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Everything was black, it was like i was in a black box, and i just drove through it, and i couldn't breathe, and then there was fire everywhere, like you turn around everywhere it was on all sides of you. >> reporter: fire officials have not determined the cause but it started off a series of lightning strikes, and, jon, lightning has caused dozens of wildfires throughout the state. back to you. jon: and other western states aren't doing much better, huh? >> reporter: yeah, dozens of fires burning right now. i'll take you first to idaho. 350 homes near boise are threatened by the trinity ridge...

Swing states. it could be bad news for the president come november. it is interesting in the swing states, the swing has been particularly onerous, no doubt or spell it out? >> here is the thing. gas prices are the way voters and people measure their economic well-being. they pay it on a regular basis. they notice it. therefore it colors their view of the economy. when gas prices are high, it implies something is not right. therefore the people in charge aren't doing real well. >> neil: flip side of the argument is that people aren't as sensitive to this as they used to be. in other words, we ...

Romney's ira? >> i know first-hand experience, and talking to my constituents, how hard middle income families work to try to scrimp and save and set aside some money at the end of the month for their retirement. we know that families aren't doing very well because they don't have enough disposal income to make those contributions to their 401(k)s, to their iras. and most middle income families have tens of thousands of dollars in it. when i read that he had amassed somewhere between $20 million and $100 million inside of an ira, i want to know how. what appears is he gets to manipulate, he ge...

Reporters -- you know, reporters just want to ask him about what he's saying, in poland he praised the small government. maybe he doesn't know, but in poland they have a universal health care system paid for by the government, and anybody can go to state college or university paid by the government again. so it's not a small government, yet he can say the stuff because he doesn't have to submit to any questioning. >> and he doesn't have any sense of the history. we're not asking him about polish poetry with milos. we're just asking him what the heck is going on right before his nose. perhaps t...

Bd. he praised the small government. maybe he doesn't know, but in poland, they have a universal health care system paid for by the government, and anybody can go to state college or university paid by the government again. so it's not a small government. but yet he can say the stuff because he doesn't have to submit to any questioning. >> and he doesn't have any sense of the history. we're not asking him about polish poetry. we're just asking him what the heck is going on right before his nose. perhaps the oddest assertion is governor romney claiming he wasn't talking about culture in the jer...