families. our thoughts and prayers are with them. to our viewers, thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett why the out"out front" starts right now. next, we are following breaking developments on many fronts. cnn learning the alleged gunman was fired from a job at a nuclear plant. what was he doing there? mohammad youssuf abdulazeez's trips to kuwait and jordan. a friend says something happened to him while he was overseas. the alleged shooter's obsession with mixed martial arts. one expert says it was a power trip for him. we have a special report. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. breaking news the suspect in the tennessee shooting worked at a nuclear plant in the united states. and he was fired there after ten

days. here is what we are learning at this moment. mohammad youssuf abdulazeez was dismissed from this job because according to the plant, which is in ohio he "did not meet minimum requirements for ongoing employment." this comes as we have chilling new video of the massacre in which four american marines were murdered. a barrage of gunfire erupting. [ gunfire ] officials now formally are calling this a terror investigation. the chairman of the house homeland security committee saying the shooting is an isis-inspired act of terrorism. >> too many warning signs. targets are identical to the targets call by isis to attack. in my experience is that this

was an isis-inspired attack. >> evan perez is "out front." i want to start with breaking news that he tried to get a job at a nuclear power plant. he worked there for ten days. then they fired him because he didn't meet their requirements. >> reporter: he had this job for ten days. it was an engineering job. at a plant owned by first energy in ohio. this is near cleveland. this is for ten days in 2013 he held this job. then the company dismissed him because it ended up after done doing what they needed to do it turned out that he did not meet what they said were the requirements. at first when this was broken by the associated press, the first reports indicated that perhaps he failed a background check. the company says that is not the case. they won't specify what exactly the requirements that he didn't meet. the company says they have notified the nuclear regulatory

commission and now they have told the investigators the fbi investigators, it turns out that the company employees after seeing media reports of the gunman's rampage in chattanooga, alerted the company that he had worked there for ten days. >> that's incredible. as i say, minimum requirements, we don't know what that means. it's sobering that he tried to get a job at a nuclear power plant. we don't know the reason for that. it raises a lot of questions. i know that you tonight have new information about the weapons. multiple weapons used in the shootings. how he had them. were they legal? >> reporter: that's the big question that the fbi is following. we know that there were actually four firearms that he had. there were three found at the scene. two long guns and one handgun were found at the scene. then they conducted a search of his home. they found an additional rifle there. we are told that at this point, investigators believe he had these guns for some time.

they were not recently purchased. a friend mentioned in interviews with cnn that he liked guns and he went out and shot these guns. the question now of the fbi wants answered is how those weapons were transer inferred to him years ago. whether there was a crime committed. if there was, they will prosecute the people involved in that. >> thank you very much. of course to evan's point as we talk more and more about when mohammad youssuf abdulazeez was radicalized, if he had the guns for years, does that change the time frame on when he may have become radical? drew griffin is "out front" in chattanooga. you have been talking to people. you have learned more about mohammad youssuf abdulazeez. >> reporter: from friends who are telling us that something changed in his life somewhat recently. even though the fbi said there's no indication that this guy was directed or inspired by anyone other than himself, erin his

friends say after some overseas visits to jordan he came back a changed person. [ gunfire ] now an official terror investigation, officials scouring every detail of able mohammad youssuf abdulazeez's life. >> we have asked our intelligence partners throughout the world to provide us with any information they may have concerning his travel. >> reporter: starting in 2005 he traveled to both kuwait and jordan. "the wall street journal" reports he took several trips to jordan spending seven months in the country. a friend told cnn, something happened over there. he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. the friend goes on to say, i'm sure he had something that happened to him overseas. in school in tennessee, the kid described as funny and friendly took on two tough sports mixed

martial arts and wrestling. in his yearbook he asked an intriguing question. my name causes national security alerts. what does yours do? his father was a subject of a post-9/11 probe into donations he made to overseas charities. the elder abdulazeez was never charged with any crime. in 2009 there was trouble in the family. abdulazeez's mother filed for divorce. she charged her husband with physically abusive to her and her children. the case was dismissed. we believe they are still together. friends say abdulazeez started going to this mosque more frequently in recent months. three months ago he began working here at a cable and wire plant near nashville, tennessee. about the same time he had his only known brush with the law. arrested on a dui charge. the police report noted, erratic driving, slurred speech. the smell of marijuana and white powder under his nose. co-workers say abdulazeez did not show up for work monday and

