campaigning or late night tv. there has been no public misbehaving much less misspeaking. >> daddy! >> they were bribed. >> you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the white house. >> we are not sure what mitt romney has promised his boys if they behave and he wins divan all the romney men are married with children divan so a puppy may not be the best idea. fred? >> thanks so much, candy. hello again, i'm fredricka whitfield. your in the "cnn newsroom." we begin in colorado where the us air force is now helping firefighters in some areas trying to get a handle on a massive wild fire there. the walden canyon fire is burning in manitou springs. the entire town was ordered to evacuate. we are shown some intense moments as people packed up. >> we have been watching it all

day. it looks like the fire came over the chest back there. you can see the fire coming over the mountain. >> we know this is one of the risks that we have here. we are doing it strategically so we can get the people and their biggest threat done first. >> very scary. >> we started with manitou avenue north of. >> banging on my window. >> he was asleep. so i pounded on his door to get him out. >> that's pretty scary. it is right there. >> orange, a lot of orange. >> when you look at it coming down, she is backing down the hill, which is not what we normally see. >> all these fine people came to help me. >> they are helping me move out. i have a few thousand art works there. >> rocky, a fixture in manitou, art is his passion. >> two or three, almost 1,000 artworks in there. >> she has enough energy to move down. she is going to burn up into that canyon and start throwing embers.

limited access, vegetation right up against houses. houses in places where there shouldn't be houses. >> it is just kind of like sad. >> manitou spring is a whole sit ci city and suburban interface. in this situation, we had a fire running across with all those heavy fuels. she got to be too big before it got to be handled. >> a lot of valuables, financial records, clothes, everything else stays. >> i don't know if it is going to reach the city. we don't want to worry about rescue potential. we want to make sure we are putting the firefighters in positions to protect houses. we want that fire to back out and not cause someone their life. manitou will be an empty city. >> terrible fire. joining me on the phone is reverend dave hunting shall the chaplain for the manitou springs fire department.

reverend, are evacuations still ongoing? >> we are about 98% finished with our evacuations. we will complete it in about the next hour. >> what's the proximity of these flames to that town? >> the last report i had were the flames were about a quarter mile northwest of manitou springs just off highway 24. we are watching it very closely throughout the day. we have had some additional fire support equipment arrive within the last hour that will help us protect the city. >> my goodness, that's awfully close and very frightening. military involvement now as well as other jurisdictions throughout colorado. are you getting some outside help from neighboring states? >> there are all kinds of firefighters involved in this. we appreciate all their support coming from places near and far away. >> what's your feeling as to why this fire is so difficult to contain? >> we have very high humidity. the temperature reached almost

100 degrees in the pike's peak area. the humidity is about 89%. we are hoping the fire will lay down a little bit and rest during the evening so we can have a better handle tomorrow. >> what's your biggest concern talking about manitou springs, population about 6,000, the flames only about a quarter of a mile away. your greatest concerns about how you are going to be able to endure this threat? >> manitou springs will survive just fine. the spirits of the residents in this town has been remarkable. they absolutely were prepared to evacuate the city at a moment's notice. they had bags packed with personal items, medication, family portraits. they were ready to move out in a very orderly way. they will be able to return the same way. >> reverend, we wish you all the best for you and all your neighbors there in manitou springs. thank.

>> be safe. now, to the gulf coast where tropical storm debby continues to strengthen. the path is uncertain. people living along the texas coast to the florida panhandle are getting ready. alexandra ste alexandra steele is tracking this storm. you have new information? >> that's right. the 5:00 advisory has just come out. there are some changes with intensity and with track. some very key areas. first of all, a big picture. we will get to the specifics in a minute. one thing to note. it is a very broad circulation, i.e., a lot of people will be impacted one way or the other. it is moving very slowly. it will not be a quick hitter. we will see 10-15 inches of rain. landfall expected at the middle or end of the week. it is only sunday. it has been soaking western florida and will continue to be. the track is uncertain and still is and always has been. this is what we call the spaghetti plot, the spaghetti model. each of the different colors are a computer model showing you

