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northwest where a fast moving wildfire is burning up thousands of acres of central washington state and forcing a lot of people to leave their homes. we are going to got a live report from the front lines where earlier today they also had to deal with a deadly chemical leak. we begin with captured fugitive david sweat. wounded, hospitalized and sources say talking telling investigators that he and his now dead escape partner richard matt planned to murder their alleged accomplice's husband and flow to mexico. happily it did not go according to plan for matt shot and killed last week or sweat, cornered and shot last week. alexandra field has the time line of his takedown. >> reporter: david sweat, captured still close to clean shaven avend seemnd seemingly in good shape before taking two bullets to the torso. did he have any fight in him when he was taken down? >> doesn't appear that way. >> i can tell you when he was unloaded from the ambulance he was semiconscious.

>> reporter: 22 days after escaping the manhunt ends within striking distance of the canadian border. >> once he gets to the road he is within a couple hundred yards. >> reporter: five days earlier the deadly duo parted ways. sweat tells investigators from a hospital bed. richard matt may have been slowing him down. 49-year-old matt wreaked of alcohol when shot dead friday. according to sources who also tell cnn there is evidence matt was sick possibly from contaminated food or water. that evidence part of a trail scattered throughout the adirondack forest. ultimately leading to two convicted killers. the first, big break day 17 23 miles west of dannemora confirmation dna evidence ties both men to a cabin in the town of belmont. one of the owners reports a shotgun is missing. >> we had since day one operated under the belief that these men are armed. they're extremely dangerous.

they're cunning. >> reporter: another break in the case days later, a break-in in the cabin in malone prompts a massive search of the area. by friday day 21 more evidence is found as police reveal new information. >> the suspects may be headed towards canada. >> 16 miles south of the border matt blows his cover, shooting at an rv and the driver calls police. >> what could have motivated that shooting? >> no idea. no idea. you know obviously it appears that matt consumed some alcohol. if it was the alcohol or fatigue or -- or the starvation he made a tremendous error. >> reporter: search teams head to the same area where someone in this cabin called 911. >> what was moved around? what did you know this? >> nothing was moved around. a bottle of gin moved counter to counter. >> reporter: matt's final mistake. >> trooper walking along side the road here. and here is a cop. that's what broke the case

friday. >> richard matt refuses to drop his weapon when a border patrol team surround him in the woods. he is shot dead three times in the dead. two days later two miles south of canada, police in constable close the case. >> the streets were full of law enforcement cars. >> reporter: sergeant jay cook on roving patrol spots sweat walking down his road. he single-handedly captures the convicted killer. >> you guys got him? cool. >> cool indeed. alexandra field joins us now. how long was david sweat in constible before he was shot and captured? is that known? >> investigators are trying to answer that question by freeing to figure out if any homes had been broken into burglarized, things out of place, anything missing. we know they have connected one or both of the men to at least three cabins. if they look at the trail here to dannemora they'll find more

places use ford shelter. look at the picture of david sweat after he was shot in the field. investigators are pointing out he appears pretty close to clean shaven. might be a good sign he had shelter pretty recently. >> fascinating. thank you. more on david sweat's condition and what he is reportedly telling authorities. miguel marques joins us outside the hospital in albany where sweat is recovering. what is the latest you are hearing about how he is doing? >> well he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition. so he is getting better. i think the hospital here wants to get him as stable as possible. then get him some other correctional facility that can keep him improving. they certainly want to keep him alive. the best lynnic theylink to explain how they got out of the maximum security prison. he is telling investigators he left matt some days before because he was slowing him down. that's when things started to tumble out of control for him. also saying during the initial

escape what they were hoping to do was to meet up with joyce mitchell the prison worker once they popped up out of the manhole. kill her husband and flee to mexico. when she didn't show up there was a lot of discussion about whether she was their plan a. turns out she was in fact their plan a. they hoped to be toasting margaritas in mexico possibly with her. but both of them certainly when that didn't work out they were scrambling for a plan b. clearly didn't go very well. they only made it about 32 miles in 22 days. anderson. >> i understand there is new information about matt's condition before he was killed? >> he was dressed in fatigues. he was in poor shape. but in some ways in in fairly decent off. he had good boots on. camouflage fatigues. dressed basically as a hunter. he had a lot of bug bites on him. but the -- the morgue stating that he wasn't as swollen as they might have expected him to be. indicating that perhaps he was

