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>> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the ...

Who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the person i was with was a trained paramedic. >> reporter: they clear fuels with the equipment and digging ...

emily, this hasn't been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven't been able to operate. >> reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven't been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to...

countries these days. the turnout so far has been pretty good according to the electoral commission. we expect to hear more when the polls close. they're expected to close in about two hours. possible extensions to that. so far we are told more voters than expected have turned out. >> who's on the ballot today? >> well, that is one of the key issues here, gary, is people are overwhelmed by the choice. thousands of candidates are running in this election for the national congress. most of them are virtually unknown to the libyan population who, for more than 40 years, knew one man onl...

while the air force investigates the deadly crash of an eighth plane. one of these based in charlotte, north carolina. we expect to learn more in a news conference this afternoon. we know that four of the six crew members were killed, including this man, lieutenant colonel mike mckiel who spoke to one of our affiliates on saturday. lizzie o'leary with the latest out of washington. what's the latest? >> reporter: latest is that they are investigating the cause of this crash while the other c-130s are grounded, grounded by the air force right now, and that essentially really diminishes...