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New Mexicans could be eligible for up to 26 weeks of unemployment assistance

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Displaced fire evacuees — living in RVs at the Napa Valley Expo — have until Feb. 8 to find long-term housing elsewhere because of the Expos contractual obligations in 2021.

Further south, new evacuations near santa cruz, and the czu lightning complex fire explodes there, burning homes. tonight visitors and tourists in hotels are being asked to leave the county to make room for fire evacuees. david, there is concern about flare-ups tonight. were seeing that here. there is low humidity, lots of dry fuel, and firefighters are stretched thin. david? >> claytonk anthagu yo tonight. to the coronavirus now. as more students get back to school, the new study that childre...

Indeed for everybody involved. athena jones, thank you so much in ventura county. for ways to help fire evacuees go to cnn.com/impact. at hertz, we know that a change of scenery

This is no longer a fire season. they can erupt any time throughout the year, and so that fire season not only is extended, but when the fires break out, they become uncontrollable because of that climate pattern change. the santa ana winds, we were clocking winds about 90, 95-mile-an-hour winds equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. its difficult to fight fires when youre talking category 2 hurricanes and hurricane-force winds. thankfully the winds have subside and that will allow for more conta...

Welcome back. the fire that has raged in paradise, california is now 85% contained, according to officials. still looking for unacted people in the area. 84 people have died in what has become the deadliest wildfire in california history. thousands of fire evacuees still cant go home as officials say areas of paradise are still not safe. that isnt stopping the paradise post newspaper from doing everything it can to document the towns historic destruction. cnns ryan young has more. >> reporter: s...

Critical injuries after a powerful explosion ripped his home to pieces. it happened friday in st. paul, minnesota. the explosion which you see there also damaged multiple homes and buildings in the area. neighbors say they were shaken by the blast. >> just watching tv, playing video games. and it was a loud explosion. it shook the house like somebody kicked the house. >> her brother was sleeping and woke him up out of bed. >> authorities believe a natural gas leak may be to blame for the explosi...

The clock sifting through debris and rubble searching for any victims before heavy rains move in. now new threats of flash flooding and massive mudslides. 82 people confirmed dead statewide. 700 still unaccounted for. meanwhile survivors are returning to their homes or whats left of them. >> it is just two really nice houses well built by me and thats the only thing sticking up is the melted refrigerator. i dont have enough time left on the planet to ever have it again and thats pretty hard to t...

The storm surges and the surf. but its the rain. it is just the rain that is causing problems and will continue to cause problems. >> all right. nick watt, thank you so much. >> on the phone with us now from honolulu, coralee matayoshi, regional ceo of hawaiis chapter of the american red cross. thank you so much for being here. what are the most urgent needs now that you know of? >> well, you know, hawaii is the most isolated population on the face of the earth, so we needed to take it seriously...