Those purposes isnt exactly clear. Because these wells sit on these sites, they are trying to reach the areas here and get access to these waters and do the testing which could take several days to a good week to determine exactly if the water has been accessed has been contaminated. These are going out to these people to and this particularly area to not use this water but clearly, at this point it can be very difficult to control. We were just watching one of these epa teams take the water samples and they were on their way to sample the next one. Then, whats your understanding is to how people have accessed this water that might be contaminated or were they designated, this is water source in which you should get water from this contaminated well. Whats the sequence of events here . This is a these are wells. The one particular well we were looking at is a well out in the open. Theres a sign around it that says it is designated as a dangerous site but given the desperation of many of these people they were trying to access it. Now they are sending out these warnings to people that they need to be very careful. The big cavaet, just because its siting in the water doesnt mean its contaminated. Theres the possibility it is. Until the tests are completed they wont though if its contaminated or something they need to be worried about at this point. That work isnt done. Two of the six wells they were looking at were told by officials have been cleared as safe to use. Because of that we have seen lines of people standing in line for that water and using it. A lot of these people arent using it for drinking. They are using it for cleaning. They are using it for their toilets and that sort of thing. Its the since of that desperation that many people have. All right. Thank you so much in san juan. Lets turn now to the governments response to puerto rico. Paul ryan led a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers and calls it a humanitarian disaster and promised the u. S. Government is there to help for the long haul. Earlier in the week the president of the United States seemed to contradict that tweeting fema cant stay in puerto rico forever. Shuck schumer tweeted the president is failing on multiple fronts. Puerto rico being one of them. How is it that the president can afford to make it look like hes not worried about it or just simply dismissing the problem in puerto rico. He has a lot of balls in the air with everything thats been going on this week. May have made it quite clear between the president with fema that they are fully committed. The government is committed to helping people in puerto rico to get back on their feet as well as the people in florida and texas. Wait a minute. Quite clear. The message was quite clear when the president tweets out we cant be there forever. He said, you guys got to do this on your own and he back pedalled it with they were in financial dire straits almost as an explanation to why youre in trouble and will continue to be. I think general kelly clarified what the president meant. The current status of troops on the ground there in puerto rico and fema officials on the ground cannot be there for ever. They are committed to getting them back on their feet. They had tens of thousands of people helping to work them remove debris and get clean water and food. They have 11 hhs medical teams there to help with medical services. The corps of engineers working around the clock. They will continue to do so to get the resources on their feet. Puerto rico has tremendous infrastructure problems before this all happened but that is behind us. The United States government based on what the president said and fema and general kelly will work fulltime to get them back up. Should that argument be immaterial because while there are tremendous resources that was spelled out but when you look at the stories and the impact and the people and the dire straits, isnt that a testament to whatever you have in place, u. S. Government right now, its still not enough. People are saying they need more. We learned there are three more deaths today attributed to the fact people couldnt get to medical care facilities in time. Yes. These pictures and the stories that are coming out of puerto rico are devastating. I learned this morning that a friend of mine down there lost everything, lost absolutely everything. The one fact that should super seed Everything Else that we discuss is these are american citizens and they deserve the full support of our american government. I understand that speaker ryan is down there but to be honest with you, while the president was speaking in the ways that he has about puerto rico, they demured somewhat instead of going and saying were going to take the lead here. This is problematic because theres this sort of bubbling racial component to this and its existed in some peoples minds for a while but he talks to the people as though they are a colony. Not like they are american citizens saying we cant keep fema there for an indefinite period of time. Youre responsible, largely, for the mess you created. Sort of blaming them for it. Thats language that communities of color and poor people have been hearing for decades. Its hard to actually escape that. No matter what the president does to try to sort of reverse some of that sentiment, the image of him throwing paper like basketballs, i think sticks out in peoples minds. Go ahead. If i can say the paper towel throwi ining incident was not property. It w appropriate. It was horrible. We can all agree their lives are devastated. They are turned upside down. Our colleague has family there and they spend day and night standing in line for gas and food. Their lives are forever changed and your hearts go out to them. I do see what were hearing from fema and hearing from federal officials no it cant be done fast enough and it cant be done quick enough but they are doing everything within their power to do what they can. First and foremost restoring power. Secondly, as ed was reporting getting some clean, healthy Drinking Water and working on communications. We know that fema has made sure that all mayors and all 78 municipalities have satellite phones so they can communicate and let the federal government know. Back to those numbers the, were talking about 80 , barely 80 without power. 