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>> we are seeing back urns and we will try to show you what has been happening overnight. yesterday evening they lit this back burn to try to protect them pray play defense on these sequoia trees that have been here 3000 years. some 500 of them and they are lighting fires in a protective ring. firefighters tell us the fires are burning hotter and longer and fire season is year- round. take a listen. >> the fire season is longer and hotter and firefighters are exhausted. weve been fighting fires ...

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Overturned statues. >> and a pregnant texas woman who got a ticket for driving in the hov lane claims she was not driving alone because her fetus should count as a passenger now that roe v. wade has been overturned. the texas penal code recognizes the fetus as a person but the transportation code does not. >> more on these stories all day on cnn and cnn.com. dont forget to download the five things podcast every morning. go to cnn.com/fivethings. the fast-moving wildfire in yosemite park shows ...

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Firefighters worked furiously Saturday to keep the flames from harming the iconic grove of about 500 mature sequoias.

It's burning near the iconic grove of about 500 mature sequoias, which are the world’s biggest trees by volume.

>> thank you. coming up, a wildfire in one of the nations most iconic national parks has doubled in size in a day. its now within miles of y yosemites sequoia trees. e an expedia member, you can instantly start saving on your travels. so you can go and see all those, lovely, lemony, lemons. ♪ and never wonder if you got a good deal. because you did. ♪ ♪

A team was sent in to Mariposa Grove to wrap some of the massive tree trunks in fire resistant foil. The rest of the iconic park remains open though thick smoke hangs in the air.

Thought they would see. the threat made worse by another year of drought, leaving the sequoias drive and vulnerable. >> that means its water source has been there for over 2,000 years. that that water is not there means that the climate and the world around it has changed. >> reporter: but lessons learned last year helped save some sequoia this year. >> before the castle fire, we had never seen losses of large trees like we had in that fire. 7,500 to 10,600 large sequoias lost in a single fire e...

Swaddling some of the worlds largest trees, like general sherman and general grant, in structure wrap. >> we had hand crews going and doing this kind of raking and fuel removal around individual trees in groves. we did backfire operations to change fire behavior. >> reporter: but the loss of any sequoia, such rare and majestic beauties is one too many to lose. >> it is dead. that tree is dead. it is not coming back. this tree that is at a minimum a thousand years old and has survived many, many,...