kqed politics and government reporter , guy marzorati.d, grace toohey , los angeles times breaking news reporter. kevin, what is the latest in yosemite with this fire rex and what else she would be thinng about with wildfires? >> in california, if we have good news, let's take it. the washburn fire in yosemite is going to continue to burn but they say the giant sequoias will likely survive. they are probably going to benefit from this fire. more broadly in california, we have mega fires because a history of fire suppression around the state has loaded our forests with wood to burn. in yosemite, they have done a really good job of mitigation and doing controlled burns and for sending. fire scientists say that this is a model for the rest of the state. our forests are overloaded and there is a lot of extra wood. this is a terrible drought and so all of that wood is dried out and it is baking in heat waves exacerbated by climate change. every summer in california it is 3 degrees hotter annually than it used to be so, when we have a dry year