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the quality of our guests there, including rebecca patterson of bridgewater, saying complacency into october, ramp it up ritika: . right now -- ramp it up. right now, we welcome all of you. it is simply a monday friend from what we knew friday. jonathan: it is not a quiet start to this monday morning. equity futures down hard. a bid into the bond market. stronger japanese yen. everything you would expect to happen on a risk off monday is happening. when you look to europe and the prospect of tighter restrictions around some of these economies, look no further than travel stocks. break it down sector dissector. travel stocks down 5%. tom: what i find just extraordinary here is it is not just about the future of the

but look at what happened in new jersey and another one in new jersey, a very bad, different than patterson, look at what happened in new york, with caroline -- the congressman, murphy. carol maloney. look at that. i mean look at that race. carolyn maloney had a race, it was a disaster. ballots are missing and fraught. these are small races. look at what happened in virginia. look at what happened in various other parts of the country. and these aren't 80 million or 50 million or 20 million votes, these are small congressional elections where in theory it is easy. so what will happen on november 3rd when somebody is leading and they said, well, we haven't counted the ballots, we have millions of ballots to count. it is a disaster. everyone knows it is a disaster and i don't expect people here to say, although some people will say it, everyone knows you don't have to know politics to

we knew we started below 50%. >> reporter: patterson says there is a great deal of voter confusion. >> watching a focus group with black voters from los angeles, they all said no, we will not vote for this, as it was read to them. then, when we explained that it was in favor of affirmative action and equal opportunity. they all went, well, of course, we'll vote for this. >> patterson says within the next few weeks, the prop 16 campaign will launch a robust tv and advertising campaign with hopes to clear up some of this confusion. but in the meantime, created a detailed guide online explaining the specifics of all 12 propositions you can expect to see on the ballot. >> if we get 75% of those who vote for biden, we win. >> reporter: but laura cruz is holding out hope it does so his children can follow in his footsteps. >> i want them to have like a brighter future and a brighter outlook on the nation and on life. >> stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. >> and again, you can visit abc 7 news prepondera.com or downlo7 news app for a deeper look at all the propositions with our interactive voting

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tonight steve patterson speaks with experts from the left and the right. >> reporter: this the worst fire season we have. it is going to take the policies of people who are concerned of those two things to make this situation for people that live on the west coast. >> steve patterson also speaks to fire victims who have rebuilt their home making their homes more fire resistance. >>> clean up along union pacific railroad truck and monterey road. illeg illegal dumping and graffiti and garbage and trash, that clean up is expected to take about more than a week. >>> san jose's mayor is tackling the homeless problem. it is not easy but there is congress. >> many approach is and seeing how we can begin to move the needle. the mayor says he has two funding for affordable housing. the city is working hard to find new solutions for the growing homeless crisis. >>> demand is high for the portrait of justice ruth bader ginsburg. the portrait of ginsburg was commissioned by an art patron in 2018. the picture was so well-done. the gallery has prints that are available, and they are selling it for

steve patterson has more on that. from the fire zone >> reporter: the images are stark, the impact staggering. wildfires across the west spreading and scientists warning climate change is making it worse. >> there is, indeed, a clear link between record heat and climate change. >> reporter: and that heat creating warm, dry conditions for wildfires to explode, right now there are nearly 30 major fires burning across the golden state, six of the largest 20 fires in california's history breaking out this year adding to the record breaking heat and bone dry conditions miles of dry brush and densely packed forest, a devastating cocktail, stoking a historic outbreak of mega fires. >> there's a lot of dense vegetation buildup. th climate is warmer and more conducive to extreme fire behavior. than it once was and you have a lot of people living in potentially harm's way. >> reporter: this is the result, acres of unrecognizable scorched earth, and in many cases it starts with just a spark. in southern california official say a

