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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. major development tonight in the california wildfires with two separate fires rapidly merging to become the largest active wildfire in california. cal fire now confirming the mendocino complex is now the largest wildfire in recorded history in california. burning 283,000 acres so far. meanwhile, sparks are flying tonight between the president and california governor jerry brown. both are making wildly different claims we find on what's behine rapid-fire spread of the fires. >> to begin with the federal government and california authorities are already at o...

41st mayor there have the state if i'm not mistaken. we've been crisscrossing the state all weekend finding out what's happened during this historic water shortage, including in the agriculture power house, california central valley. there i met with a farmer who is currently trying to harvest his prized cantaloupes in the middle of the drought. how serious is this? >> it's extremely serious for all of us here in the central valley. we've had water reductions for many years. we've adapted. we've gone to drip irrigation, hi-tech irrigation methods to be very efficient. we have learned how to he...

Basically it's the california delta, the red dot on the screen just east of san francisco. the green area to the north and south, those areas are water allocation from the feds will actually receive nothing, absolutely nothing at all in 2014. of course that really is the back bone of the agricultural industry here in california. and you know, california accounts for half of the fruit and vegetables we consume in the united states. it's very serious stuff. they are looking at going back to the 1920 -- back in the 1970s whereby water will be shipped around. experts are saying this will be a wide...

Map, the green line, everything north and south of the red dot which is sacramento is going to see absolutely zero federal water allocation. and, you know, that's pretty devastation, because that area accounts for two and a half billion dollars toward the california economy, that's where we're getting most of our produce from. what are we going to see? farmers are look at ways we can source water, it's difficult, and they are going to have to look far back in the past to figure out how to get water. >> they had eight county water trucks that ran seven days a week, for 18 straight months to hel...

Dangered species. they have a tendency to swim into the pump as the delta. they get captured and this is illegal under the law. >> they get priority in terms of water allocation to try to make sure the delta smelt are surviving and prospering? and they get priority over farmers in the central valley? i don't want to oversimplify this, but am i being fair? >> that's how ridiculous it is. the delta smelt have priority. 300 were caught in the traps a year ago. they flushed 8,000 acre feet of water into the ocean. >> it is an adorable little critter. whether it is in danger is a question. it is a ...