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california. jumping the interstate forcing drivers to abandon their cars. hundreds run into the mountains to escape the flames. also breaking this morning, new details about the gunman who killed four marines in tennessee. investigators now zeroing in on a trip he took to the middle east. ed we are taking you live to jordan in a search for the motive. and the entire gop field in iowa this morning. you know that's a lot of people. but with donald trump leading the polls, what can presidential hopefuls do to win over support? always good to have you with us. good morning, i'm christie paul. >> good to start a saturday with you, i'm victor blackwell. >> we'll begin with breaking news happening in the last hour. parts of california's freeway are reopening, but boy, not before some video that just took a lot of people's breath away. look at what was coming in here. this is actually just into the newsroom of the ground that is so intense, intensely covered with fire. that fight happening right now

in san bernardino county as fire officials are trying to put this out. at last check, some 3500 acres smoldering. only 5% contained at this hour. we are also following new information about the firefight itself. san bernardino's "sun" newspaper saying drones or unmanned aircraft in the area hindered firefight efforts yesterday. here was the scene yesterday, people running from their cars in san bernardino as that massive wildfire spread and took over cars. cars were on fire. a boat was lost. there were explosions. you could hear them, people were saying. and these are the charred skeletons of the vehicles lining the road. dozens were set ablaze and apparently several structures were as well. no serious injuries were being reported. we are in san bernardino county

this morning. paul, i want to ask you about evacuations. of those people out of their vehicles and running, where did they go? they were in the middle of a highway. >> reporter: they basically went right down this freeway that is now moving behind me. that's where they went. this is such a unique situation. what happened was the firefighters stopped the vehicles because they were fighting the fire. and that's what made them vulnerable to catching fire. all of us who have covered fires in the west have had moments where we have driven down roads with flames on both sides of us. but because the vehicles were stopped, it made them sitting ducks. and then the flames hopscotched from vehicle to vehicle, 20 in all. a boat, we also had a tractor-trailer and a car carrier, all of them catching ablaze. now as you pointed out, christi, no serious injuries. we heard about minor injuries to a firefighter, b this was only

one component of the story. the fire here on the 15 freeway, the blaze moved toward the mountain here in california. the san bernardino county has not talked much about this yet, but can you imagine driving the freeway and then next thing learning your home is threatened? we talked to one homeowner about what it was like to deal with all of this. >> it's been quite a hectic day. trying to get up the pass, i mean, phone calls come in to tell me about the fire. and it's been rather hectic but i guess ordered chaos, if you can believe that. >> reporter: as we have been talking about, four structures burned so far. a number that will probably go up. they say that's a mix of houses and so-called out buildings like a shed or barn or something like

that. victor? christi? >> real quickly, paul, have you heard about the report of unmanned aircraft or drones having anything to do with delaying firefight response? >> reporter: what i understand is i talked directly to the u.s. forest service. they were asking people to stop flying hobby drones. this is starting to become a huge issue. it did not ground any helicopters but the fear is that it would. and it was extremely important to get a lot of water on the fire. i'm sure we'll hear this time and time again. when firefighters tell us in california is they cannot risk a drone making contact with a helicopter because that will cause them to lose firefighter lives. so the warning is out there. if you see a blaze, don't fly your drone in hopes of getting pictures. you could hinder firefighting efforts. reportedly yesterday it did not stop anybody from getting choppers in the air, but it's a

major, major concern. >> wow, all right. paul, we appreciate the update this morning. thank you. our other top story, mourning four marines in chattanooga, tennessee. hundreds gathered at an interfaith memorial last night paying tribute to the fallen servicemen. officials and pastors called for healing and love in their community. meanwhile, electronics including a computer and cell phone belonging to mohommad abdulazeez are headed to the fbi's lab in virginia. investigators are trying to find any possible clues that could reveal a motive in this shooting. and for now the hunt is focused on abdulazeez's trip overseas. a friend of abdulazeez says, quote, something happened over there. and that abdulazeez wasn't the same when he came back to the u.s. sarah gannon is following the investigation for us in chattanooga, tennessee. sarah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,

victor. that's a big question this morning. we know that investigators are interviewing people here on the ground, especially people in nashville about two hours away from here in chattanooga where they searched his parents' home. nationals talked to people where this man worked. whether he might have had a second residence there, gun ranges also being talked to by the fbi. was he practicing anywhere? there's no trace of anything on social media, which is a place that the fbi often looks. now one of the reasons i bring up nashville is because he had taken off work and then traveled the two hours to chattanooga, was here for a visit, and that's when the shooting happened. cell phone video captures the intense gun battle between mohommad abdulazeez and