tuesday calling out sick. also on monday just three days before the shooting this ominous statement. allegedly posted by abdulazeez. this life is short and bitter. the opportunity to submit to allah may pass you by. a high school friend expressed shock that most everyone we spoke to seems to share. >> how can this be mohammad. he wouldn't hurt a fly but he killed people. >> reporter: it's stunning for a lot of people here in chattanooga. to reiterate the point, the guns the friends told us that guns were a part of his life but recreationally wasn't anything done in anger. wasn't anything about it other than he liked to shoot guns. this wasn't -- perhaps wasn't a person who needed to go out and practice for this act he carried off. guns were a part of his life. >> a long time. that fits with what evan is

reporting, the four guns may have been in his possession for years. thanks to you, drew. there are multiple federal and localsy local agencies involved in the investigation. it's being treated as a formal terrorism investigation. it spans from the united states all the way to multiple countries in the middle east. the hamilton county district attorney is neil pinkston. i appreciate your time. we know this is now a tearer investigation that was announced clearly today. are you at this 100% certain more people weren't involved? >> no. it would be too early in the investigationve stages to determine how many people were involved or not involved. it would be airer toerror to speculate on that. >> we saw pictures of a woman handcuffed escorted out of the suspect's home. we have blurred the back her head. we know that she was unhandcuffed and they didn't arrest her.

can you tell us who she was and whether she was able to help you with any useful information? >> she talked to the federal bureau of investigation. those interviews haven't been released and advised what the contents were. she did speak to federal authorities. >> was she a member of the family i presume? >> yes, she was. >> so a member of mohammad youssuf abdulazeez's family. about the family we have the divorce complaint now. i don't know if you heard our reporters reporting. mohammad youssuf abdulazeez's mother filed this report alleging his father beat his mother once so severely she went to a crisis center. the papers say that he was physically and verbally abusive towards the five children. this case was later dismissed. are you aware of any of this or aware of any other family history that you are looking at at this time? >> no. i became aware of the divorce

proceedings this afternoon. there was an agreed upon dismissal. other than that information, it's being looked into by law enforcement agencies. >> do you have any concern that anything was missed here? the breaking news tonight is that he worked for ten days at a nuclear power plant and then was fired after those ten days because he didn't meet the minimum requirements for employment. we don't know what that referred to. but we know he didn't meet the minimum requirements. we know he had apparently alebed ed -- allegedly posted on a blog some disturbing comments which you heard from our drew griffin. are you concerned that there were missed signals? >> not at this time. unfortunately, bad things can happen to really good people. and there's not always a foreshadowing of criminal activity. sometimes it's just the unfortunate reality of the situation. >> i appreciate your time.

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breaking news on the deadly attack on two military centers. the fbi confirming this is a terror investigation. they are looking for links between the gunman 24-year-old mohammad youssuf abdulazeez and terror groups including isis. this as officials tell cnn the gunman travelled to jordan several times, as recently as last year. "the new york times" and wall street journal reports last year was a long one, seven months. nick this is a very significant development, if he was there for a long period of time up to seven months. what are you learning about what he was doing? >> reporter: it's clear that during his time here he was with his uncle. we haven't identified that man. we don't know where that time was spent together. but jordan not itself a hot bed

of isis in the regional sense. a place where there have been radicals in the past and where there are many palestinian refugees like where his family came from. there seems to be a jordanian travel document as well. they will try to work out, did he spend all of his time here in juror dan jordan? did he use it as a hub to go to iraq where there's a lot of isis even al qaeda, all less commonly towards the north where there's potential to learn red cal radical techniques? all this has to be pieced together. this is not where you would normally seek to make your first direct move if you wanted to acquaint yourself with isis. it's a place where he knew people before. >> family links. to your point, reuters spoke to u.s. government sources who say he possibly went to yemen. yemen, known -- headquarters of

al qaeda in the arabian pa peninsula. what does that say to you? >> we don't know if that was the case. if it did happen it would be the most obvious choice of places like we have seen with many other extremists who have attacked the u.s. and other western targets, they go there for training. i have to point out while yemen was in the past in chaos, it's much worse right now. the skills this gunman showed in tennessee doesn't necessarily suggest he had to go to a complex al qaeda training camp and learn bomb making like previous attackers in the past. many questions. but if his journey did take him to yemen, that's a hot bet of al qaeda, even isis in parts. that >> thank you very much, nick. live in jordan tonight. the former assistant director to the u.s. marshal service and our terrorism

