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Adding 40-mile-an-hour winds, you get this. >> created what is called an active crown fire run with a fire actually goes from treetop to treetop. when it does that, those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spare the tahoe basin. >> we are using all of our resources, everything we have at our disposal and coordinating closely with cal fire. >> so winds are expected to improve tonight and tomorrow but big picture, california has a problem. six of the states' seven largest buyers ever burned i...

Mountain air now a billowing blanket of ash stretching hundreds of miles. >> basically a flame or an ember lands on the dry brush and it ignites. it's not stopping it. >> torching pine needles in an overgrown forest that hasn't burned in decades. add in 40 mile-per-hour winds, you get this. >> to create what's called an active crown fire run where the fire goes from tree top to tree top. when it does that those ember casts that it throws out are going over a mile in distance. >> containment lines held overnight, giving crews optimism the fire could spat tahoe basin. >> we are usually all of ou...

Another 10,000 people to evacuate. >> lucy kafanov joins us live from el dorado county, california. growing 24 times in size in the last two days. that is a truly wildfire. >> reporter: it is explosive in terms of its growth, jim. and that is because it has singed over 65,000 acres now and so quickly you have the bone dry conditions, you have hilly terrain which makes it difficult to get bulldozers there to cut containment lines and then you have the population. we were driving through the fire line yesterday when we came across this destroyed ranch and that is when we met chris kingsley. he o...

Area. they have to do a lot to try to contain it because it is just simply too big to put out. so what they've been doing is digging containment lines, pulling down, cutting down trees to try to prevent the fire from having enough fuel to burn. but it has been a losing battle for them. take a listen to how one firefighter described the challenging of battling this massive blaze. >> the fire itself is faster than the firefighters can get control over it. the winds and the trees and the brush that is so dry burns at a rate faster than we can keep up with it, no matter how many people we're throw...

Don't want this fire getting out of our containment lines. >> crews are looking at power lines as a possible source of the flames. a washington, d.c. court has dropped charges against jane fonda after she was arrested during a climate change demonstration on capitol hill and spent a night in jail. it is the fourth arrest in the last month for the 81-year-old actress. she says she plans to continue the protests through january. another horse has died at a big racetrack in california. it's the 37th horse death at santa anita park since last december. this one happened during the annual breed...