is those firenados. while it looks really remarkable, is that something you've seen a lot, is this sort of unique to this particular condition? >> it's something we see more later in the season. not earlier in the season. what happens is the fire moves so quickly and intensely, that it will create its over weather and eventually, with what amount of heat, it will create its own thunderstorm. so being in a thunderstorm, you know that winds are very erratic. they can be going one way, one end of the fire, and a different direction on the other side of the fire. so it's very intense. >> i'm sure this is normal for you. seeing these images on the screen beside you, they've been called armageddon and they sure look like it. we're so grateful for the work you do and we wish you the best. thank you, captain. >> thank you very much. >> captain richard cordova joining us live this morning. >>> the saga that is basketball franchise owner donald sterling. well, it wouldn't be another day if we didn't have another d

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you think about a firenado. you already have the fire creating its own eddies or winds at the bottom. it is like invisible funnel going up. now counter act that brush. brush releases carbon. carbon is combustable but doesn't combust within the funnel because there is no oxygen. only when it gets to the top and encounters the oxygen up here does the entire thing combust and that is where you get the firenado. when you talk about the fire lines take a look at the animation. these things can shoot up to 1,000 feet high and you cannot combat these flames directly not within the firenade oitself. it doesn't startn supercell. it can produce winds as damaging at 120 miles per hour kind of 24 equivalent of an ef-2 tornado. that is the problem of what is so tough on the fire lines. when you talk about temperatures being 25 degrees above the record, above the record here, not above average, along the coast line, that is what they have been dealing with in california. conditions are improving. you have had the dome of high

let me show you ingredients to the firenado.ou have seen it with all the fires we have seen in california, they really create their own weather, don't they? what happens, it's at the base of the fires, what we see is an eddy degree created. the fire rises and the temperatures reach hundreds of degrees. as the temperatures warm, the warm air rises and really the key to this firenado is what's here at the base. it's all this dry vegetation. the drought, the heat, all of this plays into the firenados. you can't have all of that without that. so, with all this brush, the dry brush at the bottom, it releases the carbon into the air. what is carbon? combustible. we are going to see it rise, then, it finds oxygen and breathes the life into it. so, take a look at this. this is an animation that was created to give you another picture. what happens, of course, it can be huge. what we have seen in terms of diameter, these things can be two miles in diameter and three miles in height. so, these things are truly massive. you can see this im

the firenado. power lines. late today nearly 16,000 new evacuation orders were issued on the san diego county fire line. good evening. we'll begin in san diego county where firefighters found a body in the charred brush. believed to be a transient and here's the fire tonight. more than 2, 2 2600 firefighters from agency across california are battling more than half dozen wildfires that burned at least 10,000 acres to this point. teams from oakland and alameda county are on the way to help out. tonight this is the map of the fire all in northern san diego county. here's of more. >> a school under siege. flames coming within feat of cal state university san marco marcos. firefighters struggling to keep the blaze at bay on a hillside. while 2 university workers pick up hos hoses and fought off flames too trying to save the school. >> i think you might be hero. >> no. no. no hero here. the only one that are hero. >> the fire department. >>reporter: final exam and graduation cancelled. campus evacuated. as this fire

that's what we're seeing when you see these so-called firenadoes.rising. and that's who we're seeing in those pictures. >> jennifer, thanks for that explanation. jennifer gray, our meteorologist. >>> just a little while ago, the san diego county district attorney announced a first arson charge in connection with these wildfires. joining us now on the phone, the sheriff of san diego county, bill gore. sheriff gore, thank verizs very for swro for joining us. give us the latest on the suspicion of arson. what do you know? >> thanks first of all for having me on, getting the word out to your viewers. you know, we share the suspicions of a lot of people when you have nine separate fires started in the course of two days, but we can't let that suspicion and speculation take the place of really hard facts. so as soon as we can get into those fire areas, we started parallel arson investigations at each one of these working with san diego police department arson investigator, the sheriffs department arson investigators and the various fire agencies. collabor

