it was from joel's wife with word of his arrest in new mexico. but the truth was hard to figure out in those first moments. the scowling man in the mug shot was hardly the joel his sister knew when he was little. >> i remember him coming home from the hospital. i remember him toddling, all of the classic childhood milestones. and we were a very, very happy family. >> at some point did you see a shift? >> when he was probably 11:00-ish, he started hanging out with some older kids. i remember my mom backtracking and saying, i think that's when it really started. >> it was joel's drug use and before long when joel became a teenager, more reason to worry. >> he was starting to dabble in some satanism a lit bit and kind of explaining how much power it gave him and a sense of, you know, a rush of being in control or whatever, and he was pretty good at throwing a punch here or there. >> scare you? >> yeah, hurt me. yeah. >> so around the same time that he dabbles in satanism, he starts becoming physical? >> uh-huh. >> but as joel got older and more viole

new mexico's governor is warning -- inest be. new mexico's governor -- inevitable. new mexico's governor is warning residents not to use fireworks. >>> two teens claim coworkers sexually assaulted them a clerk was arrested for one of the attacks and the own teen says a contractor assaulted her. city is reviewing safety measures for the summer program. >>> coming clean, a baltimore is they officer confess the -- city officer confesses to his role in a scandal. he admits to taking money from a repair shop to have cars towed there. the police department admits even more officers could be connected to the case. >>> city police have put out the help wanted sign. they are looking for new recruits. you have to be at least 20 and a half years old. the salary starts at 40,000 dollars and you get 12 paid vacation days plus 14 paid holidays. to find out how to apply, go to wjz.com and click on the newstab. >>> a controversial plan to help students in baltimore. the school district ceo wants to send kids to class on saturdays to improve test scores. gigi barnette explains that

we will keep you posted. >>> finally a sigh of relief for those in los alamos new mexico. the national laboratory will reopen to myees. that means the threat has passed for the wild fire that is the largest in new mexico's history. authorities and residents were concerned the chems cats stored at the lab -- chems cals -- chemicals stored at the lab would be catastrophic. >> this morning, william and kate will head to slave lake in alberta, an area damaged by wild fire in may. they will meet with residents whose lives have been affected by the fires. following that, they will end their 9-day visit at alberta's calgary stampede on friday before leaving for california. >>> this morning, 7 people are missing after the boat capsized in the gulf of california. it all happened after a sudden storm sunday night. one person has been confirmed dead and rescue efforts have been huge. mike say mong those who helped rest -- among those who helped rescue some of the people. >> we are not a savior. we are normal people and i said my prayers on that thing and particular six americans that

. >>> new mexico's massive wildfire continues to spread tonight. but firefighters say a nearby nuclear lab is safe from the flames. more on the progress in los alamos. >> reporter: the fire burning near the town of los alamos keeps growing. the firefighters say it is no longer threatening the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory. hundreds of employees of the los alamos national laboratory returned saturday to prepare it for business as usual. >> we're checking things like the -- air handling systems to make sure that the filters were not cut off by the smoke. >> the smoke, that is everywhere. it blankets the town of los alamos, emptied of their 12,000 residents, some have been in shelters for nearly a week. and fire officials can't say when they will be able to lift the evacuation order. >> we want all resources that are available since this is the number one fire priority in the country. >> reporter: the fires blackened more than 113,000 acres, making it the largest in new mexico history. >> the unprecedented dryness just makes it so at ris

i've been in every prison in new mexico. it's not bad here. i like it. >> thanks. >> sure. >> take it easy. keep safe. >> all right. thank you. >> do i go back to the unit? >> no, go back in the gym. >> all right. >> the truth of the matter is when you get them ice late they will talk to you. i've had two inmates already give information about what's going on in here. this whole idea that there's an inmate code or something isn't always true. there are people that will -- there are actually people in prison that want to do the right thing. they want the clean the place up. we find those people. that's why we do interviews. >> after hours of investigation, officers score a big find in the dorms. proving the inmate tipoff was legitimate. >> i just found a syringe. it's a good find. i've got to go write a report right now. >> syringes on your property. >> tell me where they found it? >> in your cubicle, in your dresser in a hat. take off your shirt. >> are you a drug user? >> stand up, take it off all the way. >> and your other one. >> marks ther

