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Residential areas or is it moving more into i guess more towards the mohave desert area? >> a little bit of both. there are still about 150 homes near the community of tehachapi that are threatened. unfortunately last night 25 homes were destroyed, so obviously with such a fast moving wild fire yesterday it was able to do that. again, progress is being made, but, again conditions here very dry. jenna: i always have to ask about the brave men and women who are fighting these flames. any injuries, is everyone doing all right out there? >> so far no injuries. oftentimes obviously wildfires are a ...

Minimum tax. listen to this: >> the alternative minimum tax is sort of a surreal alternative universe where some people have to calculate their taxes two different ways and pay the bottom the greater of the two amounts. now, the decades-old taxes originally against millionaires but were not indexed for inflation so more and more get hit in 2009, 6 million subject to the amt but congress has to fix it or that number soars to 27 million this year, an as i said, one of every three couples would be hit. so congress has its work cut out for it to keep every single american from paying more taxes. j...

In pakistan as a jet carrying 152 people slams into a hillside outside the capitol city, the crash kills everyone on board, including two americans. joining us on the phone from islamabad, sid kaife: do we have an idea what caused it? >> reporter: jon, that's the first thing to came to mind, that this may have been a terrorist attack, that's what may have brought down this plane, however, the role of terrorism has been ruled out in this crash, the interior minister did confirm there are no surveyors from the air passenger plane crash, and over 100 bodies have been recovered from the crash site...

Efforts. while many rank-and-file democrats say that is morey lated to the president's 2012 re-election campaign because all that date a all that grass roots building will probably be just as valuable if not more valuable to him in 2012 as it will be to the rank-and-file democrats seeking re-election in 2010. jon: major garrett at the white house for us. thanks, major. >> reporter: thanks, jon. jenna: few fast moving wildfires raging in southern california destroying dozens of homes there with 150 more right in the line of the fire. police in the area now forced toee evacuate witness as crews ...

Last night was a donor maintenance event thanking them for kr-pbting -- contributing to the campaign and the democratic national committee throughout the first 18 months of the obama presidency. today he has two separate events in new york. it's off to atlanta, chicago, boston and dallas, nine events in six different cities. most of those events are for the democratic national committee, jon. jon: if the money goes to the democratic national committee, what about individual candidates? they probably have their hands out too, right. >> reporter: everyone has hands out particularly in a difficul...