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at least eight of our american troops are dead along with at least two afghan army troops. hello, everyone. we have the latest on this and other top stories today. i'm jamie colby. >> i'm eric sean. it's considered to be the fearest attack of the war so far. it's reuniting the controversy of deploying our troops in far-flung outposts that can be overrun by the taliban fighter it is. the latest there. connor, what is the latest on this fight and what happened? >> well, eric, violence has hit record levels across afghanistan this summer. this battle as you said is one of the deadliest not only for the summer but during the entire eight-year war here in afghanistan. eight u.s. soldiers were killed and two afghan soldiers. military officials are describing this attack by the taliban as brazen and describing it as well-organized, very, very thorough attack. now, more than 200, nearly 300

taliban fighters swarmed two u.s. military outposts in the eastern region of nurestan. as rugged or difficult a fighting area as there is in all of afghanistan. now the u.s. military was able to repel this attack but not before eight u.s. soldiers and two afghan soldiers were killed. another sign of the growing strength of the taliban, eric. >> the general said he wants to protect the afghan population. do these remote outposts work into that plan? and they've also talked about pulling our troops out of these type of small posts back into the big cities. i guess basically to protest our troops from these type of attacks. >> general mccrystal very much wants to protect the civilian population here. this is one of the places he's

received most criticism. there's few afghan fighter there is. it's one of the places they're talking about removing troops, pulling them back. they're not just gonna protect the big cities. even smaller towns in kandahar and other places that we might not consider very large but we probably still consider remote, they're still gonna protect those areas but there have to be places they can protect a decent size afghan population and successful with fights with taliban in these places are virtually impossible because they're so rugged and mountainnous. connor pall reporting live. thank you, connor. >> now to the developing story we're following out of iran where a report today is saying that tehran has exactly what it takes to design and produce a workable nuclear bomb. reaction to that report coming in as the head of the iaea, that's the atop mick energy

agency that goes and evaluates the site there in iran, they say that they see tehran shifting gears from confrontation to cooperation. james rosen has the latest developments for us from washington. james, i guess i just find it interesting that whether the question of dialogue can actually work. this is such an optimistic viewpoint from muhammad abbarad a. he's the head in the agency, jamie, and he has been less confrontational toward iran than some u.s. officials would like to see over the years. this report is an internal draft meaning it was not approved for release. its title is possible military dimension of iran's nuclear program. excerpts showing up on websites last month and "the new york times" today. it quotes sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable nuclear weapon. it also concludes that iran has made major strides in a number

of projects that can only belie an intention to billion -- build nuclear weapons. we should point out, jamie, iran maintains its nuclear work is for peaceful energy purposes. >> even medical isotopes as they would declare. you've been following this, james so i want to ask you since there is such a positive viewpoint and we do have a date to go in and inspect this one facility. is it really as big and positive news as he would want us to believe, especially as we spoke with ambassador baldwin. we know there are other nuclear-related sites. >> well, it's positive in the sense that u.n. nuclear inspectors on october 25th will gain access to this site which was undeclared until last week. near the central holy city where

uranium enrichment is taking place. >> will they actually send the uranium out of the country? what about other hidden facilities they may have. that's why we need to tee up all these sanctions so hopefully they change their mind. take them at their word? absolutely not. i'm afraid they're running a clock on us. >> they may run the clock on sanctions particularly if other members of the u.n. security council who enjoy veto power there block u.s. attempts to impose change. >> maybe those sanctions are in the works. we're going to follow and we know you will, too. thank you, james. >> thank you, jamie. >> another possibility that iran already knows how to make a nuclear bomb. it's something israel has been warning us about and worrying about for a long time now. former israeli ambassador to the

united nationed. same with you, sir, what does israel do now? >> as you said, eric, we've been saying you will along that iran has crossed that very vital crucial threshold of no return where they have the capacity and the knowledge and the technology to produce a bomb. we've actually been saying 2009 for years. now we're talking about 2014, 2015. i think just before he left he said yes, may be right, it may happen as early as 2009. but we are there now. they are at the point of no return. we are at the point where we have to decide whether the world is willing to live in a horrible, dangerous world where iran possesses nuclear weapons or whether the national community will do something about this. what we've seen in afghanistan is just a small tragic run of the possibility of this ugly

