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good evening. i'm lester holt, in tonight for brian. the massive wildfire that has now driven thousands from their homes in arizona is threatening parts of new mexico tonight, and even more of the country is beginning to feel its effects. now the second largest fire in arizona history, it's already burned close to 500 square miles. 2,500 firefighters from as far away as new york are trying to contain it. but there is no containing the smoke that has triggered air quality alerts and spread a thick haze as far away as iowa. here now live, the dramatic backdrop from springerville, arizo...

officials say the leading edge of a mass ink oil spill will reach land later tonight. the white house says every resource will be used to try to protect the region's wildlife a second coal miner died at a i kye mine with a long history of safety violations charlie crist makes it official telling a crowd of supporters he is abandoning the republican senate primary to run as an independent. arizona police officer and a latino group filed the first legal challenges to the state's controversial new immigration law. meanwhile, democrats have unveiled what they call a framework for a...

senate republican leadership that he'll vote for mitch mcconnell for leader? >> i don't know. >> you called him a republican, how do you know he's going to be a republican in the senate or be an independent who sits on the republican side and votes with them on the big issues, how do you know that? >> what i do know is that the governor has put indicationings out earlier today, that he's going to move to the independent side. what i know right now is that his picture hangs at the republican party in florida. that he's the head of the republican party. because he's the republican gove...