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Massive wildfire tearing through southern california. thousands of firefighters have been batting the flames for days. officials say the fire, which has now burned an area twice the size of manhattan, is still threatening thousands of homes. dominic dinatale is live near malibu. >> yeah. it's about 4,000 in total. i don't think the fire authorities expected wildfire season to start off the way it has been. four major fires. the biggest one of all is spring fire, which started on the mountains behind me, moved across here yesterday, and the pacific winds have taken it back inland to a 43-square...

All the same, the residents nearby say they've had a few close calls with the flames. take a listen. >> all of a sudden our front field caught on fire. we put it out with shovels, tractors, used whatever we could. >> we lived out here since 2000. to see it that close, it's a little nerve racking. you don't expect it to be that close. >> fire department has done a good job. hopefully that's good. >> we're also hearing there is now 100-acre fire further out to the east, in banning, the first fire we saw break out last week on wednesday. 100 acres added. near highway 243 in riverside county. we'r...

Your smart phone or basic point and shoot in that they're loaded with features. one of the things that people get intimidate by, lots of people is that oh, wow, they're so complicated to use. you can basically put them on auto and they're very easy to use. but they're also doing complex things that are really much better to do. so these give you an example. auto mode, you generally get -- again, window, indoors, that's not what you want. this camera and all these cameras do what's called hdr, or high dynamic range, fire off three shots very quickly, and what it does is it stitch it is right in...