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Guy Johnson, the one and only son of poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, has died at age 77 in Oakland, California.

Basically delineates no more forward progress and as we move around that perimeter we put in scratch line so we separate the burn fuel from the unburned fuel and we continue to lay progressive hose lays around the fire. in essence, we make sure that no fire debris, hot debris does not spill outside of the outer perimeter and make it into unburned fuel. eric: can you explain and describe the viewers where that perimeter is now and where the danger continues? >> well, the perimeter goes all the way down if you go dowrn perimeter along malibu canyon and roughly along the decker canyon north which...

1200 firefighters involved in the operation to beat back this blaze, along with 15 water-dropping helicopters, 10 fixed-wing aircraft, and they now have something like a third of this fire contained. in other words, they have got a scratch line around it. they believe they will have it fully contained within the next ten days. the good news here is that not a single home that we are aware of was actually torched, and that is very much thanks to the efforts of those firefighters. many of them were leaving the command center today, jon, and heading out. that is a sure sign that they think they h...