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>> search is on for the person who forced florida atlantic university to cancel graduation ceremony calling off commencement after a staff member discovered a note, credible threat in the womens bathroom. the california wildfires are not expected to cool down anytime soon. the mendocino complex fire will likely push back the start of the school year. it is the largest fire ever reported in the state. it is even tougher. look at this fire tornado popping up in southern california. 14,000 firefigh...

Wildfires. why he is way off the mark in distracting from the real cause of these devastating wildfires. one is now the biggest in the states history. and our monumental american today is in fact a great lost h battling the carr fire on july 26th. his name is jeremy stokes. he was a fire prevention inspector and will be with the redding fire department since 2004. he was killed on the front line while evacuating residents. "the new york times" reports he was caught in a 400-foot-wide fire tornad...

Firefighters continue to battle the carr fire around the clock which is at this hour, 41% contained. one of the many large wildfires currently burning in california, including the so-called mendocino complex fires. one of the most active fires burning north of san francisco, and so far burning more than 200,000 acres, causing hundreds of evacuations. governor jerry brown trying to reassure californians but reminding them theres still a difficult fire season ahead. >> uncertainty a part of life, ...

Are back in their home countries. the aclu sued the government on behalf of the parents. and now the administration argues that the aclu should use its "considerable resources" to fund them. again, the administration created a policy that created this and now they want the aclu to clean it up. lawyers for the aclu say theyre willing to help but the government should lead. wild fire alert. todays weather is not helping crews fighting deadly destructive wild fires in northern california. forecaste...

The steady rain in the forecast through friday, just look at the map, it stretches all the way up the coast. there is concern tonight, so, lets get right to meteorologist rob marciano with us live tracking it all. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. you know, where its not raining, its really humid, and thats feeding some of the severe thunderstorms and heavy rainmakers, like you mentioned. look at the flash flood watches from florida all the way to pennsylvania. weve had warnings tonight in mobil...

There wasnt anything near my house and they didnt give know advantage situation noti-- know advantage situation notices or nothing, my wife called me and i took off back up there and when i got up there, there was traffic blocking the road all the way. i got down there and some guy was blown over by the fire, i helped him get out but i still went down there and they stopped me and wouldnt let me go in. it was my babies and my wife and i should have been laying there with them. >> oh, ed -- >> i ...

Said when he opened his doors the leaves hit him like somebody was slapping him. he said it was sucking his breath out and he got back in his car and tried to get out. >> its unimaginable. others of us know house fires and maybe if youre lucky you can get out a window or go out a door but with a wildfire, what youre describing, hearing you amanda saying it has its own weather system, its a fire tornado all around your house.

Down on the side of the road. engine fire, setting up sparks and igniting what is called a monster. its so erratic and volatile. firefighters are having a hard time beating back the flames. its killed six people, including two firefighters and its wiped out entire neighborhoods and whipped up a fire tornado that terrorized the community of redding. >> shepard, that smoke that you saw hit any face is the wind changing directions erratically. thats whats causing these firefighters a lot of challen...

Talk to us about how quickthry conditions changed. >> the fire that came in t was on the west side of the sacramento river and it moved actually about five miles overnight from the national park into close to redding and during the day relatively stagnant at the western boarder of the city of redding. by 6:00 it jumped across the river and flew up one of the hill sides and took out a number of neighborhoods, some partially, some in total and it just moved rapidly what i hear from the fire indivi...

Hotels. alicia: there was a great grandmother and her two grade grandchildren in the redding area caught up in a flash fire. can you explain what that is? >> this took place late friday. and two of our firefighters were killed in the same event. the fire developed so rapidly due to weather conditions that it just was huge fire wall coming into the west redding area extremely quickly enveloping everything in its past. we have video of fire tornado taking place in that area which explains what hap...