then i keep looking out there and everything is singed, everything is gone. >> reporter: firenados can quickly increase the size of a wild fire, but they usually only last a couple of minutes. and cooler more humid conditions which could provide some much needed relief no this area is expected to make its way here to this area through the weekend. in san marcos, kpix5. >>> the fremont fire department strike team is one of many bay area agencies helping. cal fire expects to spend $240 million fighting wild fires this year. >> this is all that is left of a big house in gilroy. a grass fire tore through it this afternoon. betty yu heard from neighbors about why this house went up in flames but others dent. >> reporter: neighborhoods believe that big house on the hill behind me went up in flames because the homeowner didn't clear the grass and brush around it. it all but burned to the ground. a grass fire quickly spread to this home this afternoon. flames shot up through the attic and today's dry hot windy conditions made things worse. >> fires like this that start in may during a normal r

a woman instagramed this image of a firenado. it's when intense heat combines with high winds. >> that's amazing. >>> look at the morning road conditions. no firenados likely, with a 2,000-mile swath that will be showers. causing wet roads from wyoming to new york city. another band of showers will slicken roads from chicago to texas. and snow in the northern rockies. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis and denver. >>> back to the news, now. and millionica lewinsky is spea out about her affair with president clinton. may not be quiet anymore. here's abc's jonathan karl. >> she was the intern who had the affair that impeached the president. the world hasn't heard much from monica lewinsky since those days. now, she is breaking a decade of silence. i, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and president clinton, she writes in "vanity fair." sure, my boss took advantage of me. but i'll always remain firm on this point. it was a consensual relationship. any abuse came in the aftermath, when i was h

the twisting torches called firenados. >>> honoring the heroes. the president dedicates the 9/11 museum telling the story of american courage in the face of terror. >> nothing can ever break us. nothing can change who we are as americans. >>> a health alert tonight. a warning about a popular sleeping pill. >>> and surprise. what happened behind the scenes of the big celebration for our barbara walters? tonight.

some 10,000 acres, but near san marcos, a firenado rose and twisted.hman has m >> reporter: bill, this is a beautiful town

in keeping with the rule adding nado to any word makes it more terrifying many are calling them firenado. tom how does one of that's fi firenados firm. >> where a fire can spring up and one moment can be pushed in one direction and moments later pushed back the other way. how does this come together to create that spiral. fire burns into at that hot bed of fuel whether it's low grasses or low shrubs, something that gets it going. you're talking about 1500 to 2,200 degrees in temperature. then a cold pocket of air appears somewhere above it and all of that hot air starts rushing up towards that cold pocket and you end up getting that typical spiralling pattern that you see in tornadoes and it brings up hot gas from down on the ground. as they get up high enough where there's more oxygen they burst into flames and establishes that column that rotates more and more rapidly. >> these things are fascinating and terrifying to watch. they're he actually as strong or as dangerous as regular tornadoes? >> generally, no. there are such things as true fire tornadoes but they are incredibly rare. ba

yes, firenadoes, i did not make that up. bureau chief cannot remember it being this hot, this dry for this long, making conditions the perfectly wrong kind of situation to create these fast-moving fires, wrong for us, that is. forecasters say it may be the hottest of the whole week with highs between 98 and 106 degrees. here's a look at the spots and frames around the san diego area. nearly 10,000 acres burned so far, which is more than 15-square miles. the fire so massive you can even see the smoke from space. look at this photo, showing from nasa, massive clouds blowing out to the pacific. southern california, of course, is no stranger to massive fires like these but eight all at one time? officials suspect it may be more than just bad luck this time. >> i'll leave it up to the investigators. i just think that there's too much of a coincidence here. we've had extraordinary numbers of started fires and each fire will be treated as a crime scene until it's proven to be accidental. >> perhaps no community has been impacted mo

some 10,000 acres, but near san marcos, a firenado rose and twisted.ary tuchman has more. >> reporter: bill, this is a beautiful town with beautiful neighborhoods. but this neighborhood right now is a ghost neighborhood. people are evacuated. all that is left of the firefighters and us. and this is what we have been doing all day. the hill top on top of san

