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the smoke is just piling up over los anges, so the tanker pilots have to fly right into it and hope to hit the target even though they often can't see the orange flames just below them. this fire, in fact, is visible from nasa photos taken from space. that's the smoke plume heading north and east of the fire. nbc's miguel almaguer begins our coverage from the fire line for us tonight. miguel, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. this fire is so active, so aggressive, people are conducting what they call rolling evacuations, and as you can see here, not every home made it through the fire. it's a movie monster, the station fire devours ridge after ridge across los angeles county. more than 105,000 acres swallowed by flames. >> get up high. >> reporter: the blaze doubled in size last night, an unstoppable force that has firefighters on their heels and neighborhoods on the run. >> if the winds come up, the fires come down and any threat at all, i'm out of here. >> reporter: 6,600 have been forced to evacuate. hundreds more are ordered out each day, some refuse to leave. this as

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for today, nbc news, los ange s angeles. >>> the kelly clarkson issue of "self" magazine hits news standse 25th of this month. >>> let's find out about some of the stories in the work for this afternoon. om cing up on noo, a mom is tas in front of her children. >>> and then one family's horror story, they found a picture of their child for sale on craig's list. how to protect your loved ones. and a chef shows us how to do pizza on the grill. >>> let's look at the weather forecast, and chuck bell is in for tom kierein, and he is in storm center 4. >> yes, lots of sunshine out there for us on a friday. finally. friday is here, and the weekend is just around the corner. another plane load of folks that said we have enough in august in washington. hope they have a good time where they are going, because we will have a great weekend here. 81 degrees is the current temperature. still on the humid side. it is august. partly sunny skies on tap for the rest of the day today. it looks like honestly a good weeken if you are traveling down towards virginia beach, you may want to pack your umbrellas i

. >> reporter: i'm manuel gallegus in los anges s wyer ae major movie deal.that story is coming up. >>> if you are having a hard time handling this hot weather we've been talking about, imagine working out in 25 pounds of football gear. that's coming up at redskins ? r 'lweja. me? erl we'll come back and take thtoe record hetoat da y. itit 'sit 101 li keelfelike in and manassas. we'll talk about what you should and shouldn't do in the heat and we'll talk about the ted. b@ >>> the lundberg survey said a gallon of regular gas is up 16 points to 2.64. you if looking for a cheaper way to get around, perhaps a scooter is the way to go. i will save on gas but there are other things to consider before you hop on. rosemary says her scooter is a great way to get around town. >> i don't like to take it out on big highways because people could overlook it. i like to take it into town, pick up a couple of things and just for joy rides. >> reporter: besides being fun, scooters are great on gas. consumer reports found they deliver 55 to 75 miles a gallon -- >> they cannot

he was priously editorial page editor of the "los anges times." denise dresser, ofessor of politicalcience at the technological autonomous institute of mexicin mexico city. she's a mexican citizen. and andrew selee, directoof the mexico progm at the woodrow wilson iernational cent for scholars here in washington. andre martinez cooperati here, attenti there. in general terms what is the state of t.s.-mexico relations? >> the state of the relaonship a bit li a tired marriage in need of counling. we're at a stage with both partiesave agreed to undergo coseling. e have thesepportunities whenever you ha a new admintration. clearlyhere's an additional timely ptern. i think there's a receiveness exico to the fact at u.s. said thdrug car is a shared responsiblity. what we ne to do now is a commitment that matches us that responsibility. so far what we're seeing in terms of actual colloration fallsshort. >> reporter: nise dresser, h do you see the general state? >> think thatthe climate for cooperation has improved since presiden obama came to office. a h

los anges, ariann huffington ever "the huffinon po" from, boston, doris kearn goodwin t eminent presidential historia presidential style and presidential leadersp. what do you makef president ama? >>ell, i tnk whate've seen so fars a man that is surprisingly idemand of the office. think back to the days when people worrd about a 3:00 a.m. call cominin the middle of the night and this rookie wouldt know whato do. he's had multiple crises and is steady and projecting an aura of self confidence. prably the most accessible presidenin our recent memory being on tow hall roaming around, talking to people, bei coonservative talk shows and cognizing that ethos keep th connectiono the people. but my guess is that the problems a even greater than he knew. j.f.k. once seadogs the campaign, we kept sang that things we bad when we were ripping against the republicans then it got office they were much worse tn we said. suspicion is that tngs are far worse than he thought that accountfor some of the difficulties he's having. >> charlie: all rht. arianna, you have chronicl this president'sise to power as we

they're doing an amazing job >> holm: the so-called "station" fire raging 30 mil northeast of downtown los angesin the angelesational forest, doubled size overnight, threaning some 12,000 mes. also ithe path of the 20-mile- long swath flames and smoke were aobservatory and broadcast aennas for more than 20 television and radistations and cell phone proders. anes dropped retardant aroun the mot wilson complex to help slow the advance of the ble. the fi already has burned 21 homes and 134 squareiles of brush and trees. but as of mondayfternoon, it was ly 5% contained. at least 6,600 homes werunder mandatory evacuation order while more than,500 firefighters were battling e fles. on the fire'sorthwest front, two firefighters we killed sundayfter their vehicle drove off the side of the road. >> two of oufirefighters were a vehicle and went over the side, and both othem suffered fatality... life-eing injuries. >> holman: authories also have ised mandatory evacuations for parts oflendale, pasadena and other cities north of lo angeles coumed by smoke. >> the fire waout of control. they were woied about

patrick, is 13, he wants to take your son ang lo. he ought to come too. so we spent five days floating the colorado river and got to know him pretty well during that time. he was a lot of fun. >> reporter: this is senator kennedy's truck here, they tell me this is the truck he liked to drive because he could get the d dogs into this vehicle and transport them easily into place to place. the welcome mat is a picture of a sailboat, something he loved to do and spent a lot of time doing. folks tell me this was his wife's dream street. she wanted to live here for a very long time. they moved here ten years ago. they're telling me he brought so much life and energy to this block that they hoped that she will remain. tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. >> i heard trick-or-treating was never the same afte senator kennedy moved in. thank you, tracee. >>> senator ted kennedy's death comes one year after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. >> my friend. i love you. >> that was west virginia senator robert byrd overcome wi the widiagnosis. his statement reads

then, the forecast brings it right ang lo the outer bank as a very weak tropical storm. by 8:00 p.m. sunday, 8:00 a.m. with winds at 45 miles an hour. at the time, we have a tropical storm watch in effect for duck, north carolina as far south as cape lookout. you can expect hand surf there, waves anywhere from three to four feet higher than usual. that is a look at our forecast. we have a lot more to share with you throughout the rest of the day into the evening also. thank you. >>> college student jordan thomas, a devastating boating accident took part of his legs four years ago. he has triumphed over that loss and is helping other young amputees do just same. >> they say i'm a bilateral trance tibial am poo too, in layman's terms, i lost both my legs from the mid calf down i was a normal kid turned into an abnormal situation. a freak accident. i was 16 years old. my parents and i were going to go skoo ba diving. there were tons of waves. i jumped into the water. i got pushed behind the boat and i looked down and i saw blood. i had such great support. that's what helped