and even though there is no treatment for this disease, we can provide supportive treatment and we think that we can contribute to the better survival of the patient. >> is the strain of the disease different from 2007 and what will challenges does that bring? >> yes. this is a different strain. this is the sudan strain, the ebola sudan. in 2007 it was ebola uganda. in fact, the main difference is the that the expected mortalities is higher for ebola, but the management, not only of the patients, but of the outbreak itself is the same. >> we also learned today that one of five prisoners receiving treatment for the suspected case of the virus escaped last night.

it isn't known yet whether he tested positive, the remaining prisoners are being handcuffed to their beds. fighting is continuing in aleppo. cnn turk was able to enter an area under fire and capture this video. today rebels stormed the state-run tv and radio station and took partial control of the building but eventually had to retreat under heavy shelling. in the midst of the shooting, check out this video that is a non-violent protest against bashar al assad. it reportedly happened yesterday. cnn can't confirm the authenticity of this video. 56 people have died in fighting today. closer to home, in oklahoma right now, gusty wind, a raging wildfire, extreme, dry conditions and then there's this. temperatures in oklahoma today reaching a scorching 113 possibly again. homes are on fire. people are running for their lives.

>> i stayed as long as i could and i had to get out of there. when i left other the fire was right at my back door. i don't even know what to think right now. i'm just numb to the whole deal. ? more than 60 buildings have already burned. fire threatens more than 100 homes right now. i want to bring in ken garcia and he's on the phone and we just heard from a victim who lost everything and what kind of things are the red cross doing for the poor people in oklahoma? >> we are providing services to them, pretty much whatever they need whether it be health services, mental health services. we have shelters. we have three big fires here in oklahoma that we are dealing with and we've got shelters open for all of those people that will be open again for tonight. so we're going door to door, if you will, to try to find the family that helped them in any way we can. >> often in the scenarios when you do have the shelters open, the people do try to find

friends and family if they can. how many people have been in shelters and how many more do you expect? >> some of the shelters didn't have anyone show up and others had a handful. we had one who was open in cleveland county and that was for the noble fire. that one had up to 50 people in it as one time and we got one for the luther fire which is in oklahoma county, just outside of oklahoma city and that one had about eight. so it depends on what it is, but for people around the country who are watching and they're having a hard time getting in touch with their loved ones you can visit redcross.org/safeandwell. when families are coming into our shelters we encourage them to sign up on this website and it's a way of letting family know i'm okay. i'm at this shelter and it's how you are able to let your family know that you are doing okay. >> all right. ken garcia with the red cross in oklahoma, as the red cross always is in these sorts of situation. thank you, ken. >> you're welcome. oklahoma is the latest

victim in this hot, dry year, but it has plenty of company in the drought, that's for sure. look closely at this map. it's the latest version of the drought map, the drought monitor. right now more than half of all u.s. counties have been desing nated disaster zones because of the drought. i spoke with ernie goss and he had a new study that shows how the drought is dragging down the economy. >> what we tracked in our two surveys for the month of july is the spilling over to other industries because obviously, when consumers have less money -- spend more on food, they have less money to spend on other factors and we haven't seen all that yet. we'll see it in the months ahead and, in fact, the next -- coming in the latter part of 2012 and 2013. >> estimates of crop losses from the drought have topped $20 billion this year. now to the tropics. we had ernesto yesterday and now we have florence. let's break them down first. ernesto, the one that may be a

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it's unsettling. >> police say at this point they are counting on a tip to crack the case. >> another close call in a u.s. airport. last night a federal official said two airplanes came too close to one another as they were trying to land at an airport in detroit. they came too close because of an air traffic control miscommunication. joe paterno's family plans to appeal the ncaa sanctions against penn state. it hit the school with a $60 million fine along with a 16 seasons-worth of wins from the legendary coach. the action resulted from the actions of assistant coach jerry sandusky on the child sex abuse family there. there's a problem for the family. the ncaa sanctions say they're not subject to appeal. we all heard about the use of drones in the war on terror in pakistan, but like it or not,

