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Joining me is the director of cal fire and a professor of geography who has studied climate change and wildfires for decades, glen mcdonald. he was forced from his home but is now back and safe. thank you so much. ken, i grew up in kcalifornia. i grew up with the brush fires. i know a bit about them. can you distinguish for viewers between a forest fire and a brush fire and what's happening right now in northern california and down south. >> absolutely. california is made up of all kinds of different vegetation types. the traditional forest community is trees, oaks, pine trees. those things th...

Daybreak makes it harder to see the flames, but easier to see the smoke. you can see how much of it is on the horizon. there is a firefighter that's arrived to perhaps put this fire out. we will get out of the way here and we'll let them obviously do their work. but, you know, we've talked to a lot of people who say, hey, there is a brush fire in my backyard. i told the department about it. they're not coming. the reality is that they are trying to do the most amount of good for the most amount of people. so they're not necessarily concerning themselves with brush fires in the backyard or gras...

Power has also saved honolulu and oahu because the storm has lost power, which has allowed the trade winds to push it westward away from the islands. as the mayor of honolulu said, honolulu dodged a bullet here, but there have been big problems, as we just talked about. all that rain down on the big island and then three brush fires on another big island on maui, and one was over 1,500 acres. we don't know what started the fires, but the winds whipped up the flames. seven houses destroyed or damaged down there. so, dodging a bullet, but there is still a lot more rain to come. i just looked at ...

Making this the sixth biggest storm in terms of wetness and water that's ever struck the united states. this has been a rare event for hawaii. we don't usually see hurricanes, they usually track further south. this one was pushing north, heading straight for honolulu, until it weakened and moved out. the issue has been so slow moving, which sounds like a good thing. it is a good thing in a way in that it slows and winds can push it out to sea, but it is a bad thing in that it hovered over places and dropped just so much rain. that was always going to be the problem for this. we also strangely ...

It's moved west, so honolulu dodged a bullet. but down on the big island, checking the rainfall totals, four weather stations down there are reporting more than 40 inches of rain, the highest at 44.8. this is the sixth wettest storm ever to hit the united states, and there is more rain forecast for the big island today. and you know, that ground is just saturated. so, rain that falls, just that's an immediate flash flood. there's also still a flash flood warning further north on maui, where we've also seen three brush fires. obviously not started by this. we don't know what those fires were st...