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Really this entire region. The valley fire has affected. There is a lot happening at this hour. Were joined in studio, as well. The fire fight continues at this hour. Specifically, two important changes in the forecast that will impact firefighters. We want to show you this map. It shows just how much this impact this fire has. Several communities under siege from these flames. Lets go out for more on this developing story. Raj. Janelle and jessica, theres two parts of this story. Part one is the devastation, the 400 to 800 homes and businesses. You see a couple of homes here that are destroyed. But part two of this story is, really, this town, middletown, is buzzing tonight. Yes, its 1 00, a little after 11 00 and theres a lot of activity. Lets show you some video just a short while ago. I spent some time at the makeshift pg e command center. A lot is happening right now. Hundreds of people scouring this small town and the region. Its organized chaos. They are working through the nigh ....
The president looking pretty energetic as he came down the stairs of air force one, even taking time to walk over, meet some democratic donors on the flight line, even hold a baby and said a few kind words to folks who came out to greet him. The president in town for a couple of fundraisers, democratic fundraisers, where tickets cost from 500 to 32,000. Police are warning drivers to avoid the area where he will be in just about 10 to 15 minutes, the w hotel. That is an area thats seen a lot of traffic gridlock over the last couple weeks. Theres a Convention Going on at howard and third. That area is shut down so even before the president arrived today, the traffic was pretty bad. San Francisco Police warning anybody who is coming to the downtown area tonight to take Public Transportation if they can and perhap ....
Lifted more than 200 to safety. But officials fear many more may still be trapped calling this a mass casualty event with a dozen people already injured. Cnns Paul Vercammen is monitoring the situation. Paul, what are you learning about the efforts to get the fires under control at this hour . Reporter many of the fires now burning are either 0 contained, 5 contained and Richard Cordova of captain of california fire telling me with this latest fire burning, we have broken the alltime california record for acres burned. We now stand at 2 million 94,000 acres burned in california and his concern it is only september. We have the harrowing months of october and november still to come with the santa ana wnds come. Come to the fire in the Sierra National forest. 24 people have been evacuated from the mammoth reservoir. Two ....
Could be days and days away. He may still be going through the vetting process. The New York Times was the first to report this likely cabinet shuffle. Now, this would move sean donavan do donovan to the office of budget. Sylvia held it recently and she is moving to hhs, fred. And Julian Castro, people will remember seeing him during the national convention, see that videotape. Hes a twin, actually, and he and his brother kind of made to be rising stars, at least, in the political front. His brother also holds office on a local level. Right . Reporter thats correct. Joachim castro is a congressman but i would point out, fred, this is a very interesting development, because if confirmed, Julian Castro cannot be overtly political during the midterm elections and in the 2016 elections, because of the hatch act, government off ....