And we start the day's other headlines in the Western U.S. and Canada, where emergency crews are racing to tame hundreds of wildfires.

Two of the hardest hit areas are California and Alberta, Canada, while the largest act of fire in the US late Wednesday

was in Oregon.

But a thunderstorm today brought some relief.

And the Canadian Rockies 25,000 people fled the town of Jasper before a nearby fire tore through the area.

Officials are still assessing the damage, but estimate that up to half of the popular

tourist destination has been destroyed. Right now the wildfire of the protect critical infrastructure in the town.

And to those in Alberta and around the world

who have experienced the magic of Jasper.

The magic is not lost and it never will be.

Meantime, prosecutors in Northern California have arrested a man for allegedly starting

the state's largest wildfire of the year by pushing a burning car into a gully.

The park fire has burned more than 70 square miles near the city of Chico.

The death toll from Hurricane Burrell has risen to at least 36 in the state of Texas.

Fort Bend County officials announced nine new fatalities today saying power outages and heat-related

causes were at least partially to blame for some of the deaths.

At the peak of the outages, nearly 3 million Texans were without electricity.

A typhoon slammed into China's southeastern coast today.

Earlier in the week, it hit the Philippines, killing at least 22 people.

The storm brewed up rough seas, sinking an oil tanker in Manila Bay and sparking concerns of a potential

oil spill.

The typhoon then moved on to Taiwan.

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