but we have succeeded. >> they really are doing incredible work. that will do it for me, everyone. have a great day. cnn newsroom continues now with rob marciano. i hand it off you to, sir. >> i got it. appreciate it. seven minutes of terror. seven minutes of terror. that's the pe trifiing ride in nasa's rover curiosity is about to take that unprecedented trip in the search for the building blocks of life. we're live at the jet propulsio. it is the best produced nasa video i've environment enseever. >> they never attempted this kind of a landing before on mars. up until now the rovers -- you can see one behind you that, is the mock-up of curiosity. in the past they were small enough they could put them in

air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. it's too big to do it any other way than what they're going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. they'll begin to slowdown. they'll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but not enough to get it on the ground safely. at that point they will fire some rockets on the spacecraft and it will begin to line itself up with the martian surface then they'll use a sky crane where the rover will actually dissend from the bottom of the landing vehicle and the two will dissend on the surface together. then they will fire off the other part of the vehicle that they no longer need. so that will all take place in a

matter of seven minutes, from the time they hit the top of the atmosphere to the time curiosity lands in the gale crater on mars, seven minutes, seven minutes of terror. if one thing goes wrong, rob, the whole thing is over. >> i don't think other than a manned mission, obviously, i don't think i've ever seen something so complicated, so sci-fi other than the here is challenges of this. why is nasa calling this the most important mission of this decade? >> yeah, no question about it. for a couple reasons. one is that the science that they'll be able to do on this mission. for the first time ever they'll have the capability to not detect life itself on mars but they have the ability to look for the building blocks of life. as always, it's follow the water with mars. they're going to do. that they're going to be looking for things like carbon. those are building blocks of life as we know it. they have the ability to actually use a hammer drill and

pulverize rocks and put them into on onboard chemistry lab and analyze all of the rocks over a two-year period of the mission. so from that standpoint, they may get closer than ever before to answering that basic question -- did life of some sort once exist on mars? and is it possible that somewhere in the subsurface that life still exists on mars? and the other part of that equation, rob, is this is the last of the grelast exploration missions on the books for nasa. it could jump-start the ability to get more missions on the books, spend more money. fit goes wro if it goes wrong, this could be the end of mars exploration. >> whether is this goin is this? visually, what are we going to be able to see if anything at all? >> sunday morning -- it will be

1:30 in the morning monday morning pacific time it's 10:30 p.m. sunday night. and you'll watch it right here on cnn. we'll be carrying it live across all of our platforms so you will be able to see it anywhere in the world that you live you can tune in. there is an orbitter that will get images fed down earlier of curiosity coming through the atmosphere and landing at that gale crater site. that will be phenomenal. going to be a terrific time out here and particularly if they get it right which is the key. and olympic analogy, rob, they have to stick the landing. >> perfect. i like it. watching it all live for us from pasadena, california. he'll be there all weekend for that landing. thanks, john. one of the nation's worst wildfire seasons on record. it is now oklahoma's turn. teen day it's governor is set to

tour areas hit by the flames. wildfires in more than a dozen counties are prime to get worse from low humidity, high wind. you know about the 110 plus degree heat. so far flames have eaten through 60 plus buildings and forced evacuations. what's worse, investigators believe one of the wildfires is arson. >> initially they were looking for a man in a pickup truck. someone called seeing that man throwing wands of paper already lit out into pasteur. so they are still working to determine maybe who that man is. what those witnesses exactly saw. that is so unsettling for so many people here in oklahoma. we already knew the conditions were bad. the governor earned a statewide bern b burn ban. >> the wildfires is happening as oklahoma is under severe drought conditions. if we could only get moisture from ernesto. that is one that may very well

threaten the u.s. there it is in the central caribbean. there is winds of 50 miles an hour. f it's about 290 miles south of the caribbean. slow development is expected in the forecast from the national hurricane center, through see the track. driving west and then northwest. potentially towards the you can tan and potentially into the gulf of mexico. a hurricane strength is possible. and now florence which is way out there and no threat to land if at all at this time, certainly not for at least a week, 45 mile-per-hour winds there. we'll watch florence as we wrap up hurricane season. for the second time in a week, a close call for air traffic control. two planes flew too close to each other as landing in detroit. the rules say they should have at least three miles between them. delta plane and a regional jet came within two miles of each other. this happened a day after the faa revealed three planes didn't have enough separation among them at reagan national due to the air traffic control miscommunication there.