analyst. art, as nick is reporting, the gunman travelled to jordan visited his uncle. they say it was a seven-month trip. do you think that this was when he was radicalized? all of his friends are saying that this really happened over the past year or so. >> i think we can make that assumption. i think what the fbi is try doing at this point is establish a time line as to where exactly he went over the past couple of years. obviously, a seven-month trip to jordan and then where did go from there? did he spend all seven months with his uncle or like you had mentioned previously did he jump to another location and receive any type of training? i think the assumption is there that that's probably where his radicalization began. >> and, paul u.s. authorities telling roiters to telling reuters he was in yemen and possibly some of the seven months were in yemen. yemen is a training ground for islamic extremism.

>> if he went to yemen, this transforms the entire investigation. because yemen is the base for al qaeda in the arabian paeninsula that has plotted against the united states. their leader was just killed in a u.s. drone strike in southern yemen. they are out for revenge. if he did go to yemen, that brings up all sorts of red flags. unlikely he would go to yemen to get arabic instruction. because he could go to jordan for that. >> exactly. >> that will be a very interesting development. oblg of course when went isis wasn't so strong at that time. it was more al qaeda in yemen that was in the forefront. >> we have this development tonight that he had a job at a nuclear power plant and was fired after ten days because he didn't meet the minimum requirements. we have no sense if that was part of anything other than a

job. it does raise a lot of questions. >> it does. i heard the earlier reporting that the company is coming back and saying it didn't have do to do with a background investigation. i find that odd. in a lot of these positions, you have to have some sort of background investigation, a base uk ic one to get on the job. as you are on the job, they continue further with a more classified type of investigation. >> paul officials are looking at a blog post that was alleged allegedly posted three days before the shootings. it reads, brothers and sisters, don't be fooled by your desires. this life is short and bitter. the opportunity to submit to allah may pass you by. does this sound like someone who is trying to wage some sort of a holy war to you? >> i have looked at this blog. it's consistent with somebody with fundamentalist views. a certain sympathy for jihad,

that it's important within islam. he is saying all those things. this doesn't lead to the idea that he is necessarily pro-isis or pro-al qaeda. it does not seem like the fbi have found any smoking gun in his social media or online postings to suggest that he was inspired by a particular terrorist group. >> art, the big question is when we hear a post like that gosh should law enforcement have looked at this? could this have been prevented? we know he wasn't on any database of suspected terrorists. that is sort of the anomaly. he was not out there on social media tweeting anything like that. nothing on facebook that we're aware of. >> yeah. you are right. that's very unusual. usually, they are blasting out information over social media. apparently, he was not doing that. that's got to be looked at by the fbi is they have to figure out why did -- how could he fly

under the radar, what was he doing differently that others have not done in the past? is this some new type of method that we're seeing employed by these individuals where they want to fly under the radar as opposed to putting all that information out on social media? >> paul is this something that anybody -- there's so many people who are shocked by this who knew him. but there's also people who say, he was a clean shaven kid a year ago and he grew the beard and he became more religious. is this something that anybody could have raceised a flag about? >> we have seen cases where people go through radicalization quickly and they hide it from family from many of their friends. very rare is the example when somebody is a complete loner that they haven't got some kind of contact in the community. there may have been extremist potentially in the united states that knew him and helped contribute towards his radicalization.

>> thanks to both of you. raising the point that they cannot rule out whether anyone else was involved here in the united states at this time. the breaking news the secretary of defense announcing enhanced security at military sites across the united states. we have those breaking headlines coming up after this. mohammad youssuf abdulazeez and mixed martial arts. he was big at that. he was an avid wrestler. some say this is more than coincidence, that's ahead. breaking news coming out of california at this hour. a wildfire now raging in sanjumped over a freeway. 50 cars are on fire. there are injuries. we will take you live in a moment.

