his mother kate lin, victims of a calculated and brutal ambush. he has had to listen to that and he is horrified. >> the twitter universe of course absolutely blowing up. we're talking about the major characters, simply wiped out. >> oh, my goodness. >> we're going to have to check this. we're going to have to get the whole series and watch it. >> we'll do our best. thanks for watching "around the world." that will do it for me, but not for you. >> i'll see you tomorrow. all right. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. massive fire burns out of control in california. you're looking at the pictures there. there are thousands of people who have had to leave their homes. we're going to be live from the front lines just moments away. plus, a storm so powerful it

caused this semitruck to rollover. you see it there. unbelievable pictures. and this little girl potentially only has weeks to live. she is waiting for a lung transplant. but her age is preventing her from getting one. now, her parents are asking the government, the obama administration, to step in. this is "cnn newsroom" and i'm suzanne malveaux. we begin in southern california. firefighters have another battle on their hands. this time we're talking about a dangerous wildfire that is burning out of control. it is just north of los angeles. now, this fire exploded in size yesterday reaching 25,000 acres, destroying six homes as well. more than 2,000 people had to leave. >> the flames were 200 feet high. it was horrible. we couldn't breathe. it was nothing but smoke. >> seeing the picture of the house above on the ridge gone, it's really scary. i just want to -- i keep looking

at the news and wanting to see a picture of my house. >> that is the terrifying sound of people seeing a funnel cloud from a tornado. this is near el reno, oklahoma. at least 14 people died in those five tornadoes that slammed the state. that happened friday evening. now, six people in oklahoma, they are still missing. oklahoma city's fire chief says four of them sought shelter in storm drains, might have been swept away in the floods that followed. crews back at it again today simply searching desperately for the missing. and watch this. this is what happened to a truck driver and his truck.

and there it goes. unbelievable pictures there. the power you can see of the tornado is just enormous to see that actually happen. a tornado also hitting missouri. no one died in that tornado, but flooding there killed people. three people as a matter of fact. four in arkansas as well. tornadoes not just deadly for those who are in them but also people who are simply covering these tornadoes. they claimed the lives of three storm chasers. we are talking about these individuals, brave individuals, tim samaras, his son paul samaras and carl young, killed while chasing a tornado in el

reno. this is what their truck looked like, if you can imagine this. when this was recovered yesterday, mangled, shredded i don't think recognition. you can see the force and the power of the storm and what they were dealing with. tim's brother, you know, he says his brother wasn't a reckless guy. he died doing what he loved. >> i just couldn't ever think it would ever happen to him because of his level of expertise, years of doing this, safety and all his training and everything else he's done. if i had to have a way for my brother to die, it would be doing what he did, chasing tornadoes. >> a photographer with the weather channel crew is recovering after being seriously hurt when his vehicle was tossed from the highway. we're going to get an update from the tornado zone later in the hour to find out how he is doing as well. i want to also go back to the dangerous wildfires we have been following in california. i mean, the pictures are just unbelievable. i want to bring in stephanie

elam in palmdale, it looks friegtsening for anybody in that community, but it looks as if there's some good news here in terms of the number of people who were able to get out of that area. >> that's very true, suzanne. we're actually in a little community called lake hughes. if you take a look behind me, you can see just how hot this fire was and just what it did. we know so far that six homes have been destroyed. and this would be one of them. you can see that the chimney still stands, but just about everything else is decimated. you can see in the back maybe even the stove. and it looks like what's in the back is the washer and dryer, that's all pretty much what's recognizable in the house. everything else just burned down. the good news is is that this morning we got news from fire officials saying that this fire is now 40% contained. the acreage burned 29,500 acres. that's up a little bit from

yesterday, but they are hopeful cautiously optimistic that that number is not going to grow any further as long as the winds cooperate. and i have to tell you, suzanne, it's still very windy out here right now. >> and, stephanie, when you take a look at what's behind you and around you there, is that typical? are there a lotd of houses that have been damaged? or have most been spared? >> from what we know in this particular fire, the powerhouse fire, there have 15 homes damaged and six destroyed. when they forced the evacuations of some 3,000 people at that time it left 1,000 homes in the path of the fire. so this is actually good news, not for the people who obviously lost their homes but there was not as much damage. and fire officials say a lot of it has to do with the fact that they were digging in on land to cut the fire line and also attacking the fire from the air even throughout the night. they say this is the only region in the world where they are capable of doing that. >> stephanie, good to see you as always. appreciate it. we're also following this