in syria, fighting is intensifying in the country's commercial hub. our sister network was able to enter a area and capture this video. today they took partial control of the building. they had to retreat because of heavy shelling. a rebel commander told cnn earlier today that more government troops are headed to the city. meanwhile, the syrian regime is feeling the impact of international economic sanctions and is now asking russia for financial aid. the mighty mississippi has lost some of its might this year. we'll tell you how a massive drought has some parts of the river looking more like a beach. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] a living, breathing intelligence helping business, do more business. in here, opportunities are created and protected.

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look at the mississippi river. in some places it's 50 feet lower than last year's peak flood levels. the river had to be closed in two different spots because barges ran aground. the river bone dry in some spots. all right. let's go over what we were talking about as far as the drought is concerned. we got this thing locked up. i'll tell you this, oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, iowa, we're talking about areas that have seen significant lack of rainfall and now the heat on top of that in oklahoma obviously, the heat has -- and the drought caused some of the wildfires. the mississippi now last year we were in record floods. now we're nearing record droughts. some of the river captains along the mississippi saying this is the worst they've ever seen it. a typical tug gets 15 barges pushed. they've had to decrease that amount and lighten the load on the barges. just to do that, just to raise

the barge one inch, you have to unload 17 tons of stuff. they had to unload some of them 12 inches. so that's over 200 tons of merchandise. so that's going to cost certainly you money at the pump. the floods last year as well, it caused a lot of debris and silt that they're having to drudge. so that's the deal with the mississippi not just the farmers that we talked indepth about the past several weeks. prices at the grocery store not so much this year but next year anywhere from 3% to 5% increases in your grocery bills. all right, let's talk olympics. i got to profile an amazing athlete a couple weeks ago and she'll be competing this week. that story coming up.

. knock like the regal anthem to alert you we're talking about the olympics. they're calling it super saturday at the olympics with 25 medals on the line. american serena williams now owns one of them. she beat russian maria sharapova for the women's single title and she hardly broke a sweat. 6-0, 6-1. michael phelps wins i had last race later today the 4x100 meter relay. if he wins it, it will be the fourth gold medal of these games. and the u.s. won gold medals in the women's five meter rifle markmanship. a sport that doesn't get a lot of attention is sprint kayaking. it takes strength and balance to master it. i can tell you from experience after meeting the american woman who hopes to medal in that

sport. kerry johnston starts graduate school this fall to become a veterinarian. before she hits the books, she's hitting the water. sprint kayaking in her third and final olympics, she'll race in boejt 200 and the 500 meter sprints. johnson has yet to earn a medal but she's determined to finish strongly. >> every athlete is lining up on that start line, you know, with the goal and the dream of winning an olympic gold medal. i think if can you paddle away and say i did absolutely everything that i could do, then you have to be satisfied with that. >> johnson won gold in 2011 pan am games. but her success hasn't come without struggle. she has crones disease. >> when visit harder days, i have a real appreciation for just being able to train. >> while it kept her out of the water for a little while, johnson views her disease as extra motivation. pushing her through nearly six hours of training a day.

