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Much it adds up to when we talk to these officials here within the next hour, jim. >> we will hope for the best. george howell, thank you. some people in the fire zone are taking matters into their own hands. dale milky had planned to evaluate but changed his mind soon after he took this video of his cabinet-making workshop. he thought he would never see it again. take a look. >> coming up the road. all the houses, its about to burn across the road into the house now. were going to leave. this i...

Rain, lots of rain in some areas, prodominantly over the entire fire zone. now, that in no way put the fire out, and i shouldnt give anybody that false illusion but it did help firefighters significantly. i was out on the fire line today. there is no major wall of fire anywhere. it is primarily hot spots and zones they are dealing with. the fire did not expand beyond the containment that they have managed to draw around it. that is good news, and also, at least in colorado springs, those mandato...

Nebraska and kansas will tell theyll, the rain is a welcome blessing in a very dry part of the country that needs a lot more rain. i-25 looking right here in the fire zone, not a red flag warning today, but i suspect we will have winds at about 20 miles an hour, and the relative humidities around colorado springs, the firefighters still battling that black forest fire. >> thats not what they want, the low humidity and the w5r7ar. if youve covered a wildfire, thats the exact opposite of what they...

Right over the fire zone. red flag warnings around the fire right now. not necessarily in the fire zone but close. winds 35, 40 miles per hour. things are calming down. the fires go down and so does the wind at night. the winds calm down and the fires settle a little bit. this is when you get a chance to get a handle on some of it. let me take you down to this fire. i think a lot of you think about colorado or california wildfires. this isnt in the mountains. the front range here. colorado sprin...

Already burned, and within that burn area 379 homes, that is the most destructive in this states history. in addition to what they are doing today, jon, they are going to have crews inside of that fire zone trying to keep it inside the perimeter. in addition to that they are going to have people patrolling the perimeter, making sure it doesnt escape that fire line. from the air theyll continue with the military-style planes that will be dropping a heavy amount of slurry. they had to ground the p...

Two people were packing up at the time and trying to get out of the fire zone. and the reason they say that is that one of these folk was on the phone with someone else, disciplining what they were doing. and the person on the other line said that they could hear a popping in the background and then they didnt hear anything else. supposedly these folks are trying to get out of this area. now, what the sheriff described this area it was intensely hot place within the fire, so the fire is itself h...

Bill schaeffer expects the q & a to get tougher in the coming days that involve contentious issues. >> there will be questions about attitude about gun control and about the justifiable use of deadly force against an unarmed teenager. >> reporter: attorneys anticipate the daunting prospect could take up to three weeks to pick just six jurors and four alternates. selection resumes at the courthouse behind me at 9:00 in the morning. ryan hughes, abc news, sanford, florida. now for a look at your...

This close and never that big. >> the whole canyons going to blow up literally. the whole canyons going to blow up and were going to be screwed. >> dan simon in the fire zone. youre at a checkpoint where folks are hoping to get back to houses there. you heard the woman saying, she thought things were not going to work out so well. is there a certain sense of anxiety as people look to see if their homes are still standing? >> reporter: there is some of that, suzanne. i think theres also relief th...

Folks who live there say this fire is a bad one. and they are scared. >> had the smoke coming over in years before, but its never been this close. and its never been that big. >> looked like the whole canyons going to blow up. literally, the whole canyons going to blow up and were going to be screwed. >> some good news from the fire zone though. this fire isnt expected to get any bigger. and evacuees will likely be allowed back into their homes fairly soon. fingers crossed. >> large tornado. ver...

Has been a very difficult time in russian u.s. relations. members of this delegation say theyll return to washington, arguing these two countries must not let other differences deter greater cooperation in dealing with the mutual threat of terrorism. phil black, cnn, moscow. >> thank you, phil. up next, in southern california, a scorching wildfire here, thousands of acres destroyed, forcing people to evacuate. and were hearing it could be another week before this thing is brought under control...