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Bracing for a blaze. the trinity ridge fire, just 4% contained. >> contact is still inevitable, it is going to get here. >> reporter: residents could only listen as officials try to prepare them. >> it makes you absolutely want to cry. >> reporter: even idaho's governor preparing to evacuate his vacation home. >> i'm going to leave when they ask me to leave. i hope everybody else will too. >> reporter: already one death and 14 injuries, fighting fires in idaho. these pictures taken at the state spring fire, show just how intense the fight is on the front lines. as temperatures across the regio...

And bridges, if you have a business you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. the internet didn't get create on its own. government research kraoe a*eutd thcreated the internet so all the businesses could make money off of that. the point is we success because we do things together. there are some things just like fighting fires we don't do on our own. imagine if everybody had their own fire service. that would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. martha: all right there is the comment that has got even so much attention. i'm joined now with the president's response from his ...

emily, this hasn't been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven't been able to operate. >> reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven't been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to...

Looking at some of the weather conditions in that part of the country. when you look at this, paul, this is a fire that was 6,000 acres on monday. what's the status you're seeing right now of that fire? >> well, currently the fire is a little over 7,000 acres. it's 50% contained. and actually we were very fortunate yesterday. we had a little precipitation in that area, and so control is being looked at to be effective probably tomorrow evening. >> what about wind conditions? that's tallas other criterion that you follow. >> we do. the downdrafts from the summer storms are the biggest concerns ...

while the air force investigates the deadly crash of an eighth plane. one of these based in charlotte, north carolina. we expect to learn more in a news conference this afternoon. we know that four of the six crew members were killed, including this man, lieutenant colonel mike mckiel who spoke to one of our affiliates on saturday. lizzie o'leary with the latest out of washington. what's the latest? >> reporter: latest is that they are investigating the cause of this crash while the other c-130s are grounded, grounded by the air force right now, and that essentially really diminishes...