let's go right now to los angeles where we're joined by daniel swain.alk about the fires and whether you believe there is a connection to climate change. >> thanks for having me. the scope of the wildfires we have been seeing over the past week or so in northern california is really kind of sobering. as you mentioned, these fires have the highest death toll and the highest number of structures burned of any series of fires in california history. california does have a long history of deadly and destructive wildfires. the fires we have seen this week have -- bear some similarities to the historical fires that have caused big problems in the past, which is the presence of these very strong and dry land to sea winds known locally as the diablo winds. winds when thesewinds -- when these winds blow, it causes existing fires to spread very quickly. in some cases, i think faster than people have been able to out run them, unfortunately. climate conditions over the past several months in california have been, in some ways, unprecedented. california has experien