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Welcome back. if you missed this story, listen up. scathing accusations against the biggest utility company in the state of california. the "wall street journal" is reporting that pg&e knew for years that its power lines could fail and spark fires, but did not take the necessary steps to repair them. one of pg&e's failed lines is blamed for starting the huge fire in northern california last november that killed 85 people and completely destroyed the entire town of paradise. the utility company says it disagrees with the report's conclusions. one of the reporters who broke this story for the jo...

You can see when we compare it to the ten-year average, we are significantly higher in terms of the amount of acreage that has burnt so far this year-to-date. over 2.7 million acres have burned from these active wildfires. the interesting thing to note is compared to the ten-year average, we have less wildfires that have taken place this year so far. but goodness, we still have a high fire threat, especially across northern arizona, where we have critical fire danger through the afternoon today. we have an elevated risk across the four corners and into eastern sections of nebraska. scattered, ...

Coolness for. the is 72 degrees right now. so, cool by their standards. a little bit cooler, although their average this time of year is 75 or 76. but 72, winds not that bad. she said a breeze but actually just between -- been between seven and nine-miles-an-hour for the last three to four hours. if you had higher winds than that it would cause bigger problems for fighting the fire and potentially disbursing embers in the neighboring areas and spark fires. because the winds were light that was favorable, and helped. that said, within any fire, because you have the heat from the fire itself, th...

Photograph. the smoke and ash produced by the 200-square-mile blaze prompted san francisco to temporarily shut down hydroelectric stations for fears the city's drinking water could become contaminated. nbc viewed this unrelenting force of nature from 10,000 feet involve. >> roughly 230 square miles, bigger than the size of the city of chicago. all along the ridges we can see more spark fires. it's certainly quickly on the move. you can see from the fuel load down here, there are just hundreds of thousands of acres that could still burn. we're actually going to make our way down to the south si...

Can whip up embers, spark fires in other places spotted in different neighborhoods. so they've got a lot of work to do. you've got to commend them for what they've done so far. >> have you seen them setting backfires? >> absolutely. and i'm talking about skillfully setting these backfires. we saw some walking around with flares on their hips. so in the neighborhood you saw me on earlier, fire burns very quickly uphill. so time and time again, they would sort of measure where the fire was going and if you can imagine this, you might burn it just about 10 yards up from somebody's backyard and th...