. >>> still ahead on 9news, the worst wild fire in new mexico history showing no signs of slowing down. we'll tell you about the latest efforts to contain the blaze. but first, a day after being released from house arrest, the former head of the ims is no longer under house arrest. denny's new tour of america menu. 50 star cuisine. the new tour of america menu. starting at $4.99. only at denny's. america's diner is always open. >>> just one day after a judge lifted the house arrest order on domonique strauss-kahn. the rape charges still stand, but yesterday prosecutors told the judge that they found serious problems with the credibility of the hotel maid who says strauss-kahn raped her. the judge lifted his house arrest, allowing strauss-kahn to travel anywhere in the u.s., but not abroad. >>> firefighters are holding their ground against what is being called the largest wild fire in new mexico history. los alamos is safe for the moment. after flames came dangerously close. karen brown has the very latest. >> the fire burning near the town of los alamos keeps growing. it's no longer th

. >> it's considered the worst fire in new mexico's history and it is still growing. the latest. plus, storms are in the area. will they stick around and ruin some of our holiday >>> tonight that massive wild fire burning its way through new mexico continues growing, but firefighters say there is some good news. flames are no longer threatening los alamos. the fire forced more than 12,000 residents out of their homes and into shelters. >> we want all resources that are available since this is the number one fire priority in the country. >> the fire has blackened more than 113,000 acres making it the largest in new mexico history. meanwhile here in washington, a long holiday weekend is giving lawmakers a short break from the on going debate about the nation's debt ceiling. republicans and democrats will have to come together soon or the government will default on all of its loans. more than a trillion dollars of spending cuts stalled when democrats insisted on revenue increases. >> kind of went through a couple days of schoolyard taunts and it's hard to see how they'll have a majo

. >>> in the southwest, this is no holiday weekend for firefighters in new mexico, who are battling the largest wildfire in that state's history. officials say the town of los alamos and its nuclear weapons lab are safe now, but thousands of people remain evacuated. we get the latest tonight from nbc's charles hadlock. >> reporter: as firefighters try to keep the flames at bay with controlled burns, the runaway fire continues to consume trees and brush in the rugged mountains above the town of los alamos. the fire has blackened more than 113,000 acres, but it's moving away from town and the nearby los alamos nuclear laboratory. good news, according to fire chief doug tucker, but not good enough. >> we're kind of between a rock and a hard place, because we're trying to repopulate, but we don't want to put people in danger. >> reporter: los alamos looks like a ghost town. most of the 12,000 residents have evacuated and officials want to keep them away for now, for fear the winds could suddenly shift and push the fire closer. the los alamos nuclear lab will remain closed until workers can

. >> it's considered the worst fire in new mexico's history and it is still growing. the latest. plus, storms are in the area. will they stick around and ruin some of our holiday plans? annie is back with our full forecast. beth! hi. looking good! you've lost some weight. thanks! you noticed! you know these clothes are too big now, so i'm donating them. not going back there again. good for you! how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. whole grain? whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't... multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories per serving... more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. >>> tonight that massive wild fire burning its way through new mexico continues growing, but firefighters say there is some good news. flames are no longer threatening los alamos. the fire forced more than 12,000 residents out of their homes and into shelters. >> we want all resources that are available since this is the number one fire priority in the country. >> the fire has blackened mor

, colorado and california meet down to the chijuajua area of new mexico. there was one excavation along the way i remember out in the desert nears winslow, arizona. the desert out there is just a still life with a few landmarks on the horizon and this empty hole, the little colorado river sert, the painted desert, and we were working on a 500-room pueblo dating back to about 1400 ad. i just remember the wind just hailing down on us for days and you would be working down with trowels inside of a trench and if you stop for too long, the sand would start to fill up your hole again because it was blowing so much and everybody was turned away from the wind. so it looked like some kind of religious thing was going on here, all these people bowed to the ground for days and days tinkering with some unimaginable smallness in front of them while the wind just pushed harder and harder, sand blasting across you, filling up all the rooms that you just emptied out as if the desert is rolling back over itself. because even where trails are left, trails disappear out ther