wind, carrying embers against the tree tops and up in swirling columns that folks here are calling firenados. neighbors hoping the shower of sparks coming down won't overtake their homes. one exploded with propane tanks going off like rockets. >> three big black columns of smoke and it just took off like crazy. >> reporter: with more homes lost in san marcos to the advancing flames of the cocoas fire. in carlbad seven homes destroyed plus a complex that housed condos. firefighters won the battle. >> they didn't stop the fire here, it usually went into these houses and we would have lost the whole neighborhood. >> from what could become a very dangerous fire season, the worst fire season that we have seen in a long, long time. >> reporter: a dousing from above as hand crews dig lines under, it's a struggle, fruitless until the weather offers some relief. carls bad, california. >>> two people were arrested overnight for trying to start a fire in san diego's escondido area. police have not said whether the pair were involved in any of the wildfires currently burning. >>> a former army officer's

a "firenado" like this one is one of the scariest things firefighters face. >> wildfires are burning "fast & furious" in southern california. and we've learned one person has died. >> last month a teen got on to the mineta san jose airport property and stowed away in a flight to hawaii. today an east bay congressman is calling on the silicon valley to help make airport perimeters more secure. >> amazon has a big box right in the middle of justin herman plaza in san francisco. it might be where deliveries go from now on to prevent doorstep package stealing. from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on "kpix 5 news this morning." captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. happy friday. it is 5:01. crews in san diego county are hopeful about their battle against several wildfires even though more evacuation notices were issued yesterday. >> this 1200-acre fire in the san marcos area is just 5% contained. but today firefighter

. >> well, some of the wildfires sparked terrifying firenados.ewalls, pillars that can be just as dangerous as tornadoes. let's check in now with tom foreman on a look at how the fires form. >> headlillo, anderson, as you one of the most dangerous things for a land firefighter is where the weather and winds are unstable. where one moment they can push a fire in one direction, the other, a different direction. how does all that come together to create one of these fire whirls or fire tornadoes as people like to call them. essentially what happens is a fire burns into a hot bed of fuel. so it may be at 15, 2200 degrees temperature. that would not be uncommon. and then a colder air mass comes overhead and all the heat is drawn up toward that colder area. the cold air and the hot air hit each other just like they do in a tornado and they start to swirl. and that starts drawing in more combustable gases and flames. this goes 20 to 30 miles an hour in rotation. that is nothing like a tornado, depending on what you're talking about, which part of the st

some of the images of those firenados ares astonishing.ibe what firefighters are up against right now? >> well, those firenados or fire tornados that you're looking at is an example of the critical fire weather and the explosive fire growth we're seeing out here. our fuel conditions are at a critical level. we're in may. these are levels that we normally wouldn't see until august/september. so i can tell you yesterday was a very difficult firefight. firefighters were very aggressive. but again,es those fire tornadoes are just an example of what we're experiencing out here. >> captain, if this is what you're seeing in may and the peak comes august/september, what does this mean for august/september? is the outlook better or worse? >> well, we never predict fire season but obviously with the drought, the fuel conditions, we're getting offshore, santa ana winds in may, this is setting up to be a very, very busy season. all agencies including cal fire have increased staffing, increased equipment in anticipation of a very busy season unfortunat

look at this video of so-called firenado. firefighters call them when strong winds meet and hot air rising. if conditions are right the flames can reach hundreds of feet. they can last for minutes and spark new fires. >> those are incredible to watch. >> let's check in now with zappedia washington look at the conditions firefighters are facing on the fire line sandhya. >>reporter: things are improving. show you live doppler 7hd here in the bay area we are seeing some fog and high clouds down south. starting to see the winds drop-off. so earlier it was breezy to gusty now pretty calm around some parts down there and humidity has come up. that's improvement. they were in the single digit earlier. still dry. 17 percent at miramar. 19 percent at el cajon. it's warm as you can see. 60's. 70's. right now. as we look at the forecast winds will be offshore in the morning but quickly turning on shore that is cooler air coming off the ocean. cooling begins at the coast tomorrow. inland spots start to drop-off over the weekend as they s

and keep in mind, you can't combat the firenado directly.he combustible flames on the inside you cannot fight directly. and they can be as powerful as tornadoes themselves. they're not coming from a supercell, but either way, winds can go as high as 120 miles an hour, knock down trees and move the fire line away from the original starting pointment definitely difficult for firefighters on the battle lines. >> thank you so much for that look. appreciate it. >>> children as young as 7 working on tobacco farms are getting sick with rashes, burning eyes, nausea, and vomiting. and this may be perfectly legal. now, some people say that needs to change. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. could mean less waiting for things like security backup

