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Happening. >> you would think it was a tropical storm. but it is a well defined area of low pressure draped across the sunshine state and bringing potential 8- 10 inches on top of the rainfall that they received over the last woke. this is the region we are watching carefully. tampa bay area, close to a foot of rainfall. flood advisory in place for the next 12- 24 hours and we have more rain in the forecast. not the inundating rain, but still to which of a good thing will cause issues, jenna, back to you. >> we'll talk about florida, but another story out west, jon? >> the fire situation, the ...

. well, this morning we are monitoring the developing fire situation in california. these wildfires are growing and strengthening all across the state. look at the map. at least 20 massive wildfires are burning across california. the rocky fire, which you're seeing video of here, is one of the biggest. it's now only 5% contained, already burned tens of thousands of acres and forced officials to enforce mandatory evacuations this morning. 9,000 firefighters have been battling this deadly fire. a thousand more than they had yesterday. as the governor of the state has now maintained this state ...

Sticks, bottles. >> now, in addition to the baltimore police national guardsmen are obviously here, as we mentioned. also anywhere between 500 and 1500 maryland state troopers are on their way in. heard you guys talking about the curfew. that goes into effect this evening. obviously, a lot of criticism not just in the guests you had on guys but also from people here within the city that this curfew was not instituted last night, instead, waiting for that curfew to now begin tonight. >> joe, we saw video of them throwing rocks, right, or throwing rocks at the firefighters. what steps are being ...

Right, and less we-- and les di this normal job. demonstrate, tell us about the pictures we'll see? >> just a demonstration of hour cumbersome it can be in an emergency situation, if you've got a smoke/fire situation, even a situation where you have a decompression. that would be the same mask in either case. and you have to communicate through that mask. with a switch on the control wheel, and go through a checklist and your vision is limited, as it would be very even more limiteded by, by smoke, visibility in the cockpit. it's something we don't practice very often. even in a simulator, beca...

Sleep. but my scenario is a smoul smouldering fire that created smoke and once that began the crew donned their oxygen masks. you can't totally see all of that smoke from breathing and you're going to get toxic fumes, depending on what is burning. so my scenario is they approached that point where it sounded like there was a normal situation. there may have been something on the screen that indicated a slight fault, maybe a shrug of the shoulder and then it started to progress if it was a fire situation. the captain realized it was compelling enough to get the airplane turned and entered a way...