>> best chance in south georgia. that being said, the odds of it happening not good. aps, but definitely seeing rainfall across parts of the midwest into the ohio valley. we have a couple of tornado warnings this morning, thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of missouri, but the entire area is a place of potential trouble, especially with the ohio valley. flashing flooding a certainty. we are seeing rain develop and move over some of the same areas again and again. lexington may get flash flooding, minneapolis same, perhaps st. louis before the day is out. 30 seconds to show you what's happening across the nation. this area of low pressure is the big engine that makes this work. the fuel is the moisture feeding from the gulf of mexico. that combined with daytime heating gives a crazy atmosphere. anyone traveling over that boundary from dallas to chicago, going to have a bumpy flight part of the trip. also st. louis the same situation. fire threat over the desert sou west. along the eastern seaboard, sunshine and clouds, some scattered showers. wrap things up, 85 in n

nbc's tom trong is near one of the hot spots in the oak kkie f folk i can swamp south of waycross, georgia. tom? >> reporter: lester, good evening to you, an outbreak across the south of wildfires has burned more than half a million acres is forcing families to flee for safety. more than 700 firefighters are working to control massive wildfires in south georgia. despite their desperate efforts, the weather will dictate the outcome. >> we have had a little bit of rain over the last few days, but not enough to really put this fire out. >> reporter: just over the border, 380 fires are burning in florida, putting enormous strain on the state's resources. >> you get to a point where you don't have any personnel to send to these fires. >> reporter: dramatic video mounted on the helmet of an emergency worker shows crews driving bulldozers right into the heart of the fire to dig containment lines designed to hold back the flames. >> we're in front of the path, and the ultimate goal is to stop the forward momentum of the fire. so we try to get to the head of the fire, the hottest part. >> reporter:

georgia responded by sending troops to south assess here. because. people were once neighbors became bitter enemies thousands of refugees fled to georgia. as far as i know years ago this building was meant to be a hospital. but there is no hospital and now. the building is used as a shelter for refugees. thousands of the georgians who have left since the early one nine hundred ninety s. still live in makeshift shelters they have lost everything homes jobs and even the hope to return to their home country georgians and alike have gone through a lot of suffering such as the horrors of war and loss of loved ones and yet they don't blame one another for that conflict. any you know there's no bullet dishes have toned the people apart and there was no enmity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law is in a pansy and that means my grandsons are peasants aren't they. another daughter is married to a georgian so her children are georgians do i need to tell my grandsons apart what am i supposed to do in this situ

the self-proclaimed republic of south setia hasn't been under georgia's direct rule since nine hundred ninety two we really repeated many times the republic had to return to georgia and he promised to settle the situation through diplomacy. with us from we don't need a war and there has been an ascension people don't need one either there is a force that wants the defeat of the georgian and i pass it on a syrian people i promise they won't let it happen i knew much. but in the early hours of august the altering repeated showed symbolic from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of the military operation described by psych us really of the introduction of constitutional order in the territory south of setia. i was woken up by a lot of noise everything was for. that shaking we went outside with screamin and crying it was as if all of us had landed in hell after a volcanic eruption and everybody stayed awake throughout the night the noise never died down not even for a second. just color man who. lives in an old house on the outskirts of th

catchphrase but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence from georgia or from this regions or the south assessor would demand sovereignty into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to self assess here. than a year later because. people were once neighbors became bitter enemies thousands of refugees fled to georgia. through longer as far as i know years ago this building was meant to be a hospital. but there is no hospital in it now this is a building is used as a shelter for refugee. thousands of the georgians who have left up since the early one nine hundred ninety s. still live in makeshift shelters they have lost everything their homes jobs and even the hope to return to their home country georgians and abkhazians alike have gone through a lot of suffering such as the horrors of war and loss of loved ones and yet they don't blame one another for that conflict i leave it at his inability sions have toned people apart there was no animosity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law is in a pansy and that means my gra

