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>> shepard: this is san jose, california, has a big fire burning. aircraft have been dumping retardant on the landscape. you can see a firefighter on the right-hand side of the screen trying to put water on a house that really appears to be a loss at this moment. we have seen some buildings torched around the area. firefighters working hard. updates throughout the news hour. a search is underway for a woman who disappeared while she was out camping. here she is. 60-year-old missing since frida friday. she was with her husband at a remote campsite near the nevada border with california. her hus...

>> yeah, shep. you can see what the woolsey fire is doing in the hills. burning holes right now. about 14,000 acres so far burned. a lot of people holding their breath worried their home is next. the winds will pick up and seemingly one area that seems safe doesn't become so safe anymore. a lot of residents, if you take a look, they're getting out of their cars trying to see if their home is next. we saw one man out here who had to be evacuated. he had his binoculars out, just trying to get a good idea if his home was safe. he was looking through the black flames to see if his home had been --...

The wind and fire behavior we have seen is just insane. this is a good example of where we are now. the hill above us is symptomatic or a good example of the steep hills they have in this area. this is where firefighters were dumping retardant in that area. it was burning on the other side of the hill and it started a fire down where we are. you should be able to see the ocean above montecito. the winds are incredibly calm. they have come to a stand still and all of that smoke is now just laying down basically throughout the area. i want to show you this fire that is spotted from over on that ...

It will continue to get worse where the gusts could be up to 40 to 45 miles an hour. which is dangerous, an understatement, for what the firefighters are facing up there. they say that this kind of wind can create a torchlike condition for the fires. it's very unpredictable just like the small winds that turned a small fire into the deadly blaze yesterday. the winds shifted the fire and it turned back on the firefighters who lost their lives. they're working very hard this morning to try and come up with containment of some of the lines. they're also doing aerial drops, dumping retardant. they...

The wind is picking up a little bit today. that's not good news. i should tell you we're at the base camp. this is where the 1200 firefighters meet every morning and they go up into the mountains to try to battle this thing. we've got a ton of resources, though. you have helicopters, you have the big dc-10 jumbo jet that's dumping retardant on these flames, trying to get this thing under control. as for the evacuation shelter, listen to one of the people we talked to just a short time ago. take a look at this. >> it's pretty scary. i think pre-evacuation wasn't bad but once evacuation came thr...