pence. >> four u.s. service members, special forces, killed in action in niger, a country in which there are apparently about 800 u.s. service members, and truly global war on terror a. thank you both for being with me tonight. that is all in for this evening. rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. appreciate it. thanks at home for joining us. these fires, they are for real. there are already at least ten deaths related to this outbreak of fires today. overall in california there are more than a dozen fires burning in eight counties. but what we are watching and what we are frankly agape at tonight are the fires burning north of san francisco, so this is napa valley, sonoma county. if you're not from that part of the world or if you can't picture these places in more

normal times, you have definitely heard of these places. this is the most famous wine growing region in the country. it's a really big tourist region because of that. but despite the fact that it is famous for wine, this is not just agricultural land. this is for populated territory. the city of santa rosa is the largest city affected by the fires. also calistoga is right there. what has happened with this incredibly fast moving fire today and tonight is that whole neighborhoods are gone. this is a before picture, an aerial view. this is a neighborhood called coffee park. in santa rosa, c. look at this same picture after. that's after this fire roared through there today. every single one of those homes incinerated. this fire was only about 200 acres adds of last night, but it exploded over the last 24 hours.

it was 200 acres last night. by this afternoon it was 25,000 acres. and it is burning totally out of control. there are certainly hundreds of homes burned already. it looks like in the end we may be talking about thousands of homes that have been reduced to ash. one of the remarkable things about these shots of these neighborhoods is not just that homes are burned and so many homes are burned, but that they are completely, completely gone. whole hospitals had to be evacuated this afternoon. and this evening. as smoke and flames bore down on these hospitals with incredible speed. these are someplaces they had thought that patients would be safe and where they would be okay to stay operating. but the hospitals were evaluated -- excuse me, were evacuated quickly and at the last moment. there's some reports that at the kizer hospital in santa rosa, hospital stave may have had to evacuate patients from that hospital in their own personal

vehicles. hospital staff using their own cars to evacuate patients in some cases because this thing just came down on them so fast. there were no other options. so again, the top line news here is that there are a bunch of fires in california. there's also a very serious one burning in southern california, in anaheim, but this northern c fire just north of san francisco really is destroying whole neighborhoods in very populated areas and it happened very fast today. so we're watching that story tonight with some considerable urgency as they try to get at least portions of those fires under control. over the course of this hour we will also have update for you on the ongoing crisis in puerto rico where we are closing in on three weeks of a federal response to the hurricane there that itself is turning out to be a disaster. we had a report here on this show on friday night about our producers being able to freely drive right into at least one town in puerto rico that fema insisted it couldn't get into.

we had a very unexpected response from fema to that story. we'll have that update for you ahead this hour. the president today spent the day golfing. so there's that. but in today's news, we have also been introduced to these guys. >> hi. today is going to be one of the worst elections in america. we have one of the worst candidates and the candidate is hillary clinton. most of the black people in america think hillary clinton is going to fight for them. hillary clinton is one of the biggest liars. all she wants is power. >> we're going to talk about what many people like and dislike. who am i talking to? i'm talking about the old hillary clinton. no matter how she pretends to be

nice to black people, but i know that she's [ bleep ] and she tried to pretend like an angel. let our vote go for trump because this man is a businessman. he's not a politician. we can half deal with him. i didn't see him -- any businessman cannot be a racist. like for me, my vote go for trump. because he's going to stick up for the promise land because we are going to vote for changing. he's the best candidate and i vote for him. >> do you believe him? do you believe that he is voting for trump? the "daily beast" reports today that shows guys, williams and kelvin, got their content yanked off facebook in august. quote, after it was identified as a russian government backed

propaganda account. how did facebook determine that these guys, williams and calvin, were not who they say they are and they were actually russian government backed propaganda? i don't know. facebook isn't explaining these kinds of things. but they did yank them off facebook in august. reportedly twitter also yanked them in august. you can still get their stuff on youtube, but if you find them on youtube, you'll find there's a very small number of views. the place where they got tons of traffic, thousands of hits, tens of thousands of views, was apparently on facebook. so these guys promoted the fact they said they were going to vote for trump. they made the case that no black people should vote for hillary clinton, that hillary clinton is a terrible, terrible racist, and trump is great for black people. they also spent one entire youtube video advertising that steve bannon produced anti-hillary film clinton cash. i don't know why they are

