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The most complicated story today is about wildfires in California.

As firefighters try to contain the blazes near Los Angeles

and in Sonoma wine country, a bigger debate has been

smoldering over the large for-profit power company

that's been cutting power to homes to prevent more fires.

Many say that the company in charge isn't handling this right.

So today, we're going to get into the latest

on the California fires.

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