doubling overnight. two people are dead. a sports bar deck collapses sending dozens into miami's biscayne bay. three people are in serious condition. how did something like this happen, details on a ree tune engine check gone terribly wrong. i'm christine romans. >> how does something like that happen? i'm don lemon in today for john berman, it is friday, june 14th. welcome to "starting point". >> the final edition of "starting point" come monday it's "new day" at cnn. we've never seen a wildfire quite like this one, the black forest fire is giving 750 firefighters more than they can handle. 400 homes burned to the ground and now two people who couldn't outrace the oncoming flames are dead. dan simon live from colorado springs this morning. we're seeing unprecedented damage from the fires and the threat is far from over. >> reporter: by no means, christine. the folks in this community did

get their first bit of hopeful news, this fire is slightly contained, it's a modest number, 5% but it shows the fire suppression effort might be starting to make a difference. meanwhile where we've seen the fire take homes over now it's been in a forested area but with the flames advancing towards colorado springs, it could put a lot more homes at risk. listen to the crackling of the flames. this just one of the 379 homes now reduced to rubble in what is now being called the most destructive wildfire in colorado state history. the black forest wildfire has scorched nearly 16,000 acres of land. its flames widespread, threatening neighboring cities like the densely populated colorado springs. >> it was extremely fast moving. i kept my family here too long because i thought we were safe and then next thing you know it was crossing the street to the south of us within minutes. >> reporter: the inferno moving rapidly is now deadly taking the lives of two people who were in the midst of evacuating.

fire officials say just 40 minutes after the victims started packing, the flames were on their doorstep. >> our hearts go out to their loved ones and our thoughts and prayers are with all the people who have been hurt by this fire. >> reporter: thousands fleeing their homes, and for some, like the coyne family, they're now facing the reality of losing their house. >> it was probably the worst thing i have ever seen in my life. you have that moment where you say is that really my house? >> reporter: 750 firefighters working tirelessly to contain the flames. and now we're getting a rare look from inside the fire lines. watch as air force academy firefighter braylen eubanks aids in the battle against the indper know. >> give me some water! >> reporter: working diligently alongside his team to extinguish the flames. to the south, the royal gorge fire threatens the iconic suspension bridge that has

hosted tourists for so many years, while up north, lightning has ignited a fire in rocky mountain national park. you got a whole bunch of people displaced by this fire, 40,000 people have been evacuated, it's basically impossible to get a hotel in this area and no one knows when things will return to normal. it's obviously contingent on the fire fighting effort and the wind. christine? >> dan simon, thanks. high temperatures continue out west making things very difficult for the crews who have to fight those wildfires in colorado, but what about those storm systems that have been spinning off tornadoes across the country? indra petersons is here with a look at the forecast. >> from one case of bad weather to another, it seems to be the story it never really ends. the huge storm system we've been dealing with the last 48 hours notice the lightning we saw overnight in the south this system finally lifting out to the northeast, moving offshore. unfortunately on the back side we're dealing with a lot of wind but nothing like we saw.

look at the wind reports, look at the total, 645 of them, that is downed power lines, downed trees, we saw all of this damage yesterday and people are still without power this morning. we take to you the west and show you why we have a hint and i mean a tiny hint of recovery in colorado, we're seeing a little bit of moisture moving in the air. unfortunately, it's really not enough. it is so dry a lot of this moisture is only at the upper levels and for that reason there wille thunderstorms in the mountains, of course the lower levels a lot of times that dries out. overnight, about 40% in the overnight hours best chance for the firefighters to get a grip on this. by the afternoon we're talking 15% again, bad conditions there, very dry conditions for the next several days. unfortunately there are thunderstorms moving through, high elevations will be dealing with it. the lower levels the strong winds and dry lightning. dozens of people injured, three critically after a

terrifying deck collapse. the waterfront deck at shuckers was packed with people watching the nba finals game, people were sent into the shallow waters in biscayne bay. cnn's john zarrella, i can't imagine how surprised people must have been celebrating the play in the game. >> reporter: one minute you're cheering for your home team and the next minute you're in the water and people are falling on top of you, one after the other, toppling on top of you. authorities say about 100 people in all may have been involved, 24 of course about two dozen of them injured. we still have reports of two, possibly three people in critical condition, but the good news, no one is missing. now you can see behind me the deck there and everything collapsed in the water, the tables, the chalz, the railing, potted palm trees, fans, light posts, everything, and people underneath all that debris, on top of that debris and patrons

inside the restaurant say all of this happened literally in an instant. >> we were sitting there enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming. we didn't know where it was coming from. >> we were walking into the back area and it was more of what we heard rather than what we saw. first we heard like a crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to see the heat game and many of them got hurt, we were coming from the beach we saw all of these lights so it occurred to us to figure out what was going on or wonder what was going on so we noticed it was close to our hotel and we were actually notified by some kids that the rooftop was opened so we got access to that and i was able to record this. >> reporter: couple other things that certainly benefited the rescue efforts was the fact that the water is very shallow here and there is a fire rescue unit

less than a mile away. now of course the next step is going to be for investigators to start figuring out what went wrong here, were there too many people on the deck or was it something else that caused it to collapse. christine? >> so at this hour we don't have any idea why the deck collapsed. there were reports 100 people were on it at the time. could it have been overcapacity? >> yes but a lot of people who come here often say whenever there's a big event, a sporting event on television here whether it's the heat, the dolphins, whatever it might be, that dock is always packed and there's always a lot of people and it wasn't a number of people on there any more than there have been in other times so we're just going to have to wait and see how this all shakes out over the course of the investigation, but it will probably be sometime before we have an answer. >> thanks, john. let's talk more about the investigation. i bring in lieutenant eugene jermaine from the fire

department. i understand we get new numbers of people, 33 people hurt, two seriously, right, lieutenant? >> that is correct. we had a total of 33 individuals, victims that were hurt on the scene. we actually transported 24 victims to area hospitals. >> let's talk about capacity. was this deck overcapacity? >> at this time, north bay village police department is already commencing with their investigation and they won't know any information probably for some time. >> so this particular deck, this particular business, were there any complaints, any structural problems before? >> we were not privy to any complaints or any information as with all the different commercial properties in that area, the fire department does an annual assessment. if anything would happen we would be able to respond to meet the needs of the individuals

involved. >> lieutenant eugene jermaine of the miami-dade fire department thank you very much for that. it was really not many people got hurt, or at least no one drowned because the water was so shallow. quite surprising there. we'll continue to follow the story. straight ahead on "starting point," a confirmation of the worst kind the administration says syria used chemical weapons on its own people. now pressure is mounting on the white house, so how will president obama respond, and look at this video, how does something like this happen. the story behind a routine engine check gone horribly wrong.

