hollywood, in broward county. Tornado warnings until 33 00 eastern day light time. If youre in this area, tune to south floridas news station and they will keep you updated. Thousands of people are right now out of their homes and they dont know if theyve heal places to live by the days end. The wildfires burning across San Diego County in california, leave something folks with just seconds to clear out. Theres a fire. Clear your house. Evacuate your house. And run to the closest street. Come on, come on, lets go. Lets go. Lets go, lets go. Go, go, go. Folks in more than 20,000 homes and businesses had to rush out of their. Several raging fires have ripped through homes, closed schools, and forced evacuations at a Nuclear Power plant. Well show you where the fires are burning. These are not brush fires. Theyre burning in a crowded suburb of san diego. This is carlsbad. And san marcos, temperatures approaching 100 degrees especially in the high desert. Ten major fires over two days. Firefighters did catch a break when the winds died down this morning but report that one fire in the city of san marcos, still burning out of control. In nearby carlsbad, the fire chief reports at least 22 homes burned down, including an entire condominium complex. Elementally School Students were sitting in class when they saw the flames creeping closer. We could see we saw when it started in the morning and saw it spread and saw fire and smoke and everything. I thought they were going to take care of it, but it got worse and we had to go. We are just at the beginning of what is proving to be a catastrophic fire season in california. The fire chief there says he has never seen such extreme fires this early in his nearly three decades of firefighters. Will carr is on foxs top story some is live in san marcos. What are conditions like now . Reporter well, if theres any good news, its that the winds have died down. The winds that have been pushing the fires around for more than 24 hours. The fire that is top priority for firefighters ruth now is the san marcos five. Only 5 contained and continues to be hot spots. Today one hot spot burned an 18unit apartment complex, and this comes after a separate fire ripped through carlsbad yesterday. Carlsbad, 35 miles north of downtown san diego. That fire destroyed numerous homes and rattled thousands of home owners. Its pretty wild to see 100foot flames 60 yards from your house, and see the firefighters and then you hat the Huey Helicopters going after it. It was quite a sight and were happy our house is still here. Reporter theres been so much damage, the governor has issued a state of emergency. Will, i want show to our viewers the new live pictures coming into us. You can see in the hills behind the homes and up here, fire after fire after fire. Its incredible to watch. Will was saying the winds have died down but the fires create their open wind, and you can see these on the hills are doing that. Towering smoke all over the area, and perilously close to this neighborhood. Will do we have a sense for what may have caused this . Well, shep, right now fire investigators are looking at the ignition points of the fires. Theyre looking into arson potentially because so many fires broke out in such a short amount of time. They always emphasize they dont have any facts to back that up and their top priority is making sure they get containment on the fires before they figure out exactly what caused the fires. We were watching yesterday in carlsbad as this was lapping along the 5 freeway, causing major, major traffic problems, and then there was a neighborhood very similar to this, san marco now in live pictures from our station kswb. Their local reporter is giving information now, and as the flames are getting very close to this neighborhood. Will, assume all this has been evacuated. Reporter thats right. The san marcos area has 20,000 people evacuated and not been able to come back. Theyre anxiously waiting. So far the fire only burned three homes but theyre anxiously waiting to see if they can get back into their neighborhood and make sure their homes are okay. What is the temperature like . Still 90plus . Reporter yeah, its hot. About 98, 99. Same we saw yesterday. Another redflag warning day, and means that temperatures are high, humidity is low, and the winds were blowing earlier today. They died down a little bit, but pretty good conditions for these fires to spread. Sadly it is. What winds there are coming from the desert to at the to at the sea and it creates a wind tunnel of its own and then races through canyons which are everywhere around this area. The depth perception done doob deceptive. Our crews tell us a local reporter is giving information here now. Lets listen. The column is growing but certainly we did not expect hit to come over as quickly as it did and it was a wall of flames that came over the ridge. That wall of flame is something that they expected because of the wind, which stay on the other side of that. But instead i want to keep listening. They did not expect it to come over this ridge so quickly. Reporters were stuned by it. If these flames get to the neighborhood looks very close these firefighters will stay and protect as long as they can, but, will, there comes a time they evaluated the neighborhood and told the people to leave, and the last thing you want is for firefighters to be in jeopardy. Thats beginning to form a wind tornado. Its taking flames up like a tornado and rushing toward this neighborhood. Will, there is no moisture in anything. The rainy season didnt happen. Reporter thats right. You know, obviously were in the middle of a horrible throughout in this part of california, throughout the entire