story. it is hard -- it's a hard story to cover. this is the mother of a 10-year-old girl who desperately she needs a lung transplant to survive. and she is now appealing to the obama administration going all the way up the food chain to try to get some help here. this is sara murnighan. she's had cystic fibrosis since birth and she could die within weeks if she doesn't get a transplant. and her mother has asked the health and human services secretary to try and step up here and change the rules that are already in place. because right now children under 12, they don't have priority over adults on a waiting list who also need lungs. there aren't enough childrens lungs to go around. >> we're not asking for an exception for sara, we're asking for all children to be treated equally and fairly. this isn't just about sara, this is about all children. children are dying in almost three times the rate of adults waiting on that transplant list.

almost three times the rate. they are not being treated fairly or equally. it's unjust. it's not within the constitution. my child's civil rights are being violated. >> secretary has called on officials to review the nation's lung transplant policy for kids, but any change could take up to two years. and that of course would be too late for this young one here. i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to explain how does this work. i'm not quite clear on who takes priority here, if it's a matter of need, necessity or age? >> right. it gets kind of complicated because it's divided really between pediatric and adult. and it's whoever is the sickest is put at the top of the list. but there are very few pediatric lungs around. so she's basically as a child she's put at the bottom of the adult list. so what her mom is saying is why is that? it ought to be based on need whether she's a child or an adult. there is some indication that she could use sort of an accommodated adult lung, take an adult lung and sort of tailor it

for her use. so this is something i really think hasn't been in the public eye before. i think she's the first mom to kind of bring this up. she's done it in a very smart way and gotten a lot of attention. she got kathleen to do something very quick ly. she won't be able to do anything for her daughter, but hopefully it will be quicker. >> was it important for her to take her cause to the obama administration essentially to try to save her daughter's life? >> right. this is a policy that's written out. and it's the united network for organ sharing has this policy. and the united network for organ sharing works as a contractor for the federal government. so if you want them to change their policies, that's what you do, you go to the top and say make them change it. >> and how many kids are waiting for lung transplants? >> let's take a look because i think what she's done has brought to light the terrible situation that many people, children and adults, are in waiting for organs. let's look at children first.

waiting for lungs, 72 children. sara is one of those. 880 children are waiting for a kidney. and 478 children are awaiting a liver. and when you look at adults, and let's again focus on lungs here, 1,614 adults are waiting for a lung. and, again, 72 children are waiting for a lung. if you look at all of this in the big picture, more than 118,000 americans are waiting for an organ. and many of them will die without it. many of them do die without that organ. >> that's why lung donors are so important. >> so important to sign that organ donor card and give your organs if, you know, god forbid in a car accident or something, sign that card so your organs can be useful to someone like sara. >> just a point in case here, i really wish her -- i hope it goes well for that family. but it's very brave of her mother to bring it to the country's attention, really. >> and i think it shows you what happens when you become sort of an active and powered patient.

other children are in the same situation, but she knew how to get the message out. and we've seen this before with organ donation. that when you get the message out, it can make a difference. >> i want to bring that message to the family setting up a petition here. this is @change.org. they're asking parents to consider naming sarah as a transplant recipient should they or one of their children face death in the coming weeks. and they say search sarah murnaghan at the top of the page. this is devoted to her daughter's fight for survival. it's at facebook.com/janet.murnaghan. there is something that can be done. here's more of what we're working for this hour. this is a frantic search for a teen after he is swept over a waterfall. this is at yosemite national park. and in chicago, sadly to say, it's a way of life for some

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park rangers have now temporarily suspended the search for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a waterfall at yosemite national park. high water levels made this search too dangerous now. and officials now say that he had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge oeall when he got caught up in the swift of current in the river. and he had gone to the park with a church group, that happened on saturday. now, a park spokeswoman says it is not illegal to swim above the waterfall there you can see. but the area is marked by signs warning that it's dangerous. she says it is now almost

impossible to survive a fall like that. now, imagine this, being from a family of gang members, and we are talking about your father, your uncles, your brothers, everybody part of a violent gang. that is a situation for some people in chicago. our george howell actually sat down with a family whose gang activity really has been part of the family now for generations. >> inside the home of this west side chicago family, you find a common thread, a way of life started by this father passed onto his nephews and now his sons. i want to do a show of hands. i mean, how many generations have been in a gang? what was the first generation? and the second generation. and then the next? so it's just gone through the mithat? >> i ain't proud of that. hard to understand now since his

