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>> were clocking in the surface here over 150 degrees. >> relief is coming, but so are storms, causing more than 1400 flights to be canceled this weekend president bidens covid symptoms are improving significantly according to his doctor, and new information about the race to create a vaccine targeted at the omicron subvariants by this fall pope francis has landed in north america, why hes apologizing to the people of canada today. gas prices are falling. now 65 cents less than t...

temperatures 90 degrees or above. while in california nearly a dozen wildfires burning. homes under threat. the new tropical system were tracking. al roker has it all. also tonight, new details in the apparent random shooting at a michigan splash park. nine wounded including an 8-year-old boy. the news on his condition. just ten days to the first debate. the biden campaign launching a new ad blitz labeling donald trump a convicted criminal. while at mar-a-lago mr. trump taking a me...

Wildfires but to kill them. fighting flames the way the 82 wins wars. gary tuckman tells their remarkable story. >> reporter: in the entiere usa there are 44 4 of them. many of them are in colorado right now, marking on to aircraft which is their transportation to the action. their job, to fly into the fires just as new ones are starting up and stop them from getting bigger, nowhere near any roads and sometime ps quite a distance from any civilization. smoke jumpers court disaster every day they...

The vegetation ahead of the fire. so it just means that the fuels, the vegetation, if you will, is just more flammable. >> youve seen so many of these. put this one in colorado into context. >> this is just a tragedy, you know. any time you have this many homes burning, you know, and loss of life, its just horrible. its something that is going to continue happening, as terrible as it is more and more in the future as our climate changes. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. and now the men and w...

Put this one in colorado into context. >> this is just a tragedy, you know. any time you have this many homes burning, you know, and loss of life, its just horrible. its something that is going to continue happening, as terrible as it is more and more in the future as our climate changes. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. and now the men and women who come not to capture wildfires but to kill them. fighting flames the way the 82 wins wars. gary tuckman tells their remarkable story. >> reporte...

News releasing a trove of old emails in romneys time as governor of massachusetts. a hacker said he broke into the account by guessing a security question by one of romneys pets. bill: new offenses in a battle against a raging fire growing in northern colorado through the hour. crews working through the night, fighting flames. folks getting ready to leave their homes at a moments notice. >> the fire is hung up in very rocky, remote terrain. we are hoping we will be able to go direct attack on th...