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To prevent the fires from spreading or destroying any more homes. this is the command post, you can see behind me in strawn, a small community here, population about 700. we are about an hour west of fort worth. over the weekend, this entire town was forced to evacuate because of the extreme wildfire dangers here, but last night, because of the winds that shifted where these folks were able to return home, but these wildfires, i got to tell you, have consumed 7000 acres, they've destroyed dozens of homes, as well as a church, they forced the evacuation of hundreds of people, an over the weeken...

The oil leak to be stopped and contained by the crews in the ocean. clearly all of that is off of the mark . we are now on day 11. it is going to be another day of bad weather as far as containment and clean up go. high winds and seas seven feet yesterday prevented the boom lines 217,000 feet of which are strawn all over the gulf of mexico from doing a perfect job of containing the oil from reaching the precious coastlines of the coastlines of louisiana. the shrimping industry and oyster industry hut down and a lot of those boaters are worried about the future and doing training with the oil c...