>> that's right. it has to do with two other people who are charged in connection with the case against jerry sandusky. you remember the two former penn state officials are currently charged with perjury in connection with allegedly lying to the grand jury about what they did or didn't know about allegations involving jerry sandusky. that trial has not happened yesterday. but those two former officials are tim curley and gary schultz, a former vice president at penn state in charge of police investigations on campus. cnn obtained court documents filed late yesterday that indicate the possible existence of what you could call a secret file not previously known to anyone until now. now it has been obtained by the pennsylvania attorney general's office looking into the perjury case about what penn state

officials knew or didn't know about jerry sandusky. this court document indicates -- it says that the attorney general has now obtained a file relating to incidents involving jerry sandusky, specifically, it says, the file was created, maintained and possessed by gary schultz, documents that are inconsistent with statements made to the grand jury. and it also talks about they have now obtained and found computer data, e-mails between schultz, curley and others at penn state university that appears to contradict statements made to the grand jury. this could be big information about possible information that penn state officials may have known and not previously reported about previous incidents involving jerry sandusky. ashleigh? >> all right, susan candiotti, keep an eye on things. we'll check in with you

throughout the program to see what's happening on the stand, victim number one expected to testify, tell his story, this after victim number four yesterday. we will check back in in a moment with susan candiotti. eric holder on the hot seat today. our attorney general appearing before the senate judiciary committee as we speak. it was supposed to be a simple oversight committee. not so simple with the white house leak story out there, the fast and furious scandal out there. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins me live now from capitol hill. i guess you could say ill timing to say the least with regard to eric holder. talk to me about the white house leaks. there's a menu to talk to you about. i'll suggest the white house leaks, you tell me if you have something even hotter that's come off the press. >> i think we might, perhaps a bit of news on the whole issue of at least congress, the house republicans threatening to hold eric holder in contempt of

congress because of the fact that they are trying to get documents on so-called fast and furious, this gun-walking program in -- on the border with mexico, that was botched. again, the issue here is congress demanding documents from the justice department, and the attorney general seemed to put out an olive branch. watch this. >> on what legal ground are you withholding that e-mail, the president can't claim executive privilege to hold that e-mail. is that correct? >> let me just say this. we have reached out to chairman issa, members of the leadership on the house side to try to work our way through these issues. we've had, i think, sporadic contacts and we are prepared to make -- i am prepared to make compromises with regard to the documents. >> and what he said actually is

that he wants to avoid a constitutional crisis. and that's why he wants to sit down with republican leaders, but he also says he needs a partner in this, and the house republicans have set up this vote to hold him in contempt for next week. ashleigh? >> very exciting stuff. like we say, timing is everything. dana bash, thank you very much for that. the white house is now saying that the commerce secretary of this country, john bryson s goi bryson, is going to take a medical leave of absence. he is under investigation for a possible hit-and-run accident over the weekend. he was involved in three hits involving two different cars in the los angeles issue. the commerce department says he suffered a seizure somewhere around those accidents. not exactly sure of the exact timing. officials say it does not appear that alcohol or drugs were involved. he was treated and released from a hospital. he's now back in washington.

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should we listen in? >> it appears he was not there. can you explain what happened? >> well, montgomery police department received a 911 call that mr. leonard was in that residence. and went to great lengths to clear the house, make sure everyone was safe. i would like to personally thank them this morning for their efforts last night. i think that goes to show just how concerned not only auburn police are but this entire area of alabama is concerned over this. how much determination we have to bring this case to a conclusion with an arrest. they did exactly as they should have done. they worked very hard. and i want to personally thank them this morning for their efforts. they had a lot of manpower down there last night. >> that's the police chief, thomas dawson of the auburn police department. let me dip in with david mattingly who has been following this throughout the night and all morning long. this was a big surprise to many

of us. it broke on our airwaves about 5:00, 6:00 this morning, they just pulled out. everybody suspected this would result in a suspect being arrested. >> they really thought they had the guy last night and it turns out he wasn't there. we got a statement from the montgomery police a short while ago. they explained they had two credible calls about this. one from someone who claimed they dropped the suspect, desmonte leonard, off at that house. another call from someone who says that that was her house, and leonard was inside. so when officers got there, they said they were able to detect signs of human movement inside the house. they heard coughing. so they lobbed a couple of rounds of tear gas in there. this happened over the course of hours, well into the night. they stormed the house, went in there, couldn't find him. after raising expectations, speaking to the media that they believed he was inside, all the tactics they were using, they

abruptly left in the middle of the night and with no explanation. here we are hearing the first person stepping in front of the cameras today in auburn saying they don't have their man now. you can see how disappointed they are because they believe that leonard is very dangerous. he opened fire at a pool party, an off-campus party at auburn university. this was on saturday. he shot six people. he killed three. among the two -- among the dead were two former auburn football players. so this striking very deeply in that community. and everyone right now from auburn to montgomery, which is a little less than an hour away, very intensely looking for this guy, hoping that there is not more violence before he is apprehended. >> all right. david, if you wouldn't mind keeping an eye on that news conference to see if they release information about their next move. that was a real disappointment to them to not have results from that standoff. david mattingly live for us from

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this normally pretty politically quiet actress decided to endorse the president's re-election bid. voters in arizona heading to the polls today to pick a successor to gabrielle giffords. she stepped down in january a year after being injured in a near assassination. she has been on the campaign trail in recent days supporting ron barber. he was an aide to her while she was in office. she was also shot that day in tucson, arizona. he appeared on cnn's piers morgan last night with giffords husband, mark kelly who described how barber is carrying on gabby's message. >> i think he has a good message. when gabby first entered congress, the first time she was on the floor of the house, one of the first times, one of the first things she's did was walk across from the left to the rite side of the aisle to greet the republicans that she had not met

before. these are people she was able to establish a relationship and work to get things done for this country. we have an election here on tuesday. and ron plans to carry on with that attitude of working together to solve the problems around arizona and the nation. and running against barber is marine jesse kelly. a successful area businessman and tea party favorite. he lost to gabby giffords by just 5,000 votes in 2010. joining me now from tucson is steve nunez that is an emotional race. but emotions aside, this thing is pretty close, isn't it? >> it is a very close race. rite now, as you just mentioned, it's not only hot here in tucson, but this race is hotly contested because it is a close

race. some polls are indicating that barber has a 12-point lead against kelly, but of course kelly's camp would dispute that as we saw two years ago when kelly ran against giffords, it was extremely close and nobody expected kelly to contend and give giffords a run for her money. we are live out here at st. cyril elementary school. later on this morning, in about an hour and 45 minutes from now, the former congresswoman is expected to walk through those door there's and personally hand deliver her mail-in ballot. also expected to be by her side, her former district director, ron barber. of course he is facing off against republican challenger jesse kelly. is he a former marine, iraq war veteran and businessman. also challenging kelly and barber, is manelakus.