someone in a jet pack flying too close to incoming airplanes here's steve patterson. >> reporter: in realm of things you don't see every day this reaches new flights. >> american 199 #please we just passed a guy ona jetpack. >> american 1997 okay. thank you. right side or left side >> off the left side, maybe 300 yards or so. about our altitude >> reporter: on sunday an american airlines pilot alerting the flight tower at l.a.x. of what appeared to be a person hovering at roughly 3,000 feet and then a second pilot reported the same thing. >> we just saw the guy pass by. >> reporter: experts say anything that close to a plane's final approach is extremely dangerous adding jet pack to a growing list of modern nightmares facing pilots from drones to laser pointers, elevating the risk of safe landings. it wasn't long ago that jetpacks were pure fiction now they're a new frontier for daredevils a jet powered hoverboard recently used to fly across the english channel. thankfully no one was hurt this weekend but officials have launched an investigation. a dangerous close encounter tailor ma

and now many families are wondering, is it time to move with more, here's steve patterson. >> reporterit's a disastrous new normal. catastrophic fires, once contained at one season, now a harrowing year round battle. >> we've got to go. >> reporter: a major factor, climate change. >> there are tens of millions of people that are choking on climate change right now as a function of the smoke that these fires are producing. >> reporter: in the last 40 years fall temperatures in california have increased about two degrees while precipitation has dropped about 30% and with acres of overgrown forest, there's more fuel to burn and it's not just in the countryside. >> we've built a nightmare into flammable landscapes made even worse by climate change. >> reporter: over 100 million homes where neighborhoods and forests meet. >> smoky bear in the middle of the woods, we need it in the middle of suburbia. >> reporter: we left two hours before the house burned down. >> reporter: in 2017 the tubbs fire tore through the city of santa rosa nearly 80% of the homes destroyed here have been or are bein

lester >> all right, steve patterson, thanks. >>> tonight a stark new assessment from dr. anthony fauci on the covid pandemic and when life as we know it might return. it came in an exclusive interview with andrea mitchell we have two reports on the pandemic this evening. starting with nbc's tom costello >> reporter: eight months into the pandemic the nation's top infectious disease expert is tonight offering a sobering new pandemic timeline. an approved vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021 widespread distribution by midnext year and a return to normal sometime after that. >> if you're talking about getting back to a degree of normality which resembles where we were prior to covid it's going to be well into 2021. maybe even towards the end of 2021. >> reporter: meanwhile dr. fauci and dr. deborah birx are trying to slow a new spread of covid after the labor day weekend, especially among people who are asymptomatic. >> if you've been on vacation, gon to a hot spot, gone to a party in the neighborhood, if you took your mask off and were not socially distant you need

for all that even a superhero is not immune from the virus — at robert patterson.ey say is evidence of a magnificent palace from the era of a biblicaljewish kingdom injerusalem. the stone carvings were unearthed about three kilometres from jerusalem's old city. it's thought they were from a palace built around the 8th or 7th century bc and probably destroyed during the babylonian conquest ofjerusalem. that is it from me for the time being. a reminder, you can keep up—to—date on all the top stories, including this one, search teams in beirut think they have found signs of life under a building they have found signs of life undera building a they have found signs of life under a building a month later. rescuers say they have detected a pulse two metres deep in a residential area. more on the website and our app. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ rich preston. hello there. looks like we are all in for a dose of cooler, fresher weather over the coming few days. could be perfect weather for seeing some rainbows, just as we saw on thursday here by a weather watcher in

nbc's steve patterson is in you ki yucaipa, california.ve, walk us through what it's like there this morning. crews any closer to being able to contain these things? >> reporter: craig, this gives you an idea of how dynamic -- not just large and fast and menacing these fires are, but dynamic. we were at the bobcat fire which is much closer to los angeles. we rushed over here, pulled off on the side of the road. you may see fire trucks whizzing by. that's because there's an active firefight going on right now at this fire. you can see i'm surrounded by dry brush, this smoke coming from the valley. you can see some of the crews coming in back of me. this fire has exploded. it was -- had a fair bit of containment. it's actually 23% contained. officials earlier this week thought that containment may hold, but it did not. the heavy winds came in last night, 25 miles per hour, and really blew this fire up. it hopped the highway. we're hearing three firefighters are injured. don't have the details on that. they're currently battling that fire as