the biggest challenges facing the firefighters battling the largest wildfire in new mexico's history. welcome to news 4 today. i'm kimberly suiters. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. it's sunday, july 3rd. firefighters in the southwest are busy this holiday weekend trying to put out a massive wildfire in new mexico. >> it is the state's largest ever burning near las alamos. it's still too dangerous for people to return hope. >> here's nbc's charles hadlock. >> as firefighters try to keep the flames at bay with controlled burns, the runaway fire continues to consume trees and brushes in las alamos. it has blackened 113,000 acres, but it's moving away from town and away from the nuclear laboratory. good news, according to chief doug tucker but not good enough. >> we're between a rock and a hard place. we're trying to repopulate but we don't want to put people in danger. >> it looks like a ghost town. most of the 12,000 residents have evacuated. officials want to keep them away for now for fears the winds could suddenly shift and push the fire closer. the nuclear lab will remain closed until w

thank you, dan springer reporting to us from new mexico.peaking of that rain, that cloud cover and rain, helping firefighting efforts in new mexico yesterday. but can crews expect more of the same over the weekend? our meteorologist, maria molina is here from the fox weather center with more details. will they get more rain? >> hi, kelly. good news, i think we'll see showers and thunderstorms firing up not for just today, but the next several days and headed into something called the north american monsoon season. we tend to get more moisture during this time of the year, across the four corners region including the state of new mexico, showers and thunderstorms are expected to be firing up, helping to contain or helping firefighters put out those wildfires. that said, some of those thunderstorms will be dry thunderstorms and what that means is that some of that water will come out of the storms and actually evaporate before reaching the ground. some of that water. so, it won't even reach the ground. then you can get some lightning which co

. >> here at the penitentiary in new mexico, we have a level ii facility, level v facility. and we have a level vi facility. level ii is more after restrictive minimum inmate where, you know, we allow them to work outside and stuff with minimum super vision. level v is super vision all the time. obviously level vi is full-time observation of those inmates. >> this is the maximum security facility, level vi of the pen tent rif new mexico that houses the worst of the worse. these individuals are the worst within level vi and level vi is the worst within the whole state of new mexico. these individuals are housed one per cell. they are escorted and restrained everywhere they go. and handcuffs or leg irons and belly chains. bedo have two and three max individuals that are very violent. they like to assault our staff. >> today, we tag along with deputy warden joni brown on her way it deal with one of level vi's most notorious inmates. >> they have an inmate refusing to leave his cell. at this point they're going to go in and give him the directive to cuff up and come out. if not,

so i'm trying this this profound experiment with a couple of partners here on a property in new mexico we have two point seven acres a little bit of water right through all of our own food generator water from rain water harvesting solar pumps and hand pumps. and maintain body temperature in established good relations argument for for me has been living water food but a temperature in human community so we're going to give that a run but also see if we can set an example for. you know my collapse that is underway and it's about to be completely not too distant future a way for people to survive and even thrive in the years ahead now i notice on the polls that are conducted asking people what is the most hated company in the world usually at the top of the last is monsanto monsanto of course is figured out a way to completely co-opt c and by having this see them blow around and doing the work for them. there see the currency as i like to think of it is infiltrating the sea stocks everywhere so harry are new mexico you're trying community to be self-sufficient you will at some point be r

. >>> and fire crews got a bit of help in new mexico.what's helping to foyt the fire and latest the family gets to return to their home. >>> you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30. a live look at some of the celebrations, and schedules and activity as we go to break. let's look at the inner harbor in baltimore. we will be right back. >>> five things to know before heading out the door this morning. gop presidential candidate mi they will bachmann is on the campaign trail make rounds in eye yeah. she is traveling throughout her home state on a bus tour after leaving eye yeah, she heads to des moines, and sioux city. >>> and congressmaned that mccarter announced his official bid last weekend. he is currently the 5th term in the house and says he is a much need option for voters. his announcement makes him the third conservative member of the house of representatives to run for the white house. >>> minnesota, the government still shut down this morning in budget talks are not set to resume until tuesday. those with

