our thanks to chris cillizza and jean cummings and, of course alan gomez.hank you all very much. >>> now to california where 21 massive and fast-moving wildfires are continuing to grow today. tripling in size over the weekend. this the so-called rocky fire in northern california. already scorched an area larger than the city of st. louis. veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. as the blaze threatens thousands of homes today after already destroying two dozen, forcing thousands to be evacuated. nbc's joe fryer joining me now in california with the latest. you've seen a lot of wildfires in all of your reporting but this is extraordinary. >> yeah time and time again, andrea, we're talking to firefighters, people who have 10 20 30 years experience. and they keep saying they haven't seen a fire like this one, the way it is behaving. they say it's unprecedented, especially alarming was over the weekend. it certainly tripled in size. the good news is that in the last 24 hours they have slowed it down a bit. the fire is still growing. it ha

bush, and wall street journal political editor jean cummings. thanks to all.llizza, what do you think is happening? let's take a look at some of the most recent numbers. you can see john kasich is coming up in new hampshire, he's up to 12, trump is at 18. in the suffolk university poll in iowa, among those who saw the debate, who actually watched the debate, 55% are less comfortable than they were before with donald trump. so that is something of an indicator. >> yeah. we don't have -- this is weird to say since i feel like there's so much polling, but we don't have a lot of good sort of polling with a long track record that gives us the national sense for trump. you know, that same suffolk poll showed him ahead. but the question here is in a 17-candidate field, 18% is enough. if donald trump does want to become the nominee or at least be a serious candidate, the field is going to slim and slim and slim. i wonder if it's sort of -- there's 18% or 16% or maybe 22% who would be with him almost no matter what he says or does. but he can't move beyond that. maybe