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that's monday night, beginning at 8:00 eastern. coming up on "piers morgan tonight," the republican candidate that is getting all the buzz at the moment, even though he says he is definitely not running, new jersey governor chris christy. also coming up, the man who may be the funniest and he is definitely the nicest guy in late night television, jimmy fallon. . good morning. congressman anthony weiner sexting investigation has been dominating headlines this week. you know what we're learning now? that actually a teenage girl also got messages from him. also you won't believe who's coming to congressman weiner's defense. also you see that picture there, you know what's in those boxes? q. something the media has been after for years and years. and finally got them. sarah palin's e-mails. so what's exactly in them? maybe not what you think. also as we know a lot of
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people out there are looking for jobs right now and one company is hiring 1300 people. we'll tell you where you need to apply. from the cnn center this is your "cnn saturday morning." i'm t.j. holmes. start with the teenage girl who has apparently received messages from congressman anthony weiner. multiple reports say this girl is 17 years old. now representative weiner admitted sending pictures of his bare chest and other bare parts to women he met on-line but his representative has said this girl in particular, this teenage girl, did not get those kinds of messages. here is the statement from one of the spokespeople for the representative saying, according to congressman weiner, his communications with this person were neither explicit nor indecent. delaware police say detectives have interviewed this teenage girl but she didn't say anything about inappropriate contact by
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the congressman. the congressman says he would welcome a house ethics investigation into the scandal. he has apologized but says he will not resign. the investigation, the ethics investigation work presumably look into whether he used government property and phones to send many of those explicit messages. democratic congressman charles rangel who was censured after a house investigation last year, he is now coming to congressman weiner's defense. listen to this. >> i know one thing he wasn't going with prostitutes, he wasn't going out with little boys, he wasn't going into men's room with broad stances. i mean, all of those things i understand, i'm 80 years old, but high-tech stuff like this, i can't respond. but certainly i know immoral sex when i hear it from other members and no one has screamed
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for their resignation, so i don't know why they are selecting anthony. >> you think he can be an effective congressman? >> what? >> you think he can be an effective congressman? >> only if the press gets off his back. >> amazing what the standards are these days, right. house democratic leader nancy pelosi has asked for an ethics investigation. she did that this week, but the ethics committee has yet to make a decision on that. we will turn now to the southwest part of this country, growing concerns this hour over conditions that could spread to one of the largest wildfires in arizona's history. fire fighting crews face higher winds and low humidity today in this rugged region. the conditions could spread the fire which has burned 410,000 acres. that's an area larger than all of los angeles. the fire which is hardly contained, has destroyed 29 homes, more than 5200 more are
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threatened. also being threatened electric transmission lines that supply hundreds of thousands of homes. closing those lines could lead to rolling blackouts in southeast new mexico as well as el paso. now despite today's forecast for worsening conditions jim spellman is there, and he tells us that fire fighters have made some progress and also tells us how fire crews are battling the flames from the ground and the air. >> reporter: t.j., finally a bit of good news here from the massive wallow fire. the 3,000 or so fire fighters on scene fighting this fire have taken advantage of two days of lower winds, better weather for them to fight and they've managed to get a small amount of containment on this fire. they are protecting the evacuated cities of springerville and eagar. unfortunately the day before yesterday, 22 homes were lost in nearby greer. they hope to do what they can here with this brief break in the high winds. by saturday afternoon the high winds will be back and those
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will ground likely some of their aircraft that are up in the air. they're usings super tanker dc-10 to drop water on the fire while using what they call aerial ignitions, helicopters that drop ping-pong ball size plastic balls full of chemicals that start fires. they start these intentional fires to create a barrier between the inhabited town to the front of the fire so when the active head of the fire get to the line there's no more fuel for it to get into town and hurt people. no word yet on when these evacuated people will be able to come back to home. likely not before at least some time next week. t.j., back to you. >> thanks to our jim spellman. i want to turn to our reynolds wolf joining me this morning. good morning to you, kind, sir. they had a small window of time were the winds were down. when does the window close? >> the window is closing right now and later today we will see the wind pick back up. take a look at this video, in a few places you've seen these image, the ground that looks flat, few plateaus, much of the
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area where they're fighting the battles with the wildfires happened to be in a big mountainous area. with winds forecast to be around 30, 40 miles an hour, it's a fact of pushing those flames outward. when you have a process that comes to fires called crowning and you have the tops of trees on fire when the wind comes along, kicks it, pushes the embers, sparks and flames from tree to tree top and as it goes at the hillsides the air tends to dry out, the foliage even more. continues to feed on itself. the winds are not strong, only in the single digits. a few places, some exceptions in northeast arizona. later on today we expect things to get worse, low humidity and stronger winds. we need heavy rainfall but unfortunately that is not going to be in the cards today. heavy rain possible through parts of pennsylvania to the ohio valley, even into the great lakes including michigan. it's going to be later this afternoon where we're going to see it begin to pile up across parts of the central and northern plains. we have a chance of not only a few thunderstorms, maybe a few
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ooids tornadoes, small hail, damaging winds and flash flooding in spots where you have poor drainage. another story we've been dealing with the heat going to remain in place much of southeast and southern plains. in a few spots you can expect the temperatures to remain in the 90s but with the high humidity it's going to feel warmer. atlanta with 93 degrees, mud island towards memphis, high temperature 95, 72 in new york, 62 boston, 64 in chicago, 91 in albuquerque, 99 el paso. when you get that warm call it 100. you're not going to feel a difference. you're not going to step outside and go 99 and say it's scorching out there. 66 in seattle, 71 in billings and again, some 70s across parts of the central rockies. you're up to speed. let's pitch it back to you, good sir. >> appreciate you, kind sir. checking in with reynolds throughout this morning. we turn to what may become the largest mass firing in the tsa's history. they're working now to remove as
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many as 36 people at honolulu's international airport. talking about screeners and managers here. this move comes after the tsa's investigation into claims that screeners routinely let unchecked bags get on to planes during a four-month period last year. at least 12 other tsa workers are facing suspension. he was facing 35 years in prison on espionage charges. but now, it turns out he probably won't serve any jail time at all. the government has had a change of hart in the case against a former national security agency official by the name of thomas drake. you're seeing him there. he accepted a plea deal that will likely keep him out of jail. he's only pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of exceeding authorized use of a computer. he was accused of passing classified information to a newspaper reporter supposedly documenting mismanagement at the nsa. the government dropped the charges saying they didn't want to present classified material in court. have you been keeping up over the past couple of days
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with tracy morgan and the controversy he sparked? still under fire this morning, even after he apologized for an anti-gay rant during a comedy routine last week. we'll tell you why gay rights advocates say the apology is not enough and what they want him to do now. i'm back in 60 seconds. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor?
