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>> reporter: yeah. we'll give you an idea where these fires are burning, and it shows you how dry the west is. the california fire season hasn't swung into full effect, parts of arizona because we haven't had those santa ana winds come through, but look up by the border of oregon by medford. talking about three fires burning there, one if in butte county north of sacramento, idaho really on fire all around the state and near a couple of areas in wyoming, up in helena, montana. fires burping in areas that have really caused the west to be stretched thin. firefighters have had a long fire season...

Relief not until the weekend when a cold front moves through and the threat of severe weather. >> all right, indra, thank you so much. we're at the top of the hour which means it's time for the top news. >> need to go back to wintertime. can't take this. it's hot. >> hot and deadly. almost every state in the nation tops 90 degrees. lives are lost and in california thousands evacuated overnight, an out of control wildfire fueled by the heat. people enraged by this "rolling stone" cover featuring the alleged boston bomber. issues pulled from the stands. more fallout this morning. she has bee...

65,000 residents in calvary can return home after the evacuation order was lifted. the flooding blamed for three deaths. >> the pictures are so dramatic. we have an eye on the weather this morning. good morning. >> good morning. we look at canada. there's still scattered showers in the area. generally speaking, a lot of improvement on the way. showers overnight. what is impressive, very atypical for this time of year is a lot of tropical moisture streaming into the pacific northwest. if you saw this in the wintertime, we would be talking eight to ten inches of rain. in june, it's typical. we a...

Petersons. >> i'm taking everyone back to the basics. it's been such a bad fire season. why are these fires so early? let's remember, we get the moisture in the wintertime. we dry out typically in the summertime. and by fall is when we typically see the winds pick up and the fire season. unfortunately this year we've had such a deficit in rainfall in the southwest that instead of seeing the peak in the fall, we're now looking at fall-like conditions early on. that means the fire season's not only peaking early, it's going to be lasting throughout the entire period. so that's a tough situation....

>> he had the house blocked up with curtains? he told me it was wintertime and he said he wanted to keep the heat in the kitchen, because the gas bill. >> what about could you hear anything in the home? >> no, the radio was playing all the time. >> he would play music all the time? >> yeah. if not the radio, the tv. something had to be on at all times in the kitchen. so i couldn't hear nothing else but the radio or the tv. >> didn't any of that strike you as unusual or strange? >> no, because ariel was, to me, he was a strange dude. i mean, it didn't faze me