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I want to point this out to you again. the car fire only 5% contained. that s about 125 square miles, city of kansas city.ize of the - and we can see that smoke stretching for a long way. a scene from the visible satellite. you see the plume and how much of the sky it covers. that was yesterday. i m going to show you what s goinging on today. pretty much the same story as the plume moves through. the other challenge is these fires are are creating their own weather patterns. you probably saw the dramatic pictures of the firenado. i want to break down how that is occurring. you have the heat from the fire. that allows temperatures to rise very quickly and the air rushes in where the fire is occurring. and what will develop is what we call a firenado. basically a tornado made of fire and just like a tornado spreads debris around, the firenado does ....
We are looking at a big plume of moisture out here. even if it does become a tropical depression or storm the big concern with the system is the rain fall associated with it. we have been seeing rounds of heavy rain across parts of the florida panhandle and other areas in the east. you can see the radar precipitation totals we are talking about locally three or four inches across the handle, southern parts of alabama and into the new orleans area. we had severe weather out there over the weekend and that say forecasted to continue as the plume moves northward. it is some welcome news in parts of the panhandle, alabama and into georgia because we have dry and drought cessionditions in s cases. when you get too much rain, even though good news, you will get the threat of flash flooding. we have a number of watches ....
Through the san juan river. it s on its way to lake powell, a key water source for the southwest. msnbc s scott kohn joins me from durango, colorado. good to see you. the governor of colorado just told andrea mitchell that the river appears to be back to normal. are you seeing the same thing? well, from where i sit as an untrained person, not a scientist, yes, 50 miles or so downstream from the accident it looks as if the animas river is running clear. but even i can see that there s sediment on some of the rocks, sort of a bathtub ring effect, you can see it on the river banks and that s the concern is what s left behind as the plume moves through. we already know that the attorneys general of the affected states and potentially affected states are meeting today to try and determine their course of action and the navajo nation, who says that this spill runs through some 200 miles of their land, they re saying that ....