Its thursday. October 12. The situation in california is growing more urgent by the day. Deadly wildfires rage across the northern part of the state. Death toll has risen to 23. 8,000 firefighters have been deployed and fighting the flames by air and ground. Dealing with hundreds of missing persons reports. Search efforts complicated by destroyed cell towers. 3500 homes and businesses have burned to the ground and in some areas entire neighbors are completely gone. Look at imagies on the screen. At least 115,000 acres have been torched so far. Two and a half times the size of washington, d. C. Despite the fact weve been covering this for a couple of days now. Well rebuild somehow. Well go on. Well either do it here or somewhere else and well get more stuff. Well never have the time to replace what weve lost. It hurts. Its going to be difficult for a long time. It will take a long time to recover. Lets go down to santa rosa. Scott, weve been kcovering thi for the last couple of days. Still the images are shocking. Concerns many of the wildfires can form one big blaze. What more can you tell us about that. That is one of the many concerns theyre dealing with. The immediate concern right now is the same wind pattern that basically laid waste to this neighborhood, coffee park and santa rosa were creating a flame thrower affect. That wind pattern is coming back. Winds out of the north are picking up again. You cant tell from where i am. You get up in the hills where the fire is, that is becoming increasingly an issue. It could merge fires into as you said larger fires. And its sparked more evacuations. The town of 5,000 people over in nap pavally. Nap paa. Oftentimes when you think of hurricane, there are sheltners place. Efforts to try to help the folks being moved out of the areas. Fires moving so fast and kinds of sometimes jumps lines and going in different directions, where are people being evacuated to. Or are they out on their own. There are shelters. Most of them have space. There is that going on. Some 8,000 firefighters pouring into california. Not just from other parts of the state, but across the country. A lot of resources being thrown at this. Mother nature has a lot of resources of her own. Clearly. Incredible footage we just saw driving through the fire. President trump reacting angrily to a report. He wanted to return the u. S. Arsenal to height during the cold war. Proceeded the secretary of state calling him a moron. Trump tweeted fake nbc news made up a story i wanted a tenfold increase in u. S. Nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction made up to demean mattis, present at the july 20 meeting. Put out a statement saying recent reports the president called for increase in u. S. Arsenal are false. This kind of erroneous roeportig is irresponsible. Nbc story only said that he wanted to. No changes resulted at all from the president s desire sitting with the prime minster in oval office. President commented as well. Take a listen. No, i never discussed increasing it. I want it in perfect shape. That was just fake news by nbc which gives a lot of fake news lately. No, i never discussed. I think somebody said i want ten times the Nuclear Weapons we want right now. Right now we have so many Nuclear Weapons. I want them in perfect condition. Perfect shape. Thats the only thing ive ever discussed. General mattis put out a statement saying that was fake news. That it was just mentioned that way when they said i want ten times what we have right now, totally unnecessary, believe me. I know what we have right now. You want no increase whatsoever. We wont need an increase. I want modernization and total rehabilitation. Its got to be in tiptop shape. Despite the president s claim that never discussed extending arsenal at the pentagon, he did so publically. The United States must greatly strengthen and expand nuclear capability. Viewpoint reacted he clarified that tweet saying let it be an arms race to match them. Outlast them all. His reaction to nbc news exclusive report, President Trump also took square at press freedom writing on twitter, quote, with all the fake news coming out of nbc and the networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license. Bad for the country. Many have pointed out the networks themselves dont hold federal licenses. Theyre individual television station. The oval office the president added this. Its frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it. No, the press should speak more honestly. Ive seen tremendously dishonest press. Its not even a question about distortion. About ten times the nuclear capability. I know the capability we have. Believe me. It is awesome. It is massive. When they make up stories like that, its just made up. The generals will tell you that. Then they have their sources that dont exist in my opinion they dont exist. They make up the sources. There are no sources. However the nbc report sou e sources three unidentified officials that were in the room when he made his comment. Trump tweeted network news has become so partisan and distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged. The president said more in a rally style interview with fox news held in harrisburg pennsylvania. If i was just watching television, you dont know whether or not. Youre just watching a report. When youre the one being written about. You know if its good or bad. They always try to make it negative. I call it fake media. So much fake news. Do you agree with that. Fake news . But at least one member of the president s party is taking exception to those comments. Republican senator putting out this Statement Last night saying in part, mr. President , words spoken by the president