the use of drones are becoming more widespread in america from everything from agriculture to law enforcement. athena jones has more on the use of drones and the issues it's raising. >> reporter: drones are making their way from the battlefield to the home front. the coast guard uses them to conduct surveillance on an ice sheet in alaska. this drone developed by the california-based air environment is being marketed to law enforcement. >> the systems are meant to take over the dull, dirty and dangerous jobs and protect citizens' liveses. this technology is really kind of the wave of the future. >> reporter: dronemakers say they'll eventually be used in agriculture, real estate and disaster assessment among other fields and in an important legal test this week a judge upheld the use of a border patrol drone that helped local authorities in north dakota with surveillance during the arrest of several members of one family in a dispute over cattle. a new law requires the federal

aviation administration to drop rules from 2018 to fully integrate drones into the national airspace, but the faa's mission is safety. what about privacy? massachusetts democrat ed markey is worried the use of drones by the government and companies could violate the privacy. it would establish rules for how data can be collected and how long it can be kept. >> the public should know who controls these drones. they should be able to find out which drone just flew over their house. they should be able to find out what kind of data was collected by that drone. >> reporter: some scholars believe the fears about drones are misplaced. >> i think sometimes there's a misconception that we'll walk out of the grocery store five years from now and look up in the sky and see dozens of drones circling overhead and have to duck to make sure you don't get hit by one. i think the reality is much more subdued by that. >> new laws and ultimately the courts will decide just how much

privacy the people will be allowed to retain. athena jones, cnn, washington. >> our fredericka whitfield is living it up in london right now. she's at the summer games with her father who is a two-time gold medalist. his touching reunion with other americans 64 years after his olympian victory coming up. you can continue watching cnn from your mobile phone. you can also watch it here on "cnn live." from your desktop go to cnn.com/tv. in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come on down. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home.

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>> the olympic games are as much about defying the odds as they are about wing the gold and today oscar pistorius is a double amputee from south africa is making history. he's the first athlete to compete in the paraolympics and olympics. one person who watched his fighting spirit grow from day one. >> reporter: images from oscar pistorius' athletic career are plastered on the walls of his proud grandmother's home. she tells me in of a ri cans --

i like this one. see, when he goes like this, that's wonderful. >> he looks like a winner, doesn't he? >> that's a winner. >> oscar pistorius is the first double amputee to compete in the able-bodied games. >> we restricted it it to the sole like a normal running spike. >> reporter: struggling for a child born with such a disability that his family decided to have his legs amputated below the knee when he was 1. she remembers that as a child -- >> reporter: the moment you saw him it broke your heart. i'll never forget the first time he got toes on his prosthetics, she says. they came back from johannesburg and drove through the big gate and he shouted, grandma! grandma! his feet were sticking out the car window and he said look, i've got toes. >> look, i've got toes. i said -- >> translator: isn't that wonderful?

>> reporter: in her home, pistorius has been planning her trip to london for weeks. suitcases ready, tickets bought. she'll be there in the stadium to watch her grandson run in the 400-meter relay for south africa. she says it's going to be emotional. both of oscar pistorius' grandparents, 89-year-old gerty and 95-year-old hendrick normally watch oscar's races on television, and his favorite sport rugby. oscar will be running for his mother. she died when he was 15. >> translator: as he so often says, it would have been so wonderful if his mother could have seen him or he could have experienced her seeing him. it would have been wonderful. it would have been wonderful. in the olympic stadium, oscar pistorius, it seem, will not

only be propelled by his blades, but also by the memory of his mother and the pride of his family. >> that's a massive picture of oscar. >> when you put these up, do you get excited? >> translator: it's part of your heart, she says. it's not just putting paper up. you put a piece of your heart, your being and your love for this child on that wall. robin curnow, cnn, south africa. we have another story from the olympics, one from fredericka whitfield who is usually in this seat and right now she's enjoying the london games and not just as a fan. she has a personal link to the o limp, her father, marvelous mal, and she joined her dad at a london reunion 64 years after his first gold. >> reporter: what's it like traveling to london with the man

