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>> the boehner is -- >> you've got to be careful there. >> boehner is. the speaker. he is actually -- all he has to do is care about the republican challenge he's going to face in the primaries and the people who put him there. the problem is there's going to be a deal. at this point he doesn't have to deal but there will be a deal. whether it's three weeks from now or now. >> where's the conception that there will be a deal? because strikes always end? >> yes, they do. and governments reopen after a shutdown. there will be a deal and that deal is not going to be $100 billion. >> do you agree ...

Yesterday in many, many spots. here are some pictures of what it looked like. we had a couple of affiliates up over these fires and they were literally jumping from one side of the street to the other. even though you think sometimes a street can be a good fire break, not with winds gusting to 40. picking up ash and those ashes and sparks would jump right over. there was no chance these firefighters could get ahold of them. people were literally taking buckets, bucket from their pool and carrying the buckets over and splashing the water onto these things on fire near their home. not every stru...

Now, do you want to see the results? as a result, camden laid off 46% of their police force. that's 167 cops. they also laid off 60 firefighters at the end of last month. the result? the "cherry hill currier post" reports the number of shootings has doubled over the last year. doubled. and other violent crimes have also gone up. one local camden woman said, quote, people are already getting jumped left and right because criminals know they can get away with it. >> now across the river in philadelphia, the consequence of budget cuts might being whe havn more dire consequences. a fire break out ...

Fire trucks continuing to do what they call structure protection, just stand by the homes and keeping an eye out on hot spots to make sure that when in fact the winds start to pick up later on this afternoon, it doesn't stir up the hot spots and low embers over containment lines. that did happen yesterday when flames jumped the california aqueduct. the concrete channel was acting as a natural fire break and again, the winds picked up and they jumped over it for a time and able to knock it down quickly and fire crews want to make sure that that kind of thing didn't happen today. >> one lady sai...

Around, that's a recipe for disaster. have they said what the cause is of this? >> well, i can barely hear what you are saying. i think you were asking me about the battle plan. and these hot winds are the big concern out here. really what crews are doing is they are trying to complete their containment lines and make sure that hot embers don't blow over. that happened yesterday when the fire jumped the california aqueduct, a concrete channel, acting as a natural fire break. but when the gusts reached up to 50 miles per hour yesterday, embers did jump the line and firefighters really had to ju...