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The granite mountain hot shots. cnn's martin savage spoke to their loved ones at a site dedicated to them for going beyond the call of duty. >> reporter: these are the last images of the granite mountain hot shots, preparing to fight the fire that would kill them. a wind shift later sends flames racing towards the team, trapping them in the box canyon. >> all 19 men died. in the aftermath, friends, family and officials worked to preserve the now hallowed ground and memories of those lost. >> we will to get it right. you had to get it right. >> reporter: the result is a memorial like no other t...

That makes it a little bit easier for the firefighters to battle the blaze. again, they are looking forward to that wind shift. it should be taking place in the next 48 hours. moving on to the u.s., we are talking about a huge vat of cold arctic air coming down into parts of the midwest. look at some of these numbers. again, fargo, average is minus eight. they will be minus 21 degrees celsius on saturday. minneapolis, going from minus 12 to minus 16 tomorrow. folks, these are just the temperatures. this does not include the windchill. all of these areas are expected to have about a 20-kilomete...

More than normal. everyone that you see here -- i can make that a little bit bigger here. you can see every one of those dots is a major fire, over 60 in the northwest. let's zoom into the twisp fire right here. near beaver lake. there are so many hot spots. every little dot is a satellite indicated hot spot here. and that is just one of many, many fires still going on across the area. and the problem is, it's going to get windy again. we had the same problem last friday and saturday where the wind picked up as a storm came in. and then storm goes by tomorrow and will start to calm things down...

Devastating. zpl pretty scary. you could see the flames from my house. they jumped over the hill and that's when we knew we had to go. >> within five minutes, the fire was in our backyard and we barely got out of there. >> joining me now on the phone is oregon governor, kate brown and governor, thank you so much for making the time for us this afternoon. first question to you, obviously, a lot of your residents are directly in harm's way. hundreds of homes. but you may have benefitted by a wind shift. what's the latest? >> we have right now, 12 large fires burning on producted lands throughout...

The wind shift was bringing some of these chemicals back in closer to the city, closer to the people who live here. and so, we detected a bit of a wind shift here at this shelter, where we believe there are still families that haven't been evacuated yet. and everybody around here for the most part is wearing their masks, and so, we decided to do so as well, isa. >> and we've seen you and everyone behind you with a mask. but this is just so our viewers understand here, this is a port city, but it's also a heavily built living area, too. how concerned are people there about the air quality? beca...