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welcome back, everyone. let's talk syria now where the white house says now it is clear syria used chemical weapons, including sarin nerve gas on its own people, killing as many as 150. the big question now, how forcefully will the white house respond? the pressure on the president

building. barbara starr has more. >> reporter: the obama administration is confirming what was feared that the syrian regime used chemical weapons multiple times. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or utilized. that would change my calculation. >> reporter: pressure is growing on president obama to act. >> i applaud the president's decision and i appreciate it, but the president of the united states had better understand that just supplying weapons is not going to change the equation on the ground for the balance of power. >> reporter: the white house says it will give military support to the rebels but won't say how. leading option arming the rebels, desperately needed ammunition and rifles and machine guns and new shipments

of machine guns, shoulder-fired weapons to attack tanks, artillery, helicopters and jets and mortars and rockets. the white house does not plan to put u.s. troops on the ground in syria and is far from ready to commit to a no fly zone. >> the question is, what is going to make a decisive difference now, and is the administration willing to do that or is this kind of a throw some guns that way and pretend you're doing something when it's not going to make a difference. >> reporter: the stakes couldn't be higher. >> it's important to us because of the tremendous number of chemical weapons that are there and if these weapons get in the hands of the al qaeda related terrorist groups, they will certainly be used against europe and against us. >> reporter: the white house announcement comes after word that former president bill clinton is now siding with mccain, calling for tougher action. according to politico, clinton said at a private event with mccain, "some people say stay out.

i think that's a big mistake." so let's say the president does decide to go down the route of at least initially supplying ammunition and weapons, a very limited option, military commander also tell you, christine, limited action may be very tough. what if assad ups the game, then you have to go all in, don. let's turn to candy crowley cnn's chief political correspondent and host of cnn's "state of the union" airs 9:00 a.m. eastern on sunday. the white house disclosing dates sarin was used from mid march to mid-may. why now? haven't we known the red line was crossed or they needed verification? >> they needed verification. other countries said the preponderance of the evidence tells us this has happened but the president ordered a review and said i realize that there's some evidence but i want more.

they finally got more evidence that in fact sarin gas in particular but chemical weapons have been used. they're not totally sure about a death count but they say 150 to 200 people died in the chemical weapons died, there might be more. that's the precipitator. the president talked about the red line being crossed and they now have proof that red line was crossed. the question is whether as you heard barbara's part, whether this is too little right now. >> also what do you do next? wednesday night president clinton argued the u.s. should get involved in syria. he was at an event closed to the press. he didn't give specific examples of what should be done but reportedly he said "some people say okay, see what a big mess this is, stay out. i think that's a big mistake. i agree with you, senator mccain, about this, sometimes it's best to get caught trying as long as you don't overcommit."

does that force the administration's hand? >> i don't think so. i think obviously when the former president says this, it carries a lot of weight, the administration by the president's own definition of a red line had the evidence that it had to move. the question is, that's a pretty general statement by former president clinton. there are lots of things, what is overcommitting? you're now hearing john mccain say we need someone to take out syria's ability to bring in these arms coming from iran. basically get rid of the airfields. we need someone to do the no fly zone similar to something that happened in libya to keep all of the help from coming in, so the question is how far do you go? right now it seems the administration only at least publicly or at least on background is saying weapons and ammunition, but critics have said they should have gotten in a lot sooner saying they need more. they're losing on the ground and they're going to need more.

it's not enough to give them small weapons and ammunition. they need to have some major help in keeping out the help that syria is getting from iran, from hezbollah, and certainly from russia. >> at this point does this white house have just a host of different scenarios and they debate what to do? you also don't know how the assad regime would react to any kind of u.s. input in the region. >> well, not to mention the bashar al assad is still recognized as the leader of syria so you're really taking on something when you're trying to oust him but this administration has been on the record for about two years saying this guy has to go. it is a constant push and pull inside the administration. there were many who last year and the year before had been trying to push the president into helping some of the rebels. the president has been very reluctant to do so. they're all bad options, they really are. this is a mess over there. the president is very reluctant

to get into another entanglement in the region. on the other hand, this is something where there are national security reasons to see a stabilized syria and there's a place where there is not so much iranian influence and again with the hezbollah element is very troubling to this administration. so absolutely no good options. they will constantly now be talking about well what types of things should we have? should we do this or that? should we have a secure zone in the north. >> rebels want air cover and arms aid, we'll see if the white house says this has changed, the president's calculus has changed. thanks. to iran where voters are going to the polls to elect a new president. the interior ministry says turnout is high so voting hours are being extended. six candidates are vying to replace outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad who is barred from seeking a third

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oh, it says john, but there is no john. john is not here. welcome back to "starting point". i'm christine romans. >> and i'm don berman.

i'm don lemon. we've been joking around this morning. >> this is the last edition of "starting point". >> but not "early start". >> "early start" stays from 5:00 to 6:00 and so does john berman. >> just is don is just here for phone. new questions about the disappearance of an ohio toddler. the mother of the 18-month-old is under arrest. we have pamela brown to give us details of this story, just an 18-month-old angel of a little girl disappeared, the mother under scrutiny. >> so many unanswered questions. the mystery tnds around the disappearance of an 18-month-old baby. little girl's mother was taken into custody shortly after a search for baby elena disappeared. 25-year-old angela stein furt in court thursday, she's charged with felony child endangering of

18-month-old alayna. >> i need all the support i can get to get her home. >> reporter: the toddler disappeared almost two weeks ago when her mother says she put her down for a nap. her estranged husband said he came for a custody advise wit his two daughters. at first angela refused to hand over alayna, when she did agree alayna was gone. family members say the mother's story doesn't add up. >> she doesn't know where the baby is at or who took the baby. personally from what i viewed of her i don't think she showed any emotion of it. >> reporter: investigators believe the child may have been hurt. >> it was known to us that the baby was injured at one point. she was aware of it and did not seek medical attention for the baby. >> reporter: volunteers have scoured the neighborhood, the streets are lined with posters with one goal, to bring baby alayna home, but so far, no clues. >> we do hope the child turns up alive. right now it's a mystery. we don't know what happened to

this little girl so the mother cannot be charged for example with murder because no body, no case. >> reporter: bond for steinfurth is set at $250,000. and police confirm elaina is still missing. we don't know to what degree the baby was injured or how she magt have become hurt. the family believes it could have been the live-in boyfriend of steinfurth but police will only say the investigation will continue. we'll bring you the latest. >> and hope investigators get a break. thanks, pamela. south african president says nelson mandela's health continues to improve after spending nearly a week in the hospital. the 94-year-old mandela is fighting a recurring lung infection in the intensive care unit at a pretoria hospital where he remains in serious condition. president zuma asks those to pray for a speedy recovery.