>> steve patterson with a very important point on the unemployment picture. i do think people have not perhaps it's the president's rhetoric that has numbed people for this, but people have not fully grasped the current economic situation we're in. steve patterson in l.a., thank you. >>> up next -- a new step towards combating the racial disparities in health care as new research shows the outsized impact of covid-19 and what it continues to have on communities of color. stay with us. tomizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i'm a verizon engineer and i'm part of the team building 5g ultra wideband. it's already available in parts of select cities and it's rolling out in cities around the country. 25x faster than today's 4g networks. it's the fastest 5g in the world. this is 5g built right. with safe, convenient service. we're here for you >> tech: we'll come right to you. ♪ upbeat music >> tech: you'll get a text when we're on ou

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joining me now from california is msnbc correspondent steve patterson.bring us to speed on the very latest there with the fight against the fires. >> reporter: yeah, ayman, this has been a terrible situation really across this state, it's mon men us to when you're talking about the amount of wind the amount of heat we've had over the weekend, really fueling these fires, on the ground, though, everybody's worried for the major fires burning. about those new winds you mentioned. these are santa ana winds, fire season's already bad, it's been extraordinary this year, with, you know, 2 million acres burned up. this is eldorado fire, up from 7,000 yesterday. they've just expanded the evacuation orders in this area because they're anticipating those fresh winds to come, starting now but really heavily overnight, but they've also gotten some containment here. there was a break in the weather earlier this morning, they have about 60% containment on this fire that's a good thing, the second fire is the creek fire that's clearly the biggest fire burning in the sta

patterson has our su spotlight. >> i tell stories.ginning all the way through to the end. >> reporter: this is the way ed dwight shapes the story of the past. from his denver studio, the 87-year-old crafts worses of art celebrating larger than life figures of black history. with 130 memorials across the country, his works have never been more relevant. as confederate statues are toppled in the wake of the black lives matter movement, this is a chance to write the narrative. >> black history, it's about accomplishment. some bad things that make the good things more important. the confederate statues, they were memorializing slavery. they were memorializing hatred, white supremacy. that's crazy in my opinion. they should come down. >> reporter: it's the latest unlikely chapter in his life. his parents preached about rising above, teaching their son to cast aside race, unshackling him and keeping him in the dark about black history, all of it. >> i didn't know there slavery. >> reporter: you didn't know slery? >> no. about civil rights i

. >> steve patterson, please be careful.ure that couple feels bad but come on people practice some responsibility, you don't need it to be a big to-do. anyway. steve patterson thank you for joining us. >>> coming up we'll talk about the late congressman john lewis and lessons about his life we can carry forward into the future. future we're all finding ways to keep moving. but how do we make sure the direction we're headed is forward? at fidelity, you'll get the planning and advice to prepare you for the future, without sacrificing the things that are important to you today. we'll help you plan for healthcare costs, taxes and any other uncertainties along the way. because with fidelity, you can feel confident that the only direction you're moving is forward. ( ♪ ) ready to juvÉderm it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvÉderm voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvÉderm ultra xc and smooth moderate to severe lines around the nose and mouth with juvÉderm xc. tell your doctor if you have a history of scarring o

steve patterson, thank you very much. >>> let's bring in calfire's director.u for joining us, daniel. our correspondent steve was talking about the transport. how many more people are in need of transport right now? >> you snow, there are still dozens of individuals, if not over 50, that the sheriff's department, along with the california national guard continue to monitor. just the fact that it burned in a remote area that quickly cut off routes out of those areas, we determined with the sheriff's department it was safer to have they will. but i will tell you we are working very closely with the sheriff's department, with the california national guard to get those individuals out of the harm's way as soon as possible. >>> more than 30 fires, or around 30 fires across the state. we're looking at images of one of the blazes. it's intense heat. can firefighters -- i know they're working as hard as they can, about you can they keep up with this? >> well, as you mentioned, we are battles over two dozen major fires, and we've been doing that for weeks now. this wee

craig, back to you >> steve patterson there in santa rosa, steve, thank you >>> facebook is creating climate science information center to connect users to resources and organizations dedicated to the fight against climate change and it comes as misinformation is spreading wildly online about how the fires on the west coast started. a firefighters' union in washington state called facebook, quote, an absolute cesspool of misinformation right now. i want to bring in nick clegg, vice president of global affairs and communications for facebook. nick, tell us what's new about this plan, and what new tools are going to be available to users. >> so the climate science information center will be available to everybody, we're rolling it at in four or five countries today and then we'll roll it out to other countries around the world in weeks and months to come it's modelled on the experience that we've had with the covid information hub we built a few months ago which 2 billion people have seen, 600 million people have double clicked to find more authoritative information about the pandemic

