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Its scary. >> reporter: the largest blaze, the rocky fire has burned up to 60,000 acres in three counties just north of wine country. >> there are firefighters that have 20 25 30 years on the job. that have never seen fire behavior like we have seen the last couple days here on the rocky fire. >> reporter: the reason -- fire officials say four years of drought and 100-degree heat have created conditions perfect for explosive growth. so far, two dozens homes have been destroyed. governor jerry br...

A fire. jerry brown has declared a state of emergency and evacuations have been ordered for more than 12,000 californians. >> thanks to stephanie eel-elam elam. daniel whats the latest you have on these fires, the big one, rocky fire. >> caller: the rocky fire is at 12% contained. it did grow. conditions here in california are so dry that it doesnt take much for a fire to spark. it doesnt take much for a fire to burn. and like it was said in that package, fires are burning at an explosive rate b...

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City of denver by latest estimates. higher humidity and slightly better slowed the fire near towns hailey. advancing a mile and a half. thats a lot less compared to the six miles in the night we had seen on previous days of the fire spreading through canyon. its these canyons, shannon that a lot of celebrities have built their second homes and subdivisions. fire officials say there is 1600 homes and mandatory evacuation in the sunbury area. not all of them belonging to the super wealthy though. ...

All in all, this is a big weekend here, a big rodeo weekend. a big draw to prescott. at this time people are still making sure that they remember their heroes here on this fourth of july. >> we know right now that there are still, you know, that the fire rages on. there are firefighters out there battling that same wildfire that killed those 19 young men. the yarnell wildfire. about 45% contained. what are you hearing from those firefighters? >> reporter: well, the one thing i can say thats good...

Personal protective equipment on. he also has a heat shield, face shield, that is on his face to help filter out the smoke and the hot gases that are coming to him. hes saving all his resources here. what were trying to do is allow the fire to burn out all the fuel around the house and let it blow right on by. then we dont have to worry about that reigniting. were saving our water resources for when we really, really do need them. were just protecting the deck here and making sure that this fire...

lockdown. this is because there were shots fired on campus. we dont know by whom but we do know by the website the suspect is described as a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon brim and some type of maroon hoodie and also carrying a pack back. apparently the suspect is on foot. we dont know how many shots were fired. but as you know, virginia tech certainly on high alert in the years following the 2007 incident. there were no classes -- there are no classes toda...

>> well, i could say that i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have shourd after workouts. >> youre going to hear more from jerry sandusky throughout the hour. the heart of the occupy movement now wiped clean. these are shots of new yorks zuccotti park being cleared of protesters in a police sweep early this morning. over 100 people were arrested. tents were pulled up at the stakes, and now mayor michael bloomberg says the campout is over. theres not go...

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>> donald trump spent the day talking about his favorite new kind of federal employee. apparently republican, the one area where they want to do a lot of federal hiring is the tens of thousands of deportation agents theyre going to need. >> well, this is once again, hes catering to the extreme right. unfortunately if you actually look at studies where they tried to -- theyve been actually trying to hire 23,000 agents, its really difficult. you have to find someone with a clean record that can do...