35-year-old shannon richardson sent ricin to president obama and mayor bloomberg. she was arrested last week and claimed her husband did it. richardson faces up to ten years in prison if convicted. a routine engine check goes wrong. look at this video. >> whoa. >> now this jet will definitely need some repairs and so will the hangar. it jumped some blocks, rolled off the ramp and slammed into a hangar at an airport in california, three mechanics on board no injuries reported. one man is dead and 75 injured after a massive explosion near a chemical plant near baton rouge, louisiana. >> reporter: good morning, christine a day after that deadly explosion the road block is still up making it impossible for the media to get into that chemical plant but police tell us some workers have gone back to work and despite the

dangerous chemical smoke plumes sent spewing into the sky officials say this area is now safe. >> we were passing by on a delivery, saw big flames and ash shooting up, next we looked over the whole unit was engulfed in flames. >> reporter: the flames are out, the plant is secure but the cause of the blast that sent fire shooting high above this small louisiana community remains unclear. >> the chemical we think is involved is a highly volatile chemical but not one that would leave the fence line one would think clearly. so we think we're okay in that regard. >> reporter: the blast killed at least one person and sent dozens more to the hospital with injuries. even those who escaped unharmed left dazed. >> boom! like that. everybody started taking off running, chaos, jumped the fence, jumped the tables, went through the grass, buses running over people. >> reporter: at a nearby baton rouge hospital doctors and nurses treating the injured.

>> just the look on people's faces, the patients were just shell shocked. you know you talk to people as you take them out of the helicopter and one man said, we didn't even know what happened, we heard a loud boom and the next one was so loud i felt like my chest was going to cave in. >> reporter: while investigators continue to assess what happened here thursday louisiana's governor tried to reassure those affected. >> absolutely once the investigations are done, once there's a responsible party they'll absolutely be held responsible. >> reporter: a handful of people remain hospitalized this morning but good news we were at the hospital yesterday and one of the patients who were in critical condition was upgraded to fair condition. hospital officials told us this morning they expect more patients to be released later today. >> we certainly wish them well, thanks, nick. police in st. louis say a workplace shooting that left four people dead appears to be a murder/suicide. investigators believe the owner of ak home care was the gunman, a check of your valence tape

shows some argument took place inside the office shortly before shots rang out 1:30 thursday afternoon. semiautomatic handgun was recovered at the scene. the victims are described at two women and two men in their early 40s to mid-50s. day three of the trial of james "whitey" bulger gets under way today in boston. federal prosecutors plan to call as many as 80 witnesses. bulger is accused of murder, racketeering, corruption. prosecutors already played surveillance tapes recorded 30 years ago, showing him meeting with allegedly known mob figures. he spent 16 years hiding before being arrested in 2011. this is incredible video, this chinese hotel surveillance camera, capturing this man, the moment he smashes to the parent apparently from a five story fall. what makes this more amazing after the crowd gathers two men help him up and he appears to walk away without serious

injury. >> wow. all right in worth county, iowa, this amazing rescue caught on camera, along interstate 35 south of the minnesota border, a little girl in the passenger side of that suv, two women and a girl trapped after their suv went into a flooded ditch. >> torrential downpour with very heavy rains, poor visibility, poor conditions, this vehicle went off the road into a flooded ditch. several different fire departments worked together and were able to rescue them. >> wow. it took firefighters about 45 minutes to pull them to safety >> those kids weren't crying, didn't appear to be. >> everyone was very calm but indra petersons pointed out it takes six inches of water to take an suv or car and have it float so you've got to be careful. still ahead on "starting point," rupert murdoch's

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welcome back to "starting point". another power couple bites the dust, billionaire media mogul rupert murdoch splitting from his third wife wendi after 14 years of marriage. alina cho is following it all. >> good morning. talk about the ultimate power couple, in new york city rupert and wendi murdoch were the toast of the town, leading a very public and very fabulous life. then seemingly out of nowhere, nearly 14 years to the day after they married, rupert murdoch abruptly filed for divorce. the marriage of rupert murdoch and wendi deng was a partnership in every sense of the word. he the chairman of news corps,

one of the richest men in the world, she aged 44, nearly half his age, a glamorous third wife with a taste for high fashion and high powered friends, but this is what made wendi murdoch internationally famous. 2011, smacking a protester who tried to throw a shaving cream pie at her husband, as the media tycoon testified before britain's parliament about his newspaper's practice of phone hacking. the video went viral, earning her the nickname tiger wife. now their divorce first reported by deadline.com is front page news. this is rupert and wendi murdoch in happier times talking to piers morgan at this year's academy awards. >> how do you feel about cnn doing so well against fox at the motor? >> i think we're okay. >> reporter: the murdochs met in 199 at a newscorps party in hong

kong where the yale educated wendi worked at star tv. two years later the couple married on his yacht in new york harbor, they have two young daughters and all the benefits that come with being super rich. no word on what wendy could walk away with. murdoch worth $11.2 billion paid his last wife a reported $1.7 billion in what was billed as the most expensive divorce settlement in history. $1.7 billion, including $110 million in cash, by the way. those who know the murdochs say wendi was a huge influence on her husband, including his friends, his politics, even his clothes. those friends also say that they believe rupert genuinely loved wendi and to quote one, everyone is trying to figure out what went wrong. there were rumors over the years that there were marital problems but even those who know the murdochs very well say they were shocked, surprised by the divorce filing and we don't know

yet what prompted the split. >> especially after the 2011 courtroom incident. she strongly defended him. >> she was protecting her husband, the video went viral, made her famous. we'll see what happens. >> the dow was up 180 points, the second best day of the year for the s&p 500. and everyone was talking about this on wall street because he's such a business legend. >> $1.7 billion. >> $110 million in cash. >> i can only dream. >> yes you can. the heat guaranteed themselves a trip back to south beach with a win against last night against the spurs. >> andy scholes joins us now "the bleacher report." >> the heat's big three of lebron, dwyane wade and chris bosh came up back, combined to support 85 points and 30 rebounds. when they produce like that the heat they're a hard team to beat.

