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Before the wildfires, Kesia Studebaker thought she finally landed on her feet when she found a job cooking in a diner in small US town of Greenville.

Heat waves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West.

The river fire, which is about 100 miles from where i am at the moment, also destroying about 100 structures. so a lot of work still to be done in this area. these two fires are essentially surrounding the town of paradise, which was destroyed in 2018 by the camp fire. we spoke to francine lamb, who owne eed a home in paradise and lost everything she had. she said she understands what people are going through right now who have lost everything. >> i would take them in in a heartbeat. they need a place to shower, they need to get some food, they need a place to sleep, they need to be hugged. th...

Others are still at risk. the river fire, which is about a hundred miles from where i am at the moment, also destroying about a hundred structures, so a lot of work still to be done in this area. these two fires are essentially surrounding the town of paradise, which was destroyed in 2008 by the camp fire. we spoke to franci lamb who owned a home in paradise and lost everything she had. she said she understands what people are going through right now who have lost everything. >> i will take them in in a heartbeat. they need a place to shower. they need a place to get some food. they need a pla...

Watching for in these final hours? anything else? >> well, look. i mean, this is going to be the kind of -- the -- the medal-count home run. there are, still, lots of medals up for grabs today and it is a very close race between china, which is currently in first place, and united states in second. japan doing really well, still. the best medal haul that they have had. but it's really going to be quite a battle between the u.s. and china over who wins the most gold medals. the u.s. is actually leading in the overall-medal count but people, you know, who -- who say you should only be counting t...