Reality TV couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are suing the city of Los Angeles after losing their home in the destructive fires that have swept Southern California in the past weeks.

On Feb. 27, 1968, "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite, fresh from a tour of the theater of war in Vietnam, told viewers that, essentially, the conflict was at best an unwinnable stalemate. In a rare editorial statement to close off the newscast,

About 1,600 policies for Pacific Palisades homeowners were dropped by State Farm in July, the state insurance office says.

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are suing the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power, alleging that the agencies' management of the water supply directly caused damage to their home in the Pacific Palisades Fire.

A Reuters journalist visited Pacific Palisades to retrace a path taken by a YouTube videographer last year. Fire reduced the green, well-landscaped neighborhood to rubble.

Roughly 31,000 people were ordered to flee an area north of Los Angeles on Wednesday after a fast-moving wildfire exploded, growing to more than 10,000 acres within hours, officials said.