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I'm were the neighborhoods begin here, city of about 14,000 people did the good news is there's no wind. helicopters are back up, we can hear them in the distance, it's very smoky, ashes coming down like snowflakes right now i'm standing. seeing a lot of ground crews driving up there now to put the battle back on the ground as well. they're hoping it stays like this because if it does, those fields, those soldiers and other agricultural fields that are between where i'm standing with the neighborhood starts in those hillsides are natural fire break. so as long as the wind stays away, those fir...

U eucalyptus trees lined area but with the dry conditions seen here, ali, they're going up in a matter of seconds. one spark, they call it ember showers come down from the mountains from the thomas fire, reach down to the coast. incredible about the scope of this fire is that it's traveled ten full miles from the mountains that way all the way down to the pacific ocean. 90,000 acres over 1,000 personnel on the ground here and tens of thousands of people have evacuated. just hearing now from calfire, the statewide organization, the first fire-related fatality p. a woman in a vehicle accident. a...

Around 2:00 p.m. pacific time and by 10:00 tonight to be an extreme wind event tonight again. that's the thing we saw in northern california that can push an ember a mile or two and start a fire up in a different part of the hills or each in resz dental neighborhoods. so we are stretched out with everybody that we have in all of the neighboring cities helping out to make sure we can knock down the second fire that blew up here in l.a. today and continue to maintain our progress on the first. >> you mentioned bel-air, are those beautiful homes in bel-air burning right now, at least some of them...

Any part of rebuilding process in a community is the economy. what has happened to the wine economy in napa and you have the wine economy and it mixes with the tourism economy. will it be years before you come back or is there a silver lining to this to pull out of it? >> yeah, i always am looking for a silver lining. a lot of the vineyards were intact. the vineyards act as a fire break. in our estate, we lost almost nothing, a few vines here and there. so that is the fuel, if you will, for the future of the business. and napa valley, it's quiet right now, obviously. tourists are not here. but...

He puts the ofds conventional war right now at 50-50 and the odds of a nuclear war at 1 in 10. i think that's about right. except i'd put the odds of a nuclear war higher. i don't think there would be a fire break once we started firing at each other. nuclear security experts asia hands are freaked out today at what they see as this escalatory crisis. it got so bad that the experts at 38 north, one of the leading expert sites, had to do an editorial today saying take a deep breath. people are very worried about this crisis. it is, as one said, the closest we've come to a nuclear war since the ...