look at this video of so-called firenado. firefighters call them when strong winds meet and hot air rising. if conditions are right the flames can reach hundreds of feet. they can last for minutes and spark new fires. >> those are incredible to watch. >> let's check in now with zappedia washington look at the conditions firefighters are facing on the fire line sandhya. >>reporter: things are improving. show you live doppler 7hd here in the bay area we are seeing some fog and high clouds down south. starting to see the winds drop-off. so earlier it was breezy to gusty now pretty calm around some parts down there and humidity has come up. that's improvement. they were in the single digit earlier. still dry. 17 percent at miramar. 19 percent at el cajon. it's warm as you can see. 60's. 70's. right now. as we look at the forecast winds will be offshore in the morning but quickly turning on shore that is cooler air coming off the ocean. cooling begins at the coast tomorrow. inland spots start to drop-off over the weekend as they s

one of the most terrifying sites is the so-called fire tornado or firenado. flames like this have been photographed several times this week. they are dramatic and frightening to look at. especially yards from people's homes. as the fire burns two teenagers are believed to have started a small brush fire. police arrested a 17-year-old and 19-year-old last night. they say someone reported seeing two people set a small brush fire in a nearby park. about an hour later someone also called police saying he saw two people trying to start a fire. they do not believe the teens were involved. >>> police in concord are investigating a deadly officer involved shooting. that happened late yesterday afternoon right near downtown concord. police went to a home of a suicidal woman calling 911 that she had a gun and was wanting to kill herself. offices had to open fire on her after she pointed the gun at them. >> one officer fired at the woman and struck her. we did call emergency aid for her at the scene but she was pronounced dead. >> police identified the woman killed at 5

hopscotching between tree tops and up in swirling columns of people near san diego county are calling firenados. >> fire was going to go down the mountain. >> reporter: neighbors hoping the shower of sparks coming down won't overtake their homes. one exploded with propane tanks going off like rockets. >> three big black columns of smoke and took off like crazy. >> reporter: with it, more homes lost in san marcos, to the advancing flames of the cocoa fire. in karlz bad, seven homes destroyed and a complex that housed 18 condos. bob ingersol thought his house was next but firefighters won that battle. >> it easily went into the houses and we could have lost the whole neighborhood. >> reporter: so many neighborhoods are still at risk. >> this is just the beginning for what could become a very dangerous fire season, the worst fire season that we have seen in a long, long time. >> reporter: a dousing from above as hand crews dig lines under. it is a struggle, fruitless, d until the weather offers some relief. jennifer bjorklund, nbc news, carlsbad, california. >>> authorities want the public's help

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. >> there are nine of them and in the fire those bizarre formation called firenados, fire whirls aregerous than any other this morning. abc's devin drier is there. >> the san marcos wildfire roared to life in the backyards of family homes. firefighters mounting an aggressive response with dozens of helicopters and planes dumping load after load. crews on the front lines here battled record heat and gusty winds. they saved hundreds of homes, but not all. >> i feel really sad for the people that lost their houses. >> reporter: thousands of new evacuation notices went out as the wind set fire spreading. >> grab your personal belongings and please leave. >> reporter: residents grabbed what they could and fled. >> clothes, dog food, dog toys, records, just stuff that can't be replaced. >> reporter: on the hillsides nearby, swirling with tubes of burning embers and smoke. what experts call a fire whirl. >> they lift embers in to the air and that can be caught by the wind or cast out away from the existing fire line. >> reporter: a dangerous element of unpredictable wildfires smoldering acr

look at this video of so-called firenado. firefighters call them when strong winds meet and hot air rising. if conditions are right the flames can reach hundreds of. feet. feet can last for minutes and spark new fires. >> those are incredible to watch. >> let's check in now with zappedia washington look at the conditions firefighters are facing on the fire line sandhya. >>reporter: things are improving. show you live doppler 7hd here in the bay area we are seeing some fog and high clouds down south. starting to see the winds drop-off. so earlier it was breezy to gusty now pretty calm around some parts down there and humidity has come up. that's improvement. they were in the single digit earlier. still dry. 17 percent at miramar. 19 percent at el cajon. it's warm as you can see. 60's. 70's. right now. as we look at the forecast winds will be offshore in the morning but quickly turning on shore that is cooler air coming off the ocean. cooling begins at the coast tomorrow. inland spots start to drop-off over the weekend as they

