Wildfire Raging Out of Control in Alberta, Canada
ROMANS: A devastating wildfire has now burned over 300 square miles of Alberta, Canada. And hot dry conditions this weekend could make a widening crisis even worse. A state of emergency is in place for Fort McMurray or what's left -- look at those pictures, Miguel.</s>MARQUEZ: It's unbelievable.</s>ROMANS: More than 85,000 people evacuated, hundreds of structures destroyed. Reception centers for a growing number of evacuees now being set up in Edmonton. And that's where we find CNN's Dan Simon.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Miguel, we are in the town of Conklin. This is one of the areas that has taken in evacuees. People who, right now, are in an indefinite holding pattern because the fire seems to be showing no signs of abating. The weather on the fire line remains terrible. We're talking about windy, dry conditions, so firefighters are going to have their hands full for quite some time. In terms of the numbers, they remain staggering. Canada has never seen anything like this before. Eighty- eight thousand people evacuated, 1600 homes and businesses destroyed, and 200,000 acres charred. In terms of how this fire started, right now we don't know that, of course, but there's a lot of curiosity. But the operating theory is that it was in a forested area and that it was caused by a lightning strike, but authorities still have to investigate. In terms of where people are now, a lot of people have gone to shelters, they've gone to high school gymnasiums, things of that nature. The Red Cross is here. They're providing food and water to these folks. But so much agony because this fire continues to rage and nobody knows when they'll be able to go home, and people are still waiting to find out if they'll have a home to go back to -- Christine and Miguel.</s>ROMANS: And dry conditions expected for this weekend could make it worse. You were looking at these pictures, Miguel, and telling me that you've been to a lot of fires.</s>MARQUEZ: I've covered so many fires in California. And this clearly caught them by complete surprise. And you see even the pictures of the traffic moving normally along highways with these massive flames. I mean, this fire jumped that road. It is -- the winds must be so intense. It is unbelievable that more people haven't died. The last time we saw fires like this, Australia, I think, 2010 or 2011.</s>ROMANS: Right.</s>MARQUEZ: Dozens of people killed as the fire just -- it is amazing that these cars did not burst into flames. You have whole families going up here. Just very lucky.</s>ROMANS: 88,000 people evacuated. And this thing is still happening. This is still an ongoing situation.</s>MARQUEZ: Unbelievable.</s>ROMANS: All right.</s>MARQUEZ: Dry and lots of fuel and fire. That's all it needs. And that wind. And it just whips along. Houston Astros star Jose Altuve taking a chapter out of Babe Ruth's book. A young terminally ill fan asked him to hit a home run last night and guess what? Andy Scholes has it. There's the handsome devil. He will have it coming up next.