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Snowfall. what are some of the stories that you're hearing from some of your residents there about how they were able to mobilize? because when you look at this devastation, it's extraordinary to even think that people were able to get out alive. >> really, it's been -- you know, the stories i'm hearing are really traumatic. these wind events are not unusual in superior, but the wind event combined with an active fire, it gives you minutes and in some cases seconds. people were running out, running out ahead of the fire. some people didn't even get back to get their personal belongings in thei...

Building, making sure they're in these extreme wind events, the occupants of the building, home, school, business have somewhere safe to go during the height of the tornados. how many times have you been in airports where you've seen bathrooms identified as tornado shelters. this isn't hard to do but we need safe places for people to go. you often only have minutes to get somewhere safe in a tornado. >> you do. and we know tornados are not going away. you heard biden -- president biden say this is one of the largest tornado outbreaks in this country's history and it's just devastating and you'...

There are so many of them, nearly 100 fires across the west have burned some 2.7 million acres. and the concern is that this is early in fire season. we start to get wind events until the fall, the santa ana winds in the south and the north winds up here in the north that fan the flames. so everyone is bracing themselves and hoping the forecast for an even longer drought doesn't quite prove accurate. >> scott cohn, appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'll be back tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good ev...

>> reporter: p&g calls this systems hardening, the idea to replace the more vuler nbl pieces of equipment but also to keep the trees back a safe distance from that equipment. the company says by the end of 2019 they will have hardened more than 150 miles of line but the goal is to harden more than 7,000 miles of line in the next 10 years. it is a large electric company in the position of citing climate change as partly responsible for the disasters. >> we are out in the field an it seems like more and more of the responsible is environment climate related s. that true for p&g, as well? >> cert...

Related. do you think it is true for pg&e as well? >> certainly over the last few years we have seen a change in unprecedented weather conditions and fire conditions across our state. >> it is hotter. it is dryer. weather events, wind events, there's more of them, and, unfortunately, with some of the weather that we're seeing and the winds, mother nature wins. that was cal per require reporting from california. those wildfires breaking out just as an alarming new report says we are still heading towards a climate change catastrophe. what drastic actions the u.n. says are needed to get us bac...