switzerland his latest piece of investigative journalism concerns the armed conflict between georgia and south a city in two thousand and eight. for me i live no journalist who would not have wanted to get a scandal to get the facts before it was all the state media summed up my work there is high treason paul the self-proclaimed republic of south setia hasn't been under georgia's direct rule since ninety ninety two we really repeated many times the republic had to return to georgia and he promised to settle the situation through diplomacy. with us from we don't need a war and their pals in a setting people don't need one either there is a force that wants the defeat of the georgian up has an assyrian people i promise they won't let it happen. but in the early hours or just the altering repeatedly showed symbol from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of a military operation described by saakashvili of the introduction of constitutional order in the territory south of setia. i was woken up by a lot of noise everything was for. that shaking wom

more than 700 firefighters are working to control massive wildfires in south georgia. despite their desperate efforts, the weather will dictate the outcome. >> we've had a little bit of rain over the last few days, but not enough to really put this fire out. >> reporter: just over the border, 380 fires are burning in florida. putting enormous strain on the state's resources. >> you eventually get to a point where you don't have any personnel to send to these fires. >> it's going to jump. >> reporter: dramatic video from the camera mounted on the helmet of an emergency worker shows crews driving bulldozers right into the heart of the fire to get containment lines designed to hold back the flames. >> we're in front of the path, and the ultimate goal is to stop the forward, you know, momentum of the fire. so we try to get to the head of the fire, the hottest part. >> reporter: the work is dangerous. friday the first of two funerals, friends, family and fellow firefighters gathered to remember josh birch, he and brett fulton died monday when flames overran their bulldozers

we've had a lot of problems so far this year in south georgia and northern florida.ake a look at this video that we have for you near the swamp. homes were evacuated earlier this week, and about 200,000 acres have been burned. this fire only 50% contained. this fire was likely caused by lightning. now let's talk a little bit about the wallow fire because i have some new information that i want to bring to you. cnn has just learned that that fire has now jumped some containment lines in new mexico, in the town of luna. it's under evacuation orders as a result of that. the air resources, you know, they're fighting this with helicopter as well as big airplanes trying to put fire retardants over the fires. they've had to stop those efforts right now because the winds are so strong. so this fire is advancing. unfortunately, after making a lot of progress this week, don. tomorrow the wind's expecting to be even stronger. extremely critical fire conditions with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour. >> before you go, i mean, this caught our eyes and ears because john mccain

at 67 he says he feels reborn, a migration of farmers from south africa to georgia. >> i tell you i feel reborn. there's a big difference between farming and farming and you must think big. >> reporter: the point here to bring commercial farming, the kind of expertise cultivated in south africa to georgia's farmers. that is the challenge as he leaves decades of south african farming, so marked by the legacy of black versus white and tries to enrich a different country without leaving georgian farmers behind. >> it's not important farmers, it's an enrichment program which will actually bring in the country money which will bring in the country the expertise, experience, which stays here and which actually will be shared by georgian farmers. >> reporter: with more than a century of farming between them, these local farmers want guarantees that the south africans won't be getting georgian land on the cheap and that they truly can teach them a thing or two. >> translator: they have to help ut us, too, we can learn from their expertise. >> translator: when people come here from foreign countr

croatia egypt turkey for georgia georgia south of russia not georgia alabama but you never see anything about russia and russia does a very very bad job on corporate relations and it's got a reasonably good story to tell you know how for you we will be telling you that story next hour if you join us. will be here with an update the headlines next. used today violence is once again flared up.

. >>> well, we turn to south georgia right now. a lot of people saying this kind of looks familiar. scenes reminiscent back in 2007, and that's when much of the area was charred by wildfires. now fast forward to today, 225,000 acres have burned in wildfires in the southern part of the state. forestry experts say lightning probably started these fires. meanwhile, different scene -- a similar scene, but still different one over in arizona. looks like the situation there, believe it or not, is getting worse. red flag warnings posted for today and tomorrow. and talking about the wallow fire that has burned nearly half a million acres, but now there are three more fires that are burning in the extreme southeast corner of that state. >>> time for us now to say good morning, for the first time, to reynolds wolf, keeping an eye on all things weather-related. good morning, sir. >> it is a rough thing to see, in both places, both in arizona and in florida. when i see what's happening in -- in georgia, when i see that in georgia, i say, my gosh, is it as bad as it was in 2001 or 2005? no, it's

