e wifire in state history. 42 people have been killed and 200 others are missing. search teams are in charge rubble with grim expectations. >> the day -- latest on the wildfire. first, breaking news. a nasty pileup on highway 1 in santa cruz. this is a photo just in from the scene. thpped a few hours ago near river street. the crash involved 25 cars. chp says 14 vehicles and that big rig were involved. that crash is blocking northbound highway 101. it is unclear if anyone is injured or when the road will reopen. her crew is headed to the scene. >>> now to the latest on the camp fire. 42 people have been killed. that number is expected to rise . hundreds are still missing. the fire has forced 1255,000 ac thathe cityse. er still in danger. we are in butte county. >> reporter: there are thousands of firefighters working to put out hotspots in this area. this is actually quite a long flagstaff in paradise. flames are still coming out of the roots of one of these pine trees. these have to be put out or they could reignite. there's not a whole lot left to burn. this area

. >> you're talking about the wifires in california. that wasn't started by climate change that was started by the electrical companies. they started that. it would've been as it was if nobody sparked the fire. but but with all types of machinery. and so down in guatemala or mexico and with any co2 activity. and then start to run refrigerators. . >> if you look at wildfires and with that climate change but it did have a number of conditions related to climate change that fueled that that made it worse. the beetle kill from the trees directly were a result of the beatles moving northward to decimate more for us. then the hotter condition dries out the ground and fuels the fire. so when the president went there and stood in smoldering ruins he was standing on the front lines of climate change that is exactly what this report says. it with that devastating to spark those wildfires it is that condition to get dramatically worse. . >> what about indigenous peoples in the arctic and alaska and for millennia have been harvesting bowhead whales

. >> reporter: the news spread like wifire. >> reports of shots fired over there >> reporter: this time at walter reed national medic litary center, the preeminent hospital for servicemen and women wounded in combat. >> your first instinct is that it's rl and to affect that it is. >> i was really scared. >> reporter: this congressman was there and posted, we've been told the an active shooter. the reports triggered a massive police response. lo security teamsd off roads and started clearing building tumber 19, where they believre was a shooter. but in the end, they found nothing. the time it took from the firscall of the shooter to the all-clear was roughly an hour and a half. e're doing it much better than we used to, but sadly that's because of experience ss the board. >> reporter: there may , ot have been a gunmt there was fear, and anger when it u.s. navy sa was an ad hoc drill, someone writing ad hoc drill during which we all thought we were going to die. tonight the military bays this was not a drill, instead an alert sent out by mistake. sparking a very real response fro and a sn

before we get to the political news, we want to note the three terrible wifires that are taking place in your home state, congressman. last night the death toll rose to 25. 23 of those deaths are in the campfire that's in northern california north ofsacramento. two more fires are burning north of los angeles. neither ofhe fires is under control. congressman schiff, i know this is notne -- it's to your congressional district but you and i were just talking and you said there's nre some f actually in your congressional district. what's the latest? doing their they' best to try to control these fires, but this late in the fire season to have this kind of devastation, it just takes yo breathaway. people are losing their lives, losing loved onehe losing homes, and our thoughts are with them as well as these incredibly brave responders. >> the president tweeted the following yesterday. there is no reason for these massiveadly and costly forest fires in california except that forest magement is sopoor. billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost all because of gross misma

. >> president trump will visit california on saturday t meet with people displaced by the wifires. judy. >> woodruff: cat, we see you're still at that walmart rking lot. you talked to so many people today. we heard from some of them just now. but re some of the other people saying that you've talked to?re whathey facing? >> reporter: that's right, judy. we're still here at the walma parking lot. and, frankly, the people we were meeting with today, many of them did not have much before the wildfires, and they're really struggling now. we met with one olde who told us he was a vietnam vet and has c.o.p.d. he's really having a tough time of it now with the smoky air. for the most part, this camp has been run byol vteers. it is a bustling place at this point. but we're told by one of thosvoe nteers, who has, frankly, been here for almost a week, that they'rat frustrated that there hasn't been more of a government presence here. we learned a shorwhile ago that they're actually going to be closing down this camp on easunday, and part of then for that is they're very concerned about weath