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quarter million dollars? let's get to it. >> good thursday afternoon. we begin with a fox weather alert in south florida. this is the big picture look of these storms coming across the peninsula. here is the serious part. right in miami and the northern part of miami-dade county. we can give you a closer look. this is north miami, and all of this just moving toward the north and east. the most recent report from miami international airport, operations are normal because is passed by. the national, we service says there was a tornado believed to be over -- sunny isle, bay harbor island. and up towards fort lauderdale. all coming in this direction.

very serious storm. this shows the tornado warning area. actually moved a little bit. i think they'll be updating this. north miami beach, hall lendale, hollywood, in broward county. tornado warnings until 33:00 eastern day light time. if you're in this area, tune to south florida's news station and they will keep you updated. >> thousands of people are right now out of their homes and they don't know if they've heal places to live by the day's end. the wildfires burning across san diego county in california, leave something folks with just seconds to clear out. >> there's a fire. clear your house. evacuate your house. and run to the closest street. >> come on, come on, let's go. let's go. let's go, let's go. go, go, go.

>> folks in more than 20,000 homes and businesses had to rush out of their. several raging fires have ripped through homes, closed schools, and forced evacuations at a nuclear power plant. we'll show you where the fires are burning. these are not brush fires. they're burning in a crowded suburb of san diego. this is carlsbad. and san marcos, temperatures approaching 100 degrees especially in the high desert. ten major fires over two days. firefighters did catch a break when the winds died down this morning but report that one fire in the city of san marcos, still burning out of control. in nearby carlsbad, the fire chief reports at least 22 homes burned down, including an entire condominium complex. elementally school students were sitting in class when they saw the flames creeping closer.

>> we could see -- we saw when it started in the morning and saw it spread and saw fire and smoke and everything. i thought they were going to take care of it, but it got worse and we had to go. >> we are just at the beginning of what is proving to be a catastrophic fire season in california. the fire chief there says he has never seen such extreme fires this early in his nearly three decades of firefighters. will carr is on fox's top story some is live in san marcos. what are conditions like now? >> reporter: well, if there's any good news, it's that the winds have died down. the winds that have been pushing the fires around for more than 24 hours. the fire that is top priority for firefighters ruth now is the san marcos five. only 5% contained and continues to be hot spots. today one hot spot burned an 18-unit apartment complex, and this comes after a separate fire ripped through carlsbad yesterday. carlsbad, 35 miles north of

downtown san diego. that fire destroyed numerous homes and rattled thousands of home owners. >> it's pretty wild to see 100-foot flames 60 yards from your house, and see the firefighters and then you hat the huey helicopters going after it. it was quite a sight and we're happy our house is still here. >> reporter: there's been so much damage, the governor has issued a state of emergency. >> will, i want show to our viewers the new live pictures coming into us. you can see in the hills behind the homes and up here, fire after fire after fire. it's incredible to watch. will was saying the winds have died down but the fires create their open wind, and you can see these on the hills are doing that. towering smoke all over the area, and perilously close to this neighborhood. will do we have a sense for what may have caused this? >> well, shep, right now fire

investigators are looking at the ignition points of the fires. they're looking into arson potentially because so many fires broke out in such a short amount of time. they always emphasize they don't have any facts to back that up and their top priority is making sure they get containment on the fires before they figure out exactly what caused the fires. >> we were watching yesterday in carlsbad as this was lapping along the 5 freeway, causing major, major traffic problems, and then there was a neighborhood very similar to this, san marco now in live pictures from our station kswb. their local reporter is giving information now, and as the flames are getting very close to this neighborhood. will, assume all this has been evacuated. >> reporter: that's right. the san marcos area has 20,000 people evacuated and not been able to come back. they're anxiously waiting. so far the fire only burned

three homes but they're anxiously waiting to see if they can get back into their neighborhood and make sure their homes are okay. >> what is the temperature like? still 90-plus? >> reporter: yeah, it's hot. about 98, 99. same we saw yesterday. another red-flag warning day, and means that temperatures are high, humidity is low, and the winds were blowing earlier today. they died down a little bit, but pretty good conditions for these fires to spread. >> sadly it is. what winds there are coming from the desert to at the -- to at the sea and it creates a wind tunnel of its own and then races through canyons which are everywhere around this area. the depth perception done doob deceptive. our crews tell us -- a local reporter is giving information