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tracy morgan knows how to deliver a punch line. >> if you've learned anything from me it's how to do a bad job. >> reporter: a recent stand-up comedy show in nashville is drawing more jeers than cheers. morgan's homophobic rant during an onstage performance last week stunned some audience members like kevin rodgers, who says he cringed at the hateful comments. >> it was absolutely shocked and amazed at what i was hearing. >> reporter: rodgers says morgan lashed out at lesbians and gays saying gay was something kids learned from the media. that victims of anti-gay bullying should stop whining. rodgers says the comic even took a shot at lady gaga. ♪ i'm on the right track baby >> reporter: bashing her chart smashing gay-themed sock "born this way". >> i knew i was going to see a comedian that does push the envelope and was expecting to hear all sorts of different probably inappropriate humor but i didn't expect to hear an attack on the gay community.
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>> reporter: rodgers says morgan also joked about stabbing his own son to death if he were gay. >> the entire thing really did hurt me. the violent aspect of that comment. it seemed to go from a joking demeanor to this is a point in my show to where i'm very serious about what i'm saying. >> reporter: while we don't know for sure how serious morgan's remarks were, he just released a statement to cnn saying -- i want to apologize to my fans and the gay and lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in nashville. i'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. while i am an equal opportunity jokester and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context. but glad the gay and lesbian against defamation says the apology doesn't go far enough and morgan should meet with youth and families affected by
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anti-gay violence and, quote, jokes that make light of violence directed at gay and lesbian youth aren't only offensive, they put our kids in harm's way. tracy morgan must not only apologize but assure this won't happen again and send a clear message to americans that an it ti gay violence is no joke. kareen wynter, cnn, hollywood. more reaction now from the head of nbc entertainment who says, quote, tracy's comments reflect negatively on both "30 rock" and nbc to very all inclusive and diverse organizations and we have made it clear to him that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. still to come this morning, a lot of people as we know looking for a job. one major company out there needs 1300 folks. i'm back in 90 seconds. [ male announcer ] look outside. it's grow time.
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all right. quarter past the hour on this "cnn saturday morning." the earthquake and tsunami that hit japan devastating their auto industry there, but japan's struggles are creating an opening for american automakers. our financial correspondents have your business news this weekend. we start with alison kosik. >> reporter: tractor-trailer sa toyota has the earthquake is hitting its bottom line. they expect profit to drop 31% this year, in real dollars
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that's $1.6 less than last year. this could give room for american automakers to move up. gm could reclaim the title of world's biggest automakersp. ford is ramping up an effort to grow. ford is hoping to sell 8 million vehicles by the middle of the decade that's an aggressive plan since ford currently sells about 5 million a year. alicia? >> thanks. there were new signs this past week that the job market is likely to remain under pressure for a while. ihs global insight is expecting state and local governments to cut a record high 110,000 jobs in the third quarter. the study says teachers are likely to bear the brunt of the job cuts, and worse, this could be the tip of the iceberg. many states are still dealing with budget problems because tax receipts are still below prerecession levels. poppy harlow has a look at what's coming up in business news. >> thanks so much. president obama is heading to north carolina next week and the job market will be the main
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topic. he's scheduled to meet bit with the jobs and competitiveness council a group the government created to give him nonpartisan advice to strengthen the u.s. economy. the imf is scheduled to release a short list of the candidate's looking to become its next managing director. that job opened up after dominique strauss-kahn resigned after charged with sexually assaulting a new york house keeper in a new york hotel. he has pleaded not guilty. we'll get reports on retail sales, inflation and housing. a lot ahead. we'll follow it all on cnn money. back to you. the merger of united and continental airlines creating 1300 new jobs in chicago by the end of next year. mayor rahm emanuel made that announcement on friday. united corporate headquarters located in downtown chicago, these new jobs will support the airline's global operations. well, four years ago, an nfl football player made a promise to a group of eighth graders.
