our own military affairs analyst here at nbc news, jack jacobs, who happens to be a recipient of the medal of honor, said today that while only a pathetic creature would lie about such things, he sides with freedom of speech in this case. >>> still ahead for us this evening, an update from the fire lines in colorado, where so much has been lost and a monster fire is still very much on the move tonight. >>> later, a different disaster blew away almost everything they had, but tonight an entire community is making a difference and a comeback. >>> we are getting new views tonight of the massive wildfire that's causing so much damage in the colorado springs area. more than 18,000 acres have been destroyed so far. this is still burning out of control. our report on the firefighter from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: just beneath the smoke a clear picture of the devastation. in a once thriving community named mountain shadows, street after street, 346 homes, leveled by the wildfire. >> it's an act of god. i don't know how else to put it. yes, we've got a lot of loss of property, but w

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and i will begin with you colonel jack jacobs what you know now that you didn't know at the beginningo do with the money to politicians, and one asked me why i don't give money to politicians and i said it encourages them. we should be weary of that. came back from the united kingdom, and they are absolutely running around with their hair on fire at the moment, because think are so terribly concerned with and economically hooked with europe, and we are extremely complacent here because we are so far away and trust me, if europe goes down the tube, we are not far behind and we have already seen some problems here in the states. >> we have been covering the situation in the eurozone and greece and elections slated there, and i could not agree more that the biggest determinant of the outcome in the fall for the election for particularly crass political reasons is whether the eurozone survives. what do you now know now? >> two critically important things that we have been talking about. president obama's role in targeting killings, and why the administration is claiming few to no civilian

another guest, colonel jack jacobs, briefly interrupts him. >> if someone goes into a shopping mall andt of one of their enemies and opens fire on a crowd of people and guns down a bunch of innocent people in a shopping mall, they have murdered those people. when the obama administration sets the policy work patterns of life are not of a green light to drop missiles on people or to use or send in to spread them down -- crooks but that was not the case here. if you go to the village in yemen where i was and you see the unexploded cluster bombs and you have the list and photographic evidence as i do of the women and children that represent the vast majority of the deaths in the first truck obama authorized on yemen, those people were murdered by president obama on his orders because they were believed to be someone from al qaeda in that area. only one person has been identified that had any connection to al qaeda. 21 women and 14 children were killed. the u.s. tried to cover it up and say it was a yemeni bombing. it is murder, mass murder when you say we're going to bomb this area because

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joining me, retired army colonel jack jacobs who were receive the medal's honor for heroism during ther. great to have you here. this is a story someone like you, my dad, a vietnam vet, following this closely to see how it would come down. when he look at the way the justices wrote their opinions, 6-3 ruling. the majority opinion, few mind find respondent statements anything but contemptible, his right to make the statements is protected by the constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech and expression. you share that sentiment, basically that this is totally off the wall to do something like this, but you can't go against their freedom of speech? >> more than off the wall. i'm only speaking for myself, but there are tens of millions of veteran whose also followed this very closely and find alvarez to be a contemptible, despicable revolting creature who isn't even worth the effort it would take to walk across the street and push him on his backside, toç be honest with y, and there are plenty of he'll who would like to do that right now. the fact of the matter, he has a right to be a

colonel jack jacobs, nice to see you. >> good to see. >> did you thank you for teaching me what you have up to this point. one more round of this. apollo xiii, we have to land the plane or the bird or whatever the thing is. we have clearly diminished leverage in the middle east and we have clearly increased distributed power in the middle east beyond the governments in any of those countries. and we have apparently increasingly limited options at a time when we are still very dependent on that part of the world specifically for energy resources. what to do? >> where to begin. let's talk about -- what we -- we are faced with right now as you accurately framed is the fact that we don't have a lot of influence. but we are not without influence. so this is where we have to apollo xiii, what do you have available? let's put together modelling and figure out how to go. we are looking at a -- you know, all presidents are created equal, some are created more equal than others to quote "animal farm." this is case you have to figure out -- this is not bad yet. it is bad but could be worse. egypt i

jack cochrane says parents should not run out for the test now. >> needs to be verified and followed up. >> though agreeing that an earlier diagnosis would be great, jacobs says it would not provide every answer. am i advise parents to love their child and not be so worried about diagnosing and treatment plants that they forget to learn and discover and embrace the joy of their child. >> researchers plan to repeat the brain wave study, but this time comparing children with as person from with children who have class occultism -- comparing children with asperger's syndrome with children who have classic autism. >> a record-setting 104 degrees in washington, now severe thunderstorms in washington. >> plenty of people treated for heat exhaustion today. i have that story coming up. >> yesterday's high court ruling has local business is up and arms. the mandatory health insurance mandates coming up. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> record heat leading to dangerous conditions, newschopper 7 oversight ready farm in