stroke, but at one time no voice carried more weight in chicago's gang world, a former leader of the notorious vice lords gang, william spent most of his life awaiting trial, on probation or in prison. he's since given up gang life. >> i don't like my kids being involved with that, but i can't tell them don't do this when your daddy done it. i'm not going to be no hypocrite. >> but his legacy continued. >> i did robberies. that was my specialty. we didn't go around hurting innocent people like the kids do these days. it was more about money, power and respect and who could get to the top of the hill first. but doing that we still had loyalty to who started this. >> through this generation era it bled down to them. when it got down to them, the blood was running in the

streets. and they had no guidance. because a lot of us was locked up. so they had no guidance. so they just became like renegades. >> and that's one of the problems plaguing chicago's streets today. >> it's just everybody out there for themselves, you know. it's like whatever happens just happens. >> shots fired. >> chicago police spent years cracking down on gang leaders who operated in large parts of the city, but according to the cook county state attorney, the gang lifestyle has become entrenched. >> what we see now isse gangs are generational. so you have grandpa, father, son, all part of the gang. so it's just kind of been the culture that kids have been brought up into. >> and anita alvarez says gangs have also fractured into many different fractions. the result, young rival gang members fighting each other block by block with deadly consequences. it's a problem these former gang members are trying to turn

around starting with their own family. >> now, i'm out there trying to teach the young people to look at me. i'm 46. i've been to the penitentiary ten times. but now i'm -- i've got married and i see a different way in life. >> and their influence seems to be paying off. >> it made me look up to them now, you know, like i'm changed. i don't need none of that violence, none of that stuff. >> fountain's name sake says he cently dropped out of the gang. a small sign of hope in a city struggling with a big problem tryi take the streets safe again. now, in that report you heard jetti williams, his voice kind of hard to understand. we learned from his family that he just recently passed away due to some health issues. fair to say before his death, he did take great satisfaction, suzanne, in knowing that his sons decided to make different choices than he made to get out

of the gang. >> that in and of itself is an accomplishment clearly after his life ended. george, do you have a sense of whether or not like why did they decide to come forward and talk to you and do this? was this a part of some sort of larger message or legacy that he wanted to leave behind? >> well, you know, i think that's exactly it. and fair to say we're looking at this snapshot of three different generations. they wanted to show us where the problem started, how the problem continued and the fact that people see that it is a problem. you know, that his sons wanted to make change. and what we're seeing right now here in chicago, we're seeing the police putting more, you know -- more police on the streets, foot patrols in different neighborhoods. and also mayor rahm emanuel asking the community to invest in programs to help kids have different choices, to help young adults have different choices. because, again, what we're hearing time after time from people is that it's a lack of opportunity, a lack of jobs, that's what it would take to help people make different

choices. >> it's good they're coming out and speaking out here because obviously people will look at them and listen to them, their real life stories, more so sometimes than public officials. >> absolutely. >> excellent that you just sat down with them and they were so candid about all of this. george, thank you. really appreciate it. >> thank you. the summer of course getting ready to prepare for vacation. you might have to dig just a little bit deeper in your wallet if you are planning to go do disney world. that is right. it is going to cost you a lot more to see mickey and the gang. you're not going to believe how much it costs a family of four just to enter the park. can youlyric can.aid do this? lyric can. lyric can. lyric by phonak is the world's only 24/7, 100% invisible hearing device. it's tiny. but that might be the least revolutionary thing about lyric. lyric can be worn 24/7 for up to four months, without battery changes. call 1-800-414-5999 for a risk-free trial. cookie: there's absolutely no way anyone can see it even

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and of course it's not just adult tickets going up. you've got kids as well ages 3 to 9, the price for magic kingdom going up to now $89. joining us from new york, alison kosik. alison, how are families going to afford this? you know you don't just stay one day. you have to take the whole family and of course it's going to be for a couple of days. >> you make some very valid points, suzanne. you know, it really does seem like the happiest place on earth is beginning to feel like the most expensive with disney over the weekend putting these new ticket prices in play at both its florida and california theme parks. as you mentioned, tickets to the magic kingdom will now run you $95. so, yeah, even if you just add up two parents, two kids, you're looking at almost $400 just for one little visit to the park. so just last week universal orlando which disney does not own, actually, that park became the first one in the area to break the $90 threshold. so the idea with any of these places that you go to is what they're trying to do is get you to buy the multipark multiday

