New Wildfires In Southern California
ROMANS: All right. Southern California on fire here, folks. Six wildfires totaling 140,000 acres raging out of control in Southern California ahead of tense winds, dry conditions, sparking new fires in San Diego and Riverside counties now, forcing nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. The largest fire, north of Ventura County, all but encircling the city of Ojai and now moving into Santa Barbara. The smoke plume from the flames extending over 1,000 miles in the Pacific Ocean. Just for context, that would be the distance from Seattle to San Diego -- that smoke plume. More now from CNN's Sara Sidner. She's in Ventura.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Dave, you are looking at the largest of six fires that have been burning here in California now. This is the Thomas fire. It is in Ventura County. And we are between Ojai and Carpinteria. I want to give you a look at what is happening. We're standing at a farm. We're standing on the homeowner's balcony here and you are seeing just there -- just at the ridge line there, fire. They have been watching this very closely. It is burning. Then you will see helicopters come in and try to drop water on that fire but it keeps popping up. And this is a problem that firefighters have been having. We're talking about nearly 100,000 acres for one fire alone. There is a lot of property damage that has happened over the course of the past few days. About 300 structures have burned in all these different fires. I want to give you an idea -- just behind me we are now seeing those airdrops, yet again, that are happening even in this dense smoke. Incredible work by fire crews who have been trying to keep these flames from getting to places like where we are -- farms. But still, a very dangerous, very active fire situation here including, as we drove here on the 101, both north and southbound the fire is so heavy and going so ferociously it jumped the freeway, putting cars in danger. They were swerving around the fire. People still are being told the evacuations are in place and they need to be careful and pay attention because this fire is nowhere near over yet -- Dave, Christine.</s>ROMANS: It seems like California -- what is it, the fifth-largest economy in the world and you have all of these companies, all of these people who are just in the grips of worrying about this fire.</s>BRIGGS: Twenty million people in fire danger. They'll have more of that on "NEW DAY." Alisyn Camerota joining us with what else they'll talk about. Good morning, Alisyn.</s>ROMANS: Hi, Alisyn.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, guys. How are you? Guess what?</s>BRIGGS: It's Friday.</s>ROMANS: It's Friday.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, it is Friday. We're very happy about that. And another day, another sexual harassment story to cover, or a slew of them. So, of course, we will be covering the resignation announcement from Al Franken. What does this mean going forward? And we have the last woman to have accused Al Franken of harassment before he resigned. We have her with us live. How is she feeling today about everything that's happened? And then, we have the new revelations against Trent Franks. The backstory there is pretty bizarre so we will get into that. And, of course, we'll also bring you all the latest on the Russia threads and all the politics going on on Capitol Hill, and what the president has up his sleeve today when John Berman and I see you at the --</s>ROMANS: Oh, good.</s>CAMEROTA: -- top of the hour.</s>BRIGGS: Good morning, John.</s>CAMEROTA: There he is.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: You don't even have to wait until the top of the hour. I'm here right now.</s>ROMANS: All right. See you guys soon.</s>BRIGGS: See you guys in a bit.</s>ROMANS: More protests expected today in Israel following yesterday's tense demonstrations where dozens were injured. We're going to go live to Jerusalem, next.