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Fast the fires can move. >> reporter: crews across the west stretched thin, 22,000 firefighters on the front lines of 85 major fires raging across 13 states. so far more than 2.7 million acres have burned this year outpacing this time in 2020, the worst year ever recorded by nearly a million acres. >> we have to keep our head in the game because we still have the peak months ahead of us. >> reporter: in oregon, the bootleg fire, the nation's largest, the burning more than 450,000 acres and only 53% contained. >> it's so dry a lot of this is turning to dust. >> a sparks of a climate in chaos, i...

Help against the flames. thanks for that report. ♪♪ and joining us now with a look at axios a.m., congressional reporter alayna treene. what's the one big thing this morning? >> hi, jacob, great to be here with you today. our thing is, first look at a poll that gauges the popularity of seven key republican figures. i think, you know, you see the top two leading on that poll, donald trump jr. and ron desantis. lead respectrespectively, but t interesting thing kevin mccarthy, if you look and compare the leaders, there's a

Possess this technology. cuba has never produced these types of weapons. >> our thanks to nbc's andrea mitchell for that report. joining us now with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder, mike allen. happy wednesday. what is the axios's one big thing this morning. >> happy hump day back at you, and the axios one big thing is the capitol petri dish. yesterday on capitol hill there was a long line, the longest line we have seen in a long time, and that was for covid testing. the leadership office is now very worried that we're having a covid boomerang, so yesterday axios hans nichols scooped the...

>> reporter: the death toll nearing 200 while police continue to search for the nearly 300 still unaccounted for, the devastation of the trauma setting in. >> they wanted to help him, but couldn't. he was calling help, help, i can't swim. >> reporter: there was little neighbors could do in the face of the surging water but doing as much as they can now to help each other rebuild. >> thanks to meghan fitzgerald for that report. joining us now with a look at axios a.m. congressional reporter elena treen. great to see you. what is axios' one big thing for this morning? >> good morning, jonathan...

Joining us now with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, hans nichols, hans, what is the axios one big thing for this morning? >> jonathan, the one big thing we're looking at is kind of what brez was looking at, how is this bipartisan group going to pay for the infrastructure package. to jump into the weeds, they're going to look at going through pharmaceutical drug rebates. i normally wouldn't look at these, but it's important here and i'll tell you why. it's important because this is also a pot of money that the democrats, that bernie sanders, wants to go after. we're seeing t...