known as marvelous mal, 64 years after he won two golds in the 4 x 400 relay, see for yourself. doors open for olympians like dad, malwhitfield, invitations pour in, lots of autographs, pictures and handses to shake. >> and especially poignant is meeting up with other fellow olympians from the historic games following world war ii and the fans of other summer games that followed. >> i won three medals, two gold, one bronze. >> 90-year-old bronze long jumper, herb douglas. >> he was gracious and it was a marvelous beginning and here we are, 64 years later. >> stand-out triple jumper ira davis from the 1956, '60 and '64 games. >> these two gentlemen,

malwhitfield and herb douglas were icons in our world when i was coming up. i'm a little bit younger than they are. i'm only 75, but i looked up to them. they were special in my life and to share this moment with them you can't imagine how i feel. >> reporter: and 1988 olympic race walker, gary morgan. >> it's always great to reconnect with your fellows to see what they've done. >> at 87, dad is in a wheelchair. his legs took a real beating from a career of hard training and competing using less-than-sophisticated equipment by today's measure. >> can i get a hug? >> his words are few in his frail state. instead, his eyes and smile say everything. >> my brother lonnie and i feel privileged to witness first hand these moments. dad told us he feels right at home here six decades after

setting an olympic record at wembley stadium. together again in their golden years, their memories far from tarnished. their olympic flame not to be extinguished. fredericka whitfield, cnn, london. good for you, fred, and congratulations once again to marvelous mal, and his other olympians. continuing with the olympics, the 2012 olympic games have been dubbed the world's first social games. up next check out how twitter has changed the way we experienced summer games. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew and she flew, into the sky and beyond. my name is annie and i'm the girl who dreamed she could fly. powered by intel core processors. ♪

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social media, it's shaking up the way we're experiencing olympics in london since most of the events aren't on live tv, twitter and other social networks have become the go-to place to cheer on your favorite athlete or to get live results. lori segall joins us to talk about the olympics. twitter, and we're all junkes about it, but it has overhauled the olympics this year, hasn't it? ? this is the first time especially when it comes to primetime and we're really seeing the value of something like twitter.

people were finding out the results way before it actually happened, before nbc aired at prime time. that's why you had everybody tweeting nbc #fail. and it was twitter's presence not as just a social network, but something taking place in the media realm and that was an important takeaway that we actually had from the olympics. i spoke to twitter and they gave me exclusive stats on just how many tweets we were seeing and the volume. we had tens of millions of tweets from the olympics and the sheer volume was just insane. you had 38,000 tweets per minute when u.s. gymnast gabby douglas won the gold. you had 37,000 tweets per minute when michael phelps won the last gold and 29,000 when the fab five -- 29,000 tweets per minute when the fab five, the u.s. women's gymnastics team won the gold. the conversation went to twitter when this was happening. in the olden days maybe we sat

around and talked about it on the couch, but now people are turning online and they're actually talking about it and i spoke to twitter and they said this is 100 times more the tweet volume than the beijing olympics and we saw this was the break-out social media of the olympics and it's something that at this point can't be ignored. >> for all their good at twitter and facebook, they're pretty dangerous. athletes are going to twitter as a forum. in some cases, expressing their frustration and hope solo said some things that were controversial about nbc analyst and former teammate, two olympic athletes from what i see have been banned. can you tell me more about that? >> yea. let's be honest here, every time you have the ability to express yourself in 140 characters sometimes you don't realize the impact of what you're saying. we've seen this with athletes and politicians quite a bit. two olympic athletes, as you

said, were sent home from the games because they tweeted things that were deemed racist. you had a man on the swiss team and a woman on the greek team who tweeted something about the opponent so for these people that have been training these years, this was life-changing for them. it was a tweet they shouldn't have sent and they sent out and that was something we saw. another thing we saw. you mentioned hope solo. she tweeted something and she said she was talking about the commentator of the game and she's a u.s. goalkeeper. she said it's too bad we can't have commentators who better represent the team and know more about the game. so that commentator happened to be on the olympics back in the day so she got a lot of heat from that tweet and i don't think she realized the impact when she put it out there. and a lot of people used it to band together in a positive way. there's something called the 40 rule. olympians can't tweet about their sponsors unless they're olympic sponsors. so for athletes who have

