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And tests as the countdown to new year celebrations begins. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. wildfires in the american state of colorado have destroyed hundreds of homes and prompted the evacuation of 30,000 people in two towns north of denver. the national weather service described it as a life—threatening situation and ordered the residents of louisville and superior to leave. heres the sheriff of boulder county, joe pelle, at an earlier news conference. it has ...

Not really a radar. theres no rain there. its all downsloping winds and theyre gusting at times to 100 miles an hour. and there you can see some of the images now. hundreds of homes destroyed. entire subdivisions wiped out. two cities, the city of superior and the city of louisville were told to evacuate. this was about eight hours ago. we saw the winds kick up rather fiercely. to the equivalent of hurricane-force winds and above. category 3. heres some of the wind gusts that weve seen. 1 115-mi...

Have had to evacuate, as well as patients and staff at one hospital. the us federal emergency management agency has released funds for disaster relief. louisa pilbeam reports. "get out while you can," was the message from rescue services in colorado. a state of emergency was declared as hundreds of homes were swallowed by flames and upwards of 30,000 residents were told to evacuate from the towns of superior and louisville near the rocky mountains. what are you taking with you? two kids, a dog, ...

Forcing it to proceed without the benefit of documents which it needs to do its work. >> happy new year to you my hard working friend. thank you so much. >> thank you. that does it for me on this busy last day of 2021. catch me on nbc news now, weekdays, 3:00 p.m. eastern. coming up now. an update from officials on wildfires. my colleague picks up coverage. hi, everybody. lets go right to officials briefing on the wildfire near denver. >> we certainly did not lose 2,000 homes. we did see ent...

Sheriffs in colorado history, had more than his fair share of disasters during his tenure. were so grateful for his leadership and work of all of the firefighters that drove up last night. west metro, from denver across the state to help protect the community. thank you to the governor for his leadership, the mayors that have done incredible job under troubling circumstances, leading their respective cities lewis ville and superior. yesterday was devastating for boulder county and lewisville. th...

There are smoldering flames, but at this point longs the weather holds up, not going to be substantial damage. >> the incident commander on the fire since it started, hopefully being replaced today by a federal incident manager, but he is doing a hell of a job on very little sleep. so he is available for those type of questions as well. so it is all a good guess right now. as i said, we know we lost approximately 500 homes around superior, west side of superior. saw dozens of homes burned out be...

Is $513 million. however, the estimate, rather, the assessment is still underway, so the numbers are sure to increase. first lady and the president will be here today to see it for themselves. two people remain missing and sadly, partial remains were found at one location of a burned out home. the fire began late morning a week ago thursday. no official cause yet but the flames were picked up by hurricane force winds that blew for more than seven winds. by the time the sun went down, louisville ...

I have every confidence were going to do so this time around. with that, open it up for questions. >> one second. mr. mayor, senator, mayor. >> thank you, everyone. i am the lewisville mayor. i want to thank all of the first responders, police chief dave hayes, firefighter chief john wilson for the tremendous effort they put forward. i want to thank everyone for patience. we need community members to continue to stay out of the area until the evacuation order is lifted. when folks get back, we n...

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And we as friends and neighbors are going to do everything to help them rebuild their lives. >> one last question. >> all right. we have been listening to state officials brief the public now on the devastating fire taking place northwest of denver, colorado, and areas of lewis ville and superior. we know this was a fast moving fire, fueled by dry conditions, gusts 105 miles per hour. subdivisions are gone. some places are too dangerous for people to return to. tens of thousands still evacuated....