here now. let's listen. >> the column is growing but certainly -- we did not expect hit to come over as quickly as it did and it was a wall of flames that came over the ridge. >> that wall of flame is something that they expected because of the wind, which stay on the other side of that. but instead -- i want to keep listening. they did not expect it to come over this ridge so quickly. reporters were stuned by it. if these flames get to the neighborhood -- looks very close -- these firefighters will stay and protect as long as they can, but, will, there comes a time -- they evaluated the neighborhood and told the people to leave, and the last thing you want is for firefighters to be in jeopardy. that's beginning to form a wind

tornado. it's taking flames up like a tornado and rushing toward this neighborhood. will, there is no moisture in anything. the rainy season didn't happen. >> reporter: that's right. you know, obviously we're in the middle of a horrible throughout in this part of california, throughout the entire state. so bone-dry that one spark can start a huge fire, and actually as i'm talking we have multiple planes flying over, dropping retardant on the flames, and the frustrating part for the firefighters is that they get on top of them and then they jump again. >> they're headed for this neighborhood, and this is an unbelievable scene. our friends at kswb are shooting this from this neighborhood as the names come over the ridge and begin to devourer this neighborhood. fire trucks are on the move. fire personnel in the street

trying to attack this. water droppers from the air. we watched yesterday as they went to nearby lakes and scooped up water and tried to knock out the fire but it gets so big and so hot and it's moving so quickly there's very little people can do. if you look to the left of the screen and down the street. look how tall those flames are. two or three stories into the air and then whipping up another one of those tornado-like walls of flame, the reporter talking about it. >> i have to tell you that when we pulled into this neighborhood, we talked to a couple residents and they actually went through an evacuation last night when the fire came in from another direction, and they'd actually -- the firefighters were able to stave it off. but this right here, i don't think this is what they were absolutely expecting. this is just -- i'm really hoping that the firefighters are able to save these homes. this wall of flame is just -- it's crazy. >> local reporter for fox 5,

standing in the neighborhood with her photographer and crew s not what the firefighters expected based on wind conditions. they expected the flames to stay on the other side of this ridge for are a much longer time and thought they could get in, wet down the area, set up lines, but that is clearly not the case as sharon is reporting now. >> give us just a couple of second here -- go for it -- and then we can get closer across the street and you -- my gosh, i think -- >> the fire danger are as high as they have ever been for this time of year. aku -- accuweather meteorologist is on the line. i know a lot of weather people in california. nobody has ever seen anything like this, this early. >> you're right. and this is driven by the drought which is covering the entire state of california.

in fact exceptional drought and that's the very highest point of the scale. that's over a quarter of the state in this area. southern california. out to the coast. today we have another complicating factor, the shaw you're flow which is creating heat. a current temperature in l.a., 99. and low humidity. and even localized wind effects. might not be i wouldspread, and you have the very, very hi-fi danger. the good news, if there is any, it's going to start to slowly taper off over the course of the next several days in san diego county, where we have all the fires right now, the tie her, 1 are -- the he temperature, 100, and humidity 5%. so hardly any moisture in the atmosphere at all. tomorrow, temperatures start to slowly nose down. humidity starts to come up, and our temperatures will cool off heading into the upcoming weekend. >> no good news for anybody here

in san marcos, california. these flames have come over the ridge and chewed up everything in their path. we have been listening to sharon chen, fox 5 in san diego, and we thank them for their hope with our coverage. there's nowhere to hide. sharon and her crew have backed up, as you can see, all the fire department personnel and all of their equipment still down at the end of this other street, perpendicular, and we're so close to it all now, the smoke and the flames are sort of on top of where our local reporter and photographer are, and it's an ominous sight. i can remember covering fires in the florida everglades -- i don't want to admit how long ago -- 20 years or more ago -- when the wind shifts and the flames and the smoke turns around and comes back on you, is a as frightening a thing as i've ever experienced because

suddenly you're in the middle of a fire. we're trying to listen to sharon. we're concerned on many levels about their safety there, but -- they've covered these things for a long time. i know that this one surprised everybody on scene. the fire department personnel and the rest. sharon is talking. >> firefighters are dealing with. i am watching right now, that wall of flame going up the hill, and you can see the trees are swaying in that direction. you can see it's actually being pushed up the hill by the wind, and firefighters actually -- i spoke with them this morning and they told me that today the heat and the wind were still going to be a concern, and this particular fire was the biggest threat, and as we can see that is obviously the case right now. >> it's fascinating to watch from afar, and horrifying on scene. i have over here a map of where this is. this is san marcos and via del