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news out of california. i want to show you live pictures. a massive wildfire burning near the san bernardino national forest. it jumped highway 15. you see cars burning. at least 50 acres on fire. first responders tending to burn victims. stephanie, these pictures are stunning. they were on their commute. fire bursting across the highway into the cars. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the video is absolutely stunning when you see it. those of us who live in southern california have been riveted by the pictures. what is important about this highway, it's interstate 15. this is a vital way for people who are in los angeles to get to say, las vegas. it's a friday afternoon. you can gather there are a lot of people who are heading that way. we do know now that the fire is about 500 acres and it's spreading quickly. we have seen people actually standing out on highway as we have been watching. what's interesting is you can see how quickly the wind is

blowing their clothes. that's how this fire is spreading so quickly. there are reports that there may be people burned. the california highway patrol is trying to get out there to make sure people have removed themselves from the cars and they are in safety. having to run from the cars. you see the boat on fire there. they continue to drop fire retardant here and try to get in there to make sure the people are safe. the fire is spreading from car to car really quickly. >> spreading quickly and, obviously, when the fire all of a sudden jumped from the side into the highway, something people didn't expect there are injuries as you understand right? >> reporter: right. they believe there may be burns. we do not know to what extent. they are trying to get out there to confirm that. they are sending ambulances and paramedics out there as well to tend to the people. there are people out there at one point they closed down the freeway. you can see people are trying to get off the freeway and get out of there. when you look at the images and

there's a couple of car carriers where the cars that they are carrying -- the trucks -- the cars on the trucks are on fire as well. they look like some other truck that was out there that may have have a tank that carries some type of gas. these are all things that they are trying to figure out what to do with and how to get them off the freeways. this is the thing about wildfires. they can change direction on a dime. they can move very fast. that's why they don't want people to waste time when they give directives to stop or change. it can change and really affect people's lives. >> we have someone from the forest service coming on. i think when we look at this and this line of cars the fear here looks to be from the images that we are seeing you talk about this wasn't expected to jump and jumps on the freeway and. it jumps into the cars. there's nowhere for people to go. this has to be tearrrifying. they are full of people. >> reporter: people literally driving. where they are, it's pretty much

remote. it's very remote territory. there's not like there's places they can run to to take shelter away from this. but you are talking about running away on the highway. putting your car in park and having to run from it. where are you running to? if your car is burned up what are you going to? it's a terrifying situation. you can see the red right there in that shot that we saw for a little bit there, that's fire retardant. they are trying to protect people there and make sure that now that the fire has burped through this area you see right there, a drop of the fire retardant on the cars. they are trying to make sure there isn't any other flame that comes through andthe swagsituation more. >> i want to bring in melody a public information officer. we saw a helicopter flying in low trying to drop fire retardant on some of the cars. you can see all the fire retardant dropping down. there was a burst of smoke that went up. now the fires seem to be burning

just as they were before. this has to be incredibly terrifying. you have a freeway full of cars with people in them. they have nowhere to go. >> they are trying to move the vehicles off the freeway as best they can. it's congested because it's a friday afternoon. that path is very busy on friday afternoon. they are dropping water on the cars that are actively burning as best they can. >> do you know -- we're trying to understand. we know there are people injured. we don't know the extent of the injuries. do you have any sense of the situation on the road right now with the injured and with people who are trying to get out of their cars and run away? >> we have no confirmation of injuries at this time. we don't do -- we are aware there are people on the side of the freeway. >> how shocked are you that this happened? our understanding is that this fire was burning and then all of a sudden just jumped on the middle of the freeway and a quick change of direction.

>> the fire moved very rapidly. it has happened in the past too. this is the most vehicles i'm aware of burning at one time on this freeway. >> watch this. you can see the cars are completely burned out. it would seem there's no way for any -- at least object the ground emergency assistance to even get there. all we're seeing is helicopters trying to drop the fire retardant retardant. >> right. it's very congested. we have fire equipment in the area working the fire in the brush as well as on the vehicles. the brush is also threatening nearby homes. >> there are homes nearby. obviously, from what we could see, it doesn't look like there's a massive development there. but there are homes? >> the community of baldy mesa they are under a mandatory evacuation. >> they are under a mandatory evacuation evacuation. stay with me. i want to bring on steve of the

california highway patrol. i know you are seeing these terrifying images as well. what is the situation on the ground here as we see these cars being completely burned out by the fire? >> absolutely it's a horrific scene right now as we are watching. these vehicles were actually left unattended on the freeway. we have about -- confirmation of 70 to 80 vehicles left unattend unattended as the fire approached. they were able to evacuate. we don't have any report of any injuries. i know there's been some sources that have reported -- >> there were. we didn't know any details. you are saying you don't know that there were. >> as of right now, we do know know if there are injuries. just remember, this a coordinate coordinated effort. right now, what's becoming a difficult task is to get the vehicles off the freeway.