he admits is he a democrat but switch to the green party to be on this ballot. whoever wins today will take over giffords seat and serve out her term through the end of january. right now we are expecting record numbers. we're talking about participation that is -- that we normally see in presidential elections, at about 60%, 65% voter participation. don't expect to see a whole lot of action out here this is one of 250 polling placeses throughout the county, but check this out, ashleigh, 70% of registered democrats and 70% of all registered republicans have already turned in their ballot. >> wow, that's eager voting. all right, steve, thank you. >> yeah. >> thank you, we will keep an eye on this vote as it goes throughout today. this is a close race. we'll want to know how things turn out. steve nunez joining us live. florida firing the latest salvo in a fight over the federal government over who can

vote. they're suing the department of homeland security over access to the federal citizenship database. you thought you had access to it, did you? they say that information is key to knowing who can legally vote in the state of florida. the republican governor, rick scott, talked about it on cnn's starting point this morning. take a look. t >> homeland security has been stonewalling to give us a database that we're entitled to, we've been asking for for months, making sure we can do it the right way. we were put in a position where we had no choice but sue homeland security to get that database to make sure your right as a citizen is not diluted by somebody who is a non-u.s. citizen illegally voting in our state. this started with florida's purging of voter roles. governor scott says it is an effort to get rid of non-citizens who registered illegally. the justice department sued to stop it saying florida was using outdated records for the purge.

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>> we're keeping an eye on two different weather extremes unfolding now. explosive -- there's no other way to explain this other than explosive wildfires out west. and the rain, where it needs to be, isn't. it's over there on the southeast coast. the big concern is the

fast-moving wildfire, it's called the high park fire raging in northern colorado. just 15 miles west of fort collins. so far bad news to report here. one person has already been reportedly killed. it has burned 43,000 acres. think about that for a minute. 43,000 acres. it's destroyed more than 100 buildings. all of this in a few days. 500 firefighters are on the ground trying to get this monster under control. chad myers monitoring all of this. would have to work 48 hours straight to get the story of this fire. but 48 hours, chad, that's not a lot of time to get to the size it is now. >> right. 48 hours ago to 24 hours ago, the fire doubled in size. it went from 18,000 acres to 36,000 acres. last night, the 24-hour period, it was only 7,000 acres worth of growth. it's slowed in growth only

because the wind died off a bit. it is still growing. it is relatively not contained. they're saying some containment, which means they have put out some of the fires around some of the buildings, that's it. the fires in the forest not contained at all. look at those pictures. they are stunning. me and colorado go way back. i lived in nebraska for so long. there are beetles that are killing the forests, and these dead trees are fuel to the fire. it hasn't rained for a long time. when you get winds to blow at 40, 50 miles per hour, there is nothing firefights could do. it's called a type one fire. larimer county, colorado, they asked for federal assistance. it's almost like a flood area asking for fema. when ask you for federal

assistance, you get federal firefighters, federal planes, also some money, and men and women on the ground who are specialized fire jumpers. 43,000 acres, divided by 640, about 70 square miles. the wind shifted yesterday, that's good news. this is the fire line from fort collins right here, denver below. look at how ragged it is. think about how many miles it must be to try to fight all of that fire, all the way up and down all these relatively rugged mountains here. so you have fires in the valleys, fires going downhill, fires going uphill and wind blowing the fire back on the firefighters. what a dangerous situation. not as bad as it was yesterday, not as bad yesterday as it was over the weekend. i don't see any rain in the foreca forecast. this lightning that caused this fire could have a partner later in the week. there's so much lightning coming

down, it can't rain enough to put the fires out. so it's called dry lightning. it could cause more fires. >> yet, chad, all of that rain is deluging the southeast. >> that's right. >> they're suffering. >> that's a secondary story. get rid of this. all the way down to new orleans. >> what a mess. >> across parts of florida over the weekend, they have had 20 inches of rain. that flooding is gone, damage is still there, but the water is gone. the water, the rain, the heavy wind. 300 wind reports of damage yesterday from arkansas through missouri, louisiana. now that damage is heading down to louisiana, baton rouge, down to about sulfur, maybe towards beaumont, texas. we'll have to see. >> all right. chad, keep an eye on things. that fire story seems to change by the hour. if there's a change in there, break that to us. if you feel like you're a bit poorer than you used to be,

you are more than likely. this is just one of those unfortunate stories. federal reserve saying the average american's net worth has fallen sharply since the 1990s. alison kosik reporting from new york, we are way behind where we should be. so if we feel it's true, tell me what the actual numbers are, allison. >> yeah. this is what is interesting. we feel it, but these are the numbers that are so stunning that the typical american family, ashleigh, lost almost 40% of its wealth between 2007 and 2010. this was during the recession. that means a family's median net worth what the family owns minus the debt in 2007 was somewhere around $126,000. guess what? by 2010 it fell to $77,000. back to a level we have not seen since the 1990s. the recession managed to wipe out decades of savings and investments for families. this is because we watched home values tumble, massive layoffs took away our income.

this effected the young to the old, whether you were educated or weren't educated. here's a little bit after good news. it is getting better. americans net worth has recovered since 2010 because people are finding work again. housing prices, housing values are bouncing back a bit. any way you look at it, a typical american family is poorer than before the recession. ashleigh? >> so, a shg, most of this havio with houses, which makes me wonder those people in the southeast and nevada, where they got hit hardest. some people are doing well in housing, but how bad is the lag for those who suffered worst? >> and income factors into this a great deal, not just housing. this fed survey shows the decline was biggest among the highly educated families in the south and the west region of the country. what causes income to go down? unemployment does. the jobless rate was 5% at end of 2007.

