doug burns does think this case will get by the preliminary hearing.z called this politically motivated. megyn: they appear to make some assumptions in that document that go to the heart of the case. trace, thank you. the mayor of a major u.s. city is being hailed as a hero after rushing into a burning building to save a woman's life an doesn't want any credit for it. we'll show what you happened. plus, weighing in on the war on moms? is that where we are now? stay tuned for a special focus group as nine mothers debate what working really is and how it feels to be in the middle of this fierce political debate. >> i think the main thing is we need to stick together. one thing that's happening in this debate is women are starting to say, no matter what you are doing, we honor these choices for our fellow women and we need to stick together. it feel like we are back in middle school again. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which woul

let's talk about it with jason friedman, a former prosecutor and doug burns, a criminal defense attorneying, doug, if there is the possibility for some kind of liability here, either civil liability or maybe even criminal liability on the part of these controllers. >> well, ordinarily you would think so, jon, but what happened is there were three disconnects. first of all when the call came in, it was flight 512, 5912 but came across as flight 12. that's unfortunate and sounds bizarre, but that's w457d. -- what happened. so then the controller followed up with, not surprisingly, what's your location. and in another bizarre recipe for confusion and disaster, there was no response. lastly, it appears, and the facts have to be developed, you know, in more detail, and really study it, but it appears they did not, repeat, did not, use the correct emergency freeience question -- frequency that should have been idea, so for all those reasons that's why this happened and thank god, there were 21 people on the flight t. landed safely, thank god. could have been worse but it was the three disconne

let's talk about it with doug burns, former federal prosecutor.y. julie apparently had been born with cerebral palsy. she was in a wheelchair. 8 years old. she was also allergic to peanuts. the night before she was supposed to be in her cousin's wedding as a flower girl her mother apparently gave her some m&ms as a treat she said, a little thank you for being in the wedding. the m&ms had traces of peanuts in them. little julie died. now the mower is being prosecuted for murder. doug is that appropriate? >> art narrowly, absolutely not. there would be all kinds of questions whether she would know what she is feeding her. at outset you said there is a suicide note that is absolutely critical. what this is, if you look at all the facts, and remember, they presented it to the grand jury. the woman herself testified in her own defense yet she was indicted for second-degree murder. she left a note saying she was in fear of her husband killing her and therefore sending her daughter to heaven to avoid her potentially being mistreated by the husband. so in

joining me now is former prosecutor doug burns, day two, day three of this case, doug. not really the affair, though. what is really the issue, or the potential crime that john edwards could be guilty of? >> i'm really glad you started with that. because you have to break this down into three components. one, it's a political story, put that to the side in terms of me being a lawyer, two, you know, his dizzying fall from great heights of power and sal atious affair and all that but the reality is none of that is a criminal offense, okay? >> jenna: if only it was, duck, if only it was illegal to be a jerk! we could all benefit from that at one time or another. >> but the defense rhetoric is here's the code book and i'm looking into it and don't see being a jerk and having an affair in here. many experts, law professors and practitioners in the field of campaign finance have gone on record and said this is a bit of a stretch in terms of a legal theory and the reason they're saying that is this. $925,000 was given to edwards, and the question is, was that, you know, a gift

let's bring in a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor doug burns.k you. jenna: very interesting topic. jennifer, is this legal if it happens? >> listen the, the right to travel abroad is a constitutionally protected right. now it can be regulated. the government has the right to regulate it but it has to be done under the confines of due process. and this legislation on its face arguably does not provide the protections that are warranted when the government is infringing on a person's constitutional right to travel. and that's what's troubling about this legislation but can they regulate it? yes. but they can't do it willy-nilly. there has to be protections in place so that people are not having their constitutional rights infringed on. jenna: doug, the argument there is due process. if you're $50,000, you have to be $50,000 behind in your taxes the irs can do this. >> first of all we have a law that says if you're in serious a rearage on child support, okay, your passport can be suspend or revoked and the state department can refuse to issue a pas

we're going to take a closer look at this with doug burns, a former prosecutor, and john is a criminalnse attorney joining us as well. so, doug, let's just give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt that they would have arrested this guy if they had enough. what do you think was missing? >> well, first of all, what was missing was the decedent's body, and that always makes it a lot harder to prove. now, obviously, all experts will tell you you don't need the body to go forward with the prosecution, but that might have been part of it. look, i don't blame the sister for being extremely upset. um, after all, there was blood found right in the living room on the couch, and it was the victim's blood. there was also a note from her which, apparently, sort of alerted police that he would be the number one person and that she felt that she was under fear for her life. so that's sort of the information that is making the sister so angry. but from a legal cause of action standpoint as i'm sure my colleague will explain, it is difficult to bring a cause of action on this. jenna: well, john, b

burned in six states and beat smoke is causing a quality issues. no major fires in our area, but the conditions are right. chief meteorologist doug hill joins us with a look at the windy conditions and whether or not there will be any rain soon. >> may be a sprinkle or a light shower briefly tomorrow, but a dry out look at the moment. still very dry across the area and well beyond. this is the red flag warning in effect for our entire viewing area all the way down into georgia and florida. this will happen repeatedly over the next week or so because of the lack of rain in the forecast. beautiful afternoon outside of the belfort furniture weather center. the temperature has been very mild. 64 in the city. prequel in frederick. it 59 degrees. 34-42 tonight overnight. there are changes i will share with you in the fall forecast coming up. >> in developing story in the district where an effort is under way to crack down on the theft of smartphones. d.c. mayor vincent gray and police chief captiva near joined in with the chiefs of other major cities to announce a new initiative. wireless carriers will launch a new database to stop sma

burned down iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium missiles this is measuring the contamination undestroyed as a result he dug and his team were seriously contaminated by inhaling or even to dust today doug is one of the only survivors of that group i mean you can look at me i mean what i look like there was a lot different story early healthy and our bodies ashore nearly sick little me right there. you know we were the best of the best all i for many morse not worth it too many people are sick too many people are dead. since this photo was taken twenty one members of his team have died returning from iraq doug submitted an unfavorable report on the use of depleted uranium. once i told the us army that it was dangerous we couldn't clean it up and they couldn't do it they sent me packing . they said how do you know somebody goes. we don't want to hear from you no we won't talk to you i mean you got your job keep doing things but shut up and go away the u.s. army never took doug rocks recommendations into account do you think you look just so you think you know it's a legit sensibly inclusion totally extensively in fallujah not a question and we see everything in all the other people we se

doug, thank you. >> just in case. gregg not very many teachers in a lamborghini. >>> tinder box conditions igniting brushfire conditions across the east coast, firefighters battling big blazes in new york and new jersey, fires burningsouth as florida. at least 1000 acres burning on long island, fire officials there saying the high winds are making the situation unpredictable. rick leventhal is live in the new york newsroom. >> reporter: gregg, april is wildfire season but it's this unusual to have this many fires over this large an area and the risk of more blazes is very real. we have a map of the red flag warnings that are still in effect, that stretches from western south carolina through north carolina, maryland, delaware, and southeastern pennsylvania, also includes new jersey and the new york metropolitan area. out of long island a perfect storm of dry, warm and windy weather is fewing this fire over vast stretches of areas out over the east, 35 departments responding, containing a thousand acre blaze on three sides but losing three homes and a business, another 2000 acres are burning near the brook haven national labratory complex, a federal nuclear research facility. but no buildings or labs have been hit t