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Hundreds of firefighters are battling fires across california right now. mandatory evacuations are being ordered, and folks there will also be looking at record-breaking heat, a heat wave coming in that could make conditions even worse. the opposite of what they need right now. cnn's dan simon is in yellow count we fire crews and joins me now. what are you seeing and hear there today, dan? >> reporter: hi, kate this. fan known as the sand fire is the first big one to hit northern california this year. right now it's had about 2,200 acres. it did not grow overnight, so that is the good news. it...

>> kate, it seems that much of what they agreed to with mexico last week was a caught iodifyin many of the agreements they have been working on for several months. in many cases, the timeline was sped up, but in at least one case, for example, the mexicans agreed to keep asylum seekers in mexico while they wait for their cases to by adjudicated, that was announced by kirstjen nielsen months ago, and mexico had agreed to deploy their national guard troops to stop these migrants as they were making their way up from central america to the u.s. southern border, also a deal worked out months ago, ...

Investigation. >> behind the scenes the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler has supported launching an impeachment inquiry. he's actually made the case to nancy pelosi. that would centralize everything before his committee, the house judiciary committee. now, one member who is not on that committee ro khanna says that doesn't make a lot of sense siding with pelosi. >> why not an impeachment inquiry to begin the investigation? >> well, i think we already have six committees that are doing incredible work. if you begin an inquiry, then you limit it to just the judiciary committee. i ...

When trump announced the tariffs opmexico, they came out and said this is the wrong decision. we're going to explore legal options. trump did not like that. now he's trying to say hey, the u.s. chamber of commerce isn't sticking up for the little guy. >> when you just said that, that reminded me the pressuring them into silence. that's exactly how farmers, i spoke to a farmer in iowa who said the exact same thing when trump was saying about the china tariffs, that the farmers are patriots, so they can handle it. that's exactly what one of the farmers said, that's him trying to pressure us to s...

Know, ever been mixed up in anything? i haven't seen anything. >> no, nothing. he's someone who has been revered, and there's never been any taint in terms of links to criminals or anything like that. that would suggest that maybe there's a piece of the story we don't know yet. this was, assuming it was an intentional act, there must be an element to the story, whether it's some personal issue, we'll find out. >> we sure will. michael, thank you for coming on. i really appreciate it. thanks so much. >> thank you, kate. >> still ahead for us, president trump says he got everything he wanted fro...