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Paul verkimmen is live for me in newbury park. paul, these are stunning pictures. tell me what you know. reporter: well, let s just talk about what we can see right now, brooke. what i do know, it s more than 2,000 acres have been burnt. so far, they say that no houses have burned, but this is an absolute pitch battle unfolding in front of us right now as they try to save this upscale neighborhood. this is called palermo estates in newbury park. firefighters have gone down the streets, and there s flames on both sides of the street. you can see the houses right here are threatened. all of these houses have composite roofs, not wood shake. in another era, you would see spot fires catch wood shake roofs and skip along. so far, no houses burning in this area. we understand that three rvs burned on the other side of this hill in some sort of storage ....
You re going to be okay. so, it s replicated in neighborhood after neighborhood like this where you see fire ringing, but ringing in the neighborhood, but so far, i have not seen any of these upscale million to $2 million homes burn down, brooke. okay, paul, thank you so much there in southern california watching the smoke, the flames, as these wildfires continue to burn. i appreciate it. as i said, i m here in boston with special coverage here of what we know in the wake of the boston bombings and the investigation. a huge development for officials here. remember we talked about this laptop that the fbi was looking for belonging to dzhokhar tsarnaev? well, they found it. although we re not quite sure yet where they found this computer, we do know it was not at that landfill where we saw those investigators searching and searching, but this is the laptop his college buddies are accused of throwing away, along with dzhokhar s backpack stuffed with fireworks, vaseline, even a ....
There is very little containment. haven t lost a lot of structures, but there s very little containment, and when that happens, you know, homes do get in the way, brooke. okay. chad, thank you. that is, wow, the fire going down both sides of the hill. paul, i had one more quick, quick question, and that is as we re looking at these homes perched so precariously closely to the smoke, what are they being told, to stay put or get out? many of these people have been told to get out, and many of them have done so voluntarily. let me go ahead and talk to one of the neighbors. carroll benson, if you can come in, please. your house is one street over from here. what did authorities tell you in terms of evacuation? initially, they told us just to prepare, get whatever we wanted into the cars, get the cars out of the garage so the embers can t get in the garage, so that s what we did, but once the fire was evident at the very top of the street and it was threatening the two homes at the to ....
The east/northeast at 38, gusting to 47. when you get gusts to blow sparks and embers downwind like that, you will get fire downwind, and that s what s happening here. let me go to my map and show the viewers at home where this is. here s l.a., there is the fire. there is oxnard, right in here, we talked about these rvs, there they were, more than three were burning. look how steep this property is, how steep this land is here. the fire came down this side of the hill. that means it s on the other side, too. on the other side is where our paul is, and there are an awful lot more homes and structures in trouble here. all of this wild land here. some eucalyptus around the homes, as well. and if we pull out, notice how many homes are involved here. this entire hillside on fire, and the wind blowing it toward the southeast and towards the southwest down towards they are mentioning they may have to eventually close pch today because this fire could make it all the way to the ocean. ....
Least a mile and a half that way there s flame just burning in the countryside towards the pacific ocean. obviously, firefighters are going to let that burn, because you ve got some natural breaks, but right now, the pitch battle is here in these neighborhoods in the newbury park area, and so far, so good. paul, do me a favor, and i hope you re a photo journalist can hear me, i want you to keep the camera on the flames, keep it on the smoke, as i bring in, paul, don t go anywhere, we have a lot of questions. let me bring in chad myers, who s also standing by in the studio. help me understand the lay of the land, how massive this area is that paul s been showing us. we now think the fire spread seven miles from the southeast back over towards the malibu hills, and it s going to be running down towards point magu. a very long fire line, because the winds have been blowing from ....