for example, new mexico's indian pueblos. we have 19 pueblos in new mexico. some of them were terribly impacted by this. the santa clara pueblo, san el defanzo, many other pueblos. one of the most damaged pueblos was the santa clara pueblo, and the governor of that pueblo is a gentleman by the name of walter dasheneau. he and some of his counselors had come to a meeting, and the last two big fires, 85% of this indian reservation has been burned. what they said when we were sitting in a room -- and these are the elders from the pueblo came to talk to us. they said, you know, our hearts are in a very sad state. the -- the fire devastated our religious sites, our sacred sites. we had medicineal plants we would collect in this area. we can't do that any longer. and with great emotion, these elders said we -- we are never going to see this forest in the same condition again. and so obviously, the loss was great at santa clara, but it was -- it was all across, it was all across new mexico of those pueblos that i just named, and it's a very, very significant loss. a

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. >>> massive wildfire charged more than 92,000 acres in new mexico. firefighters have been battling the blaze since sunday. 10,000 people have been evacuated. firefighters in new mexico say they are comfort they have stopped the fire's advance towards the nuclear calculate. >>> prosecutors started their rebuttal in the trial of casey anthony. she is charged with killing her daughter caylee anthony three years ago. closing arguments are expected on saturday and then yÑsÑkéké . >>> the state budget was signed by governor jerry brown today. the spending plan passed without republican support. this is one of the few budgets to be passed on time. in year's past lawmakers gone months beyond the start of the year. last year ended in october. and governor jerry brown signed a bill tibula that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes. today amazon . >>> court said there is a big difference between the parent company and we are not going to let you do that. same thing will happen again. >> reporter: kron 4 news. >> all restaurant employees in california

we're seeing them across parts of new mexico. in the forecast we do have a chance of isolated showers over the next several days. these are very isolated. don't expect a lot of rain out of some of these thunderstorms, but the other concern with some of these storms there is a lot of dry air in place some of that water actually evaporation before reaching the ground so you don't get any water on the ground and some lightning sparks up new wildfires. that is more concerns to keep in mind. we do have relatively weak winds but generally speaking the winds shouldn't be making things a lot worse for those wildfire efforts. showers and storms, you can see them very isolated. most of the storms really not reaching those areas where the wildfires are right now. the other concern is the smoke, air quality concern issued out across that region in areas impacted will be north central new mexico and off to the white rock communities. people in the sensitive group, asthma, lung or heart disease or children. so those people should be concerned.

welcome back to cries the report time now to go to new mexico and talk with guy macpherson professor amorites us of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology as blog is nature bats last welcome to the show guy macpherson thanks max it's great to be zero zero zero ok now guy in two thousand and eleven it's looking to be the worst ever for climate disasters certainly worth the two thousand and ten now the us has seen the worst droughts in recorded history the worst floods in u.s. recorded history the most tornadoes in history the biggest fire in arizona state history is this all just a freaky coincidence or is there something. else that work can only suspect there is something else at work here climate chaos that is underway and ratcheting up i don't see any evidence that this is not driven by anthropogenic climate change in that it's not going to get a lot worse in the years ahead ok so you've taken this past the mistake vio for the moment but segue into my next question where you started out as a climate scientist twenty five years ago but stopped researching ten years a

they had to leave their white rock, new mexico home next week.tephanie was pregnant and not due for another two weeks and they were concerned about the fire coming to the house and stephanie going into labor. baby william had a surprise for them j. meanwhile, we had smoke blowing over white rock really bad and ash starting to land in up to. people started getting concerned. she had the car seat in the car and i thought, well, you know, we're two weeks away from the due date, surely you're not going go into labor. >> show went into labor within hours of arriving at her parent's home, even though the new baby has a name, friends are now making other suggestions like blaze and asher. >> a fairfax family is turning a place of loss into a place of happiness for the community. the water spray park that welcomes all children. >>> and now rules for the nation's air traffic controllers. how the faa is trying to keep them awake and alert at work after several scary incidents, including one at reagan national. it's all coming up for you on the news edge at

