Officials fear this could be a super spreader event. Were also following Tropical Storm sally as it closes in on the gulfs coast, expected to be a hurricane when it makes landfall sometimes tomorrow morning. Lets go to meteorologist chad myers. Good morning to you, chad. Its going to become a hurricane. The question is how bad and how directly is it expected to hit new orleans . Well, it depends. If the storm goes a little bit farther to the left in the cone, then new orleans gets a tremendous amount of rain. Also more surge. And maybe a foot of rain. We know because of the pumps that have to get the water out, a foot of rain quickly in new orleans is a very bad thing. If it turns a little farther to the right and goes towards maybe bay sleuth and wave lend, then youll see a surge in the 11foot range. Thats a big surge. Were already seeing surges at two and a half feet and thats before any kind of landfall because of the way the wind is blowing right now. Landfall maybe noon, plus or mine as you couple of hours. Notice how big the cone is at this point still, all the way from mobile, all the way back to grand isle, louisiana. That is a wide cone. The computer models are not doing a good job with this right now. I tell when you they do and when they dont. Theyre not agreeing whatsoever. If youre on the right side of the cone you need to Pay Attention and on the left side you need to Pay Attention. Theres that heavy rain. If this batch of purple, 10, 15, 20 inches is a little to the left, thats when they have the fresh water flooding problem. Here is the salt water flooding problems, all the way up to ocean spring, trying to get that water pushing up those rivers. Thats the salt water flood. Then we have the 70, 75, maybe 100 mileanhour wind gusts. There are many levels of probably less here. Not a category three or four hurricane. We already have problems and we certainly dont need this. We have four more stormed in the atlantic or at least named events in the atlantic well call it, still to come. Chad myers, so much to watch. Well continue to keep you informed at home. Other story were following, at least ten are dead, nearly 1 million acres burned. What is 1 million acres . Thats bigger a long shot than the entire state of rhode island as firefighters battle more than a dozen wildfires in oregon. The folks on the east coast must have difficult understanding the scale of this. In is a once in a generation kind of event. Unprecedented is a term they use a lot. There are 36 major fires burning in the state of oregon and a couple of burning in the direction of the major city here, portland. These are the fire units here to protect the city. Lets show you the latest out of marion county, about an hour and a half to the south. This is the beachy creek fires. Its been one of the more deadlier fires in the state of oregon and the devastation down in that area is just magnificent, even though that is a positive term for such a terrible thing. The fire officials down in this state are saying they need more of everything, they need more fire trucks, more personnel, more air assist. They also know in making their plea theyre not going to get it because everything there is is already in use. This woman was able to return. She found their home was Still Standing but almost Everything Else was not. Here whats she had to say. I just have no words for it. Its amazing. Its absolutely amazing. I mean, i dont know how many tears i cried before all this happened. Im just in shock. Lets just go over some of the numbers. You mentioned that about a million acres in this state have gone up in flames. Normally in a typical year they would have about 500,000 acres burned in a year. They saw that much, actually twice that burn almost in a week, last week. So thats the kind of fires that they are up against. There is some good news, the weather is changing, humidity levels going up, wind speeds coming down, at least in the northern part of the state. The other problem theyve been bad willing is the extreme air pollution. It is hazardous. Thats the highest warning they can give to the people as far as air quality. It is unhealthy to be outside. Schools are closed and it raising concerns of covid because peoples lungs are going to be exhausted breathing in. Thank you very much. Well get more from oregon over the next two hours. Lets go to arcadia, california. Stephanie, more than 3. 1 million acres scorched across the state, a staggering 26 times more than the amount burned in california this time last year. Reporter yeah, 3. 3 acres burned in 2020. You think about the number of structures that have been burned and firefighters, the systems are attacked. They dont have new people to bring in to replace them. Theyre trying to take advantage of longer break times. Where im standing, this is just below the bobcat fire, which weve been watching glow overnight. I think i can finally tell the sun is coming up. This fire is 6 contained, more that 33,000 acres have burned here. This residence where i am standing in the suburb of los angeles in the foothills here, e, some 300 holes evacuated because of this. We did mention that President Donald Trump is going to make his way to the sacramento area to get some ontheground surveillance of the fire, talked to level and federal officials. Gavin newsom, as well as the mayor of los angeles, eric garcetti, making it clear these fires are starring to burn earlier and longer and more acres are worse and that is because of the climate crisis. Were also expected to hear that same idea coming from joe biden today but obviously very different words coming from the president. Well see what he has to say when he gets to california later on today. Jim . Stephanie, just another reason to wear that mask out there today with all the smoke. Thanks very much. Our next guest is a filmmaker who grabbed her camera as the north complex fire began. This is video capturing the intensity of those flails, ambulance rushing into the fire, right . Thats whats happening here, people rushing toward the flames to save. This is a scene of the aftermath. Nancy hamilton jones us now. Thank you for coming on. You have experience, you did a film about 2018 fires, which seemed bad and they are bad and now it cease like were setting new records of day. Just describe to folks who dont have personal experience of this, havent seen it themselves, the intensity and the scale of these wildfires. Its hard to even describe the magnitude of these fires until youre a hundred feet above the tree level. Tell us about the speed that these fires move. You have a lot of folks getting caught, right in they think they can get out, they cant get out. Unfortunately a lot of they will ha them have lost their lives. You were driving through this. How quickly do these fires move . Incredibly quickly. Theyre unpredictable. They really are a beast of their own identity. They move at their own whim. Theyre terrifying and moving extremely quickly. Were showing some of the aftermath. It moves through, it burns homes look paper. Youre currently housing families who were forced to evacuate, including your best friends 80yearold grandmother, who lost her home in the fire. Fires are losing everything they have. Thankfully theyre alive but theyre losing everything they own. Its really difficult. Thats one of the reasons were here, people need to know the status of