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more than a week on the open azin story of survil after more than a week on the open war. ptions paid for by nbc-unersal television > goo eving. we beg tonightit the story unfoldininhe mountains above los angeles where ttajor wildfire we've bee followi all wkend hasxplodedn amatic fashi ove the lt 24hours. as w com on the ai oicia y t fe is expandi in all directd, anirefigers are deerelyrying t hd ound. read thoands of residents have hado abandonheir homes toind shelt elseere. nbc's migl almaguer i watching itll unfold rhtow in l na, calornia. guel, whe do things stand? >>eporter: leer, thifire movin i jus about eve rectn, ilung towards the hillside behd . thatoeup, soo vital communicatnsor this entir regi, and at's not thenly probm tonight.

for ve dayshe la cana fire has ravagouther california. toweng flame haveipped acro me than 3000 acres d counti. but it was ovnight wnhe aze tookturn, sdenly exploding, triing in size. the infernfeedon acre after acre of bone dry bus refighrs callthe perfect stor today thgovernor cled an emerncy. >> this fe is sll totally t of contro reporte with the fir line retching 11 mileslong, nearly 2,0 firefigersre on the ound ey make a sta where the n, but much the attac mesro their. arly 2,00 ppleave been forced to evacuate. more tha12,0 homes are reatened. thew strucres lost, the damage has beeninal, buthe threats not. >> wre jt ting too the last ltle bit that we can do. >> repter: chip was told t evacuate satday. he w'teaveye >> when y see the flames

closer tn they re bore a they're just a of a sudde there, then you srt -- y look at yourxi and you ink, at if ttappens where my exits. reporr: as eight mor wildfisurn acrs liforn, e laanadfire pose t most danger trle dig temperare and air quality of a prlem, but for w the notorus win is not. >> if itere to get a santana nd event cur,t codlow this fire al over the pce and givehallengesoirefigers wee not crently hang, t we he ouhands ll for sure. >> reporter: still theire rcheforward sepg tards shows. rick enjed a sctacar vista and now has an unbelievable view of fmes closing i >> i'm almostn tears thinkin about. >> repter: tnk beinghat could happen xt, a i ce morng home will still b anng i ts nehborhood despite e wor of firefighrs thiblaz is only 5%contained. it will be aleepleig for thousands who potentiallytand in t path of this monstrous

re. lester? >> migllmaguer for u tonit. al in califora thi evening, iestigators have wided thei investitionnt the bizar knappingfaycee dugard hd captiveor 18 of her 29 years. the search for cluesow extds yond the homef aused kidnapperndapist phillip rrido. the test from orge lewisn tioch. eporter: 20 or so officers fromwo loc police partments d the county shifs ofce hav bn probing, dgi, haung debr. someorkiith cadav ds trned fd human bodies. they're lking f eviden, y sns tt theouple charged th kidppinay je durdnd hdinger in a warren of tts andhedsn their ckyardight havbeen volved in a sing o local murders. illigaido and h wife nay veleaded notuiy t more thanwooz chges, including forceable abduction, rape, andlawfulimprisonment

no tolice investigaon has expandedo t prty next door tthe garros. phill grido h accesto thatropey. he usedhat propey. >>eporter: the man who rted th propey next doorays he doesn't know whathill garriddidere, buthat garrido put a mattres and a stereon shed behind the house. police a also interesd in thisndtrial aa near where garrido onc woed. it where the bies of seval males,ncluding three prtitutes were dumpe ithe late '90s. onof t victims whoas not prostu, 1year-old lis norell. hemoer minue isappyhe police areoping the instigatio >> i have hope. this ithe first ing that's haened sin mydahter's rder. >>epter: inhe nghborhood whereaycee dugd was abducte 18ears ago, peopleave p up balloonso celebrate the ft that she's ave and uned with her mom. busours clo tohe famy

sa theyntipate long inful periodf readjustment fo jaycee and the two daughrs e bore b phill garrido. >> they will nee psyctherap they wilneeddeiefing. they will ne deprogramming becausin man ws they have beenrainwash. >>epte and t man charged with mastermindi tt now th fus of a iense vestigation. gege lewisnbnews, antih, liforn. want ttell you n abt aemarbleto of survival atea. for more than a wee three boater frotexawereissing mis from sho inhe gulf mexico hopeof finding thelive indled d by day. but then something happened. weethe story from nbc's pete alexder. repter: exhaued butfe, the three rcued fheen took thei first sten dry land turdaynight. >> our equibrm, it s just waup. took while for uso stand upstraight. >>eporter: tress hkins and tw close friends from sou xas left m that gorda, texas.

th werseen 75 miles o the coas th nig a dastrous turn wkins ke up to a boat full of water. >> i'm runnground franticay trying to get everybodup. we're trying get theat outsast as we n, a wiin a minute,ive seconds, the boatust tumbl er. it capsized right the. >> reporr: for the next eight ysnunishing ht the men sat an sle on the hull of the 23-foot at survivinly on cracrs a chewingum and whever water they cld suc ouofhe boat's fsh water tank. as t ds passed, the men reliedn prer andne other. >>e'reoing to have t live. have too much to le fo and our life is rllyot over th yet. i mean, this is just cling ca t wakes up. >> reporr: the cst guard launed a masve seah covering me than86,000 square miles. rougy the size of minsota, bere cli off t effort la id. >>ou get to pnt where a

decion has to be made. it's a agonizing oiceut we informed the filies that we re susnding thesearch, and it's difculthingo, but you t t aoint whereou ve to look at all t factors. >>eporter: t next day spor fishermanamepothe missincrew 180 mile fro t ast. >> he sa tha he just spott something real small in the wate and gbbedis binolars and the we were. loed le re midts stdi on the boat wavg ags and jpinground. >>heyooke goo and they to really good care of themlves the eight ds they re out ere. >> reporr:n unforgtabl fishing tales a onene of the mes vesall a miracle. peter alander, nbc news, new york. we turn to politics now rmer vice presiden dick cheneyoday acced t jtice partment ofaking whae lled a polical move in its decisi t review detaie interrogation practicesy the cia. asd onhe pgram"foxew sund" whetr heould agr tope t the psecur in the ca ifll, cheney said,

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suess. ron all, nbc ne. >> senor edwd kendyas ried nearis bthers at arngton nationemetery last night culminating ritl of urning that ban with e news of his deathast week. but as kennedy w laid to rest, we leaed ofn extordiry coespondence beten the senator and thepope. nbs mikeiqueirreports. >> reporter: tod hdreds lined uto their rpects at the fal resting pla of ted kennedy. his grave marke by alae and a spl o cross, o of only twat arlingt natnal cemetery, the nation's most halledrod. the her belonging to his brothe robert. but itas yestery, the end of a we of solni andtrut sadness and of celeatio that there cam oast ignantmoment. i am writing with deep humili to ask tt y pra for as my own heah deines. >>eporter: ted kennedyy his owhand and in h own wor in a letter to pope benict rea

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