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I'm fredricka whitfield. and you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm pamela brown filling in for don lemon. great have you with us on this saturday. we turn first to idaho where more than 2,000 people have been forced from their homes by a raging wildfire near the sun valley resort. just take a look at these flames here whipped by high winds there today, and there is a new mandatory evacuation order for folks in the towns of ketchum and haley. the sheriff office put it this way, take your belongings and go now. the wildfire already scorched 64,000 acres at least. more than 600 firefighters are try...

The permanent employees are not at the fire line and the seasonal employees are not 20 feet back or 20 yards back. for them to be receiving the different treatment afterwards, it's completely wrong. and like i said, we obviously now see that this tragedy has brought up this deficiency. so there needs to be somebody, it needs to be fixed. martha: makes an interesting point. i meant 40 hours a week there. city of prescott said it is illegal to give full-time benefits to families of part-time workers. they say it would cost taxpayers $50 million. bill: really feel for those families. want to ge...

Days. i want to bring chad meyers and talk about do they anticipate they'll get this. will they be able to control this kind of thing in. >> it's going to be a problem. you can see the wind blowing smoke over the top of some of these hills. this is the wind they had yesterday gusting to 30 miles per hour. when you get a wind gust that's high you can get the winds to pick up an ember and throw them miles down wind. when you think you have a fire line and all of a sudden two minutes later you don't. look at the wind gusts, 30, 28, 26 miles per hour. it's still gusty this afternoon. 78 degrees ri...

But, basically, most all the highways close to the river are totally closed. >> everything is totally closed. do you have any indication of when they can come back up so you can help these people? >> really can't. we have to wait for their water to go down. >> yeah. all right, thanks very much, mr. ramsey. we wish you all the very best and we'll be thinking about you and from too much rain to not enough. a drought in the western states prompting concerns of a record-breaking fire season. today we are following a fast-moving wildfire raging across southern california. it has grown to 6,000 acre...

Thunderstorms are possible out of it. where we get the downpours is when you talk about heavy rain and threat of flooding out there, urban flooding. there's areas we don't see much at all but a mixed bag in the northeast. >> thanks, indra. if it's not floods in one place it's wildfires in another. this morning a fast moving fire in southern california is completely out of control. 450 firefighters working the silver fire, so far to little effect. the fire now covering more than 6,000 acres. stephanie elam is in banning, california, the focus of the fire fight right now. stephanie, i've been ...