particularly interested in mr. breitbart's work. but these guys purport to be from atlanta. there is some very surface stuff about them online that is designed to make it seem like they near atlanta and in one case one of these guys reportedly named a famous instagram model as his little brother in atlanta and the instagram model is, like, i've never heard of you. but according to "the daily beast" reporting, none of these guys, facebook friends, none of their link to any other real active humans appear to be in atlanta or have anything to do with atlanta. and in fact, both of them say other places online that where they actually life is nigeria. so maybe these guys will turnout to be real donald trump supportin supporti

supporting atlantans. something about them made facebook and twitter shut them down online for being bought and paid for by the russian government. this is just the latest in what's been a solid month now of treasure trove reporting from american journalists about what russia did online during our election to try to help donald trump and to try to hurt hillary clinton. thursday night at the "wall street journal" we learned that facebook was aware as far back as april about the russian government pushing content on facebook to try and influence the 2016 election. facebook had apparently initially planned to include specific mention of what russia was doing when facebook put out its company statement about how facebook was used during the election back in april. but for some reason, after the initial statement was drafted, including all the information about what russia was doing on facebook, for some reason, facebook decided to second draft that statement and specifically cut out all mentions of russia. any mention that russia had been involved in creating fake content at facebook for the

election. so that was the headline at the "wall street journal." facebook cut russia out of april report on election influence. we don't know why facebook decided to keep quiet about what russia was doing on their pl platform but we did know after they put out that statement in april facebook again and again and again denied that there was any evidence they've seen that there was any russian money or any russian government activity using facebook ads to try to influence american voters during the election. facebook denied that to wire.com. they denied it to cnn.com on july the 20th. but then miraculously in september facebook finally admitted actually despite all those previous denials, yeah, it turns out russia has been buying ads on facebook to influence the election. why did they deny it for so long? were they denying without having ever checked? or were they denying it knowing

that actually, yeah, there was a lot of russian activity on facebook targeting our election? because if they did know about russia being active on facebook trying to affect the outcome of our election in time for that april statement, then they could have told us a lot earlier than they did. had facebook admitted what they knew about russia using their platform to try to affect the election, had they told us about that six months ago when they apparently knew it, maybe all this reporting that we're getting now would be six months further along. but for whatever reason facebook wouldn't admit anything about using their platform until september. we've had this long delay to come to any understanding of what russia was really doing to try to influence our election. facebook finally admitted that russia was active on their platform buying ads as of early september. since then we have had a month of really good reporting that has finally opened the flood

gates so that we regular people, you know, not congressional investigators, not mueller's prosecutors, not people who work inside these tech companies, but regular americans can, through the virtues of good journalism, now see what exactly russia did. all right. "daily beast" was first less than a week after facebook had its initial admission in september. they found this group, secured borders, which purports to be an american group. it was not an american group. it was operated by russian agents. "daily beast" had the first report on them back on september 11th that this was a facebook identity russian run facebook groups that appeared to be american but it wasn't. what it was trying to do online was jen up fear of immigrants. secured borders tried to get americans to go anti-clinton rallies in idea. then two days later "business

insider" turned up another facebook entity secretly run out of russia. this was called heart of particulars. not operated from particulars. operated from russia. some of that is evident in their hilarious effort to sound texan or to even sound english speaking. in love with texas shape. close. you got close but not quite there. and this heart of texas group was an i love texas group, but mostly they appear to have been anti-hillary clinton and some of it not. this one, no hypoclintos in the god blessed texas. i don't know what they mean. figuratively i get it. they also promoted hillary for prison. this was them too. hillary, stay away from texas,