where they think the track will be. the consensus seems to be in northwest florida, a few farther west divan the latest advisory had it before in southeast louisiana. that has just changed as of the 5:00 advisory. it had it going here. now, not so. directly straight north. you can see into panama city. putting app la cha bay and app la cha cola s intensity. a weak hurricane, about 74 miles per hour. now, a very strong tropical storm with winds at 70 miles per hour. maybe negligently jibl. isolated tornadoes. a myriad in southeast and southwest florida already today. dangerous rip currents and

coast coastal flooding. 10-15 inches of rain as this potentially moves north. still, a lot of quens. >> alexandra, keep us posted on that. thanks so much. >> right now, we will proceed to the historic election in egypt and the massive celebrations going on right now in tahrir square. it is just past 11:00 there in the evening and this is the scene. thousands of supporters of president-elect mohamed morsi are celebrating his victory in the country's first democratic election. the leader bead rival akmed hafik. joining us live, christiane. good to see you. we heard the president-elect who then addressed the egyptian people. he said, i am talking to all of the e-jen shgyptian people. a message for muslims, coptic christians, formers, workers,

mothers, daughters, those are my family, he said, end quote. was this reassuring to all egyptians there? >> reporter: that's a very good question. i have been down in tahrir square. as this huge crowd gathers and looks like it will stay here for many, many hours from now, that is the question we have been asking. how many of you believe that this president will be a president for all of egypt? there are serious concerns from minorities, from women. what will this mean for my life? during his first speech to the nation, he made a laundry list of just about every constituency in this country that he could possibly enumerate and insisted he was the president for all egy egyptians. he was urged to do that, make national reconciliation. embrace all of egypt. he certainly did that. he also said he wanted a

constitutional, democratic and modern egypt. that is definitely going to be the challenge. people are wondering, does this mean an islamist, egypt, the first arab islamist, head of state to come out. will this be modern, forward-looking, democracy or will it be more fundamental kin to t ayatollah in iran? egypt does not want that nor do his neighbors. his first speech was very important. fredricka. >> you mentioned women's concerns. was there anything in his message that might offer reassurance to women who are concerned that some of their rights they are enjoying right now would potentially go away with a muslim brotherhood candidate as the president-elect? do they feel a little bit more certain now that he has spoken? >> reporter: well, not

specifically. there was not. what he did say was that everybody was his wife, his sister, his partner. in other words, his way of saying we are all in this together. i actually interviewed him before the election. we will hear a little bit of that interview later on on cnn. i specifically asked him about women. he again and again insisted that women were equal. you are absolutely right. women are afraid. there have been some suggestions that potentially some of the minimal protections under the law for women here may, indeed, be reversed. everything from women's rights to sexual harassment laws that are meant to protect women, to female genital mutilations, female circumcision that was banned. would that be brought in again as a volunteer situation? many people are worried about those kinds of things. of course, the other real issue is what about his power? does he have real power? don't forget.

the military is still in full control. you know it dissolved parliament before the run-off election. it has legislative control divan there is no constitution written yet. we are not quite sure how that process is going to go. there are still a lot of unens a unanswered questions. the military is still in control over all. fredricka? >> christiane amanpour, thanks so much for cairo. a common household spice could help detour international drug trade. we will show you how.