chattanooga police. officials say the 24-year-old engineering graduate had a handgun and two long guns including an ak-47 rifle when police killed him thursday. he was also wearing a vest to carry extra ammunition. >> some of the weapons were purchased legally and some may not have been. we'll examine that. >> authorities are trying to figure out why abdulazeez went on the killing spree leaving four marines dead and three others wounded. was it a lone wolf attack or terrorism? >> we'll continue to investigate it as an act of terrorism until the proof shows us otherwise. we will let the facts and the evidence lead us where it may. >> reporter: though officials say there's nothing to connect the attacker to isis, a long-time friend says he changed after spending time in kuwait and jordan. something happened over there. he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas.

the friend goes on to say, i'm sure he had something that happened to him overseas. and new details are emerging about ab dul /* dst abdulazeez's employer. he worked for a company for ten days and was dismissed. then on monday and tuesday this week he called in sick and was scheduled to be off wednesday and thursday, the day of the massacre. meanwhile, his father was the subject of a post 9/11 probe into donations he made to overseas charities. but the elder abdulazeez was never charged with a crime. and in 2009 abdulazeez's mother filed for divorce accusing her husband being physically abusive to her and her children. the case was dismissed. the family contact is always

important, victor, and a little bit of context from the divorce with the allegations of abuse were alleged, the father of the shooter agreed to go to counseling and then that divorce was essentially dismissed and the family is still together at this point. victor? >> sara gannon for us in chattanooga, tennessee. thank you. we know that he was not on a u.s. terror database. now we head to amman, jordan, where nick payton walsh is following that portion of the story. nick, what have you learned about the travels there to the middle east? >> reporter: will, we know for sure that danish officials are looking at a number of visits he made using his u.s. passport. he was born in kuwait and then

moved to the united states. he was last here in 2014 for a number of months. it is reported about as many as seven by the wall street journal. that's key as they try to precisely establish who he visited while he was here. we know he met with his uncle, but it is not a hotbed of radicalism by any stretch of the imagination. j there are some small pockets of radicalization here. did he met them? did he simply come here as a tourist to see his extended family. or as investigators are looking at closely, particularly given the fact he seemed to be in possession of a jordanian document, not uncommon of families like him to have that kind of paperwork to travel, but it appear that is possession could have been allowing him to travel elsewhere in the middle east. maybe yemen, that's the hotbed

of al qaeda where many people have been attacked in the past. or did he travel north to syria, that's an uncommon route for jihadists or towards iraq where isis has a strong presence, even back in 2014 when he was here. many questions to be asked specifically as they try to establish where he was in jordan. or many longer term observers are thinking, if there was a moment of radicalization, a key pivotal visit or conversation he had here, jordan isn't the kind of place you would expect that to occur. so we are looking to see perhaps where else he could have been to see here in jordan. >> nick walsh, thank you so much. who is the gunman who opened fire on a recruiting station in tennessee? as we talk more about the possible motive and whether it was isis inspired. we have a terrorism expert weighing in on that, next. plus, the gop taking on the

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big question this morning, how does a seemingly well liked, smart, charismatic young man become a cold-blooded killer? the fbi says mohommad abdulazeez's attack against the military center is being treated as terrorism a. >> there are too many targets called by isis to attack. in my experience, to my judgment, this was an isis-inspired attack. >> what triggered abdulazeez's act here? we have just heard that man believes it was isis related.

do you agree? >> yes, i believe this was isis inspired. we have to believe that this has moved on from just being al qaeda. it is not people going over there to get a green light to train and then attack. now it is through ideological guidance, weapons proficient strategies and they are basically groomed online to carry out acts of terrorism. that's the isis motive and strategy that it cuts out the travel. >> now we'll get to the travel in a minute because travel was an element in this particular situation. we know that he went to jordan, but when you mentioned online, the fact is -- and this is perplexing to a lot of people. he has no social media footprint. no account on twitter, on facebook, unless perhaps there was something encrypted. what do you suspect? >> it is possible that some of his activity was encrypted.