this is called a firenado.urt. >>> a florida woman has given birth to triplets at the age of 47. she did it without any fertility drugs. she already has two grown children. her doctor said it was nothing short of a miracle. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, may 7. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> good wednesday morning. it is hump day finally. but this is a special hump day for you. >> why? >> because at home, there is a special little someone. >> it's my daughter's birthday. she turns 11 today. >> happy birthday to you, alexa. very cool. let's get started. we begin this half hour with those dire climate warnings. >> president obama releasing the latest national climate assessment report, inviting television meteorologists to the white house for the event. our own ginger zee was among them. >> reporter: the message in this report, it is already happening. extremes of today will become even more extreme. in the northeast, torrential rai

a "firenado" like this one is one of the scariest things firefighters face. >> wildfires are burningast & furious" in southern california. and we've learned one person has died. >> last month a teen got on to the mineta san jose airport property and stowed away in a flight to hawaii. today an east bay congressman is calling on the silicon valley to help make airport perimeters more secure. >> amazon has a big box right in the middle of st

powerful winds forming firenados. tens of thousands forced from their home as new tornadoes pop up across the midwest, all caught on tape. >>> breaking overnight. casey kasem found. the radio legend, located safe just outside seattle, just hours after his children filed a missing persons report. the mystery taking a whole, new turn in this family feud. >>> and take a look at this. this semi truck driver losing control, almost careening off the highway at top speed. his dramatic recovery caught on camera. how he brought the big rig back from the brink of disaster. >>> and boy's best friend. the story of the amazing video that everyone is sharing right now. the hero house cat that came to the rescue, catapulted herself to defend the little boy on his bike. the family, speaking out this morning. >>> and good morning, america. let's get right to it. the fires raging out of control right now. take a look at this. families evacuated from legoland theme park. such a scary end to what should have been a fun day. and there's t

. -- firenado, city home to 10,000 student state university, 9 other other report that 15% of city has been evacuated. but the biggest of those fires, all good size fires, hitting marine corps base at camp pendleton. burning to 6,000 of the bases' 125,000 acre area. prompting an evacuation order for a naval web son station and nearby military housing units, bases' daily population averages to 100,000 people, and the fire is only 20% contained. at this hour on the base. local officials are confirms more than 20 homes have been destroyed by the fire, thousands in the potential path of all of the various fires, 3 thousand homes and businesses have lost power, fox news correspondent will carr on the ground in an marcos, and has the latest for us. us. >> well firefighter had hopeed that wins would be calm this afternoon, but the truth is that these conditions are ripe for the fires to continue to jump around, there is low humidity, temperature that have been high about 98, noon degrees, have you california dry, drought conditions, and then about 3:00 eastern today wins picked up and pushed

. >> including the firenados, wind in general is bad. brian rooney let's hope things calm down out there. thanks. >> thank you. >> ceo pay in america has soared in recent decades, wide ly deepening the gap between the ceo and his workers. now two california state senators are trying to do something about the growing wage gap. sponsoring a bill in the state senate that would penalize at a companies that pay their ceo more than 100 times as much as their workers. senator. this is a unique approach to income and equality. what do you hope to achieve? >> we lope to achieve a positive incentive for corporate responsibility, for lessening income inequality in this country. starting right here in california. where soment things begin. >> -- where so many things begin. >> you would reward companies that pay their ceos less than 100 times the median worker's salary and you would lessen on asliding scale those that pay their ceo less than 100 times their workers? >> as you know, the average ceo makes 280 times the amount of the median worker and t

powerful winds forming firenados. tens of thousands forced from their home as new tornadoes pop up across the midwest, all caught on tape. >>> breaking overnight. casey kasem found. the radio legend, located safe just outside seattle, just hours after his children filed a missing persons report. the mystery taking a whole, new turn in this family feud. >>> and take a look at this. this semi truck driver losing control, almost careening off the highway at top speed. his dramatic recovery caught on camera. how he brought the big rig back from the brink of disaster. >>> and boy's best friend.