tickets because they get cheaper as you stack stuff on. go to magic kingdom for two days, the base price drops, five days it's $59 for the ticket. and a full week it's just $44 for a ticket. you can also add on the park hopper or choose a no expiration option to try to make it even more of a bargain. the funny thing about that is if you spend more days in the park, you're going to spend more. you're going to spend more on food and souvenirs and not to mention the hotel that you have to stay in. so rk you know, just when you think you can find a way to get into the parks cheaper, you're spending money elsewhere. just moving it around a bit, suzanne. >> i'm not hating on mickey or minny, ten days at disney, that's asking a lot of any family. >> i know. i'd be running. >> has this impacted sales at all? do less people go? fewer people go? >> what's funny is it doesn't seem to bother those people who go to disney. in the latest earnings report

for disney, it shows domestic park attendance was actually up 8%. guests spent 10% more. and hotel occupancy, that was up 80%. so i guess the good news in all this it really gives a good indication about the economy that people are still willing to spend this kind of money. and with consumer spending accounting for two-thirds of gdp, this seems like outrageous prices but it's really not stopping people from packing up the van and pumping up disney's bottom line. suzanne. >> we'll just have to save up for our disney trip. thank you, alison, appreciate it. the dow keeping up its winning streak today. we're looking at an increase there. it is up 31 points despite the underwhelming reports on manufacturing and construction spending. and housing market -- housing market and stock market two bright spots in the economy right now. christine romans showing us how cash in both of these in this week's smart is new rich. watch. >> home prices are rising,

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they're mourning the loss of senator frank lautenberg. the u.s. senate last world war ii veteran. he died this morning of viral pneumonia. he's going to be remembered as a staunch liberal who fought for tough gun laws. the ban on smoking on airplanes and cracking down on drunk driving. and as you can see here, they have already lowered the flag at the white house. it is flying at half-staff in his honor. senator lautenberg was 89 years old. also in washington, another video -- another controversy for the irs. watch. >> to the right. to the left. three, four. >> all right. these are irs workers on the clock learning how to do the cupid shuffle. it was for a 2010 conference. the agency spent almost $50 million on conferences between

2010 and 2012. house republicans want some answers here. they also want to know who ordered the irs to target the tea party. republican congressman darrell issa says white house press secretary jay carney is lying about this. >> they're paid liar, their paid spokesperson, he's still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. there's no indication -- the reason lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there's a rogue in cincinnati. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters. and we're getting to proving it. >> i want to bring in wolf blitzer who's joining us from washington. wolf, good to see you as always. we'll get to darrell issa's comments in a moment. i wanted to ask you this because i'm sure you remember this story from before. the gsa had this embarrassing video that came out and made it look like they were wasting money at these conferences, these dance and competitions,

that kind of thing. you would have thought the irs would have learned something from that. do we know what is behind this video? can we put this into context? >> unfortunately, i think there are a whole bunch of government agencies out there that used to have these kinds of events to try to get team productivity or whatever excuse they had and cost the taxpayers a lot of money. whether it was a gsa event or now an irs event. you see the video that's come to light. this was considered good policy as far as getting cohesiveness, teamwork, stuff like that out there. they try to adopt some of these strategies from the private sector and didn't necessarily work as far as the irs and the gsa because the publicity is awful. it looks like they're just having a bunch of like the gsa they went to vegas, had a little fun and at taxpayers expense. it's not a good idea. it looks awful and they should stop. >> yeah. it looks very silly. i want to bring back darrell

issa's comments here. clearly he's going after the administration, the white house. but he very specifically went after jay carney, the press secretary calling him a paid liar. there was pushback from the former white house advisor david plouf. he tweeted this out about issa's past. he said in response strong words from mr. grand theft auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler, he doesn't usually use those kinds of words, do you think there's a danger here, wolf, that the white house might look like it is now playing small ball? that it's tit-for-tat and they like to applaud themselves for being above the fray. >> well, he's now a private citizen and he can say and do whatever he wants and the white house can suggest he's no longer part of the president's official team, if you will. today, just a few moments ago i just heard, suzanne, jay carney, the white house press secretary, was asked about issa's comments about him calling him a paid liar and he tried to take the

high road. said he didn't want to get into a back-and-forth with issa. the plouffe comments about grand theft auto and arsonist charges, these were charges 40 years ago never proven against issa. there were no criminal charges ever leveled against him. and when he was in the private sector. but it does underscore, you're absolutely right, how angry and how bitter this personal feud when you have a congressman calling the white house press secretary a paid liar, then you have a former aide to the president of the united states saying what he said about a suspected arsonist, darrell issa, it underscores how bitter, how angry even by washington standards this is getting very, very ugly. >> and the administration of course trying to get something done before the president becomes a lame duck president. wolf, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. good to see you. >> thank you. a former cop on trial accused of murdering his wife. the suspicious note found on the suspect up next. i don't make any decisions about who to hire

