let's discuss with the cal fire chief tom porter. thanks so much for joining us.tling many fires including right now the largest fire in the state's history. give us the latest update on what is going on, the situation there. is it getting better or worse? >> thank you wolf. it really is. we've had kind of a slack in the weather thankfully. the last couple of days we've been able to put in some good line and work hard to work to start containing these fires. but we still have weeks and weeks of work to do. >> so, it's still a huge, huge disaster. we're looking at these pictures coming in. one of the fires, the north complex fire, is the fifth deadliest in california's history. how dangerous, how life threatening are these fires? >> well, the ways the fires have been burning, particularly in the forested environment, is just something we've never seen before. the north complex burned over 24 miles in a very short period of time, leaving very little time for mountain communities on very difficult road systems in smoky conditions to evacuate. while we did have evacua

. >> now that's cal fire director tom porter. more than two million acres have been torched by california wildfires just this year. climate scientists say this is a sign of what lies ahead. and our news reporter has the story. the. >> in the last three weeks, california has set highly concerning records with over 900 fires burning across the state. scientists saying this is unprecedented. >> the largest wildfires occurred in last two decades. and right now, just over the last three weeks, we've had california's second, third, and fourth largest wildfires. >> over 1.8 million acres burned in the past 30 days. the main contributing fires, the lnu, czu and the scu lightning complexes, all ignited by dry lightning, an event that only occurs every 10 to 12 years. >> the fact we had a dry rainy season and low snow pack means that fuels everywhere are vulnerable. >> the bureau of land management noticed a patterns of wild fears happening sooner than anticipated. >> those are the types of things you see one, maybe two weeks out in the fu

we're joined by tom porter, the chief of cal fire ahead of natural resources.have the fresno county mayor here and of course, sprrs from up north who's kindo enough to come down. we have fires from cisc you county to the mexican boarder. about a month ago, literally to the day, we began to have a series of 14,000 lightening strikes over a three-day period, 1100 fires have sparked in the last month. 2.8 million acres in the last 30 days have burned. unprecedented in california history. 3.2 million over the course of nis calendar year. there's over 16,500 firefighters in the lines and i'm pleased and grateful that you're recognizing some of the other heroes, the national guard men and women that did an extraordinary job saving the lives of hundreds of people stranded with some of the most intense fires. you mentioned august complex, 789,000 acres, largest in california history. we have a series of forest fires and brush and forest fires we're tackling. we've made great progress, though tragically we've laugs 24 lives so far to the battles. 4200-plus structures lo

so joining us now is the director of cal fire, chief tom porter. entire state, so can you tell us are there people -- because of the creek fire, are people still trapped and needing to be rescued at this hour? >> well, good morning. yes, on the creek fire in particular, it's a fire that's burning in a pretty remote area. a lot of camping and recreational cabins and also a ski area that has had plenty of use, but also over the holiday weekend a lot of people were there for vacation time. we have been doing sheltering operations, meaning people are staying in place until the fire passes areas and then shuttle operations to try and get them out by road. but in some cases we have been working with the national guard, cal guard, to get some extractions done by the helicopter. >> do you have an account of how many people are trapped as of this morning? >> no, not at -- i don't. at the incident, they might have more specific details on numbers. but the numbers are less than they were a couple of nights ago. there were a couple hundred moved out of an area

lengthy conversation with the president with that meeting and explaining the causes of the fires and tom portere director of california forestry and fire protection. good morning. thanks for being here. >> thank you, poppy. good to be here. >> let's begin, chief porter with the reasons why you think it has been so hard this year to get a handle on these fires? >> well, we've been having successive years of drought throughout the west coast, but also the southwestern united states and while we have had a couple of wet years here and there that's not been enough to really saturate the soils and really give the vegetation the moisture it needs to remain healthy and resilient to wildfire. so the fuels are very dry, fires are growing very much fuel driven meaning they're not necessarily needing wind or slope to drive where the fire's going to go and then it's just -- it's a really difficult situation. we have overgrown forests in some areas. we have grass everywhere which is very easy to get going, as well. >> let's speak to those overgrown forests in areas because you spent a lot of time explaining

we're joined by tom porter, chief of calfire.ead of natural resources wade -- charles: as you can see, president trump talking now with local officials. we'll continue to dip in as we hear something substantive or potential news. meantime, big news that many of you know about. the burbs, they're absolutely exploding. the wild growth we're witnessing changing the demographics of america's suburbs. while president trump is working to expand his base, latino advocates are warning the democratic party that they're not doing enough to court this key deem graphic. we'll break it down later in the houre . it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity. so you're a small businor a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do

based upon a congressional briefing that we participated in last week with the head of cal fire, tom porter, and the head of oes from california. and he cited, mr. phillips? phipps. that based upon the incredible amount of wildfires we've had in california as well as in oregon and washington and other western states, that he thought it was necessary that we revisit the national management forest plan in terms of resources, in terms of forest management. we've tried to work on that over the last 18 months with some changes that have been made. clearly given the fact that the intensity and the impacts, it seems to me, in california's instance, over 60% of the fires have been on forest service land. less than 10% on state forestland. and a lot of private land, of course. could you care to comment, mr. phipps? >> yes. the interagency community has something called the cohesive wild land fire strategy and that was done maybe seven, eight years ago. has some good intentions. the federal agencies had something called the fire plan, they call it fire plan 1.0. and currently we're working on fire pl