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Brown. experts say that's a separate issue from whether water is actually available to fight these wildfires, cal fire will tell you just be reassured. we have plenty of water. there are no issues with water supplies or resources here. in fact, keep in mind, take the mendocino complex fire. that is actually burning pretty close to a decent sized lake. so that is one resource for firefighters. the other thing to keep in mind is water is obviously incredibly important when fighting a fire. it's not the only tool that's used. oftentimes these aerial attacks we see on the fire, they're using retar...

This fire, the mendocino complex fire, has grown at an incredible rate. it has more than doubled in size in just the past four days. fueled by the fact that we're experiencing a lot of heat right now in california. triple digit customers. low humidity. and the winds have really picked up. and incredibly dry conditions. the mendocino county complex fire remains a concern. most of the growth has happened on the north side of the fire, where it's basically heavy forested area with no homes. the major concern is the southern end of the fire, which is closer to residential areas. crews are working ...

The mendocino complex fire is now larger than the cities of philadelphia and new york city combined. mark gir duch chi of emergency services joins us from the state's operation center right now. mark, bring us up to speed on where we are right now with regards to getting this thing under control? what are your biggest concerns? >> good morning. really right now our concern continues to be the weather and the basically the conditions that we're seeing with very, very high temperatures and low humidity and the potential for wind that gets behind the fire and continues to drive the fire. so our p...

Reince priebus had and we know how that turned out, i just don't see that. the president wants to be his own chief of staff. i think that's well established at this point. the one thing he can do to allow him to do that successfully, and i put that in quotation marks, is to have someone in there who at least can get the machine to work and operate on a day-to-day basis, controlling it and coordinating the cabinet, doing those other things on the hill. i just don't see hope hicks filling that role. no disrespect to her. but no government experience. no real relationship with capitol hill. i don...