150,000 acres. it s only 15% contained tonight. now, yosemite national park is in its crosshairs. the blaze is spread to a remote area of the park. gary tuchman is on the ground. he spent the day watching the battle up close. in the midst of what is some of america s most beautiful wilderness, dangerous flames continue to spread. and they are spreading haphazardly, dangerously. with this job, everyone gets scared. you don t have a little bit of fear, something s wrong with you, i believe. courage is having the fear and still going in there and getting the job done. reporter: the fire has entered the northwestern portion of yosemite national park. the tourist rich area in the south has escaped the fires. the fire is one and a half times the size of the city of denver.
wilderness, dangerous flames continue to spread. and they are spreading rapidly, haphazardly, dangerously. with this job, everyone gets scared. you don t have a little bit of fear, something s wrong with you, i believe. courage is having the fear and still going in there and getting the job done. reporter: the fire has entered the northwestern portion of yosemite national park. the southern end has escaped the flames for you. 255 square miles of forestland burned. the fire is one and a half times the size of the city of denver. this popular campground just west of yosemite was overwhelmed by a sudden rush of flames. this area utterly devastated. wooden cabins burned to the ground. you can see the charred beds in those cabins. tourists were forced to flee quickly. this incinerated car shows how devastating the flames have been. when firefighters come across
and is threatening a reservoir that s a crucial part of the san francisco s water supply. gary tuchman is on the ground. he spent the day watching the battle up close. in the midst of what is some of america s most beautiful wilderness, dangerous flames continue to spread. and they are spreading rapidly, haphazardly, dangerously. with this job, everyone gets scared. you don t have a little bit of fear, something s wrong with you, i believe. courage is having the fear and still going in there and getting the job done. reporter: the fire has entered the northwestern portion of yosemite national park. the tourist rich area in the south has escaped the fires. the fire is one and a half times the size of the city of denver. this popular campground just west of yosemite was overwhelmed by a sudden rush of flames. this area utterly devastated.
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sean: do you see a path to righting that ship? well, i think he s got some real difficulties. there are some things he can do better on. there are some things that he can sort of lance the wound on benghazi. he ought to find out who is the person who misled us and told susan rice go out there and lie to the american people by claiming this was an anti-muslim video. he could on the irs, company say look i m not only going to i under congress is going to have oversight on this but i ve asked the inspector general to go back and look at these specific questions as well. i want the answers on the issue of the nsa, he could go out and defend you want. he had this appearance on charlie rose on monday night in which he sort of haphazardly and disjointedly defended the nsa program. it was filled with all these kind of things that made you not want to believe him. he said we created the fisa courts. wait a minute you didn t create