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Devastation that this community will be feeling for months on end. massive wild fire destroyed a thousand homes and tens of thousands forced to evacuate and some still cannot return to see if home is still standing, the other concern is the frigid and snowy weather with temperatures dipping into the single digits. folks are worried their pipes will freeze and if they have a home to return to it'll be a different disaster on their hands but despite all of the challenges, people out here are not losing sight of what is most important. >> it's a pretty profound loss to lose a house but my wife an...

Under vestgation. firefighters point to a combination of strong winds and dry vegetation. some estimate that the clock on the winds went as high as 105 miles per hour. more than 500 homes have been destroyed. officials say they wouldn't be surprised if that number was closer to 1,000 just given the vast footprint of this wild fire. first responders didn't have time to fight the fire. their focus was on getting everyone out safe. tens of thousands had a few moments to get whatever they could and evacuate to that spot to escape the flames. a few minor injuries have been reported. if it stays tha...

Hour. this fire spread across a football field in a second or two. i was in choppers with the national guard surveying the damage. really powerful as you can imagine to see the burns-out shells of what used to be homes for so many people, so many loving families. other homes that it jumped over were untouched. a patch work of destruction. >> jackie: obviously the goal is to preserve human life. but there's destruction and the toll it will take on families. it's devastating. >> you know, colorado is a small start. i had to check in with a number of my friends that live there, are you okay, is e...

Evacuated and hundreds of homes destroys. jeff paul has the latest. >> yeah, officials say things are starting to move in the right direction. the winds are dying down. the big fires are now out. you can see it is really starting to snow here, the first of the season. for folks in neighborhoods like the one behind me, i don't know if you can see behind this huge dump of snow, we have crews trying to put out spot fires and folks coming back to their home to real list and find out that they lost everything. >> it's a pretty profound loss to lose a house. my wife and i are safe and uninjured. at ...

Many thought it was a downed power line. there was some confusion over power lines or commercial lines. it will take a long time to figure out how this massive wild fire started and take a long time for this community to get back on their feet. jackie? >> jackie: thanks, jeff. for more on that specific situation in colorado, i want to bring in governor jared polis. governor, good afternoon to you. first, i'm sorry for the devastation that your community is experiencing. can you tell us about how it feels to operate and try to manage a situation like this, a crisis, if you will, at a difficult ...