with the photo shopped image of her with osama bin laden. this russian group on facebook started to promote an idea that must have seemed like a satisfies prospect to moscow after they pulled it off. this russian run texas facebook group switched over to this as their theme. secede, if hillary wins the election, texas should break off from the united states. a week after that reporting on the texas group, then it was "daily beast" uncovering another fake russian run outlets operating on facebook as if it was an american group. this one was called "being patriotic." it was naturally run by russian agents. and they promoted pro donald trump protests in florida. florida goes trump. they promoted pro trump rallies in pennsylvania including miners for trump demonstrations. they promoted down with hillary

clinton protests in new york. then a few days after that reporting from the "daily beast" " -- even after bernie sanders had dropped out of the race and endorsed hillary clinton. and right to the bitter end, they were able to find facebook ads that were promoting the candidacy of jill stein. quote, vote for jill stein. trust me, it's not a wasted vote. #grow a spine, vote jill stein. a day after that story, it was abc news finding more russian content on the russian run facebook group secure borders. that same group was promoting this image on facebook ahead of the election. donald trump as santa. like if you agree. we are going to say merry christmas again.

these are russian agents promoting this. the same russian agents also pitching dora the explorer as an illegal immigrant. if you get caught, they'd just send you back in your country so you can try again. it's almost english. you get the idea. then the day after that report it was cnn who was able to track gee graphical targeting for fake black lives matter facebook content that was actually created by the russian government. a cnn was able to track that those fake black lives matter messages were targeted specifically to baltimore and to ferguson, missouri, trying to pour maximum fuel on the fire. "the daily beast" and "new york times" have tracked how russian agents were running various facebook groups called united muslims of america and another called lgbt united and another called defend the second, and another group called

blacktivist. these are facebook and twitter groups all run by russian agents all designed to cause anxiety and division. and all designed to portray hillary clinton as not just liberal but dangerously radical. and so all of that reporting has happened over the past month or so since facebook finally was dragged kicking and screaming into admitting that yeah, there was russian-paid content on facebook trying to affect the election. so in a rush, in this past month, we've had all this good, in-depth concrete reporting to actually make it nuts and bolts. to give us something to look at. give us something to see so we can understand how russia operated within our election. just over the past month we've had this rush of reporting that makes it not so much an esso tear rick thing nim. we can see it. we know this is what russian did during the election.

this was russian. they're calling themselves heart of texas, but they got on facebook and said, pure evil. visual, with this unflattering picture of hillary clinton. the caption you can see at the top. hillary is no doubt pure evil. all the patriots must immediately stand up with arms in hands against washington in the event that clinton, quote, wins, end quote, the election. like and share if you agree with me. anybody who saw that hillary clinton unflattering picture, pure evil, of the phrase caption was looking at the work not of some trump supporter or of the trump campaign or even some radical texas se sessionist who likes the shape of texas. if you saw that -- anybody who saw that online, that was from moscow. or st. peters beburg. that was from a russian government info operation

targeting you as an american voter. that's what they did. and the only reason we know that is because journalists have been able to sort of reverse engineer this stuff and figure it out and find stuff that hasn't been deleted. facebook hasn't made any of this stuff public. twitter announced that it took down a couple hundred fake accounts that were definitely run out of russia but it won't say what those accounts were. today google announced its platform was also used by russian agents to run ads during the american presidential lakz. these ran on google search results or websites that used google ads in the margins. it's also possible they appeared in ads on gmail or on youtube. this admission from google followed the exact same pattern we have seen from twitter and facebook thus far. these companies, these big, rich, capable american companies whose bread and butter is data and data specificity, more than

a year down the road, these american companies have to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit that they were ever used illegally by a foreign government to influence our election and now they are admitting it in the smallest possible way, it would be impossible to play it down any smaller than they are. they are admitting to a few thousand dollars that may have been spent on their platform by people who may be -- yeah, they were russian government agents. but it was a few thousand dollars. drop in the bucket. nothing to worry about. couldn't have had any effect. but you know what? almost nothing that we know about what the russians did, about this influence campaign and what they did online, almost nothing that we know about it comes from these companies themselves. these companies that maintain these platforms where the russians operated. the companies have told us basically nothing. they've told congress basically nothing. almost everything we know we know from american journalists figuring this stuff out for

