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Some of today's top storiesAn evacuation order remains in place in the Kern River Canyon and Highway 178 through the canyon remains closed. The fire started around 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon on the 178 near Democrat Road, southwest of Lake Isabella.  Kern County Fire says a car went over the side of the canyon and caught fire - and that fire quickly spread.  The driver of the car died.  Officials say more than 31-hundred acres of brush has burned and there is no containment on the fire at this hour.  This is video of the smoke cloud earlier this evening.An evacuation order is in effect north of Forest Route 28-S-07, south of Highway 178, east of Breckenridge Road, and west of Forest Route 28-S-19.  The CHP says Highway 178 will remain closed overnight, with no estimate on when it will reopen. This morning -- France was under attack just hours ahead of the Olympic Opening Ceremony.Paris prosecutors say the French high-speed rail network came to a grinding halt due to arson attacks, despite a massive securit