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evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there are fires on the west coast. there is the storm in the northeast. and the hurricane aftermath in louisiana. we are in a multiple split screen moment of multiple, gigantic, climate driven disasters across huge swaths of the united states tonight. the west is spotted with multiple fires, particularly in the state of california, where more than a dozen large fires are burning tonight as we speak. the two biggest fires are the dixie fire and the caldor fire. they are so large they became the first fires in recorded history to burn from one side of the sierra nevada mountain range to the other. the dixie fire is only about an hour northeast of the camp fire. you remember when the camp fire burned multiple towns to the ground in 2018? that felt like the worst that it