>> what's going through your mind technically? how long do you want that paddle in there? how strong is the stroke? how are you balancing? there's got to be a lot of things to think b. >> using your legs is really an important part of paddling which people don't realize. that really starts the rotation that brings the, you know, boat forward. >> all this without falling in? >> yes. >> the boat you're on is pretty skinny. >> it is the widest part is just pretty much wide enough to get your hips in. so it is very unstable if you're not used to it. >> and if you're just some reporter getting in there, what are the odds of me staying afloat? >> we've never had anybody get into the poet fboat for a first and stay up, even the olympic rowers. >> so i'm going in? >> you're going in? >> crab grab the cockpit. grab the paddle where the grips

r. >> yeah. >> oh, there's no way. there's no way i'm staying up. how in the world do you balance on this thing. >> don't hit your head on the dock. >> yea, okay. no way. you're right. one second. that's impossible. >> i've never felt such instability. the amount of balance and obviously strength that these athletes have to have in order to do this is incredible. she qualified for the olympics by winning two gold medals. i think she is scheduled to compete on tuesday. it's been a rocky start for the murder trial of drew peterson. he's a former cop accused of killing his third wife, missteps from the prosecution almost led to a mistrial. our legal folks are standing by to talk about that and other

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. the drew peterson murder trial will resume on tuesday. it stopped early yesterday after a juror got sick. peterson, a former cop, is charged with the murder of his third wife, kathleen savio. she was found drowned in her bathtub. her death was ruled an descent at the time. the case was reopened in 2007

after peterson's fourth wife, stacy vanished. peterson is now facing charges in that case. let' bring our legal folks avery freeman, a civil rights attorney in los angeles and criminal defense attorney holly hughes joins us live from atlanta. well, drew peterson trial got off to quite an interesting start there. the prosecutors claim that peterson murdered his third wife, as you know. but later on in the trial, or later on there was something that happened that thought was interesting. there's not a lot of evidence, guys. holly, we start with you. what kind of challenges other than with so little evidence does the prosecution have? >> this case is like walking through a land mine because it is all circumstantial evidence and there's nothing direct. they have to be very careful about not going too far into the character of this man. we had a motion for a mistrial this week, rob, because the defense stood up and said y'all are just character assassinating

him. you're trying to get people to say he was threatening and they were intimidated. you can't bring that type of evidence in unless and until the defense opens the door. so in addition to those challenges, you know, having no physical evidence, they also have to be very careful not to push the character button. >> avery? what would you do? >> yeah. yeah, i don't know. the character button with a guy like drew peterson, he has more wives than chick-fil-a has guy protesters. we're dealing with wife number three, kathleen savio. the difficulty is even in the opening statement, rob, what we heard from the defense is, well, kathleen was bofrnkers. what the heck does it that have to do with drowning in a bathtub? you then see the prosecution take off on issues that are absolutely irrelevant, cannot be proven. and the judge who is overseeing this case is ready to pull his hair out in frustration of both

sides. now the only goodness for the prosecution is they did put kathleen's sister on who came up with testimony from the grave that kathleen said that she thought drew was going to kill him. that's all we have at this point. this case ultimately boils down to, i think, expert forensic testimony. that's where the case is going. >> holly, it's been one week. how do you think it's going? how long is this going to take? what do you think the end result is going to be? >> what we're seeing right now is all the lay witnesses, rob, the people going to come in and say, yes, she told me she was threatened by him. we'll see all those played out. then we'll get into the experts that avery is mentioning. i think we'll see another two to three weeks of testimony. and they have to be very, very careful because even the forensics, remember, this was initially ruled an accident. they buried this woman. she was in the ground for three years. and not until his fourth wife, stacy went missing, did the state then disinter whif number

three, bring her back up, for a second autopsy. it's looking like sour grapes. you know, i'm not on drew peterson's side. i think he's a creep. but you can't lock somebody up for being a creep. we wouldn't be able to house them all. >> we certainly had a -- heard a lot from him over the years from the jail cell and over the media. yeah, it's been quite a character. let's switch gears and talk about the snyderman case. this is mind boggling as well when you talk about two people that are having an affair. one in dire straits financially. they come up with this plan to basically kill the woman's husband who has a bunch of money saved and $2 million insurance policy. the guy who shot the husband, he's been in jail for a while. but now they want to indict andrea. so i guess silly question, is you know, what's the motive? they have one, don't they, avery? >> sure they have a motive. they have $2 million worth of a motive. look, andrea was in serious