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poppies are a cash crop in afghanistan. an increasing number of farmers are ditching opium for a legal crop giving their families a better life and peace of mind. here is sara sidner. >> reporter: afghanistan, located in western afghanistan is an ancient city marked by a towering mosque, bustling economy and improving economy. what's happening is a good

argument for a spice revolution. replacing opium poppy crops, the main source of funding for the taliban, with the world's most expensive spice, saffron. the province has been cleaned of 99% of its poppy cull tiff vation. the 1% is in places with security problems. the government, cooperation and some donations have played an important role to help and encourage saffron cultivation. it can sell for thousands of dollars a pound on the world market. for farmers, it is not just as simple as deciding to switch. after changing his crop from poppy to saffron, he says, he had visitors. taliban took money for me. i walked for days with my eyes wrapped with a piece of cloth. i was kept in a well for two days. finally, they told me to stop promoting the cu

promoting the cult vation of saffron. instead, he and his 13 family members move and freel grow and sell saffron, which brings in more profit than poppy ever did, enough to buy this large home in a safe and relatively peaceful environment where his young daughters are being educated divan the afghan government, along with nato members have been trying to stem the growth of opium poppy. 90% of the world's opium is produced in afghanistan and brought in an estimated $1.4 billion last year. most of that ended up with taliban and government-linked warlords. saffron is being looked at as a potential gold mine. a far easier crop to plant and harvest than opium and poppy. aligns with the tenants of islam gives new opportunities for afghan women. she says she wouldn't have a job if it weren't for saffron cultivation. working with poppy was forbidden

in her household. >> narrator: my family would not allow me. i am very happy for this work. it is useful for afghanistan and other countries. this is legal work. >> reporter: work that's yielding big money. dozens of companies have been formed with the aim of exporting afghan saffron. when you think of afghanistan, you don't think luxury items. take a look at this. they are actually putting saffron in what looks like pretty little perfume bottles. to give you some idea of how precious and expensive this is, this little bottle, two grams, will cost you $8, a princely sum for something to cook with in a country that's been impoverished for years. >> the success isn't without pitfalls. the government and some ngos are handing out saffron bulbs. there is the potential for flooding the market and bringing the spice of this precious price

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they are the new nba champions. the miami heat, starring lebron james, finally nabbed that championship and here is mike pesca for this week's smart sports. let's begin with the heat. finally, that is, for lebron james to get a championship. now, he can say to cleveland, how you like me now, huh? >> reporter: that would be very churl ish of him. this is how i see it. this was a major story line. people hating lebron thinking he has so much u ber russ.

they don't like the fact that he didn't just predict one championship. he predicted multiple championships. listen, you should watch sports however you want to watch sports. if you get off on having a villain, that's fine. he is a phenomenal player. he is not just a phenomenal player. he is very exciting to watch. he is unselfish. he takes over games. him winning, i think, changes the entire story line of the nba. we were stuck in a little bit of a rut, people saying, oh, will lebron ever win. he proofs it, because he did win. right now, we are in a situation where we have a new story line. can he defend his oklahoma city, a young and upcoming team that can overcome this juggernaut in the east? this is where the nba should be, with the heat on top an everyone looking to take him down. >> lebron smiling there. really, it was resonating. i don't think i have seen him so happy before.

>> i wanted to become a champion someday. i didn't know exactly when it would happen but i put in a lot of hard work. so, you know, for me, i'm happy. >> happy, indeed. we saw a big, old smile from him. this is kind of a new lebron, you think, too? >> reporter: i think that he down played the mental anguish he was under. we see this guy paking millions of dollars and being the most famous guy and seemingly having the world at his finger tips. he was under a lot of pressure. i don't think he wilted under the pressure like his critics claimed he did divan this year, he admits he changed his attitude and changed it so he began to take over games and stopped deferring. the rest of the heat knew their role, specifically dwyane wade. he said, maybe i could be a

co-alpha dog on this team. for all last year, when they were saying, this has nothing to do with the mentality. maybe we lost to the mavericks because they were better. the mentality was in place. >> congrats to the miami heat. >> exactly. >> mike pesca, appreciate it. always fun to see a winner and see winners be very, very happy. coming to beautiful, sunny chicago today. it is a big challenge. train for a triath in the proce. seven cnn viewers are getting healthier one swim, run, bike at a time. dr. sanjay gupta has an update on their progress with three months to go before race day. >> fred, in less than three months, i'm going to do the gnaw

nautica triathlon. i started training with these viewers since february. since then, their transformations have been quite amazing to witness. carlos salice, a type 2 buy better just raised 6.2 hilly miles. his racing partner was ryan maloney, a 13-year-old type 1 diabetic. rick morris did a relay, 17 miles on his bike followed by a 5k run. he quit smoking after joining our challenge. he tried many times before. never worked. now, he is going to try to quit his daily soda habit. finally i-want to tell you about denise castelli, a below the knee amputee that is going to race with us. >> it is amazing to think about your life and what you know now, not only doing the athletic endeavors but teaching other people. it is also worth pointing out that we are about three months away from the triathlon. how is your training overall going and how are you feeling?

