the infernos killing more than 40 people. forcing more than 250,000 to evacuate and turning some california communities into an ashy moon scape. even today, firefighters near los angeles have a new challenge on their hands. a brush fire in simi valley near my colleague. >> we are on highway 118 in the simi valley. look at the smoke. authorities are trying to put the fire out right now. you can see the helicopter. >> the flair up forcing officials to shut down part of that freeway. firefighters are still battling the woolsey fire nearby. >> i never have seen a fire move like that. >> evacuees came back to the mobile home park where he grew up. >> a lot of people see these big houses in malibu and what not. i grew up in a mobile home park. we are not a bunch of rich people. >> almost everybody is alive.

>> their home survived, but so many of the neighbors including 97-year-old ruth cook lost everything. >> everything that ruth cook had was in this mobile home and now it's basically all destroyed. >> she is alone at this red cross shelter kept for her dog, maggie. >> she just wants to lick. she's a good baby. aren't you, maggie? >> the volunteers are worried. they can't find a place for both ruth and maggie and say separating them would be devastating. >> you cannot separate elderly from their animals. >> tens of thousands like ruth were forced to evacuate the fire. now 30% contained and consuming 93,000 acres. the santa ana winds are still a worry. >> the winds are here and anticipated to stay until tuesday. >> this scene over the weekend in malibu. many narrowly escaping down

fire-lined streets. emerging from the tunnel and hot embers pelling the windshield before driving to safety. >> dear god, let me get out of this! please! please! >> driving through a hell scape to get to her daughter. >> oh, my god. i don't know what to do. >> what's going through your heart right now? >> let me make it to my kids. i wanted to make sure they got safe and got to be with my family. >> among the residents forced to flee, some hollywood elites. >> welcome to my home in malibu. >> gerard butler's home reduced to a skeleton. miley cyrus tweeting about the fires. saying my house no longer stands, but the memories shared with families and friends stands strong. 27 was on record with more than 9,000 fires burning 1.2 million

acres. 2018 is shaping up to be worse with 1.3 million acres already burned. >> based on where we are going with temperatures because of increasing green house gasses, we have drier and drier summers, more and more volatile fuels. i can't see the situation getting better. if anything, it's getting worse. >> all across the state, stores of resilient communities coming to their neighbor's rescue. back in malibu's point dume, the surfer community coming into action. fighting to save homes and bringing in supplies by boat. >> shovels and hand tools are over there. headlights and goggles and safety gear is on that table. >> it's melting up there. >> civilian warriors working around the clock putting out hot spots and doing whatever they can. >> it's weird seeing it like this. >> a lot of memories. >> trying to safety community from burning down. >> this community is as good as

communities get. i think that when stuff like this happens. it makes people stronger. you form bonds that you normally wouldn't have. in that aspect, it's pretty cool. >> at the evacuation center t arrives for ruth and maggie. >> they found a home for you! for you! special. everybody has been working on it. >> what about the doggy? >> and the doggy, too. >> definitely. we found a home for you and maggie. >> a ray of hope amid a firestorm leveling everything from trailer parks to mansions to lives in a fire season that now lasts year around. >> next, the things michelle obama only now feels free to say. robin roberts's exclusive interview on the eve of the former first lady's highly anticipated memoire, but first, marvel mourns a master.

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for eight years as the nation's first lady, michelle obama had to watch every word she uttered. now a private citizen with a memoire coming out tomorrow, she is letting it all spill out to robin roberts. >> there are many things in reading your book that i don't think i would ever imagine hearing from a first lady. lust. you talked about lust for your man. >> uh-huh. it was there.

it still is. i love my husband. a lot. >> her new book, becoming, is a personal look at her life. inside and out of the white house. by age 25 michelle executed a meticulous game plan for achievement and success. >> got into princeton. why don't i go to law school. i got into harvard. got the big firm position. check. >> still a law student at harvard. >> first year. >> you are going to be his mentor. late for the first meeting. >> late. is he trying? >> you were not overly impressed in the beginning. >> i wasn't. i had suspicions when a bunch of white folks faun over a black man. they think he is wonderful. in walks barack obama. barack obama has always walked like barack obama. he's got all the time in the

world. dude, you're cute, but in my mind, i was like -- >> not interested? >> off limits. not even not interested. i'm not going toidate one of the few black soeshts. how tacky. >> by july her resolve to begin romance began to falter. >> he was like you're crazy. i like you and you like me. we should date. he was not playing games. when we stopped for ice cream, he played it real smooth. he just leaned in for a kiss. that really was it. from that kiss on, we were -- was love. he was my man. >> now for the first time, michelle is open up about parts of their marriage she held deeply private for years. first, infertility. >> it turns out that two committed go getters with a deep