dangerous world which will become impossible to live in if iran indeed has a nuclear weapon. >> well, mahmoud ahmadinejad was here last week, looked them in the eye, said having a nuclear bomb is retarded, criminal. that was his word. that it's inhumane. they constantly deny this and then, oops, here's another nuclear facility we didn't tell you about. >> coming from someone that is definitely criminal, i would say these statements just part of that game iran is playing with the world. a game of deceiving, lying, cheating, and playing the clock for time. we've seen the same happen with north korea, but there's a huge difference between north korea and iran. north korea obtained nuclear weapons out of desperation. iran is seeking them out of aspiration. aspiration to rule the muslim world, aspiration to change civilization as we know it and wipe israel off the face of the

map while denying the holocaust and predicting the next one. the american public and international public have to understand this is not a great program but if the jury and the public make a mistake on "american idol," the worst that can happen, the singer sings a little less impressively. if we make a mistake here we are doomed, civilization as we know it adoomed. enough is enough. if they don't come clean, they will be facing not only sanctions but they have to realize that there are other options including a military option is on the table. as far as israel is concerned, i want to assure you, they have the capacity, we have the range, we have the technology and we have the capability to do it. >> and if necessary and if nobody else does, i hope they will because this is a horrible danger to the rest of the world

and to international community and civilization as we know it. but if nobody else does, take words from your president, yes, we can and, yes, we will. >> a strong statement there from the former ambassador gillerman. a final question, he's saying it's changed, they were going to cooperate. you know what worries me, three weeks, inspectors have three weeks -- three weeks! before they even go in there. what, are they making airplane reservations. what can iran do in those three weeks at this facility before the u.n. inspectors even get there? >> nuclear years of achievement, the u.n. does things very slowly. iran makes the u.n. and others do it even slower. they are masters at playing for time. look at that last meeting in

geneva. it came out, yes, there was a great meeting. now we're going to meet again in a few weeks' time. the inspectors have three weeks to go in there. once they'll be there, i'll assure you another visit will be scheduled and another visit will be scheduled. and the problem is we do not have time. the main thing to understand, the main thing for the president of the united states to understand and the leaders of the free world, including blair who joined in that friday in pittsburgh is there are two clocks here. there's an ecological clock of iran and the diplomatic clock. as you know so well, eric, also from your experience and you outline it had in your great book, that the clock is very slow and we cannot afford to waste time because one day we will wake up to a nuclear iran and by then it will be too late. so we have to act quickly and realize that the most crucial element is the one of time and we should not allow iran to play for time and use it in order to

reach that goal which would be absolutely impossible for the world to live in. >> ambassador dan gilgan with quite a strong and compelling message on a sunday morning. ambassador, always good to see you. jamie? >> there was news on the jobless front this past week. the unemployment numbers climbing to nearly 10%. what about the recovery we've heard so much about. it was the topic on the sunday morning talk shows. and following those shows now live from our d.c. bureau. one of the shows a prediction from the formered from reserve chairman allen greenspan. doesn't paint a very positive picture. where does this all go and could these numbers -- >> well, greenspan predicted the unemployment stay there for a while. not encouraging news if you're looking for a job right now.

he called the latest 9.8 unemployment rate for september pretty awful. those are his words. said he's concerned about people who have been out of work for a long time, say six months or longer because they start to lose job skills. here's greenspan. >> somebody loses skills, people who are out of work for very protracted periods of time lose their skills eventually. and, remember, what makes an economy great is a combination of the capital assets in the economy and the people who run it. >> greenspan says he would vice president obama to focus on getting the economy going but not take any big, drastic measures, not go too far. >> we already took a bit of a drastic measure with a nearly billion dollar stimulus plan. does he think it worked? >> he doesn't support a second stimulus plan.