able to take shelter for sometime indoors. clearly officials believe he was sick because he got either drank bad water or bad food. had a reaction to it. also that clearly at some pin the he went off the rails and started drinking alcohol that didn't help his cause at all. >> fast night. miguel thank you. prison guard gene palmer in court today. a new attorney by his side. his lawyer waiving additional preliminary hearings. the case goes for to a grand jury which may not convene for a month according to andrew wily. not all he is saying about gene palmer. he passed that chopped meat not knowing it contained escape tools to rich are matt. for the latest on that. we are joined by a reporter for the albany times union. keisha i understand you are learning more about what sweat is telling authorities particularly

gene palmer what have you learned? >> so far hearing that sweat told authorities that gene palmer didn't know about the escape plan. so he was just as his statement to police said clueless about it and had just given them the tools not knowing what they were actually doing with them. >> that also backs up what the district attorney told me a while ago he passed a polygraph to that effect and they believed him. you have been following this manhunt closely what is mood like on the ground snow we saw anow? we saw a lot of people applauding police officers and law enforce snment. >> last night there was almost a parade like feel in ma len and dannemora. people were throwing candy. waving flags. and cheering at all the officers. just a really feeling of relief excitement some one said to me it feels like the super bowl. so it and then today was really more business as usual. kids were back to playing in the streets, i'm hearing a lot of

moms saying "we'll feel safe having our children sleep in their own beds now." >> i'm wondering this investigation into clinton correctional facility in addition to all the lapses that led to escape did the people in the community, many of whom work at the prison or have worked at the prison have a since of just how bad things were before this escape? >> i think they had some sense of it. look you said a lot of the community either is working for the correctional facility or noes some one is related to some one. i thin thshgk there is a lot of protecting your own and maybe a little fear in want to turn other people in because of that desire to protect their own. i think there was some people were in the dark about how bad it actually was, but there was a little bit of knowledge going out in the community. >> wool'se'll see what the investigation finds. thank you very much. a taste at the top of the program of how the manhunt for sweat ended. our next guest, paul meldrom was

nearby during the tense, dramatic last moments. here from canada visiting friends when it all went down. i spoke to him before our broadcast. >> paul, i know you were visiting very close to where david sweat was shot. can you explain what you and the other people you were with saw and what you heard? >> we arrived at a friend's place for an unscheduled visit. and within about a minute the lady that we were visiting mentioned she heard some gunshots. we saw a police car go zooming by the house. we looked out the window and we saw police officers running across the field. we saw police cars arriving from both directions east and west. and then a flurry of activity with officers running to a certain point in the field stopping just past the big elm tree running back. more officers arriving. and then within about two three minutes i counted 30 police vehicles. i went outside. as i figured everything was pretty safe at that point.

and probably 10 12 vehicles arrived within next three minutes after that. >> must have been incredible to know the hunt going on. to find it happening right where you were? >> it's something you never think will happen to you. when we came we're canadian we came across the border to visit our friend. we joked maybe if we run across this fellow we'll collect the reward. what are the odd of that happening? happening? when weep viz visited our friend. are you worried? no that fellow will never show up near our farm. we will never see him. it is kind of surreal. >> i understand the family you are visiting is an amish family. i mention that just because amish people dent often have radios or television how up to speed were they on the manhunt? >> i don't believe our friends were aware of what the fugitive looked like. but they were very much aware that there was a fugitive in the area.

they had been contacted by police and were toemdld to be wary and careful. she told me, never did she think that would happen. >> you said you work in montreal live in ontario, how much attention did the prison break get in canada? that's where the guys wear ledgedledge edledge -- guys were allegedly headed. >> when i think his name was mat, shot and killed close to the border. it became national news. major networks in canada were carrying it high up in their story line. local newscasts were carrying it and it was leading the newscasts for quite, four five days. one other thing i think you should know anderson where they took down david sweat. he was literally 30 second from getting into the forest. he came across the road and he was -- where he was taken down if that officer had not managed, had seen him or had not shot him and stopped him, he was 30

second from a deep dense forest. that forest extends north directly across the border into canada. and the forest continues for some time. he was, within a mile mile and a half of the canadian border and had he gotten into the dense bush i am it would have been difficult to find him. >> fascinating. paul, thank you so much. >> my pleasure andersen. >> more on this and the prison. the fbi has started investigating possible corruption including perhaps a heroin ring. bring you up to speed on that. late word on moves in south carolina to take down the confederate battle flag.