9.4% at the end of 2010. today it's at 8.2%. the fed also saying incomes fell for families who run farms or small businesses or who are self employed. this is a result of the economic downturn we are still recovering from. >> one of these days you and i will be on the air together laughing and enjoying the good times, won't we? >> one day. >> thank you. want to give you a check of the markets now, speaking of better news. the dow is up 114. there you go. that's alison kosik for you. that's the stock market update. i have other news for you, too. a transatlantic flight on united airlines, here's some good advice. pack real, real light. united just decided to raise its fee for the second bag you bring aboard or try to check. used to be 70 bucks, now it's 100. you're welcome. delta did the same in january. the other big carriers all

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>> reporter: the vice unit for the anaheim police department is hunting for pimps. this is the unit's goal as a member of the human trafficking task force, and today's operation is taking investigators to the streets. it's a slightly didn't scenario than what we saw when we first met the unit last year. shane contacted a woman offering services online. in the delicate dance over the phone, he got her to provide sex for money. >> how much for an hour? 160? that's full service, right? >> reporter: one way he made sure he knew was being offered is to ask for one thing that would be needed if sex were taking place. >> do i have to bring condoms or do you have them? you have them? >> reporter: this is anaheim's way of making sure a criminal violation is occurring before

contact is made. >> shane then got a hotel room and told the girl to wait for him there. what she doesn't know is she's not meeting a client but six undercover investigators. an fbi agent, patrol officers and a victim service's representative. in that operation, a 17-year-old girl showed up for shane's date. the unit put her in touch with victim services and tracked down the man, did they believe was forcing her into prostitution, making it human trafficking. he's currently facing a three-year sentence for pimping and pandering. today's operation takes the team directly to the source. >> we will have a couple of my officers posing as undercover johns, and we'll try to contact some girls that are out working the street, and hopefully turn them to find their pimps. we'll just try and get a couple right off the bat. >> reporter: the unit is split

up into five undercover vehicles, and they're patrolling one of two streets they call prostitution tracks. we are riding along with sergeant craig freisen, the head of the vice unit and the only one's face we can show you. are they tell-tale signs? >> girls walking up and down the street with no real purpose to where they're walking. for the most part we are looking for them flagging down other cars. is she getting hit up by other cars? she's walking southbound towards the covered wagon. black shirts. >> reporter: is there something in the way they look or act? >> it's just by going by your training, experience and gut feeling. the guy in the red car, for instance. don't mow for sure that he was out here looking for prostitutes, but everything he's doing is mirroring what we're doing. and we're looking for prostitutes. >> reporter: after about an hour

of searching, the undercover officer posing as a client has found a potential date. >> we have units set up for all the directions that he can leave from. we'll follow him while he works his negotiation with the girl in the car. and then get them pulled over and begin our investigation. >> reporter: it all seems pretty clear. but as this team knows well, you never know where an investigation may lead. for the cnn freedom project, i'm martin savidge. >> all right, martin savidge reporting for us. part two of his report is coming tomorrow. you can see what happens after that task force swings into action and gets that arrest. because there is so much more to the story. see more on the cnn freedom project on our website, cnn.com/freedom.

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syrian children, some of them as young as eight, tortured, sexually abused, and then used as human shields by pro-government forces. these are not allegations coming from the other side, they are part of an alarming report released by the united nations. the report says some rebel groups have recruited and used children as well. their roles in medical and service-oriented jobs as opposed to trucking into a city with kids planted on your tank. the developments are being monitored from abu dhabi by rema. we have been hearing these allegations nonstop for 15, 16 months that the kids have been tortured, collateral damage. and now this, it's coming from the u.n.

>> exactly, ashleigh. all of us, though we see these videos, and horrifying videos, but yet we have some hope that this probably didn't happen in syria or it's not true or accurate. but coming from the u.n. this confirms what's happening on the ground. another report from human rights watch said 1,137 children have been killed over the past year. and the u.n. report specifically noted some practices against children. the report talks about torture, about kids being beaten, blindfolded, subjected to stress positions, whipped by heavy electrical cables, and called by cigarette burns. there's one case where a kid was subjected to electrical shock to the genitals. really horrifying. >> yeah. you know, i need to tell viewers, i should have said this

before, rima, here at cnn we have a specific policy about the kind of video that we air. and as a company we have decided this is critical, the edited versions -- by the way, very edited. it's so much worse in raw firm. the edited versions of this video are critical so people understand how terrible the atrocities are. it's not just a repeated refrain. it's something that becomes white noise after a while. we should have told people if they have kids in the room in advance. i apologize for that. we should mention that it's not over. we had this u.n. report today, rima. yet an additional report of syrian gun ships being used by the army against his people. we hearing reports about gunfire, relentless shelling taking place. today only 30 people were killed across syria. on monday, 93 people were killed according to activists. this video that we just showed

is just -- was issued today. and it shows how horrifying the shelling is. ashleigh? >> rima, it's hard to hear you say today only 30 people, but you're right. relative to the other days, that is ironically a good day. rima maktabi, thank you. it's taken more than 30 years, but an australian woman has been completely cleared in the death of her fant daughter. why is this story different than others? because it's the story of lynndie chamber lane creigton. it began with the disappearance of her 2-year-old girl on a camping trip. lindy always maintained it was a wild dog a dingo, that grabbed her child and carried her into

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in wartime there are countless dangers including being hit with a live rocket propelled grenade. those are the big guns. and it happened to one marine. somehow he lived to tell about this. here's pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: marine corporal perez knew the rocket propelled grenade was coming right at him. >> all of a sudden just, i just saw the rpg coming toward me and hit me and, you know, i was hit and my boys, they knew exactly what to do and they came down. no hesitation, no nothing. they picked me up. they got me to safety. >> reporter: winder perez had a live foot-long rocket propelled grenade embedded in his left side. but even so, he kept his cool. >> i tried to call in my own medevac, but i couldn't because my radio, the rpg had struck the battery in my radio.

