Inside The Fire Zone News Today

Getting a better look at the scale of the damage. The Catastrophe Modelling Firm karen clark and Company Estimates the total area burned at about 2,200 acres. Roughly 1,000 buildings have destroyed. Attempts to flee the devasting and fast moving fires were hampered as flames were fanned by winds coming from hurricane dora. The devastating and fast moving fires. We are now learning the harrowing stories of survival like this familys, who was forced to flee into the ocean. The ocean almost dragged...

Its very hard to do a rescue up there, and its notjust like to carry him down from there. mohammed worked as a porter to earn money to educate his children. wilhelm went to visit them and is trying to raise money to help them now that their father is gone. bethany bell, bbc news. thats all from us here in washington for now. well be back at the top of the hour with a special half—hour look at the tragedy in hawaii. stay with us here on bbc news. —— we will leave you now with this dramatic ...

Bigwigs and the democratic party in west virginia. i dont think he switches parties. i do think the democrats gave some gubernatorial seats, but they lose ground in the state legislative races. at the bottom of the pyramid they are not doing too well. >> gillian: weve got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> happy new year. >> gillian: happy new year. i hope it wears off or all of us. >> i agree with hillary clinton, weird. very strange. [laughter] >> gill...

Instead. trapped in their own garage. car doors open, tried to escape, but it was too late. well over 700 firefighters are trying to beat back this monster, but winds keep whipping making it almost impossible to contain. hundreds more homes are in harms way right now. martin savidge takes us inside the fire zone. >> you can see over here to the west. >> reporter: up close to the aftermath of a killer fire. this is the first look from ground level at the neighborhoods hardest hit by the black for...