60 still not getting clean water. I mean the numbers are astoun astounding and the desperation is palable. People are in dire straits there. Meantime shifting gears a little bit, we heard from trumps former chief strategist steve bannon and earlier and hes now talking about this war on the republican establishment on senator bob corker, a frequent trump critic. Take a listen. Theres a time and season for everything. Right now its a season of war against a gop establishment. As bob corker has trashed the commander in chief of our armed forces while we have young men and women in harms way. Until that time, theyre coming for you. This is during the voter value summit in d. C. Its striking because gosh, hes almost liking like hes campaigning for something up there. Whats going on . Theres a lot of political activity left in steve bannon. That group hes speaking to, thats red meat for them to talk about taking on the republican establishment. I think bob corker has spoken his mind. Hes frustrated but theres a lot of people in the Republican Party that are frustrated with the fact that things are not getting done. In my view, this back and forth getting everything out is good because we realize theres some problems. We dont have our legislative accomplishments checked off. Lets get it out there and get to the table and repeal and replace obamacare. Lets pass a tax plan and work on what we need to do in iran. Is bannon still working on behalf of the president outside of the white house . I mean he might think hes doing that. I dont know if he actually when push comes to shove, i dont know if that would be the case. Hes creating a war within the Republican Party itself. This is where youll start to see the rubber meat the roet th. If youre a conservative republican but not a trump republican per se, if youre a bob corker type of republican and youre looking at this, youre saying to yourself wait a minute, what kind of losses am i looking at next year in the house and senate and gubernatorial races. Democrats are starting to put boots on the ground to affect a lot of these state legislative races as well. Its a lot of grass roots activetive activity thats taking place. They are having a bigger debate than we are on the left. I think that is concerning for them especially when of all the conversation over the last seven years about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act it came down to the president s executive order pause they werent able to do it. All right. Just real quick. I think bannon is encouraging people to stand by their values. He went head to head with president in alabama with the strange and more context and they were on opposite sides of the fence. Bannon is candidate one. I think hes encouraging people to stand by your values, convictions and support the candidate of your choice. On that alabama he said this is not my war. This is our war. Yall didnt start it. The establishment started it but i will tell you one thing youre all going to finish it. 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At least 36 people have died and more than 200 others still missing. Talk to me about whats happening. Theres a fill on effort to stop the fire. This fire will not quit. Were in the area east of santa rosa where those evacuations have occurred. They are throwing everything at these fires. The wind changed direction. Came up a little more, started blowing the fire south and its forced all these new evacuations. Let me show you whats happening here. From the air this helicopter has been working in this area just over this ridge line and now the second ridge line for hours and hours and hours today. Theres also planes. The dc10 which is this massive plane. To see this drop thousands of retardants on the fire is incredible. Firefighters trying to stop the flames now. If they can do that they feel they can get ahead of this fire because the weather will start to improve. You can see two helicopters here. Youre looking at south towards the city of sonoma where other evacuations have been called for, mandatory evacuations because of this same fire complex. Its now threatening this side of the sonoma valley. This plume we have been watching all morning. It looks like the fire is about to crest over that hill. Very, very difficult for firefighters to get control of this fire, but the winds are starting to come down. We just talked to a pio with California Fire Service saying that through about right now should be the worst of it and in about another five hours or so, they have that red flag warning. The high winds, the low humidity and that high temperatures but things should start to taper down about now and hopefully theyll be able to get a hold of it and stop it from spreading in anymore neighborhoods. Well check back with you. Thank you so much. Santa rosa, the mayor is joining me on the phone. Can you give me an idea how many people are being ordered to evacuate. How people are heeding that warning. Whats taking place . First of all, im not able to see the pictures that youre showing right now. Im sure they are alarming. Our