California Fires

This was a frightening picture tonight.  The saving grace is that FEMA seems to be working, along with the local agencies.

"SuperKatrina": 950,000+ Evacuated From Homes As SoCal Burns

Tonight on "Countdown" Keith Olbermann spoke to Brian Williams live from San Diego about the ongoing devastation from California's raging forest fires: "OLBERMANN: Are the comparisons in scale and scope between this and Katrina valid or are they exaggerations? WILLIAMS: You know, the figure I'm using on "Nightly News" tonight - the Associated Press, just before our first feed of the broadcast got off the air issued that new figure - 950, 960 thousand evacuee"s. That puts this in a "SuperKatrina" category well beyond Katrina - it also makes this the largest [...]

Tags: Olbermann, Williams, California Wildfires, Katrina