some of the cars were left unattended without any vehicle keys in them. we are requesting the assistance of several tow companies to come in and assist with the removal of the vehicles. also we have notified -- i know nevada highway patrol have activated their signage to aware the public what's going on. >> steve, in terms of the risk here you have -- you can see people walking around on the highway. again, we have been able to see a few drops where the helicopters have flown over and you see the fire retardant drop down. it didn't look like it is stopping the fires. are you concerned about it spreading from car to car? >> absolutely. absolutely. that's why fire personnel are on scene. trying to assist with evacuations of any occupants of

the vehicles. again, fire personnel, chp are in the heat of it. they're trying to do the best they can with the resources they have. >> steve, thank you very much. i know we will come back to you as you get more information. i want to kyung lah who is in los angeles. very very busy time. this is a friday. you can see the backup all the cars impacted by this. you have never seen anything like this? >> reporter: never seen anything like this. i have seen fires in this area. you have to forgive the fire trucks passing through here. this is an area if you look at it on the map, it's between mountains. if you can keep watching you can see it's a terrain that is mountainous. this particular area is very

windy. it's quite rugged. there aren't a lot of houses right around the freeway. it is unpredictable. all of us here in the l.a. bureau have covered fires here. it is very easy for this fire to jump and to change direction. firefighters do the best they can to predict which way a wildfire will go. with all the winds shifting with all the heat in that area it's very difficult to predict. here is what we have never seen before. i have never seen vehicles stuck on a freeway, especially on interstate 15, burning up. it started with a few of these cars catching fire. we were watching in the newsroom as heat was continuing to go. there were water drops. the fire department doing a very good job trying to drop large amounts of water on some of these vehicles. but then another part just a little north of where this first fire was burning, there was a car carrier that caught fire. the thing that i immediately started to worry about -- certainly, what first responders

are going to worry about is what about the other cars that are stuck there? it looks like there are dozens of cars stuck there. do they have concerns about the gas tanks? what's going to happen to them? there are a lot of safety concerns. how do you fight these fires? there are people on freeway because they don't have information. there are big sections that you can't get twitter, you don't have a very good cell signal. this is an extraordinaryily difficult situation for these responders. >> incredible to look at this. when the shot pulls out and you see how long the traffic goes. you think about the gas tanks on a hot friday afternoon with the commute. we are following these two breaking stories now on this hour. more on the massive wildfire now burping multiple cars on the freeway. we will be back with that, our other brokeeaking story tonight.

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back to our breaking story tonight. live pictures of what he would are seeing in california. on the freeway there, this is the highway 15 los angeles to

las vegas. sort of part of in a valley completely backed up. a fire -- wildfire jumped on the freeway and all these cars caught fire. at least five of them. we have been watching helicopters dropping fire retardant that has not succeeded in putting the fires out. you can see as we zoom in here people -- there are people walking all over because this is xhult commuting hour. they have been struggling to get emergency vehicles close. they have been trying to put the fire out with actual helicopters. they are dropping fire retardant. we will be going back there live in a moment so that we can tell you what is going on whether there are injuries. now this fire is spreading. in a moment as i said. i want to get to the other brain breaking story, the gunman in tennessee. we have seen this video.

does this have a connection to what he did? killing four marines in an act of terrorism. kyung lah is "out front." >> reporter: mohammad youssuf abdulazeez swinging hard in an amateur mma fight. and for tsarnaev who boxed, their moments in the ring paint a specific profile says retired fbi agent steve moore. >> i see in certain people a feeling that they are powerless. i don't mean powerless as a group but as an individual. >> reporter: moore should know. he led the investigation into mass shooter buford furrow. he believes racism wasn't the real reason behind the shooting but the need to feel powerful. the undeniable feeling of power over your opponent is behind the

thrill of man on man sports like mma and boxing. most sport fighters leave the battle in the ring. but for abdulazeez and tsarnaev there may be more at stake. moore believes this is a sign in a quest for power and seeking that power not ideology is what drives lone wolf terrorists. >> the people who are in these organizations are really not true believers in the religion. they are individuals who need an excuse for what's wrong in their life. >> reporter: dylann roof same thing? >> identical. you show me a teareristme a terrorist and i will show you a person looking to justify their violence. >> reporter: many of law enforcement agrees that's the potency of isis a slick social media campaign that to most americans seems ludicrous. but to someone disenfranchised who feels inept, the message cuts through.

