Extreme weather is affecting two parts of the country tonight. Hurricane Francine is making

landfall tonight in Louisiana as a category 2 hurricane. Meteorologists say it could lead to a deadly storm surge, fierce winds, and widespread flooding.

Meanwhile, at west, scores of large wildfires have prompted tens of thousands of evacuations.

Stephanie Sigh has the latest. of racing toward foothill communities. Some long time Southern California

residents told reporters they'd never seen fires like this before. This is the

biggest one than the closest one so far. In the 33 years? In 33 years, yes sir. Three large

wildfires outside of LA are barely contained. The bridge fire to the north, the

line fire to the east, and the airport fire to the south.

The line fires location in the San Bernardino Mountains has complicated suppression efforts.

The terrain is very difficult terrain, some in accessible areas for the crews to reach,

to be able to fight this fire aggressively and safely.

The airport fire ignited by a spark from heavy machinery used by public workers quickly exploded in size.

We hardly had any time.

Some Orange County residents evacuated as the fire reached homes.

We had a packing list.

We've done this a couple times in the past,

so we grabbed all the stuff we needed and it's in the car

down here at the bottom of the hill.

To the north, the bridge fire tore through a popular ski area and destroyed dozens of homes in the villages of Mount Baldy and Wrightwood.

But no state is battling more large wildfires than Oregon, with 24 blazes burning right now.

Idaho is dealing with 22, while Tinderbox conditions plagued the west.

The southeast, particularly Louisiana,

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