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USA Today op-ed writer Michael J. Stern celebrated the destruction of Florida Rep. Joe Harding's home by a tornado.

The Marion County Property Appraiser's office expects damage estimates to rise.

MiG 21 had an accident rate of 2 89 per 10 000 flying hours in the 1990s but it was brought down to 0 27 per 10 000 hours in the last 2000s However this does not mean that MiG 21 is a bad fighter jet as considered by some

Mayor burkett, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. lets get to more on all of this. former miami-dade fire chief dave downey is joining us and matisse leavy joining us as well. dave, let me get your reaction to what we just heard from the mayor. does it sound like officials made the right call with the demolition? >> absolutely. that remaining building was a hindrance to the search and rescue efforts. initially we had to keep crews 40 feet away because of all the hanging debr...

Unstable. we closed the balconies, not the building, just the balconies. >> how is the search and rescue operation going. it is incredibly dangerous. we know all of these hundreds of men and women involved in this, theyre risking their own lives. the weather hasnt been good, torrential rain and falling debris happening all the time. >> thats correct. we still have the widow makers on the bravo charlie exposure of the building, even though we may get a lot of them early on, still have a lot of fa...

Coming off at noon and they were spent. exhausted. i just randal into them on the way over here. theyre refreshed, ready to go to work. listen, were doing everything we can to rescue these people. >> yeah. these men and women are real heroes. a lot of people dont realize. they themselves are risking their own lives going into what could be a rather dangerous situation. >> absolutely. theres still a possibility of a secondary collapse. we still have all the hanging debris that we refer to as wido...

Living things on earth and teams have been assigned just to them. >> im from virginia. so the fuel types here are different. this is definitely dry. some pretty extreme fire behavior we are encountering here. >> reporter: more teams are inside the park to protect the area around the massive hetch-hetchy reservoir. we saw firsthand, fire is close to the area that applies 85% of san franciscos water. cause enough for the government there to declare a state of emergency and put public utility crews...

Youll have a situation, lets say you have a state where the age of consent is 18 and maybe its an 18 and a 17-year-old, they get married later on, maybe in that situation the victim -- >> yes. >> -- wants the father to visit. but in most situations thats not present. so, i think youve got a structural law that says this is strictly to the rape victim. hes got to pay child support and he only gets visitation if she consents and i think all of the states have laws that should ensure that. >> 31 of...

Come. she was one of the seasonal firefighters. they are college students or people going to school for other things or wanting to become a full-time firefighter. she was out there. they were battling a smaller fire in the area, not one of the large ones. a tree came down and killed her. when they talk to wild land firefighters they will tell you trees are the ones with they fear the most. they call them widow makers and come down and cause someone to be a widow. that is what happened to ann. sh...

Los angeles. out in the rural area. there are homes out there. we are told a couple of structures already burned that fire moving fast as is the fire in washington and idaho. very very different. when you talk to firefighters. it doesnt matter where they are from in the west they tell you the conditions are tough. >> its tough for the firefighters in not only the energy release of the fire, the heat, the spoke, the flames, but they are also dealing with the steep touraine, difficult access and w...