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the breaking news tonight. david sweat talking to authorities from his hospital bed. his condition upgraded. prison guard gene palmer was in court today. that's him heading to court. state police have a sworn state from him detailing the favors he did for sweat and richard matt. however the local district attorney andrew wily says that sweat has told authorities palmer was not involved in the actual escape plan. his alleged actions plus reports of numerous security lapses and guards sleeping on the job does make you wonder what exactly was going on inside that prison?

and you would not be alone in asking that question. state investigators have been at the clinton correctional facility since last week as you may know. today we learned that the fbi launched a probe of its own. details on that now from our justice correspondent evan perez who joins us from washington. so the fbi probe, what do we know about it? >> anderson it does appear this prison was a dysfunctional place. the fbi is investigating possible criminal activity inside the clinton correctional facility including heroin trafficking. now, investigators want to know whether the two former fugitives, richard matt and david sweat were working with guards as part of the drug ring. now law enforcement officials tell cnn that some of the prison employees who have been interviewed have described widespread availability of heroin at the prison and the role of employees in getting the drugs inside. now we know that matt and sweat had a lot of freedom inside this prison. and the question now is was their alleged involvement in some of the criminal activity

part of the reason for the freedom, anderson. >> do we know if either joyce mitchell or gene palmer are suspected of being involved in this heroin ring or other illegal activity? >> that's one of the big concerns. the fbi has identified a couple prison employees other than mitchell and palmer. so the question the suggestion here is that problems run much deeper than just those two, two people who have now been arrested and charged, andersen.the new york inspector general is doing investigation into the security and lapse and escapes. >> we are just now learning more about david sweat and his movements inside the prison before he and matt broke out. deborah feyerick joins us now. >> this goes to what everyone is saying the amount of mobility inthe prison. he worked in the tailor shop. think of a long warehouse facility.

you have inmates from all different blocks working there. considered a plum assignment. it wasn't just people from the honor block. david sweat was very well regarded within the tailor shop. he could move easily between the different floors. talking to different inmates. prisoners from different blocks. he had very big access. so when you talk about the culture of the prison you have those who were well regarded and you have those who wanted to sort of befriend those additional inmates. because there was a hierarchy within the prison. there was a sense of who had the juice to get things done. >> access is sort of power inside. >> 100%. >> you are learning more about gene palmer. >> this is very interesting. gene palmer was an intelligence officer, what inmates call a snitch officer. his job was to collect intelligence. because of that he would go to the tailor shop. speak to the inmates from the various blocks. though he himself was also assigned to the honor block, the a block, he too was able to go

in and talk very casually and freely and openly with some of the prisoners and one of them actually told me that a former inmate actually told me that he he would show them pictures from his camping trips that he took up in the woods. again sort of social manipulation where the inmates are manipulating the guard. but there is a culture of co-dependency. all part of the investigation. that authorities are looking into. and that is -- you know when you are in there it is a world unto itself. and as one corrections officer told me he said look there are no secrets in prison. everybody knows what's going on. but it was the co-dependency that may have allowed some of this criminal activity to happen. not only at clinton. that's the big question it's not just. >> how widespread is this? >> at prisons across new york state. when you talk about a single investigation. this investigation could lead to something much bigger and more significant. >> we hear about a possible heroin ring inside the prison. shouldn't be a surprise. there are drugs in prisons

throughout the united states. >> and inmates are very very clever as to huh they smuggle those drugs in. >> want to talk about that a little bit. deborah fashgeyerick, thank you. >> jeff dumas, former corrections sergeant at clinton correctional facility. thank you for being with us. what do you make of the investigation launched by the fbi the fact that there are drugs in the prison system. deborah and i were talking about a common problemen a lot of prison systems? >> yeah, it is. as far as the fbi probe. they can do what they want. they can investigate it. but as you just stated earlier, the amount of drugs that are going into the prison systems, not only in new york state but across the country, it happens every day. they are smuggled in by family members on visits. so it is going to take a approximately see change on the behalf of department of corrections to stem and stop the flow of drugs into the facilities. >> i know. visitors go through a metal

detector i assume. are they searched for contraband like heroin in a balloon or something? >> they do go through a metal detector. obviously the drugs. that type of contraband does not set the metal detector off. we have no probable cause to search them. until we have a probable cause then we can in effect search and frisk. but we have a narcotics unit that works out of albany that is topnotch topnotch. they do this every day and constantly make arrests. they are stemming the flow. but the policies that govern the -- the visiting rooms, they allow some of this stuff to get in. >> i also understand there is some questions about -- testing of, of inmates. that there used to be a higher threshold, or kind of a lower threshold. easier to test inmates. now it's mr. difore difficult, is that correct? >> yes, that's correct.

