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Another blaze erupting and engulfing homes just east of los angeles. millions of on alert for powerful winds and other dangerous conditions that could spark new fires at any time. cnn's nick watt is joining us from san bernardino covering this breaking story for us. what are you seeing there on the ground? >> well, wolf, here in california, still more than 17 million people are under these high wind red flag warnings. that's not far off half of the population of this entire state. you mention new fires, too, popped up in this area. on this cul-de-sac, the fact only two homes were laufrkts that...

Of the hillside fire with more on condition there's today. tell me some of the stories you're hearing from folks there. >> reporter: the stories are absolutely heartbreaking. stories of people getting woken up in the middle of the night to flames and in some cases having to grab what they could and scramble to their lives. this is the aftermath of the hillside fire here in san bernardino. this family literally had minutes to get out when they actually did, and when you talk about the wind and extreme red flag warning, we've been under this, the potential for flames to break out and spread quic...

You can also see the ferocious santa ana wins fanning the flames there. you can see just how fast the smoke there is moving. of course this is making it challenging for firefighters who are trying to contain this and so many wildfires there. mandatory evacuations are under way. omar jiminez is live with the breaking details from san bernardino. omar? >> reporter: with that hillside fire that we have been seeing, the new one that's popped up in san bernardino. i mean, those images of literal homes on fire this morning are the exact images that bring so much fear to fire officials here. when you...

The week. as you can see, this hillside fire, the newest one, one of more than ten fires burning across the state of california wreaking havoc on southern california at the very least. with this one, the first reports of this fire in san bernardino came in two hours ago. it was described as a vegetation fire at that point. a literal hour later is when we got an update from officials saying this was now burning more than 200 acres to give you an idea of how quickly the fires are expanding here and they deployed four prepositioned strike teams to get in this and prevent it from expanding further...

Brian brian fox news alert now. brand new fires sparked overnight in california. ainsley: it is one of nearly a dozen wildfires raging across that state. steve: christina coleman is live in simi valley where flames narrowly missed the reagan presidential library yesterday. kristina, they came yards from it, right? >> that's right. just within 100 yards of this center very scary tense moments yesterday. the winds still moving strong in the simi valley, fortunately firefighters were able to keep the flames away from the reagan library. but, we are learning of a new fire that just began just a fe...