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Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, california governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency after a wild fire burning just outside Yosemite National park nearly quadrupled in size. It is one of 55 major wildfires burning in ten western states. The fire near yosemite called the rim fire exploded yesterday. Its burned more than 99 square miles and is only 1 contained. The park remains open, but one access road has been cut off and residents of more than 1,000 homes have been advised to evacuate. Theresa garcia reports from near the fire lines. Reporter stands of cedar and pine exploded as the flames jumped from tree top to tree top moving faster than the crew fighting them. U. S. Forest service officer, lee bentley. We have a monster on our hands. This fire is making its own weather. Its going every which direction. This is one of the worst ive ever been on. Ive been doing it quite a few years. Repo ....
Schieffer good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im bob schieffer. We are beginning tonight with the fires running wild in the west, because there are so many of them now and they are threatening hundreds of homes. Right now, 19,000 firefighters are fighting 50 major fires in ten western states. In idaho alone, they burned more than 450 square miles, and with lightning in the forecast tonight, it could get worse. In california, a wildfire outside Yosemite National park tripled in size overnight. It now covers more than 84 square miles. So far, firefighters have contained only 2 of it. Teresa garcia is there. Reporter stands of cedar and pine exploded as the flames jumped from treetop to treetop, moving faster than the crew fighting them. U. S. Forest Service Officer lee bentley. Weve got a monster on our hands. This fire is making its own weather. Its going every which directi ....
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com happening now in the newsroom, attack talk. Totally convinced, not for the first time. Remember, not for the first time Bashar Alassad has used chemical weapons. There must be accountability. I believe we should use maximum have maximum use of cruise missiles. Obama orders a report justifying a strike as assad tell s america, you will fail. Also, yosemite tinderbox. Firefighters replace tourists as thousands race to save an american treasure. Oh, my god. This morning, condition critical. New concerns for the largest trees on earth, californias beautiful sequoias. Have they met their match . Plus, extreme heat shutting down schools in the midwest. Temperatures soaring well above 100. Its just really hot, and its just hard because were sweating and stuff like that. Classes cancelled, practice postponed. Relief not coming at least until the weekend. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, thank ....
News with lester holt. Good evening. Help is coming from as far away as the east coast to fight wildfires in the west. An epic season of destruction that reached a new milestone today. 7 million acres torched this summer so far. Across several states right now its an all hands on deck effort. Soldiers, even jailed prisoners enlisted to join the fight, with so many homes lost and so many others at risk. One of the worst fires continues to burn in chelan, washington, which is where National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer leads us off on this busy tuesday. Reporter these are the conditions firefighters are facing on the front line. Flames shooting closer and closer to homes in washington state. The National Guard has moved in, bracing for a monster day tomorrow. Winds expected to kick up dramatically. There are stil ....
Heres fox news senior political analyst brit hume. It seems pretty clear from whats happened in the past three weeks the Trump Campaign was woefully unprepared for the kind of National Effort that the winner has to mount and mount pretty quickly once the nomination is sealed. Sandra john roberts is live at trump tower with the very latest. Reporter sandra, good afternoon to you. You can put it down to a lot of reasons but, basically, when it comes to a campaign, youve got to have one chief, one person with their hand on the tiller. Corey lewandowski has wrestled over that steering wheel, if you will, with Paul Manafort, the veteran from washington. The two of them have been going back and forth, and its almost like a trump game of thrones type of thing. Manafort looked like he had won a couple months ago, lewandowski cam ....