It has charged 250,000 acres and reduced hundreds of homes to ash. And two deaths including a firefighter. Live to santa barbara. California with an update. Reporter we just drove into this area and you can see a big plume of smoke across this region because this fire is in the National Forest right now. I want to show you some helicopters making water dumps because the winds kicked up and pushed this fire down towards santa barbara, winds combed right now and the fire has come so close it is in the hillside behind me, it is tricky from a viewers perspective, so smoky you cant see the flames but the real concern, those flames could race down into this community, doing home and structure protection on every home in this community. When we were driving in, a huge smoke plume in this area, the thickest fog, residents are worried. Not sleeping, just keeping eyes open. We thought it was over, we got word we could come back and it lit up this morning. Reporter the fires have been burning for
Been a punching bag for some, has been finally gaining some momentum. Plus, Carly Fiorina on the way forward for her party. And later, congressman Carlos Curbelo joins us to talk about whether there will be a fix for d. R. E. A. M. Ers before the clock strikes midnight new years eve. Amid rumor and intense pressure, the president says he is not considering firing Robert Mueller. Here he is responding late tonight to reporters over the roar of helicopter blades. [ inaudible ]. No, im not. What else . What, are you surprised . A trump transition lawyer is accusing the special counsel of illegally obtaining emails from the trump Transition Team. As attacks on mueller appear to be growing in number and intensity. Axios first reported mueller obtained tens of thousands of emails from the General Services administration. Including emails from jared kushner. And that he was using them as the basis to question witnesses and come up with new leads. Returning from camp david a short time ago, Pr
Position to pass something as early as next week which will be monumental. Harris that was live earlier outside the white house. There could still be some g. O. P. Holdouts, we are told. Despite some final changes, republicans dont have much wiggle room. Our own peter doocy following it all on capitol hill, he joins me now. Everybody wants to know if they cut it in under the wire for senator marco rubio, thats usually important. Republicans are very confident that they are going to be able to pass this at some point in the first half of next week but there are question marks about how they will do it. There are reports that senator marco rubio is leaning towards a yes but we are told by his office that he wants to see that final. The Congress Committee has been trying to accommodate him but he indicated he still wants a higher percentage of that to be refundable, especially for families making between 20,000. 50000 a year. I asked just minutes after he added his signature to the tax bi
Good morning. It is december 18. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. This morning passengers remain stranded at atlanta. Power went out at jackson hart field airport. It wasnt fully restored until late last night. More than 1,000 flights had to be canceled. A fire powering the station triggered the outage. Extreme heat and fumes prevented workers from accessing an underground tunnel for several hours. The mayor said theres no evidence to suggest the fire was caused deliberately. Officials are still investigating and declined to rule out terrorism. Because we dont know the source of the fire, we have no way of absolutely knowing at this time that some that our system may have been tampered with in order to create this kind of chaos and confusion. Delta airlines headquartered in atlanta announced last night 300 more flights will be canceled today. Most of them are early morning, inbound flights to atlanta. President trumps legal team raised new complaints about the investigat