patterson's scholarship canceled. >> you are in shock.to this program. >> reporter: universities across the country are facing a similar financial predicament. that's because college football and basketball are multi-billion dollar industries. with empty stadiums this fall, schools are scramblingl. some are cuts oth ting other sp. across 23 cam tuesdays, 60 division i college sports teams gone includes baseball, cross-country and tennis. stanford, one of the richest schools in the country, cut 11 sports. nationally ranked programs that have helped bring home 27 o olympic gold medals. >> they don't bring in the revenue as football and basketball, which means if football and basketball revenue aren't there, how long can those sports survive? the answer is not very long. >> reporter: critics point to pre-pandemic spending sprees, including contracts for coaches. splashy facilities for student athletes with little money saved for a rainy day. >> the funding model we all knew was broken. you could have as many teams as your football team could

is what has officials so concerned about oregon's future, ayman. >> all right, jacob ward, steve pattersonor keeping an eye on those developments for us. >>> ahead, more details from bob woodward's revealing new book. that anecdote of president trump using disparaging words to dede scribe his own military leaders. how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. now you can trade stocks and etfs for any amount you choose instead of buying by the share. all with no commissions. stocks by the slice from fidelity. get your slice today. ...to soccer practices... ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. let's help protect them together. because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. >>> president trump just walked out at the white house there amid the latest firestorm about his comments in private,

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steve patterson, thank you for bringing us that story. >>> we have a startling warning for americans from the congressional budget office. for the first time since world war ii, the country's debt will nearly equal or potentially exceed the size of the entire u.s. economy, ballooning up to 98% of the country's gdp by the end of the year, a 20% increase from 2019. it's part of congress's emergency spending to address the coronavirus pandemic. >>> california is the hardest hit state of the coronavirus pandemic by far. and now it's seeing some signs of relief. but will they last? >>> the cdc telling states to prepare to see large-scale distribution of a covid-19 vaccine by november 1st. is that a sign of hope or a risky rush? we'll ask our doctor on duty ahead. ahead. this week on "the upper hands"... special guest flo challenges the hand models to show off the ease of comparing rates with progressive's home quote explorer. international hand model jon-jon gets personal. your wayward pinky is grotesque. then a high stakes patty-cake battle royale ends in triumph. you have the upper hand

joining me now, jodie patterson, also my friend. good to see you this afternoon.nks for joining us this afternoon. i really appreciate it. it is quite a day to be honoring the life and legacy of justice ginsburg. i want to start out with your personal feelings about this, considering the fact that you are the mother of a transgender son. and i just talked through many of the decisions in which the justice was a proponent of and where she stood on them and how she has pushed forward the rights of lgbtq members. how do you feel about the passing of justi justice ruth bader ginsburg and the legacy she's left behind for your son. >> i feel like america is experiencing this pendulum swing day to day. it feels like we're in a constant state of mourning. at least i felt that way with the news. i thought, where do we go from now. i think what we need to do is not mourn too long and we need to see things like the revolution. her work from the bin. her work to establish the fundamental language around gender equality that's something that's so fundamental to my family and m

nbc's steve patterson is covering the el dorado fire.ire that's just east of los angeles. it's hard to keep track. but steve, i know fire officials there say nearly 3.1 million acres of land have burned in california this year alone. what are you seeing on the ground there? how much luck are firefighters having today? >> reporter: part of it you can see behind me, these fire trucks, looks like they're going back to command after being on the front lines or heading to the front lines. one of the things we don't talk enough about, it's not just what i can see. it's what i can taste, what i can blink. the air quality is so awful that some officials in most of the state are just telling people, if you have respiratory problems especially, just go ahead and stay indoors. i know you've been showing those images of the orange skies above san francisco and other places. because these fires are burning so hot, so fast, so large, the wind is carrying these fires so far that everybody can really kind of feel it when you're here. but the fires parti