themselves. and working backwards from what they can still find evidence of online. none of this is from what the confidential informan companies have disclosed. what do we understand about how big this russian campaign was? how influential it might have been on american voters? there's a digital journalism center at columbia university in new york that have started to reach at this russian active campaign to run against american voters online. we don't have anything from the companies, yso this is what we know from journalistic sources. last week he published research look at the online reach of just six, he just picked six of these fake online entities that were created by russian agents to influence our election. just six of them that have been ferreted out by u.s.

journalists. heart of texas. being patriotic. united muslims of america. blacktivists, secure borders and lgbt united. the content produced by those six groups which were run by russian aemgents. this is the sample of what they were producing during the election. turns out just those six groups produced material that was shared 340 million times in the lead-up to the election. 340 million times. and that was just six of the groups that journalists have been able to identify. six. facebook alone admits to taking down 470 different accounts that it says were operated by russian agents. if just six of those had more than 300 million shares, think about the reach that we're talking about if there were 500 of those groups operating at that level. the question is, why has it taken this long to get this information about what the russians were doing in our

election? why are we only getting it from journalists who were having to piece it together themselves? facebook page by facebook page, twitter account by twitter account. these were american companies that were used as the scene of a fairly significant crime. what explains their lack of urgency to even figure this stuff out, let alone make any kind of public disclosure that would help us see what russia did? and now that google is admitting this much of it, too, is that likely to change any of those? joining us is elizabeth. she's a silicon valley correspondent for "the washington post." she broke the story today on google admitting that russian agents bought ads on google platform. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> let me ask you if google changes the game. i feel like i'm seeing the same pattern to admit this belatedly, to not being doing deep analysis of what happened and to be playing it down. >> i have to correct you. google actually didn't admit it.

we found that out from our own sources. the comment they've given us have been quite vague. they haven't admitted it. the question of why have they been like this, why have they had their heads in the sand. i think we're only starting to chip away at the tip of the iceberg wh iceberg of what we're seeing. one way of looking at it is they knew in advance. facebook first started seeing signs of this back in june, 2016. so a while back. and then obama himself warned mark zuckerberg to look into. the question is were they trying to wrap their heads around a new kind of attack or is there some incentive that they have to really get to the bottom of what what's going on? look at these both. these are massive automated systems. they can be easily exploited. this what we're seeing with russia is really a logical extension of massive

exploitation in online advertising to begin with. and so this is the most nefarious version of it. the truth is they were really to get to the bottom of it, even though they have the impulse to do so, they probably see that -- they'd have to show the world how exploitable the platforms are and that doesn't really serve them or their ad businesses. >> if they did want to figure it out, i guess the reason i've now started to care more and more that they do more of an investigation, now that journalists have been able to piece it together and show some of the content, show some of what, you know, the product, what americans actually saw, i feel like that helps me as an observer, as a news consumer understand much more about how these things might have been effective. and then you can go one step further and start to talk about how far they reached and how many people they touched, how many people they may have influenced during the election. >> right . if they -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> you really start to see these were ads, hundreds of millions

of people. 210 millions login to facebook. something shared hundreds of millions of time can have a massive effect, especially in a close election. you only need to influence a small number of people in a small number of undecided people actually to have an influence. what they haven't really done as well is look at the connections between sites. the groups you mentioned, they didn't just have a facebook account. they had an instagram account. they had a twitter account. if you clicked on twitter, it would take you to a web page where you would be tracked by tracking software. that could be fed into facebook where you were receiving targeted ads. there's really a lot of connections between these platforms and that is what we're trying to uncover. >> this fees companies, facebook in particular, either had a change of heart or got brave about what they might find or if they were compelled by subpoena or search warrant to actually really find as many of these things are findable out there,