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at 21 minutes past the hour now, they are literally running from their government. syrian citizens being forced to abandon anti-government protests and fleeing their country to save their own lives. cnn's ivan watson has more on the danger they face. >> reporter: more than 3800 syrians have fled across the border here to turkey, running for their lives and they are fleeing because of scenes like this. this is what happens when syrians try to protest peacefully against their government. on june 3rd, thousands of demonstrators walk up a road in
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the northern town. all of a sudden gunfire. unarmed men scramble for cover. bullets crack and whistle overhead. and then, the wounded. cnn can't verify the exact location and date of the video, but the images of brutality were filmed by this activist on his cell phone. you must have been terrified when this was happening? >> translator: [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: he smuggled himself across the border to turkey to talk to journalists banned from working in syria. i want the world to know we want human rights and democracy, ali hassan says. this is not a government that governs people. it's a militia that kills and destroys. this 23-year-old syrian says he was shot in the leg and arm by
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syrian security forces at another protest. now, one of more than 30 syrian gun shoths victims being treated at a hospital in turkey. we're repressed and we want our freedom, he says. we want this president to be overshown. he can't show his face because he's terrified of his own government. so are these people. syrian refugees, emerging from the orchards heading towards the turkish border. more than 2700 have fled, more are probably on the way. the first wave staying in tents at this abandoned tobacco factory. the turkish government's already building two more camps. if the killing in syria doesn't stop, turkey stands poised to become the next home for a generation of terrified syrian refugees. the brave activist who smuggled himself across the border to give us the video that we aired at the beginning of this report, went back in to syria on friday.
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this is usafr mohammed ali hassan. he wanted to participate in another round of anti-government protests after friday prayers. we talked to him by cell phone a few hours later. he said he had been shot in the right thigh after security forces operating both on the ground and from helicopters, began spraying machine gunfire at thousands of demonstrators in the northern syrian town of marit. we've gotten the names of at least four demonstrators who were killed in what appears to have been yet another syrian government massacre. this activist was speaking to us from a house, too afraid to go to a hospital because he's afraid he could be arrested there. ivan watson, cnn, turkey. 24 minutes past the hour now. i just got a message from one of you, the viewers, saying that i look tired this morning.
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let me show you why. i've got mail to go through. a lot of mail. e-mail in particular. thousands upon thousands of pages of sarah palin's e-mails that have kept cnn staff and crew up all night reading these things. we'll tell you what we found. i'm right back. ordinary windshield wipers off the glass. so, did we build a slower car? or design wipers that could handle anything? what do you think? the cadillac cts-v, the world's fastest production sedan. we don't just make luxury cars, we make cadillacs 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor.
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we're coming up on the bottom of the hour on this "cnn saturday morning." i'm t.j. holmes. glad you could spend part of your weekend here with us. part of the weekend being spent by a lot of folks, at least a lot of folks in the media, reading over sarah palin's e-mails. thousands upon thousands of them now released from the time when she was alaska's governor. cnn's special investigation correspondent drew griffin is in alaska pouring over literally 24,000 pages to see what's there. >> reporter: t.j., this what is we're going through, just this is one box of six boxes we got yesterday of just e-mail. look at that. from, to, the governor of alaska, between december of 2006 and september of 2008. and what -- first i want to show you how goofy this was when we got these. take a look at this video. this is a third floor office
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building here in juin juno wher the press had to come to this one office in a crowded hallway if we wanted to pick up these e-mails. they weren't going to distributed electronically on a disk or website we could go to. we had to come here all the way to juno, alaska, grab our six boxes and leave, take these things out, wheel them down the street and get into this hotel suite where we could begin looking at them. so far we've looked at maybe a third of them, 24,000 of them, and if you are looking for anything salacious or scandalous, we really haven't found it. she does attack some of her political enemies. at one point trying to link a scandal to former governor frank murkowski. the murkowskis and the palins have a long-running feud to this day. really the e-mails we found were all about government, about governing, about trying to make schedules between herself, her family and all the various
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commissions and businesses she had to attend to for her role. she also is very interested in being there for the people of alaska. at one point complaining in this e-mail she was not told about a funeral for five soldiers and that in the future, she needs to be told about that. one interesting thing we just did find, was about the time, in fact, the day she found out she was going to be running as a vice presidential nominee for john mccain. i want to show you this, because on the day before, she gets an invite to cnn's "larry king" who would like to know if you're interested in talking about mccain's v.p. choice tomorrow at 5:00 and one of her staff members saying, i can link you up from the state fair. she writes back, that should work. we'll firm up tomorrow a.m. i need to juggle some things around. t.j., we know at that moment, she already knew, but her staff apparently didn't, that she was going to be the nominee and from the next day friday, august 29th, 2008, at 10:43 a.m. here
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in alaska she says, can you believe it, he told me yesterday, it moved pretty fast. pray. i love you. that's from governor sarah palin. again, not a lot of salacious stuff. we're not all the way through it yet. it's taking a long, long time but so far, it looks like governor palin was right, we're seeing a lot of intimate details on how she ran the government but not a whole lot of embarrassing stuff. t.j.? >> out there in alaska, thanks to drew griffin. the stories making headlines, those firefighters in arizona watching the wind and humidity. the winds are expected to pick up spreadi ining a wildfire. the fire only 5% contained right now has destroyed 29 homes, threatened some 5200 others. electric transmission lines, that supply power to hundreds of thousands, may also be threatened. listen to this. if it wasn't already bad enough,
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given that tornado in joplin that we just saw not long ago, health officials in missouri saying eight people who were injured in last month's tornado have contracted a rare type of fungus. three of them have died. one of those deaths is directly attributed to the infection which can occur when dirt becomes lodged under the skin. doctors say people with weakened immune systems may be more susceptible and anyone hurt while in the tornado zone should get prompt medical attention. cia director and defense secretary nominee leon panetta is in pakistan right now. his first visit there since the successful u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden and strained ties between both countries. na pa net ta is expected to reaffirm a cooperation with pakistan against al qaeda. "time" magazine reports panetta plans an confronting pakistan of evidence of suspected conclusion between islamabad and taliban