>> what happens is we have random urine samples that are taken. it's just computer generated. and we taekt inke the inmate away. we process it. if it comes back positive he is sanctioned. he will be keeplocked 23 out of 24 hours a day. disciplinary sanctions. that's what happens. well now you have a mind set from certain groups that advocate for the inmates that hey this is happening too much. and they got, they kept getting on the state. so the state raised the threshold just a little bit. so now we have some inmates with the drugs in their system. if it doesn't cross that threshold, they're free to go. and, so now it's created -- basically a little more leeway for the inmates with the drugs. and it is detrimental to security. >> is there a financial incentive for the prisons not to have the inmates locked up so much? i mean not to have them tested and therefore failing tests? i men to kind of raise the

standard? >> well the drug problem is a problem. and it adds to the inmates who cause those problems. whether it is fighting whether it is drugs. when we lock them up 23 out of the 24 hours a day for disciplinary reasons. the attitude in albany and with some of the legislatures actually in new york state government they want to get rid of solitary confinement. they dent want iton't want it. we have no recourse for disciplinary sanctions if that happens. so they're trying to keep inmates from being locked up. even though they misbehave. we can't lock them up. they don't want them doing that. they want them to go to programs. and the federal government does give the state money for programs. so if the inmates aren't programs there is no money there. >> do you think -- i mean what you are saying is essentially what the changes are kind of more systemic that really need to happen. you can change personnel.

really approximately sees s policies need to change. who is in charge of making prison policy making things run as they should is it the warden or officials higher up than that? >> it is higher up. the wardens have been eliminated through the statement. the wardens used to run their own facility. and they were the king at that area. but we have done away with wardens. we have now called them superintendents. and all of the superintendents across the state answer to albany. albany is the one that makes the decisions. so they're the ones that knead to change the policies. soer that ones that need to change the policies. the policies you will see in the movies an inmate goes and visits. they will be with a pane of glass between them or visit on a tv screen with a telephone. well that doesn't happen. they literally sit on -- with a table between them. that's maybe a foot and a half two foot wide and their visitor is right across from them.

the visitor can rub their neck give them a kiss. for the most part they stay seated. in some of the viz if thevisiting rooms, 40 50 inmates. wives, sisters, mothers, kids. and two correction officers watching all that. >> two correction officers in a room of 40 50 inmates with family members. yes, so easy to pass can tra band. easy for items to get in? >> yeah. we fry off totry to comb battle it best we can. and intelligence really works for our advantage. if we get word that indeed there is going to be a shipment coming in but we do the-- the officers do the best they can to try to stop the flow. if new york state came up with visiting from via phone and video like a tv set, that would be phenomenal. >> would make a big difference. >> huge impact. >> jeff, appreciate your exper expertise. appreciate you being on.

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>> word that south carolina's legislature has enough votes to remove the confederate flag from the state ground in columbia. today presidential candidate jeb bush weighed in on thor to campaigning in south carolina. he said the flag has become a racist symbol and praised efforts to take it down. the confessed gunman who murdered nine people inside emanuel ame who told police he wanted to start a race war posed in photos with the confederate flag and credits council of conservative citizens shaping his view on race. the organization is well known among those who track hate groups. despite its reputation as a hate gript is totally tax-exempt.

here's what our drew griffin found. >> reporter: it was from the killer's manifesto we learned of the link to the council of conservative citizens. classified as a hate group by the southern poverty law center the council can best be described as a pro white group interested in preserving the white european race. the united states government classifies it differently. how? as a civil rights organization and get this with that classification the group enjoys tax-exempt status. >> we have always encouraged active political involvement, speech but absolutely no violence no law breaking. >> jared taylor a spokesman for the council which professes the united states is a christian country opposing aefrntsny efforts, along with any efforts to mix the races of man kind or weaken

the structure of the american family through toleration of sexual licentiousness homosexuality and other perversions. while the group condemns the church killings it makes no apoll jetzapol apologyies the shooter found inspiration pulling a trigger on what many believe is the hate filled website. >> what he learned from our website is the truth weft have no apology for publishing the facts. >> reporter: the council one of many white supremacist hate groups granted tax-exempt status. they include, the national policy ns to the promoting a white european america, the new century foundation which pushes pseudo scientific studies and research that purr part toport to show the inferiority of blacks to whites. how is it possible? federal law prohibits the irs