what's your level of confidence that they really could produce a lot of content, that they really could find most of what was done by russia? >> oh my god, it's a great question. i don't think they can find everything. i think that a lot of -- i think that genuinely people who work in security, these companies, are trying to wrap their heads around this. i think they can produce a lot more. look at what they've done. essentially google -- essentially facebook tied their ads to one russian troll farm. 470 ads and only $100,000. tha that's nothing compared to these businesses. think about how much trump -- the trump campaign spent on facebook. the trump campaign spent $70 million on facebook. so we know that if this was a massive influence campaign, a lot more was spent. right now it seems like they're only looking at single sources. one question will be whether the intelligence community helped them. a lot whof what we've heard is

that in previous situations where tech was involved in a national crisis, example during isis, the intelligence community was actually sharing information with the tech companies. that helped them get to the bottom of things more quickly. we haven't seen that this time. they're also crying for help. >> elizabeth, silicon valley correspondent for t"the washington post". i'm getting increasingly obsessed with this story. thanks for being here. we've got much more to come. stay with us. whether it be with customer contracts, agreements to lease a space or protecting your work. legalzoom's network of attorneys can help you, every step of the way. so you can focus on what you do and we'll handle the legal stuff that comes up along the way. legalzoom. legal help is here. but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill.

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. our strategy for surviving politics these days, at least on this show is that more or less when it comes to the white house, we cover it like a silent movie. it's not helpful to what's going on in the world. we have taken it as a mantra to watch what they do. silent movies. and yet every so often there's a voice. a voice that sort of feels like maybe that -- maybe we'll regret not listening to them. like for example, the voice of republican senator bob corker. bob corker is a two-time republican from tennessee. he happens to be the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. and now here's bob corker speaking. telling "the new york times" that in his view president trump is putting this country, quote,

on the path to world war iii. this came as part of a back and forth between senator corker and the president where senator corker said the president is treating his job like a reality show. he said the white house has become an adult day care center where, quote, somebody obviously missed their shift this morning. that was in response to the president saying senator corker is retiring because he didn't have the guts to run again. in the silent movie, you know, this is the part where the president picks another school yard fight and runs around screaming i'm rubber, you're glue, and you don't really need to hear it because he always does that and everybody rolls their eyes and we start to get bored and he gets ready to start a fight with somebody else, somebody even smaller. owner, bob corker really is the head of the senate foreign relations committee. and he is going out of his way to say not just that he believes the president is unfit for office, but his quote was that the president is, quote, putting us on the path to world war iii.

the silent movie rule still apli applies because i still believe in that rule. but if we should be taking this as a real warning from bob corker because among other things he's in a position to know, then we do have some news on what some people are doing about that threat. that's next. we have got a big deal guest here tonight for the interview. stay with us. that's next.

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north korea, pyongyang, 12 hours 30 minutes ahead of u.s. east coast time in terms of time zone. just after 10:00 in the morning. october 10th is a relevant date for us and the world. it happens to be the founding of the communist working party. except the way the regime tends to commemorate political anniversaries or the birthday of the dear leader or whatever is by throwing big military parades or by testing or firing off new weapons. so with this communist workers party anniversary tomorrow, the world is a little bit on edge. russia warned a few days ago for what it's worth they believe north korea is about to test fire another long range test missile that's capable of reaching the mainland united states. since donald trump has been president, north korea has not

only tested an icbm they've also tested what appears to be a hydrogen bomb. then there's that one mysterious report that leaked to "the washington post" in august. that report reportedly concluded that north korea has miniatureized a nuclear warhead that could sit on top of a missile. that report basically said north korea was making missile ready nuclear weapons so it could project nuclear force around the globe. during the transition, january 2nd of this year, president-elect trump tweeted about the possibility of north korea having that kind of weapon. he tweeted, quote, it won't happen. well, at least the defense intelligence agency says it has happened. now we're in this period where there are these ominous and vague pronouncements coming out of this white house and coming specifically from the president in person. we don't know what these things mean. last week you may recall that the president pose for a photo with some senior military staff

