Largest California Fire Quickly Grows to Massive Threat
VAUSE: Thanks for staying with us. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.</s>SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour.</s>VAUSE: At one point the biggest of the fires was destroying an acre of land every second, to make that point that's almost the size of a football field going up in flames every second.</s>SESAY: Hundreds of homes and buildings have been chury (ph), including a hospital, have all been destroyed. That city will be under curfew in less than an hour. Our own CNN's Sara Sidner was there.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You hear the numbers, you're talking about tens of thousands of acres burned. You're talking about more than 96 square miles that have been burned. But then you see the reality, the thing that hurts when the residents have to come back into an area like this. This was a home. We ourselves watched it burn to the ground after embers came flying over. You look up at those hills, flying over from there on to this home. And it just goes up like a matchbox. We have seen that time and time again, you are seeing fires all over this city here in Ventura. This is where the largest of four fires were burning throughout the day. Firefighters having a very difficult time getting it contained because of the Santa Ana winds that we normally see in October but that are here now in an unusual way, going very fast, at some points upwards of 70 miles an hour, making it very difficult to get in front of the fire. Plus, it's extremely dry and that is why, for hours and hours, this particular home and many others are just smoldering. You see them smoldering there, the firefighters have been out here for much of the day, coming back and forth, trying to put out those small fires that keep popping up. But so has the neighbor, who is terrified that the fire will jump over this wall just here and land on his home. So he has spent time with his own hose coming over and trying to make sure he can wet down the area as much as possible. He's been calling over firefighters to say, hey, it's burning again. This is a dangerous situation and everyone in this neighborhood is fearful that their home could be next. It has been a very rough time here in Ventura for those who live in and around this neighborhood -- Sara Sidner, CNN, Ventura, California.</s>SESAY: You see it's still smoldering behind her there.</s>VAUSE: It's incredible. The smoke is visible from everywhere. A short time ago one of the fires jumped the 101 Freeway, which is causing all sorts of problems.</s>SESAY: It is moving very quickly. We want to turn now to a stinging conclusion about the Manchester terror attack, an official report suggests the tragedy might have been averted if, quote, "the cards had fallen differently." The findings indicate security services didn't pursue relevant intelligence about the attacker, Salman Abedi, because its significance was not fully appreciated at the time.</s>VAUSE: The report didn't reveal what the intelligence actually was. Abedi killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year. To Brexit negotiations now. The chaotic day for the British prime minister, Theresa May, she was in Brussels to showcase the U.K.'s progress with the talks. But everything hit a big roadblock on Tuesday. That roadblock was the Irish border. Bianca Nobilo has more on the pressure Ms. May is now facing on multiple fronts.</s>BIANCA NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Another day and more turmoil and delays to the Brexit negotiations. Ireland remains the biggest sticking point and we learned today that the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, only found out the exact wording of the Brexit draft deal yesterday after pushing to see it for five weeks. It's Foster's and the DUP's resistance to the prime minister's draft deal for Northern Ireland</s>ANNA SOUBRY, BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MP: The British people are fed up to the back teeth with all of this. They want a solution. Now it may be that regulatory alignment is the solution. But if it's good enough for Northern Ireland, it's good enough for the rest of the country.</s>NOBILO: How the prime minister will reconcile all of these opposing forces on the Brexit negotiations remains to be seen. But Theresa May and --</s>NOBILO: -- David Davis maintain that progress on to phase two is possible by the end of this week -- Bianca Nobilo, CNN, London.</s>SESAY: A quick break here and then fears of a humanitarian crisis are intensifying with the latest instability in Yemen. We'll talk with a native official in the capital, Sanaa.