dwayne finally had a breakout game, 32 points and 6 steals as promised lebron led all scorers with 33 points in the game. the heat ran away with this one in the fourth quarter to win 109-93. miami they've still not lost back-to-back games since mid-january. absolutely amazing. the series tied 2-2, game five is sunday night in san antonio. bad weather continues to be a problem at the u.s. open. play was delayed twice yesterday due to rain. phil mickelson was one of the golfers able to get through his first round, a great first day shooting 3 under and did it with little sleep. mickelson was at his daughter's eighth grade graduation wednesday night in san diego and took a red eye to philadelphia in order to make his tee time, one shot back of the leader luke donald. tiger woods made it through ten holes, bogeys two of his first three but rallied with a 50-foot birdie putt on the 6th. tiger is on the course now wrapping up his first round. mariano rivera continuing

his farewell tour in oakland. the a's gave him a personalized surfboard and nice check for his foundation yesterday. that's where the pleasantries ended. this game went 18 innings, rivera on the ground when nate freyman hit the walkoff single. the best story of the week, 8-year-old lateef brock practiced with the redskins, pretty fast, near the end of practice, he goes in for the touchdown and check this out he's got the touchdown celebration dance down pat. here he breaks out into the bernie. his favorite player is robert griffin iii and rg3 has happy to help lateef's dream come true. >> i feel blessed he chose me to be the guy he wanted to practice

with. he's a pretty good athlete. i was playing with him a lot while everyone was doing the walk-through it was an honor to meet him and be around him. >> lateef had a successful kidney transplant in november and great to see him running around and being active. >> awesome, thanks, andy. ahead on "starting point" a brand new exhibit opening in los angeles has beatles fans buzzing, ringo starr cleaning out his closets and reuniting with his past, it is next on "starting point". [ male announcer ] when you wear dentures you may not know

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ringo starr is rock 'n' roll royalty. as the drummer for the beatles he was there for some of the biggest moments in music. some of the stuff he collected throughout his career. tori is live for us this morning in los angeles. good morning. >> hey, there, christine. what's pretty amazing is that ringo starr didn't know that he had all this stuff. apparently, his assistant really saved some of it without him knowing and other items were tossed aside. he showed us everything.

let's just say there was some surprises along the way. >> and you press -- >> right here? >> look how easy. >> a drum lesson from ringo? it happened when the rock 'n' roll hall of famer took him on a tour. from the outside everyone is looking on at the beatles and they can't imagine what it is like to have been one. >> no, they can't. i couldn't really ever explain it to you. >> but now fans can put the pieces together themselves. by looking at the man behind the music. his drums, wardrobe and even personal belongings. i love this here, this postcard you wrote to your mom. at the bottom. >> call me ringo starr. it wasn't getting through. >> you got your name by the

rings you're wearing. >> i did. in liverpool everyone sort of got a nickname. >> would you ever change the name you chose? >> no. >> never? >> no, i'm ringo. hello, ringo. >> this drum kit is from the beatles first american appearance in '64 on "the ed sullivan show." what do you think of when you see that? >> i think of an incredible moment of coming to america. even on the plane, you could feel new york buzzing. >> do you ever wear any of this stuff? >> yes, i wear them around the house. no. >> starr even drummed up and developed a book of negatives. these are all photos he's taken during the beatles' hay day. >> we're in the big, fancy hotel in paris and george is washing his hands and just took our shirts and do it like that. >> for those that are insmpired

poobecome drummers. >> you'll see my lack of talent. then, arguably the most influential drummer in all of rock 'n' roll crushed me. so, christine, i was looking at that and thinking, did this really just happen? i told him i was an athlete, not a musician. he said, i bet i could still beat you in a running race. that's where all of this stands. this exhibit will run through march of 2014. >> what a great inside look at his stuff and a walk down memory lane. thanks so much, tory. straight ahead here on "starting point" fire stroking fear in people in colorado. people wondering what they will find when they return to their neighborhoods. "new day" host michaela joins us. she has an interview with chelsea clinton.

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our "starting point" colorado wildfires spreading. the blaze virtually doubling overnight. two people are now dead and fire crews scrambling to get this wildfire under control. we'll be live in colorado. dozens sent plunging into biscayne bay when a deck collapses into the water. witnesses say it happened in an instant. michaela catches up with chelsea clinton. i'm christine romans. >> i'm don lemon in for john berman. thousands of homes and ashes. thousands fleeing for their lives and the most destructive wildfire to hit colorado raging out of control this morning. you're looking at live pictures of the black forest wildfe in colorado springs. wiped out 3 79 homes and sent people packing and now it has turned deadly. two people trying to flee the flames consumed by those flames

instead. trapped in their own garage. car doors open, tried to escape, but it was too late. well over 700 firefighters are trying to beat back this monster, but winds keep whipping making it almost impossible to contain. hundreds more homes are in harm's way right now. martin savidge takes us inside the fire zone. >> you can see over here to the west. >> reporter: up close to the aftermath of a killer fire. this is the first look from ground level at the neighborhoods hardest hit by the black forest fire. no roaring blaze, but the danger remains. ground crews work hot spots in front of million dollar homes while military choppers hover over rooftops. this ornamental pond became a convenient place to refill. >> we have crews everywhere where there's hot spots. >> reporter: the deeper we drive, the greater the devastation. here flames burn in ways hard to

explain. to the edges of some homes and incinerating others. despite the evacuation order, i found dale, a retired firefighter. he remained throughout it all when the flames got close, he fought with everything he had. >> so, i had some extinguishers i had to put that out and then it got going, again. i used buckets of rain water that had collected -- >> reporter: you got fairly desperate is what it sounds like. >> i was going to do whatever i had to do. >> reporter: he lost a shed, but kept his house. the heat on his street was extreme. you can see this modern art here created by the fire. these are newspaper boxes. maybe not surprised they melted, they're plastic. but this is a mailbox and that's metal. many of the houses here sat deep in the beauty and seclusion of the black forest. but in the fire, it was those

very trees that often doomed the home. >> and the reality is once it's up in the trees and moving, there's nothing the firefighters can do. now basically they're looking out for themselves. >> reporter: over 700 firefighters continue to work to contain the blaze. they include crews from towns just down the road, as well as far away. >> they kind of described you guys having your back against the wall. >> i don't know if i would go as far to say that, honestly. i don't think it was that bad, just doing our job. >> reporter: that humility is tempered with a simple understanding that the black forest fire is far from finished. martin savidge, cnn, black forest, colorado. >> for 38,000 colorado springs residents who had been forced to leave their homes, there's a feeling of complete helplessness this morning. most of them are waiting and wondering if anything will be left when they're allowed to return. finally allowed to return.

