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Community that endured so much. harris, back to you. >> will carr, thank you very much. speaking of fighting fires, 100 firefighters battling a massive fire here, fast moving flames are forcing dozens to leave their homes. we will tell you what happens here. and the americans held hostage in iran for 444 days are now speaking out in a decade long effort to get justice. what they now want from their former captors, and how a new senate bill could finally be the answer they've been looking for. this is sergeant nicholas source. want to wish my father happy father's day. as your life change...

And stop them from getting bigger, nowhere near any roads and sometimes quite a distance from any civilization. smoke jumpers court disaster every day they are on the job. >> when you talk to people you know, not close family, you tell them what you do, what do they say to you? >> they think i should get my head examined. >> reporter: part of the reason for that is how they get to the fires. >> firefighters is not an occupation for the timid. they don't just fight fires. they sky dive into potentially deadly combustion wilderness. >> reporter: we watched them jump into this canyon in colorado....

>> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the ...

Firefighters. >> right, correct. >> reporter: doesn't it feel a little ironic that your parents' house has burned down like this? >> it does. it does. it is surreal, i would say is a good word for it. i spent so much -- after i retired, my last four years, i helped my dad clean up this place. and a lot of cleanup. we had hundreds of trees down in there that we cleaned up. so it is -- it hurts. little bit. >> and he was a firefighter. father was a firefighter. brother was a firefighter. nephews, the entire family, sister was married to a firefighter. the entire family all involved in fighting f...

For republicans, i'm afraid, at the national level too. if their job is just to please the chamber of commerce, and that's just the national chamber of commerce, then they're doing a great, great job. but actually, maybe they also have responsibilities to voters who want health care that's affordable, who actually can buy the guns or whatever they want to do, and then vote for republicans. there are republicans who want to be safe when they're out fighting fires. >> alex wagner, i can only hope there is as much investigative energy of this case in texas as there is in boston for the tragedy th...