it is very easy to buy software to hide and mask your activity. but equally he doesn't necessarily need to have a twitter account but could be following people. other websites are heavily used by isis where people can literally write in, ask questions to isis fighters, they reply and give them guidance and give them indoctrination. it is a very simple tool. and it doesn't really leave much of a footprint. so often the incident is the starting point, but now these individuals are very clever in covering that activity. >> but don't people, as we have seen in many of the accounts in the past, they leak something. they want you to know why they did what they did. and that is a missing component so far in this case. what do you make of that? >> it is interesting that at the moment there hasn't been a specific bit of information to

understand the direct motivation. but i think the authorities over time, they find something. you did mention earlier about the fact that he had traveled abroad. now, it's possible that he had gone for family purposes or for other reasons. i don't think his intention initially was to get radicalized. but when he was there, it is possible he came into contact with individuals that gave him the starting point for the indoctrination process to guide him to websites where isis literature is there. and then when he goes back, he further pursues it. it doesn't necessarily require travel abroad, but often when people do, they do come back different. they change. >> yeah, and that is the focus of the investigation. his friend who lives in tennessee said something happened when he was over there. he never became close to me like he was before. he went overseas. what that something was, we'll just have to wait to see what the investigation reveals. but sergeant gohal, thank you

for your time and your insight. we appreciate it. >> pleasure. mystery at a texas jail. how did a woman arrested over a minor traffic violation end you wanted dead three days later? was it suicide as officials say? or is there foul play here? there's a growing call for answers. and in eastern iraq a deadly blast killed at least 86 people, wounded 116 others. we'll have more coming up.

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we have some breaking news as we have this just into cnn. we have just learned that a male navy petty officer who was wounded in the attack in chattanooga has just died. >> yeah. he died just after 2:00 a.m. this morning. and that brings tragically the number of dead in this tragedy that happened over the last several days to five. four u.s. marines, one sailor

killed in this attack. >> as investigators try to find a motive, they are also looking into the past of this shooter here, mohommad abdulazeez. they are trying to determine how a seemingly popular man described as charismatic, smart and popular could turn into a killer. cnn investigative correspondent drew griffin has more. >> reporter: mohommad abdulazeez grew up in this middle class area of chattanooga, four sisters as he was the only son. his parents are palestinians from jordan who moved to the u.s. and became american citizens. but there was turmoil inside the family home. in 2009 mohommad's mother filed for divorce claiming in court documents her husband abused her and the children and even threatened to take a second life in their, quote, native state of palestine. the suit was dropped and the parents signed an agreement that the husband agrees to not

inflict any personal injury, harm or insult upon the wife or upon any of the children of their marriage. abdulazeez went on to college and graduated with an electrical engineering degree in 2012. according to a resumé, he posted online he worked at several internships. it was during this time he was also traveling to the middle east. jordanian officials confirm mohommad abdulazeez had an extended visit in 2014. and a close friend tells cnn abdulazeez came back a changed man. he distanced himself, the friends said. and though they have known each other since they were 5 years old, he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. at a news conference friday, the fbi confirmed it was looking into abdulazeez's overseas traveling, his possible connections. but so far says there is no one else involved. >> we have no indication that he was inspired by or directed by any one other than himself. >> reporter: in the past three months abdulazeez took a new job

and moved to the nashville area. his most recent photo from a mug shot taken in april when arrested for dui. his friend just saw him last month. >> he was laughing and smiling and was talking, no problems. and another man saw him a day ago at a local store and was shaking hands, saying, how you doing? everything was fine. >> reporter: he returned to chattanooga this week to visit his family and prayed with them during this final week of ram dan. one told us he was here at this mosque just this past weekend. today, on one of the most festive days in the muslim year, the mosque is closed. a sign on the door states the families of the victims are in our thoughts and prayers. victor and christi, we want to say the muslim president community is reaching out to the president, to the investigators cooperating in any way that the

muslim community can to try to solve this puzzle. but right now at this moment there's no clear indication why mohommad abdulazeez did this. victor, christi, back to you. >> thank you so much. let's go now back to chattanooga to our sara gannon who is there. of course, breaking news tragically at the death toll increasing after thursday's attack. sara? >> reporter: hey, good morning, victor. yes, the navy confirming a sailor who had been wounded in the shooting has now died. this would be the fifth person who was injured and now has passed away after being shot earlier in the week, even though the navy has not confirmed the man, we know the name of the wounded soldier. his name was randolph smith. and his grandmother told cnn earlier in the week he tried to warn everyone around him as the shooting began but didn't get away fast enough. he was shot once in the ver,

once in the colon and once in the stomach. at the time we talked to her, she said the family was ecstatic he made it first through the night. but unfortunately, he did pass away. the navy confirming that. we'll give you a little bit of the human side of this, the memorial behind me is very active. a lot of people from this community coming to pay tribute, to pay their respects. also, behind the memorial, still a very active scene. the fbi walking, doing a foot search through the parking lot of the recruitment center where shots were fired before the now five people were shot and killed. it's still a very active scene here. still a lot of people coming to this area to pay their respects. and now this horrible news is that yet another person has passed away. victor? >> all right. sara gannon, i was there just yesterday, and there aren't people who just go up to the

