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Erratically in the last week. its exactly the one week mark today and they are hoping within the next few days they will make some very good progress on those containment lines. they will be air dropping via helicopter some hand crews in to go do the really heavy work in the brush. its safe enough they feel they can drop some people in to build those containment lines without danger of the fire turning on them. thats the situation here this morning. its still very dire in this community but it l...

Now, threatening homes. there are mandatory evacuations in the place. this is north of san bernardino. this is really the route. when you look at i-15 the highway we have been watching, this is the route for people to get out of l.a. and up to vegas. as you might imagine, on a friday afternoon at 5:30 local time, that is a popular highway to be driving. this is snarled traffic, of course. firefighters are trying to get a handle on it. we have seen them from the ground and the air dropping water ...

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Air dropping earmarks into bills at the last minute so nobody knows that its really there. and well outlaw monuments to me. this is for projects with their name on them. >> its hard for me to believe that congressmen and senators that continue their addiction to earmarks in their support for almost every new spending program have read the same institution i have. >> some of the antiearmark. we really need to ask the republicans about the politico here mark list. a new report says the top earmark...

>> we are providing needed commodities, food, water and other needs to the municipalities. we are loring closely with the 78 municipalities to make sure they can come get those supplies. if they are not able to well find alternative means. we realize the words are impassable in the hardest hit areas. we have been taking helicopters and air dropping supplies. thats not a long-term solution. we need to get them out of there, we need to get them into shelters so they can be fed and cared for. that ...

But i can tell you it was already bought and paid for by the u.s. taxpayer in a hugh man te tear hugh man tear area effort. and i think it was well worth it and the right investment to make. whether it would chachk tnge th price point, i dont know. but capacity is the issue. life saving requirements is the need. and we had that capacity met. >> the need is immediate. and with all the challenges, what are the conversations with air dropping in certain areas because people are talking about runnin...

We want to take you to those deadly wildfires in chile that have devastated the city of valpariso. theyre battling link gearing hot spots that developed saturday afternoon. flames actually leaped from hilltop to hilltop in the picturesque port city killing at least 12 people and destroying more than 2,000 homes. more than 10,000 people were forced to evacuate. now make shift shelters in santiago, the capital city, are taking in the homeless. on saturday they took to the air dropping water from p...

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