campo, and this is the curve where we are right here. so this is all of the homes and the hills back hip. so at least two or three dozen homes -- this is via del campo, and paseo tierra. and if you spin around, you can see that hill behind this cul-de-sac there is up in flames. the wind is shooting it up -- do we still have our reporter from the fire, will carr? will, we're -- >> reporter: yes. >> we're watching the wind in san marcos. i'm reading the wind speeds and says five to ten miles-per-hour. but that is not what we'ring. these fires are creating a hell of a wind. >> that's right. this afternoon firefighters hoped to get the upper hand on the fires but right now, from

where i'm standing, i sue two huge plumes of smoke in the air. hundred behind me. one in front of me. you can see just how strong these hot spots are getting, and it's really become kind of like a frustrating game of whack-a- mole. the knock a hot spot down and then it jumps. a couple blocks from us homeowners are running around -- we assume they're home owner -- trying to water down anything and everything they can because at this point -- behind me and in front of me looks like the fire is out of control. >> it looks like it shifted. when looking at the wind maps from the national weather service and the rest, i don't see this shift, but i can see it with my eye us. the wind was blowing in the direction of the ridge a moment ago. now the wind is coming back and it's bringing the flames with it. there's been a wind shift.

>> reporter: where we're standing the winds are relatively calm. that's the tricky part before the santa ana winds. you're in one area, they're calm. another area, there's huge gusts. there will supposed to be gusts up to 40-50 miles-per-hour today so that's what you're seeing in those areas and it is kicking the fire around, and a variety of different places. obviously making this incredibly challenging for all the firefighters out there. >> has to be. will, i want to show our viewers these map. this says the winds are blowing out of the northwest so at 10-miles-an-hour, but you get these santa ana winds come in right off the pacific, and the winds get much higher than that. and then these flames create more winds and the sort of fire--nados we were watching. it's hard to tell from our perspective if the names are headed towards the houses or gone over them and now the houses may be out of danger. can you tell?

>> reporter: i can't tell from my perspective. what i can tell you is there is a large burn scar behind me from when the fire raced up yesterday afternoon. so there's not a threat of the homes that wrap around behind me bus the fire has already burned through here in front of me, though, there's a lot of fresh vegetation for this fire. so it looks like a big plume of smoke in front of me is pushing towards us so there's a lot of fresh vegetation. we have seen firefighters going the opposite direction. all day we have been seeing them go this way. in the last 10-15 minuteses they're going that way. >> this looks like a house on top of the ridge. the brush is green but it's bone dry, and on the other side of these flames there is a house up there on top of that ridge, which is very much in danger. you see the fire personnel working down on via del campo, and now more fire trucks on the

far part of the screen. just getting around -- roads get blocked off because of the fires. the smoke is so think. firefighters getting in and out of canyons, it's not an easy thing to do. >> it's. >> reporter: these are very narrow roads. one photographer just saw what we think are home owners who are watering down their homes, and honestly, you can understand why, but what happens if these roads get clogged. we had to move throughout the day to make sure wore off the path. so if these firefighters have to race towards the fire, that nobody gets in their way. so that's obviously why they closed so many of these roads. know it's very frustrating for the residents but they're trying to save as many homes as they can. >> wow. we tearily lost the treat from the ground shot there on via del campo in san marcos. 19 minutes past noon in the west

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continuing coverage of a fire disaster unfolding before our eyes in san diego, california. this is san marcos. we're watching our local station and this is playback they're doing of this terrifying fire-tornado looking thing that came roaring through the neighborhood. and fire after fire after fire dots the landscape in the hills around san marcos. this is at the end of a cul-de-sac. the cam race looking down a street that ends in a

cul-de-sac. and there are 25, 30 homes in this neighborhood. the thinking was that these flames would stay on the other side of the ridge you can very very faintly on the back, but they did not. there was a wind shift, a temporary and local wind shift, but a wind shift that brought it over the wind. the winds were coming at our camera location. now they're moving back toward the ridge again. so the winds are spiraling, and people are kind of trying to figure out where this is going. we have a live feed from our local station but they're in tape playback. looks like this is getting hotter and hotter. >> reporter: that's right. we moved location and the ridge is right here. we just saw them dump some water or retardant on this hot spot. flames shot up 20-30 feet into