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last night. it it is down to the wire for president barack obama's health care law. the u.s. supreme court will decide if the law is constitutional. kate bolduan reports on what the justices are considering. >> reporter: long days and late nights at the supreme court as the justices rush to finish what justice ginsburg recently called the blood season. >> many of the most controversial cases remain pending. it is likely that the sharp disagreement rate will go up next week. >> reporter: the biggest case this session and the biggest in at least a decade, the president's health care law. the election year blockbuster argued for more than six hours in march has far-reaching implications from main street to the campaign trail. >> if i'm lekted president, i will repeal obama care.

i will stop it in its tracks on day one. >> reporter: they face four separate issues. the center piece, will the individual mandate requiring all americans to have health insurance stand or will it fall? does the rest or any of the law survive if the mandate is struck down? does the law's expanded medicaid program unfairly step on state's rights? or will the court call for a legal time-out until the main provisions go into effect? this option is unlikely. >> there is going to be a bottom line as to whether the mandate is constitutional or not. i would be shocked if we didn't know that after the decision. >> reporter: the key to the decisions may be these two men, chief justice john roberts and the traditional swing vote, justice anthony kennedy. both seem skeptical of the government's case. >> you create commerce to regulate it. >> reporter: they ask tough questions of both sides giving hope to the law's supporters it may survive at least in part. >> i don't think you are

addressing their main point, which is that they are not creating commerce in health care. it is already there. we are all going to need some kind of health care, most of us will, at some point. >> after the decisions handed down, the big question quickly becomes, what now? house republican leaders have made clear, if the law is not completely thrown out, they will vote to repeal whatever is left. for weeks, both the white house and congressional republicans are quietly strategizing their message. they are ready as soon as it comes. >> there are provisions in health care law that people are already relying on. let's bring in athena jones. you have talked with some of those people. what do they have to say is at steak. >> there are 450 provisions. several are at stake like the provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents health plan until their 26th birthday.

the one saying insurance companies can't take away your coverage when you become ill and can't deny kids under 19 with pre-existing conditions. we caught up with a college student working two jobs to pay her medications. she is on her mother's plan. she is an asthmatic. she takes a daily medication that costs about $20 a month. without insurance coverage, though, it would cost her a little over 12 times that, which is a lot of money for a college student. her mother was a physician and an alergist says that a bad asthma attack can trigger an emergency room visit. her mother believes that if the entire law is struck down, she is hoping that congress will step in and do something to save this provision. let's listen to what she had to say. >> frankly, it is such a popular part of the health care law and it makes so much sense that i

think it would be a mistake and kind of unimaginable if congress doesn't decide to somehow make this continue if the law gets struck down. >> of course, as you know, one more thing. this is an election year. if that were to happen and congress has to go and tackle trying to save some measures, not a lot of people think a lot would get done in the next five months, fredricka. >> it is going to be an interesting week, if not the rest of the year. athena jones, thanks so much. she was one of the most prominent atheist bloggers an now she has shocked some of her readers by converting to catholicism. we will hear why in her own words. when you have diabetes...