financial trouble. so was her boyfriend. her boyfriend, ironically, not only was convicted of murder, but the jury also found that he was mentally ill. and for some reason the defense lawyers in that case, in the appeal, think that because andrea, the girlfriend, was indicted, somehow that's going to help them in the appeal. what's coming up very shortly is the defense team is also going to move for a change in venue, rob. the fact is with technology today, i don't know where, what jury pool they're going to select that motion is going to be denied. but man oh, man what a dramatic trial this is going to be. >> i should point out that my legal ease is not up to snuff. all the stuff i said to my prior question is alleged. >> alleged. >> you have to use that more often. holly, how do you think the trial is going to go down in the next few days and weeks? >> unless we see some really startling evidence, when hemmy newman, the actual shooter convicted in georgia, when he

was convicted, he always maintained she didn't have anything to do with it. she didn't put me up to it. she's innocent of the charges. well, he was found guilty but mentally ill. so now that he's been incarcerated, if he received counseling and medication, rob, i'll be really curious to see if they have gotten him to finally come forward and say, yes, she was a part of it. because otherwise it's another one of those circumstantial indications. there's no physical evidence. bear in mind, with his appeal pending, he's not really going to want to come out and talk about this. so i think the state is going to be stuck again with circumstantial evidence. they're going to try to get a jury to kind of follow e money trail. this is what happened. like avery was mentioning, she was running out of money. she wanted the insurance money. she didn't want to go through a divorce. she wanted custody of those children. and you know what? sadly enough, rob, now the children have neither parent because she's been arrested on this new indictment. >> these are two certainly sad stories that we forget that there are so many twists and

turns. it's a sad, sad case on both instances. avery, holly. stay right there. we'll talk to you in 20 minutes. we'll have lighter stories and more fun with these, i suppose. but certainly for the people involved, there's some issues. former california high school student got upset over getting a c plus in chemistry. now he is suing the teach eastern the school district. that's one of the stories coming up. people in uganda are terrified after the deadly e bow lie virus surfaced in that caution. we'll show what you precautions doctors are taking to contain the virus. yes i'm not allowed to be frivolous. ah ok, move my 4 o'clock today to tomorrow. change my 11am to 2. [siri] ok marty, i scheduled it for today. is that rick? where's rick? [siri] here's rick. oh, no that's not rick. now, how's the traffic headed downtown? [siri] here's the traffic. ah, it's terrible, terrible! driver, driver! cut across, cut across, we'll never make it downtown this way. i like you siri, you're going places.

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doctors in uganda are monitoring 30 people suspected of being infected with the deadly e. boli virus. 16 people died since the initial outbreak. doctors are worried because the virus spreads so easily. in this report, david mckenzie in full protective gear visits the hospital where doctors are trying to contain the virus. >> this is the ep i septer of an e.boli outbreak. we learn that our safety protection isn't enough. >> the reason this isn't acceptable is because it's

cotton like material. obviously, you know, fluids which are key risk in contracting ebola can get soaked into the material. let's keep going. >> what we've got is a kit. within here is various bits. >> the virus is so deadly, you need extreme protection. inside the restricted area, no matter what you do, you have to wear something like this? >> yes. >> plastic overalls, apron, hood and masks. not a single inch of skin can be exposed. we're inside the hospital. the first case was confirmed in late july. rest of the patients fled. and health workers are some of the first to die. early on in the epidemic, they're often in contact with patients. and then if they don't know it's

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. in florida it's an air boat tour one family will never forget. and their captain, that's for sure, won't forget it either. the captain lost his hand after a nine foot gator bit it off. now he faces charges for reportedly feeding it. our legal folks are back. avery freeman in los angeles, holly hughes in atlanta. i mean talk about insult to injury, guys. ed rthey're charging this guy with a crime. avery, what is the legal punishment for giving your hand to an alligator? >> well, that isn't what it is, rob. i mean -- the law is enticing an alligator which is unique to the everglades. he worked for captain doug.