>> they give you a cake with a little chocolate chip of truth and the cage itself is poison. it touches a cord for these people. they say, you know what? now i have got a villain. all of a sudden this passive thing becomes wildly dangerous. >> how can they fight lone wolves like this who might be attracted to a community like mma? >> reporter: that's the challenge for national security as well as local law enforcement. the answer is they don't know. there isn't a prevailing theory. if they're not talking to their parents, if they aren't talking to the muslim american community and not out on social media, what our former fbi agent says it's like trying to find one cancer cell in a body. it's extraordinarily difficult. >> now harry hoch. mma, boxing wrestling.

why? >> you know what it does it instills confidence, endureance and strength. these are things u.s. need if ss you need if you are going to be successful. also the fact that if you are going to be a jihadi terrorist, learning how to fight and fight well is very important. that's why they are involved in this. >> how is it connected to jihad? when you see videos that isis put out, they are similar in terms of the fighting physical hand to hand combat that they emphasize. >> that isis film that came out about the jihad, you see a lot of kung fewu in that. we had a new york city police officer undercover and they were talking about martial arts. this is why. it instills different things in you that are really good. are we going to be able to stop a jihadist because they take up

mma or some other martial art snzarts? no. it's part of a pattern that we need to develop while conducting investigations in these things that happen. this might be one step. it might be one little point for us. it's something that we are going to have to look at. >> harry, thank you very much. o many parallels and consistencies on that. and major story, fire jumping the freeway, setting cars on fire. they are failing to put the fire out as people are walking along the freeway. fire ambulances sent to tend the burn victims. we'll go live to the scene next.

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with our breaking news out of california these are live pictures that you are looking at right now. plumes of black smoke engulfing cars trucks flames across this highway, a massive wildfire jumping the freeway right during rush hour on highway 15. it is burning out of control. right now we understand there are multiple ambulances on scene

tending to burn victims. stephanie elam is out front. and stephanie, i know you have new information from the fire department on how much trouble they are having right now. >> reporter: well one of the main fighting tools when you're fighting a wildfire erin is fighting from the sky. and a dc-10 is an instrumental tool in that. and they can get so much water, thousands upon thousands of gallons of water and dropping the fire retardant. well they had to make a drop and there was a drone, because the drone is there it could cause so much damage. if the plane runs into the drone, if something happens they can't take that chance so they ground the plane until they can get that drone out of the area. they are constantly asking people not to fly drones because of that reason. we do know that the dc-10 is now back up in the air and able to make drops.

but look at this truck here this fire has exploded to 2,000 acres. we just got that confirmed right now. and when you take a look at the truck it started with just the cab was burning. when i talked to you before -- look at how quickly this fire was spreading, whatever it was carrying burning through it. the firefighters are out there with hoses and really getting close to the car as you trucks trying to put it out. but as you can see with the thick black smoke it is burning up whatever energy is in that truck. it is completely burning up. it tells you how hot the truck is for it to burn like that in the first place. it's again important to tell you these are not commuters. these are people just trying to get a jump on the weekend for los angeles. this is really out in the middle of nowhere. it is a forest i know it's not what you think of forests in other parts of the country. but this is california.

this area super windy, lots of dry brush because of the fact we're in that long long drought there. and it can spread quickly and burn very quickly, erin. >> and we talked about it is 500 acres, so now it is four times bigger than that 2,000 acres, we're talking about a freeway with people having nowhere to go. people are out walking around. we know there are burn victims, how concerned are they about this ability to get this under control? >> that is always the concern, because the other issue is the wind could change directions again even though it burned through there before. so the main thing is to evacuate the cars. we understand there are 70 or so cars in the area we have to get them out of the way so we make sure they are not fuel as well. but there are a lot of people walking on the freeway and as i said erin there are not a lot of places to go. >> no there isn't. incredible what we see here with

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"outfront." you can watch us any time. please watch saturday and sunday only on cnn international. our breaking news coverage of that incredible california wildfire in san bernardino continues right now with "ac360." which begins right now. >> all right, good evening, john berman in for anderson tonight. we have a very busy night ahead, breaking right now, live pictures of a huge wildfire in southern california. what we're looking at right now, vehicles are burning. that is a tractor-trailer on fire. that is completely obscuring a car carrier beside it. it is near cajon pass, what happened was the flames jumped the interstate and set anything and everything ablaze. so many cars maybe at