kenneth moten has more on the destruction, he joins us live from washington. >> reporter: sarah, the so-called valley fire has been contained to 5% now. today firefighters should get some type of relief from the weather, which should help after the fire exploded over the weekend. a scene out of hell burning out of control barely contained the valley fire raging in northern california has devoured hundreds of homes. >> scarest thing i've ever about through in my life. we've lost all our homes and pellets. we're devastated. >> reporter: it was a race against mother nature. firefighters set back fires as they worked to get the upper hand in lake an napa counties. entire communities gutted neighborhoods reduced to ashes. four firefighters suffered from second degree burns but recovering. 20,000 people have been evacuated. we've seen incredible video from residents trying to escape. >> they are putting water on this particular house because it's a corner. >> reporter: the butte fire east of sacramento 635,000 acres burned, 80 homes -- 65,000 acres burned 80 homes destroyed. the good news

kenneth moten, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> the dentist in minnesota that killed less sill the lion is wrapping up his first day back at work in more six weeks. a handful of protestors showed up outside his office. walter palmer laid low after it was revealed that he was response foible doter death of cecil the lion. some protestors say he should be sent to zimbabwe to face trial. he has yet to be charged with a crime. >>> hundreds of refugees clashed at syria and hungary. the refugees tried to walk to budapest. police struggled to keep them back. a u.n. official said it's not enough for countries like the u.s. to give money but they should take in refugees. >>> a forest fire in southern new jersey is 65% contained. that's good news for that area. that fire broke out in woodland township. it's burned through a thousand acres and spread to burlington and ocean counties. a dozen wildfire trucks and four bulldozers are helping in the containment effort. nobody has been hurt. no homes are in the path of those flames. you can see the smoke coming up and the flames at night are vivid. >>

kenneth moten has the story. >> reporter: tear gas and water canyons. from special forces armed in taking action against the thousands of people gathered along raise sorority wire fence at the border of hungary and serbia. the escalation came after hungry enforced new restrictions to stop the increasing tide of humanity flowing from the borders to western europe. hungary arrested hundreds for crossing. taking in war refugees is problem. better life is a different story. >> we are in solidarity with the refugees. this is not the issue now. what we say is that we cannot except economic migrants because we cannot bear the burden of debt. >> reporter: they are searing syria. syrian president blamed europe for the crisis accusing the european union of supporting extremists trying to topple his regime. croatia's prime minister criticized hungary saying his country will remain open to offer an alternate route. for many the path to home leads to germany. the a student was separated from his family for years. he reunited with them wednesday before they and hundr

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kenneth moten tells us who flopped. reporter: that you be candidates were back on the campaign trail thursday looking for -- >> i will continue to do what we've been doing which is talking to as many voters as i can. reporter: she told george stephanopoulos she is satisfied with her standup performance. she held her own against donald trump it made some questionable comments about her face last week. >> i think women all over this country are very clearly what mr. trump said. [applause] >> i think it's a beautiful face and she is a beautiful woman. reporter: debate watchers called trump underwhelming but he is on top and a number of ways. he's the first republican over 30%. he was attacked 13 times. then he got more speaking time than any other candidate. nearly 19 minutes. scott walker had eight minutes. the candidate who is not even in the room, hillary, was mentioned 32 times. she was tweeting throughout the debate. >>'s visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat, ugly. that happened in

kenneth moten is live in d.c. with more. >> reporter: david, are you ready for round 2. we are preparing for clashes among the 16 candidates in the republican field but confrontations outside last night of a donald trump campaign event. the count down is on. just hours away from the next g.o.p. debate and the poll punches are getting harder. >> dari -- carly is giving me a hard time even though her poll numbers are horrible. >> i don't know need to tell you anything. when i get there,ing peace will be breaking out everywhere. prosperity will be raining down upon you. we will have the new age. >> inside the home of the dallas mavericks, trump continued to be a political maverick. >> thank you. how are you? >> reporter: climbing in the polls, continuing his tough talk on immigration in a major population is hispanic. >> we have to build a wall. a wall works. >> reporter: inside trump rallied. outside the arena -- >> you don't pay taxes. >> reporter: dump the trump protestors clashed over immigration. mounted police moved in to break up the crowds. >> separating a lot of us

reporting live here in washington, kenneth moten, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> across europe leaders are pledging to take in more refugees fleeing syria in the escalating crisis. germany is expecting around 2500 people today, another 20,000 arrived over the weekend. others are streaming in to austria and france agreed to take 24,000 people. most of the migrants are escaping war in syria. greece is working on a plan to move up to 18,000 people crammed on to a small island without enough services. >>> a law enforcement officers from around the country converging in illinois at this hour. they're gathering to attend the funeral of a police officer who was fatally shot on the job. funeral services for lieutenant charles gliniewicz are being held in his hometown of antioch. the 52-year-old was gunned down on tuesday after he radioed he was chasing three suspicious men on foot. >>> police in las vegas say they've arrested a gunman who ambushed two officers in their squad car. the man allegedly opened fire on the officers, with a semiautomatic handgun while they were stopped at a traffic li