BOLDUAN: The images are really just shocking. Fires consuming the world's largest rainforest. Brazil's Amazon Rainforest is burning at a record rate. This is according to the Brazil space center. The flames destroying one and a half football fields of forests every minute of every day since it started. Now, smoke has spread over half of Brazil and spilling into neighboring countries. CNN's Shasta Darlington is in Sao Paulo. Shasta, how bad is it?</s>SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN REPORTER: These fires are ravaging the Amazon at an alarming rate. Many have been set by loggers and ranchers trying to clear the land. What's amazing is that we can actually see some of the smoke in Sao Paulo. I'm more than 1,000 miles away. Yet, earlier this week, the city was plunged into darkness at 3:00 p.m. as though it were night. And it was a mixture of low-lying clouds but also the smoke coming from those fires in the Amazon. This has sparked a war of words with environmentalists blaming the president here, Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly said that we need to develop the Amazon. And Bolsonaro blaming NGOs saying maybe they're trying to burn it down to make him look bad. All in all, it's a pretty dire situation -- Kate?</s>BOLDUAN: That war of words not helping anybody get their handle on it any faster. Shasta, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Still ahead, for President Trump, it's been a week of contradictions. How the word salad of yesterday could impact his pitch to voters in 2020.
Fires Raging at Record Rate in Amazon Rainforest.