wildfires in south georgia and north florida can now be seen from space.his is a satellite photograph taken from nasa, you can see the smoke covering over the atlantic. there are now 14 active fired in the area, thousands of acres have been burned. south florida is getting some much-needed rain today, these six funnel clouds were spotted off of miami beach, a welcome sight. southland has been struggling with the drought conditions for some time, the clouds and cannot pose much of a threat because they are out at sea. [music] >> if you are hoping for a warmer weekend, at the fog will turn--return out there tomorrow. we will warm up slightly into sunday less fog expected, comfortable in the inland valleys, the low 80s. take a look at the fog for tomorrow morning, much more extensive than what we saw today. the wind out of the north kept the fog from forming today. we will carry that fog into the east bay shores, and the inland valleys. it will scale back by 9:00 a.m., but still cover over oakland, hayward and parts of but north bay. by 1:00 in the afternoon

. >>> take a look at what they're dealing with in south georgia right now.lot of people really thinking back and think this is shades of 2007 in much of the area. yeah? a lot of the area. a lot of people will remember this. this area was charred by a string of wildfires then, but here we are now, some 225,000 acres have burned in wildfires in the okie fignocchi swamp. we're not done, let's switch the picture and look at what's happening in arizona. the situation there appears to be getting worse? that's not what you want to hear. we've been telling you about a particular fire that's burned nearly half a million acres already, but some of the video you're seeing right now is in the extreme southeastern corner of the state where crews are firing three different fires. red-flag warnings are up for today and tomorrow. reynolds, what kind of weatheren conditi conditions dealing in both areas? >> very dry and windy conditions, whatever flames will spread quite a bit. we were talking about the okie fignocchi swamp, they've got a boardwalk in the swamp that people s

south carolina, georgia, louisiana, other states where they have looked the thing in the eye and dealt with it. could happen here, judge. and very soon hoch is whisking the back of the pharmacist's neck. somebody's just got to put the thing in motion. we've got them on the police force now. the judge shakes his head violently, ignoring the lather on his face. dorsey drops a couple taps of witch hazel onto his palm. he has polk power pour it into the store bottles when they get low. the judge faces mr. turpin, getting himself indignant. do you think they'll arrest their own? not on your life. and if they do, they got the juries packed and the duck walks out free as daylight and twice as bold as before. it is the gentlemen's right to choose their topic, of course, but dorsey always prefers sport to politics. he's one of the sponsors of the wilmington mutuels and can hold the floor on the relative merits of every ball player in new handover county, black and white. he can talk horses, he can talk bible if there's a man of god in the chair. he can even recite the arrow into song if pressed

actually, lee was temporarily exiled to the south carolina and georgia and coastal defenses until marchf 1862 when jefferson davis needed a military advisor. so he chose lee, and he joined davis. what was critical for the next march, april, and make was that these two men developed mutual respect and trust for each other. davis, you know, has so many problems with joseph e. johnston. yes justin he would have some new problems. their relationship was very, very icy. getting more difficult. then of course johnston is wounded on may 301st. in davis roadway that evening on may 301st. the was with them. you can make the argument. he was going to command the army. there was no subordinate to give it to. he turned to lee and set on going to appoint a temporary command, not permit their -- permit command. so that is highly get the job as being commander of the army number virginia. when he joined the army he realize very quickly that johnston was a bad administrator. the organization of the army was week. discipline was miserable in many ways. dhl wrote to his wife at that time. hundreds, if no

he went to warm springs for a few days, gave some speeches in georgia and south carolina and then, finally, returned to washington in if late august. in late august. let me give you a picture of what happened at one of the stops, the one in barnesville, georgia, in the august. it was a dry, scorching day with temperatures in the mid 90s. the little down of barnesville had a population of only 3,000, but for the day it became the focal point of the nation. as 40,000 people poured into town to see and hear their hero. officially, the president had come to dedicate a rural electrification project that would supply power to the central parts of georgia. but some people rightly suspected that something else was cooking. the speaker's platform was gayly decorated with stars and stripes and red, white and blue bunting and seated on the platform were the president and georgia's distinguished senator, walter george, who was up for re-election. george was an old school southerner with formal, chifl rouse manners. he always refer today his wife as miss lucy, and she called him mr. george. he seemed t

