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witness. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is joining us from capitol hill. ryan, as far as we know, former pence chief of staff mark short is the highest profile witness to tv in the criminal investigation. what can you tell us? >> that's exactly right, wolf. mark short is among the people that has the most insight into what was happening on january 6th and in the time leading up to january 6th and specifically the pressure campaign on his former boss vice president mike pence and what this all shows is that that criminal investigation won by the department of justice is e...

Is moving rapidly and quickly. our next update will come from fire officials soon after i speak with you, wolf, i just spoke with a spokesperson with the fire department a short time ago, and he says one of the challenges firefighters are facing is the topography. if you look around, we're in a rural area. there's a home on the other side of this camera, and the homeowners here have allowed us to stage in this area. one of the homeowners has remained here, but they were worried that their home and their neighbors' houses would be threatened as well. and if you're wondering what the topography ...

Firefighters' plans today? >> reporter: well, their plan is to hit it from the ground. and as we said they also want to try to get up into the air. as you may know we're at the foot of the sierra. so you've got a lot of steep canyons, ridges, not always the most accessible by crews with engines. and so they hope for an aerial assault. but as i said if they don't have visibility, which has been very difficult, they can't fly all of those planes and they can't fly their helicopters. so we'll have to see just what the rest of the day brings. but it is -- it is just thick with smoke, if you can't ...