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militants. let's put up the picture of cleveland this morning. cleveland, ohio. there it is. good morning to you all. a lot of people when you ask them, who might be the most hated man in cleveland? probably the answer you'll get 100% of the time is lebron james. but there's another that claims he is the second most hated man in cleveland and that is braylon edwards. if you don't know the name, let me explain why he thinks he's the second most hated man. he plays for the new york jets now, but he was drafted and then traded by cleveland. left there unceremoniously. it wasn't a pretty parting. he has done something that maybe will get him off that hated list. he is giving away a million dollars in scholarships. edwards, you see, came from a home where his mother really emphasized education, made that a top priority. he said when he was a kid he saw some of his classmates struggle because they didn't have the same motivation. he wanted to do something about that. in 2008, edwards made a bold
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promise to 100 eighth graders in cleveland. again, that's the city that drafted him. he said he would help pay for their college tuition if they achieved the following -- >> 2.5 was a gpa requirement. felt like that was fair. 15 hours of community service within each month as well as workshops we had slated for them twice a month, and basically with the work shops it was different things, not all of it was school or educationally based. some was etiquette classes teach them how to tie a tie, shake hands, sit at the dinner table, how to conduct the speech, talk to people, and keep people's interest. we did a lot with these kids. >> now a part of it was you heard him mention there workshops and those taught kid house to tie a tie, shake hands. the students completed all of that plus had no unexcused absences edwards would give them $10,000 in four years to pay for school. the type of encouragement edwards says the students needed. >> a lot of the kids that you
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saw in these programs, they didn't support at all. they didn't have the parents, they didn't have the grandmothers, the guardians or what have you. they had a lot of talent, lot of ability, lot of smarts but no guidance. they weren't making the right decisions and they ended up on the lower end of the totem pole. i saw that growing up. i always wanted to help if i could. with this program it showed that somebody actually cared for them, somebody supported them and they could actually do the things that teachers talk about in the classroom. >> edwards is also going to be spending some of his own money kind of pay for things the students need, calculators, textbooks, laptops, things like that. the spokesperson for the charity tells cnn they think 80 of the 100 students adenrolled in the advanced 100 program will meet the requirements. braylon edwards will make good on the promise he made years ago, help pay for some of their education. edwards wants the teens to find a way to pay their blessings forward. edwards also says he plans to
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keep up with the students throughout college. we're at 35 minutes past the hour. this cnn saturday morning, a lot of people out there, a lot of people out there, drink coffee day in and day out. but you need to know something about it. it could have you hearing things, including christmas music. i'll explain after the break. ♪ where the tree tops glisen and children listen ♪ of financial security gift from new york life. we've been protecting families for over 166 years. new york life. the company you keep. we've been protecting families for over 166 years. [music playing] confidence available in color. depend® colors for women. looks and fits like underwear. protects like nothing else. depend®. good morning. great day.
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all right. 38 minutes past the hour. look at this. this is a mound of snow. i didn't believe this when i saw it earlier this week. yes, here we are in june, in massachusetts, where they -- what's the temperature been up there, summer like? >> 70s and 80s. they've had a few days close to 90 degrees. >> they have this huge snow bank left over from winter, 16 feet long, 8 feet wide, 3 feet tall.
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it's actually insulated by all the dirt on top, so this thing could actually be around until next month. but fascinating to see. big mound of snow still sticking around in a place where reynolds said they've had 90 degree temperatures. the melting snow pack and wet spring are why people who live along the missouri river are doing this, having to do sandbagging, north and south dakota, nebraska, iowa, missouri under flood watch. many compare current conditions to the historic floods of 1993 and reynolds wolf here with me now and you all -- i appreciate the perspective you kept it in. we talk about the mississippi river so much but the missouri river, that's the little brother, i guess you could say. >> mississippi the biggest, missouri the second largest river on the continent. our producer, put those two stories together, the one in boston and the one with the snowfall and the one in missouri, same rule applies to both, flooding in missouri along
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the missouri river is due to the heavy snowpack you have like in say parts of boston. as it melts we'll see the rivers continue to rise and the last thing we need in that part of the world would be more rainfall. look at this. lo and behold a chance of strong storms not only for the central plains but north central plains including the dakotas and parts of nebraska. we could see that enhance some of the flooding. it's not going to be major dealbreaker, making things considerably worse, but it could add more insult to injury. what's interesting was the chance of strong storms that we have in parts of the northern plains, central plains and also in parts of the northeast, we're seeing plenty of rain or at least the possibility of it there. but the complete opposite in the desert southwest. we could use shower activity but we're not going to get it. what we will get will be strong windy conditions, winds possibly in excess of 30 miles per hour, even stronger in the high mountain passes, but very low humidity. it's going to be less than 15%. and with that we could see the
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fans -- the flames fan -- easy me to say, fanning the flames quite a bit. very dry grasses there, a lot of the pine, shapral burns easily. it's going to carry the sparks. see a lot of crowning from trees. that's going to be a big problem. temperatures going to face the desert southwest. no surprise warm in places like el paso, 99 the high. albuquerque into the 90s. denver, the mile high city, 78, 66 in seattle, we're expecting 71 degrees in minneapolis, 64 in chicago, new york, may deal with scattered showers, boston 62, 93 in atlanta and 89 degrees in tampa. atlanta we may see a few scattered showers, maybe a thunderstorm or two in the days to come with that thankfully a little cool down in temperatures. t.j., that's the latest in the forecast. pitch it back over to you. >> reynolds you a coffee drin r drinker? >> my my blood type, yeah. >> do you think sometimes you hear things? >> kind of a loaded question. i hear things all the time.
