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There was concern rain could weaken the ground, causing it to give way. its burned almost 4300 acres and 10% contained at this point. >> reporter: 600 firefighters battling blazes in bone-dry brush. >> its been quite the firefight. weve had winds moving up slope, down slope. >> reporter: the beach towns and homes and nearly 100,000. thousands of homes threaten thousands of people forced to flee. flames ingfling highway 154. for some the only way to safety. after day break, tanker air drops, more...

There is just so much fuel and this morning one firefighter said to us as soon as he heard where the fire had broken out, h he knew they were going to have a battle on their hands 600 firefighters battling blazes in bone dry brush. >> its been quite the fire fight. weve had winds moving upslope, down slope, across the slope. >> across the steep hillsides in santa barbara, the fabled beach town and home to nearly 100,000. >> im like oh my god. >> thousands of homes threatened, thousands people fo...

It feels as though every week, every day, some overnights, a new one crops up. theres this local emergency in effect. evacuation orders have been issued for neighborhoods surrounding highway 154. the fire has burned more than 3,000 acres. >> major winter storm disrupting thanksgiving plans. heres a live look at denver. look at that. someone is going to have to shovel out their car. more than a foot of snow has fallen already this morning. hundreds of flights canceled. chad myers with the holiday...

Right now with just this terrifying video out of california, visibility nearly zero, this is highway 154, drivers rushing for their lives, fleeing these heavy flames in and around santa barbara, officials there saying the fire is simply out of control. cnns nick watt is there on what is known as the cave fire. nick, i think we talked about this every week, another out of skrol control fire in california, tell us the situation as you see it there you are right, we have been told 4100 acres burned...

As long as you got the right connections. and it really goes to can a commander command? can a service determine who is -- who has the merit to be in that service. whos qualified to be in that service. the s.e.a.l.s, the patriots turned him in. it was going to be a s.e.a.l. team, a group of s.e.a.l.s that reviewed whether or not he would keep his trident. the navy does this all the time. 154 tridents have been pulled for various reasons. for various reasons. to say, no, were not going to do that...

For an interview and i want to play for you a bit of what the attorney had to say about what the navy could be doing better here. i would like your response. >> eddie gallagher wishes that it had been handled better by the navy and we certainly hope that there will be some lessons learned out of this so that they can improve and not do this again. >> are there lessons to be learned here for the navy? >> now could the navy do this better? what they were going to do was send this to a board of sea...

Cases. but about this, about the trident review boards is what kind of precedent this would set, and what it means for other navy s.e.a.l.s in the same position. help illuminate that for us, if you could, how doing this, how the president intervening would change the way the president works in this branch of the armed forces. >> well, i think one of the things you said is so important to remember. what were talking about here is a board of his peers, a board of s.e.a.l.s, five s.e.a.l.s deciding...

White house, a couple thousand people work over there. and many are military. communications officers, medical, transportation, but the the nsc staff itself in many cases are the brightest foreign service cia and military officers we have. and by and large, they work in civilian clothes but make no mistake, theyre still active duty military officers. >> i also wanted to get you on record. the president gave out pardons this past weekend to three members of the u.s. navy. the navy going against h...

White house, a couple thousand people work over there, and many of them are military, communications officers, medical, transportation. but the nsc staff itself in many cases are the brightest foreign service, cia, and military officers we have. and by and large they work in civilian clothes, but make no mistake, theyre still active duty military officers. >> i also wanted to get you on record, general. the president gave out pardons this past weekend to three members of the u.s. navy. the navy ...

White house, a couple thousand people work over there. and many are military. communications officers, medical, transportation, but the nse staff itself in many cases are the brightest foreign service cia and military officers we have. and by and large, they work in civilian clothes but make no mistake, theyre still active duty military officers. >> i also wanted to get you on record. the president gave out pardons this past weekend to three members of the u.s. navy. the navy going against his w...