flats and flowers. some kneel and pray, some cry, some sing, some come just to show their children. >> and that's powerful. >> i always wonder, what is that conversation when you bring a 6-year-old? what do you tell them? >> good yquestion. >> that is a good question. >> it's a hard thing to answer because we can't answer it ourselves. also new this morning, president obama is speaking out on the iran deal in his weekly address here and making his case for why he believes this will work. take a listen. >> i welcome all scrutiny. fear no questions. as commander in chief, i make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war. >> we'll bring in cnn's national

correspondent, selma safardi, what did the president say in his weekly address? >> his entire address was aimed to debunk all the criticism they have received on this deal in capitol hill and abroad. the president says there will be many dishonest arguments about the deal and did predict this would get overheated in the weeks ahead. but the president said he's ready for that. >> is this deal resolved all around the threats to neighbors in the world? no. does it do more than anyone has done before to make sure iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon? yes. and that was our top priority from the start. that's why it's in everyone's best interest to make sure this deal holds. >> the white house has launched an all-out blogging campaign on capitol hill but also know they need to shore up desupport for e deal abroad.

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is one of the most outspoken critics of this deal and they have a lot of reassuring to do. >> we know a lot of people are questioning republicans slamming that the president is owning the decision, but what is he doing maybe to try to sell it to republicans? >> well, they have had a series of public and behind closed doors briefings on capitol hill with many senators and members of the house who are disgruntled about the details of this deal. now a lot of people are looking to next week on monday. that's when the administration has decided to send the nuclear deal to the united nations security council to have their formal stamp, their formal approval on this deal. that would pave the way for eventually sanctions to begin to start being lifted. and a lot of senators and house members on capitol hill, they question that moving forward from that part of the administration. they don't want to see the u.n. security council get this deal before they have the ability to approve it.

here's what senator corker had to say. >> i look at that as an american front to the people. i look at that as a front to the american congress and house of representatives. >> reporter: and the sales pitch continues on wednesday. secretary of state kerry and energy secretary monique will be in front of the house and we expect a briefing to happen this week in the senate. >> sunlen, thank you, we appreciate it. almost all of the republican candidates for president will be in the state of iowa this weekend for a pretty important event. why? what's the event? and who is skipping it? in a moment. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit?

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in about an hour or so every republican presidential candidate except for jeb bush will be at the annual family leadership summit meeting in ames, iowa. now let's look at the latest fox news poll that has billionaire businessman donald trump leading by three points. even husband rival hillary clinton joked about the popularity of trump's hair last night. >> we have heard a lot recently from the new republican frontrunner, donald trump. finally a candidate whose hair gets more attention than mine. >> a cnn politics executive editor mark preston is in iowa

for us this morning. mark, i understand you attended that big democratic event last night. first time all five candidates on the democratic side with the same event. did any one fair better than another? >> reporter: it was interesting last night, victor, to see all five candidates on stage. hillary clinton, the presumptive nominee, had to be on stage with the likes of bernie sanders and martin o'malley. i tell you what, there was a definite play to the left. they were playing to their base. hillary clinton, many people think was a little bit to the middle too much. last night she talked about issues very important to liberals, which is very important in the state of iowa. >> so bernie sanders called for a, quote, political revolution. we know the numbers are good in new hampshire. we have seen the -- how close that race is. how were voters in iowa taking to that message?

>> you know, in fact, the clinton campaign, if you talk to some of her advisors, they are concerned bernie sanders could win iowa. iowa is a populist state. back to 2007, it was barack obama very much talking a liberal message and able to defeat hillary clinton here many the state in the 2007 or 2008 caucuses. so bernie sanders last night really drove home that populist message. and many people think, victor n the past few months hillary clinton has had to move to the left because bernie sanders has been pushing her that way in the support he's receiving from the liberal base. >> let's go to arkansas where donald trump, again, slammed his republican contenders. not contenders, competitors. let's watch. >> we don't like donald trump's tone. tone? no wonder they're dying. no wonder you look at jeb dying in the polls. he doesn't like my tone. >> does in work in arkansas?

does it work in south carolina and across the south? >> reporter: you know, victor, it's working now in the summer of 2015. the question is, is it going to work in january, february and march of 2016? donald trump skyrocketing to the top of the polls. certainly playing to a specific base right now. a base frustrated with the democratic rule in the white house for two terms, but i'm not sure the tone will necessarily work. today he'll have tough critics here at this event where we'll see ten republicans speak to social conservatives. donald trump has to try to sell his conservative message in just a few hours. >> mark preston for us there in iowa. thank you, mark. >> thank you. well, mystery at a texas jail. how did a woman arrested over a minor traffic violation end up dead three days late her? was it suicide as police say? was there foul play? there is a growing call for some answers here.