victor blackwell live from colorado springs. not knowing, victor, has to be agonizing. >> you're right. the sheriff's office has a team assessing the homes in these communities and a list of those still standing and those damaged and those completely lost and the number of homes lost is now up to 379 and every time that list is released, a few times a day, there are thousands of families here that search to find out if their home is still standing. dana hood is looking for something she does not want to find. >> hands are shaking. >> reporter: her address on the list of homes destroyed by the black forest fire in colorado springs. >> we've been kind of not knowing for a few days. yesterday we got an aerial view of the house and it showed it wasn't burned. >> reporter: tuesday alex and dana received a reverse 911 call from the sheriff's office alerting them of a mandatory evacuation. they packed up a few important things and left. >> we loaded that stuff up and got the dogs and their food and

got out of town. >> you and your wife and how many kids? >> five. >> five kids. the seven of them. their st. bernard jack and their 14-year-old black lab boris are living in a camper in the walmart parking lot just outside of town. >> kind of double back. >> they listen for updates on their neighborhoods with their new neighbors. the hood family is in this parking lot with more than a dozen other families in campers and there are parking lots like this scattered across colorado springs. but there is some help. a company offering free wi-fi and use of cell phones and people are dropping off pet food and offering showers. dana does not find their address, but she finds their street. the only houses listed on freman are on the total loss. >> how many? >> one, two, three, four, five, six. >> we are optimistic. now i have to start thinking a different direction. >> alex won't tell the kids

until he knows something for sure. but it's tough to hide his feelings. no. >> your wife looks at the list and it's hard to keep her from scrying and i'm sure at some point it's hard to keep yourself from crying. >> yeah. >> how do you do it? >> i'm dad. that's what dads do. >> there are tens of thousands of people who are in homes with their friends and family or in shelters in the community and i can just anecdote taani anecdoa that many of the hotels are booked. she asked the hotel if she could stay in it conference room and that's where her family is. so many families waiting to get back into their homes. don? >> thank you very much for that, victor. the scorching temperatures and the winds continuing to fuel these fires. >> out east, you have all of this rain and this other storm system battling out here. let's go to indra petersons for the forecast.

good morning, indra. >> that storm that moved off shore. you can see what we dealt with for the last 48 hours. huge storm system stretching from maine to the gulf states. look at all that lightning out there. not only that, many wind reports. we were talking about downed trees and power lines. look at that, 645 wind reports. so, primarily this huge, long-lived wind storm. now, i do want to give you an update on the fire. some moisture. a hint of good news and no red flag warnings in the area today and that is because some moisture is fueling and this looks better than it. water vapor satellite and a lot of the moisture higher up is not reaching the ground level. overnight hours they get recovery. 40%, 50% in the overnight hours. as we go through the afternoon with the heat and the sunlight, they drop down again to the teens. no help there, 17%. now in the area itself, not seeing strong winds, unfortunately, anyone around a wildfire these systems create

their own. even though mother nature itself is not creating those winds for them today. that's not going to give them relief. however, thunderstorms in the area today and tomorrow and the next couple of days and that is mixed news. adds a little humidity and it's not reaching the ground and for that reason really dry lightning and up to next week we're talking about drier weather and the threat of even more red flag warnings. >> thank you, indra. continue to fight the powerful flames still burning in colorado, residents are starting the difficult task of rebuilding their lives. karen and bill evacuated their home tuesday afternoon. wednesday morning their home was still in tact but by 5:00 p.m. that afternoon they saw it burning on the local news. karen and bill are joining me from colorado springs. thank you, both, for being here. i'm so sorry about the house. i really, just watching these pictures and seeing how ferocious this fire is and how quickly it's skipping across the trees. tell me when you were watching

the news, when did you realize it was your place? >> well, actually, our son and daughter came down the hallway and they said that, they just said, you know, dad, your house is burning on tv. so, we went back into the room. karen was out walking the dog and it was clearly our house. we could tell our landscaping and our outdoor furniture and it was tough to see the fire running down the roofline. but, you know, that's just how it was. >> some of those pictures of it just skipping, just skipping and lighting these homes on fire. been an incredible week of highs and lows for you. you have a brand-new grandchild, only one week old. congratulations. and then wednesday you get this news about your house. how are you holding up? >> well, it's definitely got its troughs and peaks.

when we think about our family, those are the peaks and when we think about the loss and the things that are in the house, routinely, that's a trough. so, the first day was especially hard, but i think that we're doing better by just kind of counting on ourselves and our family and now that we have something to do, that seems to really help. >> karen, tell me, you only had 45 minutes to pack up your house. tell me, what was it like leaving there? >> it was, honestly didn't think our house was going to go. you kind of think, oh, i'm going it be unpacking this in a week or so. but just grab what you can and i, i didn't do very well on clothes, but i think we did really good on getting some photos and living in colorado you get a lot of -- you do a very good job on briefing you, you know, be ready, have your

documents together and things like that. >> we wish you the best and wish you a great congratulation on your grandchild and best of luck to you as you go back and see what awaits you there. still, as they're fighting, 758 firefighters fighting this fire and still only 5% contained. >> hug that grandbaby. >> shows you things don't matter. but, you know, it's hard. very hard when you lose everything like that. >> it certainly is. now moving on. another tragic story. the nba finals when this happened. a packed water front deck at a miami sports bar dumping patrons into the shallow waters of biscayne bay. two suffered serious injuries. we want to go to john zarrella following every development. he is live in north bay village and only because that bay is so shallow they believe no one drowned, john. >> that's absolutely right, don.

