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They evacuated us over here that they usually have for the naval reserves. we're waiting for the smoke to clear so we can hopefully go back home. hopefully tomorrow around 6:00 p.m., that's the word we got. we're just waiting. >> what were the conditions like before you left? >> they were pretty bad. actually, everywhere there was thick smoke. hard to breathe. but the firemen came in and took care of it and 208d us to hurry up and evacuate and get out of here. and gave us the direction to go. >> and sergeant, one thing we've heard from a lot of people is that typically this is the sort of fire...

Causing -- are flaring up causing major damage in the west. they are trying to make some headway in california. hundreds of structures remain vulnerable. dan springer has been covering this for us. he's in red bluff, california. dan, how is it going? >> reporter: some good news to report from northern california. crews have it at 8% containment. but i think it's even higher than that. but they are definitely getting the upper hand. what a relief for the hundreds of people who have been driven from their homes by the flames. we see very little fire activity. the 2,500 firefighters have done a g...

Running very intensely. >> reporter: so intense, 1,900 firefighters are battling the fire from the ground and the air. at least seven homes have been destroyed. >> this must have been the closet. >> reporter: including the prichard family ranch. >> good, good friend. it hurts us. >> reporter: the fire one of dozens still burning throughout the west. most of the fire activity now in idaho and california. cal fire crews are working nonstop to save the 3,000 homes still threatened by the ponderosa fire. >> i pray every night it is not going to take my home. >> reporter: firefighters say the key t...

citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation's capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn's brian todd is there. >> fredricka, temper...

Look at the size of the root ball. i haveç covered a lot of storm. this is about a 12-foot root ball. more importantly, it took down the power lines, transformers, normally aren't that color. a light gray, so there was some kind of fire activity around the transformers, and follow the power lines down the street and another power pole that came down, not so much from the wind, but because it was dragged down as the weight of this big tree put its force on these power lines and it's down there. some of the homes still without power. and a big problem with the cleanup is pepco has told the fir...