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Mikael Backlund signed a two-year, $9-million extension with the Calgary Flames and was named captain, the team announced Wednesday. Backlund would have become an unrestricted free agent next summer without an extension. “The reason he’s still here and he’s playing at a high level, had the best year of his career last year was because he does everything right, off the ice, on the ice, to take care of himself,” Flames general manager Craig Conroy said.

Picture of you has become iconic, you standing not far from the governor. i don't know if we can put it up. there it is, there you are. i think you are everybody. you are all of us in that photo. i want to ask you just what you were thinking. this is your community. you represent this area. these people were your fellow floridians. i wanted to ask you what you were thinking in that moment as you stood there with the governor as he did his campaign photo opwith the victims and the community that was suffering. >> joy, i don't think i can let you know what i was thinking because if i did, i prob...

Down here. >> reporter: new video from the data shows local firefighters overwhelmed by the flames. tim laborte's father is among them. as hope fades, he is posting missing persons fires. >> we don't know if you might have left early, ran into another area where it was bad and might have diverted him back and he might have been going around in a circle. >> reporter: 470 search and rescue agents are coming through this american pompeii. 85% of the five square-mile disaster zone zone has been cleared. but fema search teams say clearing what is left could take weeks, if not longer. >> hey, buddy,...

As the one highway into the city could be rendered impassable by the flames. we turn now to the war in ukraine, and a special bbc investigation into allegations of abuse of ukrainian prisoners of war, at the hands of their russian captors. a dozen former detainees have come forward to say saying they'd been beaten and subjected to electric shocks — after returning from a detention centre in the city of taganrog, in south—western russia. the un says russia hasn't allowed its monitors to visit such facilities. our correspondent hugo bachega has been speaking to those who survived the ordeal....

Sort of a classic fire weather situation. itjust so happened that there was a technician during the high wind event, allowing a very fast spreading fire to burn into the community towards the coast. haw community towards the coast. how im ortant community towards the coast. how important warning _ community towards the coast. how important warning systems are for people and events like this, and he reports that in that one there were no alerts to the scissors sends for the flames. —— citizens. no alerts to the scissors sends for the flames. -- citizens.— the flames. -- citizens. what we ...