love and robust work ethic can't will themselves into being pregnant. >> she did get pregnant, but weeks later, she miscarried. >> i feel like i failed because i didn't know how common miskearmi miscarriages were because we don't talk about it. >> it was with the help of infertility treatments that malia and then sasha were conceived. >> it's the worst thing we do as women is not share the truth about our bodies and how they work and don't work. >> for the first time she shares details about how the stress of their hectic scheduleless infiltrated their marriage. >> marriage counseling was a way where he learned how to talk out differences. what i learned about myself is my happiness was up to me. i know too many young couples who struggle and think that somehow there is something wrong with them. i want them to know that michelle and barack obama who have a phenomenal marriage and

love each other, we work on our marriage and get help when we need it. >> the campaign trail would test her resilience. they called me barack's baby's mama. accused me of not loving my country. said i was angry. >> you admitted, this stuff hurt. >> yeah. >> the hurt would continue into the white house. with calls for president obama's birth certificate, questioning his legitimacy. she writes -- >> it is underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed, but it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wing nuts and the cooks. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate. >> donald trump was putting my family's safety at risk. for this i would never forgive him. >> mrs. obama's influence

continues to touch younger generation. nowhere is she a bigger role model than at whitney young high school on chicago's west side. we brought mrs. obama back to drop in on a dance class. >> you see her right now and you would not know she walked these halls saying am i get enough? >> pa. >> i cautalked about a counsell who said i was not princeton material. can you imagine that? >> she doesn't work here anymore. >> i get a lot of opposition when i ask for opinions from the student body. i want to accommodate to everyone and make the school a better place. >> first of all, you stop trying to make everybody happy. it's impossible. as first lady, i wanted everybody to be happy and i wanted everybody to like me.

no matter what i did, there was always somebody out there that thought what i was saying was stupid or that can't be your goal. i would love to hug each and every one of you. >> what do you want your legacy to be? >> young people are the future. if my story, my journey somehow gives them hope, if i played a role in that for young people coming down the line, i'll feel good about it. >> next here, the big names including bruce springsteen standing up for our veterans.

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>> finally on this veterans day weekend, stars including bruce springsteen honoring the men and women who fought for this country. here's zachary. ♪ >> from the boss -- to the titans. a star-studded lineup uniting to

honor those who served and sacrificed for our country. at the 12th annual stand up for heroes event. >> nothing better. it's the least we can do. >> celebrating heroes like justin and his wife, kim lee. >> it's a hard thing to describe, leaving the military. >> justin came home with his limbs intact, but his deployment did damage to his mind. >> it wasn't until i returned from deployment and his dad took his own life. that sent me spiraling downhill. >> at one point he considered taking his own life. now they are helping spread awareness about the silent wounds of war. >> the fact that 20 veterans a day are taking their lives while working to get rid of the stigma that we come back from war and it's not okay to seek help. >> the event raised $45 million

to date. it started by bob woodruff and his wife and their foundation after he was injured by a roadside bomb while on assignment in 2006. >> is there anything good that happened, i had a chance to accomplish something like this. >> people here like justin and kim are battle tested and resilient. >> we built connections to a supportive community and together we are unbreakable. >> with a little help from bruce, fighting together and healing together. >> thanks to zachary and don't forget you can watch full episodes of night line on hulu. we want to thank you for watching night line. good night.

. live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. an additional 13 human remains have been recovered which brings the total number to 42. >> a grim milestone, the campfire is now the deadliest wild land fire in california history. >> 13 more bodies were recovered from the fire zone, that brings the death toll total to 42. >> the sheriff released the name of three victims, that is 65-year-old ernest faust, 48-year-old jesus -- and gordon's daughter, confirmed to abc 7 news tonight that he also died in the fire. she said that she was with him when the fires hit.

she was waiting in the car waiting to evacuate, he ran in to the house to get something and never came out. he was born and raised in oakland. they moved to the canyon around 1980. at least 200 people are still missing. as we said, the fire is still growing. cal fire reports they have burned 117,000 acres and is 30% contained. president trump approved a major disaster declaration for the state. >> let's begin with laura. >> she is live now from one of the evacuation centers in yuba city, laura. >> well, hi, dan, i'm at the yuba fairgrounds. these folks here are just starting to learn if their homes or businesses survived. in the meantime, up in the fire zone, we found a veteran, on this veteran's day who had a chance to see his loss up close. >> i seen combat zones that looked as bad as this.