>> reporter: plain words from this baseball loving 23-year-old native of dominican republic. perez and fellow marines knew the rpg could explode at any minute but they also knew he needed medical help as soon as possible. it would become a journey of courage and even humor by so many. >> we were just joking around. while they were tending to me, we were there, like, like it was nothing. you know? we were just talking. >> reporter: captain kevin's helicopter crew immediately agreed to take on the dangerous anything. >> there was quite a bit of alarm amongst the crew at the time. as you can imagine. >> reporter: perez and that live rocket were just inches from 300 gallons of aviation fuel. when the hilo landed, navy trauma nurse lieutenant commander james ordered his staff to stay away. >> i decided that i was going to go, because quite frankly, i'm not going to ask somebody to do what i'm not going to do.

it's just not going to happen. >> reporter: look at this video, he, in the helmet, made a vow to perez. >> i promise you i will not leave you until that thing is out of your leg. he said, cool. >> reporter: he and an explosives expert struggled to pull the rocket out. remember, it could have exploded at any moment. surgeons say just a few millimeters to the left or right and the rpg would have cut an artery. perez would be dead. as it is, he's hanging out again with his marine buddies. >> we went out to baseball games. we did stuff buddies do back home. you know, didn't really talk much about -- we were over there, kind of just forgot about it, moved on with our lives. hung out, you know, drank a little. just did man stuff. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, washington. >> wow. wow. you cannot watch that and not be affected.

our dr. sanjay gupta spoke with lieutenant commander, the guy you just saw, hero, u.s. navy nurse responsible for saving perez's life, risking his own. sanjay asked him what those risks were. >> the choices were two. one, we would pull it out, see if we could control the bleeding and carry on from there, or two, we would send out the one general surgeon we had with an o.r. tech and a nurse or anesthesiologist and see if they'd surgically remove it. seemed prudent to try plan "a" first because quite frankly one of two things was going to happen. it was either going to come out or going to blow up. if it didn't blow up, we could get it out or at least dislodge it enough that surgical intervention could be used. >> wow. a lot of lieutenant commanders, ginari's friends and family are calling him a hero. can i tell you this? everybody behind me here,

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you ever hear that whole thing, say it to my face? all right. maybe the u.s. nuns who are meeting today with the vatican higher ups aren't going to use those exact words. it's more or less the message they're bringing. leadership conference of women religious is responding in private to a rare public scolding they got from the vatican enforcers back in april.

after a long investigation, the church accused its american sisters of, quote, serious doctrinal problems stemming from, quote, radical feminist themes, incompatible with the catholic faith. church is scolding the nuns for not campaigning against abortion and same-sex marriage as vocally as bishops might like them to. this morning a u.s. nun and broadcaster said the vatican is living in the past. >> unfortunately, i think that the officials at the vatican seem entrenched in what i would call a prevatican model of church which is really dictatorial, noncollaborative and so forth. i think the american church by in large has embraced the teachings of the second vatican council which puts emphasis, which we do as nuns, on social justice. on the needs of the poor. on relieving the plight of the

oppressed or helping victims of violence around the world. those are the kinds of concerns we bring to this church. >> that's that. she said it. sisters met amongst themselves before they sent their leaders off to rome. they called the vatican's processes, quote, flawed. findings, quote, unsubstantia unsubstantiated, causing pain throughout the community. the vatican is responding, says it's hoping for a mutual understanding. this means, to be continued. you know what else is to be continued? newsroom, kate bolduan sitting in live for suzanne malveaux. >> i'm kate bolduan in for suzanne malveaux today. lots of news happening. let's get to it. cnn learned the fast moving wildfire raging through colorado has scorched more than 43,000 ac acres. bigger than the nearby city of

ft. collins. one person has been killed. officials are saying things look better than they thought but at this point the fire has not been contained. she's become a national symbol of perseverance. voters in arizona are going to the polls today to decide who gets to fill gabrielle giffords' former seat. ron barber is running for the seat. giffords resigned in february to focus on her recovery from a gunshowound to the head. her husband former astronaut mark kelly says she is making progress. >> she's doing great. you know, we've been here in tucson for a few days going around. gab gabby's been thanking ron's supporters and volunteers and motivating them to get out the vote here for the election. >> so the democratic candidate, ron barber, faces republican jesse kelly in a pretty close race. kelly is a former marine and iraq war veteran. much more on that a little

later. a battleground state that could sway the presidential election is in the middle of a legal fight again. we're talking about florida. in the 2000 election it was hanging chads. no one will forget that. this time the state and the federal government are suing each other over an effort to purge florida voting rules of ineligible voters. now governor rick scott says florida is suing the government. he says the state needs access to a database that will help identify ineligible voters. >> the homeland security has been stone walling to give us a database we're excite ld tntitl. we've been asking for it for months. make sure we to it in the right way. we were put into a position where we had no choice but to sue homeland security to get the database to make sure your right as a zs citizen is not diluted by someone who's a noncitizen voting in our state.

>> there's a lot going on here. i want to bring in our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin on the phone to help me weave through this. jeffrey, we're a couple months from the florida primary, so what is your take on really the legal issues at stake here? >> well, this is really, as you pointed out, an issue with a long history. the republicans who have run florida government for the past 15 years or so have made determined efforts in each step of recent elections to try to limit the number of people who could vote. eliminate in 2000 and 2004 it was supposedly felons. in this election, it has been supposedly illegal immigrants. but all of these efforts, at least after 2004, have been stymied by the courts because the courts say these efforts cut too broad a brush and are eliminating legal voters as well as people who shouldn't be voting. >> well, and, of course, then when you add the politics at

play, because we're talking about a political -- you know, talking about an election here, it gets just really messy. i mean, you look at the two sides. governor scott says this is about making, as you said, making sure noncitizens don't get to vote and critics of the state's efforts say this is unfairly targeting minorities who often vote for democrats. they're both suing each other. who is likely to win out? >> the federal government is likely to win out. under the voting rights act the federal government has a big supervisory role, particularly for states like florida which have a history of discrimination. i can't imagine that the courts are going to sustain this effort since it has been so riddled with efforts. you know, cnn got involved in this debate in 2004 when david vigilante, our lead lawyer, led a lawsuit against the state of florida to try to get access to these names so we could see for

ourselves whether these people really were registered or citizens or felons or who they were. but the state of florida wound up changing its laws so that we couldn't get meaningful access and at the end of the day there, again, the lists were found to be flawed and the people were not thrown off the voting rolls. but this is something that appears to go on every four years in florida, and so far, at least, after 2000, the state has been thwarted, the republic ans who run the state have been thwarted in trying to get people thrown off the voting rolls. >> one thing that's a key factor here is timing. we're not talking about a year out from an election. we're talking about a couple months from a primary here. you mentioned the hanging chad issue of the 2000 election. the recount wound up at the supreme court. once again, florida as it always is, is a battleground state in this election.

