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America gets to know tom steyer, the more they'll like him. >> we recognize that yours is a biased opinion. >> i agree, i agree, but i think it's a well informed biased opinion. >> thank you so much. thank you, thank you. we should also note, you have a place near sonoma and we are keeping a very close eye on those wildfires that are raging in that part of california. nbc's miguel almaguer has made his way to simi valley in california. what are you seeing, buddy? >> reporter: craig, we're in the middle of a firefight. we're just on the edge of this blaze. it's out of control and being whipped ...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. you're in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i'm fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana's biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that's what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn't been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps...

If you look over on this side, you'll see the green hillside, that's the levee, it's built to 75 feet. the crest expected here monday, 65 feet. so well below that. if you're on the other side of the flood protection system here, you're in very good shape. if you're not, though, you're in very bad shape. take a look. this is one of the casinos that dots the coast here. you can see along the waterfront that that building has been heavily flooded. we took another tour yesterday up what's called lower ferguson lake road. normally that's a drive and a quite beautiful one. now you can't get to it by...