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You're farther from the impact, it's more a rolling thunder as opposed to the jolting impact. francine finn is on the line. she is a resident of san diego. fran, i think you told me for you all it was more a rocking and rolling. hang on. fran, hold on. >> leland: we're getting an update from the kearn county fire. that's the county ridge crest is in. working two dozen incidents. medical assistance to structure fires in and around city of ridge crest. urban search and rescue teams are in route. one strike team in route. surveyists continue to look at safety of highways through the area canyons....

Immigration in europe this week. and those comments come ooze those reports continue to show, migrant parents struggling to reunite with their children here in the united states. i'm joined by democratic representative danger bass -i d think this is a story that very much deserves our continued focus. and congressman you were just down on the orderer, what did you see there, what is not under way, did you see the things you came to look for. i visited three centers with senator jigillibrand out of new york. we venn chured to brownsville and then to kearn county, there were lots of problems, yo...

With gusting winds. these intense flames are shooting up to 50 feet high, it led to the evacuation of about 2,000 homes in palmdale late yesterday. just one of several wildfires burning right now across the southern part of the state and officials say one of the fires tearing across kearn county was man-made. nbc's jena kim is live in palmdale, california following the latest developments there. what are officials saying about how close they are to getting this fire contained where you are? >> reporter: the fire right now is only 5% contained at 8,000 acres, so we still have a ways to go, but ...

All of this blackened earth, this is where the fire came through, quickly decisively, it forced hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes, but a bit of good news overnight, the wind did subside a little bit. so firefighters were able to make some progress in terms of fighting this fire, they say they are cautiously optimistic because there could be some stronger winds later on this afternoon. we're also monitoring a second fire in the northern part of kearn county, that fire has also caused several evacuations, also destroyed several structures there, you can hear the helicopters fly...