that's one thing that benefitted the fire rescue units and the dive teams that came out here immediately responding. one of the fire rescue units less than a mile away, they got here very, very quickly. now, with first light, don. you can get an idea of what happened to that floating dock there behind me. literally collapsing in the center there. you've got the tables, the chairs, the potted palm trees and you have the railing and you've got -- every piece of debris and people were falling on top of that. the debris falling on top of them. obviously, a lot of panic going on and a lot of bedlam as all of this was unfolding. and patrons in the restaurant, as this was going down, really said it happened in a matter of seconds. >> we were sitting there enjoying the view after our dinner and we heard people screaming and we didn't know where it was coming from. >> we were walking in through the back area and more of what we heard rather than what we saw because, first, we heard like a

crack and then it was within seconds that the whole deck had collapsed into the water. >> a lot of people went to this bar to try to see the heat's game and many of them got hurt. we were coming from the beach and we saw all of these lights. it occurred to us, actually, figure out what was going on or wonder what was going on. we noticed it was really close to our hotel. we were actually not notified by some kids that the rooftop was open. we got access to that and i was able to record this. >> you know, it happened right about 10:00 and some of the restaurant workers saying that the people were standing up and cheering at a miami heat basket at the time of the collapse. and you might be able to notice, don, behind me there, coast guard boat patrol boat has just shown up here probably to keep any people from coming by and getting too close to it. people coming by on boats from the water. and perhaps doing a survey already of the damage and trying

to get at least a little bit of their arms around what happened here. of course, investigation just now getting under way and very likely to take some time to figure out what exactly caused that collapse. don? >> john zarrella, thank you very much. again, because that bay is so shallow, i remember very similar thing happened in philadelphia back in 2001 -- >> that's right. >> everybody fell into the delaware. three women drowned. very deep, very different situation. they were, i guess you could say, lucky in some instances. an 11-year-old nails the "national anthem" at the nba finals. why are so many people -- michaela sat down with chelsea clinton. will she give us scoop on her new show? next on "starting point." ready?

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the "national anthem" sung before a tipoff. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ >> he's so good. at the nba finals this young singer's stirring rendition of "star spangled banner" drew some surprising comments. here's mark mckay. >> please help me give a great welcome -- >> reporter: after being introduced by julian castro ahead of game four of the nba finals on thursday, sebastian de la cruz did what he does best. ♪ o say can you see >> reporter: it's rare that the same performer sings "the

national anthem" in back-to-back playoff game. >> when they first told me i was going to be doing "the national anthem" and my father told me, i was like, yes, another chance to show san antonio what i have to give them. >> reporter: his first appearance this week before game three of the series saw him targeted with taunts. not from the crowd, but on social media. why they got a mexican kid singing "the national anthem" daniel gilmore tweeted. how are you singing the national anthem looking like an illegal immigrant? "who let this illegal alien sing our national anthem?" a popular blog had hateful tweets. he was not going to let the negativity get him down. >> i think that the people were talking bad because of what i was wearing and it's not my fault. it's what i love.

and i'm just proud to be a mariachi singer and it's their opinion, actually. and if they don't like mariachi that's their problem. but i love it. ♪ and the home of the brave >> reporter: it was an encore that brought down the house, followed by congradlatory hand shakes from the two head coaches. all this for a young man who sent out his own tweet this week. i am an american living the american dream. mark mckay, cnn. >> it's true. that kid is the future, all those haters are the past. >> guess who is the winner in this situation? julian. >> listen to him a little bit. >> take it to break. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪

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good friday morning. welcome back to "starting point." stock futures are flat this morning, but you know the dow swung more than 100 points in eight of the nine trading daws in june. we saw that when the blue chips popped more than 200 points. smith & wesson are up. a record of high demand just comes on the sixth month anniversary of the newtown shootings. smartphones often the target of thieves and now government officials are calling on the manufacturers to install a kill switch that would render the phone useless if it's stolen. it's basically, wouldn't allow the device to be reactivated. the attorney generals of new york and san francisco met yesterday with executives from apple, google, samsung, microsoft. last year about half of the robberies in san francisco involved mobile devices.

the under 30 crowd is ditching credit cards and a new report from fico shows among 18 to 29 year olds, 16% of them don't have a credit card. that's doubled since the recession. this comes as young people deal with high unemployment and crushing student loans and also delaying big purchases like cars and homes. it means credit scores for 18 to 29 year olds are improving. because they don't have a bunch of debt sitting on their credit cards. >> finally. finally. getting better. okay. ahead on "starting point" chelsea clinton talks about her political future with cnn "new day" anchor michaela pereira. >> i never had a chance to do this. first time on cnn. >> we're going to talk with michaela after the break. i am an american success story.

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. welcome back to "starting point" i'm christine romans. >> i'm don lemon. since her mother stepped out of the spotlight the only child of the clintons has been making a name of herself. michaela pereira sat down with chelsea clinton to talk about girl power. >> chelsea clinton might just be the epitome of girl power. she credited her success to her mother hillary from supporting and encouraging her from a very early age. but her own achievements are not enough. she sees girls falling behind and she's determined to change that. >> we need, you know, hollywood

to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers at the fourth grade level girls at the same, same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics but by eighth grade that has dropped. >> reporter: what has >> they're not seeing role models they're seeing boy astronauts and boys start facebook or google and hard to imagine to see yourself as something you don't see, especially as a kid. >> reporter: her family's foundation supports ten by ten a social action campaign that produced the film "girl rising." >> i will read. i will study, i will learn. >> reporter: aimed at educating girls the world over. >> i'm grateful that it really is a global perspective. so easy it's to think that those are problems that exist somewhere else when in reality we have lots of challenges with girls and women, even here.

>> if you were to write an open letter to girls around the globe, what would you say to them? >> i was just in malaysia a couple weeks ago and one of the consistent themes was that every girl wanted to have her own dream. you know, even if she didn't know what it was. that she wanted to be able to write her own story and write her own script. >> it's perhaps that clinton is now married and 33 and stepping into a more prominent public role. her name is now officially part of the clinton foundation. >> we are officially renaming the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation. >> i'm just so excited to continue working with my parents. i always learned something from them and increasingly i learn with them and that's just such a privilege. >> chelsea graduated from sanford and currently pursuing a do doctoral degree but she doesn't

feel the pressure of her family name. you talked about the benefits you have of having two extraordinary individuals raise you as parents. did you feel an unbearable pressure to surpass or even keep pace with them? >> no. i think my parents did such a remarkable job which i'm more in awe of as mark and i start thinking about having our own children. my parents worked really hard to ensure that whatever could be made ordinary in my life really was ordinary. we had dinner around the kitchen table every night growing up, yes, in the governor's mansion, but, it was still around the kitchen table. >> for a family that has been through decades of campaigns, the clintons are extraordinarily close. just this week, chelsea gave a touching speech about her father as she presented him with the father of the year award. he said that day, i believe, that you were his crown

