. >> host: genevieve makes the scene in new york city. who is genevieve?>> guest: genevieve cook, an australian who's mother -- mother's second marriage was a notable american does just that said they had american ties to genevieve with the private high school in new york state than software and then new york city at bat -- bob obama after they came from. they had a lot in common. they both had indignation connections. her father and mother had lived in indonesia. he was a diplomat, associate that there is of god in the late 1960s were young. as they are, she felt like an outsider because she, like many children of diplomats do, they don't feel connections to any place. her family would send me a prayer cracks, but she never felt connected to that, sushi and bury -- barack both had this connection as outsiders with indignation connections as well. the baby came lovers and his girlfriend for quite a while. >> host: how did she get ahold of her? were the first release to talk to her at length? >> guest: it took two years and it was just hard work. i'm a part

. >> reporter: as firefighters struggle, those evacuated from their homes like genevieve kidd can do little but wait and watch. >> right below that water tower where the trees are, underneath that, that's where our houses are. >> reporter: the worst of times for some has brought out the best in others. jennifer oliver delivered bags of toiletrys to the salvation army for evacuees. >> it pains me to see somebody without. you know, if you don't have these necessities, it really puts a damper on your mentality. >> reporter: as losses mount, federal officials insist they have enough resources despite $227 million in budget cuts since 2010. but they now face 19 large active fires across the west and the big air tankers that drop fire retardant are a key resource that is diminishing. there were 43 tankers a decade ago, only 17 now. this after one tanker crashed last week killing two pilots and another made an emergency landing when a gear failed to come down. >> the air tankers that are now available are dated and old. there's not enough of them. >> reporter: such a serious problem that co

david, you write about a long-time girlfriend in new york, genevieve cook, and she said he felt like an impostor because he was so white. i guess socially that there was hardly a black bone in his body is the way she remembered him saying it. >> he did say it to her. but of course he wouldn't say everything to her that he might say to someone else. chris: yeah. >> but these are the new york years. four years when he lived in new york city. he went there, ostensibly to get closer to harlem, to get closer to the real america, and the black america. in four years, in new york, he didn't make a single after can american friend of lasting note. so he was still learning his way. it's fascinating to see this arc toward home of obama's life. from the island of honolulu which was very diverse, but -- chris: what a life. >> through los angeles, to new york. and finally finding his home on the south side of chicago. in new york, still in the incubation period. >> and that girlfriend so interestingly her family had a real international experience and she had lived in indonesia. she had a connect

genevieve cargo was engaged to jason in 1989 before he met michelle. took the stand about his drinking. >> he became agitated. he said something to the effect that if i'm going to make such a terrible husband, then give me my ring back. >> did you give it to the defendant? >> no. he began trying to pull the ring off, and it wouldn't come off. he was throwing me from one bed to the other and jumping on me with all his weight and pinning my arms, both of them, behind me. >> were you able to see his face? >> i saw his face, and his eyes were glazed over and didn't show any emotion. >> prosecutors hope to convince the jury it all added up to a motive for murder. so how would the defense counterattack? with a witness who could refute every charge. when we come back, jason young finally breaks his silence as he takes the stand to testify. >> did you kill your wife michelle? >> no, sir. >> were you there when it happened? >> no, sir. >> when "silent witness" continues. what if you had up to 28 days of beautiful ? you can have up to 28 days of betiful, smooth

. >> why do you think he felt that way or genevieve had that sense?iety forces that on people with dark skin, but he wasn't feeling that politically and never has. politically, he wrote a letter when he was 21 which sort of summarizes that, he said that all my friends are finding various niches and he's not satisfied with that, he has to embrace it all, meaning all races and all types of people. but speaking of home, he never really had a home. so to find that comfort level, he really only found it in chicago on the south side when he was sort of embraced by the african-american community. >> before i let you go, because a lot of people wonder when they see someone on the air, they see someone in power. they say is that person really like that at home when they're relaxed and they're with the people that they love. do we get a sense that who we see is the man --? >> there's less of a different from barack obama than most of the politicians i have coffered. in public, he's sort of cool. in hawaii there's this cool head thing. and he sort of carries tha