>> reporter: gary connor should know, he served to tours in vietnam. pretty sad. but seeing the paradise thrift store, he and his wife marilyn spent yearscreating, reduced to a pile of ash and debris is a lot to take in. >> it's a total loss no, doubt about that. we spent the last, what, seven years building this no more buildable. >> reporter: the store is among >> reporter: the store is among more than 7,000 structures destroyed by the campfire, and as the death toll rises, it's become the most lethal fire in california history had. thanks to the work of more than 4500 firefighters from as far away as south dakota, the fire itself is getting closer to containment. what the campfire left behind, could be tough for even a hardened war veteran to fully comprehend.

where do you go from here? >> forward, you can't go backwards and we are both strong. we should be okay. but there's a lot of people here in town that will not be and that's what bothers me. >> reporter: now, i'm told this she want shelter has 200 -- i'm told this shelter has 200 people in it, it's an hour from the fire zone, unlike others that are a bit closer, this one still has space in it. abc 7 news. >> thaurks thousa-- thanks, som still looking for missing loved ones. we have more from an evacuation center in butte county. >> reporter: it's been a busy night for firefighters, this command center, a tough few days for families sleeping at evacuation centers. earlier today, a story of a family reunited. they greet with a bear hug. they were looking for her for

four days, reunited four hours ago. >> pretty rough, especially on an emotional level. >> reporter: they total 19 had in all, and now all 19 are homeless. this is all they were able to save. jennifer cramer drove the dog with her family and dogs and her one-year-old twins as her home and community burned around her. >> hearing and seeing things blow up >> reporter: her f-- her nephew it's tough to sleep out here at night. >> it's hard, adapting to not coming home to my house. >> reporter: the cousins say they know they have lost everything. but their family is helping them stay positive. i spoke to the office of emergency services. they need help, especially in the form of on cash donations so they can buy the supplies they need. if you want to know how to help,

go to our link on our website. abc 7 news. >> cal fire released an online map tonight, identifying the damaged and destroyed structures, most have been labeled with a red dot on this map. and an image is attached to many of them. you can find it on our website. >> wild fire survivorser were special guests at the 49ers game. as the team hosted football players, cheer leaders and coaches from paradise high school. they got to meet the players on the sidelines and nor a f-- and for a few hours, escape the fear, worry and loss following the wild fire. >> we are grateful for this. and i wish the people at home could have this opportunity too. but we are here for them. and we know they are thankful as well. >> and an assistant coach with the niners grew up in paradise and his childhood home was lost to the flames. the fire dropped the air in the

stadium to an unhealthy level. the giants gave out masks to players, and they had extra oxygen machines on the sidelines. >> dozens of schools will be closed because of the poor air quality and the concern about that. we have a complete list on the website, abc 7 news.com. you can see why, take a look at conditions on friday, saturday and now from the tour camera. our meteorologist is here what we can expect tomorrow. >> unfortunately dan, no one is escaping this smoke. take a look at the sat like picture from nasa, the brighter the colors near the campfire, heading towards our area is an indication of that smoke that has been still spilli in-- has n spilling in to the bay area. yes, we have been dealing with the smoke. and here is satellite imagery with the smoke coming in. the air quality in our region is in the unhealthy to poor category for most of you.

it will not be better for most of you. right on through friday, it will be bad, so, an air quality advisory, spare the air alert is up and a smoke advisory, just keep that in mind as we head towards the next four days. good idea to stay in doors to avoid exposure. >> thank you, volunteers in the north bay are pitching in, rallying support and donations for animals displaced by the campfire. we have that story. >> volunteers that survived the wildfires are paying it forward, hitting the road to help animals in need, impacted by the campfire. >> we are in chico, that is right. >> she just arrived with a trailer full of supplies for animals, big and small. so many animals are in distress, running loose and still being rescued from the campfire. atwood and other volunteers are helping the north valley disaster group. as she was helped after the

north bay wildfires. >> like other responders, we are paying it forward. we are just here to help another community. >> reporter: campfire pet rescue and reunification was started for lost dogs and cats. had she -- >> all new pet faces that you are looking for and hope you find them. >> reporter: we were at the feed store, where barbara halford was spear heading a donation for fire animals. $4,000 and supplies have been collected so far. >> because of your donations, we were able to get a load of feed up to butte to help all of the animals. >> reporter: they need your help with pet adoptions. it's on stand-by to take shelter animals being evacuated from the fire zone, it's taken kitten and

dogs from butte county shelter to help them make extra room for displaced animals that are coming in by the day. >> all right, cornell, thank you very much. state regulators are investigating two major california utilities. p gmg&e and southern california edison, for their roles in the camp and woolsy fires. >> reporter: the kcauses of the fires burning in california are under investigation. 15 minutes before the deadly campfire started, a transmission outage was detected. he is traveling and spoke to us via facetime. >> they have positioned it that they are too big to fail and i kl