they're going to give him a nickname. it won't be lefty. the difficulty here is that not only did he suffer the loss of his hand, he's going to be facing 60 days in jail, $500 fine because he enticed an alligator. so whether you work for captain doug or captain hook, i think the good idea is not to entice alligators. this is what happens. he's facing a crime even though he suffered this terrible, terrible injury. >> holly? is this fair? i suspect there's a big problem with this in florida? people feeding gators. is this a fair law? why wouldn't the judge give him a break? >> it is fair. the judge might give him a break. you heard the expression, you know, be careful what you do. it may come back to bite you. well, this case is a visual aid for that, rob. and it's what we call public policy law. the law is on the books to protect people, to keep people from trying to feed alligators and things like this happening, losing their hands. it's also to protect the wildlife and the animals. if they get too used to humans

feeding them, they lose their fear of humans. and you do have these terrible incidences happening. the reason that laws are on the book is to protect the public and to keep other people -- it's a deterrent law. it's a public policy, keep other people from doing it. now even though what avery talked about is true, he is facing up to 60 days in jail. the judge could just say to him, i'll give you probation. the judge can do anything within that range and given what this man has already suffered, i don't think the judge is going to throw the book at him. >> holly, if you were the prosecutor, would you press charges in this case? >> i would press the charges but i would give him probation. >> and avery? what would you do? drop the hammer? >> no. i would press charges, make him pay a fine. he suffered enough. >> the claim against his employer, how does that evolve?

avery? >> not a chance. >> no? >> unless the employer had forced him to do it. which i don't think he would. but if he did, maybe there is a worker's comp case. >> and i suppose if you're one of the guys you want to give your passengers, you know, a bit of a thrill. this one certainly goes down in the history books. let's switch gears. >> or nightmares, rob. >> yeah. >> for sure. if there were small children on the boat, they certainly have an image that may be burned in their minds forever. speaking of children, or at least students, let's switch gears. there's a student seemingly a star student. i mean we're talking about stellar track record here. never -- allegedly never missed a class. now he has a uk plus becauc plu missed school that day because he was in an adoption hearing. the teacher's penalize him. so he and his parents are now suing the teacher and the school system, i would think.

ave avery, what do you have to say about this case? >> you know something, rob. you have a better chance of winning a gold medal in kayaking than this kid has in federal district court. >> that's a low blow. >> sorry about that, pal. we saw what happened you to. the bottom line is for some reason the lawyer brought it in federal district court claiming a civil rights case under the due process laws. it does not exist. unfortunately, i think this young man suffered injustice. we all had teachers like. this it belongs in the state court. my prediction, the federal court will dismiss it. it will be in superior court a little north of here. and the matter will resolve. >> what do you thishgs holly? >> i'm with avery on this. i think the matter will resolve only because it's getting so much press. and the difference here is they promised this young man that he would be able to make up the test that he missed. and that's what caused his grade to plummet so drastically. so there was a promise. there was sort of this oral contract where they said to him, hey, you know, look, if you go

to the adoption hearing, don't worry. we're going to let you make it up. so i think that eventually he may get something out of this. when you talk about lawsuits, you talk about are there damages? and here you're talking about what kind of college he gets into, future earnings. we see it in catastrophic injuries cases where they bring on forensic accountant to say you are no longer able to earn this much and this is the damage. so we might see something worked out quietly by the school district saying we understand it could affect you. what kind of job you get and how much money you'll be able to make. i don't think it is going to sustain in federal court. >> avery, you want to jump in i saw? >> yes. no professi no provisions in the statute. he was a junior when this happened. bottom line, let him go into ucl and go bruins. >> i want to point out that we reached out to the attorney for the school and we have not heard

from him. holly, avery, thanks very much. >> thanks, rob. >> all the best. take care. . a key♪ question that could decide the presidential race coming up. ( whirring and crackling sounds ) man: assembly lines that fix themselves. the most innovative companies are doing things they never could before, by building on the cisco intelligent network. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays]

