Day for our firefighters. Reporter an unknown number of homes and buildings have been destroyed. Flames can be seen creeping towards the local mcdonalds. More than 700 fire crews are battling the fire. In the work, it is devastating. There were a lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families to come home to nothing. Reporter fueled by five years of drought and high winds, the fires here are not expected to end until november. Back now to our live pictures over the blue cut fire. We have been watching these pictures all day. This will coming to us from near the small resort town of bright with. You can see, he saw the smoke on the roadway there. The fire has been blowing smoke through the fire all day. It can be seen for miles. It is expensive. Ted bolin has arrived in that area. He is right there and tedamet in San Bernardino. What are they telling you . Reporter they are telling us to get out. They are getting out finally. A lot of these bowls were told to get out yesterday. They thought they would wait it out. We have seen a steady stream of cars coming through downtown. What you see in the background, that is smoke and fire coming towards us. Five minutes ago we saw flames. We talked to a neighbor that lives just outside of town. He says that his home is likely going to be demolished. He had a suitcase with them and a couple of other items. And that is all he had time to take. He did not heed the earlier warnings. You can see a lot of businesses have shorter third doors. This business here is the snowboard rental place. They have put sprinklers on the roof. That is not going to do much good if this fire continues on the path that it is right now. The town of bright wood is in the path of this fire. Depending on the wind. It has been shifting. It has shifted back and forth in the time that we have been here. With gusts up to 2030 miles an hour. But now it is called. depending on the conditions, the town might be saved, but it does not look good when you look at the smoke and flames coming right towards us. What was it like driving down there . There were two main escape routes in and out of the come home pass area with 80,000 people being forced to evacuate. What was the traffic like . Joke there were people leaving. And roads have been cordoned off by chp. They are urging people to get out. Eusebius cars leaving. I saw a pet in the front seat of that there. People are now heating the warnings. When they look up and see the smoke at the flames coming towards their town. It was very hectic coming in here. And you can see the smoke for miles. People in los angeles can see it. And we are 60 miles east of los angeles. I have never covered a fire that has generated so much smoke. And it has grown so much. It is truly incredible. One firefighter said this is a fire of a lifetime. And he said the kick their butt last night. They said it is all divine. He said there is nothing you could do with it. You can throw all of the resources at it but it will keep going. A monumental fire there, 30,000 acres in the day. Is there any estimate, if the fire makes it to where you are, how soon that could be . Reporter it depends on the wind. Right now were feeling a huge gust of wind but it is pushing the fire away. If the wind turns the other way, it will be likely within an hour that this town of bright wood would be in the fire. It came over the mountain, now it is in the flat area. Its just a matter of with the wind takes it. And there are no active firefights going on right behind us here. We have not seen any airdrops and there is no fire personnel here. There are Police Telling people to get out. Getting the sense, theyre not going to try and put up a fight if the flames keep moving toward the town. Is that the sense that you were getting . That there is nothing they can do . Reporter . Is the sense that were getting right here from where we are. We have not seen any active firefighting. This is a massive fire. Keep that in mind. And they do have several thousand firefighters here working. But it is such a massive fire, that they are looking at different areas to concentrate the fight. That is one of the reasons that there are no airdrops. It may be unsafe to fly. But we do see the flames creeping towards this town. And we know that resources are stretched thin. What are your plans for the evening . Are you going to try to move closer to the fire . Or are you going to try to report from the time of bright wood . Reporter likely we will go a little closer into bright wood and see what happens here. And see if everyone does get out, we will monitor what is happening here and then we will move whatever the fire moves throughout the evening. Is a little hard to see. Is that a roadblock at the end of the road . If you wanted to keep going down that road could you . Or have police cordoned off that part of the area . Joke the roadblocks are several miles away from us. This is the downtown area of bright wood. And the people here are the folks that never left. You cannot get here in the shoe got through a roadblock. The car that drove by us, that person have been there a while and they have just decided to leave. All of the traffic that we his income through this area are people who are just now deciding to leave after seeing how close the fire is to them. I know that you have a lot to do we will let you know. And we will be back with you a little later on tonight. Right now we want to bring in our chief mineralogist. We know that the weather is meteorologist. We know that it is very dry. Yes it is. Even in the scene with ted, firefighters know what theyre doing. Look at how this fire has a line. Prevailing winds out of the southeast. They are cutting fire lines well ahead of the fire. They are not going to try to stop this fire. It will roll right over them. Part of the fire is out of control but they know what they are doing. They are above the ridgelines and then letting this thing burned down the valley. You can see with the firefighters are making their stand. You dont the active fighting, but firefighters, they have prevailing winds they know exactly what way the winds are blowing. It is the southeast wind, it will be that way again tomorrow. They know what they are doing look at the line on that thing. They are above the