the members learned verdi's famous requiem mass, with its plea to god for deliverance from evil.urvivors said they derived spiritual strength from singing the requiem to their captors. bob faw reports. >> every note. get inside of every note. inside of every note. >> in a washington, d.c., church an impassioned conductor implores his choir. ♪ >> don't move, don't move. very nice. what you're doing is very nice, and there's no room for that. it has to be extraordinary. the sort of thing that you will remember all of your lives. >> whenever he can, murry sidlin urges them to do more, because what they're rehearsing, what they are trying to commemorate, is another performance by another choir in horrific circumstances -- jewish prisoners in a nazi concentration camp. >> to us, it's just damn words. they leave e rehearsal and walk over bodies to get back to their barracks. we cannot be indifferent. >> this music, verdi's "lyrical mass for the dead," is a full-throated testament to the majesty and judgment of god, profound even in this rehearsal at washington's kennedy center. but it

. >> reporter: elsewhere, power lines from the paulo verdi plant in phoenix give new concern. they run through the plant in this photo, and if they're damaged, hundreds of thousands of people in texas and new mexico could be suggest to rolling blackouts. conner bradley had this view from his window seat on a flight from san diego to dallas-ft. wurths. joe kennedy on a cross country bicycle trip got caught in it. >> now i want to keep going, get out of here. it's -- breathing it is just terrible. >> reporter: and the 3,000 people on the fire lines who have to breathe that smoke agree. a new development tonight as it continues to spread, some communities on the new mexico side of the border are threatens. governor dan brewer of arizona has asked the guard and transportation community to help out if they're needed. >> george, thanks. >>> the heat wave moving across the eastern part of the country brought its full blast to the east coast today. five major cities said reports, including mew, at 102, philadelphia at 99, baltimore at 100, and 102 at washington national airport. much

we're expecting to hear the verdi verdict. >>> a shadowy group is disbanding. it claims to be the group behind a series of recent hacking attacks against government and comp rat targets including the cia website. it claims responsibility for posting a fake story on the pbs website, falsely reporting the rapper due patupak is still ali. >>> joining me now, amanda knox's father, curt knox joins me from seattle. i appreciate you coming on. we've been talking about your daughter's trial. we're glad to be able to get you on the show today. we covered what happened in court there about this rudy guede who was supposed to say that your daughter was not involved in the murder of her roommate, but in fact he said exactly the opposite. first, your reaction to what happened in court. >> well, first of all, within court today, he actually was answering questions specific to other inmates suggesting he confided in him that amanda was not there. he did not testify specific to whether amanda was there at the crime scene. in fact, it was also talked about today when police wer