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kind of lived and died by ginning up their partisanship. it was also theyre terrible people and were the best. the facebook pages were getting tremendous engagement. >> the development of these hyper partisan sites, i think turned the comments into this trash fire. theres some kind of parable in that for the broader effects of facebook that the very things that divide us most cause the most engagement. which means they go to the top of the news feed, which means the most people see them. >> ...

Spreading rapidly. do you know if its damaged your home? >> no, we were very fortunate in ute park. there were about 30 structures within the limits of the fire as it went through the park, and none of them were damaged. and we kind of attribute that to the fact that were all a fire watch community, and by that i mean over the last three or four years weve established 50-yard fire boundaries around each home so that if we do get a fire like we do have now, it cant get much closer than 50 yards a...

An escape as the fact we noticed the fire on the hillside up above our home, and werent too worried about it first, thought it might be a trash fire, but my wife called me back about ten minutes later and said youd better get home. and its been so dry here that once the fire starts in our part of the country, it expands rapidly. by the time i got home, in about 15 minutes, it was covering probably four square blocks. and half an hour later, almost a square mile. and so when i arrived home, we pu...

Miles above the fire. about an hour ago. and the response that we had from them is that -- excuse me, the area that is around our house, the area where the fire started, is available for people to return, but they are recommending that we dont because of the heavy volume of smoke in the area. >> yeah. probably dont want to return right now, thats for sure. >> yeah, we probably will wait another day or day and a half. we have a front thats due to come in tonight and is supposed to bring some rain...

i hear the numbers are about pretty high. about 70,000 americans globally -- >> i think 300,000. >> in the u.s.? >> world wide. >> about 70,000 across the u.s. who have no idea that they have been, for lack of a better description, riding on the coat tails of the protection of the fbi and the fbi has said weve tried to find you. weve tried to let you know. weve tried to send you messages. if you dont help yourself, im not going to be there after monday. is that how this worked? >> yeah...

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