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1500 including at least 500 children. almost 13,000 people have also been injured and in the last 24 hours alone more than 36,500 homes have been partially or fully destroyed from flooding. a humanitarian disaster is unfolding there. >> unicef says 16 million children have been impacted by pakistans super floods and 3.4 million remain in need of immediate life-saving support due to disease or malnourishment. >> a storm is heading toward northern californias mosquito fire. heavy wind from the sto...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the request in hopes of freeing up financial assistance for recovery efforts.

Increasingly positive in their outlook. the fire crew by only a few hundred acres in 24 hours to 338 square miles. officials say containment lines are holding well. republican lawmakers in kentucky are holding a special legislative session to shape the commonwealths response to the pandemic resurgence. democratic governor andy beshear is asking lawmakers to extend the state of emergency until mid january. last month the state supreme court shifted virus policy making from the governor to the leg...

What is that doing tomorrow? several of these large — what is that doing tomorrow? several of these large fires _ what is that doing tomorrow? several of these large fires have _ what is that doing tomorrow? several of these large fires have been - of these large fires have been burning for several months now, so it is day in and day out, new fire after new fire, since january the 1st we have had thousands of fires back 7000 wildfires, so while we train for this and while our firefighters have...

Adding 40-mile-an-hour winds, you get this. >> created what is called an active crown fire run with a fire actually goes from treetop to treetop. when it does that, those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spare the tahoe basin. >> we are using all of our resources, everything we have at our disposal and coordinating closely with cal fire. >> so winds are expected to improve tonight and tomor...

Mountain air now a billowing blanket of ash stretching hundreds of miles. >> basically a flame or an ember lands on the dry brush and it ignites. its not stopping it. >> torching pine needles in an overgrown forest that hasnt burned in decades. add in 40 mile-per-hour winds, you get this. >> to create whats called an active crown fire run where the fire goes from tree top to tree top. when it does that those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines h...

Another 10,000 people to evacuate. >> lucy kafanov joins us live from el dorado county, california. growing 24 times in size in the last two days. that is a truly wildfire. >> reporter: it is explosive in terms of its growth, jim. and that is because it has singed over 65,000 acres now and so quickly you have the bone dry conditions, you have hilly terrain which makes it difficult to get bulldozers there to cut containment lines and then you have the population. we were driving through the fire ...

Area. they have to do a lot to try to contain it because it is just simply too big to put out. so what theyve been doing is digging containment lines, pulling down, cutting down trees to try to prevent the fire from having enough fuel to burn. but it has been a losing battle for them. take a listen to how one firefighter described the challenging of battling this massive blaze. >> the fire itself is faster than the firefighters can get control over it. the winds and the trees and the brush that ...

Dont want this fire getting out of our containment lines. >> crews are looking at power lines as a possible source of the flames. a washington, d.c. court has dropped charges against jane fonda after she was arrested during a climate change demonstration on capitol hill and spent a night in jail. it is the fourth arrest in the last month for the 81-year-old actress. she says she plans to continue the protests through january. another horse has died at a big racetrack in california. its the 3...