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Winds and gusts of up to 80 miles per hour and that means this blaze could spread very >> on capitol hill right now the quickly. all morning long we've seen crews driving up and down. house committees involved in the presidential impeachment inquiry they're trying to dig new containment lines and they're are holing a rare saturday trying to protect the session putting a top state structures. there are thousands of department official under oath structures at risk, and you can behind closed doors. republicans who have been inside see behind me what this damage say there's nothing new coming doe...

Burned wood, the second floor is gone. i have been in touch with the man who actually lives next door. he says this whole situation is devastating. >> heart-broken. i told her like everybody's saying your life is saved. you can always rebuild. >> reporter: the fire has burned 2600 achesers so far. more than 1300 firefighters are checking hot spots to make sure the fire doesn't spread any further. the governor declared a state of emergency to state resources can be provided as necessary. fire crews are concerned about the wind picking back up many tomorrow l. >> sunday evening we expect a prett...

Christina? >> reporter: well, that's right, arthel. the tick fire now 25% contained. you can see the damage it has caused here. this is one of 18 structures that was either damaged or destroyed by this fire. lots of people walking by here. it has been just heartbreaking for neighbors and the people, of course, who live here. as of now at least 1300 firefighters are working around the clock to make sure this fire doesn't spread any further. it's burned at least 4600 acres so far. at least 40,000 people were under mandatory evacuations for the fire, that evacuation has been lifted for about half...

Pg&e begins another blackout tonight. a new evacuation order could affect approximately 50,000 people. statstate of say they're tryingo prevent the devastating outsome of the wildfires that ravaged the wine country in 2017. >> sunday evening we expect a pretty significant santa ana cycle to move into the area again. so it's an incident priority for us right now to continue to shore you and reinforce our containment lines. >> reporter: now, as for the kincaid fire, pg&e admits a transmission power line medical functioned just -- malfunctioned just before the kincaid fire but the cause of the fi...

Embers pick them up. although today is not terribly windy. so firefighters were trying to build containment lines before the winds pick up tomorrow. but however, they are still at 5%. >> one thing that was technically noteworthy. you hear 2.5 million people possib possible could be without power this weekend. and there are 850,000 customers affected. they equate a customer with a household, and typically, there's three people in a household. you do the math, you can get up to 2.5 million people impacted by this. we haven't seen anything like this with voluntary shutoffs of power because of the...