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Some of today's top storiesNow to an update this morning on the devastating Borel Fire.    CHP reporting Highway 178 is now open in both directions.    But the danger is still far from over.    Borel has scorched more than 57-thousand acres since it started less than a week ago.    And it's only 22-percent contained.    California Governor Gavin Newsom paying first responders a visit yesterday morning to see the devastion of the inferno.     17's Jenny Huh brings us the story. "Unprecedented."    That's how firefighters described the behavior of the Borel Fire as they called on local leaders to declare it the *largest* wildfire in Kern County history.    The Borel Fire now larger than the Erskine Creek fire that scorched more than 51-thousand acres in 1942...and the more-recent Erskine Fire that incinerated nearly 48-thousand acres in 2016. County supervisors declared the Borel fire a local emergency during their meeting in Bakersfield yesterday.    That paves the way for more state and federal assistance in