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Looks like some of those evacuations may start to ease as things are starting to look better up there. those winds still an issue, but not like they are down here. this is the issue with all of these fires and the concern about these winds, is the fact that if something is still burning and it catches on the wind and it flies for a great distance and starts another fire, we are up on a fire line just across the tree from some homes in simi valley earlier today. and watching them fight this fire with the helicopters dropping some 26,000 gallons with each drop, fighting this with the firefighter...

Through it we'll see something very strong right there right here and drove right up to the fire line those extreme wind events we can pick up and transfer the fire miles away sometimes and there was embers blowing right across the street into these houses. also coming up in the eastern ukraine soldiers are entrenched in a conflict with russian backed separatists after 5 years of fighting can both sides be asked to trust each other. yeah that's right i'm against withdrawing from here it was mean leaving this village unprotected things would just go back to how they were before the ukrainian ar...

The reagan library staff built this natural buffer by taking out all that brush that leads up to the library so that the natural fire line against the flames that come up there. bottom line here, you look at the library and it's got air force one come it's got the marine one helicopter, piece of the berlin wall, thousands of very valuable artifacts, there is fire close to it but the building in the library itself for all intents and purposes appears to be very safe right now. spew and that's very good news. thank you trace gallagher. right now house lawmakers are getting a briefing on syria an...

And start other homes on fire. to that end we just saw the governor of california gavin newsom just here touring what it looks like here in the middle of the getty fire where the homes were lost on this street. he was accompanied by the mayor of los angeles eric garcetti to see what it looks like here. they want people to evacuate and i spoke to a man who lived in this neighborhood since 1967 and said he did leave and woke up because he smelled the smoke and got up to the fire line and decided the winds were in his favor and decided to stay but when i talked to him today he was going to leave,...

The beautiful santa rosa, we can see behind you that it's tough there now. claudia? >> wright, harris. we are at the command center here in santa rosa where firefighters say this is perhaps the most critical date yet as they raced to get the upper hand before strong, gusty winds kick back up in a matter of hours. >> today is our window of opportunity to really get some strong containment lines out on this fire line. we are 4500 firefighters from across the western u.s. working 24-hour shifts to really ensure that we get some solid containment on this fire before we see those winds returned ton...