greenspan says less than half of the current stimulus plan is really in effect. so he didn't really say whether it's working or not, but he put it like this, he said the nature of the recovery really isn't clear yet. today on "fox news" sunday, senator bide didn't praise a stimulus package but said the economy would be a lot worse without it. here's his case. >> you have to remember i think a good percentage of the jobs bill hasn't even gone into effect yet. if i had been drafting the package, i would have more directly related to jobs. but it is what it is at this point. it continues to go into the economic blood stream and to keep things as unsatisfying as they are from being a whole lot worse. >> by the way, jamie, the white house is not calling for another big stimulus package at this point. but the president said yesterday he's considering other measures. >> other creative measures. >> my bad, i guess the trillion dollar stimulus plan in my head is still so much money with so little of it paid out i said

it's nearly a billion. oh, folks, it's nearly a trillion and it could be more. thank you so much. >> they had a federal deposit insurance corporation, the fdic, while she wants to scrap the doctrine, things are too big to fail. during the financial crisis as you know many banks argued the economy would collapse if they were allowed to go under. the chief of the fdic sheila blair wants to get rid of that idea. she wants the authority to shut down failing insurance companies and hedge funds if need be. while the fdic wants $45 billion more to try and protect the bank accounts of america. >> here's a brand new poll to tell you about. it shows that americans are moving away from the so-called public option or the government-run health insurance plan that's been talked about on capitol hill. according to rasmussen reports, 63% of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one will be forced to switch coverage is their top priority. just 29% say giving people the

choice of the public option is more important. president obama has said no one would be forced to change their insurance if his plan is implemented; however, many analysts conclude some employers would drop their private health insurance if the explain passed. >> dry conditions have been sparking a wildfire in the san bernardino national forest in california. just what the fire crews are up against. look at that. it's the so-called sheep fire. it's already destroyed three homes and threatening hundreds more homes. more than 500 firefighters right now battling those flames. rick live in the fox weather center with the latest. winds of up to 45 mph. that must make it really tough. >> it is. we talk about a fire season in california and it's really right now when you get the santa ana winds. a santa ana winds keeps winds out of the northeast.

this is a different thing. this say storm system bringing a westerly wind. that means humidity levels are higher this time and means temperatures are going to be much lower. that's good news for fighting the fires today. temps only towards the 60s and 70s. the problem we have in california is the entire state is in some sort of a drought and almost 50% is at least in severe drought. that means any kind of wind event really brings big concerns for fires. this is not kind of your typical santa ana event we're talking about, major fires spreading in extremely high temperatureses that that's good news. a little cloud cover coming and winds with us for much of the afternoon, especially around the san bernardino area. that's because of this big system you can see here. this rotation is very cold kind of early season big winter storm. we're going to be talking about 2 to 4 feet of snow falling with this storm across the northern rockies in towards nevada and by tomorrow in across the rockies,

colorado as well. one other story we're following and that's some very heavy rain across much of the south. not bad news here either. we have drought we've been dealing with across much of texas. rain falling a little too much, causes localized flooding but any rain we get into texas we'll take. tomorrow the atlanta area, remember that flooding we saw a couple weeks ago, more rain there and that's a bit of concern as well. >> i was in utah wednesday and, man, it rained in salt lake basin but they got snow. i think they're going to get some more. jamie? >> there's so much emphasis on identity theft. it happens to millions of people every year. you get something stolen. someone finds your critical information and that's why having a photo i.d. is a crucial way to protect your good name. what about when it comes to healthcare, particularly people in this country illegally. should they be required to have identification. wait until you hear what's

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iran says it will cooperate on its nuclear programs. guess who else? now north korea say they may be ready to resume talks about its

nuclear program. meeting with the premier of china, getted at the airport. reports from their meeting say the two discussed a wide range of issues including denuclearzation. so far they've had no specifics on north korea returning to the table for talks. north korea has claimed to have tested two nuclear bombs. so far. and they've fired a variety of missiles since that first test in 2006. >> i gotta tell you i'm truly fascinated by this next topic. you have to let us know what you think. you'll decide. let's face it, you need an i.d. for just about everything these days. to get on an airplane, you have to use a credit card, show i.d. even to rent a videotape you have to show a driver's license. do you know you rarelily need identification when you apply for medicaid.

