and if you re familiar with that area, it is extremely steep. extremely thick vegetation that has not burned in probably decades. once it s got ahold, and started up that hill, i think we all saw that, as soon as i got to my headquarters, you could see the tremendous smoke column and we knew we had a significant fire. okay, this is the live scene right now of what s happening in the laguna hills area. this is the orange county area of colorado. it s about an hour or so outside of los angeles. it s very close to the ocean. you can see that fire burning in the distance there on the hills as the fire officials describe it. that of course is a palm tree. one of the issues they ve had with this fire is that embers have been spread by the winds. in fact, that s why some of these houses, according to the fire officials, have actually been burnt and have been involved in fire, as you can see right there. the embers have been managing to get inside the homes, into their attics and t
and if you re familiar with that area, it is extremely steep. extremely thick vegetation that has not burned in probably decades. once it s got ahold, and started up that hill, i think we all saw that, as soon as i got to my headquarters, you could see the tremendous smoke column and we knew we had a significant fire. okay, this is the live scene right now of what s happening in the laguna hills area. this is the orange county area of colorado. it s about an hour or so outside of los angeles. it s very close to the ocean. you can see that fire burning in the distance there on the hills as the fire officials describe it. that of course is a palm tree. one of the issues they ve had with this fire is that embers have been spread by the winds. in fact, that s why some of these houses, according to the fire officials, have actually been burnt and have been involved in fire, as you can see
destruction the russians say of this fuel depot. i m joined by cnn s phil black. you can see from the pictures, it appears to have created a significant smoke column. this is just on the outskirts of kyiv. the russians say they did this with a cruise missile fired from one of their naval vessels, happened overnight. if so, then it is more evidence of the power and the accuracy and range of these weapons they re being firing from the black sea and the caspian sea and that s what they can bring to bear in this war against the ukrainians. shows what the russians can do. not far, though, from where the ukrainians say they are having some success in part of their counteroffensive missions. good reason to believe this is true. we re hearing from the british and u.s. defense officials in recent days. we have video from social media video that has been put on by ukrainian soldiers who are clearly very happy, celebrating in the aftermath of a battle to the east of ukraine. we have geoloca