And now for a report on California’s ongoing wildfires. Dry winds and hot weather plagued firefighters in Butte County last weekend, despite significant progress on the deadly Butte Lightning Complex Fire that is now more than half contained. The road remains shut south of Big Sur, where the Basin Complex Fire continues to burn, but that closure will be lifted and the road entirely reopened this morning, according to a Caltrans spokesperson. But on the other side of the giant blaze, far from the Big Sur hotels and restaurants, morning winds blew the fire across a bulldozer line on the northeast flank.  "It crossed the line near the Mira observatory, about 10 miles southeast of Carmel Valley," said fire spokesman Jason Meyer. "Our priority continues to be holding the line along Highway 70," said Calfire information officer Tobie Edmonds. "The fire has reached there, but it's holding so far. The weather conditions are still challenging, with temperatures in the low 100s." That blaze has consumed 49,500 acres - an increase of 500 acres since Friday - and killed one resident, whose body was found inside a home and who remains unidentified. The blaze has injured 25 firefighters and destroyed 50 homes and 10 other buildings since being ignited on June 21 by a freak series of lightning strikes. In California's latest fire-related natural disaster, thunderstorms in the Sierra Nevada over the weekend prompted mud to slide into homes and across a highway north of Independence in Inyo County, where a blaze last year had chewed away vegetation that held the ground together. However, fire officials said they did not expect the storms - which delayed motorists as mud oozed onto Highway 395 - to bring the type of dry lightning that ignited devastating wildfires last month across a wide swath of Northern California.