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Responders who came, some of the eye witnesses, that we've had on who lived through this morning, saying to us, 10 to 15 minutes of constant, constant fire, saying it felt like it would never end. >> it went on twice. you could hear pauses where the gunman was clearly reloading. law enforcement saw the flashes from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. they radioed to other law enforcement who were able to go up to the room and through a dynamic raid using an explosive breach, they blew down the door and went into the room, not clear exactly how he died. at this point law enforcement says ...

Proper precautions. >> reporter: place -- police say they just want to question jordan. they have been questioning an off-duty officer who's an old friend of jordan's. he was seen leaving the doctor's house, and it's reported he had $5,000 cash on him and a rolex watch. so at this point local, state and federal authorities are all on the lookout for jordan, the the fbi's involved as well, and manhunt's entering its third day. contact 911 or crimestoppers should you see dr. jordan. jon? jon: his whereabouts remain a mystery. thanks very much, jamie colby. >> reporter: sure. jenna: overseas now,...

Be able for our firefighters, the brave men and women who are out there on the line, so that they have the tools to be able to do their job. that includes having the air resources they need, the large air tankers, the helicopters, the engines and the firefighters themselves. the second thing, we're going to continue our work to be able to restore national forests by doing more thinning, more timber harvest, using more prescribed fires so that when we do get a fire started, it's going to bush at a low -- burn at a lower level of intensity. it'll be easier to suppress these fires. jenna: let me ...

Tried calling her, tried to get her out to no avail. there are at least 12 fires burning in six states right now, and the head of the forest service says unless we change how we care for our forests, we will see more of these super fires all summer long. we're joined by tom of the u.s. forest service, he's the chief of that industry, and we're going to draw upon your 33 years of service when we talk a little bit about these fires. we haven't heard that term, super fire, before. why is it being used? >> it's just another term. we've been calling these mega fires in the past, but it's to really ...

In our forests. in addition to that, we've had with the changing climate where we have warm winters, we have extended droughts, very low snow pack, we're seeing that our fire seasons often now are another 30-50 days longer than we've had in the past. so when these fires get started, they have the right conditions to be able to burn at a much higher rate, they're much more severe. it's because of these fuels are extremely dry. plus the additional buildup of fuels that's occurred over the last few decades. jenna: tom, a fire like the one we're seeing in colorado, as we understand it now there's ...