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Happening. >> you would think it was a tropical storm. but it is a well defined area of low pressure draped across the sunshine state and bringing potential 8- 10 inches on top of the rainfall that they received over the last woke. this is the region we are watching carefully. tampa bay area, close to a foot of rainfall. flood advisory in place for the next 12- 24 hours and we have more rain in the forecast. not the inundating rain, but still to which of a good thing will cause issues, jenna, ba...

. well, this morning we are monitoring the developing fire situation in california. these wildfires are growing and strengthening all across the state. look at the map. at least 20 massive wildfires are burning across california. the rocky fire, which youre seeing video of here, is one of the biggest. its now only 5% contained, already burned tens of thousands of acres and forced officials to enforce mandatory evacuations this morning. 9,000 firefighters have been battling this deadly fire. a ...

Sticks, bottles. >> now, in addition to the baltimore police national guardsmen are obviously here, as we mentioned. also anywhere between 500 and 1500 maryland state troopers are on their way in. heard you guys talking about the curfew. that goes into effect this evening. obviously, a lot of criticism not just in the guests you had on guys but also from people here within the city that this curfew was not instituted last night, instead, waiting for that curfew to now begin tonight. >> joe, we s...

Right, and less we-- and les di this normal job. demonstrate, tell us about the pictures well see? >> just a demonstration of hour cumbersome it can be in an emergency situation, if youve got a smoke/fire situation, even a situation where you have a decompression. that would be the same mask in either case. and you have to communicate through that mask. with a switch on the control wheel, and go through a checklist and your vision is limited, as it would be very even more limiteded by, by smoke,...

Sleep. but my scenario is a smoul smouldering fire that created smoke and once that began the crew donned their oxygen masks. you cant totally see all of that smoke from breathing and youre going to get toxic fumes, depending on what is burning. so my scenario is they approached that point where it sounded like there was a normal situation. there may have been something on the screen that indicated a slight fault, maybe a shrug of the shoulder and then it started to progress if it was a fire sit...

The airplane for four years and now retired said hes never been down there. >> is that right? >> because theres no real need for us to be down there. theres one circumstance that i would go down there and thats simply after an incident theres a diagram on where to pull a particular circuit breaker like whats being pointed out here. >> if there was a fire on board or smoke, is that part of the procedure to turn circuit breakers off? turn off the in flight system, to turn off the acars? >> it woul...

Process. if we had a fire situation our objective toys get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. >> john, can you show some of the other systems down there. depressurizing, some of the other things that are possible to look at? >> theyre tough to see. but collins makes radio gear. you can see here, well give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the ot...

The two black boxes, but theyre two boxes encased in an orange aluminum shell, so the investigators can find them, even in a fire situation. >> greg feith, do appreciate your time. the pilots are on set with me here. dan rose, aviation expert, military pilot, an attorney as well, and captain bun, 40 years of pilot. thank you both for sticking around with me. we found out a few hours ago, and i didnt know this, that the black boxes are actually orange, apparently. i did not know that. i assume, o...

houston, if you are just joining us were getting our first look in the dragon. that was 5:53 eastern time. the two spacecraft were flying together 253 miles above the earth, to the west of auckland, new zealand. >> that is pretty cool stuff happening live as were watching it. spacex is the first commercial flight to the iss. really cool stuff there. well, it is about time to hit the road if you havent already, triple a estimates nearly 35 million people will be traveling more than 50...

Missing. they believe part of that might be because of the communication challenges in the area. because cell phone towers have been damaged in the area. its very hard to get calls out sometimes. but the idea that so many people are missing is quite scary. and youre looking at how fast this fire is moving. we know this is an active fire situation. firefighters and police officers, even warning us, as we come into this area, that we would be on our own, because of the idea. theyre still trying to...