and democrats so far want to keep this that way. they're rejecting an amendment that would actually require i.d. some say the current law in the healthcare bills being bandied about are just too lax leaving the door open to illegal immigrants with stolen identities to obtain benefits. you know what that means bottom line? it costs you money. joining me now columnist john fine who wrote a piece on this that caught our eye. good to see you. why should we worry or be concerned about this or is it something you think will be ultimately resolved in the right way? >> dr. malcolm sparrow of harvard says at least 10% and perhaps 20 to 25% of current medicaid spending is fraudulent. people using false or stolen identities, false billing. so it's rife with problems. some of those could be solved if we asked people to show their identity to prove they are who

they say they are. we do that in every aspect of life as you mentioned but don't do it in voting. photo tie i.d. has been often opposed at the polls. and we don't do it for healthcare benefits. the president says illegal immigrants are not going to get the benefits from his healthcare bill but they're not having any enforcement mechanisms. if you have a law against running a red light but you never enforce it, you're going to get a lot of people running red lights. >> if they can produce a fraudulent identification, then why aren't there checks in place even now? how long can you defraud the system as it stands right now if you're using a fake i.d. in order to get medicaid benefits? >> well, in many cases we don't even really ask for an i.d. what the amendment in the senate was offered is you should produce an i.d. to get the benefits in the obama healthcare plan. apparently not even that is going to be done. so it's even laxer than current

standards. there are places in florida dieted for this kind of fraud where they use false i.d.'s and generate billions in incorrect billings to jilt the taxpayer. >> take a step back for a second and take us through what's going on in congress and in the senate. particularly in the senate finance committee proposal that this was raised. tell us who brought it up and what the pushback was that made it look like there won't be an identification requirement. >> a proposal by senator charles graphly of iowa. he's the ranking republican on the committee and he basically said we should have photo i.d. standards in place to prevent fraud. senator jeff binghampton, a democrat from new mexico said i don't think there's a sense of fraud. i think there's a solution without a problem that's behind it. it went down 13 votes to 10 votes. that indicates if it reaches the floor of the senate it's going to be voted down there, too. you have a complete indifference

to the fraud problem in america. they said medicare and medicaid is great programs because they only have overhead costs of 2 or 3% compared to the insurance companies. what they don't tell you if we have 20% fraud and that's what the best estimates are, that means the program is more expensive than any private insurance program we currently have. if you don't have photo i.d., the cost of obamacare is much bigger than the congressional budget office estimates. >> i think people more and more are so concerned, want to keep the healthcare they have. employers afraid they're not going to be able to provide the private insurance they give their employees. that thinking about the coverage of illegal immigrants may seem to them like a small issue compared to their own personal issues. what are we talking about in terms of tax dollars and what it could cost each of us. i don't expect you to have an actual number necessarily but why is it important enough if you're picking up the phone and calling your representative about these proposals you should include these on your list of please take care of this for

america. >> medicare is scheduled to be bankrupt in eight years. that means no more money unless we raise taxes dramatically. you have to control costs in medicare somehow. one of the ways to control costs is crack down on fraud. you can't crack down on fraud if you're not asking people to produce a valid photo i.d. there are eight to 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. that could bankrupt medicare and medicaid. >> with talk of toughening up and tightening the boarders that that number has probably risen because that was the number we were talking about at least a year ago. interesting topic. something for everyone to consider. i'm glad we're reporting on it. thank you very much. >> acorn in the hot seat. at the defense table. the activist group will go on trial in nevada for felony. it's all connected to a voter registration plan there. nevada authorities raided the

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mean and nasty. that's what acorn calls the attacks on its creditability. in a fund-raising letter asking for money, lewis used even "fox

news" to try and rustle up donations. they will face a judge in nevada. that's a the judge in this trial video. acorn itself will face trial there accused of running a voter registration scheme. paying intenttives to sign up more voters. that's against the law. the program was called black jack or 21. it's las vegas after all. why haven't other states charged acorn, too. reno with miller, a democrat, who investigators made the case. secretary of state, welcome to "fox news" this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> why in this trial, the fact that you will have a trial now. why is that important? >> obviously we had seen widespread voter registration abuse in nevada before. i promised when i was elected i would enforce laws if we saw those types of abuses.