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that's the question her family and friends are asking right now. let me give you the backstory here. she was arrested after a traffic stop outside of houston last friday. well, three days later she was found dead in her jail cell. investigators say bland committed suicide. her family does not believe it. and they have a lot of questions here. and so do a lot of people on social media. the news of her death has gone viral. and cnn's ryan young is taking a closer look at exactly what happened. ryan? >> reporter: christi and victor, sandra bland was moving from chicago to texas to start a new job and to start a new life. then she was pulled over by police and everyone wants to know what happened to her after she was taken to jail. a traffic stop for an improper lane change leads to an intense struggle between sandra bland and a texas trooper. >> i just hit my head on the

ground. do you not even care about that? i cannot even hear. >> reporter: three days later after being taken to jail she was found dead in her cell. >> they went back to ask her to go outside for recreation and that's when the jailer found her, of course, immediately hit the intercom. >> reporter: texas sheriff officials say land took her own life. but there's a growing concern by her family and friends that something about her death doesn't add up. >> it is unimaginable and difficult for us to wrap our minds around the sandy that we knew, for this to be characteristic of her. >> reporter: a video from sandra bland's facebook page shows the young woman discussing her mental state a few months back.

>> i'm suffering from something that you may be dealing with right now, it's a little bit of depression as well as ptsd. >> she may have been suffering from some sort of menial illness. and that self-diagnosis is something that we are going to look at and consider with a motive for suicide. >> reporter: but for family members, the thought that sandra bland would commit suicide is something they are not willing to accept. >> based on the sandy i knew, that's unfathomable to me. >> reporter: her family from chicago has flown to texas and they want to talk to investigators. investigators now say they plan to talk to the family to give them the information they need so everyone can come to a conclusion about what happened to sandra bland. victor and christi? >> thank you so much. we'll talk to attorney walter madison representing the father of tamir wright in cleveland. you remember that story. but when you look at this one, then, walter, i'm curious, what

should bland's family do first? >> the family is very important in getting all the information and insist on transparency early. it is just unfair and unreasonable for the state of texas, in this county, in particular, with its history of racial inequities to hold on to that information. transparency really settles the nerves early. and the family, that's very important, if there will ever be any trust in the integrity of the investigation. >> are you surprised she was still in jail three days later? >> well, that's the part that makes all of this so surreal and outrageous. this is a simple traffic stop. and we do know, there's limited information available, but we do know that the officer, the trooper here was reprimanded for violating procedure. and there's reference to courtesy. >> he was reprimanded in this case for violating procedure?

>> that's what has been reported, that there's been a reprimand for violation of procedure initiating the traffic stop. and as reference to courtesy. and in all, officers will extend a courtesy, perhaps a warning to a person to, you know, observe traffic laws better. so we just don't have the room. and in this county, there's a 50-person jail. it's a small jail. there's only two cells per women. so obviously we are not interested in housing, they are not interesting in housing every traffic infraction that they should open counter. for this woman to end up in jail in the first place where any of this could happen is outrageous. >> and i've heard what is in question, too, is the arrest. look at the cell phone video again that was reported. let's listen hear to what was said.

>> i can't even feel my [ bleep ] arms. [ inaudible ] do you care about that? i can't even hear. he slammed my [ bleep ] head into the ground. for a traffic signal, thank you, thank you. >> what do you think when you watch that? >> what jumps out is officers have a care taking. and it is clear that she's injured, she can't hear. her head's been slammed on the ground. and i believe in the video at one point there were a couple officers, and then there was a bystander from a nearby barbershop who had an eyewitness account of what happened. you know, christi, it is also -- you know, i'm just thunderstruck by the history of waller county

where there's still segregation and are people are buried. >> go ahead. >> and how they would want to get out in front of this as quickly as possible. that history -- >> i know, it's so disturbing. listen, walter, i'm sorry to have to cut this short. we're running out of time here, but thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate you talking to us and we'll talk to you again about this, certainly. >> thank you. >> absolutely. just to let you hear the statement here, we do need to read the statement from the walter county sheriff's office, they say, any loss of life is a tragic incident and while the investigation is being conducted by outside agencies, the waller county jail will continue to observe the daily operations of the jail to always look for improvements and/or preventions of these incidents. we'll be right back.

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