some 10,000 acres, but near san marcos, a firenado rose and twisted. cnn's gary tcuman huchman has m >> reporter: bill, this is a beautiful town with beautiful neighborhood neighborhoods. but this neighborhood right now is a ghost neighborhood. people are evacuated. all that is left of the firefighters and us. and this is what we have been doing all day. the hill top on top of san marcos, blazing for three hours, meeting with success and knocking it down. you still see the smoke and the blaze that was on top with surrounding homes. many homes here in san marcos have been destroyed. firefighters from all over southern california are here on scene. the day started off where it appeared we were not going to have so much of a problem. the fires were much less than they were yesterday. but then around 12 noon we saw them pick up dramatically. we were in a place where we saw this so-called fire tornado. what they did is make the fire spread in literally seconds. we saw trees and foliage, over a short time here we'll zoom in. and you will see a house that bur

those firenados are an example of the critical fire weather and kbroet you're seeing out here. we're in may. these are levels we normally wouldn't see until august or september. time lapsed video shows the san marcos fire going from bad to worse in minutes. so far it scorched 3,000 acres in minutes and keeps going. >> i just have my suspicions. it's six in a day. even though the conditions would allow for that, usually when a fire spreads, it'll spread by its own embers or spread close to one another. that didn't happen here. >> reporter: a 19-year-old man is one of two teens arrested for starting two small brush fires. as of now, though, neither has been linked to the larger blazes. >> i mean, those blazes are just raging right now. that was ted rollins reporting for us. and as bad as it's been, conditions should be improving for the many firefighters risking their lives. let's get a forecast of california now. to the world weather center. ivan? >> yeah, errol. in fact, we continue to see improving weather conditions here. remember california and l.a. specifically we were at 1

here in southern california today, we premiereed what i think is the first ever, firenado.hat is nothing to laugh about. kind of like a sharknado, instead of sharks in the nado there is fire. if that isn't the work of satan, i don't know what is. i'll tell you. the fires are so bad they had to evacuate lego land. before we show this. i want to warn you the images you are about to see are disturbing. so if there are young children in the room. this is a live -- this is a live feed of what is happening right now at legoland. at least he went out smiling though, right? since it is so hot here in hollywood today, i thought it would be nice to give pedestrians who are suffering outside our building a chance to cool down. let's go outside now to my cousin sal, who is on hollywood boulevard. hello, cousin sal. >> hey, jimmy, what is happening? >> jimmy: sal, grabbed a couple people off the street. who should we start with, sal? >> this young lady. >> jimmy: your name? >> alicia. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> boston, massachusetts. >> jimmy: were you expecting warm weather? >> i

this is a fire tornado otherwise known as a firenado. this one have been photographed several times. they are caused by the hot dry winds and all the heat from those flames. as the fires burnrd, two teenagers now believed to have started another small brush fire in one san diego county city. police thissest condo toe arrested a 17-year-old and 19- year-old last night. they say someone reported seeing two people starlet a small brush fire in a park. and then about an hour later someone else called police saying he saw two people try to start a fire. >>> two dozen officers from fairfield police and the napa and solano sheriffs office searched the rural property on canyon road. yesterday's raid is connected to two other raids in recent months in cordelia and fairfield. >> one of our jobs in laurel is confiscate and take guns off the street because guns are equated to violence. >> a total of five people have been arrested. napa county sheriffs deputies say they have been monitoring the property for compliance with county codes that limit the

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here is video of one of the firenados that formed a swirling fire ball that indicates the intense conditions the firefighters are dealing with as they try desperately to get control of it. take a look at that. gary tuchman reports from san francisco. >> reporter: the scene is frightening, the sky, blood red, the scene is so intense it is challenging to see. this is a neighborhood in san marcos, california, north of san diego. and it is the most intense time during the wildfire. the frantic efforts to stop the flames from burning down houses. incredibly just a short time before this video was shot there was relatively little fire in this area. when we got to san marcos this is what we saw. some flames but winds starting to pick up. the flames and the winds spread the ashes and embers and that is what makes the fire spread. this area right here ten minutes ago nothing at all. now we're seeing the smoke and the flames start to form. it is very likely that within the next couple of hours these trees, this vegetation will be gone. right down the hill from where i'm standing here in california, wh