we formed a voter integrity fast being force and warned people if we saw those types of activity we would go after them. we governed that, executed a search warrant and i think it goes a long way to insuring the public there's integrity in the electoral process and we have to go forward to go after aggressive prosecution so we can deter these tips types of activities in the future. >> i was with you, out there covering the preliminary hearing you see here. what was interesting to me you talked about having subpoenas getting records from the acorn office itself, and that helped make the case. we haven't seen that happen in some other places around the country where the workers are the ones who get hit. >> look, i took this job, i was a former criminal prosecutor before i became the state's chief election officer. and i assured the public i was

going to take seriously the election laws on our books. we issued subpoenas in the case but took the additional step and executed a search warranty headquarters. it was ultimately most of the materials we recovered from that warrant that led to the investigation. and in every other instance where acorn's been charged, they've simply gone after the individual canvassers and charged them with fraud. we've been able to substantiate charges and i think have a very solid case to prove it's not just a few bad apples. it went very much higher up in the organization and ultimately acorn and the regional director should be held accountable for the criminal activity that took place. >> are the workers so many times the ones held accountable. it doesn't seem other prosecutors have subpoenaed the records from acorn's headquarters. >> obviously we believe that it went many higher on the food chain. they have a quota system in place and were paying individuals this black jack. that encourages voter

registration fraud. that's why we charged them criminally and tried to obtain a conviction. they constantly say, look, we had a bad apple, a bad employee like most people do. clearly that's not the case. this is an organization that came to nevada, hired people still in prison convicted of identity theft on work release programs -- >> wait a minute, hired people still in prison? >> the in fact is transitional housing facility down there, acorn approached them and hired individuals that were still in prison. some of them convicted of serious offenses, identity theft, violation of state law that these inmates should not have had a contact with people's personal information. those were the individuals out canvassing people. it's no surprise then that many of the forms that those individuals turned into would be fraudulent and that burdened the system. we were ultimately able to keep those names off the voter rental striation rolls but that doesn't

mean it's not criminal. it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to obtain a conviction. >> you showed 47% what acorn turned in does not match the records. acorn says this is a political prosecution. all political. they deny any guilt. the original director charged, her lawyer denies guilt as she tries to stop it. is this based on politics as acorn claims? >> when we executed the search warrant, they responded and said this is politically motivated. it was pointed out i'm a democratic and the attorney general's office is a democrat. they shifted and said this is political grandstanding. they're obviously trying to point the finger to shift the blame. even acorn's own representative admitted what they did in las vegas was wrong but they say it was limited to the individual canvassers and individual field director. obviously we believe that it goes much higher up than that. that's why we charged acorn and

their regional field director because that's what the evidence will show at trial we believe. >> there will be an arraignment the week after next and a trial of acorn in nevada. we'll be could having that. secretary of state ross miller of nevada. thank you for coining us this morning. california's attorney general jerry brown is also launching an investigation into acorn and an investigation into the making of those controversial undercover videos made by conservative activist james o'keefe. the attorney general for governor schwarzenegger, aaron baclear. the point of the investigation, what do you want to find out? >> see if there are any wrongdoings. the tapes were outrageous. it warrants a full investigation so the governor asked the attorney general to do that. he's now said he is going to launch an investigation and we look forward to seeing where that leads. >> acorn though calls it

"political grandstanding." the same type of attack they used against ross miller and the attorney general of nevada. is this political grandstanding by the governor and attorney general. >> the governor makes a great point. our neighboring state of nevada also a democrat. this has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. the attorney general here jerry brown say democrat running for governor probably next year. it's important to note this is not a republican or democrat issue. people of all stripes saw the videotapes and are outraged by this. i believe the people of california want this investigated. >> what type of problems have you had, if any, dealing with acorn in california? >> well, this point we just had the attorney general launch the investigation. we'll see where that leads. the one tape -- you're talking about the videotapes with the prosecutor and the pimp. one was in san bernardino county. we also had allegations of fraudule