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even without this thing in my ear. >> that morning cup of coffee, you use it as your pick me up, right? do you know it could do a number on your ears? ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ >> what? now what you're thinking, why, t.j., are you putting us through this morning? why is bing crosby here? >> wrong tape. >> this is the right tape. researchers, listen to this, in australia say after a couple of cups of regular coffee, drinkers raise the risk of literally hearing things that are not there. highly caf fated people were three times more likely than a controlled group to hear bing crosby's "white christmas" in white noise. essentially what they did, they drank the coffee, put the head phones on and asked them do you
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hear white noise or bing crosby's "white christmas" people who heard the noise said they were hearing the song. >> i could probably golf this afternoon -- i'm hearing things you didn't say. it works. you're absolutely right. >> be warned, if you think you're hearing things, you actually might be. they call these auditory hallucinations. coffee, the caffeine could have you hallucinating. >> i would love to have your car, thank you. >> all right. reynolds, thank you. we'll check in with you again. we're at 43 minutes past the hour now. the scandal that just will not go away. congressman anthony weiner being investigated for alleged contact with a teenage girl. delaware police have interviewed that girl. she says there was nothing inappropriate. weiner's spokesman confirms that he contacted the teenager, but also says there was nothing indecent about it. now with any ambitions congressman had to run for mayor of new york now in question over this unfolding scandal, actor
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alec baldwin has announced he may jump into the race for mayor. and if the "30 rock" actor were to win he would be joining a list of celebrities turned mayors. you can probably come up with a few. here are a couple to give you a reminder. before serving two terms as mayor of pressto, captain bubba skinner in "the heat of the night." before he crossed over to politics crossing folks on the court, three-time nba all-star and current mayor of sacramento, kevin johnson. also another one for you here, you know him, as the minnesota governor, jesse ventura. he was a wrestler first, but did you know he was also a mayor, mayor of brooklyn park, minnesota. we've got three more i'm going to share with you after the break. there's a good chance you can come up with one or two off the top of your head. i'm right back.
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all right. about a quarter of the top of the hour now. as you know congressman anthony weiner had his heart set on running for mayor of new york in 2013. that might not be possible given the latest scandal he is just going through, but now actor alec baldwin says he may jump into that race. he, though, would not be the first celebrity to run for mayor. in the case, let's continue now of the celebrities turned mayors. cincinnati mayor turned talk show host this time, yes, jerry springer, a prostitution scandal that forced him out of office and he became the kingman of tabloid tv. a hollywood icon, actor and director clint eastwood left his "dirty harry" days behind when he became mayor of the beautiful
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seaside town of caramel by the sea in california. on the list, may have won over our hearts as one half of sonny and cher and then became the mayor of palm springs california, and became a congressman. sonny bono. well, let's turn to politics where it has been a tough week for newt gingrich. the republican presidential candidate lost key staffers and lost some of them to somebody else, but as cnn reporter paul steinhauser reports, gingrich isn't letting this get in his way. >> reporter: hey, good morning, t.j. newt gingrich says he'll be in california tomorrow night for a big speech to a republican group and he says he'll be here the following day for our republican presidential debate. >> i'll be back in new hampshire on monday. >> reporter: of the seven people on the stage at the cnn wmur new hampshire leader union debate, newt gingrich probably has the most on the line. the former house speaker remains defiant one day after many of his top presidential campaign officials and advisers quit. in an e-mail to supporters grfrp
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says i know full well the riggers of campaigning for a public office and i will endure them. >> the kind of skillset you need to do the things he did to bring republicans into majority in the congress, are completely different set of skills than what you need when you're running for president and i think that's been glaringly obvious. >> reporter: while gingrich tries to resurrect his campaign it is getting busy in new hampshire. we have a bunch of candidates who will be campaigning this weekend. all that in advance of our debate monday night. t.j.? >> thanks to our paul steinhauser, checking in with him live in new hampshire later this morning. those gingrich staffers used to work for texas governor rick per perry. perry has only said that he would consider, he would think about a run for president, but a staff switch could change things. those guys worked on perry's last campaign when he won re-election in texas. he succeeded george w. bush as texas governor in 2000 when bush was elected president. perry was lieutenant governor at
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the time. he's the longest serving governor in texas history. syria's first lady born and raised in london and believed to be her husband's closest confident. some hoped her western background would help soften his stance. that story next in our morning passport. some hoped her western ♪ [ lane ] here's the trouble with most anti-wrinkle creams. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don't. ♪ introducing neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. in fact, it's clinically proven to smooth wrinkles in just one week. so all you have to do is sit back and watch your wrinkles go away. new rapid wrinkle repair.
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of course bashar al assad, bashar al assad, ali abdullah sale eight minutes to the top of the hour on this "cnn saturday morning." we turn to the situation in syria where 15 people were killed friday as demonstrations against the government of president al assad continues to spread. the u.n. reporting more than 1,000 people dead in less than three months. thousands of syrians are streaming across the board near turkey and allegations that children have been tortured. yesterday's crackdown came after the government announced it would punish the town, claiming armed groups killed at least 120
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security forces there. let me bring in our nadia bilchik for the morning's passport. you have so many diplomats, so many governments, heads of state trying to find a solution to get president al assad to stop what's happening there, but it turns out maybe one of the most important people in this whole thing could be the woman he's married to. >> yes. asma al assad. there was so much hope, t.j. he married her in 2000 when he actually had met her when he was in london studying optimalology and his father brought him back to syria once he brother bassal had died because bashir was going to be his predecessor. his father was his predecessor. he was going to take over. this woman is a remarkable woman. she's an economist. she's highly educated. as you say, she is supposed to have had some influence on him, but what we're seeing, obviously, is she really doesn't have much influence. so it's very disappointing. >> what is her connection?
