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Newbury park area on the other side of this large hill to the south. the winds shifted dramatically, wolf. they say the winds are blowing about 25 miles an hour. but there are no -- there's no doubt that some of these gusts are even more than that. and that's what fanned these flames so quickly. so now this other flank has become extremely active and there's a fierce fire fight. this is called the lo siento neighborhood. there are mandatory evacuations, people are gathering their belongings and head on out. you can see go around the neighborhoods setting up what's called structure protection, ...

Civilian world. and that's, that is huge, huge to me. >> reporter: joe has a baby boy on the way. he is going to school full time and hopes to open a guitar store when he graduates, uma. uma: that is good news. a success story indeed. thank you very much, rick. jon: great story there. crews are making progress against a massive wildfire in northern california. dozens of homes already gone. hundreds more still in danger. we'll get you very latest from the fire lines next. plus the obama campaign take as no-holds-barred approach to congressman ryan's medicare plan but how do the attacks match up...

emily, this hasn't been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven't been able to operate. >> reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven't been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to...

you're in "the situation room." another weak jobs report is raising new concerns about the pace of an already sluggish economic recovery. only 80,000 jobs were added in the month of june, significantly fewer than economists were certainly hoping for. the unemployment rate is holding at 8.2%. it all comes as president obama's trying to kick his campaign into a higher gear with a major bus tour through some critical battleground states. >> it's still tough out there. you know, we learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month. and that, overall means that...

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