well for more let's bring in journalist mike de walt he joins us from santa rosa an area ravaged by the wildfires mike the number of missing people's now soared to over a thousand of these people feared dead. there's a lot of uncertainty with that number and we saw a big jump in a tonight county sheriff mean announcement today telling residents not to get too tied to that number as it's very much a moving target some of those names could be duplicates some of them could have come from old man one calls and of course some of them may not just be reunited yet with their loved ones that said they're still very much some concern about that number as high as it is and the population in paradise dealing with mostly seniors over sixty five they could be disabled in mobile and that's really the trend we've seen in some of the names that they were in the seventy one names that they've released so far that they found might we understand that the the first residents are returning to their homes how are they coping with the aftermath of the wildfires. there's really a sense of uncertainty in going

a short time ago i spoke to journalist mike de walt who's been covering president trump's trip to california i began by asking him what the people who've been affected by the wildfires wanted to hear from trump. i think residents in this area really want to hear. at the from president trump and just that their story is being heard the people in this area have gone through so much over the past weeks and. as you heard from some of the people there it doesn't do justice to see the clips on t.v. or to see photos to actually be on the ground and experience just what this devastation looks like i think more than anything else that politics aside people want to know that that their experience is being seen across the nation and that that help is on the way. while you are in the region that's worst hit by the fire ants how are people coping with such devastation. it's really difficult and is especially now that most of the immediate fire danger is over it really begins the long process of what what's next for residents here some people returning to homes some people are returning to see their home