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That much of this city, almost all of it, the evacuation order, is being lifted. i will show you why. it's actually sad story when you look at why. the fuel for the fire is pretty much gone. there's just nothing to burn in some of these neighborhoods because it's already been burned to the ground. we looked around us. there were 20 homes we could see with the naked eye that were burned to the ground, just the chimneys standing very much like the house you are looking at now. that's on one street. we have gone street to street to street on this hill, and seen the same kind of devastation on eac...

Washington, d.c. and it has not let up yet. that's 132,000 acres, which is about 200 square miles, that is burnt to a crisp. i should mention, those pictures you were just showing there of the helicopter shot. the best view of these is from the sky. because as you see, some of this is burning in a very densely wooded area and it's too dangerous to get up close to. and 101, that beautiful road that goes along the coast from here to l.a., there was a point which we had to pull over, cars were swerving around fire as it jumped from one side of 101 to the other towards the ocean, where there are q...

The fires in the state is burning is cnn's stephanie elam watching all of this play out. what are you seeing where you are? >> it's devastation once you get into these communities, kate, and see what the fires have done, basically racing down the streets and taking out homes along the way. here at this fire, the largest fire burning in the state, the thomas fire, right now i can tell you we got new numbers, 132,000 acres have been burned by this fire and the containment is up but only to 10% on this fire. that's why we are seeing the requests from the governor for federal assistance from presi...

This point on some of the biggest ones? >> well, where we are is the thomas fire, poppy, it has 10% containment. 132,000 acres and you can see now that the sun up what is left in its wake. one of the houses that was lost. you can see that firefighters were battling. that house up there with the bushes on top of it, it still managed to make it through the blaze. but if you turn and take a look at this devastation, we know more than 140,000 acres in california have burned in these wildfires, look at this. this house gone. and then just the rest of it. you can see the fire just ran straight down ...

Circumstance like this when people take advantage. good to see police are out there. thank you for that report. joining us by phone is roberto baltidano, a spokesman for the american red cross in miami. thank you for joining us this evening. what can you tell us? is the red cross out and working? >> we're working around the clock right alongside our government and community partners to provide that safe refuge to thousands of people. as a matter of fact, over the weekend we had 132,000 sought refuge at 510 government and red cross centers across six states. so, this has been quite an operati...