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>> for california being in four years of a severe drought all the fuels are tinder dry and burning very well. most of the firefighters in california are aware of this. they are paying attention to the conditions surrounding them. but sometimes, you know, like in david's case you get overrun by fire. and sometimes it is just something you unfortunately don't necessarily see. >> lynn thank you very much. and best of luck to all of those fighting the fires. thank you. i want to bring in dr. greg forbes from the weather channel who's been following the extreme weather patterns in california for ...

Journalist reporting up to his chest in floodwater. the u.n. says the floods have killed at least 27 people and they've displaced more than 150,000 others. this journalist doing his best to give the facts in a really difficult situation there. those numbers are expected to rise. myanmar, along with other parts of southeast asia saw about 15 centimeters of rain in the past 24 hours alone. at least 20 large wildfires are raging across the state of california. the rocky fire is one of the biggest, charring more than 11,000 hectares that's about 27,000 acres, of land. and it is just 5% contained. ...

Las vegas. sort of part of in a valley completely backed up. a fire -- wildfire jumped on the freeway and all these cars caught fire. at least five of them. we have been watching helicopters dropping fire retardant that has not succeeded in putting the fires out. you can see as we zoom in here people -- there are people walking all over because this is xhult commuting hour. they have been struggling to get emergency vehicles close. they have been trying to put the fire out with actual helicopters. they are dropping fire retardant. we will be going back there live in a moment so that we can tel...

Pretty horrific. >> yeah. we've had an unusual situation that we just walked up on a little while ago. over here you can see a couple of cars clearly that burned. the firefighters apparently had to take some time before they got to those to put those fires out. now the police have been moving down the street apparently sort of a street-sweeping operation. and we're moving with them, erin, as i talk to you. the fire is out. that's the good news. the question now is what are the police planning to do next. there are only a few people out here on the street. i don't see anybody who is confronting...

For putting these fires out. people call them bomb trains for a reason. that oil train derailment a few weeks ago was left to burn for days. as to what will happen tonight in northwest, illinois, let's go live to a local reporter to find out the latest news. joining us is kwqc's mark stevens. he is out in illinois right now as close as he can get. thank you for joining us, appreciate having you here. >> you're welcome. >> the latest thing i heard is that we heard that evacuations are under way in the local area tonight, have you heard anything about that? >> yes, there was a one-mile evacuatio...