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To bear down on california, there is no relief in sight. after days of relative calm, high winds are once again fanning the flames. >> wind coming in clears the air space so we can do what we're doing. however it does mean increased fire activity. >> reporter: at the carr fire which has already destroyed more than 1,000 homes, hot dry conditions have made the hillsides tinder dry with not a drop of rain in the forecast. >> what would really help is a shift in mother nature. >> reporter: in the small town of lewiston, there is heavy smoke just over the ridge as a nonstop cycle of helicopter dro...

>> reporter: and even their turkeys. >> uncle james will take care of you. >> reporter: he has nothing packed and no plans to leave. >> at the worse i'll just jump in the river. r >> reporter: he is planning to defend his neighborhood even if flames reach town. when you look over the ridge and you see smoke, are you not afraid? >> when your number's up, your number is up. >> reporter: more than a dozen fires are still burning across the state. visible even from space. officials reporting friday morning the mendocino complex fire is now bigger than the carr fire, threatening over 9,000 building...

>> uncle james will take care of you. >> reporter: he has nothing packed and no plans to leave. >> at the wrist i'll jump in the river and let it burn over. >> reporter: armed with two water trucks and a friend, he's planning to defend his neighborhood even if flames reach town. when you look over the ridge and smee smoke, are you not afraid? >> when your number's up, your number's up. >> more than a dozen fires are still burning across the state, visible even from space. officials reporting friday morning the mendocino complex fire is now even bigger than the carr fire, threatening over 9,000...

Down facility like you might have down at the texas temperature of corrections in huntsville. >> i want to go to more of what the prosecution had to say in the closing argument. he argued that eddie ray routh was not criminally insane but the argument he was high on drugs. let's listen to this part. >> he got up early, drank some vodka from the freezer, drank whisky when his uncle james came over. smoked some leftover marijuana. then smoked some more with his uncle. the guy is intoxicated. and remember, we're talking about 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon, after all of this going on in the mornin...