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i guess how is she perceived among the people? is she someone they really embrace? like you said, she is a woman who did a lot of growing up in england. i mean is she really accepted by the masses there? >> she's seen somewhat as a fashion icon, "vogue" magazine did an entire spread on her and there was huge outcry on the spread. they're going isn't it wonderful that yes, mrs. assad, is very chic, people went, but what about the fact that her husband is murdering his own people? so she has a very complicated perception. she's viewed in a very complex way. in around the early 2000s she went to meetings, met with economists with bashar al assad. we're seeing the government has much more power over bashar al assad than his own wife. can you imagine she marries him around 2000. i bet this is not what she signed up for. think about it. now there are rumors she's gone to london with her three
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children although she hasn't been seen there. it will be interesting to know if she decides look, i am not going to be associated with what my husband is doing. is she allowed to go to london? what would happen? think about the position she's in. the famous saying you marry for better or worse. seems what's happening right now is worse. she is in a precarious position. she's a woman her self who said yes, i am the first lady, but being the first lady is what i do, not who i am. so highly educated woman. clearly does not agree in any way with what her husband is doing. but what say does she really have because she is associated by marriage. >> but again, we haven't heard from her and like we said, we don't really know for sure where she is since all of this started a few months ago. >> no. again, the syrian government is saying she's still in syria. people said she had gone to london. we don't know. could she go back to her parents with her three children?
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is she allowed to do that? think about a woman in 2000 marries this young man. >> all this hope. >> exactly. at the time she meets him she doesn't know he's going to become the president of syria. he becomes the president of syria and this is what transpires. this is a woman in a complicated situation and "vogue" magazine has been heavily criticized for featuring this woman, so my favorite quote was, skinny pants and a violet scarf are trey chic but married to a dictator killing his own people and barring foreign journalists is not. >> nadia bilchik with this morning's passport interesting sbroe deucing us to one more person. we'll check in with you later this morning. we turn to the nervous residents along the swollen missouri river, doing more than just waiting and watching now. some are getting out of town. but they're taking their homes with them. you got to see this.
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time for us to go across country now, for stories some of our affiliates are covering. the swollen missouri river forcing people, entire towns, to higher ground. the river expected to crest five to seven feet above flood stage in iowa and nebraska and that is causing some to literally uproot their homes.
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>> we didn't think we were going to be able to move it. we got to move it otherwise we'll lose it. >> u.s. army corps of engineers meanwhile, releasing water from at least six reservoirs. for one north carolina kindergartener, pretty nice surprise. >> i knew it, i knew it! >> she knew it. that's 5-year-old madison. opened a massive birthday president and there's daddy. daniel, her dad, has been working as a contractor in afghanistan since october. he said, he wants his daughter to remember the milestones and not the miles. good morning to you all as we cross the top of the hour here. congressman anthony weiner, sexting investigation has dominated headlines this week. now we're learning that a teenage girl got messages from him too and police are looking into that. also, boxes upon boxes of sarah
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palin's e-mails. what's in this stuff? it may not be what you think. plus, it is june, a lot of people getting married right about now and they're making a huge mistake, not in getting married, but a huge mistake in their finances by not asking certain questions before they get married. i'll clear that up a little bit here in a minute. this is your "en is "cnn headline news" saturday morning" for june 11th. we will start in the southwest part of this country, growing concerns over conditions that could spread one of the largest wildfires in arizona's history. fire fighting crews face higher winds with low humidity today in the rugged region. those conditions could spread that fire that has burned nearly 410,000 acres. that is an area roughly the size or larger rather than the size of all of los angeles. this fire which is hardly contained, has destroyed 29 homes, 5200 more threatened.
