A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
the jury,
california and that this is shaping up to be the most destructive fire season on record there. a pair of wild fires in the northern part of the state threatening 10,000 homes today. record-breaking heat has left the land very dry creating what firefighters are calling perfect wild fire conditions. more images this afternoon. it s towering flames. here a firefighter monitors a building to make sure that the flames don t spread. this is lake port, california, which is 80 miles or so north and west of sacramento. nearby, a home burns in the up to of findley. this is one of those air tankers dropping fire retardant. this is a picture of some destruction from a deadly fire in redding, california. more than 800 homes destroyed there. jeff paul is live in redding. jeff? yeah, shep. the fire in redding here, the carr fire continues to grow.
situation with the fires worse and cause more fires. for more on this, let s bring in cnn producer joel lobby. you are from australia and can give us a sense of what s happening. what s the latest? the latest is that the fire authorities are saying that the fire is subdued, but not under control. so what they re looking at at the moment is containing, building containment lines around these towns south of lawn, a very popular tourist area. they re trying to make sure the flames don t spread. new year s eve and new year s day, they re expecting over 100 degrees fahrenheit. these are conditions that if the winds whip up, this is just, could be a catastrophic fire condition. and the blaze is already big enough. i just want to let you know that the intensity of the blaze as well, the emergency management commissioner who is essentially heading up the operation to stop
problems he faces they can t operate, it s a different set of cards. there s no shared language almost. one day he will no longer be the president of russia. for the time being, there s a guy with apparently limitless power who likes to throw something in the works. but it works. unexpected consequences. there is nothing that s stopping any of t and either, you know, the werks the u.s. actually needs to step it up or say, you know what? we re getting out. you can t do this in between thing anymore. as someone from a former colony, i find that very worrying. the expectation that a super power is the police of the world comes with a lot of expectation of what the return is going to be. if america is not going to be the police of the world, don t be the police of the world, and