the air and now there's a huge white plume of smoke to our vantage point. this isn't the only one. i actually can see threw huge plumes of smoke here. one to my left, one in between, and then a huge black one going up into the air. to visualize how hard it is for these firefighters to try to get on top of this. they concentrate of one of these areas and then you see another one jump up. we have seen numerous planes circling all three of these plumes, dropping retardant and water, doing everything they took get on top of the fire. you were talking about how close we for homes. if you look down, we're actually right next to one of the homes that burned right here. so this is the damage that can come from here and this is why these firefighters are doing everything they possibly can right now to save so many other homes. >> a minute ago -- ask your photographer to go back to the house where started the live

shot. a house that is in the center with fire all around. that's good. this whole picture here is one that is worth seeing. what the fire department and local officials ask people to do is clear the brush around your houses before fire season. so if the fires come toward you home they've run out of fuel and that's what happened here. there's no fuel around the house so the house still stands. >> that's right. and so many times when you come that these wildfires it seems like the fires almost pick and choose which homes they burn, but it's exactly for the reason you're talking about. some home owners do a fantastic job of clearing out al the vegetation, all the trees from around their home. others don't do a great job, and just takes one ember to follow into a huge amount of leaves or trees that are right on the homes, and then they jump on the homes and that's how you lose homes so quickly, especially when you have winds like yesterday and today.

>> we're looking at your shot on the left, and we appreciate that. on the right-hand side of the screen is a videotape from earlier. the reason we don't have a live picture is that fire was headed right for them, and our local crew brought their live truck antenna down and got their ofter and photographer out of there. so they're moving a block away or so and will give us live pictures in a minute. goes without saying now -- we watched it happen -- you have to pay very close attention to what you're doing. year wind shift away from being part of the fire. >> that is absolutely true. and as i'm talking i see another huge, thick black plume of smoke shoot up into the air. the flames are getting very large down there right now. we're just talking about that home just to the left of these flames. we are two or three miles as the crow flies from the homes. i see people out there, may be

firefighters or home openers, trying to hose down the area. even though they've done a pretty good job of getting the vegetation away, there's pushes- bushes and trees behind the home obviously this is still out of control right now, shep, and firefighters trying to do everything they can. >> a rae minder to will carr -- thank you, will carr, this is san marcos, california, in essence a suburb of san diego. they now have the most extreme wildfire danger that exists on the scale. it's high 90s. approaching 100, add the flames and imagine how hot it is. the relative humidity is hovering somewhere around four or five percent. so, the air is incredibly dry, and so are the -- so is the

vegetation. i think the last measurable rain there was a couple of weeks ago and that wasn't very much. it has been hot as blue blazes in san diego. happened to be there a keeping ago and the temperatures were and with that kind for three of temperature-and that low humidity, everything that looks green and moist is not. it is as brittle as can be, and when the flames get to and it the wind pushes it along, it just wipes out everything in its path. we were reporting on this at this time yesterday. it's a half past noon now on the west coast and at this time yesterday the flames kicked up in a way that nobody anticipated. we got reports of as many as 30 homes damaged at the time. we watched a number of homes burn to the ground. there were more than 11,000 evacuation notices sent out initially, then 15,000 homes. that's the number of structures

evacuated. an elementary and middle school evacuated. as the planes fly overhead to try to douse the flames, kids were taken to shelters so parents could get them. there's a smog alert as a result of this. the smoke is thick. the santa anna winds are blowing and there's no relief expected today. the humidity is to remain high -- low. the temperatures to remain high into the evening, and then, will, tomorrow, temperatures are to drop a little bit and they're hoping for a bit of marine large -- marine layer. when the winds are off the water, the temperature is cooler, so you'll get this marine layer that slides over -- sort of like a high flog that slides of the surface and will bring the moisture content of the air up and that can help firefighters. but that's the story for tomorrow, will carr, not today. today it's bone dry. >> reporter: that's right, shep. as we're talking these flames are shooting up. they have too be going at least 150 feet up into the air, and

sometimes firefighters, what they have to do, because of the resources, they have to play defense on these fires. they make sure that they clear out all the brush and vegetation from around the homes and try to let the fires burn out in areas that don't have any homes or communities in them. so you see these homes off to the left. you see the flames here in the middle and down to the right. really not much. i don't know if that's what they were trying to do, let this burn out in that direction where there aren't any homes or communes, but obviously this fire turned around and is working up the hillside, verse close to homes. i see about a dozen people down near this one home. there's a carport down there and the flames look like they're within 15-20 feet of the home. so i believe the firefighters down there are really trying to do everything they can to defend that home. i ski a carport, another home, and then on a hillside behind

that there's another home. so, about two, three homes right in this area where these flames are churning up everything in its path. >> we'll be right back. a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna publishing the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*?