and families and he said this is, quote, the calm before the storm. he then wouldn't explain what he meant. last week he also publicly cautioned rex tillerson, the secretary of state, against diplomacy with north korea. basically told him to stop trying diplomacy. this weekend he said diplomacy in the past hasn't worked with north korea. he said, quote, only one thing will work in north korea. when he was asked by reporters what that one thing is, he told reporters, quote, you'll figure that out pretty soon. we really don't know what he's talking about. we really don't know. the nobel peace prize was announced on friday. when announcing the prize, the chair of the norwegian committee said the risk that some country somewhere will news nuclear weapons is now, quote, greater than it has been for a long time. the group that was awarded the nobel peace prize is the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

they formerly existed for about a decade. they operated in about 100 countries. now they're nobel peace prize winners. just in time. joining us for the interview is b beatrice sims. just awarded the nobel peace prize on friday. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> did you have any idea? >> no. there had been some speculation. but i didn't want to get ourselves set up for failure and failing to support this. no way. complete shock really. >> can you tell us, as i mentioned, for people who are not involved in nuclear weapons and politics and anti-proliferation stuff, you've been a fairly although profile organization in terms of the american public. can you describe what you do. >> it's a coalition of ngos from all over the world.

we have about 460 organizations that have gathered together to focus on one goal. prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons. we're kind of modelled after another nobel peace, the international campaign to ban land mines that had great success in the '90s trying to figure out now ngos that have different interests and different backgrounds and resources can work together on one issue and make a huge push. so we have really worked this kind of decade on trying to figure out what do we need to do to get rid of nuclear weapons because a lot of the efforts we've done in the past have not worked. so what we really did is try to reframe the issue. we see it as a security issue. we see it as a very technical elite thinking things. it's all about balance and how many do you have, how many do we have. we start talking about what do nuclear weapons do when we use them? what would happen in warfare if these threats to use nuclear weapons were actually carried

out? we have to find all these jean n -- geneva conventions. nuclear weapons are meant to level entire cities. slaughter civilians. massive amounts of civilians. and they cannot be made an exception to all norms and rules. we're prohibited biological weapons, chemical weapons because of their impact on civilians. yet some now nuclear weapons have been having exceptions. >> mentioning chemical weapons, i've been thinking about whether or not obviously anti-proliferations efforts have been remarkably unsuccessful. south africa is the only country to give up its nuclear weapons. this nourrth korea is driven th they need nuclear weapons. we used to have a very different idea about chemical weapons in

this world both in the west and around the world. i feel like we've come to a place where chemical weapons are now seen as pariah and are seen as a danger to the regimes that possess them. is that a model for how you think about how we could approach nuclear weapons differently in the future? >> absolutely. i think that once upon a time chemical weapons were the weapon of choice, a modern weapon. then we saw what they really were, what they did on the battle field, what they did to soldiers and people around that got exposed to them. the military advantages of that kind of weapon, weapons of mass destruction aren't actually that great. warfare is changing today. and causing the maximum amount of destruction doesn't get the job done, for example, things like that. so i think it's -- nuclear weapons have been surrounded from the prestige and power. it's inevitable that other countries want a part of that as

well. try to stop everyone else and having that same thing. so we think in our campaign that we cannot make any progress on nuclear disarmament unless we actually reject the weapon. of course we're not being naive. we know that the elimination of nuclear weapons will take a long time and verified dismantlement. you have to start with prohibition and that's how you facilitate the elimination. >> beatrice, the world's latest nobel prize winning organization. be right back. stay with us.