of the United States matter. Are you tonight recanting of the oath you took on january 20th to preserve, protect, and defend the first amendment. Turning now to north korea, President Trump yesterday was asked about strategy for resolving north korean crisis. Heres his reply. China that has been very helpful. I think. I think. Who knows. They seem to be very helpful. I dont want to say anything. Im just telling you i dont want to talk about it. Im not saying im doing anything and im not saying im not, but we shouldnt be talking about it. Calm before the storm. Youre not going to talk about that either. No, i dont talk about that. Earlier in the day sitting alongside canadian prime Minster Justin trudeau discussed his adviser. I think i have a little bit different attitude on north korea than other people might have. And i listen to everybody, but ultimately my attitude is the one that matters, isnt it. Thats the way it works. Thats the way the system is. I think i might have a somewhat different attitude and a different way than other people. I think perhaps i feel stronger and tougher on that subject than other people, but i listen to everybody. His comments coming after north Korean Foreign minister tells Russian News Agency that trump u. N. Speech was insane and lit the wick of war. All of our military servicemen and our entire people demand that the final score be settled only with a hail of fire, not words. Thats serious. Come can go out from both sides. Joining us live from south korea. Matt bradley. We have kind of heard this before. Now for some months certainly through the Trump Administration month. Lets talk a little bit about anything changing on the ground. Do things stand currently in the same position or are you seeing in seoul or other parts of south korea across the region, changes that may lead you to believe we may be getting to a tipping point. Well, thanks, its interesting of course that donald trump and the leadership of north korea they have precious little to agree on. They manage to find some agreement here. Both seem to believe that negotiations over this are absolutely few lly fut rhetorat one another. Asking about the situation on the ground. Said in the same comments that you mentioned that the north koreans are now near the goal of reaches the same kind of power as the u. S. Military. Now, of course, thats ridiculous. Nowhere near the kind of power. At the same kind, made a lot of recent strides. Testing a Thermo Nuclear weapon. Did that last month. Test an i went continental ballistic missile. Could reach the continuous United States. The thing they havent been able to do is mary those two te technolo technologies. That could be a game changer in the calculation of the United States and the allies in the region. With all this rhetoric, you cant help, but think, where do we go now. Live in south korea, thank you, matt. Several new developments overnight in the scandal around harvey winestein. Embarrassed. I felt so taken advantage of that he i thought he was really going to help me. Then 24. Thought the movie mogul caw car about her acting ambitions until his female assistant brought her but i want you to have a threesome with me and my assistant. She says she fled. These stories making winestein a target in business had loves. Discuss his membership. Facing criticism from friends like former disney chairman telling winestein in an email you have done terrible things to a number of women over a period of years. Winesteins wife leaving him. In a statement winestein saying i support her decision, i am in counseling and perhaps when i am better, we can rebuild. Winestein captured by cameras reportedly seeking treatment for sex addiction. Sex addiction is about sex. Sexual harassment is about powe affleck forced to apologize for groping Hillary Burton in 2003. Tweeting i acted inappropriately. Resetting the standards for professional behavior in the business of make believe. An tompson, nbc news, new york. A lot of developments. Every day new revelations. Still ahead, its been three weeks since Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico. Taking a look at what has been done to help with recovery. Wildfires across northern california, bill karins take a look at how the wind will affect firefighter efforts today. Those stories and more when we come back. Whats Critical Thinking like . A basketball costs 14. Whats team spirit worth . cheers whats it worth to talk to your mom . Whats the value of a walk in the woods . The value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. Morgan stanley this is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. 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House is expected to vote on Disaster Relief bill for the island later today. Check on the weather with bill karins. California facing some of the worst wildfires in the states history. Wind still not letting up there. Gusty winds have kicked up overnight. Continue to watch the air quality too. Winds are out of the north. Blowing all of the toxic air down towards San Francisco and bay area. High population center. Fire weather continues. Red flag warnings from red into sacramento. Also the mountains near Santa Barbara and outside of la too. Gusty this evening. Die off during the day today. And the winds, you know, california and the central valley. Great for growing. Lush, beautiful. Also traps all the air. Poor air quality. Heres how the winds are shaping up now. Icons showing where the flames are of the active fires currently. The one near santa rosa, the cubs fire is one of the bigger ones. Killed 11 people. The ones in the rows of houses completely burnt. 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