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Coming this way. >> reporter: other fire teams set backfires to slow the flames. an aerial tanker shoots over the hot spot dropping fire suppressa suppressant, but the flames are at tej of hellsgate. we have been doing the live reports here, and as the wind has shifted, it is blowing back to us, and we are told by firefighters we need to get out of the area. we race out of the area through the thick smoky haye haze and t firefighters stand their ground, but they will tell me later, this is one of the few battles they won on this day. ed lavandara possum kingdom lake, texas. >> we will talk mor...

Make sure that our firefighters come home at the end of the day and are able to be with their families. of course, saving our town and our neighbors' houses is just as important, too, but we are not goi going to let it get us or them either. >> do you feel like your town is safe so far, because i have read that 200 homes have been destroyed across the state and several in your hometown, and how is your home? >> my home is fine, and our town is fine at this point. i don't really see the fire shifting right now, and that is what we are trying the do is to anticipate any further wind shifts that ...

Life-long resident. so from a firefighting p perspecti perspective, sir, how are the conditions on the ground today versus last night and yesterday? >> well, we are having a better day today and the humidity is higher and the winds are not as strong as they have been being. they are just -- it is helping us quite a bit. the guys like you say that are exhausted and they have been working all night to push it a dozer line through one or two ranches that span from fm 4 to highway 16 which is approximately 16 miles across there, and trying to get a place where they can stop this fire if it jumps t...

Is significant. that is what we will see today and you won't see boxes around in red, but you will see the yellow watch boxes for wind in arkansas and mississippi and alabama and already firing near little rock. little rock had a couple of rounds of severe weather last night, and i was here watching that. and in columbus to mississippi and florida seeing the showers firing up west of gainesville, and along the front coming in from the ocean, and the rain showers are all of the way from the northeast all of the way down into texas. we would love to see some rain in texas. just not the lightning...

robertson talking about life there on the ground in libya, and the disturbing images he has witnessed. nic getting a little built of a break away from libya, here in atlanta, and cnn headquarters. he will be joining me live in studio coming up. but first, this a developing story and tragic story, an os r oscar-nominated photojournalist has died in misrata. cnn confirmed this death within the past hour. for more on the story, i want to go to barbara starr standing by at the pentagon. barbara, all of our condolences out to his family. and tell us who he is, and what he was doing ther...