The most populated state in Australia is where we started new week coverage on CNN.

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I'm Carl Azusa, CNN Center.

New South Wales is where you'll find Sydney, the Australian capital with largest city in the country.

It's also where dozens of Bush fires are burning up land and homes.

A New South Wales rural fire service said yesterday that 70 fires were burning and that half of them hadn't been contained yet, meaning they weren't blocked in and prevented from spreading.

Several people have died in the fires.

More than 1000 firefighters are trying to put out the blaze is and a fire official says 100 or more homes might have been destroyed so far.

Witnesses have posted pictures of bright orange skies, intense wildfires, air capable of causing their own weather.

And the fire service says that's what's happening in some parts of New South Wales, where fire clouds were developing.

These can produce their own lightning without rain, officials say the states, under tinderbox like conditions and that all it takes is one spark to start a fire that can burn for days.

Major roads and highways have been closed.

Several schools have been closed.

Evacuations have been ordered in the state of Queensland, which borders New South Wales to the north.

Both of these states are prone to wildfires in the spring, which it is right now in the southern hemisphere, and firefighters are predicting catastrophic fire danger for areas around Sydney.

This Tuesday, second trivia Which of these events occurred 30 years ago?

Soviet troops left Afghanistan.

Hubble Telescope was launched.

Gulf War began with the Berlin Wall fell.

The only one of these events from the year 1989 was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The date was November 9th, and that made Saturday the 30th anniversary of when the wall started tumbling down.

European leaders met in Berlin, Germany, on November 9th when German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on them to defend democracy.

The Berlin Wall was a physical and symbolic barrier between democracy and communism.

It had stood since August of 1961 when residents of Berlin woke up one morning to find a dividing line built a barbed wire and cinder blocks.

It was eventually fortified with concrete armed guards electric fences, and it would take almost three decades for the winds of change to bring it them.

But Theo iconic moment the Berlin Wall came down is an image the world will not soon forget.

For 28 years, the wall had been dividing a city and a nation becoming a symbol of East West divisions during the Cold War.

So what led to this 12 foot high, 27 mile long wall being built after Germany's defeat in World War Two, the country was divided into four zones of occupation, and Berlin was also divided into East and West Territory.

The United States, France and Britain took west Germany in the western sectors of Berlin in the Soviet zone, became East Germany and East Berlin.

West Germany became a democracy, while East Germany was a communist country aligned with the Soviet Union Between 1949 and 1961 almost three million East Germans escaped to the West to prevent more people from fleeing the Soviet rule.

The East German Communist Party closed the border in Berlin and built a wall.

So in the 19 sixties, the wall was built for the opposite reason.

Most are instead of trying to keep people out.

This wall was built to keep people.

In at least 140 people were killed at the Berlin Wall trying to escape East Germany.

High profile people spoke out like US President John F.

Kennedy, who delivered his famous speech in West Berlin.

If the baby later wall became a symbol of democracy versus communism, people came from all over the world to protest that division.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

By 1989 large demonstrations began in various German cities.

People want to change.

This wall will fall, for it, cannot withstand faith.

It cannot withstand the truth.

The wall cannot withstand freedom.

In October of 1989 Communist Party chief Monica was ousted and replaced by Egon Krenz.

Although reforms were announced, including travel writes, it was too late.

On November 9th, 1989 the East German government mistakenly announced that travel restrictions for East Germans had been lifted, effective immediately.

Thousands appeared at border crossings in East Berlin, demanding to be let through even without orders.

The border guards eventually opened the gates.

In the following months, tens of thousands of Germans, literally or down the wall, piece by piece by hand, using their fists, pickaxes, sledgehammers streets and crossing points open, tens of thousands of people crossed into the west of Berlin for the first time.

Freedom and ultimately a unified Germany emerge from the bitter Cold War that had separated Berlin for decades.

In 1990 Germany, officially reunified under the Federal Republic of Germany, A few parts of the wall still exist today.

Tourists from around the world come to see these pieces of history.

Yet this dark chapter of German division is not forgotten.

November 1918 On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year, an armistice goes into effect, ending the fighting in World War I.

A year later, people in the United States first observed Armistice Day.

It becomes an official national holiday in 1938 and after World War Two.

In the Korean War, the name of Armistice Day is changed in 1954.

It's been known as Veterans Day ever since then.

It's an event that honors everyone who served in the U.

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Armed forces.

As Americans paused to thank them, salute them, remember and respect their service and sacrifice is M.

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P is the name of one of many programs dedicated to helping former U.

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Servicemen and women.

VP is about putting teams together, and when you retire, it's a weird feeling.

Merging vets and players is organization that brings together combat veterans and retired professional athletes.

It's about a team was about a unit.

Football players don't miss training camp promise, but they sure miss being part of a team and be a next year locker and talking to you guys about the things that are going on in your life.

Do we already know that the military has a high rate of suicide?

And once people get out, that struggle doesn't end because they're trying to determine who they are with their places in the world, the hero?

No soldiers say I'm not on any medication anymore.

This is my new therapy and his bones.

That's powerful.

Those moments that you hear that makes you tear up to know that little impact you can have it makes a difference.

You doing brother got back.

You already know I got your suit when I left that it was a shock because I no longer put on that uniform and I lost who I was.

I felt like I was, like, begging, you know, to take the misery away because I lost my tribe.

I lost my team.

I'm going to lose that bond.

Uh, nearly broke me.

I'm not doing the one going through this, and it gave me hope, because every time, but I did feel hopeless.

But this is probably hope, man.

There's an opportunity.

Come together and be with people like yourself and share some of the stories in some of the things you've been through.

A very powerful.

It's a healing thing that happens.

You don't have to start by yourself.

We're we're we're willing to reach down and pick each other up because because I know deep down tomorrow I might be the one reaching out my hand and needing someone to lift me.

Oh, Theo, A talking dog gets 10 out of 10.

Okay, well, at least she's communicating.

Her master is a speech pathologist who says the same methods she uses to teach Children to communicate can be used to help dogs do the same thing.

And while come outside may seem kind of basic.

One time when a button wasn't working, Stella went over to the help button impressed that she's doing a pretty Stella job.

If you know what I'm saying, some dogs could hound you to death with that, making you tear your hair out and hit the malamute button.

But it could also be a best ingenious invention, a Newfoundland way in the course of convoys elation when your dog could multi easily core give you the skipper keys to what he wants, at least master of the time.

I'm Carl issues, and you knew this dog gone show would come to an inch, nails or later.