sponsors and they make a lot of money for that, for them not to go on social media and talk about it, check out this tweet. it's from u.s. track member nick simmons, and he said all of this #rule40 bs has me gotten fired up. it's time to go run off some steam. he's a track member and he ran off steam and a lot of people were tweeting #wedemandchange and people were able to see how they really felt where in the past you see them on television and you see them on television and you think i wonder what they're saying? now you can see it. it's definitely a game changer. >> it's opened up a can of worms. it's much more difficult now other than the wheaties box we used to have 20 years ago. thanks so much, social media. one more story we'll talk about, if you want to find out more about that one go to cnnmoney.com/technology. >> michael phelps is swimming

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wife! >> that's the drummer. yea. drummer scott underwood is now ordained and has started marrying couples at train concerts. i spoke to one of the couples and they were talking about the experience. >> we have had a lot of engage ams, either random ones that we didn't know about that would be happening between the crowd and you see this explosion happen between a hundred or 200 people that are watching a man propose on his knee in the crowd or we would get e-mails like, can i do this? because we always invite people up on stage to do it because it's a very touching moment for thousands of us. you know, watching somebody propose is a very brave thing to do in front of all of us and it's touching and quiet. people will listen intently, and it's so loving and for real, but we never get to see what happens next, and, you know, that's the bummer about it all is that we

want to see what happens next and so scott, maybe you should take it from here because you're able to legally marry everybody. >> yea. so, yea, our management came up to us and said i have an idea, let's take it to the next step andor ga and ordain one of you and marry people on stage, and i didn't think he was 100% serious. i said i'll do it. ♪ marry me >> the song started as being very sincere. it was a 50-second song that we were encouraged to finish, so we did, and i'm so in love with my wife that i can't not write about i want to marry her all of the time because i look at her and i say i can't believe that you said yea to me, really? and that was sincere and these engagements are sincere and what we want is people that really love each other and this is something original, something that no one's ever done before and now i get to do that in this setting because we mean

something to a couple like jim and jan, and that's really how we're looking at. >> jennifer and james. today you celebrate one of life's greatest moments. >> why do this in front of thousands of people during a rock concert? >> really on a whim. jennifer is a huge fan and was following it. we planned on getting married next year anyway. the contest came up so we submitted a video and we won. >> what was your reaction when you found out? >> when you found out, yea. >> i called him on the phone, and i said -- oh, my god! she started screaming on the phone which made me completely freak out until i -- because i didn't think she was calling to tell me we won. i thought she was calling it tell me something bad happened. i was doing a u-turn and my friend was in the car and it was pretty funny. >> how can you top this with a honeymoon? what are you going to do? >> that's a good question.

>> yea, i don't know. thanks for the pressure, though. >> i thought you had it all planned out. it's all about her and these are thingious need to plan. you know that? >> when she tells me, i'll go. >> the couple did decide on a honeymoon spot. lake tahoe. an excellent choice. if you want to get married at a train concert go to the website, savemesan francisco.com for details. >> rebecca soni set a new record, no doubt she has a lot of heart, but a major health problem involving her heart almost kept her out of the pool. to the west. we built the tallest skyscrapers, the greatest empires. we pushed the country forward. then, some said, we lost our edge. we couldn't match the pace of the new business world.

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muslims are not terrorists. i came back here in 2010. everybody goes was most depressed, and i thought, i have to do something. it was a struggle in the beginning. i would sit with these men and i would tell them don't marry them when they're 14 years old. they want to learn. >> how do you write your father's name? >> a, i, s -- >> after five years now, the men are proud of their girls when they themselves can't write their name. still, we have to take these precautions. some people are so much against girls getting educated. we provide free education to over 350 girls. i think it's like a fire that will grow. every year my hope becomes more. i can see the future.