their homes. My best friends grandmother had a stroke a few months back and then she had covid a couple months back and now her house is gone. So her stress level shes handling it very well but its very, very difficult. Shes experiencing what the country is experiencing, covid and now this. I wonder, you hear of tens of though thousands of firefighters working. Is it your sense that federal and local state governments are overwhelmed by this . Oh, yes. People dont know how to cope with the events. The authorities work so hard to con taken these fires. What happens now, i suppose, is a question, right . Because were early in normal times the season hasnt even begun, right . So forest fire season as we traditionally think of it is, you know, in the future, not the past. What happens now in these communities . Can people even safely go home . No. Thats one of the difficulties is when a fire comes through of this magnitude such as the camp fire did two years ago, many of the residents were out of their homes for over a month. So even though they didnt have homes to go back to, they wanted to at least have closure and they werent able to. And another problem is insurance will not pay out unless theres photos. So if you cant get in and get photos, youve got a real problem on your hands. Were glad youre safe. Please send our best to all the folks youre hunkering down with there and bringing us an eyes with account of this. Thank you very. The president is defending his pandemic response. Bob woodward saying, quote, nothing more could be done but then last night he holds a huge indoor rally defying science and expert warnings. Why . Also, a manhunt under way for the person you see in this video who ambushed two Los Angeles County deputies. Were live. And still no stimulus deal, no help for millions of hardhit americans in this pandemic. Is there hope for an 11th hour agreement . Just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. Sofi helped me pay off twentythree thousand dollars of credit card debt. They helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment. 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Its not in their own health interests, yet thats where we are, this as the white house is defending its response to the pandemic and the president s interviews, his comments, ontherecord comments and on tape comments with journalist bob woodward. Woodward is now speaking out about those interviews for the first time. John harwood joins us now. One of the more interesting interactions is woodward talking about his last conversation with the president over the week in his last of 18 interviews. What did he have to say on that . Reporter well, jim, it was fascinating. First of all, woodward has also been placed on defense, with people asking you if he was deliberately downplaying the violence, why did you not release these earlier . He said he didnt realize the import of what heeard. By the end of the reporting, he had concluded that President Donald Trump was the wrong man of the job. He related that President Donald Trump said to him in the white house theres always dynamite behind the door, woodward said President Donald Trump is himself the dynamite. Then when he related to the president it was going to be a tough back and he emphasized that to the president , he said shortly after that the president tweeted out that the book was going to be fake. Now, that inability to tolerate and process dissent and criticism is something that President Donald Trump has shared with authoritarian leaders around the world and he told bob woodward he gets along with authoritarians better than a lot of other world leaders. Take a listen. I get along very well with u the relationships i have, the tougher and meaner ones i get along with better. Now, the one authoritarian leader that President Donald Trump has gotten along well for a long time is Vladimir Putin from russia. We heard from the former Deputy National intelligence director saying that the message the president is sending about a rigged election is precisely what russian propagandists want to send to decay trust in the american system. Absolutely. You hear from everywhere. Joining us is drdr. Sack fro brigham and womens in boston. Before last night the last indoor rally the president had was in tulsa. We saw a significant spike in the cases in tulsa following that. When do we know if last nights rally will be a super spreader event . Usually it takes a couple of weeks to have cases linked to these events. It varies because the incubation period varies from a couple of days to about two weeks. Well have an idea in a couple of weeks whether its going to be that way. We do know the virus is spread by people without symptoms. Thats why there are no spectators in the sports venus right now. Dr. Sax, its highlighted how the Trump Administration worked to speed up the use of convalescent plasma. They exaggerated the Health Benefits of it by a factor of seven. That was the sunday night before the rnc, there seemed to be some political timing related to that. Whats the safety valve here in we talk the institutions will stand up and push back about this but they havent. The president has gone on to spread these messages and we have a vaccine decision coming. Whats the safety valve for people can feel confident in. The good news is the fda has repeatedly now said they are not going to rush a vaccine for approval unless there are good safety data. So thats one thing that we have backing us up. The other thing is that the Scientific Community is really very much unified in our wanting to have a safe, effective vaccine with an emphasis on safe. This is different from treating someone who is sick. These are vaccines given to healthy. Its very, very important that we wait for safety data before we put a vaccine out in the community. 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I know theres been some call for that and i think that actually is important that we know what the socalled stopping rules are so that we know how they can say a vaccine is going to be effective or not effective or safe or unsafe. Of course all of us are very excited about the progress in vaccines but we again, i want to underscore i want it to be safe, its really critical before it gets released. Thanks very much for your time. A manhunt is under way after two Los Angeles CountySheriff Deputies were ambushed in their car. Its an alarming story. Coming up the latest on their conditions and the search for the shooter. Come on, no no nnnnono only discover has no annual fee on any card. A lot goes through your mind. With fidelity wealth management, your dedicated adviser can give you straightforward advice and tailored recommendations. Thats the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management. There are lots of people who are confused about which medicare plan is right for them. 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Two Los Angeles County deputies are this morning still in Critical Condition after they were shot while they were just sitting in their vehicles in what authorities there are calling a complete ash bumbush. Now there is a 100,000 reward for any information leading to the shooter. Josh, first question, their condition, right . How do they stand . And do we have any information about the shooter . Jim and poppy, we learned some positive news last night.