We are talking about half an inch to an inch per hour. officials in southern california are worried about what that rain might do in terms of flooding, in terms of landslides, and mudslides. they have cancelled school today in los angeles, as well as in san diego. the storm did bring with it some wind but the major concern here is really all of the moisture, not only in southern california, as you mentioned, but in arizona. we have seen some heavy rain and in places like las vegas and nevada they have seen a lot of heavy rain and flooding as well. meanwhile in canada, wildfires in the province of british columbia are showing some signs of easing but authorities say crews are still battling epic fires. there are currently more than 400 wildfires burning across bc. across western canada more than 35,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across western canada. troops have been deployed to help with the emergency.
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Insatiable bark beetle joins us tonight. also a conservation biologist. good to have you with us. what do you make of this? what is this from what you can gather? good evening, ed. what we are seeing here is the summer of 2012 and 2013 were extremely warm. the permanent frozen soils are thawing. it is very likely that what we have seen here is a torrent of gas gushing out of mother earth just like a big old champagne cork being ripped off a bottle. if we look on the other side of the arctic circle in alaska, what we are seeing in alaska is our soils are drying out even faster. that spells epic fires. the anatuvic river fire scorched 386 square miles. it was the most devastating fire in 5,000 years.