recap, if you've just joined us here on al jazeera, what you are looking at live pictures from syria county where we have seen richard branson of virgin galactic. take a sub orbital flight above the earth where they had a few minutes of weightlessness. this is virgin galactic taking its 1st fully crude flight to the edge of space on board. they had 6 people in total, 2 pilots for mission specialists of which were richard brents. and was one, although they, they could have reached a max altitude of 800 kilometers the well governing body puts our space at 100 kilometers. so that's a little tough linear about whether this qualifies as space. this was the space plane took off attached to especially designed aircraft, the vs eve, which carried the rocket power space ship vss unity. after reaching 50000 feet the plane. 5 was released and dropped for a moment in the rock rocket ignited. and then the unity climbed to sub orbital space before making its re entry, which was very smooth indeed. to avenues now into extreme heat is building in the western united states with reco breaking temperatures, f

issued this afternoon as the dixie fire is spreading from butte county and diplomas county today, people in the high lake syria plumas county were told to leave their homes in butte county. an evacuation warning is in effect for east khan, cow polga and the philbrook area. the fire has burned more than 2200 acres since it started yesterday. for people who live in that area. it is bringing back painful memories of the deadly campfire in 2018, and because of the dixie fire and other fires burning throughout the west, the federal agency that coordinates wildfire mutual aid is sending out a warning. officials say resources are getting stretched thin. ktvu is tom baker joins us now live with what it all means is we haven't even reached the peak months for wildfires, tom well, here's what it means. we have not seen this level of alert. we've not seen it for at least a decade. and that means that with the way fire is changing, we're basically bracing to see whatever mother nature hands out to us in the form of wildfires. the national interagency. fire center has declared a level five prepared in this level. that's th