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dial star-star-audible on your smartphone to start listening today. so on friday night we showed you footage that our producer his shot of a journey from san juan puerto rico into aibonito. it's kind of a nice break from the total devastation. these roads are clear. they're able to get footage moving fast because the roads are open. our producers were able to drive right in. this is a town about an hour and a half from the capital city of san juan. despite all the reports about towns not getting aid in puerto rico because the roads are blocked, these roads clearly were clear, which is what we reported on friday night. roads were clear. and yet nearly three weeks after hurricane maria, fema still has

not delivered food or water there. when our producers showed up last week, residents celebrated because they thought our producers were from fema. they were not from fema. now, fema told us that they have been to this town. they have been to aibonito three times but they told us they did not turn up to deliver food or water. fema went to this town three times to help residents fill out paperwork so they could apply for federal aid. this up to has received no aid. now, we got several calls from fema after our report on friday night. they told us that they went back there over the weekend on saturday, but again, not to deliver food or water or any assistance, but instead to meet with the mayor so they could, quote, identify the town's needs and file a report. we asked them what the mayor's top three needs are. fema did not get back to us on that. they told us it's not their job to distribute food and water.

they say it's the mayor's job according to fema, quote, relief supplies are being delivered to regional staging areas and mayors are largely responsible for arranging pickup and distribution. how are mayors of towns like this paper work's in. it's been nearly three weeks since hurricane maria hit. less than 60% of the americans in puerto rico have clean water. 85% of the american citizens in puerto rico have no electricity and the death toll is up to 39 and continues to rise because this is day 19 and things are worse now better. day 19. still no relief effort, even in the accessible towns outside puerto rico's capital city. we'll be right back. 's trip. remember nashville? both: kimchi bbq! amazing honky-tonk! i can't believe you got us tickets! i did.

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coming into this week, 15 public officials criminally charged in the flint water crisis, including manslaughter, five public officials before this week charged with involuntarily manslaughter for what happened in flint. an enthat's not because of the lead poisoning part of the crisis but legionnaires disease. the case was in court last week for a pretrial hearing and part of that, a top staffer to

michigan's republican governor rick snyder testified he told the governor personally about the deadly outbreak well before the governor has said he learned about it. at that hearing on friday, the prosecutor asked the governor staffer if he was sure about that timeline. the staffer said, quote, i took an oath. the governor gave that timeline of when he says he learned about the outbreak. he gave that timeline in testimony to congress. now the top democrat on that committee, committee that the governor gave that timeline to, he says he's deeply concerned the governor may have mislead congress about that outbreak not to mention flint. congressman cummings is asking for help to figure out what to do if the michigan governor lied to congress about what he knew and when he knew it. it appears that either the governor lied about that urntd oath to congress or a top

staffer lied about it this past week under oath in court in a manslaughter trial. well, now, today, we got something else. michigan's top chief doctor was aiden wells and charged with felony obstruction of justice. the pretrial hearing supposed the start today but prosecutors called it off at the last minute because they say they have now decided that she, too, will be charged with involuntarily manslaughter, sixth public official facing manslaughter charges for what happened in flint. she's also facing a new charge of misconduct in office. state's prosecutor told the press that the manslaughter charge is based on documents and testimony coming out last week. prosecutor told reporters, quote, i think we would be derelict if we didn't charge her. it's been more than three years since the city of flint was poisoned by the actions of the state government which took over the administration of that town from its local officials.

and more than three years later, prosecutors are still uncovering more evidence and filing more felony charges. even as the people of flibt are still trying to fix their town. last count, the mayor of flint said they replaced the pipes in more than 4,400 homes, the goal 16,0 6,000 this year. watch this space. we just found the body of a woman last night. her head... is missing. [ stirring music playing throughout ] who does he leave the snowmen for? this killer is completely insane.

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the california coast. more than a dozen fires burning in eight counties. at least ten people lost their lives in california today. the govern nor of the state says this is not under control by any means. north of san francisco, at least 1,500 buildings have burned today. including whole residential neighborhoods in the city of santa rosa, california. firefighters are saying the pace has taken them by surprise. the fire started off as a 200-acre fire last night. 68-mile-a-hour winds is why it got out of control so fast. but it's not just northern california. these are live, live shots right now of flames in anaheim, california, right this second. so this is going to be a very difficult night for a lot of firefighters and families in california. that does it for us tonight. see you tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell."