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rid of the bone dry bub brush that goes up in an instant. this is what's left of a ranch in austin, texas. a pile of twisted metal and ash. the texas forest service says more than 700 homes have burned in the past two days. the largest fire in bastrop county is up to 30,000 acres and only a fraction of it is contained, even though the winds did slow down a bit. jim spellman is live right there now. jim, you've been following this for several days now. are things getting worse, better, what's the situation? >> yesterday, they had some -- they made some progress, 33% contained now. the...

this "american morning." good morning. >> zogood morning alina. >> it's early. >> it is early. >> not so early for you. >> always great to have you here. >> carol is off, christine is off. >> that's right. >> we've got you back, which is fantastic. >> we've got a really serious situation going on in texas. >> it's -- it seems to be getting worse although in some parts getting a little more control over it. these raging wildfires we're telling you about sweeping across the country right now. the governor rick perry is describing the disaster as, quote, a monstrous storm of smoke and...

hockey team. "mornings on 2" begins right now. well, good morning to you. welcome to "mornings on 2." i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm tori campbell. it's wednesday, september 7th. we'll soon learn more about a shooting rampage at a carson city restaurant. five people died. several others were seriously injured. kraig debro is live from the national armory in san jose. and we understand there will be a news briefing in a few hours? >> reporter: in about two hours from now, the sheriff's office from carson city said they are gonna release the homicide victims from yesterday's ...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. a big comeback on wall street today. stocks rallied in anticipation of president obama's speech tomorrow evening. and tom, not only are investors waiting eagerly to hear the president's plan to revive the economy, but so are people all around the world. >> tom: susie, it's certainly a landmark speech. the white house has already telegraphed some of what we will hear. the bottom line? the proposals aim to jump start job growth by injec...

polls. one way to do it is to go after rick perry. i do think a lot of the attention is going to be on perry and how does he handle himself. how does he handle the tough questions? and does perry himself go after mitt romney? because we've seen a lot of comments from the governor and from his staff over the last couple of days taking pot shots at the romney record in massachusetts. i think he's the kind of guy who likes to be aggressive in these seatings and i think he would like to draw a sharp contrast with his style, his leadership in texas versus the romney style and romney's lea...