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Recent wildfires in Sequoia National Park have highlighted the need for leadership from local tribes, like the Tule River Tribe of California, to be involved in firefighting efforts to protect delicate ecology and significant historic and cultural sites.
Burn zone there. have authorities determined the cause of the fire? >> reporter: kate, officials believe they know where the fire started but not how. initially authorities thought downed power lines were to blame but now say the theory seems less likely. >> thank you now to the growing fears over a russian invasion of ukraine. president biden spoke with the ukrainian president today just days after he held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell joins me now. what do we know about the call today >> reporter: good evening, kate. in ...
Helping. >> as always. good to see you. thank you. hundreds are still without power in colorado. following the devastating wild fire. the fire tore through boulder county on thursday destroying nearly 1,000 homes. the cause of the fire is under investigation. authorities do have a few clues. cnn has the latest. >> reporter: two people are still missing. one woman from superior: and one man. the sheriff says it's a difficult task searching the burn zone. especially given the extensive debris and destruction with houses reduced to ashes. some covered in about eight inches of snow in some places....
And they plan on rebuilding some day in the same spot because this area is a community where generations lived there. they're very tight knit with their neighbors. a long term look what will happen here. this is a very tight housing market. you've got thousands of people who suddenly left and are displaced so where are they going to go and rent? and then we're talking about restoration of electric, power, natural gas to the people beyond the burn zone. we're expected by tonight to see power restored for all the customers outside the burn zone, natural gas will take some more time for restorati...
Just minutes d.' warning. and now two people still missing. what have we learned? >> reporter: what we're hearing from people who had to evacuate is that lot of them felt such hurricane force winds that they were being knocked over. adults being knocked over by that wind. and of course that is the wind that was carrying flames ripping through these neighborhoods that destroyed about 1,000 structures, most of them homes. the search for the missing will be really difficult. officials say that the search through the burn zone, homes reduced to ash and thousand covthousand -- now covered with 8 in...