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Wildfires raging across california has risen to 29. that gives it the horrible distinction of the time, the deadliest fire in the state. 1933 griffith park fire in los angeles, as for the nearly two dozen fires burning right now. more than half of the deaths have occurred in sonoma county. which is, of course, wine country. across the state more than 8,000 firefighters working around the clock, trying to get the upper hand on blazes. dan simon joins us from the hard hit town of calistoga. whats ...

By in means are we over this. >> the fire has the potential to be the deadliest california wildfire on record. >> reporter: that is the fear anderson. 21 people are confirmed dead. the deadliest fire you have to go back to 1933 when 29 people died. obviously you dont like to talk about it but were getting close to those kind of numbers. at this point you got 500 or so people reported missing. that does not mean that they are feared dead. it just could mean theres a communication problem, the cel...

>> many residents only had moments to get away. as you walk up, i want to show you, we arent talking about one or two homes. were talking about this entire community, every single home completely destroyed here. we have live pictures of some of the fires that are racing nearby. as you mentioned 1,000 firefighters on the front lines, some of whom are battling these fires while their homes in these communities burned. >> it is one thing to be on the helping side and once youre on the receiving sid...

Homes just a mile or so away. and that is why authorities are still evacuating people. there are still people in danger, and its expected to get windy tonight. its actually windy right now, but there is a red flag warning that is going to be in effect starting at about 5:00 local time, so things could get a lot worse. wolf, we now know that this fire in santa rosa, this area, is now the most destructive wildfire in california history. 3,500 homes and buildings destroyed and it has the potential,...

Raises the question for chicago, is it helpless to stop the butchering of seven people. no shooting of seven today while horrific, not usually the lead story on the evening news. st. valentines day massacre is remembered as gangland prohibition history than political science lesson in gun control but maybe it was that too. it did shock the conscience of the nation and congress responded by regulating guns. gang violence led to several big policy changes. prohibition was deemed a failure and halt...

Gangland prohibition history than a political science lesson in, say, gun control. but maybe it was that too. because it did shock the conscience of the nation and congress ultimately responded to gun-related murder by regulating guns and led to policy changes and prohibition was halted in 1933. the very next year, president roosevelt signed the national firearms act, the first legislation in america anna used registration laws and taxes to regulate machine guns and sawed off shotguns. one promi...

Pride. >> anthony: 46 miles southeast is greenwood. a town with a lot of history. most of it of the not good variety. known unfortunately as much for byron de la beckwith, and tom bradys infamous speech after brown v. the board of education as anything else, fairly or not, its hard to get past that. during all the years of cruelty and struggle from 1933 on, through it all and until today, this place, luscos, was a beloved institution. once a grocery store, it turned restaurant to the money class...

God forbid we are to be hit by a domestic act of terrorism. thats when youve got to watch what happens. >> yeah. what history does is it buys us time. when we think of history, we think thousands of pages of reading. history allows us to get out ahead. certain things have already happened. in germany, 1933, russia, 1999, a terrorist incident was the occasion where a republic becomes a new kind of authoritarian regime. when that happens, whether its a terrorist attack or whether its a war, we hav...

Some of them starting with do not obey in advance. what does that mean? what does that sound like? >> its about being an individual. when something changes, when something dramatic changes, our natural impulse is to adjust. most of the time thats perfectly appropriate. there are times and places where whats changed is so fundamental and so important that we need to take stock. we need to not adjust want not do what everyone else is doing. not drift. instead ask ones self what kind of person am i...

But when leaders focus on terrorism and suggest that terrorism is a substitute for policy, thats a warning sign. its a warning sign that theyre planning to use some future terrorist attack as an excuse to change the system. thats something im afraid which has happened all too often. it hasnt happened to us. but we know from history we have to watch out for it. >> heres a warning ive heard from you and others. be calm when the unthinkable arrives. god forbid we are to be hit by a domestic act of ...