scotching between tree tops and up in swirling columns the people here in san diego county are calling firenadose was going down the mountains. >> reporter: neighbors hoping the shower of sparks coming down won't overtake their homes. one today exploded with propane tanks going off like rockets. >> black columns of smoke just took off like crazy. >> reporter: and with it, more homes lost in san more kose to the advancing flames of the fire. in the city of carlsbad seven homes destroyed plus a complex that housed 18 condos. bob thought his place was next, but firefighters won that battle. >> they didn't stop the fire here. it easily went into these houses and we would have lost this whole neighborhood. >> reporter: so many neighborhoods are still at risk. >> this is just the beginning from what could become a very dangerous fire season, the worst fire season that we have seen in a long, long time. >> reporter: a dousing from above, as crews dig lines under, it's a struggle, fruitless, until the weather offers some relief. while the winds kicked up an additional 13,000 evacuation orders in the san

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similar situation when you're dealing with these firenados, so they do look a lot like tornadoes. los angeles finally starting to see those temperatures come down in the coming days. we've been running 20 and 30 degrees above normal for the past several days. now we'll finally get back into the 70s. still above normal. temperatures are coming down which is better. also getting help from that on shore breeze. that's pulling in a little more moisture. incrazying that humidity. increasing that humidity if you will over the weekend or so. want to put things in perspective. this is last year. the state of california. zero percent in exceptional drought and less than 50 in a severe drought. move over to this year. 2014. 100% of the state in severe drought and about 75% in exceptional? unreal. >> yeah, that's not good at all. jennifer, thanks very much. >>> other news we're following, get back to the fires later in los angeles. the clippers owner donald sterling is gearing up for a major fight. a source telling cnn sterling is rejecting sanctions imposed by the nba for his racist rant. s

winds have been fueling the flames even spawning firenados, which are funnels of flames. joe fryer has the very latest on the fight to contain these. >> reporter: the may fire storm has claimed its first life after a body was discovered. to the east a fire that started in san marcos has spread to neighboring escondido. >> three big black clouds of smoke and it took off like crazy. >> reporter: this is the county's number one priority. a destructive enemy to devour a large home and to break a family's heart. amanda and stan rented a hill top house with a priceless view for three years. >> our patio deck. >> reporter: they evacuated an hour before the flames took everything. >> it just makes you think of all the times together. >> reporter: we were there as the fire chewed through another hillside inching right up to a fence, the only barrier between rows of apartment buildings. >> now we go live to jennifer be jork land. what's the latest there? i understand there have been some arrests. >> reporter: there have been some arrests. they are perhaps unrelated to any of these

there are "firenados" whipping up and crews are gaining some ground on just about all these fires except one the san marcos fire only 5% contained. nearly 13,000 new evacuation notices were issued today on top of the 20,000 yesterday. hundreds of firefighters and dozens of military helicopters are battling the fire. crews estimate that the fires have caused more than $22 million in damage so far. more than a dozen structures have been consumed. coming up at 6:30 we'll have a live report from the front lines. >>> fire danger from our bay area heat wave prompted san jose officials to close alum rock park today. they are concerned about grassfires as well as the availability of firefighters and equipment. chief meteorologist paul deanno is live in santa rosa with today's highs and the relief that's on the way. paul. >> yeah, we are going to get a taste of the relief right now. i certainly wouldn't call it chilly outside but temperatures are not as hot as yesterday. case in point yesterday in santa rosa we were in the mid- 90s. currently we are in the mid- 80s. cooling down a nice night for

crews in san diego battle fierce wildfires that keep rolling from one community to another spawning firenadoes which are real things, funnels of flames that look like tornados. >> terrifying images there. terrifying to live through. we know this at this point. more than 10,000 acres have gone up in flames. we're talking about home after home. hood neighborhood after neighborhood scorched. our dan simon is live with us from escondido. they're hoping for better weather conditions. what is the situation right now, dan? >> reporter: first of all, it was a tough long night of firefighting. the latest neighborhood to get hit was where i arjs escondido. you can see this house. you can see some flames over there. that was a bedroom or a living room. right now the temperatures and humidity are rising. no wind. hopefully that will allow the firefighters to get a hand on this thing. there is a concern that things could get worse. we know that two people were actually arrest ed they're accused of starting fires. now you have two people arrested, accused of trying to start some brush fooirs. there's more s