. >>> massive wildfire charged more than 92,000 acres in new mexico. firefighters have been battling the blaze since sunday. 10,000 people have been evacuated. firefighters in new mexico say they are comfort they have stopped the fire's advance towards the nuclear calculate. >>> prosecutors started their rebuttal in the trial of casey anthony. she is charged with killing her daughter caylee anthony three years ago. closing arguments are expected on saturday and then the jury will begin deliberations. more news coming up after the break. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp director. just like that. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. . >>> the state budget was signed by governor jerry brown today. the spending plan passed without republi

a seteline torch. >> two weeks after they transferred me back to new mexico. the gym was still burning. i was put in cellblock two, you know. national guard was still feeding meals and stuff like that. that's when i learned they said, we just notified your parents, you're dead, you know? i said, i'm not dead, not yet. but one of the national guard, he said look, he said write a short note to your parents. you have to keep it short and everything. i will take it out and mail it. and that's what i did. i wrote my mom. let her know i was still okay. >> years after the riot, having been transferred out of and back into pnm, jimmy kinslow escaped from the newly built level six facility. >> shortly after i arrived, i i was approached through some friends that i had met, would i be interested in escaping with was approached through some friends that i had met, would i be interested in escaping wit was approached through some friends that i had met, would i be interested in escaping with them. so young, facing so much time, never the possibility of getting out, i said

it's from new mexico. display gang symbols. >> it's essential in maintaining the safety of the facility. >> what's this for? >> i found that hanging here. once it's validated, you'll never be able to go to a level-b facility. so it has a lot of bearing on the inmate's future. >> you can take that and i'll write him up for possession of gang paraphernalia. >> he'll be documented as a suspected street gang member, and we'll start a file on him, if one hasn't already been created, and wherever he goes, whether it's to another facility or goes out into the streets, he'll be identified as a sa suspected gang member. >> search, in the letters here in the cell, she found what looks like a diagram or a pattern of a handcuff key. the crude making, the beginning of it. the manufacturing stages. probably i think what he's doing is he's got all of these bars of soap. what he'll start doing is putting out a pattern to match it to this out of the soap. once he gets a good pattern down, he'll find a piece of metal to tra

. >>> firefighters in new mexico say they are confident that a wildfire in los alamos will stay away from a nuclear lab. david romero of krqe has more on that this morning. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. the wildfire continues to rage through northern new mexico a sixth day consuming more than 92,000 acres and threatening one of the nation's nuclear facility, the home of the first nuclear bomb. even a smoke billowed into the sky and remains visible up to 80 miles away from albuquerque officials are confident that firefighters have halted the fire near the los alamos laboratory. they have cleared trus aees and brush. since monday the lab has more than 10 thousand experiments ranging from renewable energy to hiv research. >> we have a independent system at three different areas from the national labs to the state of new mexico to now epa and finding what is in the air is the same as we would see in a typical forest fire situation in new mexico. >> reporter: nearly 12,000 residents have been evacuated this week and lpt will not be allowed to return as early as sun

. >> her security clearance was pulled, and she's no longer allowed on the penitentiary in new mexico why? >> for the fact that it's a threat to security of the institution. >> i didn't -- i guess i didn't realize what a security threat they thought that i was being. i didn't think david and i were anything like that, but who he is and his reputation, i can understand their fear of what i could have done if he had ever asked me to do something like that, but that was never what we were about. >> it puts everybody at risk, a very high risk, because they're letting out all our secrets, and inmates don't tell us their secrets. we got to find them out, and if somebody is telling them all our secrets, then it goes against us. it hurts us. >> it was a bad choice, but i wouldn't take it back for anything. i think he is the best thing that's ever come into my life. >> although visits are out of the question, david and paula are allowed phone calls. >> he tries to call me once or twice a week, and so that's pretty much the only time i can talk to him. >> i talk to her as much as i possibly can

