we're near mckinnon. i can't get a cross because, again, i'm driving but there is a lot of people that are being told to leave the area, a lot of fire crews here on scene. they were actually pulling up after i arrived. so they keep sending more and more. i haven't had a chance to talk with an official. a couple of police are cordoning off certain streets because they need to drag the hose lines, connect to the fire hydrants. so people are being told to stay out of the area. this one is coming in. it's really ripping. it's very black smoke that you can see. a lot of flames and it appears that they are attacking this fire from all ends, from all -- from all parts of the block here. but people in the neighborhood are a bit freaked out, i have to say because the popping noises that you can hear from the fire are so intense, it was quite scary. everybody kind of going in all at once to take pictures off their cell phone cameras backed off once they heard the loud booms. >> that certainly is probably the best i

let's go to mark mckinnon and let's just wrap it up, mark. it seems to me, republicans, unfortunately, we face an uphill battle because when our people do something stupid, it's national news the next day. like this. i mean, democrats have much more latitude to do stupid things across the fruited plains without having the national media pick it up and say, well, they represent the entire democratic party. that is an ongoing problem for us, i guess, because we are out of power, right? >> well, that's true, joe, but problems we are bringing on ourselves. we keep trying to rebrand the party and we have one step forward and two steps back with incidents like this in arizona, so we just need to -- we need to put a better foot forward and stop having these kind of things happen. we did have some good news out of texas yesterday and maybe talk more about that with the federal district court judge that ruled against the gay prohibition in t. >> the will of the people always win. you dump these on the people, people have been reaching in on the table.

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