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>> mandatory evacuations have been ordered for many communities in the fire zone. a shaken joyce raem got out just in time. >> we were stuck in the middle of the fire for a while and couldnt go either way. near where we were stuck, we saw the flames going up the hill toward our house. >> meanwhile, the butte fire has grown to 65,000 acres, also fuel bid d ed by try conditions. >> these trees were all on fire when i left. it all came up in minutes. >> more than 6,000 homes are being threatened th...

Spreading fast. threatening homes, property, and lives. the valley fire in lake county, 115 miles west of sacramento, spread from 50 acres to at least 40,000 by sunday. >> that is a very rapid rate of spread. very dangerous situation. just a reminder this is how the conditions are in california right now. with the temperatures and low humidity, four years of a drought, the conditions are very extreme. >> of the 1,000 fire personnel battling the valley fire flames, so far, four suffered burn inju...

Also, raging wildfires are prompting an emergency declaration. were going live to the fire zone. and we are waiting for a news conference to begin with two of the americans who stopped a possible massacre on a high speed train. we understand that should begin in about 12 minutes. well bring that to you.

>> and we are joined from the fire zone. so paul are conditions easing? does it feel any better where you are? and what can firefighters expect over the next 24 hours? >> reporter: its so tricky. for a while it looked for all the world like they had the upper hand in this fire. no big active fights. but the next thing you know these dastardly winds shifted, literally doubling back on themselves, if you will going from south to north. and then they had trouble again. the fire spotted, as they say...

Calls could turn into something much more concerning in the future. >> with good reason. pamela brown, thank you so much. coming up, wildfires raging out of control in california. thousands of people have fled their homes. well take you live to the fire zone. and trump in front. the billionaire leads the republican pack, but is he ready for a fight at the first gop debate? you premium like clockwork. month after month. year after year. then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch.

Branch to branch. a lot of this area out here, they are telling me has not been burned before. at least they dont know when it last burned. with this drought, this really dry kindling out here that makes for really good fire-burning material and that is what they want to curtail as best they can, brianna. >> its hard to fight those dry conditions and that wind. stephanie elam in the fire zone, thank you so much. i want to bring in cnns paul ver cammen. he has more how these crews are trying to f...

Talking to us there from colusa county in the fire zone. i want to talk to ken pinlot, joining us on the phone, director of the california department of forestry and fire protection. ken, just give us a sense of where we are at this point. whats the latest? >> both reporters on the ground painted the picture. were in extremely dry conditions across all of california. four years of drought. all of the fires, including this rocky fire, are burning with just explosive rates. many of our firefighter...

California. in montanas glacier national park an elite firefighting team is taking command of that stubborn fire. fast-moving flames have scorched nearly six square miles of that popular vacation spot. that has visitors scrambling often, just moments to spare. >> i think if we would have been there another five minutes, it would have been too late. >> another concern for fire crews there, grizzly bears. officials say the flames are forcing them out of the wilderness, making an already dangerou...

Tony schafer at policy research and cia operative. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. >> the obvious question i would ask you should these facilities be armed? >> once you are in the perimeter it is a free fire zone. we have seen this with in aed dam hassan. he knew exactly what to do. he was in a matter of secondsable to kill a dozen plus people. outside of the facility for the marines they are soft targets by the fact that they are commercial facilities. it is worse that you dont have to ...

Month in that city of 600,000 in nearly 15 years and now that triple homicide tuesday night, something had to give. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. with while the entire family was almost swept away off a massachusetts beach by dangerous rip current and the entire ordeal caught on camera by a member of the family. the 16-year-old girl was running a gopro cam on a selfie stick when she and her parents were caught by the current. dad says hes never been that scared or felt that helpless in hi...