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leah lebresco was one of the most prominentity theeists bloggers. a lot of readers were surprised when she announced she was converting to catholicism. i spoke to her about her conversion and personal journey. >> it is nice to find a community here in d.c. i have scandalized some of my iends. some think i am wrong now but i was less wrong tn i was. they thought my old position was less intellectually defense i believe. this is in some ways an improvement. it is exciting to be able to participate in the mass and thinking that it is actually the eucharist. >> some of these friends, have they also been nonbelievers? >> yes. i kind of had a mix of christians and eighatheists. >> you have blogged and written

extensively about it. what possessed you to do that? >> originally, when i started writing a blog, i was dating a nice catholic boy and we would have arguments. it was kind of unfair to ask him to be the sole representative of catholicism to me. i was trying to crowd source our arguments and crdraw on other people and check what he was saying. writing helped me clarify what i was thinking myself. >> was it that relationship that kind of enlightened you? >> yeah, like all good fights should. >> what were his thoughts about you converting to catholicism? >> are you still together? >> no, we are not but obviously he is very pleased. >> how has christianity, embracing it, becoming a catholic changed your life? speaking publicly about this journey? >> i think one thing that has changed in my life for this is that it is easier for me to reach out to other people

because what i want is their good, their moral development, their becoming what they ought to be in a way that before, when i thought of morality as a set of rules for me but it doesn't matter what the people i like matters or what they live but my own action was a lot more closed off. >> you can read more about leah lebresco's conversion and add your own comments there as well. going to see if people wearing orange jumpsuits hitting the streets of washington today. we will tell you what they are protesting. for a whole new level of radiance. it's clinically proven to visibly reduce blotchiness, brown spots, and other past damage, while broad spectrum spf 30 helps prevent future damage. healthier, more radiant skin.

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they donned orange jumpsuits. it was part of national week of action against torture. 169 people are still being held at guantanamo bay. this week, the u.s. supreme court is expected to decide on arizona's controversial immigration law, one of the hot topics on the sunday morning talk shows. >> yes, we can. yes, we can. >> keep the directive in place while he works out immigration reform in a more holistic manner. >> every action that president obama has taken will be subject to review. there are legitimate questions about the legality of it. every one from here forward will be subject to review and subject to repeal. >> the fact is the president has done what we should do. these kids have been living here for most of their lives. if mr. romney wants to come

clean with what he will do, he ought to do it. >> he is far behind president obama among latino voters. >> the enormous, vast and overwhelming majority of republicans are supporters of legal immigration. and compassionate to the plight of legal immigrants. >> american cannot be the only country in the world that doesn't enforce its immigration laws. >> no doubt in your mind, the house will vote, hold or in contempt? >> it is regret i believe we are here and we would certainly not like to be here. if the president and attorney general holder would simply start producing the documents they could produce that are not by any means going to be covered by executive privilege, this could be delayed or eliminated. >> this is almost nixsonian in the cover-up that's going on fast and furious. >> i am kind of saddened that at

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at 17 years old, swimmer, janet evans, took the olympics by storm. she broke a world record and took home three gold medals. that was in 1988. she won gold again four years later. the 40-year-old wife and mother of two is back for more with her eye on the 2012 olympic games. cnn's casey wians finds out how she is pulling off a rigorous training schedule and what's motivating her to do it. >> reporter: before dawn and a southern california college pool crowded with young athletes

chasing their dreams and one not so young swimmer trying to recapture hers. you probably remember janet evans. >> i retired after the '96 olympics. he was 24. i had gone to three olympics. i started to have a few shoulder problems. i had won four gold medals, a silver, broken several world records and was tired. tired of swimming. i had swum by entire life from the age of 3 to 24. i felt like as a swimmer, i had done it all. >> reporter: in the 16 years since, evans has married, had two children and a handful of careers. now 40, she's attempting an olympic comeback. >> it was during a meet, she was in the stands and texing me as to whether i thought she could do this and i texed her back, you'll never know unless you try and she was in t water the next day. >> i spend five hours a day training. i swim from 5:30 to 7:30 every morning, then weight room for

