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Winds are helping crews battle flames that have burned 1.2 million acres nearly 150 homes destroyed west of the dallas-ft. worth area. in a disaster claergs declaratie has spent an estimated $70 million in fighting fires. officials have evacuated the city of palo pinto. a volunteer firefight who are died fighting has been laid to rest. calling for drastic budget cuts to reduce the federal deficit a new poll finds members of the tea party are against cutting federal entitlement programs. look at numbers from the new mcclatchy/maris poll. 70% of tea partiers oppose cutting medicare and medicai...

Eight minutes past the hour from cnn sunday morning. a lot of people, chad myers, are relieves that the temperature is starting to warm up. we're getting into springtime, but this is often what we get. >> when you get a big south wind, you can bring up humidity, which in the desert can bring up try, dusty area and you can make fires. albuquerque, wind warnings, 70 miles per hour, to kansas. any fire that gets started today could literally be out of control in just minutes. when you have wind going 50 or 60 miles per hour, the embers just fly around. and that's what's going to happen today, fro...

Compares to kherb r-r. can you give us a perspective chernoble. >> reporter: there was only one reactor that went into total melt town. here there are two reactors that have partially melted down. if they go to full meltdown the scale of disaster is much, much bigger, twice as large as it was in chernoble. they are trying to keep the fuel rods cool as possible, currently reaching about 700 degrees fahrenheit, much higher than they are actually made or the containment unit around the rods are actually built to contain, which suggests if they can't prevent the water from boiling over we will get...

Lives. >> and we're told that there are members of the japanese defense forces amongst the workers. it is not clear how many are military personnel. i guess they are rotating them through. trying to, even though it means more people being exposed, they try to have them exposed for shorter period of times of time. >> that's right. let me say, at the outset and you probably noticed this last night, this is a very difficult subject for me. i get emotional and angry when i think of the situation that they are in that they are left to deal with all of this on their own and under tremendous difficul...

That in 15 minutes. a wild ride for the crew of an airtanker that had been fighting fires in northern colorado. the plane was trying to land at an airport when apparently the hydraulics failed. that means the brakes wouldn't stop the thing. the plane wound up overshooting the runway, crashing through a fence, drops down a hill, and eventually comes to stop on a major road in the denver area. fortunately all on board and everyone on the ground is okay. a crane and a flatbed truck had to be called in to move the airtanker back on to the airport property. a seattle police officer gets caught on...