fraudule fraudulent voter registration. >> i heard when we were at the voter project here at "fox news" investigating a lot of this, we heard about allegations in san diego of signing up illegal immigrants from mexico right over the border. is this where that investigation is leading? we weren't able to follow that up. is that similar to what they investigated? >> what's going on in san diego is a couple things. one already they had a videotape of an acorn worker telling this pimp and prostitute in the videotape how to illegally smuggle i think 13 to 15-year-old girls across the border and then also aside from that we have these girls across the border. we had voter fraud that they sent to the local prosecutor. so the allegations on acorn doing mischievous things is nothing new. we believe from our standpoint when we find out about it we

need to have the proper authorities investigate. >> finally the final point, there's also potential issue with the making of those videos, that in california it apparently is against the law to make a video or audio recording without someone's permission. is that part of the investigation, also? >> i believe so. the attorney general said he will look into that and everything else. but that doesn't change the fact that these workers for this organization, a number of occasions were videotaped doing outrageous things, suggesting that people engage in prostitution, human trafficking and other things. so we look forward to the investigation and whether or not this is admissible is another question but it doesn't change the fact that these allegations have been brought to light. >> all right, aaron mcclaire, deputy secretary for arnold schwarzenegger. this in the golden state. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> there's a lot more on acorn here at "fox news." we have a special investigation, a one-hour program, "fox news"

reporting the truth about acorn. megan kellie, karl cameron and myself. it is just over three hours from now, 3 p.m. eastern time and, again, at 9:00 eastern time tonight. >> is cal completing the swap of palestinian prisoners all for a videotape proving palestinian soldier is still alive. the release of 20 prisoners in exchange for this proof of life video but actually freeing shalid is much more difficult. mike tobin is live with the latest. mike, there's so much concern really around the world. what is the latest negotiations for shalit's release? >> the negotiations to secure his release have been hung up on 125 specific prisoners that hamas wants released from israeli jail. hamas has been demanding a total of 1,000 prisoners be released. 450 are specific names. but these 125 according to

israel have participated in violent attacks from israeli. they don't want these individuals released from fear they may attack again. according to our sources the negotiations are hung up over these 125 individuals. the german mediator who secured the break-through we saw this week or get the credit for seeing the break-through we saw this week according to our sources are heading back to the gaza strip on wednesday. we're watching this visit very closely, jamie. >> when we saw this video of shalit -- and i wonder what his family had to say. the newspaper makes reference to a september 14th date although you can probably read it better than i can what year. does it confirm that video is from right now? >> there's no doubt that that was september 14th of this year. no one's really calling that into speculation.

shalit's family was watching this when they were watching it viva helicopter. there was relief on the part of family and whole of israel. but the father has been trying to tamp down the optimism that his son's release is right around the corner. he understands it's a very difficult prisoner release to be negotiated before he is reunited with his son, jamie. >> our wishes are with him and thank you for bringing us the latest on these negotiations. mike tobin live in jerusalem. >> wildfires out of control in california. thousands of acres going up in smoke in a national forest. homes are destroyed, mandatory evacuations underway. what's threatened, where it can go next, when will it be under control? !

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protect us from terrorism. the new york city police department is upgrading its own ars mall in the fight against terror in a state of the art command center there's using designed to protect wall street expanding operations. one key feature that perhaps could be copied across the nation, a network of security cameras that will track all the activity in the financial district. could we be seeing this in more cities? it's in response to the attacks of 9/11. laura engel went to take a look. how technologically advanced is what you've seen so far today? >> all i can say is today was very cool and we have a lot of video we're going to show you throughout the day. this command center has been up and running since november of 2008. today was the very first time that the nypd allowed cameras inside of this room and it was impressive. we are talking about a 40-foot

long wall, 10 feet high with maps and grids and cameras. and the way the system operates, the lower manhattan security initiative has been in the works for quite some time. we are talking about security cameras and license plate readers and when the officers get a look what's happening, maybe a 911 call that comes in, suspicious activity reported on the ground, they can double click on the icons on these maps and go to a realtime camera that's over on the left-hand side of the screen and it can zoom in if there's a camera that location and there are many cameras all around new york city and take a look exactly what is happening. we're here live outside of the brooklyn bridge you can see behind me. if you haven't been to the brooklyn bridge lately, i want to give you a realtime look how many people are on this bridge every day. had is one of the highest security risks in new york city. come and take a walk with me because we've got the cameras everywhere. look at the signs. they're everywhere all over new york city.