so do you think this battle will make it all the way up to court? of the high court? >> well, i don't, actually. i think the courts are aware of the coming election. so they are going to deal with these issues quickly. so that people can know whether they are registered or not. the chad issue was something that came up during the recount, after the votes were counted. this is an issue that involves before the election, whether people have the right to vote in the first place, so the courts and the federal government are certainly aware that this issue has to be resolved well in advance of the days that people go to the polls because any sort of uncertainty might result in people not casting ballots who have the right to vote. >> i mean, do you think in the end there's going to be a clear-cut answer? you know, we're talking now, as you said, this has a long history. do you think this is going to add to the history, the long

kind of troubled history when it comes to florida elections or a clear-cut answer here if the state of florida is in the right of the federal government is in the right here? >> well, based on how i understand the law, i think there will be a clear-cut answer. i think that this effort to throw thousands of people off the voting rolls will not be allowed to proceed in the way that governor scott has said he wants it to proceed. and these people will be allowed to vote. they will remain registered. now, whether anyone who is not a citizen winds up voting, i can't say, but certainly at least based on the initial indications, these lists are very flawed and the federal government simply is not going to allow, and many election commissioners in the florida counties are not going to allow these efforts to proceed. so i do think there will be a clear-cut answer and i think people who are currently registered with very few exceptions are going to be

allowed to vote come november. >> all right. we'll have to see how this one shakes out. all eyes again on florida. senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, thanks so much, jeff. i want to turn now to syria. the suffering of ordinary people caught in a deadly conflict. the horror of it all is not easy to convey, but we're about to show you something that will. and i do want to give you a very good warning. i must tell you these images are graphic and difficult to watch. they honestly were difficult for us to watch. if you need to turn away, please absolutely go ahead. we think it is important to show you these images. the real evidence of the magnitude of the suffering in syria. what you're seeing right now are some young victims of the shelling there, regime shelling. a crying baby and a wounded toddler. activists tell us this video was shot today in the city of onnadan. the new images come as we get truly disturbing accounts of children being tortured, beaten and used as human shields,

according to a new report from the united nations. i want to talk more about this, i want to bring in rima who has more details joining us from abu dhabi. tell us more about the scathing report coming out of the u.n. >> yes, kate, there's surely more. i mean, these kids gave their testimonies to the u.n. apparently in this report and talked about being beaten, blindfolded, subjected to stress positions, whipped with heavy electrical metals, scarred by cigarette burnings, or burns, and one case talked about being subjected to electrical shock to the genitals. i mean, just reading these issues in this report is really shocking. >> and there was some -- it was noted in this report as well some allegations that some rebel forces were also recruiting children. what can you tell us about that?

>> -- kids under the age of under the age of 17. the conflict is chaotic on the ground in syria. there are many armed rebels. these people have no one standing by them except themselves fighting for their lives. >> in terms of allegations against rebel forces, it's nothing kind of in comparison to these allegations against the regime and using children as human shields. right? >> definitely. if you compare this to that. especially that the syrians are frustrated. they feel that the international community is doing nothing to help them. and the syrian army and the government forces are just raiding their villages, their houses, their towns, so what do they have to defend themselves other than using themselves and possibly their children? >> and, you know, this conflict,

this violence has been going on for 15 months now. more than a year. the united nations has estimated that more than 10,000 people have died including civilians since the violence erupted. opposition groups, of course, put that number higher. is there any estimate of how many children are among the dead in this conflict? >> yes. the human rights watch today said that around 1,167 children have been killed during those 15 months. however, this is only the info that these organizations are able to get, but probably when the regime falls and the media and these ngos are allowed in to syria will definitely find out more. >> that's obviously one of the problems from trying to report on this story. rima maktabi from abu dhabi. thank you for bringing that to us. a difficult story to talk about but very important to continue

talking about. thank you. we're working on a lot more coming up for the next hour. plus. here's what we're working on. the man known as victim one takes the stand today in the jerry sandusky child rape case. after an already disturbing day of testimony against penn state's former assistant coach. a dingo ate the baby. 32 years after an australian mother's frantic cries about a wild dog grabbing her child, the cause of death is now official. why casinos are betting big on expanding gaming even where it's illegal now. >> own a handgun, put your child up for adoption, buy liquor, sign contracts, invest all your money in one stock. but in most states you can't go to a casino. i never thought to use aspirin for muscle pain.

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the spokesman says mubarak's two sons are beside him and his wife visited him today. something we've been tracking very closely. and in australia, turns out a dingo did steal her baby. i'm talking about a famous case from the 1980s. you remember, probably remember this story. a mother was convicted and served time for her baby daughter's death. the mother always claimed a wild dog called a dingo stole the baby. our michael holmes is here to help explain this. it's really amazing when you think about, this is some 30 years ago. it's back in the news. and there's real resolution. how did they figure this out? >> at last. put it in context here, lindy chamberlain took the kids camping, and during the evening, they're out just getting, for ten minutes getting food for the campfire for the kids in the tent. the baby this appears. there's blood in the tent. the mom says she saw the dingo carrying the baby away. nobody else did.