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a former kansas police officer is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife. his name is brett seacat. hers was vashti. and seacat accused of shooting his wife and then setting her body on fire. listen to his response in a police interrogation. >> did you murder her? >> no. >> did you pull the trigger? >> no. >> did you kill her? >> no! >> she told a friend a week and

a half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her. >> what! >> you threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it. >> that is bull [ bleep ]. >> our ted rowlands has been covering the case. joins us from kingman, kansas. ted, he seems pretty defiant there in that video. what is his defense? >> well, basically he's saying, suzanne, that his wife was depressed and that she did this herself. that she set the house on fire and then got in her bed and shot herself in the head. he claims that he was downstairs. and he had just been served divorce papers three days prior to this killing. he says he got a phone call from her on his cell phone saying get up here and get the kids. they had a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old. he claims he ran upstairs, saw the flames, ran into the bedroom, picked her up and realized she was dead, saw all the blood on the bed, dropped her and thought the kids. so he runs out, grabs the kids,

gets out of the house. and he calls 9-1-1 saying the house is on fire and my wife is upstairs. the prosecution saying that's fleet #complete mularkey. there's no way a woman is going to set her house on fire in three different spots, get back into bed, pull the covers all the way up onto her body and then shoot herself in the head. they say that this was a person that could not live without his wife. he had threatened to kill her before. and he did absolutely that. it's going to be a fascinating trial here. we're eight days into it. and the state of kansas is absolutely riveted on this. this is a law enforcement family, he was a cop, his dad was a cop, his brother's a cop. he's going to take the stand. and he's going to have to save his skin here because there's evidence against him that is very compelling. and we expect the prosecution to finish their case up in the next few days. we expect him on the standby the end of the week. >> ted, fascinating. we're going to be following that case very closely. thank you, ted.

appreciate it. watch this, homes, schools, even churches now reduced to rubble after a terrifying tornado hitting oklahoma. up next, our own nick valencia just came back from a tour of a school where students had just minutes to run for cover.

sadly, this is a familiar routine now in oklahoma. this is cleaning up recovering from tornadoes less than two weeks after the city of moore was hit, there's now a series of

tornadoes that slammed the state again. it happened on friday night. 14 people died. crews still searching for the missing. our nick valencia, he is in el reno, oklahoma. nick, i understand you came back. you just returned from this vocational school that was destroyed. tell us what you saw. >> yeah. hey, suzanne. we just came back from the school behind me. you can tell it took a direct hit from that ef-3 tornado. in fact, i took a tour with a teacher, larry fisher, whose quick thinking probably saved the lives of 15 students. in fact, he took us through, it's no electricity in there, it's completely dark. and just to speak to how dangerous it still is in there and how unsafe, just about 30 minutes ago we saw police vehicles pull up with their lights on. and i went to go talk to the superintendent of the school. he told me that an insurance worker fell and broke his arm trying to get to another part that was unreachable inside the rubble. so it's still very unsafe in there. crews as you can see are still assessing the damage, still cleaning up. it's estimated, suzanne -- it's

estimated this is about $40 million of damage. this is a vocational school, technology school, they teach aviation. in fact, larry fisher said he was teaching a class on how to reload weapons when the tornado hit. and because the information that they got initially was that this tornado was on the other side of interstate 40, on the south side, they didn't think it was coming towards them. but because it was so wide at its base, suzanne, about a mile and a half wide, they took -- they ended uptaking a direct hit. a lot of them are lucky to be alive. they sure feel lucky today any way. >> this is a community, a state that over and over, time and time again they've had to deal with this kind of tragedy. how are they doing? when you talk to people, do you get a sense if they're exhausted here or that they're fortified? i mean, how are they coping at this point? >> exhausted, terrified, anxious, just ready for the severe weather to be over. it's as if this community seemingly can't catch a break when it comes to severe weather. in fact, we're anticipating