achievement. >> i hope i can help him feel that way every day. >> chelsea feels a special calling to reach out to girls and women, specifically. crediting her relationships with her mother and especially her grandmother dorothy rodham who passed away in 2011. >> my grandmother was a huge part of my life and still remains a huge part of my heart and how i think about my life and she put a lot of positive pressure on me to do more and i think particularly after her passing, i felt like i did need to be doing more. we had a responsibility change. she said particularly the girls in my family and i'm proud to have her genes kind of quite literally and philosophically. >> a lot of people are speculating coming from your mother's account recently this could mean something about her political future. how would you feel going out and campaigning for her? >> i'm bias towards her because i think she's just awesome in

every way. she emplifies and supports and advocates for so much of what i believe in. i will support whatever she does in the foundation or beyond. >> michaela joins us now. your inaugural interview on cnn. >> she has a responsibility gene. >> i found that so fascinating. she is clearly driven. i was trying to find out what makes her tick. she is motivated from within. two extraordinary parents. she's shied away so much from the media, but, lately, and i think it's the influence of her grandmother's legacy that allowed her to understand that she has this tremendous legacy and this tremendous name and so much work she could be doing. >> that was just a short part of the interview that is going to run on "new day." >> on "new day." >> you're here for a new show that starts on monday. >> thank you. very exciting. we're busy working behind the scenes and the team is

assembling. brand-new set being built and kate, chris and i are bonding. it's been fantastic. >> you spent a lot of time in l.a. covering a lot of different stories. nine years -- >> nine years at ktla. >> all i have to say is that kate and chris had better watch out because you're a fireball. i never knew what was going to come out of your mouth. >> well, you know, it was a very different show. a lighter show than i think you will see on cnn. let's be honest. i don't think we'll see kate and chris, although you have to watch the two of them. i have to step in and be switzerland once in a while. those are like brother and sister. >> they have a strong opinion. they both seem very goofy and people don't realize how goofy they can both be. >> wicked sense of humor. >> you may not know that we're going to show this. this is 1994. >> this was not run through -- i do know about -- >> this is your first. is this your first time on tv? >> don lemon, i thought you

liked me. >> tell this story. >> an afternoon magazine show. this is how i started my career it's called "check around" in 1993 -- >> look how baggy we wore the sweatshirts. >> they didn't make sweatshirts for girls. or t-shirts or golf shirts. this was a lot of fun. this is where i learned that i loved talking to people and getting them to share their stories and all these years later, i'm still able to do that. >> you were a natural when you started. >> there will be pay back. >> you're mad at me already? >> i love you. we should also point out "girl rising" that is part of the initiative that cgi supports is running right here on cnn 9:00 p.m. on sunday telling terrific stories of young women around the globe. the importance of educating them, i hope you'll tune in. fantastic, fantastic film.

>> christiane is going to come on and talk about "girl rising." >> you'll have to show old video of her. >> can we work on that quickly? >> you're happy to be here. >> thrilled. i have taken the subway, i had a slice. new york city is a great city. let me tell you. >> are you moving uptown with me? i heard you're looking in my building. >> your building? there might be a rule against that. >> michaela, so great to see you. it will be super fun. >> i have to tell you, i have to tell you, i love watching you. her personality is infectious. so, congratulations. >> thank you. thrilled to be here. >> i hope everybody tunes in. we'll be right back. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals

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the most destructive wildfire ever to hit the state of colorado has turned deadly. 750 firefighters are on the front lines this morning, but they are no match for the wind fueled 15,000 acre black forest fire. 379 homes already burned to the ground. 38,000 people forced to evacuate and now two victims have been found burned to death. they were trying to flee their house and overtaken by the fast-moving flames. they were found in their garage, car doors open. one man dead and 75 others recovering following a massive explosion at a chemical plant. authorities asked people as far as two miles away to avoid exposures of potentially toxic fumes. cause of thursday's blast is now under investigation. this is a story involving a self-proclaimed psychic and now a judgement of $7 million. a bizarre case alleged defamation and filing false

reports. pamela brown reports it all started with a shocking allegation made on a 911 call. she is here with more on this very, very strange story. >> yeah, as you said, it all involved a mysterious mass grave yard and now millions of dollars owed to a couple and all stemmed from a very misfortunate 911 call from a psychic. >> do you have an emergency? >> i need to talk to someone -- >> reporter: it was this 911 call of a so-called psychic claiming children's bodies were buried behind a farmhouse. >> i am a reverend and a psychic. souls and spirits talked to me and there were 32 of them that told me, they think these kids are there. >> reporter: it led to a crush of cameras converging on this house in tiny hardin, texas, near houston. >> if your child was missing and we received information involving any type of children, you would certainly want your

local law enforcement to investigate it. >> reporter: the fbi was called in to investigate. the lives of the family that lived here turned upside down, but in the end, no bodies turned up. not uncommon for psychics to work with police, but in this case, the couple's attorney said they'll never be repaid for what they went through after gridly's tip. >> they had to remove themselves from their home. they literally have had to sequester themselves. they don't even like to tell people where they moved to. >> reporter: the prediction comes with a hefty price tag. a judge is now ordering gridly to pay $7 million for defamation to the family. you may recall celebrity psychoing silvia brown also came under fire after claiming this on the "montel williams" show about amanda berry. >> don't think i'll ever see her again. >> yeah, in heaven, on the other side. >> reporter: ten years later berry was found alive. for gridly, a costly lesson not

even she could see coming. >> and the couple's attorney said they have moved and will never be able to return to their home after this ordeal. they haven't been able to make contact with her and still trying to recoup the money owed to them. $7 million. >> wow. just one call to 911 totally upsetting the family. pamela, thanks. cooking up a plan to save lives through the use of fuel efficient and smoke-free stoves in this edition of "cnn heroes" we meet nancy hughes. >> reporter:. >> people have no idea that cooking kills people. indoor air pollution is estimated that it kills millions of people every year. a mother who has got a baby over an open fire, that's the equivalent of that baby smoking packs of cigarettes every day. after my husband died of breast cancer, my life changed because i volunteered with a medical team in guatemala.

dollars who could not put tubes down the baby's throats because the throats were so. this is what they're breathing. their lungs are like this inside. i thought we need to change this. my name is nancy hughes and i work to save lives and save forests by providing fuel efficient stoves to the world. the stove is called the ecocina. it is safe. it's cool to the touch. it prevents the creosote build up in the lungs and contributes to better health by preventing skin diseases, eye diseases and also you don't have to cut down trees. you can use small branches. it's kind of a little miracle. we started six factories in five countries. we wanted to give employment in the areas where there's poverty. those factories that we started have produced 35,000 stoves. i'm addicted to this. the first year i went to latin

america eight times on my own nickel. there are a lot of women and a lot of children who are breathing a lot easier because of the ecocina stove. i'm 70 now and this is what i do in my "retirement." >> wow. changing the world. thanks so much. ahead on "starting point" the quest for an education told through nine remarkable girls in nine different countries. "girl rising" a cnn documentary airs this weekend. you're watching "starting point." >> we have come to the house of her master to say you must set her free.

