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The news is not that bad. the acreage did jump up to 30,000, but thats not that much more than from last night when they had a news conference at 26,000 last night, so a little bit more acreage and about the same number of structures and homes burned. the big story here, of course, the strong wind. a red flag warning is in effect all day today until 11:00 tomorrow morning, and it was a sleepless night for many. >> firefighters made aggressive attacks on the fire, defending structures as well as ...

All different agencies, state, local, and federal, gathered together at the command post to get their briefing, to fan out and conduct searches and arrests across charlotte. >> this is a massive operation. >> it all had to happen at exactly the same time or would would get around and youd lose everyday or people. evidence. >> im talking to them giving them a complete view and chris taps me on the shoulder and says this has been put on hold, i have to go up to washington. >> there was a huge back...

That manner, with a law thats never been tried before. >> and there was a lot of pressure not to fail. >> and there were a lot of people that questioned whether it could be done. >> i called together a team of 250 officers. >> so hundreds of agents from all different agencies, state, local, and federal, gathered together at the command post to get their briefing, to fan out and conduct searches and arrests across charlotte. >> this is a massive operation. >> it all had to happen at exactly the s...

For a modern day armageddon. >> this is the fbi command post. we have a fire at the compound in mt. carmel. the entire compound is going up right now. >> it was an epic debacle in united states law enforcement history. a deadly shootout followed by a 51-day siege that ended with more than 70 people dead in a raging inferno. all caught on live television with the whole world watching. two questions rise from the ashes of this american tragedy. who shot first and who started the fire? >> it began ...

Relayed to the command post which was set up at the foot of their home. and gave her the news. >> your life just comes tumbling down. you have it all planned out. you think you know what its going to be. and then everythings gone. >> kay caught off guard? not kay, thought darla. impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least thats what roger and pam told the police and later us. and a very strange story it was that began, they said, when pam received a pie at work as a gift. >> h...

In order to do that, we need to make sure we fit into the natural patterns of that neighborhood. the fbi went so far as to obtain a van that looked just like chi maks van that we used to approach the home. if a neighbor were looking out, theyd assume chi mak was coming home and theyd go back to sleep. >> you need a huge number of people watching the neighborhood making sure nobody walks up on you. you need to watch out for dogs and teenagers, as strange as it is. teenagers can come and go at any...

If you go straight down western on venice, the whole plaza burned on fire. we were calling 911 and there was no response. >> anthony: did the cops come at all? >> roy choi: i was here all three days. i didnt see any cops. >> anthony: well, where did they set up their front line? >> roy choi: rodeo drive. >> anthony: where did the forces of law and order set up their perimeter? not here. koreatown was left to its own devices. the official borders are third street on the north end, olympic bouleva...

Will not be here anytime soon. [ laughter ] >> roy choi: yeah, i mean, so thats when all the stuff started to go down. >> anthony: roy choi is a second-generation korean american. he lives in los angeles. hes the owner/operator of four groundbreaking and much loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> roy choi: this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look and you could see ...

The iraqi desert. we are headed west of ramadi, deep out into the anbar desert to find a command center for this operation under way right now to capture isis fighters. our flight over the desert in 115-degree heat. we hear the pilots pointing out every lone vehicle, every lone person they see on the horizon. they are ready. and then we see it. the small command post just 50 miles from the syrian border. >> we are very far western edge of al anbar desert. >> this remote post in the outer reaches...

That this is a category 2, theres a lot of real estate along that coastline, the tornados weve seen over a dozen warnings. theres one south of raliegh, thats going to continue to be a problem, the winds right now, 52 mile per hour gusts, were going to be looking at winds picking up. into the coastline, wilmington 90 miles per hour, thats well into hurricane strength, getting close to hurricane 2 areas. were into this for a while, that surge, the tornado threat and the heavy raindroping a foot to...