perhaps more thunderstorms later in the week, more heavy rain. and it wasn't just the tornadoes, suzanne, it was the flooding that caused problems as well. we understand now that there were several people that died as they tried to take cover in a storm drain. the flooding causing problems all throughout the roads in this area. but as i mentioned, suzanne, it's just an anxious community. you know, right now it's beautiful out, right? >> uh-huh. >> but wait five minutes they say here in oklahoma and the weather can change. there's a lot of people still very concerned about how the weather will change in the coming days. >> all right. nick, thanks so much. of course we should mention as well those three storm chasers who lost their lives chasing storms over the weekend. just an absolute tragic situation there. going out really in the eye of danger to try to warn people and educate them about these tornadoes, having lost their lives over the weekend. angelina jolie making her first red carpet appearance,

this is after having a double mastectomy after finding out she had a good chance of getting breast or ovarian cancer. she's now not stopping with one surgery. we'll have more information after a quick break. .

in turkey, what started as a protest over plans to demolish a park has now grown into something that is much, much bigger. watch this.

hundreds of students facing off against riot police. this is in ankara today. police eventually brought in armored vehicles. they fired tear gas and water cannons at the demonstrators and protesters say the bigger issue now is freedom of speech and what they see as heavy-handed government. the demonstrations have now spread to 67 of turkey's 81 provinces. and america lost an acting great over the weekend. ♪ the way glen miller played songs that made my hit parade ♪ ♪ we had it made those were the days ♪ >> those were the days. jean stapleton, loved her. she played edith on "all in the fami family." she died saturday in her new york home. she was 90 years old. stapleton won three emmys,

nominated another five times for her iconic role, of course, as archie bunker's wife. the show's producer and director norman leer paid his tribute saying no one gave us more profound how to be human being lessons than jean stapleton. good-bye, edith, darling. she was great. angelina jolie back on the red carpet after having a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. jolie decided to get a double mastectomy after learning that she carries a gene that sharply increases her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. her mother, also an act rees, died of ovarian cancer. 37-year-old got a bit emotional while talking to reporters saying she is grateful for all the support that she's now gotten from the public. >> i've been very happy to see the discussion about women's health expanded and that means the world to me.

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tonight in miami, it is the last game of the nba eastern conference finals between the heat and the indiana pacers. so you would think the focus would be on which team makes it to the finals to take on san antonio, right? but instead, it is the nba slapping a huge fine on pacers center roy hibbert. $75,000 for using profanity

including an anti-gay slur during the post game news conference on saturday. cnn's sports jarrett greenburg, he's got that and a lot more in the bleacher report. >> that mandated cooling off period from the time the game ends to when players are available to the media apparently not long enough for roy hibbert. facing elimination, hibbert's dominant on court performance spoiled by a homophobic post game comment. >> i really felt that i let paul down in terms of having his back when lebron was scoring in the post or getting to the paint because they stretched me out so mu much. >> hibbert found out it was no laughing matter, apologizing for the insensitive remarks. he was slapped with a fine for using inappropriate and vulgar language. he said it just after scoring 24 points and grabbing 11 rebounds and the pacers beat the heat to stay alive in the eastern conference finals, forcing a decisive game seven, which will be played tonight in downtown

miami. the winner advances to the nba finals against san antonio. weekend warriors, here is your chance to feel like tiger woods. second worst four-round tournament ever played by tiger on a course he has historically dominated. the defending champ of the memorial couldn't find the bottom of the cup. tied for 65th, carding a 296. that put him 20 shots behind this guy, the winner, matt kutcher, seals the deal here with this 20-footer. then it was his son supplying the ah moment of the weekend, high five from the legend jack nicklaus. kutcher moves up to the four spot in the world rankings. here say lesson in cameras are always rolling and it comes in at number three on bleacher report.com's lineup. during a rain delay, in last night's yankees red sox game, the stormy weather got a little too close for comfort from both teams. loud thunder nearby made the yankees almost jump out of their pinstripes. where are those teddy bears and

blankets when you need them? red sox did win the game, but after just five and a half innings due to the weather. for more, logon to bleacherreport.com. that's it for me. have a great afternoon. brooke baldwin takes it from here. a wildfire burning out of control, homes threatened, families evacuated. we'll take you live to the burn zone as firefighters are trying to battle these flames. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. chasing a storm. >> there are two tornadoes on the ground now. >> three storm researchers among the dead in the latest round of devastating twisters. >> this is the first time this has happened. i'm sure we're going to learn a lot from it. >> new questions surfacing about science versus safety. a swimmer swept away, a 19-year-old goes over a 600 foot waterfall in yosemite national