actually lee was temporary exile to if you will to south carolina and georgia to build coastal defenses until march of 1862 when jefferson davis needed a military advisor. so he chose lee and lee joined davis. what was critical for the next march, april and may was that these two men develop mutual respect and trust for each other. where as davis, you know, had so many problems with johnston who if you ask johnson who have so many problems with jefferson davis, your johnston withheld information from davis and the relationship was very, very icy. and is getting more difficult. then, of course, johnson was wounded on may 31 in a fine of seven pines or fair oaks. as davis rode away that evening on may 31 lee was with them. and you could make the argument who is going to command the army and davis had little choice. there was no subordinate to give it to switch unduly instead i'm going to appoint you to temporary command. not permanent command. expected maybe johnson would return. so that's how they got the job of in command of the army in northern virginia. when he joined the army. he rea

again, live pictures from clayton county, georgia. >>> first lady michelle obama enscurged a group of south african students -- encouraged -- encouraged a group of students to be the ones to banish hunger and end the a.i.d.s. epidemic. she first lady's visit is part after week - long goodwill visit to south africa and batswanna. >>> and president obama is getting a reputation as a baby list perrer. the video shot some -- whisperer. the video shot sometime last week. the first lady handing the baby to president obama. to everyone's surprise, the baby immediately stopped crying right after the president took the baby. >>> his arms. >>> that will do it for us. the next newscast is the channel 2 news at 5:00. thanks for watching.

so there will be a chance for strong storms in many of the eastern part of the nation, as far south as georgia the northern rockies may be dealing with scattered showers, perhaps a thunderstorm or two. and the intense heat in texas remains locked in place. dallas with 98, but with the high humidity, it's going toby much warmer. el paso, 105. 100 in alba keshgky. 70s in san francisco southward into los angeles. 63 minneapolis. 76 in new york. 93 in tampa. may sea breeze and thunderstorms and 66 in boston. that's a look at your forecast, fred. back to you. >> thanks so much, reynolds. appreciate that. >>> a republican slamtd president obama's over tonight's fund-raising event. we'll tell you what that's all about in our political update. imagine living your life with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a non-narcotic treatment that's fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or tho

applause] >> take us to the back woods of georgia where i believe it's the first week of hunting season. in 1955, the spanish explorer desocietio arrived in south that >> with wild pigs in tow. in 2004 in georgia a 12 foot, hundred thousand pound pig was killed. it's unclear whether this pig, hog zila got that big while grazing in the wild or whether he was fed peanuts farm fed or 43 range. when the pigs flair a griffin was asked why he had to shoot the pig. griffin said, because i couldn't believe it was so big. i grew up 20 miles away in a town that put martin luther king in jail for a few nights in 1963. when they heard the story of hog zila i wondered why people killed things they don't understand. i would like to read hog zila this is the first timei've read this part one is what i'm reading today. killer of kid and faun, muddy wallower trichinosis and tick. trap smart, nonnative gar gant wan flea bag you root in the oak brush of bogs and swamp. if we killed you now, hog zila, if we took aim for your belly with our cross bow or laser sight and pulled a trigger or let a tripped arrow rip through the night air there wouldn't be a story to te

vernon ray surge children in south carolina and born in georgia. ose of you who grew up here in the palmetto state might expect to have little in common with the migrants from puerto rico who raised two children in the south bronx but when you look past the surface my mother's story is filled with an uncanny resemblances to her story and resemblances i am absolutely sure to the lives of many of you in this auditorium. in my mother's story i believe the 0 would see her own and all of you will recognize the values that have guided you to this most significant and proud moment in all of your lives. my mother was born in puerto rico in 1927. although she grew up in a home filled with poverty and illness. my mom was able to find happiness in one saying. learning in school. at the end of the school day my mother would ride home to spend an hour among the trees behind her house. there she would line up her towering friends in her imagination and use a stick as a pointer to teach the trees the lesson she had learned that day. at 17 and during world war ii m

