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Trench, clearing underbrush, this, and that. okay. now, they go in and theyre in communications with a command center, okay? >> when they get in trouble, what happens? >> well, from what we have been able to gather, bill, is when this happened when the weather changed so dramatically and the fire doubled back on them they radioed in to the division chief thats a pretty standard protocol. its typical in a situation where there is open radio communication line where lots of other agencies that are...

Were seeing things you see in august. >> reporter: so many fires already in california, smoke drifting east into clark county in las vegas, prompting air hazard alerts. >> at one point it looked like a volcano, and i was like whoa. >> reporter: paul very vass guess and his personal command center. you might know him better as bear. this fire burned the mountain that made him famous. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> reporter: he too lives at yosemites doorstep, ordered to evacuate, he says hes going...

Treasure. tinder dry conditions feeding the wind-fueled fires just about everywhere. near prescott, arizona, fire spread rapidly creating panic and more evacuations. across the west, historic levels of severe and extreme dryness, even large chunks of exceptional dryness. thats more extreme than extreme. >> this is kind of unprecedented, seeing this kind of dryness this early with a longer summer coming. again, this is june. were seeing things that you see in august. >> reporter: so many fires al...

Module. the space lab has been in orbit nearly two years. lets watch this. this is sort of a symbolic of chinas space race, engineering inhibitions. >> you can hear the countdown here. >> five, four, three, two, one -- ignition and we have a lift off. lift off. they are happy, confident and waving their commands to the command center here on earth. it is on its journey to space. to join chinas space dock tiangong 1. >> its at a time the u.s. space shuttle has been retired. the chinese program ad...

Oklahoma city, the governor of oklahoma. we are so sorry to hear about the life loss and destruction in your state once again. do you think the fatalities and injury numbers will go up any? >> we certainly hope not. we were taken by shock that we could have another storm like in oklahoma. we werent surprised the weather got bad, but we just couldnt believe we were having to go through this all again in such a short period of time after we had such terrible storms the week before. but i will say ...

Inside of a basement itself, thats the best thing because we saw after the last storm people who had cars in parking lots or some that were on the highways, they get tossed around real easy in high winds. >> yeah. certainly i just talked to the mayor of moore who you know very well, who said its just unthinkable that his town could be hit yet again. >> i know. we are heartsick about it. we hope this storm passes through and its just some rain and hail but we do know the winds are whipped up pret...

Talked to the mayor of moore who you know very well, governor fallon. he says its unanible that his town could be hit, yet again. >> i know. we are sick about it. we hope that this storm passes through and then its just some rain and hail. but we do know that the winds are pretty good. its just a few moments ago. its just loud from all of the thunder and lightning. were going to be checking to see where we have damage around the state. i know our command center is up and running. i know weve tal...

Early because i had some long hours. i left about 4:00 to go down and do my mama duties and helped my son clean out his apartment. he just got out of college last week. i got down there for about 30 minutes, and all of a sudden i got all these weather alerts so i was driving back to norman to get to a safe area myself. im sitting here driving through what looks to be bad weather and coming up -- its not raining in oklahoma city yet, but its a good 30, 40 minutes right outside looking at the rada...

In an area north of detroit this is morris township, thats north of flint as you can see, lots of widespread damage. there was a tornado warning issued right before this hit. we dont know if a tornado hit down. it could be straight line winds, very strong winds. can you see uprooted trees. some buildings are destroyed, officials have set up a command center in a church. when we know more about how this damage was caused and if there are injuries or if these people need help, well take back to so...

And there he was, coming back to oklahoma to help us. i have had so many governor who is have called me. i have lost track, well over 30 governors have called me to offer their assistance, and the president has called several types and several cabinet secretaries have offered their assistance. they realize this is a major disaster. and it is going to take a while to recover from this. we have a lot of work ahead of us. >> governor, you know, you look at the pictures on the television, you think ...