from discussing a case involving taxpayer or organization. watch dog groups say the irs is understaffed, underfunded and recently under scrutiny for handling of tea party organizations. cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin says congress wants a hands-off irs when it comes to an group involved in poll teches or social welfare. >> basically congress said if an organization defines itself as public policy oriented the irs basically has to honor that and grant them tax-exempt status. >> reporter: the council for conservative citizens took in just $67,000 in donations in its filing for 2013. it doesn't pay any salaries and though up until last week you could find links on its website to purchase items like confederate flags it doesn't appear to have any other purpose than to distribute political views. political views that may have inspired a 21-year-old white

racist to kill nine black people praying in a church. >> this is pretty incredible. could this group actually lose its tax-exempt status? >> the one thing you have to remember. the irs does not keep a list of hate groups. we do that. watch dog groups. this is just an organization according to the irs. as jeffrey said as long as it fits into the general category of promoting the public good public policy then as long as all of the paperwork is filled in correctly, the irs basically approves it. >> the idea that saying mixing of the races is bad as promoting the public good is pretty interesting interpretation. so even pointing it out to the irs they still don't really take any action. >> what has happened in the past -- some neo-nazi groups have lost their status because of extra scrutiny after they have been in the press. so they might get a little more scrutiny. paperwork out of order, tax-exempt status gets yanked. technicalities. in the case of the westboro

church the group that protests funerals of iraq and afghan soldiers coming home. a huge petition to take away tax-exempt status. didn't do a thing. because it all fits into these general categories where this kind of speech is protected, where these public approximately see groups are protected under the irs paperwork rules. >> interesting. drew griffin. drew thank you. >> thanks. >> coming up -- a warning about possible terror threats around the fourth of july holiday after three deadly attacks friday including one that left dozens of foreign tour tiss sists dead at a to negs resort. >> imagine each and every bank in the country closing, that's what is happening in greece. we'll get an update from our richard qwest in athens. and now the tripadvisor you've always trusted for reviews, checks over 200 websites to find hotel savings up to 30%. book! book...book...book!

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warning tonight about possible terror threats around the upcoming fourth of july holiday. law enforcement across the country got a bulletin saying extremists could plan attacks to coincide with independence day. after a call from isis to conduct attacks in the west and three separate deadly attacks on three different continents last

week. >> reporter: the most deadly isis inspired attack on westerners to date as it happened. gunfire ringing out at a tunisian resort friday leaving at least 38 foreign tourists dead most of them british. all this from what is proving to be a lethal weapon for the terror group, the lone wolf attacker. in this case a radicalized tunisian university student seen here running away from the resort after the attack. and moments later shot dead by police after he stopped to pray. and now with the july fourth holiday approaching here in the u.s. u.s. law enforcement is a senior counterterrorism official

tells cnn definitely on a heightened state of alert based on isis's call to conduct attacks on the west. >> there is a great deal of charter, high volume if you will we are being on the cautious side to warn the public to remain vigilant. >> reporter: isis inspired recruits are answering the group's call to attack anywhere anyhow during the holy month of ramadan. spokesman, senior leader promising ten times the rewards in heaven. in a single day friday a gunman stormed the beach resort in tunisia. a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in kuwait killing 27 worshippers. and another assailant beheaded a man in southern france and attempted to blow up a u.s.-owned factory. >> isis is able and willing to inspire people to conduct attacks across multiple continents and willing to do relatively easy attacks to pull off. armed assault style attacks which are not that difficult to do. >> reporter: the fear of such

attacks on the july fourth weekend prompting the fbi to issue a bulletin urging both law enforcement and the public to be vigilant. banks in greece were closed to day. the greek stock market shut down in a desperate attempt keep moneyen the country. it is bad news obviously for the people in greece for tourists and the u.s. stock market was not thrilled about it either. the dow falling 350 points today. the greek government is calling for a referendum vote six days from now on a bailout proposal. richard quest joins me from athens. so richard, how could what hap is happening in greece end up having an impact on people here in the united states and elsewhere? >> i think it has an effect on the rest of the world through the wider european picture. particularly the euro zone. for example if greece really does go down the tubes, goes bankrupt even if it does leave the euro then you are looking at

a situation where europe has great volatile team. the markets in europe could be in turmoil. and if europe is -- the united states's largest trading partner and it is a very, very short fuse between european markets and the united states. i promise you, itchf there is real volatilitien europe the u.s. is going to feel the effect. >> i know this doesn't come to a vote in greece until next week. in the meantime there are strict limits on how much people can take out of the bank every day there, right? >> yes, this it is. 60 euros. 60 euros the maximum the greek people, greek citizens can take out. it works out to $66, $67 depending on the rate of exchange. visitors and foreign, people with foreign bank accounts they can take out as much as they

