would soon be ordered. a number of emergency shelters were already in place. 63-year-old suzanne durant is ready to leave, the cabin where she lived alone for years since her husband died already enveloped in smoke and directly in the path of the fire. >> this whole thing is surrounded by sprinklers. that's what comes out of that tub. >> reporter: in an average year there are tens of thousands of western wildfires, but this has been a brutal season. 6.4 million acres destroyed when the ten-year average is around 5 million acre and it is still mid-august. in the past days and weeks, the taylor bridge fire in central washington has consumed 23,000 acres and some 70 homes. and the human cost of fighting these fires is ever present. idaho lost 20-year-old firefighter ann vesent last week, killed by a falling tree while trying to keep like stew suzanne durant from losing so much that matters. >> my husband's ashes are on top of the mountain. my two dogs are are buried behind the garage. this is very, very important to me. >> reporter: without fierce winds and they haven't been for the

the female deputy was sexually offensive to male subordinates. suzanne barr, the chief of staff of ice has voluntarily placed herself on leave pending an internal review of alleged live lewd and sexually charged comments at work, a spokesman confirmed tuesday. the allegations first came from james hayes, jr., the special agent in charge of ice in new york. s hayes as filed a discrimination lawsuit. he claims barr's actions were part of a frat-house-type atmosphere at ice. >> if is highly unusual to see a male complaintant bringing a lawsuit. >> hayes alleged that bar played sexually charged games, in one 2009 incident moving the office computers, telephones and name plates of three male employees into the men's room, that she called another male employee in a hotel and screamed at him using a sexually vulgar term. his lawsuit accuses homeland security for gender discrimination for replacing him in a top top job in washington and retaliating against him when he filed a complaint. an ice spokesman said the lawsuit is unfounded and said "ice will respond directly and strongly to this

. suzanne halver sack e-mailed me. bagels. 70 is the nice even number to start your morning. winds have shifted to the north at 10 miles an hour. a sign of cooler times in this year. it's fun to say cooler times. college park i'm digging that 67 degrees. out to the south and west, ft. belvoir, you have 68. here's that rain that came last night especially 10, 11:00. it has pushed off to the east and is over in the delmarva. it won't be the best of best days. a lot of chance for showers. just some pesky clouds lingering, not a washout here. you will see a little bit of sunshine, just not a bright sunny day which you might prefer. but look at the 50s on this map. off to the west in elkins, 57. so a lot of our far western suburbs tonight will get down into the 50s. d.c. will go down into the 60s tonight. that will feel really good. windows open weather. as for the day planner, 8:00, it will feel damp from the rain. partly sunny at 6:00 with temperatures in the low to middle 80s. here's the front that lingers along the coast through our weekend keeping it damp at the beach. limited sunshine

you are. the third is the role of suzanne in this whole affair. she worked for hillary clinton before her courage she wrote the human rights report on libya that led to the attack, and she is now in charge of amnesty u.s.a., where she has spearheaded this, where for $20 you can send a ski mask to putin in protest. what would you make of the u.s. role in this book is an overblown? is there something to this? >> it is a huge question, but i want to be very short because, once when i was writing my pieces many years ago on american social life, and i knew all these people, and many others, right-wing social democrats in this country, and i was a permanent leader of commentary and all this kind of publications. i was in favor of all this, people who were in favor of a crusader against the soviet union. to put my answer in a short way, it seems to me that the national endowment for democracy just overlooked that the soviet union and communism is not there. they're still fighting against russia as though there is a communist party over there, and they want to put their people as the