state. So bonedry that one spark can start a huge fire, and actually as im talking we have multiple planes flying over, dropping retardant on the flames, and the frustrating part for the firefighters is that they get on top of them and then they jump again. Theyre headed for this neighborhood, and this is an unbelievable scene. Our friends at kswb are shooting this from this neighborhood as the names come over the ridge and begin to devourer this neighborhood. Fire trucks are on the move. Fire personnel in the street trying to attack this. Water droppers from the air. We watched yesterday as they went to nearby lakes and scooped up water and tried to knock out the fire but it gets so big and so hot and its moving so quickly theres very Little People can do. If you look to the left of the screen and down the street. Look how tall those flames are. Two or three stories into the air and then whipping up another one of those tornadolike walls of flame, the reporter talking about it. I have to tell you that when we pulled into this neighborhood, we talked to a couple residents and they actually went through an evacuation last night when the fire came in from another direction, and theyd actually the firefighters were able to stave it off. But this right here, i dont think this is what they were absolutely expecting. This is just im really hoping that the firefighters are able to save these homes. This wall of flame is just its crazy. Local reporter for fox 5, standing in the neighborhood with her photographer and crew s not what the firefighters expected based on wind conditions. They expected the flames to stay on the other side of this ridge for are a much longer time and thought they could get in, wet down the area, set up lines, but that is clearly not the case as sharon is reporting now. Give us just a couple of second here go for it and then we can get closer across the street and you my gosh, i think the fire danger are as high as they have ever been for this time of year. Aku Accuweather Meteorologist is on the line. I know a lot of weather people in california. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, this early. Youre right. And this is driven by the drought which is covering the entire state of california. In fact exceptional drought and thats the very highest point of the scale. Thats over a quarter of the state in this area. Southern california. Out to the coast. Today we have another complicating factor, the shaw youre flow which is creating heat. A current temperature in l. A. , 99. And low humidity. And even localized wind effects. Might not be i wouldspread, and you have the very, very hifi danger. The good news, if there is any, its going to start to slowly taper off over the course of the next several days in San Diego County, where we have all the fires right now, the tie her, 1 are the he temperature, 100, and humidity 5 . So hardly any moisture in the atmosphere at all. Tomorrow, temperatures start to slowly nose down. Humidity starts to come up, and our temperatures will cool off heading into the upcoming weekend. No good news for anybody here in san marcos, california. These flames have come over the ridge and chewed up everything in their path. We have been listening to sharon chen, fox 5 in san diego, and we thank them for their hope with our coverage. Theres nowhere to hide. Sharon and her crew have backed up, as you can see, all the Fire Department personnel and all of their equipment still down at the end of this other street, perpendicular, and were so close to it all now, the smoke and the flames are sort of on top of where our local reporter and photographer are, and its an ominous sight. I can remember covering fires in the Florida Everglades i dont want to admit how long ago 20 years or more ago when the wind shifts and the flames and the smoke turns around and comes back on you, is a as frightening a thing as ive ever experienced because suddenly youre in the middle of a fire. Were trying to listen to sharon. Were concerned on many levels about their safety there, but theyve covered these things for a long time. I know that this one surprised everybody on scene. The Fire Department personnel and the rest. Sharon is talking. Firefighters are dealing with. I am watching right now, that wall of flame going up the hill, and you can see the trees are swaying in that direction. You can see its actually being pushed up the hill by the wind, and firefighters actually i spoke with them this morning and they told me that today the heat and the wind were still going to be a concern, and this particular fire was the biggest threat, and as we can see that is obviously the case right now. Its fascinating to watch from afar, and horrifying on scene. I have over here a map of where this is. This is san marcos and via del campo, and this is the curve where we are right here. So this is all of the homes and the hills back hip. So at least two or three dozen homes this is via del campo, and paseo tierra. And if you spin around, you can see that hill behind this culdesac there is up in flames. The wind is shooting it up do we still have our reporter from the fire, will carr . Will, were reporter yes. Were watching the wind in san marcos. Im reading the wind speeds and says five to ten milesperhour. But that is not what wering. These fires are creating a hell of a wind. Thats right. This afternoon firefighters hoped to get the upper hand on the fires but right now, from where im standing, i sue two huge plumes of smoke in the air. Hundred behind me. One in front of me. You can see just how strong these hot spots are getting, and its really become kind of like a frustrating game of whacka mole. The knock a hot spot down and then it