it's taken a while because of what anna cabrera there, no relation, was mentioning as far as the steep terrain that we're having to deal with and the weather conditions that have not been good. you can see the plume of smoke blowing from the north to east. by the afternoon we'll really pick up, 35 kilometers out of the question. even gustier tomorrow. the issue we'll have as we talk about the winds and temperatures, temperatures not going to be a problem. the shower and thunderstorms will be throughout the area. we have a low and we won't get beneficial rains today. today we'll potentially have lightning out there which will make conditions worse. by saturday the moisture moves through. we'll have wet ground out there. that will be better news for firefighting efforts. are you watching us from the eastern seaboard. rock and role day. 10 centimeter hail. new york, pennsylvania. take you through some of the damage. national weather service will be out there surveying what looked from ariel pictures to be a twisting of the wind. do we have the pictures? yes, there they are. you see the pi

anna cabrera, cnn, denver. >> all right, anna, thank you very much.ant to bring in someone who knows the stakes in this debate all too well. jason collier. his son suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. jason has been trying to get access to experimental drugs for some time now and joins us excu exclusively tonight. thank you so much for joining us tonight. how is jake? >> jake is doing okay. he's struggling with pneumonia from flu he caught and was admitted on sunday but he seems to be progressing in the right direction. >> all right. let's talk about him. jake is 3 years old and suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. tell us about his struggle with the disease and his prognosis. >> sure. he was diagnosed when he was roughly 6 months old. he's got type 2 which is he's able to sit but not stand or walk. he's, you know, he's a wonderful boy and his prognosis is the -- there's no treatment for it right now. there's a lot of clinical trials and potential in regards to it but there's really just a matter of being taken care of for him. there's not much -- a

i'm anna cabrera in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.newsroom. ". >> we have more on the crash. one body has now been

anna cabrera is joining us from the fire zone. what's the latest?e still holding at about 5,000 acres but it's 0% contained. the winds are really kicking up this afternoon and it was this time yesterday where we saw this fire just explode. you can see the brown cloud behind me but we're seeing the smoke cloud really kind of thin out. it's spreading out because of that wind. and it's moving to the north pushing the fire, pushing all of those flames that direction as well. as they move through this heavy, heavy and dry timber. the ponderosa pine forest, that is, here. and threaten hundreds of homes. >> it's my home. my property. my livelihood. everything. >> reporter: frank garrison owns oak creek, arizona's, butterfly garden inn in the burning park between sedona and flag staff. >> we were able to get all my employees out, my family out, our guests out. >> reporter: the volatile slide fire has torched over 4,500 acres and threatening some 3,000 residents. high winds and dry conditions are fueling the blaze in this popular tourist region. >> the slide

i'm anna cabrera in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. you're in the "cnn newsroom. ". >> we have more on the crash. one body has now been recovered. police say they've narrowed down the search but they've not found the two remaining passengers. >> we've also found kind of a debris field. we found different items that would have been inside the hot-air balloon. this is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. >> and that appears to be the moment when -- you're seeing here what appears to be the moment when the burning basket fell away from the balloon. we've got more on the accident now that happened just before 8:00 last night. authorities say that hot-air balloon participating in the mid-atlantic balloon festival near richmond drifted into power lines and caused the basket to burst into flames. the balloon then continued to fly away and that basket, as we saw, right here looking like a fireball in the night sky. the pictures are unbelievable. one witness reported hearing two people screami