the largest ever in new mexico, the latest on the still out of control wildfire. and security scare, a foreign national who makes it through a check point and on to a jet goes before a judge. eyewitness news at 4:00 ,,,,,,,, >>> this is wjz tv. and wjz.com. baltimore. >>> from the city to the counties to your neighborhood. now it's complete coverage, it's wjz maryland's news station. >>> it is 4:30. 88 degrees and sunny as in absolutely gorgeous outside. hello and thanks for staying with eyewitness news. i am don scott. here is what people are talking about tonight. facing a judge, the man who managed to fly with an expired bwi thurgood marshall airport is in court. as joy reports. >> this was the first court appearance for him. accused of boarding a play with an expired boarding pass in someone's else's name. he made it on a flight headed to los angeles. half way there a flight attendant noticed he was sitting in a seat that was supposed to be empty. the fbi questioned him when he deplaned but let him go. they tracked him down again this week at lax when he tried

firefighters are still trying to contain the blaze that scorched 200 square miles in new mexico. >>> now that summer is in full swing it is the time when mosquitoes love to bite. tim williams shows us the steps to control those bugs. >> reporter: if these bites look familiar it's for a good reason, the mosquito season is underway and it doesn't take long for a problem to develop. >> this time of year when it's hot they can go from egg to adult in about a a week. >> reporter: they are studying the mosquito problem and battling it one puddle at a time. >> we look behind the shed. >> reporter: problems include birdbaths. >> clean it once a week. if you don't you will have mosquitoes that lay their eggs. >> reporter: there are tires. >> leaves collect in there, water collects in there. >> reporter: tarps that don't fit. >> it rolls up and you get puddles in here. you get one on top. this can happen with wood piles, boats. and these mosquitoes can breed in a a half teaspoonful of water. >> reporter: rains are expected to boost mosquito numbers. 88% of the spring has already been done, pro

so that area of new mexico couldn't have been more important to national security in 1947. >> somebody wants to know if it's possible, many ufos are actually were and are, u.s. budget aircraft of the united >> absolutely. one of the things i was able to source was the cia's obsession with ufos started in the 1950s. they created their own ufo department and it is all based on declassified documents. it's funny to read them because the guys at the cia in 1950s were really still gentlemen spies. they fancied themselves, you know, on the ground, this idea of science and technology was low but -- you see in all of these memos would have to do with ufos they are saying why can't the air force handled this? but, in fact, out of area 51 the u2 spy plane accounted for over 50% of all ufo sightings on the west coast. it flew at 70,000 feet which is about 13 miles up, and windows locked up in the sky it look like a giant silver cross. you can imagine people on the ground seeing something up that i would wonder, and, of course, the same thing happened in the 1960s when this incredible cia spy plan

the fire destroyed more acreage than ever before in new mexico.e challenge is to protect what hasn't already burned. the fire scoured the reservation's watershed and cultural sites. >>> thank you, the governor is asking people to avoid using fireworks because of the dry conditions. >>> the sexual assault case against dominique strauss-kahn has taken a twist. a young french writer said that he tried to rape her in 2002. an investigation is underway into that claim. he's accused of attacking a maid at a hotel in new york. he's now out of jail after the prosecutors raised questions about the attacker's story. >>> afghan police released a person from the attack last week. 20 were killed. all were suicide bombers. this is the full extent to the inside of the hotel. the afghan security forces are -- this raises doubt that the afghan security forests are ready to take over. >>> lawmakers are hoping to hammer out a deal the lift the debt crisis. >> reporter: the independence day parade made its way through the streets of washington. >> happy birthday, usa

the race to put out one of the worst wildfires in new mexico's history. >>> welcome back. firefighters in new mexico say they're confident that a wild fire will stay away from the town's nuclear lab. crews clear trees and brush around the facility that might have fueled the fire. nearly 12,000 residents were forced from their homes this week and won't be allowed back until at least sunday. a thousand firefighters are working frantically to contain the blaze that is just 3% contained at this point. >>> this afternoon, prince william and his wife katherine will role up their sleeves and get some cooking lessons from a premier canadian chef. the couple continues their north american tour with a stop at the quebec tourism and hotel institute. the newlyweds will also take time to honor william's mother princess diana on what would have been her 50th birthday. the royal couple will spend nine days in the country before coming to america. >>> mob boss bulger will be back in court this week and by his side a court appointed lawyer. even though authorities found more than $800,000

