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Rocky fire has forced some 13,000 people from their homes. and at this point, it's unclear when if ever they'll be ever to return. nbc's jennifer bjorklund is live in town of lake forest. is there news from fire officials today? >> reporter: look on the bright side. it's a little bit cooler. the humidity level is up a tiny bit. it's in the middle teens and the containment line, it's still only 12% but the fire grew overnight, as well. so to 63,000 acres and 12% of that is a little bit bigger. but that's about all the good news out of this fire right now. this is one of as you said 27 fires bur...

27.7 feet. so we are not far off to. give that some perspective, the major flooding occur cans at 24 feet with that river. and recommended evacuations happen at 23 feet. so, a lot of people up there are pretty nervous tonight there have been evacuations ordered around the area. people living around that area. the sheriff ordering people to stay off the road at this point. a big take away from all of this though, the flooding levels we are getting here are comparable to what we got interest from tropical storm debby in 2012. level in 2012 to rain pattern in several days. >> hailey thank you ver...

Foot, i believe that you know, the congress would have an obligation, again, to investigate. i think the democrats would be outraged and they would want an investigation. >> something i think you would both probably agree on. all three of us would agree on. it's hard to get anything done in august. we will see come august 27th which what is and isn't delivered and watch it into the fall. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> fire crews are bracing for another difficult day battling a wildfire near the ski resort towns of hailey and sun resort in idaho. 15 square miles overnight to more th...

Smoke inhalation. the fire is now 8 miles long. let's show you some stills of the structures affected by this, 15 structures in total have been destroyed, 100 more are at risk is what one spokesman was saying to me earlier on this morning. it's been raging, 10,000 acres is the latest number that came out, and that's with the crews who were working overnight and the aircraft overheld with infrared data. the fire crews that just came in came with this assessment: >> that's critical to us. we've got 8 miles of line on each side of this fire. we've got to get some line around that starting back at...

To do is, the word is now try to make sure that their firefighters are paying attention to the conditions. that people are paying attention to the conditions because they are simply deadly out here. in the words of the xander, every single person does come home. they are trying to build a containment line, trying to build a circle around it. fire crews are still out here and going to be fighting this fire because that's what firefighters do. >> and they are grieving at the same time. overnight, we have been reaching out and talking to officials there, all of them are shaken by what's happened....