nobody believed her though there was evidence of tracks, drag tracks. long story short, there's an inquiry, nothing comes out of that. another another inquiry. they said she did it. the cops were on the case. they totally believe she did it. she didn't do herself favors. she wasn't showing a lot of compassion. this is a mom that didn't cry. manipulative, a bit sassy. >> she didn't do it and she was convicted. >> she didn't. the forensic evidence, at the time, 32 years ago, if you had the case today would never get to court. the blood they found in the car, it was dust from the town they lived in which was a copper mining town. all these sorts of things. they went through trial. mom goes to jail three years. she got out of jail. they had a fourth inquiry, the dingo did it. >> it captured the country. >> there was a meryl streep

movie about it. there were books written, plays done. half of australians thought she was a cold manipulative child killer and the other half thought, where's the evidence? there's no motive, no murder weapon. what happened is everyone had an opinion in australia. i covered it in my early days of newspaper which makes me really old. the thing is, everyone had an opinion after this case. >> so after all of this time, what is the family -- how's the family reacting? are they saying anything? >> lindy was talking today. she's obviously relieved and spoke fondly of her daughter who would be 32 years old last week. >> wow. >> they've got some closure at last. i mean, for years everybody's known they didn't do it. this was the official -- now they can put on the death certificate the dingo killed the baby. >> i was reading kind of like refreshing your memory about how this -- it really is not just a sad story about a child dying. then you're talking about a mother being wrongly convicted

and during this long legal battle they divorced during it all. the family was really destroy e during this whole thing. if this happened in the united states -- it was big there, it would be huge here. >> yeah it would be. you know, who knows. if she'd been convicted of murder here in the wrong state, you never know what could have happened, too. it was an example of forensic medicines come along. also at the time when you go right back, there were a lot of us who covered the story at the time who thought, hang on, where is the real evidence of this? there was blood in the tent, drag marks, trackers were called in, they're the ones who found the drag marks. it never added up that she did it. as i said, part of the mystery of this story was how she behaved. she was almost cold and calculated. i remember her doing an interview for australian "60 minutes" and talking about the tear marks in the clothing they found and almost forensically herself. she was not your average mom in that way who would be in tears and heavily emotional. >> i have a feeling there may be

another book, another movie. >> she did get compensation. i think she got $1 million for the time spent in jail. this just consumed their lives. >> amazing to finally have resolution to this. michael holmes, cnn international anchor. very good friend. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, too. a big story here in the united states, a second alleged victim takes the stand in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse trial and tribe describes being sexually assaulted by the former penn state coach. a live report on that coming up. don't forget, watch cnn live on your computer even when you're at work. it's okay. it's educational. head to cnn.com/tv.

a startling development today in jerry sandusky's child rape trial. the state attorney general's office says former penn state's vice president gary schultz was keeping a secret file on sandusky and accusations of his sex abuse. cnn contributor sarah ganam is a reporter for the "patriot news" and in court for the testimony and leading on this story all along.

what happened in court today? >> reporter: the way this came about, the files, the way the files came about today is that the defense for gary schultz, that penn state administrator, wanted the charges dismissed saying there wasn't enough evidence. prosecutors came back with the court document that said, we have this new evidence. penn state released a statement yesterday saying some of the e-mails that may have shown that this evidence existed came about through an internal investigation. when they realized they have these documents, they handed them over to the attorney general's office. we know that that case has had some new developments in the last couple of months. leading up to the jerry sandusky trial which is happening simultaneously. >> and today, something obviously that we really wanted to talk about is we're hearing from victim one who said the former football coach sexually abused him. i believe, this victim, victim one's original allegations that triggered this investigation into sandusky. what did he say on the stand? >> reporter: that's right. he was the one that triggered

this investigation. he was incredibly emotional on the stand. he walked in and you could just see on his face that he was tortured and uncomfortable. he hung his head for most of the beginning of his testimony as he was trying to explain the acts that he alleges against jerry sandusky. at one point he buried his head in his hands. he was crying. he was sobbing. and he looked up to, you know, get these words out of his mouth and he glanced over at jerry sandusky and really stared at him for a second or two which felt like a really long time and at that point he seemed to get the strength to continue testifying. so it was a very emotional morning in court. he just actually got off the stand a few minutes before lunch and to get on the stand after him was a woman, a case worker, who says she interviewed jerry sandusky and he did admit to some of the things. not anything sexual, but laying with the boy or rubbing his back, kissing him on the forehead. things like that jerry sandusky admitted to her.

that's what she testified today. >> in addition to victim one's clearly powerful testimony today, we also had victim four was on the stand on monday giving some very powerful testimo testimony. you know, you were in the courtroom. what was it like in the courtroom, that the emotion from the alleged victims and its impact on the jury? did they react? >> reporter: you know, today i really noticed more of an emotional reaction from jurors than i did yesterday. alleged victim four, you have to remember, he's ten years older than alleged victim number one. he's 28. the adult who testified today is 18. so, you know, i don't know if that plays into the emotional factor but victim four was a lot more matter of fact. he really did not get emotional on the stand much at all. jerry sandusky, however, has acted the same way both days. he leans forward in his chair up against the table and directly looks at these witnesses as they testify. as for jurors, you know,

yesterday there was another factor. the courtroom, the air-conditioning broke. it got really hot in there. some of the jurors were really struggling with that. today it was a lot more comfortable and they seemed a little bit more engaged. one victim one was testifying, a lot of them had their hands up to their faces, their mouths opened. they really seemed astonished by what he was saying. >> all right, sara, keep contributing that for us. cnn contributor sara ganim. thank you very much. the race to raise campaign cash is heating up. who's seen more so far? president obama or mitt romney?

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a texas father beat a man to death. he allegedly caught a man mol t molesting his 4-year-old daughter inside his home and locals in the small town of shiner are voicing their support for that man. the father. >> in the defense of her, trying to get her away from him, that he struck the individual in the head several times.

