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40% contained take a look at what we are seeing. >> that is creating a major challenge for the firefighters here in the ground. you can see them up with fire engines in front of houses. doing structure protection, everything we can to make sure the homes in this neighborhood to stay safe. jumping on top of the flames and that is the big challenge for the fire crews on the ground. being there yesterday. making sure the homes and buildings in this area.

Steam overnight, it's now threatening 15,000 homes and businesses. you can see flames shooting up into the air, they are seating through bone-dry brush and i want to show you how close they are to homes on the ridge line. you see the massive home right here. we have seen the firefighters doing structure protection, doing everything they can, now because there's so much smoke on this ridge line right next to the community that we are in that has thousands of homes and businesses, it's difficult for the fire crews to get helicopters up in the air and do the water drops which can be critical if t...

Can you see some of the ash coming down. matter of fact sometimes it looks like we're in the middle of a snowstorm with flurries. this is quintessential sonoma valley. you can see this kmanmansion ore like castle in the background. we have seen a number of firefighters trying to do structure protection, make sure no more homes or businesses go up in flames. yesterday fred was a difficult day. a lot of evacuations there. today hopefully it'll be a different story. the wind completely died down. we are no longer in a or under a red-flag warning. hopefully fire crews will begin making progress. w...

Passenger jet and this is not the first time of course this has happened near this major airport. >> we are so grateful to have your company as always. good morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell, always a pleasure. 10:00 here on the east coast, 7:00 out west. "cnn newsroom" begins now. we are starting with breaking news out of california. the governor has declared a state of emergency. 23 wildfires are burning across the state. one of the largest fires in northern california the rocky fire we have video here of the rocky fire. burned 18,000 acres. earlier, we spoke with officials ...

That were doing residential, structure protection and trying to get ahead of this fire. we have 20 hot shot crews 40, engines, more coming in. we have crews from six states all moving in this direction in a very short period of time. this is ramped up from initial attack it a type 1 incident where we've got an entire city built up here and all available resources through the southwest are here as well as other fires. the resources are needed in other places as well. this is really our biggest value at risk. biggest threat in the southwest. >> bill morrison, flagstaff, arizona, thank you so muc...