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also threatened electric transmission lines supplying hundreds of thousands of homes. something happened to those lines could lead to rolling power blackouts in southeast new mexico and el paso, texas. reynolds wolf is here keeping an eye on this stuff and they said they had a window of opportunity when these winds died down to do what they could. that window, you said, is closing as we speak? >> it's about to slam shut. >> well okay. >> we're seeing a lot of things change in terms of battling the blaze out over the four corners. i have to tell you when it comes to weather stories this is one of my favorite things to cover, fires, obviously, a terrible thing and a tragedy, but the men and women that battle these blazes do so with incredible, dedication and professionalism. today unfortunately they will have the deck stacked against them greatly. winds expected to accelerate this morning. somewhat calm but by this afternoon they will increase around 30 or 35 miles an hour. around the high mountain passes accelerate to 40. a drop of rain anywhere in the
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fire area, some radars picking up precipitation farther to the north and central rockies. unfortunately far away from where they could use the help from mother nature. we're seeing scattered showers also this morning across parts of northern michigan into the ohio valley and surging into parts of the northeast and each one making the drive this morning along parts of 87. you're going to be seeing the scattered showers. also just the west of new york the rainfall and into the afternoon you're going to see that begin to increase. there will be a chance of strong storms across parts of the northeast as temperatures warm up to 72 in new york but may cool down as the rain cooled air drifts into the region for boston 62 degrees your expected high. memphis, 95, maybe a stray shower might cool you down. into the afternoon there is a chance of a pop-up storm with 93. 93 in new orleans, 94 in houston. back into albuquerque, 91 in the mountains, 99 in el paso, 64 in los angeles, 62 san francisco, and mid-60s for seattle. that is a snapshot of your forecast. t.j., let's pitch it back to you. >> reynolds, don't go too far. i'm about to get on the line
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with the u.s. forest service out there and they are certainly working hard right now. miss floor, we appreciate with the work you're doing out there, you taking time out with us and give us that update. our meteorologist here explaining that window of opportunity with the weather giving you a window is about to slam shut. are you all seeing that as the case out there for you as well? >> yeah. good morning. yeah, unfortunately, that's very accurate. but the positive part of that is we did have two windows with a really good opportunity to get some operations done, basically today we're going to be tested to see how well, we did building some lines. >> miss flory, you said how well you were in building some of those lines. were you all in a mad scramble, if you will, knowing you had that window of opportunity? was it just a flurry of activity for you all trying to get as much done as you could? >> that's a good description. yeah, there was a really strong sense of urgency yesterday, because not only are the winds
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supposed to be bad today, looking like we're going to have some more of the same tomorrow. so we knew that was coming. our weather folks on the fire are great, giving us the head's up and so yesterday, we wanted to get as much done as we could. >> ma'am, what's the update now on evacuations in the area, the possibility of anybody being able to go back into their homes as well? just give us the update there? >> all the evacuations that happened are still in place and it's going to be a while for some of the smaller communities to get back in. there's still a lot of active fire in those communities. larger communities, well, we're going to know more today after we see how we do with the winds. >> what is your biggest fear right now? i guess there are so many, quite frankly, but as far as this fire getting closer to more populated areas, threatening more structures, i guess you've got so much out there to worry about? is there a main concern? >> one of the main concerns that
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we've been dealing with on this fire and one of the reasons the fire is so large is because the winds, they're basically causing us to have the spot fires, either the fires that are coming and happening across the line and when we have the winds -- >> as far as you know of any injuries to residents out there and also what's the update on your firefighters? >> this has been really fantastic and i'm glad to report we haven't had any injuries. we've had some folks with heat exhaustion and we heard yesterday the smoke levels are extremely dangerous, so smoke has been kind of settling down and everybody found it rough and covering in the morning. other than that w we're doing well. >> that's great news to be able to report. we appreciate you taking the time to give us and our viewers an update. good luck to you today. we'll continue to check in.
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>> great. thank you. all right. we are at seven minutes past the hour on cnn saturday morning. turn to the anthony weiner investigation or scandal as you could call it. a teenage girl received messages from the congressman and multiple reports say that girl was 17 years old. anthony weiner has admitted sending lewd photos to women he met on-line, but his representative said the girl in particular we're talking about now, this teenage girl, did not get any of those lewd messages. here is a statement from a spokesperson from anthony weiner saying -- according to the congressman his communications with this person were neither explicit nor indecent. but delaware police say detectives interviewed the girl, but she did not say anything about inappropriate contact by the congressman. weiner says he would welcome a house ethics investigation into the scandal. he may get one. minority leader nancy pelosi has asked for one. weiner has apologized for this scandal but says he will not
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resign. the investigation would presumably look into whether he used government property, computers and phones to send those messages and he is getting one strong defender, democratic congressman charlie rangel. he, of course, was censured himself after a house investigation last year. listen to his defense of weiner. >> i know one thing he wasn't going with prostitutes, he wasn't going out with little boys, he wasn't going into men's rooms with broad stances. i mean, all of those things i understand. i'm 80 years old. but high-tech stuff like this, i can't respond. but certainly, i know immoral sex when i hear it from other members and no one has screamed for their resignation, so i don't know why they are selecting anthony. >> you think he can be an effective congressman? >> what?
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>> do you think he can be an effective congressman? >> only if the press gets off his back. >> now again, nancy pelosi has asked for an ethics investigation. she asked for it this week. the ethics committee has yet to make a decision on that. in what may become the largest mass firing in the agency's history, the tsa is working to remove as many as 36 people at honolulu's international airport. including screeners and managers. this move comes after the tsa's investigation into claims that screeners routinely let unchecked bags on to planes during a four-month period late last year. at least 12 other tsa workers are facing suspension. well, lunch is getting expensive. how about more than $2.5 million for lunch. not necessarily for the food, but for the company. that is how much one person is paying to eat a meal with billionaire warren buffett. parts of buffet's annual charity auction to benefit san francisco's glide charity.
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the winning bit was 2, 226, $ $411. buffet has been doing this since 2000. the winning bid back then, just $25,000. ten minutes past the hour now. they are literally running for their lives. anti-government protesters in syria facing bullets from troops. now they are streaming across the border into turkey. their story is next. is here. turn it up in a malibu. 33 mpg, over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy malibu ls for around $179 a month. fuel economy based on epa estimates. and there's a great selection of inventory available now at your chevy dealer. count on chevy for more out of every mile. down the hill? man: all right.