. >> in our latest hidden camera operation, this time in rural fortson, georgia, 90 miles south of atlanta, it doesn't surprise united states th us that the chat rooms are full of men who have seen our program. >> did you ever see "to catch a predator"? >> do you think that this is a deterrent in some ways? >> they are not showing up. i mean, they're not coming over because they're afraid it's media. >> dell harvey, her screen name, is a member of perverted justice, who are dedicated to catching online predators. we paid them a consultant fee to do what it usually does, going into chat rooms, posing as 13 to 14-year-olds home alone interested in sex. some decoys pretend to be eager about sex. that's because experts we have spoken to say young teens are often curious, even precocious, when it comes to chatting online about sex without knowing the lifelong repercussions about being molested by an adult. while it's encouraging to hear our investigations have scared off some potential child molesters, others like scooby doo atl 01 doesn't get the message. his real name is dennis collison, a co

alabama and georgia. south carolina.outh dakota, louisiana -- there was a town with a ball bearing factory. it is gone. or if furniture plant. it is gone. or a clothing manufacturer. they are gone. or an auto parts plant. it is moved away. we only have 8% of our work force in manufacturing. the rest of us is in service or sales or work for the the -- for the government. made in america? looking back, i believe we gave many of these jobs away. maybe i am guilty. i was in congress eight years. looking back, i think we were hurt by technology. that has any effect. productivity has in effect. -- that has an effect. productivity has an affecti think we were hurt by bad management. i think we were hurt by heavy- handed and short-cited union actions. but the biggest chunk of our best jobs wheat gained 08 to china, mexico, japan, india, -- best jobs we gave away to china, mexico, japan, india korea. we sell them grain, and our best jobs, and they sell us everything else. as stephen more wrote in the wall street journal a few wee

so there's no question we are as committed to new hampshire, south carolina, florida, georgia, nevada, tennessee and louisiana because they are all part of that early voting primary season. >> from what i understand, he wanted more money to hire more staff. how many staffers do you plan to hire there? >> no, i don't think that was the reason. i think that is a mischaracterization. we haven't determined the exact number that we need there but it will be enough for us to be competitive and we are already working on putting those plans into place. >> let me ask you about the support that you have been receiving from tea party folks. what do you say to people who say that michele bachmann is going to cut into that support? >> well, i happen to think that the tea party has several candidates, michele bachmann and herman cain and there might even be another one that they have, because the tea party movement and the people in the tea party, they are not all necessarily behind one candidate. so there's no one tea party candidate and yes, she will attract many of the tea party people. i will a

to the south, 108 degrees in texas, amarillo seeing 106, parts of georgia and north carolina getting mbers as well. although there are some spots across the mid-south specifically where temperatures have moderated somewhat or at least the humidity levels have come down just a little bit. but, there's going to start to be pumped up again across parts of texas through arkansas. temperatures will get into the 90s, some cases over 100 and with the humidity will feel worse than that. meanwhile, comfortably cool i guess and you might argue it's chilly across parts of the northeast compared to what it was last week. 65 degrees for the high temperature in new york, 73 in san francisco. speaking of san francisco, check out this video coming to us from san francisco bay where they were testing the 45 catamaran, the oracle boat there, look at it capsize. double hul boat. look at the sailors holding on for dear life. they wear helmets in these. they cruise over 30 knots. and that's a -- that's about half the size of the boat they're actually going to sail in the america's cup come 2013. so, testi

suitable for budget travelers including maine, florida, rhode island, south carolina and michigan along with the u.s. virgin island, texas, georgia bragging rights tonight. it is a great day to be in santa cruz. >> some people may be wanting to escape to the beach in time for the weekend though. we will cool back down just a little bit. temperatures sored today from 10 to 10 above what we -- 10 to 15 above what we saw yesterday. the red and orange is indicative of heat. if it is hot the wind is feeling pretty good. that's reporting 24 miles per hour. the rest of us 10 to 20 miles per hour. 14 in oakland. 16 livermore. and again our temperature still quite warm. livermore at 90. concord the doing the same. 830 in san jose. widespread 70s. 84 red dew win city. cooling down as we move through the next hour or so. santa rosa 82, the north bay saw upper 70s low to mid- 80s outside the doors this afternoon. the satellite is showing you it is going to break down just a little bit by tomorrow. we have a system to the north of us. it will deepen by thursday, and not going to see really a big change by tomorrow. in fact the heat will be ba