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On the tv and looking on the radar on the internet. it could save your life tonight. there could be severe weather. it's calming down as it usually does during the afternoon hours this is what didn't calm down today, this smoke. this is the fire, five fires new no colorado. they have burning acres and acres, thousands of acres in some spots well over 100 homes completely lost to the fires. the air is dry, trees are dry, many of the trees are dead. colorado pine beetle killed many of the trees. it hasn't rained in a couple years almost -- i know it has -- but what it needs to. that drought is p...

Snow. you will take a look at these colors, 10, 12 and 20. there are spots in the green or white mountains where we will see 20 inches of new snow. think about how much snow some of these places have had. now, i have friends who have a cabin in killington and they try to rent it out and there's been so little snow for so many years they're very happy there's no this year they can rent the cabins and skiers don't have to fly all the way to utah or colorado where there's snow. finally good news for people affected by irene and sandy and everything else, when you want to play in it, sometimes can...

>> reporter: for firefighters >> reporter: for fire fighters lugging heavy equipment -- so all this stuff adds up to how many pounds? >> about 45 pounds. >> reporter: working 16-hour shifts. the danger from heat stress is extreme. >> when it is really hot and when that's bearing down on you, you have got to be able to sweat enough and slow down adequately. >> reporter: they know it is critical to eat and drink a lot. >> now is not a time to diet. >> reporter: in 24 hours, fire fighters might eat up to 6,500 calories and drink 2.5 gallons of water. there are more hot temperatures and high winds...

Efficiency of solar cells outside, you have the sunlight available all the time. it is a very good location to have the laboratory. we're in front of what's called the rsf, or research support facility. this is going to be a zero energy office building. zero net energy means that over the course of the year we'll produce more energy than we actually take from the grid. the building itself is designed to be fairly thin in its wings and sections so that we can bounce daylight 30, 40 feet into the space. this is going to be the lead plat of the building. >> there are in ceilings in the offic offi...