like. they are not affected. i have to tell you what is fascinating and what i have discovered since i have been here these few short days is there is no sense of panic. there is no sense of chaos. people have now got very focused on this vote which takes place on sunday. and no matter which way you pass it this vote does effectively become -- will greece stay in the euro zone? do the people want the austerity that will be required to stay in? or as the prime minister says it's time to renegotiate and they will probably vote no. that's going to be the debating point. >> all right, richard quest. richard, thank you. up next the breaking news in washington state. a massive wildfire forcing evacuations, damaging homes, we're looking at live pictures right there. thousands of acres have already burned. details ahead. ♪ while you're watching this i'm hacking your company. grabbing your data.

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thousands was acres and damaged thousands of homes. what's the latest on the ground? >> and an, firefighters have their hands full here. i want to show you this house behind me here. this house was consumed by flames from what they are calling the sleepy hollow fire. it came over this ridge and wiped out this entire house just around 8:30 last night. folks here had level two evacuations but it hadn't gotten to level three, get out. but they knew it was time when they saw the light glowing over the edge. they were able to escape. but they came home today to finds their home completely gone. you can see how the wildfire came down the hill. right over the top. swooped down this hill. and the garage there was up against the side and so it jumped into the house and then the house was gone. it has been smoldering all day today. firefighters have been watching

it make sure it doesn't relight. neighbors are concerned about embers. embetters have travelled outside wenatchee and into downtown areas. it had businesses there, we had an ammonia leak which forced more evacuations. >> do we know how many homes and businesses have been damaged so far? >> so far, 28 structures. they don't know how many of those are homes or how many are outbuildings. this is a bit of a rural area. with the number of folks that are evacuated we believe many of those are homes that have been burned. they have set up emergency evacuation shelters at a local high school. other folks who had to get out went to stay with friend or relatives in different parts of wenatchee. >> i understand there have been a number of emergency evacuations and i know the northwest has had a tough time with brought conditions high temperatures little rain.

is there any relief sight here? >> you know anderson it's been very dry on both sides of the cascades here in washington state. high fire danger in the seattle area. even higher over here. as we drove over this year i could see how dry it was. conditions are more what we would expect to see in august. and it's still june. because of the embetters that were flying from this fire there was a fire down at the blue bird factory in wenatchee. and that triggered an ammonia leak as well. so fire fighters were battling fires up on the hill. they are also fighting fires in town in wenatchee as well. at one point folks were told to stay inside close their windows, turn off the air-conditioning go in the innermost floom your house to make sure the ammonia wasn't affecting them. now that's been lifted. >> now the mayor joins us. more than a thousand people evacuated the area. is there a time line for when

people might be able to get back to their home? >> some are able to get back to it now on the western slope of the valley. would i've done gone from a level three to a level two. so folks have at least access to their property. and things are starting to i think at least within the city limits calm down a little bit. those embetters are really a concern in the bradview neighborhood. so it's getting better but we've got a long ways to go. >> do you have any idea how the fire started? >> we really don't, other than it was along one of the roads, the road that we call sleepo hollow in our valley. start right next to the road. our firefighters really haven't come up with an origin or exactly what caused it of the but it was near a roadway. >> how many firefighters do you have battling the blaze? >> currently, around 200. a number of them came from different areas of our state. our local crew is actually getting a bit of a break right now. they have been at it 24 straight hours so they are home getting a

bit of a rest. but i believe there is something in the neighborhoods of 200 firefighters actively fighting. >> we talked about the brought. i know it was about 100 degrees even away from where the fire was. there was a little rain today, did it help? >> it helped briefly but we are so dry that once it gets up to 100 degrees again and the kinds of grasses we have we are right back to where we were yesterday, which is it's still hot and there is thunder clouds in the area. it's supposed to be 100 degrees for the next week. >> are you getting more firefighters coming to the area? is there a need. >> yes we are. but on the same token, and an we have got areas to the east -- i know there is two nirs in douglas county, which is a neighboring county. for us to take their firefighters and have them come to our area when they are needed out there. we have a number that came from the seattle area which has helped a bunch. >> we wish you the best and we

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we will be continuing to cover the developing story out in wenatchee washington the fire which continues to burn. the drought conditions not helping matters at all. that does it is for us.

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