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realization that you can't feed your family and that you need to go ask for help is really just a crippling emotional blow for a lot of people to suffer. >> reporter: demand spiked dramatic fli 2008 and 2009. daniel flowers says it is still rising now. >> the demand is going up. but not at the rate. >> not at the rate it was, yeah, that's right. not at the rate it was a couple years ago. and so it's almost a sad fact that feels like a win. >> reporter: not so bad but still the numbers are numbing. more than two million people in ohio, that's 18% of the state population, go hungry or eat less than they should because they can't afford more food. akron is in a battleground within the battle ground. >> if there were an election for you for president, you would vote for mitt romney or president obama? >> republicans acknowledge that mitt romney is a few points behind and they acknowledge it is impossible for him to win the

white house without winning here. now republicans don't expect to carry some this county. romney won't have a prayer statewide if he can't make it closer. >> in '08 that enthusiasm wasn't there as much as it could have been. i get calls from people saying what i k. i do to help romney win? >> the unemployment rate was 9.3% when the president took office and is 7% now. and hamilton county, another key to winning statewide, 7.2% now. down from 8.1%. the hamilton democratic chairman tim burke says republicans can't make the case ohio is worse off. >> just take the automobile industry and how that has seen a resurgence in the state of ohio. and we've got like three quarters of a million jobs that are automobile related here in ohio. and we're seeing the benefits of that for president obama. >> some though have a different test than the unemployment rate. >> put this in the bag. >> george is at the food bank for five years now helping got

neighbors charity and along the way watching the face of hunger change. >> i'd say we're going into the middle of the middle class now. we're reaching up to the suburban people to people who used to have a nice home ashgs nice car. it is worse than it was three years ago. >> reporter: better or worse, the defining question in what could be the defining battleground. john king, cnn, akron, ohio. next door in pennsylvania, joe paterno's family plans to appeal the ncaa sanctions against penn state. the school was hit with a $60 million fine along with a loss of 14 seasons worth of wins under paterno. the ncaa action came after the child sex scandal on campus. but there's a problem for the family. the ncaa says its sanctions are not subject to appeal. > where's fred? she is not only a cnn anchor, she's the daughter of an

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. the woman who usually sits in this chair has an excellent excuse not to be here. fred is in london by the side of her father would won gold in london during the first olympic games after world war ii. as fred shows us, it may be a new century since his win but once an olympian, always an olympian. >> reporter: what's it like traveling to london with a man known as marvelous matt? 64 years after he won two gold and a bronze in track & field, see for yourself.

doors open for olympians like dad, mal when itfield, invitations pour in. lots of autographs. pictures. and hands to shake. and meeting up with other fellow '48 olympians from the historic games following world war ii and the games of others and the games that followed. >> he won three medals. two gold and one bronze. >> this bronze long jumper herb douglas. >> it was gracious. it was a marvelous beginning. and here we are. 64 years later. >> reporter: stand out triple jumper ira davis from the 1956, '60 and '64 games. >> i'm a little younger than

them. i'm only 75. i looked up to them. they were special in my life. and to share this moment with them, kunlt imagine how i feel. >> reporter: and 1988 olympic race walker gary morgan. >> it's always great to reconnect with your fellow olympians to see what they've done and where we've all kind of went, what we're still doing. >> reporter: at 87, dad is in a wheelchair. his legs took a real beating from a career of hard training and competing using less than sophisticated equipment by today's measure. his words are few in frail state. instead, his eyes and smile say everything. my brother and i feel privileged to witness firsthand these moments. dad told us he feels right at home here, six decades after setting an olympic record at wembly stadium. together again in their golden years, their memories far from tarnished.

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