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we ll be all right. it was incredible talking to that man, he was not concerned about what he lost, just he, his family members and employees were okay. this is aftermath of a tornado in carpenteria, ef-0 tornado hit with winds up to 75 miles per hour reeking havoc in a mobile home park there. guys, back to you. steve: max, thank you. follow that by downloading the fox weather app to your connected devices. ainsley: over to ashley for headlines. ashley: the trump grand jury set to return to court today at noon, this afternoon manhattan da alvin bragg cancelled yesterday s hearing. we re learning about major dissension with the district attorney s office, speculation
how many more people have been told they have to leave? well, we don t have an exact number of that. we probably have that in the morning time. we do have santa barbara, montecito and carpenteria. we saw some pictures i think you had shown today about the fire coming down in those areas. you can imagine how many people would be affected in those counsels. rigyou were saying too, we r looking at video right now of it coming over a ridge, and it is just too dangerous to put firefighters in front of the western edge. yeah. in some situations it is it all depends where they re at. there are places we can make stands. under heavy vegetation and those gusts up to 50, 60 miles an hour, very dangerous for everybody and so we have to be tactically correct and we might bump down several areas and try to do burning operations to burn some of that fuel up to stop it.
hour. if they can keep it down tonight they hope to get on top it but it s a huge job. turn off the light so you can see how it looks in the foothills of santa barbara. the entire hillside is just fire. when the winds pick up, that fire is pushed directly toward santa barbara and that is the concern they have right now. it burned near carpenteria. and burning towards santa barbara. the towns of monisoto is in the line of the fire that will not quit. all wind-driven. the dry, dry brush. the humidity levels in the brush here has been below 10%. firefighters hope that if they can get on it tonight, though, if they can survive those winds tonight, and they have some 400 vehicles up in the area here fighting the fire, that s why