Yakima, washington, hit 105 today. Eugene, oregon, a record 102. And 101 in red bluff, california. The heat and relentless drought are turning breezes into blow torches. At least 18 wildfires are burning in california. John blackstone reports tonight from clear lake. Reporter firefighters facing a wall of flames fueled by dry wind and tripledigit heat fought back against a fastmoving fire 100 miles north of san francisco. Air tankers and choppers were called in for support, and 650 residents were evacuated quickly from the the rural area. Ive never seen flames so tall. 200, 300foot flames. Reporter nearly 1,000 firefighters worked through the night to hold back the rocky fire from jumping the main highway. The fire continues to grow to 18,000 acres. This house was lost today. At one point, fire crews had to quickly retreat. The fire shifted back toward me. Reporter gill said the wind shifted and within minutes the fire beared down on his ranch. The fire was wild, and aggressive and it
Valuable as your life. Reporter firefighters are furiously trying to get everyone out of the area because this fire is growing with a vengeance. The winds have picked up today. They have the north wind coming out on t definitely increasing in size as we stand here. Reporter and as much air and ground crews are working to contain it the biggest concern right now, the fire jumping Morgan Valley roadblocking the only way out. In that area, you have one way out. And if that is cut off, youre not getting out. Reporter now, on that note, i just got a new update from cal fire. That north wind has caused the fire to jump across Morgan Valley road which is what were showing you right now. Its also where we were last located. We know there are some ranches out there as well as some animals that cal fire is there trying to get people to leave anybody who is there trying to evacuate the last of the families and animals that are in that area. Reporting live, allen, back to you. Yeah, cate. I know y
Repeal obamacare entirely. Gwen and on imgation. Immigration. We have to finish the wall and make it clear if anybody comes over that wall they have to go back. Gwen on the democratic sired, Hillary Clinton has more to worry about than donald trump. You may have seen they chat launched a account. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves. Gwen a joke that fell flat, it is a f. B. I. Continues to investigate whatever happened to her state department emails. I think its a huge distraction from what we should be talking about as a party. Gwen state fairs, rallies, punches and counterpunches. Its august and the campaign is in full swing. Joining the round table tonight, molly ball, National Political correspondent for the atlantic. Josh gerstein, senior White House Correspondent for politico. Ed okeefe, Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Post and reid wilson, chief political person for morning consult. Award wing reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happen
Record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. Here we were already two years into drought. Any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and its gone. Setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. In reporting in the past, ive tried to ask the question, yeah, but how much worse does this actually make the drought . Nobody really had an answer. They say it makes it worse how . Theres less water in the ground and all that. But does it make the drought longer, does it make the temperatures how is it worse . Its sort of a vicious cycle. Like hotter means drier. And then it just gets cranked up, you know. But theyre not saying that Climate Change caused the drought . Or are they . No, theyre not saying that. In fact, this same group came out with a study awhile ago specifically saying, we dont think it was the primary cause of the drought, that natural
Repeal obamacare entirely. Gwen and on imgation. Immigration. We have to finish the wall and make it clear if anybody comes over that wall they have to go back. Gwen on the democratic sired, Hillary Clinton has more to worry about than donald trump. You may have seen they chat launched a account. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves. Gwen a joke that fell flat, it is a f. B. I. Continues to investigate whatever happened to her state department emails. I think its a huge distraction from what we should be talking about as a party. Gwen state fairs, rallies, punches and counterpunches. Its august and the campaign is in full swing. Joining the round table tonight, molly ball, National Political correspondent for the atlantic. Josh gerstein, senior White House Correspondent for politico. Ed okeefe, Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Post and reid wilson, chief political person for morning consult. Award wing reporting and analysis. Covering history as it happen