nbc's steve patterson is in irwindale, california. steve, what's the scene like there? changed? >> reporter: well, conditions have improved as far as the weather. the wind has died down essentially. you see i'm wearing a jacket it's much cooler than it was in previous days, but it seems to be meaningless at the fire i'm at this is the bobcat fire in l.a. county it's now beyond 50,000 acres first time i spoke to you at this fire, craig, it was less than 10,000. over the last less than two weeks or so, itexploded. it was 6% contained a few weeks ago, now it's 3% it's because it's burning so large and it just keeps churning it is not a fast-moving fire, not one of those fires ripping through communities. it's burning largely in a very vegetated area in a mountain community. but the problem is it's so large and so inaccessible for firefighters that it's able to burn on all sides and pivot and spread really wherever it wants to for instance, there were evacuation orders that lifted a few hours ago and then new warnings that started because it's starting now to shift to the n

fire has a mind of its own and it continues to rapidly expand on all sides back to you. >> steve pattersonstaying on top of the wildfires out west we appreciate that >>> back here in washington, a scathing new report on boeing and the faa. congress laying into the company and federal regulators about those two deadly crashes that dominated 2019 we're going to talk about what happens now to make air travel safer after that new report broke just this morning. >>> plus, more breaking news, that decision just out in the last hour or so on college football one conference now unanimously reversing course, we're live at a big 10 school next about medicare and 65, ysupplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. that's where medicare supplement insurance comes in: to help pay for some of what medicare doesn't. learn how an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by united healthcare insurance company might be the right choice for you. a free decision guide is a great pl

>> steve patterson live for us in california. thank you. please stay safe.ppreciate you being with us this morning. >>> president trump continues to make unfounded claims with no evidence about mail-in voting. we're taking a deep dive leeher. what goes in when you put your ballot in the mailbox? we have a behind the scenes look at one of the largest voting jurisdictions in the country. that's after the baek. break. when we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work. building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. creating a coast to coast network to deliver your car as soon as tomorrow. recruiting an army of customer advocates to make your experience incredible. and putting you in control of the whole thing with powerful technology. that's why we've become the nation's fastest growing retailer. because our customers love it. see for yourself, at carvana.com. ♪ eve♪ going faster than a closerollercoaster ♪ ♪ love like yours will surely come my way ♪ ♪ a-hey, a-hey-hey [music playing] ♪

steve patterson and jacob ward, thank you both.be safe. >>> meanwhile, as the scorching temperatures are fueling fires out west, parts of colorado. >> reporter: getting hit with a major winter storm. take a look at this video. some areas there saw up to six inches of snow overnight. in some places this kind of snowfall this early in the year, unprecedented. what makes it even more jarring, parts of the state just saw their highest temperature on record over the weekend. >>> back to politics. two campaigns, two different strategies. joe biden is focusing on the economy. president trump doubles down on crime. so which message is winning out so far. the new poll that may raise another red flag for the trump campaign. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪ ♪ but come ye back when su-- mom, dad. why's jamie here? it's sunday. sunday sing along. and he helped us get a home and auto bundle. he's b

craig, back to you >> steve patterson there for us once again in california steve, thank you so much, buddy. >>> as steve just mentioned, one thing the people in that wildfire zone cannot escape, the thick smoke that he just described. some say it burns their chest. others say it makes them feel hung over. the potentially dangerous health impacts from just breathing. >>> also ahead, the big contrast former vice president joe biden is set to draw today with president trump over a potential vaccine as a new report says the government hopes to provide free vaccines for all americans in the next few months. your dedicated adviser can give you straightforward advice and tailored recommendations. that's the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management. so when it comes to screening for colon cancer, don't wait. because when caught early, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative

nbc's steve patterson is in portland. thank you for joining us. talk us through what you're seeing on the ground today. >> yasmin, this is mirroring the fifth month of protesting straight here in portland. every single night. it's been volatile since it started. maybe today more volatile. first i want to show you around. this is a proud boys event so the normal things that you would see, the body armor, flags, some open carry long guns as well. but you're also seeing in some cases posters that have the name j. on it. that is for a far right member that was killed not too long ago following a protest shot by a self-described antifa member. this also coming into today follows a lawsuit filed by left wing protesters against the proud boys for claiming that they were bear sprayed and assaulted. pretty much any of these rallies have had some form of either unrest or violence today. not expected to be any different. the hope is though is that because there are duelling rallies, there's one proud boy rally here and three miles away from this event there

