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Snowfall. what are some of the stories that youre hearing from some of your residents there about how they were able to mobilize? because when you look at this devastation, its extraordinary to even think that people were able to get out alive. >> really, its been -- you know, the stories im hearing are really traumatic. these wind events are not unusual in superior, but the wind event combined with an active fire, it gives you minutes and in some cases seconds. people were running out, running ...

Building, making sure theyre in these extreme wind events, the occupants of the building, home, school, business have somewhere safe to go during the height of the tornados. how many times have you been in airports where youve seen bathrooms identified as tornado shelters. this isnt hard to do but we need safe places for people to go. you often only have minutes to get somewhere safe in a tornado. >> you do. and we know tornados are not going away. you heard biden -- president biden say this is ...

There are so many of them, nearly 100 fires across the west have burned some 2.7 million acres. and the concern is that this is early in fire season. we start to get wind events until the fall, the santa ana winds in the south and the north winds up here in the north that fan the flames. so everyone is bracing themselves and hoping the forecast for an even longer drought doesnt quite prove accurate. >> scott cohn, appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. im yasmin vossoughian. ill be back t...

>> reporter: p&g calls this systems hardening, the idea to replace the more vuler nbl pieces of equipment but also to keep the trees back a safe distance from that equipment. the company says by the end of 2019 they will have hardened more than 150 miles of line but the goal is to harden more than 7,000 miles of line in the next 10 years. it is a large electric company in the position of citing climate change as partly responsible for the disasters. >> we are out in the field an it seems like mo...

Related. do you think it is true for pg&e as well? >> certainly over the last few years we have seen a change in unprecedented weather conditions and fire conditions across our state. >> it is hotter. it is dryer. weather events, wind events, theres more of them, and, unfortunately, with some of the weather that were seeing and the winds, mother nature wins. that was cal per require reporting from california. those wildfires breaking out just as an alarming new report says we are still heading...

The idea is to replace the more vulnerable pieces of equipment but also to keep the trees back a safe distance from that equipment. the company says by the end of 2019 they will have hardened more than 150 miles of line. but the goal is to harden more than 7,000 miles of line in the next ten years. that work starts in areas most vulnerable to fires. a large american gas and electric company in the unique and ironic position of citing climate change as partly responsible for the disasters. >> wer...

Systems hardening. the idea is to replace the more vulnerable pieces of equipment, but also to keep the trees back a safe distance from that equipment. the company says by the end of 2019, they will have hardened mo than 150 miles of line, but the goal is to harden more than 7,000 miles of line in the next ten years. that work starts in areas most vulnerable to fires, a large american gas and electric company in the unique and ironic position of citing climate change as partly responsible for th...

That dead landscape is still scattered across the state. were seeing these extreme duration of wind events. ive seen whats been happening for 20 years. and when we say explosive fire growth, it is. climate change has played a major role. the governor has identified that. hes made investments in resources and response, including additional firefighters that are part of the prevention message that the governor has really leaned forward on and throughout the state, 35 projects that have really impa...

Helping. i asked him whats causing these disastrous fires. >> you have to remember, california went through a six-year drought just recently in the 2000s. that dead and dying landscape is still across california. you take the dead and dying landscape from that drought. we havent recovered from that. then you take what were seeing as hotter temperatures and wind events. were seeing wind events that are historical. in fact, the thomas fire in ventura county in 2017, we had an offshore santa ana wi...

Penelope is just two days old but will have quite the story to tell. the high winds driving the fires in california, one of two major wind events in the united states right now. pedram javaheri has more. >> a blustery day across the southwest. we have extreme and critical areas of concern in place. by friday morning, well finally see the winds die down. wouldnt be surprised to see the winds in ventura county and san diego county, exceed 50 miles per hour. but 4,000 square miles of land under t...