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investigators are concentrated on that farm as the origin of the fire. neighbors identified the farm as a marijuana grow and more neighbors are speaking out. they don t want you to see their faces or know their names. they re concerned about the danger of the many marijuana farms that have popped up. the rapid amount of money and guns. you can hear ak47s. you can hear that? yes. yes. reporter: law enforcement told me they have had shootouts with mexico drug cartels. the neighbors showed letters and e-mails that support they ve been complaining for more than a year about the pot farms. the public safety and risk of wildfire. this is what we ve been telling the county for a couple years now. they ve been drawing water out of the creek, they build structures and run pvc pipe up the hill. we ve seen barely anything going on to eradicate this situation. reporter: katie marzulo asked mike wasserman about the complaints that he failed to take action. we responded to
fire burned down 12 homes and charred 4300 acres since it started on monday. crews have the fire 50% contained. only the i-team learned the fire likely started at the site of a marijuana farm and the owner has ties to a dispensary in santa cruz. we tracked down the owner and another issue ts today. neighbors told me they ve been complaining about a year about the pot farms in the mountains. the man listed as ceo owns the 80 acre farm where the fire may have begun. and he issued a statement to his attorney. to our knowledge nothing illegal was going on on the property. no butane, no meth lab, no illegal marijuana grow. he would not tell me if the owner was running what he considered to be a legal marijuana farm. he says they all want answers about what sparked the blaze. we re actively investigating and cooperating however we can. new law enforcement and sources confirmed what i reported wednesday. investigators are concentrated on that farm as the origin of the fi
additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. a key region in afghanistan could be on the verge of falling to the taliban. the deputy governor of helmand province, an area that u.s. troops once fought to secure, says urgent action is needed to prevent its collapse. the official posted an unusual public plea to afghan president ashraf ghani on facebook saying, quote: helmand is standing on the brink, and there is a serious need for you to come. the helmand official said he had lost 90 soldiers in the past two days and hundreds more during six months of taliban attacks. a spokesman for president ghani said the president is aware of the facebook post and met with his national security council about the situation. an afghan army spo
corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. this is pbs newshour weekend. sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. the head of the centers for disease control and prevention today offered new reassurances that ebola does not pose a great risk to americans. here in the u.s. i remain quite confident we will not have a widespread outbreak. we will stop it in its tracks, because we ve got infection control in hospitals and public health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms. in africa the story is different. sreenivasan: the c.d.c. has investigated more than 100 ebola scares in 33 states in just the first fou