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we get our report tonight from nbc news correspondent steve patterson. >> reporter: it's a disastrous new normal. catastrophic fires once contained to one season now a harrowing year-round battle. >> we've got to go. >> reporter: a major factor, climate change. >> there are tens of millions of people that are choking on climate change right now as a function of the smoke that these fires are producing. >> reporter: in the last 40 years, fall temperatures in california have increased about two degrees while precipitation has dropped about 30%. and with acres of overgrown forest, there's more fuel to burn, and it's not just in the countryside. >> we have essentially built a nightmare into flammable landscapes made even worse by climate change. >> reporter: over 100 million homes now in what's called the wildland urban interface, where neighborhoods and forests meet. >> instead of smokey bear in the middle of the woods, we need a smokey bear in the middle of suburbia. >> we left two hours before the house burned down. >> reporter: in 2017, the tubbs fire tore through the city of santa ro

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nbc's steve patterson joins me now from yucaipa, california. steve, give us the big picture around the state, because it's just devastation. >> reporter: you know, andrea, it feels like this is not the first time i've come on your program to tell you we're having the worst fire season in california history. 2017 was particularly bad. 2018 was devastating. this year, though, is different because of the size, the speed, the ferocity, and really the earliness that these fires have sprouted up. a lot of these fires, we've been saying over and over again, peak season really doesn't start until maybe a few weeks from now. but these fires have started to spread at a rate in which we haven't seen, to the size we haven't seen, so early on. it gives people pause, officials especially, because they know that as the season progresses, the really heavy winds start moving in. that could blow up these fires, absolutely. you're talking about 30 major fires from northern california to central california to southern california. six of those are the largest that

joining me from california is nbc news correspondent steve patterson.le i talk to in california say they have never experienced anything like th this. on top of that you have this woman who died. tell us more about what happened and whether my any relief is one way with the temperatures and to get the fires under control. >> reporter: all we know is she was a 41-year-old hiking. a common hiking trail. i have taken it many times. it was 2:00 in the afternoon which would have been the height of this heat wave. in some places it got up to 120 degrees. we're talking l.a. county. this is not out in the boondo s boondocks. we're talking about woodland hills right no l.a. county. all of that heat helped stoke some of the fires over the weekend. we did get break this morning. you can see the hillside behind me. the fact you can see it is in a small picture. >> caller: in ayou can see the remnants of this fire here in southern california charting 7,000 acres. sparking some 21,000 evacuations. only 7% contained. get this, fire investigators now confirm that this

joining me now from california is nbc news correspondent steve patterson. well, and that's should give you an idea of how far we are from wrapping all of this up in the state of california and the states that are corresponding. the bobcat fire is sizable, 50,000 acres is no joke, specifically when your neighborhoods are like this. this is close to a very urban area, but there are fires two and three times this size. they don't think this fire will be wrapped up in till the end of october. meanwhile, there are fires that are still burning out of control. yes, the rain will help the pacific northwest. that's not going to come to california all that's going to come is more wind, so it's turning into instead of relief, another race against time we were on the front lines with firefighters dealing with this fire check this out >> another night of fear and uncertainty in the foothills of the san gabriel mountains where hundreds of homes are in danger. >> we have seen a few fires come and go, but this has been the scariest >> so far, no lives or homes have been lo

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joining me now from california is nbc news correspondent steve patterson.ow you are in los angeles, or just outside of los angeles. on the foothills the smoke is obscuring everything there how much of a threat right now are the fires? >> the fires remain a threat here just talking about the smoke, i mean, i was trying to tell chuck this we're in a poor signal area, so excuse us if we get some audio hits, but this valley covered in smoke. you would be able to see clear to pasadena from where we're standing, directly on the rose bowl can't see anything in the valley down there this smoke is wafting from the bobcat fire. this is l.a. county, as you were referencing. firefighters engaged in areg real dog fight here. they're trying to save mt. wilson observatory, a more than 100-year-old observatory it has historic significance einstein studies there, hubble observed the universe from the telescopes there those are all threatened right now because of the fire right on the doorstep this fire was originally less than 10,000 acres. it's now 44,000 plus originally,