about 45 minutes and back in the pool from about 3:30 to 6:00 every day. >> reporter: her world record stood for 19 years until 2008 and it remains the american record. that's one reason her coach says she has a real shot at the upcoming trials. >> she's improved every single week. once she gets in the pool, you know, she just puts in an amazing effort. if she can make the finals at the trials, anything can happen. i think janet's going to amaze everybody with how fast she can swim. >> home for practice. >> reporter: though she's training as hard as ever, times clearly have changed. >> in this go around, i don't think swimming is everything in my life. i have two kids. i have a husband. i have a home to maintain. i have dinner to put on the table every evening and that is why i think in many ways, this time has been so much more fulfilling. >> whether she makes the olympic team or not, just to see her

push herself like this, it's been incredible. >> reporter: evans says she's ready for doubters and critics. >> she's 40. she has this success. leave it for someone else. you had your time. i've heard that a lot. you've had your time. why are you doing this again? well, if i swim fast enough, who says it's not my time? >> and for all the celebration ceremony that will happen in london this summer, there was one anniversary that has an american connection. bob greene has his thoughts on why we should all be remembering. >> this summer all eyes are on london. and as people talk about the history of london, one event may be overlooked. it should not be. 70 years ago, this week, an american from midwest farm country arrived in london.

it was a business trip of sorts. his bosses had given him a rather daunting task. save the world. london and england and free europe were under peril from the armies of germany's third like. help was needed. and so it was in the last week of june of 1942 that dwight david eisenhower of abilene, kansas, came to london to command all u.s. troops in europe. adolf hitler did not realize it at the time, but ike arriving in london meant that he was through. soon would come the innovation of north africa. followed by the greatest military undertaking in the history of the world. the d-day invasion of nazi occupied europe. eventually, london and england and europe would survive and prevail.

this summer in london, we will hear many times that famous phrase, there will always be an england, but 70 summers ago, that wasn't so. in the united states, we do not have royalty, but on occasion, we are able to find majesty. which is why as london glitters this summer, it will be fitting if perhaps a few people stop to remember the time when liberty itself was on the line and then ike came to town and everything began to change. what a job he did. >> and you can read bob's columns and other great opinions on the issues that shape your world at cnn.com/opinion. a huge, huge year particularly for london. much more of the news room coming up with don lemon. how you doing? >> great. you're bright and sunny and sunshiney. look at you. we're going to be covering a

lot. it's a big week next week. we're going to talk about the contempt charges about the nation's top enforcer. republicans say eric holder is lying. and with holding details in that botched fast and furious operation in 2010 that led to the e deaths of hundreds of mexicans and a u.s. border agent. the white house has invoked executive privilege. i posed it last time on the show, had a great discussion and then again this evening because we know we have this coming up next week. is it a legitimate investigation or politically motivated in this election year? and fred, in the wake of the jerry sandusky trial, here is a question for our viewers and one that sort of was strange to all of us when we heard about it. do pedophiles deserve sympathy? there are people who say they do. we're going to talk about what with a psychologist, who says

that a person cannot choose to be a pedophile, but they can choose to do something else. interesting discussion. >> that's going to be a riveting conversation. >> there's a difference, you can't choose to be a pedophile, but you can choose to be a molester. yeah. >> the differences of those two. >> dpaktly. i don't know. i'm not a psychologist, but a very interesting question. okay. >> interesting. look for that one. thank you so much, don. all that straight ahead. got you in about four minutes and counting. actually, less than four minutes. three and some change. >> we keep talking, it's going to go over. >> i'll be quiet. a hint. thank you. here are a couple of big stories that we are watching for you right now in this hour and the next. colorado firefighters are battling a wildfire near colorado springs. it has burned about 300,000 acres and threatened the the

popular vacation town. 10,000 living there and nearby has been told to evacuate. and now to an incident causing tension between syria and turkey. the foreign minister said syria committed a hostile act. western leaders are condemning the incident ahead of a nato meeting and then search teams have located the wreckage of the fighter jet, but have not reached it. there is no word if there are any survivors. that's going to do it for me. much more of the newsroom with don lemon. have a great week.