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>> i clocked it at 26 miles an hour when we first got in here, and you can imagine now with 40-pound packs trying to maneuver hose, with all their crews on the side of this rocky terrain, you can imagine it's a lot tougher, and you exert a lot more energy, so i think the crews will be a little more tired than they normally are. >> reporter: now, if the helicopters can't actually lift off, that means the areas that they would be covering where the fire crews can't reach, that land is going to be completely consumed by the flames. so the 16,000 acres we have at the moment is probably going to ex...

Safely. a big, big story out on our west coast. welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now," i'm jenna lee. kelly: and i'm kelly wright. always good to be with you. there are more than a dozen active wildfires in various sizes throughout california. one is the sharp fire. now, that's in angeles national park burning near the town of wrightwood in steep, inaccessible terrain with heavy timber there which is a lot of fuel. 25 homes so far are under mandatory evacuation. and be a much bigger fire of concern is the silver fire covering some 25 square miles. the flames there threatening five tow...

Caught his house on fire sunday using homemade bombs. they also want to point out they say that fire started on sunday. they think that he had a 24-hour head start. they didn't realize he was a suspect until monday. so he had enough time to get out on the run to end up wherever he is right now, jenna. jenna: such a scary, such a sad story too, will as we watch the footage on that home burning. have they identified bottomed different the child that was found inside that home? >> reporter: you know, so far they have not. they're actually waiting on dna results to see if it is indeed hannah's bro...

Fredricka whitfield is monitoring the other top stories coming in right now to "the situation room." fred, what are you working on? >> hello, everyone. well, the european space agency says conditions favorable to light may have once existed all over mars. the agency says its mars express and reconnaissance orbiter have discovered minerals in the northern lowlands that indicate water once flowed there. until now evidence of the presence of liquid water had been found only in the southern hemisphere. and what are the odds? in march lightning started a fire in an apartment complex in plain town...