time stars in this game. we re going to show you the whole, ugly messy thing. welcome back to early start everyone. i m a very excited john berman. i m christine romans. it s only 5:30 in the east and berman s excited. crews battling five, count them, five wildfires in colorado. state emergency officials say the royal gorge fire has forced the evacuation of 800 inmates from a prison in canyon city. the worst of the fire is near colorado springs. that has burned at least 7500 acres, just throwing dozens of structures, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. at this point, firefighters have zero containment. zero. and the weather this morning not their friend at all. conditioner dry, hot and wind. indra peterson is tracking that for us. not a lot of that in sight.
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diet. cnn, jeanne moos, new york. when is father s day? is it too late to ask for something like that. i ll take it all. early start continues right now. fire after fire after fire. colorado burning, homes in flames. treacherous conditions. prisoners evacuated as the battle rages overnight. we re live. riot police in position right now in the streets of turkey. they are ready. they are waiting for more protesters, and they re waiting for more violence. we re live in taksim square. and the no names who swamped king james. they turned the king into a duke. the spurs with a blowout. dramatic victory. how did they do it? good morning, welcome to early start. i m christine romans. and i m john berman. it s wednesday, june 12th, 6:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the wildfires
closer to 100. right now crews are out canvassing the area to try to get a sense of the exact number of homes that burned. hopefully we ll have updated numbers later this afternoon. at this point zero containment for this fire. we re talking about conditions that are hot, windy and dry. obviously the worst combination you can have when it comes to battling a wildfire. at this point really no signs of this fire letting up. dan, i understand that a p prison has to be evacuated as well. reporter: this is southwest. that prison is southwest of here affecting a different fire. that s the royal gorge fire. we re told about 800 prisoners had to be evacuated simply as a precaution. these are low to medium risks. they have been transferred throughout the state.
it is. the relative humidity, 22% in denver so all of colorado notice how dry it is really in the western half and this is the early morning hours when you typically see some recovery. by the afternoon single digit relative humidity and they have the high fire danger. the low that rode over the jet stream. you saw the moisture on the east coast, all of the moisture banking up against the dry air. warm air to the south and cold air to the north, all of this producing a severe weather threat, talking about a moderate risk area today. we re talking about big cities, chicago, indianapolis, cincinnati and all of this dealing with the threat of straight line winds, strong winds, 90-mile-per-hour winds that could could be long-lived and isolated threat for tornadoes. remember what we saw a few days ago looking at a moderate risk already a day ahead of time expected in the new england area so severe weather definitely on all of our minds today. more severe weather headed