he w correspondence, stephan simons is on the ground. in mariposa county where firefighters of still hard at work driving through the hillson into the mountains surrounding small town mariposa on the southwest corner of yosemite park feels almost like entering a different world. the fire fighters we accompany liking it often to wear lunar landscape. some fire crews are swarming the chart grounds, the oak fire left behind their mopping up as they say, reoccurring hotspots, attending, smouldering tree trunks. others are assigned to check on establish so called lines, or to expand them. jo amador a fire captain from san diego and the press inflammation officer assigned to us explains what to try to do. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here, right to keep her from spreading. and that's what this protection line is doing. so they leave that here, they leave that here in case this come to fire. another fire exact come in there, come in there, connect, they go up there and they can find and i all ready, ready to go. this wil

that due to climate change, the situation here will only get more unpredictable in the future. stephan simons is as an evacuation center in mariposa, california, and he joins us now live from the same. i stefan, we just heard the firefighters are making progress, but the fi is not quite under control. yes. is that no, not at all far from it. 26 per cent contain now that is a huge jumper and the p i o, the press information officer in the piece was very positive, and that is rightfully so. odd the firefighters who started battling this fi as when it was really smaller just 3 days ago. or 500 fire fighters deployed. now 3000 battling a major fire. 18000 acres. big. this is humongous. the biggest fire in 2022 so far in california. so of course he's positive because they're making progress and they seem and there's the crooks at the moment seemed to be positive that the fire is drifting away from you. so many part, but this can change. this fire is erratic, it jumped so fast and made so many acres, jumps in days, thousands of acres that 3000 fire fighters are now necessary to battle it. okay, now

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programs, is expected to operate for up to 20 years. stefan simons joins us now from washington to talk about these images released by nasa. so, stephan, we seen images of our, of galaxies for decades now. so what so significant significant rather about these new images that you haven't seen him before. as you said, 13000000000 years, that's these images show you the beginning of the universe, the 1st stars, the 1st galaxies, all of that. and i'm telling you, you can basically almost feel the vibe in washington. about scientists been so excited. it's like a geek fast nasa geek fest the gas nasa leadership had the opportunity to see more pictures than we have seen now. just a few days ago and a nasa director said he was moved by what he saw so that from a scientist they don't deal with emotions normally that who effects that anyway. so that is the, the, the big story here at the moment when it comes to the web and telescope. and that is that you can have a window into the history of the universe for the 1st time. and that's what everybody's very, very excited about. all right, so what exactly can the james web telescope do that other p