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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110419:09:17:00

violence. zain? dozens of wildfires are still burning across the u.s. state of texas. as ed lavandera reports, there are things making it really hard for firefighters. >> reporter: dustin tidwell's mission is to keep the wildfires from smothering the small town of graham, texas. he's battling the flames just five miles from the edge of town. >> any second it could light right back up. >> reporter: what makes the wildfires hard to battle simply the terrain. little spots like this can flame up into flames 6 to 8 feet high in a matter of seconds. that's what just happened here a little while ago. >> yes. it shot back up. that's when we went out there and knocked it down. >> reporter: even though a lot of this has already burned, it can keep on burning, right? >> right, right. there's plenty of stuff here that can still start. >> reporter: hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate from this fire near graham.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110419:09:19:00

in flames. >> i thank god every day that we're alive. and this can be -- this can be rebuilt. but we can't be replaced. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, graham, texas. let's see how weather conditions are affecting the fires. jen delgado is over at the international weather center. how is it looking? >> last week we talked about the fire danger across parts of the u.s. as well as the severe weather threat. we're going to be dealing with that once again today. severe weather will be popping out but there's a fire danger for eastern new mexico as well as texas and even northern parts of mexico dealing with drought. today we see a front pushing through and ahead of that, winds gust up to 30 miles an hour, about 50 kph and with single digit relative humidity values, that fire danger will last, because do not have any significant rain in the forecast for parts of texas.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110419:09:18:00

it scorched more than 50,000 acres and willed one firefighter. this is one of several dozen major wildfires raging across the state, from the texas panhandle down to the state capital of austin. the state forest service called in four c-130 air force planes to drop fire suppressant on these fast-moving wildfires. the fires are fueled by low humidity, high temperatures and high wind which make it almost impossible to contain the flames. >> we talked to the national weather service. the winds are going so many directions. we've seen this fire shift four, five times in different directions over the course from when it started. >> reporter: for more, most of the 10,000 people who live in the town of graham are safe. but a few warn so the lucky. she and her husband had ten minutes to escape after flames jumped a nearby road and swarm their home. >> we watched it burn. >> reporter: they drove away to higher ground and could only stand and watch their home go up

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:18:35:00

don't get closer. the concern is the winds and whether or not they will pick up later on this afternoon and put the town in more danger. as of now, there is no plans to evacuate the town of graham, but if the winds pick up and change direction, it can complicate things here this afternoon, and there are a number of strike teams working on the ground and with aerial teams to fight the fire on the ground, but it is an extremely treacherous area here in texas, and the resources here to battle the flames in texas have been exhausted and quite tired. the crews that we are watching right here, and a couple of the volunteer firefighters are walking around me to spray a couple of the hot spots that we are seeing here in the fields outside of graham, texas, randi. >> that picture of those fires is something. all right. ed lavandara watching it for us, and we appreciate the update. now, "groeb trekkilobe treke

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:16:51:00

across the state. our cnn's ed lavendera is in north central texas. ed, i understand that you're heading towards an area that might be evacuated. give us a sense of how this state is doing in fighting all of these fires that have spread so quickly. >> reporter: well, governor rick perry today today the state doesn't have enough resources to keep up with the wildfires that are raging in some corners of this state. we are west of ft. worth, texas. heading toward a little town called graham. this is the sight of a bigger fire, 50,000 acres. this fire we're told is a mile wild and essentially several towns in the path of the fire have already been evacuated over the weekend. those towns are strong and the town we're heading to hasn't evacuated yet in graham but we understand there are dozens and dozens of strike teams on the edge of the town essentially kind of just playing defense, if

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:19:29:00

the droughts are worse than they have been there in nearly 100 years. and listen to this, the state forest service says that the battle will likely play out not weeks, but for months. a man is arrested now suspected of destroying eight homes in austin. ed lavandara has been out with this story all day and out with fire crews who are trying to beat back the flames in graham, texas, west of ft. worth. eddie eddie, in the e-mail you said you had just been out with the strike team, and talk to me about that. what did you see? >> reporter: well, we are outside of graham, texas, which is west of ft. worth, and a lot of the major roadways are blocked off by authorities as they kind of get into the wooded and rolling and rocky areas south of this town. to battle the flames that are coming dangerously close over the last few days to this town. several towns south of where we are have been evacuated and we

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:22:05:00

prepare for. >> reporter: residents found themselves at a disadvantage. very few people here have basements or storm shelters. as you can see when they are in the direct path there was very little safety to be found. >> thank you, david. a different kind of natural disaster in texas where dozens of large wild fires are raging now out of control. officials say they have never seen anything like this. a perfect storm of dry weather that could have continue for days. ed is in texas and ed, what are we seeing? what are we watching here? >> well, we're near the town of graham, which is west of forth worth on the northern edge of one of the biggest wild fires. 50,000 acres have beurned, forcing hundreds to evacuate.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110418:17:05:00

tornadoes that are spawned out of hurricanes so the preparation has taken place did you a storm of this magnitude being out of a thunderstorm, no. >> reporter: when this storm hit people all over the county found themselves at a terrible disadvantage in prying to protect themselves. that's because they are close to sea level here. almost no one has a base many or a storm shelter. they weren't able to seek refuge underground. they had to ride this storm out in their houses. you can see how well they held up. randi? >> thank you, david. here's how big the wildfire problem is in texas. the state has 252 counties. 252 of them are affected by fire. cnn's ed lavendera is making his way toward graham, texas, just west of ft. worth. i've got him own the phone. ed, what's it like? >> reporter: the fighters here in texas kind of are low-rolling, staying very close to the ground because it is hard to see the flames.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110414:15:25:00

so that's the construct that the group of six is working on. jenna: if that's the graham work then what is the timeline? when will we actually see a real solid proposal? >> well, if we are able to reach conclusion, we operate under the principle nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. and not everything is agreed to at this point, so we still have work to do, but after this break i think that's the time that it will be important to layout a plan, if this group is to be relevant. jenna: you mentioned a little bit of a break that is coming up on friday. it sounds like everyone could use a breather at this point when it comes to talking about the budget and the debt. there have been some reports that you have been frustrated within the group and that the group is not working well together at this point. what can you tell us about that? >> no, that's not the case at

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110413:00:19:00

co-sponsored a bill that would have established a cap-and-trade system. he reintroduced similar versions to the senate in 2005 and 2007, and then he ran for president and ditched those efforts. another republican picked up the slack in 2009. >> i am no scientist, but i've traveled throughout the world with senator mccain and others and seen the effects of a warming planet, and i do believe all of the cars we have on the road and the trucks and all the energy we use, the production of carbon daley is not a good thing for the plan. >> february 2010 senator graham declared, quote, cap and trade is dead because somewhere along the way republicans decided that climate change was all an enormous hoax, but republicans didn't just have to kill cap and trade, you see. now they want to target the agent stay could do anything about climate change, the environmental protection agency. in the 2011 budget bill the epa's budget is cut by 1.6 billion, a 16% decrease from

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