26 minutes before the top of the fire and a wildfire alert in california. the wildfires are burning around san marcos. this is just such an ominous thing to watch. this is your neighborhood, where your home and is your friends live and there's a tornado of fire rising from your backyard. this fire then swept on up the hill and now a live look. our live camera had to move because they were in danger of getting swept away by the fires and now they're in a place that's safer. so our local station is on

scene. will carr is there as well, and the hope is that firefighters who work so tirelessly and with such lack of fear will be able to keep this away from those homes. we'll have live coverage after a quick commercial break. this is breaking news coverage on fox news channel.

23 minutes before the hour. the wildfire burning out of control the southern california, and look at these fire trucks. this is a picture from the camera of will carr -- actually our local station. and the fire trucks are lined up on the ridge. you have to put yourself in position without getting trapped so they zoomed in on this and there are at least eight fire trucks on the ridge. looks like just orange smoke everywhere but the flames are getting quite close now. the winds which had died down, are whipping up at least in this area. hard to know whether the fire is generating the winds or combination of that with the winds coming up over the canyon. when we were here five or ten

minutes ago the smoke that was here was moving toward what amounts to the right of the television set and now it's coming back at us. so the winds are shifting. whether the national weather service's radar says or not doesn't matter because we can see it. these are live pictures. they're calling this the cocos fire. the shot we had just a moment ago from the ground looking up, and now what we're seeing is the shot down at the same thing. so the smoke is rising. the house that will carr was telling us about. the carport on the side, they were trying to protect. this is a local television reporter giving us information. let's listen. >> that's our only road. if that's blocked off we take to

construction -- >> i thought what cost. from our fox station but it was coming from the abc affiliate and we apologize for taking their video. this is our video. it's just not slowing down. about this time yesterday, will carr, all of a sudden the fires had extreme forward progress, and then about this time, by some miracle he winds died down and the flames began to burn themselves out and i think probably dozens if not hundreds of homes were saved. is that happening again? >> well, it seems like we're actually seeing the opposite today. the winds were very calm this morning and they are picking up now, and you can take a look at this fire. looks like actually on this ridge the winds are now pushing the fire in a different direction. a little bit away from these homes. the bad part about that is -- eric, if you can pan to the

left -- we actually see three huge plumes of smoke in different areas. there's another plume right over the other hillside on the backside of this hillside, and that museum is now -- that plume is moving towards the home. so one part of the fire looks like it's getting pushed away from the home, another part of the fire in a different area is now coming towards some of these other homes that are probably a quarter mile from where we have been seeing some of the biggest flames. we have also seen airplanes circling this entire area but within the last 20, 25 minutes, we haven't seen any drops. in fact i think you see an airplane right now. we have seen this plane circle three or four times, but apparently they're doing drops on a plume over to our right side. and you know, with fires like this you have so many fires and so many different places. they can only put their resources in so many areas at a

time. >> home sure it's frustrating for everybody involved. trace gallagher knows the san diego area as well as anybody i know. trace, it's so early in the season, yesterday was horrible. today is horrible. and i think there are a lot of fears about what is coming. >> there should be. to pick up on what you and will were talking about. it's 100 editions on the ground, winds at 20-25 miles-per-hour, and in the next hour, hour and a half. the santa ana winds from the desert will stop and you'll get the coastal flow. that's good for the firefight but very bad on the ground because the winds will come out of a completely different direction and firefighters will have to kind of reposition themselves around this fire. if you look at the houses -- very important to point out -- when i lived here the houses were made of different materials. now the house have brick tile roofs and stucco on the sides and most houses don't have the

wood sticking out of the side, because the problem is embers would get inside, in the eve -- eave of the roof and the attic would catch on fire. these firefighters are building their fireline, protection is the main priority here but is survival of the fittest. so if this fire were to jump the fire line and get one of those houses on fire, the firefighters dope really have the manpower or the time to put out individual fires of homes. they would then move to the next subdivision or next area of houses to protect those. so they line up -- a strategy they've been practicing for the better part of 40 years. get the dry brunch -- drew brush out of the -- the dry brush out of the way and hope the winds maintain a direction so they can get a zone of comfort between the fire and the homes themselves. but of course, if the fire jumps and hits these houses, then they

move on and do protection down the line. >> fighting these fires for 40 years and yet they keep rebuilding the houses. doesn't sound that smart, about as one who is from hurricane area where we do the same thing, our husbands get knocked down and we rebuild. seems like a fool's folly. >> it, but you have to keep in mind, when all this stuff burns away you have years of natural protection, and, yes, it's been dry and the fire hasn't even started yet, but when all of this stuff burns away and you live in these areas you have at least, two, three years of protection because it's a burn-ed out area. we haven't covered a fire in the san marcos area in maybe five or six years. fires we have seen in in the pan years, scrips scripps -- scrip .