fire chief and the cal fire folks are letting us know they have a control on the fire right now. They have a handle on it is the way they put it. The fire that youre seeing today is in wild land areas. Its threatening the city but its not blowing through the city like we saw the other night. We had 3,000 homes burned in space of a few hours on sunday night into monday morning. Thats not the situation now. Theres no cause for alarm but there is cause for some vigilance and preparedness. We had to evacuate some areas last night when the wind came up. We evacuated several thousands more people in addition to the 50,000 people who were already out of their homes. Its a difficult situation. Its not one for folks in santa rosa to be alarmed about right,00right now. When you say people should not be alarmed about it even though theres not been evacuations overnight. Youre saying as far as you understand that people, not necessarily property but people may be out of harms way because the way in which the fire is being contained there. We have evacuated the areas that may be in harms way. You know its a precaution and it was necessary last night when the winds were blowing strong. We have a little bit of wind that is still blowing today. As your reporter said, its dissipating some. Were hoping it will continue to do that. Were lucky right now because the wild lands fires are in wild land. A couple days ago they were in our city. That was what caused the big problems here. When you say wild land fires youre saying it really is that literal. Its mostly forestry or portions of land that are unpopulated. Correct. There may be some structures involved. There may be some houses involved in whats going onto that. Doin i dont want to minimize whats happening. Im representing the city of santa rosa here. I dont want people to be panicking about whats going on around the edges of the city. Were not looking at the same situation as we were days ago. That sounds like good news. Still we continue to cross our fingers and pray for the best for everyone there in santa rosa. I appreciate your time, mayor. Thank you so much. Also there in santa rosa were joined by a guest. She happens to have been a firefighter and paramedic. Boy, you have been too close for comfort to close calls. You were in las vegas just weeks ago during the time of that shooting at the Music Festival massacre and now youre back in the santa rosa area and i understand your familys home is there in santa rosa. Is it, correct, that your familys home has been destroyed . Yes. Its completely destroyed. Its behind us now. Oh, my goodness. Describe for me your familys home there, what it once was. Describe the discovery of your family and im hoping that your parents are okay. Sgler everybodys okay. I was working down at the airport. I could hear the tones and i knew there was a fire in napa. When i finished work i came up to see them. Im in the process of or was in the process of moving from this house to a rental. I came up to get my dog, to walk my dog and looked down the ridge and saw a glow. I looked at the wind and told my parents that they might want to pack up something just in case. It was far enough away that it didnt, it wasnt go to be like right this second but they should prepare. I left to go walk the dog and not five minutes later i was listening to dispatch which is the local dispatch here. They announced our street. I called my mom and she said that the fire was at the bottom of the hill. Oh, my goodness. There was no other fire around us. It just caught some of the shrub, embers, im not sure. You all clearly kicked into action. How long did it take for your parents to get those things, get out of dodge, you as well only to find out that your house would be engulfed . Well, unfortunately, it was coming up so fast it had already caught the house next door on fire. They had packed some things but it was less than ten minutes from the time i told them to the time the shrub caught on fire. They didnt have time goat anything. I didnt get anything. By the time i came up here, they had gotten the dogs. They got like two bags which had their computers in it and cords and thats all they were able to get. Oh, my goodness. My cousin told me that my father was trying to fight the fire. I ran up the hill. There was a fire truck here. I told them we broke down a fence. Within that time frame so, again, a couple of minutes the house was fully engulfed with smoke. Checked out the house, my dad was fine. He made it down the hill. At that point the house was still okay and the firefighters said we cant save the house next to us. They were going to work on saving our house which they did and i was helping pull lines and things. We held this house until 4 00 or 5 00 monday morning. A small amount had been hit but the house was otherwise okay at that point. As a former firefighter im not sure if go ahead. I was just going to say im not sure when the rest of it caught on fire. It did catch on fire later on that morning. I dont know when. The firefighters had to leave here. They were so short staffed. Im not sure when the rest of it burned. Youre instincts kicking in, youre helping to hold lines. You had the Fire Fighting instinct too by trying to do what he could. Once you all did get in a vehicle or just get out of dodge, at what point did it become the first time to see the house and if you can describe for me your family home behind you what you see, what you recall from what it used to be. I did come up here at 4 00 in the morning. I came up and i talked to them. At no point it was just the living room and an office. I did get to see it at that point. I didnt want to go in because it was still smoking quite a bit.