the largest wildfire in new mexico's history. why some people are complaining about how the fire's being fought. >>> william and catharine, just days before their arrival in california. they were seen rolling up their sleeves in canada today. i want to crush more cars. ♪ i want to sell more tea cups. ♪ i need help selling bread. ♪ i want to sell more crabs. [ male announcer ] you know where you want to take your business. i want to design more buildings. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. starting with the at&t all for less package -- just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better. state's history -- no longer >>> new mexico firefighters say the biggest wildfire in that state's history no longer possesses an immediate threat to nuclear weapons labs. the fire is now several miles upslope from the los alamos national laboratory. today, hundreds of lab employees returned to work, but some people are angry over the firefighters'

. >> reporter: wild fires in arizona and new mexico, the bans on fireworks are spreading. new mexico's governor has limited power. >> i order there be no fireworks whatsoever to be used on state land. that's the only authority i have as governor. >> reporter: she begged residents to forgo fireworks this year. in texas where more than 3 million acres have been scorched, nearly every county has banned fireworks. and that means 100,000 people in austin for the first time in 35 years won't see fireworks with the texas symphony. so they canceled the show. it's such a fire hazard, the economic hardships are hitting the plans. chicago will have big show on the 4th but the show for the big food fest has been canceled. why? the budget worries. one texas town amarillo has come up with a solution to the problem. no pyrotechnicians. instead, a laser show. >> something new, something different and something safe and really celebrating a wonderful day. >> reporter: the preparations are well underway here in the nation's capital on the mall. you can see the band stand going up. the good

the coast guard said no american is among the missing. >>> los alamos, new mexico is filling up with people after authorities lifted a wild fire evacuation. the fire is almost 20% contained. authorities now say it started after a tree fell on to power lines eight days ago. some 12,000 people have be out of their homes for more than a week. >> it's great to be home. every day we were wondering if this is the day we get to come home. we are glad to be home. >> there is no longer a threat to the los alamos laboratory but the wild fire is threatening buildings on ancient sites and indian lands. >>> police are looking for the two men that attacked a 67- year-old man stealing his beer and $2. officers are now looking at surveillance video. >>> time now 5:46. police in martinez says somebody is trying to cash in on a recent tragedy involving a popular member of the force. five weeks ago police sergeant brian carter died after a long battle with blood cancer. ktvu spoke to him during a fundraiser last summer. at that time, sergeant carter had a brave message for others. >>> any message kill

today moody's had yet another terrifying warning, this time to five states, virginia, maryland, new mexico, tennessee, and south carolina, they said "should the u.s. government's rating be downgraded to aa status or lower, these five state's ratings would likely be downgraded as well. in other words, moody's have identified these five states as having a state economy entwined enough with the federal economy that if and when the u.s. gets our bond rating destroyed by something that's going on in congress, something that's never happened before in the modern history in the country, these states will go down as well. tweet, tweet, hey, guys, get over here, this needs to be done now. it's worth remembering this is a crisis created by congress. option a for dealing with raising the debt ceiling has always been hey, let's raise the debt ceiling. congress did it seven times under george w. bush. i said five times the other night, forgive me, it was seven. 18 times under ronald reagan, 17 70 times since the 1960s, and 130 republicans in congress right now voted happily throughout the george w. bus

. >> reporter: wild fires like this one still burning near los alamos new mexico.reason counties across the south from alabama to texas all the way to arizona canceledfireworks display. dangerous tents of 110 scorched the southwest 118 in phoenix and temps 100 plus baking california and misspry valley up to -- mississippi valley up to chicago where the misting units were set up n california, they packed the beach -- up in california, they packed the beach. >> we figured we would get away from the heat and come down. >> reporter: and in the nation's capital they cooled off in public pools. >> it feels good. >> reporter: on cystal mountain in washington state -- crystal mountain in washington state, they are celebrating on skis. >> we have seen by kinsy and board -- bikinis and board shorts and tank tops and people are having a great time and i plying sunscreen hopefully. >> reporter: something they expect to have here in south florida but are working on a more traditional celebration. >> the work is hard burks hearing everybody -- but hearing everybody cheer makes i