attention, area under nypd video surveillance. you're going to see a lot more of those signs around new york. part of this initiative announced today, $24 million is going to be allocated to this from the department of homeland security. you've got all the technological advances happening in this lower manhattan secured initiative. today also we heard from nypd commissioner ray kellie and mayor michael bloomberg this is going to stretch uptown, mid-town manhattan, all these types of surveillances going on in lower manhattan will now include what's happening in midtown manhattan. those cameras installed and upgraded, all that information will be fed into this lower manhattan command center. it gives everybody a whole new layer of protection. really helps the nypd work along with the counterterrorism people that we have here in new york city helping to not only prevent terrorism but to seize people coming here and eyeballing, doing their own surveillance of

us so they can stop them before they strike. >> lori, we have seen the role that cameras can play, particularly in london, in terms of tracking terrorism and actually events, getting evidence. it's interesting to hear they will stretch beyond the area of the world trade center. often people say they don't understand there hadn't been more done since 9/11 particularly in that area. you and i were talking earlier about the i-watch program which is going on across the country. police chiefs had a huge meeting yesterday where they talked about getting the community involved like the old crime watch but now on terrorism, where to look for it and what to look for. is it a sense in the nypd they also want to help communities, they'll put up the cameras but we also need to do our part? >> that's right. it's an old slogan but has a new meaning. if you see something, say something. i did talk to the nypd about the i-watch program. they say it's definitely

something we're going to be hearing a lot more about. as you reported yesterday and as we saw what happened with the denver police chief, that meeting, they want the community members like what happened in the gaza zi case, if somebody's in there buying chemicals in a store and you're working behind the desk, they want people to call them so they can have a little tip and go on those investigations sooner. >> those calls can always be anonymous. thanks, laura. >> jamie, a little boy to the rescue. his sister has a seizure, he jumps into action to save her life. a heart-warming story next. whd

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resources on the ground in california. they are working overtime to try to put out a fast-moving wildfire right now centered in the san bernardino mountains. take a look at the blaze. fire crews are attacking a wall of flames of that scorched 3500 acres. there are moandatory evacuation orders. how big of a problem are we looking at here? the weather doesn't seem to be cooperating. joining me now on the phone is robin prince. she's a public information officer for the san bernardino national forest service. have i got the numbers right or is there a change, robin? >> that's correct. we have 3500 acres. the fire was very active overnight which is unusual. firefighters are challenged by erratic winds and therefore erratic fire behavior. the fire made a run through lone pine canyon last night. it's moving toward the community of rightwood and that's why we

have increased evacuation orders at 2 a.m. last night to include the eastern communities of wrightwood. >> is it too early to know what might have caused the blaze? >> yes, it is. anytime we have an incident in the forest we have our investigators go look at the origin of the fire and try to determine what the cause is. so they'll be looking at that when they can safely get into the area. >> what areas in terms of numbers, how many homes are at risk for this hour. >> your estimate of about four to 6,000 homes is about what we -- residents we have actually. >> and centers are set up for them to go -- the information getting out are people heeding the warning to go? >> well, hopefully. people when they call for mandatory evacuation, it's very important you go. some of the more recent fires we have had people injured because

they did not evacuate when evacuations were called for. we have been having -- the sheriff will notify people when evacuation is called. they can also go to the neighborhood with loud speakers. >> i was going to ask you about that, the reverse 911 calls were effective. there were three homes burned so far. will there be more of those and should every community that's at risk like these mountain areas have that? >> san bernardino county does have that system in effect and it's been working fairly well. so they heed that. if they're in a volunteer area they should have bags ready to go so they don't impede the firefighters and equipment. >> you want to steer clear of the work that's being done. we understand many, many people are at work to try to get this under control. robin prince, we thank you for taking time out to talk to us about it. we hope everyone in there stays

safe. thank you very much. >> that will do it for us, eric. half show today. >> we'll be covering those shows throughout the day. >> that's it. i'm eric sawn. >> stay where you are. the news continues with shannon breen and it starts for you right now. have a great day. ♪

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