>> steve patterson, thank you for that reporting. stay safe out there.otential rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, and growing skepticism about just how safe a fast tracked process can be. so here's what happened in the past few hours. some of the world's biggest drum companies pledged to not submit a vaccine for approval or emergency authorization until it is proven safe. that's unprecedented for companies to do something like this together. and it comes a week after a controversial move by the cdc asking states to be ready for mass distribution of the vaccine by november 1st. just a couple of days before the election. we're going to have more on that breaking story in a minute. also new this morning, mark meadows is hitting optimistic new notes about a possible coronavirus relief bill as senators get back from their own summer recess to try to hammer out a deal. you've got mitch mcconnell coming out saying they will try to work on something this week, with republicans making a new push for a slimmed down bill to extend the paycheck protection prime min

the film star, a new bruce wayne robert patterson, has tested positive for coronavirus. this comes just days after the superhero drama resumed work outside of london. the film already had been delayed several months back in march due to the pandemic. it was to hit theaters in june of next year but was pushed back to october 2021. >>> more local newsnet5: 30 including our original report. wireless let. the push for 5g service generating a huge backlash in one silicon valley community. >> my parents and other residents have never had this disclose to them, ever. >> complaints about underground parties in the south bay, how santa clara county is trying to crackdown heading into the labor day weekend. >>> attribute fit for a king. the push for a permanent memorial it was just a get together with friends. no big deal. everybody felt fine. but now im super sick. everyone is sick. i just wish we had been more careful. it would have been easier than this. so wear a mask. do what you can outside. stay six feet apart. because some things you just can't take back. do your part to l

we're joined by steve patterson. >> reporter: this historic wildfire season in california is only now getting worse with six of the 20 largest wildfires in the history of this state in modern recorded history are now happening this year. the first one, the august complex fire now becoming the largest fire in modern california history surpassing the complex fire in 2018 these fires are still burning, many of them still burning out of control several of them still threatening homes. thousands of evacuations still in place, thousands of firefighters remaining on the front lines. we're at the eld ra -- elderado fire, firefighters are doing all they can to push back on that, but you can see the result of what happens when these heavy winds pick up the fire and scorch thousands of acres. that's happening here and across california back to you. >> so tough. thank you. >>> a very dangerous situation is also unfolding in oregon. this morning officials are warning the two major fires there are about to merge and even more people are evacuating their homes. we're joined now by jake ward who is o

the withdrawal agreement puts that hard border straight back on the table so let's talk to qana patterson who's from the near enterprise agency and the chamber of commerce as well. what was your action to come to germany when when when suddenly the british government announced that it might undermine the withdrawal agreements and it said plainly we might break international law but people here say that that. shock and not like him we thought we had fixed we thought it was fixed and the argument had been understood the arguments were made by all parties and especially the british government and the fact that boris johnson himself had gone into the election with says they haven't ready date. why we didn't know why this was going to be worked out in practice and that was a concern as we neared that battling this is all supposed to be in place by the force of john kerry next year nevertheless in terms of the big picture we assume that brilliance unship between a year in the u.k. government was a good woman they would find a retired of us other than the one thing that neither side will say wha

california based journalist steve patterson has been monitoring the finest the death toll rising in california as fires are spread across the stage some burning show fast in show quickly that containment has not been possible the one in northern california the bear fire were 10 people had been confirmed dead there are reports that are at least 16 more missing on that fire that fire is burning fast and quick firefighters are trying to do all they can to get a handle on it meanwhile that is just one of 6 of the largest fires of recorded california history that is burning right now there are 30 major fires that firefighters are spread out across including here in southern california where there has been a battle again to get more containment on some of these driven fires before there is another wind event the air quality is also a problem with officials not telling people if you don't need to be outside just stay inside all of this as firefighters are doing all they can to try to push back the moral services have been held across the u.s. for the nearly 3000 people killed in the 911 attacks 19 ye