ridge line to the right and left. And they are out in front of it. Even though it is a scary thing, and it is and it is burning many acres rapidly, it is not one of these things where they have no clue. Have a great opportunity here as we move within the next 24 hours to get a handle on this fire. You see the winds, that is a southeast winds. The winds are blowing. Last night it was funneling through here. Firefighters were on with this region this rate. When the fire gets out here to the flat it will be a lot easier to fight. This is what we are seeing. Are seeing the firefighters letting a lot of the fire get to the canyon and the funneling before they mess with it. I did talk to a couple of them last night. The baby intimated that. They said we do have air tankers. But there are three planes on it last night and they are doing drops. If 98 degrees right now. The winds or at the surface of 1519 miles per hour. One more thing, the trout in Southern California, much worse. We had el nino this year. Northern california was 134 of water content. And doing great. South, from pixar, it has been tried. And that is a function of 40 of the rainfall. You have dry, drought conditions, keep and winds. Will come back and talk about your weather in keep you updated. A man accused of starting the clayton fire makes his First Court Appearance today. Authorities say they have the suspect under surveillance for months. Long before the fire started. Reporter thats right. They have been tailing him for quite a while. But they did not have enough evidence to arrest him until recently. He passed out before his Court Appearance it needed some water. When he walked in he turned away from news cameras. They say he started 11 smaller fires as well as a huge clayton fire which has destroyed 200 homes and burn thousands of acres. We are confident that this is our guy is serial arsonist. And the yearlong investigation will prove that. Reporter they will not save the how they identified him as a suspect. But they do say they were sticking him out but they never caught him in the act. I want to make sure its understood that our investigators, had they seen him start one they would have been arrested. Joke but they say they could not arrest him without proof. If you take your shot too soon you jeopardize justice. Reporter he told investigators he lost his home in 2013. If i knew what the motivation was, i would be a psychologist making billions of dollars. Joke they are urging the public not to rush to judgment. He is innocent until proven guilty. Reporter the defendant never actively work the fire lines. We know that he was a volunteer firefighter. His bail is 5 million. A lot of people are is set about what happened. Are authorities worried about his safety at all . Reporter they are. They had kept him in isolation. They say it is the right thing to do. They want to make sure he has his day in court. What about any families who lost their homes were they in court today . Joke we saw a few visitors in court. We asked them if they had suffered losses but they said they had not. But they were from the community. Bayous of the clayton fire is 40 contained and it is not growing. It is still at 4000 acres. It has been a 4000 acres with a pass couple of days. 175 homes and other buildings have burned. An hour ago Fire Evacuation orders were lifted for lower lake. We will be updating the fire both in lake county and in San Bernardino county as we get new information. A very busy afternoon for the san jose fire department. In a matter of half hour, around 4 pm, 3 different buyers broke out sending smoke and flames into the sky. A womans body pulled from the water at San Franciscos ocean beach. What we are learning from the investigators. It is a spare the air day again tomorrow. Things are changing around. Temperatures will trend the other way. Three fires erupted in san jose within the last 90 minutes. Skyboxes overhead. The fire sent up a huge plume of thick, black smoke. Some of the fire, this one a grass fire in south san jose broke out after 4 pm this afternoon. Turning off of 10 101 there baylis road. It started at around 3 30 pm and quickly burned 75 acres. 200 firefighters are battling the flames. Right now it is about 10 contained. A third fire this was started within the last hour near the sap center in san jose. No word yet on what caused any of these fires. Park police are investigating the death at ocean beach this morning. Witnesses says the womans body was floating 20 feet offshore along lincoln away. We are on the scene tonight. First responders tried everything they could but they were not able to save her. Reporter that is right. A sad story out here. When she left she was in critical condition. When she got to the hospital about 12 15 pm she was pronounced dead. Park police are investigating. They say there is no criminal aspect. Tell me what happened, this all unfolded just before 11 am. At 10 45 am we received a report of a woman in the water. And our beach patrol and our lifeguards were on scene within two minutes. They went in about 15 yards into the water to retrieve her and began cpr on the reach. San francisco fire arrived to assist and when she got to the hospital she was pronounced dead. Reporter they say she was a 4050yearold asian female that was fully clothed. We hertha with someone sitting that description who fit the description of someone with dementia. Are there any link between those stories . There was a be on the lookout, but the victim did not match that description. We have no indication of how she got to the beach . And her identity and cause of death will be released by the San Francisco medical examiners. Reporter we did talk to the San Francisco medical Examiners Office and they say she is being identified. After the family is notified we might be able to determine the cause of death. Back now to developing news. The massive blue cut fire raging outofcontrol in San Bernardino county. It started yesterday morning and forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate. We are joined by rick with the latest on the firefight. Reporter we are at Mountain Lakes in the background. You may be able to see a water dropping helicopter take off from the small pond. They have been picking up water and dropping it over the fires. This is done on all day and all afternoon as the blue cut fire continues to rage out of control. From 30 acres inside and still zero containment. Let us show you why. We will show you footage of the blue cut fire. All through the day, some 30,000 acres, that is the official count so far have burned. We are expecting that number to climb over the evening. So far the affected areas are the nearby communities of brightwood which is a ski area and west cajon valley and oak hills. 