>> i don't think he should be arrested for it. i don't think any charges should be filed. >> if somebody abused my grandchild, like he did, i think he'd deserve everything he got. >> especially 4 years old. that's terrible. >> yes. >> now, the sheriff says a grand jury will decide if the father will be charged in this case. we are told the little girl suffered, quote/unquote, mental trauma but is physically okay. and authorities in alabama say the reward for information leading to a triple murder suspect is up to $30,000. the manhunt continues after police surrounded and searched a home for more than six hours. they're looking for 22-year-old esmonte leonard, accused of killing three people at an off campus party near auburn university. the two include two former auburn football players. police say they are determined to find their suspect. >> if he's watching, i want to realize this, it doesn't matter where he's at, we have the fbi on this case. the u.s. marshals. we'll find him. we will bring him back to auburn, alabama.

he will be incarcerated at some point and taken to jail. both president obama as well as governor mitt romney are on the money trail today. the race to win the white house is taking a bit of a back seat maybe. it's the race to raise campaign cash that's driving their schedules. political editor paul ste steinhauser is joining us to talk about that and other stories on the political radar. obama and romney have several events today. who's going where and why? >> reporter: i guess you can call it a fund-raising frenzy today. both men have been out there fund-raising. it seems pronounced today, kate. let's start with the president. he has six fund-raisers today. three in maryland, three in the baltimore area. he does the small hop from baltimore up to philadelphia and has three more at the franklin institute in philadelphia. and by my count, if you add it all together, he's going to bring in at least $3.6 billion from the fund-raisers today. romney had a campaign event in

florida in the orlando area. he has two fund-raisers there. he moves up to franklin, tennessee, for another fund-raiser and had big fund-raisers last night in atlanta, kate. >> let's talk about last month. campaign cash is the way you keep the campaign alive. the obama campaign seems to be playing catchup this month? the romney team raised more cash than the obama team in may? >> reporter: yeah, it really is interesting. the republican primaries pretty much over, mitt romney starting to concentrate on the general election and fund raise for the general election. look at the may numbers. mitt romney and rnc, republican national committee, brought in $76.8 million they report. that's $16 million more than what president obama and the democratic national committee brought in. kate, this is fascinating. remember four years ago then-senator obama broke all records, raised $750 million. more than triple what john mccain, the republican nominee, raised and spent. very different ball game this time around. it's going to be much more even. when you throw in the superpac

money, republican superpacs raising a lot more than democrats. it's a very different ball game than four years ago, kate. >> different ball game. it's mind-boggling how much money goes into the race for the white house. every four years. it's pretty astonishing. so talking about the race, the polls are showing it's a very tight race. that president obama isn't taking anything for granted. i'm sure mitt romney is not either specifically in looking at president obama, he is working on galvanizing support among african-americans. what is he doing to reach out to african-american voters? >> yeah, this is brand new. he's out with a radio spot. running nationally, the campaign says. this targeting african-american voters. take a listen. >> four years ago, we made history. now it's time to move forward and finish what we started together. we have to show the president we have his back. >> here was this deal four years ago, kate. listen, president obama making history, the first african-american elected to the white house. look at the exit polls from four years ago. see the president winning

overwhelming, 95% of the african-american vote according to the exit polls. like you said, he doesn't want to leave anything to chance, anything -- doesn't want to take anything for granted. that's one of reasons they're starting radio ads. polls indicate he's winning almost 90% of the vote. the key is getting african-american voters to the polls on election day. that's important. especially in battleground states like virginia, north carolina, florida, where they make up a larger percentage of the voting population, kate. that's why he's doing this. also see him going after the latino vote big-time. he's been out with three tv rounds of ads already going after the latino vote, kate. >> no matter how much they say or support, it's voter enthusiasm, getting them to the polls which obviously is oh so important coming to the election. one light moment we can end on today. there's been a lot of big news today. light moment at the white house. president obama welcomed none other than the famous, the wonderful, the fabulous betty white. who was actually in town in washington to speak at the smithsonian. the 90-year-old actress got to walk around the grounds and pet the first dog, bo.

i'm told. a couple weeks ago the actress endorsed the president for his re-election bid. i'm trying to start a rumor, we were at least in the newsroom, maybe this is a little clue of veep-stakes? >> obama/white, 2012? probably not. she has publicly endorsed the president. we'll see if she appears in his campaign ads. i don't see anything out there right now. >> her approval rating, if you want to talk about good approval rating -- >> sky high. >> betty white has a pretty good one. paul, thanks so much. talk to you later. >> thanks. a new report says retirement ages need to be raised around the world because governments can't afford to pay. in here, het in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪

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so americans are living longer than ever, and that means we're living long paths to retirement age. on average, 20 years past it. sounds like good news, right? well, as with most things in

this world there's a catch. the government may not be able to afford it. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange with more. alison, how dire is this? >> the social security program is already strapped for cash. it's currently paying out more in benefits than it's bringing in and partially because of what you said, because people are living longer. which means they're getting social security checks for longer periods of time. how long? take a look. in 2010, men were expected to live 17 years beyond retirement. women expected to live 20 years beyond retirement. this was the estimation made in 2010. the organization thinks life expectancy will rise another three or four years by the year 2050. that's going to drain social security more though the good news is you get to spend more time with the grandkids, kate. >> and any talk of raising the

retirement age is like political kryptonite at the moment. even though it's being talked about, don't now how soon that will happen. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. talk to you soon. >> okay. why a "newsweek" contributing editor thinks germany is acting like a swing state in our presidential election. >> hey, there, thanks for joining us. today on "help desk" we're talking about taxes. what else? joining me this hour, lynette is a personal finance author and founder of financial advice blog askthemoneycoach.com. david novak, certified planner at nyu. thank you both for being here. question about taxes we got from a man on the street here in new york. take a listen to what he had to say, david. >> if i owe back taxes which is the case, is it dischargeable as far as bankruptcy is concerned? >> about how much? >> $10,000. >> what's your take. >> it is possible. depends on what type of bankruptcy he's filing, whether he's filing chapter 7 which

allows for discharge of some of his debts or chapter 13 which is a payment plan. if chapter 13, it would not be possible. chapter 7 it would be possible. they have very strict requirements, though. he should check with an attorney who specializes in bankruptcy law. and if it's taxes that are less than two or three years old, it's not going to be discharged but taxes that are older than that, it may be possible. >> lynette, what about any forgiveness programs you can think of through the irs? or is that not an option? >> there are a couple of options through the irs. you know, there's an offer and compromise where you sort of settle what you owe. >> okay. >> really tough requirements. the irs wants you to really prove that you wouldn't be able to pay off your debts over a period of six years or so. which is the other one, the installment agreement. right now if you owe up to $50,000 in taxes, you can essentially create a payment plan with the irs. you don't have to talk to an agent. just go online and fill out the form and pay it off over as long as 72 months or 6 years time.

