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Military personnel battling to save the homes and businesses there. we re going to have a live report for you in just a moment right here on cnn tonight. plus breaking news on the russia investigation to tell you about. and it is a cnn exclusive. sources telling cnn the british publy cysts who arranged that meeting with russians and donald trump jr. sent multiple follow-up e-mails afterwards to a russian who was there and to a member of donald trump s inner circle. that news coming one day after trump jr. refused to talk to congressional investigators. what he and his father discussed after news of that meeting became public. a lot to discuss in this broadcast. and i want to begin with our breaking news that i told you about right at the beginning of the show. those california fires. cnn paul vercannon is live until ventura county with the thomas fire. paul, you re mt. midst of this, the biggest fire, the numbers are staggering, 115,000 acres scorched. 439 homes destroyed. ....
They are there families rely on. several other leading democrats are vowing to sue the administration over those payments. rob: it gets more complicated by the day. jillian: california wildfires the deadliest in the state s modern history, 31 dead, hundreds missing, 21 fires till burning, 200,000 acres scorched, as big as new york city. it was all around my house, the helicopters and everything and all of a sudden there goes the house. it was gone. i can t cry anymore. i quite a couple hours, i don t think i could cry anymore. jillian: fire investigators looking at whether down power lines that have ignited the fires. two police dead after a violent and fiery escape attempt. we have a mass casualty, some ....
While dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room. [ static warbles ] well, let s go to california right now where firefighters have gained the upper hand on the fire which has burned more than 20,000 acres and damaged homes 50 miles west of los angeles. on the ground there in malibu with details on this. first of all, what s the situation there? good afternoon, craig. what a difference 24 hours makes, the conditions right now cool and moist and that has certainly tipped a balance in favor of firefighters here. and yes, you mentioned that there have been about 28,000 acres scorched, but two very important numbers that officials here are looking at. there have been some minor damages, but overall, no homes ....
structu destruction of the wildfires in texas. this now stretches across a 16-mile area. winds whipped up flames again today. a separate fire in eastern texas killed a mother and her 18-month-old child. tropical depression lee slogging its way north today after dumping as much of a foot of rain in parts of louisiana. pumps in new orleans helped prevent any major problem there. that was good. but the storm caused flooding in other towns and cities along the gulf. in alabama, lee spun off portable tornadoes and strong winds damaged at least 20 homes in thewn the television say, tornado warning, and about that time, we had an ungodly clap of lightning and the hard ligwind by. lights went out, came back on and everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. breaking news on the political front. texas gov senior riernor rick p poultd pulled out of a political forum in south carolina to go back to texas to deal with the wildfires. five others will take part i ....