jumps. A couple blocks from us homeowners are running around we assume theyre home owner trying to water down anything and everything they can because at this point behind me and in front of me looks like the fire is out of control. It looks like it shifted. When looking at the wind maps from the National Weather service and the rest, i dont see this shift, but i can see it with my eye us. The wind was blowing in the direction of the ridge a moment ago. Now the wind is coming back and its bringing the flames with it. Theres been a wind shift. Reporter where were standing the winds are relatively calm. Thats the tricky part before the santa ana winds. Youre in one area, theyre calm. Another area, theres huge gusts. There will supposed to be gusts up to 4050 milesperhour today so thats what youre seeing in those areas and it is kicking the fire around, and a variety of different places. Obviously making this incredibly challenging for all the firefighters out there. Has to be. Will, i want to show our viewers these map. This says the winds are blowing out of the northwest so at 10milesanhour, but you get these santa ana winds come in right off the pacific, and the winds get much higher than that. And then these flames create more winds and the sort of firenados we were watching. Its hard to tell from our perspective if the names are headed towards the houses or gone over them and now the houses may be out of danger. Can you tell . Reporter i cant tell from my perspective. What i can tell you is there is a large burn scar behind me from when the fire raced up yesterday afternoon. So theres not a threat of the homes that wrap around behind me bus the fire has already burned through here in front of me, though, theres a lot of fresh vegetation for this fire. So it looks like a big plume of smoke in front of me is pushing towards us so theres a lot of fresh vegetation. We have seen firefighters going the opposite direction. All day we have been seeing them go this way. In the last 1015 minuteses theyre going that way. This looks like a house on top of the ridge. The brush is green but its bone dry, and on the other side of these flames there is a house up there on top of that ridge, which is very much in danger. You see the fire personnel working down on via del campo, and now more fire trucks on the far part of the screen. Just getting around roads get blocked off because of the fires. The smoke is so think. Firefighters getting in and out of canyons, its not an easy thing to do. Its. Reporter these are very narrow roads. One photographer just saw what we think are home owners who are watering down their homes, and honestly, you can understand why, but what happens if these roads get clogged. We had to move throughout the day to make sure wore off the path. So if these firefighters have to race towards the fire, that nobody gets in their way. So thats obviously why they closed so many of these roads. Know its very frustrating for the residents but theyre trying to save as many homes as they can. Wow. We tearily lost the treat from the ground shot there on via del campo in san marcos. 19 minutes past noon in the west coast and in the san diego area. More pictures coming in now. And its this house up on the hill that is of most concern at this moment. Well have continuing coverage on fox news channel. This is breaking news from the fox news deck and well be right back. 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And fire after fire after fire dots the landscape in the hills around san marcos. This is at the end of a culdesac. The cam race looking down a street that ends in a culdesac. And there are 25, 30 homes in this neighborhood. The thinking was that these flames would stay on the other side of the ridge you can very very faintly on the back, but they did not. There was a wind shift, a temporary and local wind shift, but a wind shift that brought it over the wind. The winds were coming at our camera location. Now theyre moving back toward the ridge again. So the winds are spiraling, and people are kind of trying to figure out where this is going. We have a live feed from our local station but theyre in tape playback. Looks like this is getting hotter and hotter. Reporter thats right. We moved location and the ridge is right here. We just saw them dump some water or retardant on this hot spot. Flames shot up 2030 feet into the air and now theres a huge white plume of smoke to our vantage point. This isnt the only one. I actually can see threw huge plumes of smoke here. One to my left, one in between, and then a huge black one going up into the air. To visualize how hard it is for these firefighters to try to get on top of this. They concentrate of one of these areas and then you see another one jump up. We have seen numerous planes circling all three of these plumes, dropping retardant and water, doing everything they took get on top of the fire. You were talking about how close we for homes. If you look down, were actually right next to one of the homes that burned right here. So this is the damage that can come from here and this is why these firefighters are doing everything they possibly can right now to save so many other homes. A minute ago ask your photographer to go back to the house where started the live shot. A house that is in the center with fire all around. Thats good. This whole picture here is one that is worth seeing. What the Fire Department and local officials ask people to do is clear the brush around your houses before fire season. So if the fires come toward you home theyve run out of fuel and thats what happened here. Theres no fuel around the house so the house still stands. Thats right. And so many times when you come that thes