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State of California, students at Mount ST Mary's University and N B A star LeBron James have a couple things in common.

One they live near Los Angeles to they've evacuated because of wildfires.

The one threatening the L A area broke out on Monday morning in a place known for expensive homes and celebrities.

Mandatory evacuations were issued, meaning residents were told to leave immediately.

But this is just for one fire.

Two other major fires are burning in California, with powerful winds literally fanning the flames ablaze.

About 25 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles has destroyed dozens of homes.

It was mostly contained, meaning blocked off as of last night.

But that wasn't the case.

With a fire farther north near the San Francisco Bay area that one forced.

The evacuations of almost 200,000 people in California's largest utility company shut off electricity to 965,000 homes and businesses in northern California.

It's trying to keep its equipment from causing new fires, as it's been blamed for doing in the past.

Pacific Gas and Electric says another shut off could occur on Tuesday because of another strong and dry wind event in the forecast.

California's fire season is often worsened by the hot, dry winds that blow across the state.

The Santa Ana winds blow westward across Southern California and can be at their worst in October.

The Diablo winds blow northeast across Northern California and can be at their worst in October.

The New York Times reports that this year's fire season hasn't been as bad as it has been for the previous two years, but that's little comfort to those witnessing the flames flare up.

This is speed in which of these flames have spread.

Even just last hour when we were talking, this whole hillside just behind me was completely engulfed in flames.

You see at this point it is smoldering and that's because that you look at the direction of this smoke.

Here it's moving west southwest.

You can already see it is moved on further into the hillside, burning fresh new vegetation and again there are homes located throughout this hillside.

And of course that is why we have seen mandatory evacuations up and down throughout this area as well.

One of the other things that we've been looking for.

That has changed.

Over the course of the past hour, we heard from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who says they were going to have Cal Fire Plains come through to basically drop fire retardant to help spot some of these fires.

And just within the past 20 minutes, we have seen those planes circling this area really disappearing over the back side of this ridge here, likely dropping fire retardant on to some of the homes below.

This is a fire that started 4:30 a.m. Eastern time, just in a matter of hours, ballooned to more than 500 acres.

And based on the conditions today, we're going to see how fast it moves from there.

You 12th trivia.

A recession is said to occur when gross domestic product shrinks for two consecutive what years, months, quarters or weeks.

Generally, a shrinking GDP for 2/4 in a row constitutes a recession.

The one could be called for a different time.

Period doesn't seem like ongoing protests in Hong Kong are going to stop any time soon, but they have put the brakes on the city's economy.

It's believed to be on the brink of an official recession.

The demonstrators have been calling for more democracy and speaking out against the government in this special administrative region of China.

The local government has met one of their demands, but they've made five of them.

And though there's division in Hong Kong over whether to support the ongoing protests, their effects are being felt throughout the city.

Hong Kong is headed for recession five months off.

Mass demonstrations, sometimes in popular tourist areas often ending in violence are taking a toll on the city's economy.

The government here saying it expects to report negative growth for the third quarter on Thursday.

That would be the second consecutive quarter of economic decline, which means Hong Kong is in a technical recession.

Hong Kong had already been hit with a 12 punch of the US China trade war and China's slowing economic growth.

Ah, political crisis that hurts tourism and retail industries isn't helping.

Scenes of violence and tear gas have scared off many tourists.

The number of visitors to Hong Kong fell nearly 40% in the third quarter over the previous year, and hotels are on average only 2/3 full.

Some protesters have targeted shops and restaurants they view as unsympathetic to their cause, smashing windows and spraying graffiti storefronts, leaving employees to clean up the mess.

And some shops have had to close early simply because workers need to get home.

Hong Kong subway has been operating on reduced hours to repair damage caused by protesters.

Hong Kong government expected to report official estimates for GDP on Thursday.

Cherie's Fam CNN Hong KONG Well events in Hong Kong are hurting tourism there.

Chinese planners air hoping a new airport will help increase visits to the mainland.

Just before eight o'clock on Sunday morning, Ah Flight took off from dashing International near the Chinese capital and it headed for Bangkok, Thailand.

It was the very first international flight from the new airport.

Dashing International has been nicknamed the Starfish for its unique design.

It has five concourse is connected to a main hall.

It was built because the city's other international airport, Beijing Capital, is the second busiest aviation hub on the planet, and it was hitting full capacity.

The new hub will give travelers another gateway in and out of China.

There's a peaceful serenity to this space.

Nice little walkway that takes you over a koi pond.

Not would you think about when you think of the chaos that often comes with air travel.

This is one of five what they're calling China Gardens at the brand new Beijing dashing airports just opened up to the public, and it's the high tech features that everyone it's really talking about.

So let's take you inside, show you them.

This is the international concourse.

It's one of five concourse is that they have here, and what really you feel a soon as you step into dashing is the sleek modern design.

This was done by the late architect Zaha Hadid.

But what officials air really touting about this airport is the technology.

As soon as you walk in, right when you're checking in your bag, facial recognition starts.

It continues as you're walking through security security.

That they say is a lot quicker and more efficient because of technology.

They didn't go to too much detail about that, But the facial recognition technology continues as your in ready to board at your gate.

They've got screens that are taking in your image, and they continue all the way up until you go through and board your plane.

One of the big takeaways of dashing is the size it is massive.

They estimate 97 soccer pitches or about 100 American football fields, if you will, could fit inside.

So when you think about the size of an airport, you think about getting around right.

That's always a challenge, especially if you have, say, arrived here at E 85 you've got to get to another concourse.

The argument is that because it's this starfish shape that essentially you can go from one tentacle and get to the main center, they argue in about eight minutes time.

That's what they say.

It'll take on average.

So they say, Say, this is really gonna be a time saver, ultimately.

But overall, it's this newness that you feel this high tech surrounding, and that's something that they say continues even on the runway.

The officials here say they have a sensor system that can detect two centimeters of an object of debris that might be on the runway.

They can then zoom in with multiple cameras to see where exactly it's located, So high tech is all over this place.

All of this coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the founding of communist China.

In fact, to inaugurate this new airport, President Xi Jinping himself was here.

He had a crowd that was gathered of dignitaries, a lot of airport officials as they began this new chapter and air travel right here in Beijing.

Ultimately, Beijing is expected to have the most number of air travelers and passengers coming through this city than anywhere else in the world.

David Cole for CNN Beijing Sure, there are a lot of satellites, but it's not like they just fall out of this guy.

Here's what a couple in Michigan founded their yard last weekend.

It appears to be Samsung's Space Selfie satellite, a stunt that was intended to allow people to get their face in space.

It was also intended to be up there until the end of the month.

But Samsung says weather conditions resulted in a quote early soft landing.

The Michigan couple was thankful their horses weren't out and that it didn't hit their house, and they said the satellite smartphone was still working, so at least that's not a total piece of space junk.

Also, it survived the drop out of the sky test after a not so satellite landing.

It could have been in, or bits and pieces, and at least they know where it came from, so they didn't have to investigate them.

Selfies of Koro zoos and that CNN 10.