Beaver Creek Wildfire Burns In Idaho
COOPER: Smoke from dozens of wildfires hangs over the western third of the country. Look at the map, each individual flame indicates an active fire. The large pink area indicates that conditions are hot and dry enough for new fires to ignite at anytime. The Beaver Creek wildfire in Idaho is especially destructive. Take a look that, 106,000 acres scorched so far, 1,800 firefighters on the front lines. While the fire is 9 percent contained and touch and go, they have turned a corner. Gary Tuchman is in Idaho for us tonight.</s>GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the not knowing that's the hardest part, not knowing if your house is still standing or up in flames. It's what Pamela Sue Martin wants to know as she watches helicopters drop water right where her house is located.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm very grateful they are there. I really am. Watching these fires on these mountains for the last three days burn it down.</s>TUCHMAN: Pamela is an actress and writer who had a successful career on "Nancy Drew" and "Dynasty" among other shows. She's one of the many celebrities who live here in the Sun Valley, Idaho area, but she lives here year round, it's not a second home.</s>PAMELA SUE MARTIN, IDAHO RESIDENT: It's been very, very hard. Really all the emotions are coming now watching them put it out.</s>TUCHMAN: Pamela took these dramatic pictures of the area where her house is during the peak of the fire. Her house still sits in one of the hottest and most vulnerable spots in the blaze. She watches the choppers and wonders. (on camera): How long have you lived here?</s>MARTIN: Twenty eight years.</s>TUCHMAN: You've been here 28 years.</s>MARTIN: Right there, right where they are dropping the water.</s>TUCHMAN: Pamela lives adjacent to the Wood River. The Wood River is one of the places where the helicopters are dropping their buckets to refill. There are 15 helicopters flying in and out of this area. (voice-over): The evacuation order is still in effect, but we went with Pamela to her house to see if it escaped the flames. (on camera): Pamela, it looks like your house is OK.</s>MARTIN: Well, it's standing and I'm really grateful for that.</s>TUCHMAN (voice-over): The flames aren't far away, but firefighters and choppers are close by.</s>MARTIN: It reminds me of all the Vietnam movies, I mean, in Vietnam it feels -- it is like a war, it is like a war for them fighting the fire and I feel for them.</s>TUCHMAN: The danger is not over yet, but Pamela feels much better now than when we met her a short time ago. (on camera): Do you believe your house is safe?</s>MARTIN: I know my house is safe now.</s>COOPER: Gary Tuchman joins us from beautiful Haley, Idaho. When can they move back in their homes? Do you know?</s>TUCHMAN: Authorities are saying they hope that nearly everybody will be able to go back to their homes tomorrow and Thursday. The winds picked up in the last 30 minutes, and that's normally not good news but authorities to believe they are moving the positive direction. There is 9 percent containment, but it doesn't mean there's 91 percent fire. That means 91 percent of the land is vulnerable. They hope by tonight they have an official 20 percent containment. They hope by the end of the week 50 percent containment, but do they believe at this point, whatever the numbers are, most people will be back at their homes no later than two days from now.</s>COOPER: We wish them the best. Gary, thanks. Let's get caught up on some of the other stories we're following. Susan Hendricks has the 360 Bulletin -- Susan.</s>SUSAN HENDRICKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, the prosecution rested its case today against Major Nadal Hassan, the Army psychiatrist charged with murdering 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009. Hasan is representing himself at his court martial. It's unclear if he'll take the stand in his own defense. Newly released court documents show Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered multiple severe gunshot injuries before his capture in April. This includes a gunshot that appears to have entered his mouth and exited through the left side of his face. The documents don't indicate whether it was self-inflicted or down the showdown with police when he was cornered in the back of the boat outside a home. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what is causing so many dolphins to die along the eastern seaboard. There have been at least 228 dolphin deaths this year from New York to Virginia. In all of 2012, 111 deaths were recorded. An Indiana woman is reunited with her stolen dog five years after she disappeared, thanks to the computer chip in her Rottweiler, an Arizona shelter was able to put the two back together. Great site to see. No word on who took Sasha and where she's been. I bet she has a story to tell.</s>COOPER: I bet. Susan, thanks very much. We'll be right back.