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Ongoing heroic effort. >> i scaled onto the top of the awning and onto the parapit. there were 25 civilians. >> 25 people inside the building? >> on the roof of the building. >> the fire was spreading? >> the fire was in the two-story building next door and fire was coming across the top of the roof. i jumped on top of the roof. i broke one the windows to an adjoining building two buildings down. we went in to take a little bit of refuge. we waited for firefighter morrissey to rescue two to forc...

This super storm sent a record breaking storm surge into lower manhattan, the likes which has never seen. a wall of 14 feet of water, like a freight train into lower manhattan. sandy churned up dangerous seas over a stretch of atlantic nearly 1600 miles in diameter. and one of the worst stories is the six alarm fire sweeping through a flooded neighborhood as if the flood wasnt bad enough, then came the fire in queens, new york. this is a very old neighborhood, an area where people do not like to...

Screen the fire which engulfed at least 50 homes we believe. there was frightening video and sound from firefighters saying pulling groups of 25 people off of rooftops. this was an area told to evacuate. a lot of older homes and older folks in many cases who stayed in those homes and, it was an extremely dangerous situation. firefighters still working to get that all under [ male announcer ] when was the last time something made your jaw drop?

canyon fire in colorado. towering flames, as you can see, are sending families fleeing for their homes. the fire has destroyed 350 homes and killed two people. earlier i talked with major neil harlow about the challenges of fighting fire from the air. >> extremely high temperatures. everything is causing these fires to burn hot as they are creates big problems for us. the aircraft doesnt perform, were flying right to the edge of the envelope. >> theres one bit of good news to tell you ...

flame are sending families fleeing for their homes and destroyed 350 homes and killed two people. i talked with neal harlow about the challenges of fighting fire from the air. >> extremely high temperatures. everything is causing these fires to burn hot as they are creates great problems for us and the aircraft doesnt perform as well. the helicopters she has to watch out for. >> one bit of good news, firefighters now have 100% containment over another colorado fire and the massive hyde...

canyon fire in colorado. towering flames, as you can see, are sending families fleeing for their homes. the fire has destroyed 350 homes and killed two people. earlier i talked with major neil harlow about the challenges of fighting fire from the air. >> extremely high temperatures. everything is causing these fires to burn hot as they are creates big problems for us. the aircraft doesnt perform, were flying right to the edge of the envelope. >> theres one bit of good news to tell you ...

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Spending cuts out of the president. why stop now? he wants to make this a package deal. you want me to lift the debt ceiling and let the u.s. borrow more money, i want some specific spending cuts. the other complication for the president is that as a senator in 2006 he voted against lifting the debt ceiling. jay carnie will to explain that vote today and made a rare admission that it was a mistake. take a listen. >> the president, as david pluf said yesterday, regrets that vote and thins it was ...

Fighting fire on the ground. >> you can see how fire creates its own weather stoked by the winds as well. this fire here moving to the grass very slow but moving very fast. you see how close it gets to the roadway. not far from the homes. what it does is basically skips across this very dry, very warm grass. the heat actually heats the grass up as well and goes towards the homes over here. its moving extremely fast even through this low brush. and low grass. right now the temperature is about 10...

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