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>> just -- we don't know. with the fire, i don't know, i could see the whole structure was on fire. >> reporter: dry brush, high temperatures and those whipping santa ana winds gusting at over 50 miles per hour, pushing the fire forward, those flames jumping a major freeway overnight. 10,000 structures endangered, 40,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders. >> we ask that people pay attention to the evacuations. it is mandatory. >> reporter: many not knowing what they might return to. >> what they usually suggest they recommend you do, like horses and livestock, just open gates and let th...

In our national lead, 100,000 californians have been told to evacuate. 23,000 homes are threatened. and the saddleridge fire in california is right now just 13% contained. it is tearing through neighborhoods in northern los angeles, so far one person has died due to a cardiac arrest. cnn's nick watt joins me live to report on this. nick, are we hearing any good news from officials? >> reporter: well, jake, i don't mean this to sound callous but the best news i've heard so far today is only about 25 homes have been destroyed and i say that because when we arrived at 2:30 this morning and watche...

Ashes after the fire's already burned through, right? but if alternatively you can bankrupt these organizations that spread and advance this ideology, if you can cripple their ability to receive funds, to own assets, to have headquarters buildings to pay their bills to pay for postage, what it is they need to do in the real world to organize and incite and encourage further attacks, well, that's more proactive, right? that's, you know, getting the matches wet, right? that's clearing out the dry brush. that's stopping or mitigating the impact of the next fire they might try to set. one of the m...

Ongoing gathering place for neo nazis for years. ultimately after one of these cases, that land itself was awarded to the family that was attacked by that skinhead. the family then sold it to a guy who put up sort of a museum of tolerance on the site. which must have delighted the aryan skinhead guys who had been using it as their camp in the woods for years. that was 2000 and 2001, another one of these cases that made national news at the time that put a real spotlight on that hallmark tactic in fighting at least that era of white nationalists, white supremacist, white terrorism in the united...

Matches wet, right? that's clearing out the dry brush. that's stopping or mitigating the impact of the next fire they might try to set. one of the most famous of these cases resulted in the i think very satisfying outcome of this aryan nations compound in northern idaho, in hayden lake, idaho, not only being seized from aryan nations after some skinheads from that group beat and shot at a couple of random passers by one night in idaho in 1988. that land which was an an ongoing gathering place for neo nazis for years. ultimately after one of these cases, that land itself was awarded to the fami...