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at quarter past the hour. on this cnn saturday morning, syrian protesters want a new government. they've taken to the streets for peaceful protests but those protests have been met with gunfire from their government. now many are fleeing for their lives. our arwhat damon is across the border in turkey where many of the people are ending up and she joins me now. arwa, how many people are we talking about? are they coming in large numbers? >> well, most certainly would appear to be the case, t.j. thousands have fled across the border following the syrian government's most recent military crackdown in the northwestern part of the country, just to update you on casualty tolls from yesterday's demonstrations, according to the syrian observatory for human rights 25 people were killed during demonstrations and yesterday, eyewitnesses and activists were telling us once again, syrian security forces indiscriminately opened fire on
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unarmed civilians. the military crackdown does appear to be focused in the northwestern part of the country. centering around the town. residents have been describing it to something of a ghost town. most of the families fled, some have been crossing -- >> looks like we did, we did lose our arwa damon, keeping an eye on things for us. these protesters have been at it three months on the streets, peaceful protests met by gunfire. u.n. reporting maybe 1,000 people have been killed in the past three months while much of this has been going on and as our arwa damon was reporting, many people are running for their lives now, leaving, fleeing, getting out of syria, going across the border in turkey. as arwa was saying, many are starting to show up in large numbers there. but a continuing situation there in syria. we continue to follow lo it. we'll try to get our arwa damon up later. i want to turn to pakistan
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where the cia director has shown up. we're talking about leon panetta. he says the u.s. commitment to pakistan is strong. he is there this morning. he is as you know as well, said to become the secretary of defense next month. on this trip he's hoping to mend political forces strained by the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden and continuing air strikes targeting militants along the border between afghanistan and pakistan. well stick around for this next one. it ought to be interesting. money, one of the top five reasons that people get divorced. half of couples don't even talk about finances before they get married. and that is a problem. coming up, we will have a discussion on a taboo topic. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like that, it's here. a new chance for all of us:
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♪ nervous about this topic this morning. it's june, big month for weddings. congratulations. some folks getting married today. congratulations. did you talk about money? we have a survey, a new one out from country financial that says half of couples don't even talk about money before taking their vows. financial analyst clyde anderson. how big of a mistake is that? >> it's a huge mistake. why we're seeing big problems in marriages because money is a big issue. >> why don't we talk about it? >> it's not sexy. it's not sexy to talk about money. it's crazy we would rather talk about sex than money. money is the topic a lot don't feel comfortable, the emotional tie and we don't feel comfortable about talking about it. sometimes we're embarrassed. >> why do we have to do it anyway? >> it's crucial for several
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reasons. in the economy we're in, in the recession, want to know what you're getting into. what are we buying into? do you have outstanding debt, student loanses and treat yourself like a business. i am the ceo of my corporation. that's i am anderson incorporated and my family are the share holders. >> our conversation before i got married, i'm broke, you're broke, let's do this. how are you supposed to break that ice, start in on that conversation. it can be offensive to some points. >> if you've gotten to this point you've shared intimate moments -- >> i like how you put that. >> this is time to have this conversation, talk about pulling each other's credit, have a time, date, pull the credit and know what's on the credit. where are you? where am i? >> how do you break the ice? you can't say let me see your credit score. >> at this pint in the relationship you should be able to. >> let's go through this. the four questions you have to ask each other. >> yes. the four questions, first thing, what assets do you have right now? what do you have? what are you worth? do you have money in retirement accounts?
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do you have money stashed in a checking or savings account? what are you worth right now? the next thing is how do you earn money? what do you do? what streams of income do you have outside of your regular 9 to 5 job, maybe part-time income, dividend income. all the income you have. we want to know where you keep your money. checking, savings, sdrou any other accounts? different investment funds? where is the money? how do you spend money. >> what does that mean? >> how do you spend money? what are your liabilities, what are you spending your money on? what do you have outstanding? >> not necessarily do you buy tvs or that kind of thing? much bigger. >> where is it going. i got to get an idea of how you behave. >> okay. >> let's show this here. a new survey from country financial, why might some people choose these options. how couples manage their bank accounts. what are they supposed -- completely joint. 71% do that. partially joint, 21%, completely separate, 8%.
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now i would think that number would be higher. i talked to a lot of people who keep their money completely separate. >> a lot of people may say that. >> they lie. >> sounds good when you say that. again, this is one of the things that has caused tension in a lot of relationships. where is the money kept? do we have one joint account or separate account. 71%, a huge, huge percentage. i polled people on facebook and it was crazy to have this conversation. some of the comments, one of the comments said no, you should act on one account. on one accord. this is separatism in a marriage. if we keep different accounts we're separating ourselves, a union we have. >> makes sense. >> treat ourselves as one. >> some people believe the next comment, my husband and i have separate accounts and joint account and saying basically they take the money from those individual accounts and they pick a percentage and put it into their joint accounts. and so you're seeing a lot of different things but i think it's based on your personality. everybody will have cases based
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on who you are and your emotions relate to money. >> man. >> yes. >> i hate when you have a topic i have to go home and fight about afterwards. >> you have to talk about it. >> good to see you. that will help folks out. getting married today, save this conversation for another time. enjoy your wedding day. don't bring this up today. maybe next week you have time to talk about it. 25 minutes past the hour now. we've been keeping an eye on what's happening in arizona. firefighters making a bit of progress out there fighting what could become the largest wildfire in that state's history, but the weather conditions are changing today and that is going to be a setback. stay here.
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some of the stories making headlines this morning, strong winds and lower humidity could spell some trouble for firefighters in arizona today. the state's second largest wildfire in history has burned nearly 410,000 acres, de stroids 29 homes, threatening some 5200 more. transmission lines that supply power to hundreds of thousands may be threatened. also this morning, thousands of e-mails sarah palin sent and received while she was governor of alaska have been released. some 24,000 pages. the media has been asking for the records for years. there are still close to 2300 pages that have not been disclosed. from brick walls to budgets. then let's get our hands on some of those tools that only live on orange shelves. cause when we come home with that fistful of doing, and keep that pocketful of savings, there's nothing we can't conquer.
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