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2010 earthquake. amid the devastation, wildly wants nothing more than to return to class. >> she could not remember how her and her mother got near the open field near the university. it was still the dry season, but wild flowers no longer bloomed. in the tent camp, she often heard the most of the adults say ashes to ashes, dust to dust. this they said when they were finally resigned to the fact that their missing loved ones would never be coming back. life tried to return to normal, except now her mother roamed the city during the day, looking for friends and family from whom to seek help. and instead of school, she went to the water fountain with a bucket.

every day as she passed through the camp and the ruins of her neighborhood, she thought about school. sometimes, as she walked by the rubble of the school itself, she thought she heard the voices of her friends reciting the lessons that she now missed so much. >> chief international correspondent christiane amanpour joins us and this issue, by the way, good morning, by the way. this issue of girls and education and it's good to see it being profiled in this manner. >> a group of colleagues, friends of mine that made this film and it is remarkable. you saw this young girl was from haiti and they have kids from all over the world and you heard her story. they paired a leader in their

field with a young girl and they're telling each other their story. it's a very different way of telling this. all over the world i covered this story whether it's in haiti, afghanistan, africa, wherever it is. girls want to be educated and so do boys. just inside of them. they're desperate. they know their escape from poverty and into some sort of future. >> if we could take better care of our girls by giving them education, the storyline changes. >> simply no doubt about it. you can take any indicator and any report, whether it's the u.n., whether it's microfinance. you, yourself, working the economy. you know with each extra year of primary and secondary education a girls earning power and a nation's earning power jumps up by a certain percentage. 35 million girls are not in school right now. imagine that. if girls were equally empowered with boys, the whole world would be lifted. all the facts and statistics show it. it is truly a no brainer and, yet, so many girls are denied the basic right of education.

sometimes violently. sometimes simply to the ignorance and poverty of their parents and sometimes because they have to be the breadwinner even at the age of 4 or 5. >> you wrote an open letter to girls on cnn.com. what did you say and what did you hope the impact would be? >> i said, look, we're a planet of 7 billion and half of us are girls and in so many parts of the world girls and women are not being fully empowered and that has an absolutely dramatic impact in every indicator. the economy, health, the environment, everywhere you look. peace, for instance. even in peace forging, women are often so empowered in that way. so, these girls want to go to school, they just do. and parents have to be able to do that. they have to be some kind of ability to send them to schools and all these places. if you just look, for instance, in the arab world which is rising right now, we know that because of the laws and because of the islamic misrepresentation of what should be done with women, many women are not

allowed to fulfill their potential and, therefore, these countries with such rich, natural resources are unable to fulfill their potential because half the population is kept down. >> some people see these as international stories, but it's not an international story. this comes right back to the united states completely. >> exactly. the thing that i've learned even here in the united states and we all know this, all around the world, kids really want to be in school. they don't want to be out so-called having fun or playing trnt or, you know, not being in school. they want to be in school because people know whether girls or boys, frankly, they know that education is their way to a future and their way out of poverty. as we say, we all know that that makes a difference. >> i love that you say that thriving society starts with women. i love that and, of course, we're going to watch "girl rising." can we talk to you because you're iranian born. >> i am. >> the elections going on. >> women could vote, but women could never stand for president.

>> they can't stand for president. women are allowed to do a lot of things they're not allowed to do in saudi arabia, in a court they're worth only, in the legal system, they're only worth half the value of a man. put that aside, an election today that is incredibly important for the united states. however, it has been stacked very heavily. the deck is very heavily stacked. banned any kind of, you know, threat to the regime. any kind of reformist candidate. there is a reformist candidate who is running. we'll see if he benefits from a last-minute surge. but what everybody wants to know is, what will the next president mean in terms of not only in terms of iran's economy and the people, but how will they react with the united states and the west particularly over the nuclear program, which is the big crisis. >> watch it very closely. >> nice to see you this morning. >> of course, make sure you tune in to the film "girl rising" this sunday june 16th. june 16th this sunday, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. final block of "starting

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how did i get the assignment? today is the final edition of "starting point" and i have to say i'm kind of sad that john berman isn't here with us, not only because i didn't get any sleep this morning but because he has over the last few months has been very busy during the commercial breaks. i want you to watch this. >> romans, what is your favorite lionel richie song? christine romans, what is your favorite amusement park ride? >> roler coasters. >> christine romans, what is your favorite dance? christine romans, who is your

favori favorite -- >> christine romans, weekend plans? it's 5:21 in the morning, do you know where your co-anchor is? look, no christine romans. romans, what is your problem today? >> too many to name just one. >> what is your favorite christopher cross song? romans, what color would you say your suit is? >> jolly rancher orange. >> will anyone own up to be the one snoring in the bathroom? christine romans, last four-hour broadcast together, how do you feel about that? >> relieved. >> she's very happy. >> he has been torturing me for like two months. torturing me every day. >> who is the most nagging anchor you have ever worked with? >> john berman. he once said to me, don't talk

to me. i don't like people right now. >> i tweeted out this morning, i'm really mad at john berman because he's sleeping right now. and i'm not. >> poor berman is still going to get up early because still hosting "early start." he will be on the air at 5:00 a.m. he will also be a new part of "new day." cool stuff and chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira, it is going to be a heck of a lot of fun. >> thank you for being such a great co-host. >> you, too. "newsroom" continues now with brianna keilar. >> thanks, guys. happening now in "newsroom" sudden collapse. a packed miami sports bar tosses dozens into biscayne bay. a massive colorado wildfire doubles in size since this t