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if you needed a reminder, it is an election year. you know what that means. lots of campaigning in key states. a lot of states but especially swing states. iowa, ohio, florida. my next guest thinks there's one other swing state that really matters. germany. yep. you heard that right. cnn contributor david frumm is joining me live via skype. david, your article on cnn.com really grabbed our attention. calling germany the only swing state that matters this election. what do you mean? >> when you think about it, what is out there that has the

potential really to transform this race which is now neck in neck? either to give the boost to the american economy and thus help president obama, or hammer the american economy and make a strong case for a challenger? it is the decisions that are going on right now in europe. and the decision maker is germany and its government. >> that lends to the real question back here at home, is there really anything any u.s. president could do, republican or democrat, to influence the economies of europe, specifically germany, or is this truly just one factor, big factor in this election that's completely out of their control? >> well, presidents have some sway, but the things they would have to do to have an influence are very hard for the american political system to accept. for example, i mean, if you were the chancellor of germany, every day you get pressure from the united states, do something, help the weak countries of the eu. the chancellor would say, okay, how much will you contribute? will the united states or the international monetary fund contribute some of the costs of the bailouts that may be

necessary? that's a very hard thing for americans to say yes for, but that's the one lever that the president has got. >> well, then kind of you look kind of in the near term, just the spin factor, just look at the president last week talking about the eurozone, talking about what's going on in europe in a press conference and right afterwards republicans were slamming him for deflecting, hiding behind the problems in europe, deflecting from his failed economic policies. they said. >> well, i think the president there was very much on the wrong track. even if it were true that all -- that the problems of the eurozone have nothing to do with the united states, are not of the president's making, are in no way the president's fault. if they hurt voters, voters finish the president. one of the brute facts of life, the president are hurt by things that are not his fault that are bad and helped by things that are not of his doing if things go well. in 1996 when american productivity growth jumped a

whole point and we launched into this dramatic boom of the later 1990s, bill clinton was massively re-elected. bill clinton had nothing to do with making the internet come online. he was lucky. president obama, if the euro goes to pieces, will be unlucky. >> yeah, he could be very unlucky on that one. all right. we will watch it. thanks so much, david. read his article on cnn.com. it was very interesting today. talk to you soon. >> thank you. they have been a couple for more than a century. now these two tortoises are calling it quits. darn-it. a heartbreaker for zoo officials. across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... we're at work providing power to almost a quarter of our homes and businesses... ... and giving us cleaner rides to work and school... and tomorrow, we could do even more. cleaner, domestic, abundant and creating jobs now. we're america's natural gas. the smarter power, today. learn more at anga.us.

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after 115 years of companionship, bibi and poldi, apologies if i mispronounced the names are calling it quits. a tortoise divorce is happening at an australian zoo. jeanne moos has more. >> reporter: you would need a neck rub, too, if your 115-year marriage just broke up. no more happy anniversaries. ♪ for bibi and poldi, these two giant tortoises at a zoo in austria are both said to be 115 years old and they were brought up together. it was love on the rocks after bibi the female took a chunk out of her mate's shell. >> translator: they just go at each other. at first it was only the female who attacked the male and bit him. now you get the feeling they can't stand the sight of each other.

>> reporter: thaw don't even want to be in the same enclosure. zoo keepers don't understand what went wrong after 115 years of togetherness. people posting online have plenty of theorieses. every time she wanted to talk about the relationship, he retreated into his shell. my guess is she caught him making eyes at the 90-year-old bimbo in the enclosure next door. he gave the wrong answer when she asked, does my bum look big in this shell? what makes this break up even more ironic is the song made famous by a certain singing group. who could forget the turtles? ♪ the only one for me is you and you for me ♪ ♪ so happy together >> reporter: now it's happy apart for these tortoises. talk about irreconcilable differences. >> translator: there's always the danger that they will bite each other so hard that one of them will bleed to death. >> reporter: on the bright side, 115 years sure beats kim

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of thousands of jobs. >> hundreds of thousands of new jobs? >> of new jobs. sure. in ohio alone between the four new facilities that will open in the next year, that will be somewhere around 6,000 to 8,000 new positions. >> reporter: it's not just jobs massachusetts is after. over the past 20 years, it's watched its neighbor, connecticut, earn $6 billion in gaming revenue. some from day tripping massachusetts gamblers. last year alone pennsylvania raked in $1.5 billion in taxes from gaming revenue. the most of any state. more than 340,000 americans work in the casino industry. the bureau of labor statistics estimates that will grow 13% by 2020. >> we have ten a casinos here in las vegas then we have another 40 casinos across the country. >> reporter: this is a bet on the future of the u.s. consumer that we will continue to spend in the way that we have? >> there's no question about that. we've seen a steady incline in the amount of money these people will spend. >> reporter: loveman says

grandmothers are key. >> grandma has two things that are important. she has more money than her granddaughter has and has more time. >> reporter: industry experts note casino gaming revenue accounts for less than 5% of state budgets and point out the social costs, namely addiction that leads to bankruptcy, embezzleme embezzlement, theft and divorce. analysts say the closer casinos are to people, the higher their propensity to gamble. >> why shouldn't every american adult be able to this? you can own a handgun, put your child up for adoption, buy liquor, sign contracts, you can invest all your money in one stock. but in most states you can't go to a casino. >> there is a strong counterargument, the social cost of gaming, compulsive gambling. >> the only activity in casinos that worry me are the fact 1% to 2% of our visitors cannot control how much they gamble and as a result do damage to themselves, their families and other constituents. that's a big deal. we have to take every single person who suffers this condition seriously and do

everything we can do keep them out, provide them help and support. >> reporter: right now, many states are considering that risk. but also, billions in potential tax revenue. it hasn't saved detroit. >> no. >> it's not going to save cities. >> i don't see why anybody would argue it's going to save anything. it's going to be a stimulant to a city that's having its own challenges. i think you'd be overreaching -- anyone would be overreaching terribly to say this is going to be a panacea for something. >> reporter: poppy harlow, cnn, las vegas. i'm kate bolduan in for suzanne malveaux. it is the top of the hour. let's get right to it. the fast moving wildfire raging through northern colorado has scor scorched more than 43,000 acres. that's bigger than the nearby city of ft. collins. one person has been killed. officials say things are looking better than they thought, though. but at this point, the fire has not been contained. and florida and the federal government are suing each other over an effort to purge the state's voting rolls of ineligible