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Threatened the area around it. i want to talk more about this. let s go straight to karen maginnis standing by at the cnn world weather center. if you could give us an update, particularly for viewers watching now in california? yes. it has been devastating because the fire seasons now start earlier, the fires are more intense, and it consumes so much land. one of them is the dixie fire that we ve been watching since the middle of july. they still are uncertain as to what may have caused it. but across the west, primarily, 73 large, active fires that extend all the way into the central rockies. for the most part, it is the western states that have been hit so hard. the largest fire is this dixie fire. this is about a three-hour drive from san francisco. it has consumed just under 1 million acres. yellowstone national park is about 2 million acres, so that ....
Crazy folks will hop out and bike 25 miles and if they re still walking, they will get up and going to run another six miles. i don t know what s wrong with these folks. but this is a great thing, what we have is a fit nation crew of people at cnn led by dr. sanjay gupta and viewers who submitted and they were submitted and applied and we picked them and they were going to hop in and be a part of this, our group actually has white caps and they ll be up there in a second. if you see white caps that s the cnn crew. the white ones is part of our cnn crew, some viewers who wanted to take the challenge, training for months and months and getting started. sanjay should be in that group somewhere. i don t see any swimmer with a lab coat on. he s in there somewhere. good luck to him and the rest of our viewers and everyone a part of the fit nation challenge this morning getting under way. i want to turn to minnesota some severe weather you were talking about this, karen ....
Maginnis standing next to me, our meteorologist, a possible tornado, a chance of tough weather coming but it came, the hail was coming down, some people reported, this sounds crazy to me, grapefruit-sized hail. that s a rare one. baseball-sized hail is we get that every now and again. we do. do we confirm, know if there was a tornado? we certainly saw the hail. i think they did have a tornado watch that was issued so it wouldn t be unlikely. they have to go out and do the surveys and see what kind of damage has been done there, but wow, that will really ruin your day right there, your car, your house, your roof. those are the reports we are gating, a lot of cars and homes damaged, no reports of injuries here. that s the good news. is this done doing what it s going to do? minnesota yesterday was ground zero, they were in the thick of everything bad that was supposed to happen yesterday. ....