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The wind blowing. they know the wind is going to pick up. el cajon pass is a very very well-known place for the wind gusts. it's one of the things that fuelled the fire yesterday so they're making sure those containment lines are strong. we saw them making progress last night. but last night they didn't have to contend with winds they're seeing now. >> looks like traffic is moving smoothly. is that true? >> yeah yeah. it's a very good thing, too. this is i-15 the main corridor between las vegas and los angeles. a very very busy corridor. when we were driving by a little while ago, they had act...

A lot of folks own land and have horses, as you saw in the video. when the fire started around 6:00 p.m. yesterday, the winds were erratic, as see see this time of year. it started burning in an area miles from homes. the fire exploded and quickly grew to 300 acres within only hundreds of feet of some homes. and of course mandatory evacuations followed for about 300 homes. firefighters attacked it from the air and on the ground for hours. and then as they always do, they expect overnight that the winds will die down and the humidity will pick up giving the firefighters a chance to get containm...

Before. so it is not a good feeling to think you're looking at your house for the last time. >> we've gone through this before. we've been here 15 years. this is always a trauma for everybody when you see a wisp of smoke. >> they dropped right on the house, which probably saved it. they came across this line here several times. so that was great. >> reporter: now in northern california the so-called butts fire in napa county is getting closer to containment. it is 4300 acres in size at the moment. some residents are allowed to return to their homes. we had better weather in the past couple day...

At a courthouse in d.c. crews fighting a wildfire in arizona's white mountains losing ground there. strong winds pushing the flames past containment lines. firefighters expecting lighter winds today, which could help their battle. and an american man trying to row across the ocean to honor his late brother has reached the caribbe caribbean. victor mooney is getting some much-needed rest now in a st. martins hospital. well, now back to the irs scandal. irs head john koskinen is promising to produce key e-mails to the house ways and means committee. in a letter obtained by fox news, koskin...

Over the next five days. we'll be watching it. we will see the potential for heavy rain certainly off the coast and along the coast. so those areas are going to be monitored throughout afternoon and into the overnight and tomorrow, of course. back to you. >> janice, thank you very much. coming up, firefighters in eastern arizona struggling against mother nature as a fast moving fire jumps the containment lines. and one man crossing an ocean to honor his late brother. we're going to update you on his amazing journey. >> amazing indeed. plus, could the mystery of the vanishing irs e-mails ...