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Thick with smoke. officials say the air has not reached toxic levels yet, but ash was making it extremely difficult to breathe. >> broke out today north of san diego, quickly spread to 2500 acres. at least 20 homes have burned in a retirement community. governor jerry brown tonight declared a state of emergency in san diego county, and carter evans is there. carter. >> reporter: we're in northern san diego county where the fire's been raging for hours, and it has exploded. you can see where it's burning here. the wind is changing directions rapidly. several structures have burned. that appears...

Welfare for unrepresented animals. thanks for watching tonight at 5:00. >> al and veronica right back here in 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: something's fishy. that's what congressional critics are saying about the no- bid contract awarded the whitefish energy company to rebuild puerto rico's electrical grid. also tonight... >> we have great unity. >> mason: the president denies his party is divided. >> i called it a lovefest. >> mason: the postman always rings twice, but the amazon man will walk right in. ♪ i'm walking. yes, indeed ♪ i'm talking and we're talking about ...

>> why are you building so many solar farms. >> we intend to bring the better future to our next generation by using such clean energy, reducing the air pollution. that's the company's mission. >> reporter: it's also the government's mission. it's spending hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize renewable energy as china tries to wean itself off coal, still its dominant power source. and the reason for it's notoriously toxic air. but china now produces two thirds of the world's solar panels and has become a major competitor for the u.s. solar industry which employs a quarter million ameri...

>> reporter: irma is bigger and more powerful than hurricane andrew. the category 5 storm killed 61 people, destroyed 25,000 buildings, and forced florida to strengthen building codes statewide. it was a foundation-to-roof tightening. >> absolutely. i mean, everything. >> reporter: peter dyga is president of the associated builders and contractors in south florida. we met him at this hotel project where workers were installing impact-resistant windows, which are lab tested to withstand a 2 x 4 hitting them at a force of 140 miles per hour. >> the real challenge in a hurricane is the window not...

Ca ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: the forecast takes an ominous turn. >> this is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. >> glor: more than a million have been told to evacuate as florida braces for a direct hit from irma. >> mother nature is going to win in the end. we just have to hope and pray for the best. >> glor: the strongest atlantic hurricane on record has already left a trail of destruction through the caribbean. >> the entire country has been decimated. >> mason: also tonight, bannon's new battle with the republican establishment. >> reporter: now that you'...