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you have been at commercial break and we've been watching an astounding scene here in this same area. look at this man here. and this enormous wall of flame on the hillside behind him. all of this just lit up in orange less than a minute ago, and you can see down here, somebody is probably doing some praying. this is a 6 6 '68, '69 camaro, a porsche. can you insure that? not like you can get one. nobody has been hurt in all of this, which is somewhat of a miracle and is a testament to their evacuation plans and all

they do. you can see this firefighter wetting down hot spots because as trace was saying, once it's burning they move on. the goal is to keep the flames from getting to the structures, whatever the structures are may. understanding all the people are out and if you have been to this part of the country, it's absolutely beautiful with the towering canyons who the clouds come over -- when the flames do it, it goes up in an instant. this whole screen while you were in commercial break was orange and didn't take but 60 seconds for all the brush to be consumed and then there's nothing else for the fire to burn. trace was talk about the santa ana winds, the high, dry winds that stop in the early to mid-afternoon, then you get the onshore flow. the breeze from the sea. it's going to be also more humid, obviously, coming off the water. going to be also cooler, coming

from the water instead of the des. it cannot happen quickly enough for these men on the ground. the fire season has not even begun and these sake firefighters -- same firefighters will do the same thing for months on end. the toll it must take. >> october is the big fire season month and if you look back, we in october late september, have lost thousands and homes bus of these types of fires. so there's no rain to be had in southern california. where the song, never rains in southern california, it's true from now until at least late november. we get very little rain. so it's like this right now in may. you can imagine what firefighters will go through over the next four or five months trying to protect these homes. they will go through and try to thin the brush around these areas like san marcos and rancho bernardo and other areas, but

there's very little they can do when the fire is actually starting and the santa ana winds blow because you're in defense mode and there's no more offense. so they will do as much education as possible. but when the fire hits the fan, you are in very dire straits in southern california when you have the heat and the winds and the temperatures. >> as you can tell just by looking how dry this is. i want to show viewers the evacuation that happened a short time ago with police and fire personnel. the same neighborhood we have been watching all afternoon. just streaming out of there. it's my understanding that it's our hurricane. they tell you a hurricane is coming. it may or may not. probably be windy and get but evacuation is expensive, takes time, uproots the family. same thing for fire season. won't hit here but then at the last second you got to haul out of there then the roads are crowded, and it can be a very

scary situation. we have some people on the phone who are in this neighborhood and we'll speak with them, and we'll have continue coverage right after this.

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brian, this must get old. >> it can tell you we're definitely not short on entertainment. it's been con shen -- contentious for folks and people evacuated but everybody in good spirits, especially when you see the pumper trucks and the marine helicopters and the planes, gives us confidence. >> it's astounding to see how well-coordinated these people are and how hard they work for you. makes you feel good, i'm sure. >> thoroughly impressed. they're doing a fast -- fantastic job. their demeanor of the first responders has been professional but the way the winds are changing, it's out of our hands and it's just everybody giving their best effort. >> video cam cameras can be

deceptive. the flames seem everywhere. >> the real doubling piece is, especially this morning when the sun came up, kind of looked like a very small snow flurries because of the ash. when the ash is flying, the embers are flying, too, so those embers can -- we have confidence that the fire department has the larger fires under control, but if the embers start going opened, that's when real trouble starts. >> brian is a friend of leah gabriel. stay safe. we're watching a structure good down now. i can't know what this is. didn't see it when it started to burn. but structures are going to be lost is a begin. a horrible day in southern california. our best to our friends at fox 5 in the san diego area. sharon chen and the rest who helped us from the local fox 5. also, our correspondents trace

gallagher and will carr on the west coast and will be with you throughout the afternoon as we watch this thing burn. it's fire season and it's come months early. it's may. no rain until october. the fire season has just begun.

here we go again. just a whole lot earlier. you're looking live at san marcos, california, a press conference on the severity of a fire that has gone out of control and is massive. their burning out of control in at least 16 different locations, threatening homes and residents right now already been told to get out. most already have. the fire scorching at least 700 acres thus far. this is not new to southern california or the west coast. it's dealt with these fires before, just not this early in the season and that's why it's getting as much attention as it