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Have been raging over the last week here in south west france. actually, though, some good news overnight. what the authorities are saying is that the fire has made very little progress. and i don't know if you can see, you probably can't, but there is a little bit of light rain falling now. and i'm told as well there was a little bit of rain as well overnight. not a lot. but of course, that is helpful, much more helpful to the firefighters than those soaring temperatures that we had on monday, where you had temperatures of over a0 degrees, quite a lot of changeable winds as well, which really...

Carrying vp candidate mike pence skidded off the runway and skidded right on to something called an arrester bid, installed a decade ago and designed to stop a jet liner at the end of a runway before it hits the fence. happily, there were no injuries. the weather has been terrible all day in new york. this is what radar looked like tonight. heavy rains, changeable winds. and laguardia runways are short by commercial standards. the charter 737 carried pence and his family, his staff, a couple of shifts of secret service, and the news media. pence wrote on twitter his thanks that no one was hurt...

Area of low pressure, the stronger the winds are. unfortunately, because of this track, the change in the winds, it's also not bringing any moisture. so we just get the windy conditions and humidity levels down to like 5% to 15%. that is crazy low. but it's not even just that. it goes beyond it. you have to think back to last year. last year we had a great year in terms of rainfall. it was about average. so everything grew. but now things kind of got cut off as of 2011. we had a record-dry march. evering that grew -- look at this picture out of midland texas. there's all that grass and brush j...

And salvage homes that are still standing. so that's what they're kind of focusing on in that defensive mode to protect what they can. >> all right. ed lavendera, be safe. we appreciate your reporting. jackie, he mentioned the winds, that that was a real problem. how bad is it when you actually have those high winds and got those fires and that brush? >> extremely bad. you know, it drives the fire. sometimes you can see big jumps in the fire line as a result of the winds. you know, right now we've been looking at winds which are around 30 miles per hour in terms of gusts. what's been going on ...