Northern Minnesota wildfires: The latest conditions

The wildfires in northern Minnesota, of course, continue to burn, prompting emergency responses and the continued expansion of those evacuations. We know crews continue to battle multiple wildfires. Conditions in the area are making it very difficult for these fire crews. Meteorologist Cody Metz joining us now with a breakdown of where things stand here this morning. Yeah, good morning. Fires burning for a solid 10 days now, but exploding in size with the hot and dry conditions earlier this week. Considering the remote areas these fires are in, it's highly likely that they were all caused by lightning. Currently, 17 different fires in northern Minnesota are burning right now. Now, this video from the National Guard shows a first person view of crews fighting those fires from the air. Officials say there are over 400 crew members currently fighting the wildfires. Overall, weather conditions have improved in the Boundary Waters region over the last 24 hours, which hopefully will allow crews to get the upper hand in the days ahead. Now you're taking a look at a government map tracking those wildfires. Now the yellow dots are areas where the wildfires have already burned, while the orange dots below are where satellites indicate there are current flames. This may indicate that fires have grown substantially in size just over the last 48 hours alone. Now the fires in northern Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. If you're not looking at your screen, come back, take a look at this video. Aerial video just across the border and just released around Thunder Bay, Ontario from yesterday. An incredible view of just how much smoke these fires actually produce a massive amount, and this is one of the reasons why our air quality is so poor. There are obviously about a little over a dozen fires burning in northern Minnesota, but there are now more than 800 fires burning out of control in Canada and a lot of those in Ontario itself. Now, with dry and overall hot conditions continuing as we move forward, more fires could pop up in the days and weeks ahead, which means the smoky scenes from this morning could return again sometime later this summer. The video is like it's one of those things where you're like this is so sad to walk, but you can't stop looking at it like I want to see more of it, but I don't because it's a terrible situation. Wow. But that's just how like this scale. It's really hard for us to determine scale just because we're here ground is way away and you can't see the whole atmosphere. But when you're from above the scales like whoa, it's just huge. Anything to hear us in the metro. We're finally feeling the impact of folks up north have been dealing with it for days and days and it's gonna keep going. All right, Cody. Thank you, Cody.