Cornish, Ron Brownstein, kate bedingfield, geoff duncan. Thank you. And thanks to all of you for joining joining us im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now homes burned in almost every direction. Thats the word from texas as multiple wildfires are burning right now and breaking just moments ago, we just got word that pope francis was taken to the hospital. Were getting new information in on the condition of the 87 yearold pontiff, hunter biden about to take questions face to face with a republican lawmakers trying to impeach his father. Im kate bolduan with john berman. Sara is out today. This is Cnn News Central we are following this Breaking News. People in texas are being forced to flee communities, burn to the ground. There are multiple wildfires burning in the Texas Panhandle right now that is terrifying. If you come upon that, of course, overnight, the fire called the Smokehouse Creek fire became the fifth largest fire in texas state history, scorching over 300,000 acres
Congressman to his son, the phone calls from the son made to i believe it was the future fatherinlaw and the other calls first lady there. How much time would he be facing if convicted of all the charges . Yeah, i mean, he is facing 150 years, and thats just addressing the congressman. Were not talking, again, about the 25yearold son and his future fatherinlaw. Those phone calls, anderson, there were seven in total that went back and forth between the congressman and his son while the congressman was at that white house congressional picnic. And theyre very quick. They finally connected on that seventh phone call. This is shortly after only minutes that the u. S. Attorneys office says that he received that email saying that the drug trial had failed. And then according to the attorneys office, his son, cameron, 25 years old, again, went to his fiancees familys house to tell them in person that the drug trial had failed, that they needed to do something about it, allegedly, and then
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Location: East of Divide road, North of Spring Creek Canyon. The fire is approximately 15 miles southwest of Montrose, Colorado.Size: Approximately 16 acres Behavior: Creeping and smoldering with isolated tree
that had to evacuate. talking about 8 counties worth of people, little more than 35,000 forced to leave their homes, flee sometimes in the dead of night to get away from flames, flames that cal fire, the local fire officials have said had moved in an unprecedented way driven by drought conditions, extraordinary high winds we have seen here and record dry fuel conditions. you pick up a piece of foliage off the ground, snap it between your fingers, it crumbles into dust. this cold weather overnight, possible dying downwind, may give the fire the chance to lay down. the idea that containment is going to happen will take some time, aaron. moving east to north carolina, dozens of people, katie beck, are missing after major flooding. that came from remnants of tropical storm fred. what s the latest on the ground