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Because he had a california medical marijuana card. >> when will officials start allowing people to return back home? >> reporter: we dont know. theyre not saying. 10,000 different homes in this area under evacuation orders. right now theyre acting with an abundance of caution, telling people to stay away until they have this completely contained. but it is southern california. it is the foothills. these residents are used to these fires. many of them have remained home, decided to tough it out ...

To hold the line on this fire. they say theyre not reel releasing any official containment numbers but there are no active fire lines going on right now. so as long as the winds stay calm overnight, they should have the situation pretty much under control, anderson, five homes, though, completely destroyed, 17 other structures damaged, one firefighter injured not critically. >> and three people in custody? how did this start, do you know? >> reporter: its really strange. police say three guys al...

Aggressive air assault with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on these flames. what they were very concerned about is these unseasonably hot temperatures, above 85 degrees today, humidity less than 10%, and there were winds forecast as high as 25 to 35 miles an hour. so, you can see all of these homes over here to my camera man mike loves left. we can see those homes. the fire got within 100 yards of those homes earlier today, but because the winds remained re...

Allowing people to return back home? >> reporter: we dont know. theyre not saying. 10,000 different homes in this area under evacuation orders right now. theyre acting with an abundance of caution, telling people to stay away until they have this completely contained, but it is southern california, it is the foothill. these residents are used to these fires. many of them have remained home, decided to tough it out and fight the fire with hoses, if they need to, if it gets to that, anderson. >> j...

And you can see some of the firefighters, the crews that are up there on foot. they have just come in in the last couple of hours to try to control these lines. but what youve seen all day long is an aggressive air assault with fixed wing aircraft and helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on these flames. what they were very concerned about is these unseasonably hot temperatures, above 85 degrees today. humidity less than 10%. and there were winds forecast as high as 25 to 35 miles per h...

Lot differently. but firefighters and residents so far today have really caught a break. you can see all of this hillside behind me that has completely burned. and you can see some of of firefighters, the crews that are up there on foot. they have just come in in the last couple of hours to try to control these lines. but what youve seen all day long is an aggressive air assault with fixed wing aircraft and helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on these flames. what they were very concer...

Just went on. and they said that its still 1700 acres but theyre not releasing any official containment figures. we believe thats because they still dont know whats going to happen with the weather and the winds, and they dont have it completely locked down even though theres no active fire lines right now. >> all right. casey wian, appreciate the update. keeping them honest, an especially chilling new development in the strange and mysterious death of a man named alfred wright. weve been cove...

Show, maybe having your hair done. >> whats the hair style called? >> the snooki. >> reporter: isnt all its cracked up to be. i mean, mutts, do you really want your tail tickled to make it stand up? jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> very cute. im don lemon. "ac 360" starts right now. will. good evening, everyone. tonight breaking news what began as a camp fire became a wildfire is now a 1700-acre inferno. the blaze is consuming the glendora foothills half an hour northeast of los angeles. totally...

Hey, good evening, everyone. tonight, breaking news. what began as a campfire became a wildfire, is now a 1,700-acre inferno. look at the images. the blaze is consuming the glendora foothills, about half an hour northeast of los angeles. its totally uncontained, seriously out of control, and like nothing theyve seen in this corner of l.a. county since 1968. there is a lot of brush and a lot to burn. casey wian is on the fire lines, joins us now on the latest on containment evacuations and three ...

This time, a pilot died when his water bombing plane crashed earlier today. hes one of more than 1500 on the fire lines. his plane dropped water on the fires threating sydney and fires destroyed more than 200 homes. officials are trying to do their best. >> on behalf of the firefighters, that are doing it so tough up there, we do apologize and regret that we werent able to save everything. we are acutely aware, because our teams are embedded in the local communities particularly the lower blue m...