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most cases, it would be a grand jury, but here in minneapolis, the county prosecutor has decided he alone will review evidence and determine whether to pursue charges. david? alex perez leading us off tonight. alex, thank you. there is also a state of emergency playing out tonight. 43 major fires burning. one in particular forcing nearly 5,000 from their homes as the fire now gets closer. and tonight, it is moving in on yosemite national park. smoke so thick in the park, you cannot see what makes it most famous. abc s kenneth moton on the fire lines from california. reporter: tonight, the detwiler fire, exploding in size to more than 70 square miles. firefighters calling it the most powerful of their careers. talking to firefighters, it s been over ten years since we ve seen fire and fire growth like this. reporter: 2,200 firefighters trying to keep up in grueling conditions on the ground. these firefighters are the first line and pretty much the only defense watch over ....
lavandera on a boat near dickinson texas, between houston and gal ves ston. you ve been talking to brave picture and showing incredible pictures, what s the latest? this is our fivtd chance to get into some of these neighborhoods. this is a neighborhood called bayou chantilly, just off of i-45. you can see how devastating the floodwaters have been seth came up here earlier in the day, he was rescue iing people the last several hours. he did one last pass through the neighborhood. if you can focus in on this home in front of you, take a look at the roof, you can see the axe seen here throughout the day, who have driven up i-45 and used it as a boat launch. and this is just one of hundreds of boats that are out on the water here in south houston, this is one particular neighborhood where this is unfolding. this is happening all across the city here this afternoon. we re seeing so many cars in drive ways. talk about how quickly the water came up. incredibly quickly. peopl ....
this parking garage there, that s at the hard rock hotel and casino and, of course, these firefighters and some of the first responders trying to get through it in biloxi, mississippi there. that s one of the hardest hit areas. the flooding took the first floor of the casino under water. the biloxi fire department took this video as the firefighters were wading through it. minutes ago, nate was downgraded to a tropical storm. so far is knocked out power to nearly 73,000 customers in alabama, florida, and mississippi. we are tracking the impact of the storm with a team of meteorologists here in atlanta and reporter in mississippi and alabama. let s begin with meteorologist ivan cabrera, the newest information from the national hurricane center, what are you learning about the strength of the storm? the good news is no longer tracking a hurricane here. it is now a tropical storm with winds of 70 miles an hour, though as i ll show you in the current wind gusts, not finding anywhe ....
no rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, tornado warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. harvey has been downgraded to the tropical storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. one confirmed death and injury. most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. it is rockport, texas. take a look from the air. this is what is left of rockport. there was no escaping harvey. rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of corpus christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. let s bring in the texas lieutenant governor dan patrick by phone. always good to be with you. i wish it was under differ ....
we re lye in the cnn newsroom. thanks for being with us. it is a storm for the record books. harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nation s fourth largest city. around 3,000 national guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. some families desperate to get to higher ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. the two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and it s only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. cnn was there when an a dramatic rescue took place in dickinson. we re live. ed, what is the latest that you re seeing? actually we re going to show you the video of the moment when ....