34,000 homes and 82,000 people have been evacuated. Firefighters are battling heavy brush and steep terrain. They are also dealing with hot temperatures and low humidity. It is those gusty erratic winds that are giving them trouble. They forced the closure of a number of welltraveled roads and highways including interstate 15 between the towns of four and is very you. 15,000 firefighters plus are on the ground. And there are a couple supertankers that are dropping that red dust. As we come back alive, i will step aside. We do have a water dropping helicopter that is about to swoop in for a pickup. These choppers have been making nonstop drops. Other than to stop for fuel all day long. In fact, many of these choppers operate through the course of the evening hours when it is most dangerous. One is coming in overhead. We will give this a quick look so that you can see the procedure as it comes down. The spider looking aircraft will swoop down with a long hose and nozzle over the small lake, and pinpointed the it will make its dropped into the lake and scoop up hundreds of gallons of water and make a quick trip over the fire zone to make its dropped. That happens continuously throughout the course of the day. Thats it from Southern California we send it back to you. Is very loudly you are, i am hoping you can hear me. You have covered a lot of fire. How does this fire compared to others . Have you ever seen anything like this . Reporter not in terms of the way it exploded. This fire really took off so fast, it went from 5 acres to 5000 acres in a matter of just an hour or so. The winds were so powerful yesterday that this fire grew out of control so quickly that firefighters never had an opportunity to try to get a handle on it before it got out of control. Thats how quickly this fire has moved. The firefighters are making some progress. You can see the denuded hillsides. And you can maybe see some of the red dust areas. They have had some success in some areas. As we look to the northwest, that is the direction we are looking now and you can see there is lots of smoke in the air. Firefighters have their work cut out for them through the evening hours. A big fight on their hands. Thank you rick. The numbers here are staggering. Zero containment, 30,000 acres burned and 80,000 people have been evacuated. And the weather is not helping. Yes 3 days of red flag warnings in the area. This is the perfect storm for fire. Were talking about this route. They of have so little rain down there. We did okay in Northern California but the el nino did not do well by them. Were talking about extra drive in this reason region. They had got about half of what they normally get. You also have winds gusting fairly significantly. We got gusts up to 45 miles per hour. Today they are around 25 miles per hour. I dont know if you saw the light shot. Live shot. Julie asked the question, about seeing a fire like this before . There was a fire back in 9697. It was the same idea. You have to follow link. Look at the canyons and the goalies in those hills. And you can see what the fire does. Its like a big chimney. Were following the fire. The fire is trying to find more oxygen. You see the red of the ridgeline . That is what they are doing they are protecting to ridgeline. They will at the canyon burned out and protect both of those ridgelines. They will be right about these ridgelines. They dont want it to come back this way. The winds are going up the canyon. Even though 0 contained, in many ways it is contained because firefighters know what the wind is doing. They know which way the wind is blowing. They are out in front here fighting the fire. It is a big fire and the funnel, look at this. It moved so quickly in here. Its hard to explain the difference in wind speed. When you get down in here and start funneling the wind, they can swirl up to 4550 miles an hour. It is definitely seeing here. The last fire like this was in malibu in Ventura County and 96 97. The footage or whether quickly. Fire danger always high. It is summer. Until we get to the first rain which is not coming for a long time. Were talking about increased higher danger. We have fought along the coast. More fires up a long mammoth lakes. Temperatures tomorrow are about where they should be for august. We had temperatures in the midshipman 90s tomorrow. And tomorrow about the same. It is a spare the air day tomorrow. They will push this in for tomorrow. A day similar to the day we have today. We will see you back here and update the fire and talk about your longrange forecast. Today was back the school day today was back to school day. We look at the cost of living challenge for the teachers there. Reporter this was a fun first day of school activity. She knew in the second grade what she wanted to pursue. I wanted to be a teacher. And i was fortunate to carry out my dream. Reporter but the sunnyvale nato and her husband are finding it a challenge to own a home. Especially since both since the average home price is 1 million. Reporter the superintendent says to help teachers with the high cost of living they are starting to work with a start up down to bite 2 stanford graduates. The San Franciscobased company has investors cover half of your down payment. The people who care about educators and believe in educators they can be the replacement to the bank of mom and dad. Reporter they say the starting teacher salary is 55,000 per year. Which is about half the median salary which is 107,000. This year they offer a onetime 7 pay bonus. And they are offering a salary match for some incoming teachers. My hope and dream is to stay here. However, it depends. Reporter here they are also reaching out to homeowners. To see if they have any in the units or rooms to rent. Still to come the blue cut fire burning out of contr