>> and remember, all of our heroes come from your nomination. so if you want to have someone you like, tell us about it. go to cnn.com -- cnnheroes.com, more specifically. >> michael phelps just finished his last olympic race of his career. did he get the -- 22nd -- 22, gold medals or not? let's go live to pedro pinto. he's at the games. well, pedro, what happened? >> reporter: he finishes his career the way he started it in the olympics, a gold medal. >> wow! >> reporter: his 18th of his illustrious career. this man is a machine and we are going to look back on these olympics one day and at the career of michael phelps and think he was probably the greatest olympian of all time. whether you think he is or you think he isn't. one thing is for sure, he's definitely the most successful. 22 medals overall in his career, 18 gold, two silver, two bronze

and he helped the united states win the 4x 100 medley, the race finishing just minutes ago and michael phelps was key. when he swam, the united states was trailing japan, and he was able to overtake the asian nation and put the united states in the lead and from then on it was smooth sailing. michael phelps has now seen his olympic career come to an end and, rob, i tell you, this guy is something special. >> he did it in style, didn't he? a moment in history, pedro pinto reporting live from london. thanks, pedro. we'll stick with the olympics here. rebecca soni is known for her gold medal winning and she's a record breaker, as well in the 2008 beijing olympics, but it may surprise you to know that just a couple of years before that swim, she underwent heart surgery and now she's back on the scene in london and she has her old record to break and dr. sanjay gupta has more in this

week's human factor. >> great swim by rebecca sewn i. >> these days, rebecca soni is used to getting to the wall first, but being an olympic swimmer wasn't always part of the plan. >> just never crossed my mind. when we grew up, my family, we didn't watch a lot of sports. my family was from europe and we didn't understand the american sports, football, baseball and they didn't watch very much tv in general so i didn't have those people to look up to and say oh, i want to be like them. >> as she began to excel she re-focused her goals. but an unexpected obstacle got in her way. >> i was diagnosed with spt, it's a rapid heart rate exercise-induced and all of my heart would go -- the highest i counted was 400 beats per minute and it would only last a minute and i would lose feeling in my

arms and legs and i would climb out of the pool. her heart condition required her to take it easy in practice and something that soni doesn't like to do. it would always happen in the most important part. >> six years ago soni decided to have an operation to remove abnormal tissue in her heart. when she was healthy again, she dove back into training and qualified for the 2008 olympics in beijing where she won one gold and two silver medals. >> i definitely feel that i had the meet of my life in 2008 and the race of my life in the 200 breaststroke. to break a world record all in one race was the ultimate moment of sport. >> reporter: even so, soni wasn't ready to hang up her suit. i could have probably walked away and been happy, but i still felt like i have more to give to the sport. i'm just excited to race. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting.

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fredricka whitfield's london adventure with her gold medal winning dad but their adventures haven't strictly been sports related. she got an education in afternoon tea. >> wow. here we go. >> my gosh. that's gorgeous. what a selection. wow. >> sandwiches with a real twist. >> new variation on the cucumber sandwich with asparagus at the top. i love this. look at this egg sandwich. >> so pretty. >> with a real egg. >> too pretty to eat. but we'll eat. >> the caviar. eat the savory first and then work your way up to the top the tower. >> okay. >> we have sort of fansies right there. macaroons. i'm starting from the bottom. i really love cucumber sandwiches. what are you going to go for? delicious. >> i think i'll try this cucumber because it is just so

pretty with the asparagus. >> right. >> i'm having one of these. just grab it off the plate? >> yep. serve the tea. thank you. all right. >> lovely. >> can i give you some milk? >> yes. >> is that enough? >> yes. that's perfect. >> okay. >> so that is just an issue of preference -- color? >> yes, exactly. >> all righty. >> then obviously you stir your tea but you're not supposed to do it too vigorously. >> no clankety clank. >> no. >> tea etiquette. >> then apparently you are supposed to place your spoon on the other side of your saucer in the same direction as the handle of the cup. that's better. thank you. never put your pinky out when you're drinking tea.

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the most highly recommended bed in america. as the presidential election nears, all eyes will be on the monthly jobs report until then. gee just found that 160,000 jobs were added in july and for one california man who has been out of work for four years, news like this couldn't come soon enough. >> reporter: the start of the day and a new, full-time job for ernie casillas. these first steps on the los angeles airport tarmac have been nearly four years in the making. how long were you unemployed? >> i'm going on four years november 6th. >> reporter: four years. >> yes. >> reporter: barack obama started his new job as president a short time after casillas lost his job making big bucks as a mortgage broker. cnn met him as a subprime

mortgage crisis wreaked havoc on the economy and his own career driving expensive cars, having an expensive suit. it humbles you. >> reporter: he not only lost his job but his home and his marriage. he moved in with his mother. casillas went to job fairs and networks sending out hundreds of resumes. he started his own computer consulting company but it never took off. increasingly desperate he put this ad on facebook stating, bluntly, i need a job. last year, still unemployed, he hit downtown los angeles carrying a sign. >> i am so tired of collecting unemployment. >> i just think there are a lot of us walking here who know we're not that far away. >> last week he was at rock bottom. >> i had something to eat.

i didn't have money for gas. i looked under my car seat and i had $1.65. >> reporter: that paid for the gas that took him to meet anna rose a rosales and she gave him a job as a supervisor for her cleaning company. >> he deserves it. everyone deserves to work. have you ever been unemployed and not able to pay a bill? there ar lot of ernies out there. >> reporter: as the next presidential election looms with the economy an issue casillas political intentions may surprise you. who are you going to vote for? >> obama. >> why not mitt romney? >> i don't think he's with the people. >> reporter: he says obama less distasteful than romney, deserves more time. he says his long jobless ordeal showed him there is no easy path out of unemployment and no quick fix for the country's sluggish

economy. >> you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm rob marciano in today for fredricka whitfield. one of the nation's worst wildfire seasons on record, it is now oklahoma's turn. fires are spreading across more than a dozen counties fueled by extreme drought conditions and temperatures reaching 113 degrees. more than 60 buildings have already been burned and fire threatens more than a hundred homes across several communities right now. i have christopher carlson on the phone right now. he and his children had to make a run from noble, oklahoma. you're safe in norman now i'm told, christopher. tell us about your harrowing experience. >> well, yes, rob. i am safe. my family is safe at the moment. thank god. we were watching the north fire. there was a major wildfire north of my house. it started out there and it was going north so i wasn't too

concerned with that. about an hour later, my wife called me and told me there is a major fire north of us, which i already knew. i went out to look at that and i noticed there was smoke and embers blowing from the south across my vision. i'm like, okay. what's going on there? so i went to the back of the house and went out the back porch and walked into literally a forest fire in my back yard. the entire neighborhood behind me was engulfed and all the forest around me was on fire right up to my porch where i was standing. >> what went through your head and what did you do next? >> the very first thing was to get my step son out of the house. i have two step sons. only one was there at the time. his name is gabriel. he's 12 years old. very brave boy. i got him in the truck. i said get your suits on. we got to go right now. so i took him down the road to go check on another neighbor friend of mine and they said they were all right. they were in the process of leaving. so when i was ready to go i decided to, look, son, i have to stay here and try to help the neighbors to get them away and

get them notified of the fires and to help save my house. he understood that so i got him in a safe zone and i ran back up to my neighborhood and some neighbors helped me shovel dirt and stuff around my trailer because i had no water, no water lines out there, and no fire hydrants of course. we're too far out. and i managed to get a call to 911 as my air conditioner was burning, my porch was burning, and all the trees around me were engulfed. but it was jumping across to the neighbor's properties and their vehicles and at that time i decided to forsake my trailer and started knocking on my neighbors' trailers again to make sure they were aware of this. fortunately, nobody was home. but there were a few up the hill that were fortunate enough to have water lines and they were watering their properties. i asked a man if i could borrow one of his hoses to put on my washer hook up inside the house to get the hose outside to save my house. >> how much is left of your house? >> about 3/4