cartel based in western mexico. -- he was the head of the la familia cartel based in western mexico. a maritime control stick has stopped in singapore. china has been pressing its territorial claim almost over the whole south china sea. there has been confrontations with vessels. singapore brokers violence on the issue asking china to clarify their position. michelle obama has made an unscheduled visit to someone special. >> america's first lady has gone to a week-long visit to south africa and one of the highlights has included a meeting with nelson mandela. we have a report from so we go. >> michelle obama, the wife of the first black president and the first black president of south africa, nelson mandela. mrs. obama and her daughters savored the meeting that they thought might not happen. the frail 92-year-old rarely sees visitors. this a visit kickoff with a history lesson. nelson mandela's wife guiding the obama family through his personal archives. the struggle against white minority groups is the backdrop to

it has moved into western new mexico tecate offered his opinion of what started the fires. >> we arereas along the border that there is evidence what these pilots were started by people across the border illegally. they set fires to signal and also to divert blockaded enforcement when. all >> firefighters are believed to be caused by humans. >> giants scored first with two runs in the fifth inning. the a's held on to win 4-do. the amount movie monday all is going to make a debut and not september. brad pitt plays a's billy bean. this trailer is on the internet to the film will be released in september. >> when brad pitt and angelina tulelake came into town it was very hectic. we'll have more on the debt of saxophonist clarence clements when we come back >> in computer memory is dwindling every six months, they somehow related computer memory, human memory. whoever said that "less is more" is more or less mathematically challenged. less isn't more, it's less. and the only thing more than more is a lot more. which is exactly what i get at embassy suites. more space... more down time. m

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certainly will impact western new mexico. and these winds have been strong and continue to be strong. they really had two days of some quiet weather in terms of the winds. now they're really kind of coming up robust as well now. we'll talk more about that, of course, and also the severe weather in the mid-atlantic. >> alexandra, thank you so much. the point you made earlier, that is that extreme is the new normal. thanks so much. >>> a volcano goes boom in south america. that spells troubles for thousands of airline passengers. a whole continent away. details on that coming up. >>> and imagine going through garbage just so you can find something to sell. that's what some children are doing until our cnn hero got involved. specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we

so we're watching for eastern parts of arizona into western new mexico for that. those are thunderstorms that produce lightning but really no rain. it evaporates before it ever reaches the surface. that can start new fires so that continues to be a great concern. it's very, very dry here. drought conditions all across the eastern parts of the state. it's been an incredible fire season for arizona and texas as well. a bunch of that state under drought conditions as well. let's show you our goggle earth here. this shows you all the heat signatures so you can detect these things from space. that's how hot the fires are. we'll zoom, in show you the wall of fire where the terrain has been a huge issue. we think about cactus. we think about sand when we think about arizona but not eastern parts of the state. this is very, very hilly here. there are a lot of trees in the area. so there's a lot of fuel as we call it to keep this fire going. and we're talking zero percent containment and these strong winds coming in, don, that's very, very concerning. and those evacuations

. >>> folks in eastern arizona and western new mexico should be able to relate to that massive wildfire. it just keeps burning and spreading. reynold wolf keeping a close eye on the weather conditions out there which have not been that helpful. >> really haven't. what they need is they need the kind of conditions they normally have, say from november through april. we're talking about a monsoon type season but unfortunately we've got a ways to go before we get to that time of year. it is very dry, breezy, wind expected to increase later on today. current conditions are as follows. take a look, we see some rainfall forming way up towards salt lake city and into parts of nevada and utah, also some into the central plains but nothing to be said for much the four corners. going to remain very dry and another big issue, winds very strong out of the southwest will spread a lot of the smoke to places like albuquerque, perhaps over towards el paso before the day is out. a lot of people who have respiratory issues and smoke certainly will not help. >> reynolds, we appreciate you. we'll check in

gusty winds as they try to control wild fires in several western states, eastern arizona and western new mexicofighters are now fighting a fire that has burn half a million acres. crews are at fires in colorado, utah, and washington state. [music] >> pretty mouth out there, along the coastline we still see a little fog. by the afternoon, the fog will push back to the coastline, mostly sunny conditions, mild temperatures and breezy as well. in the '60s and '70s tomorrow, and could have some wins. a little more extensive up into the north, and also into the east bay and our inland valleys. by the 8:00 hour, already starting to push back towards the coastline. by the later morning hours, the fog will stick to the coastline, especially the san mateo coastline. this is what temperatures will look like out there. 79 in concord, also 79 in antioch in livermore down in the south bay, upper '70's as well and 60 along the coast. a look at the kron47 there around the forecast, clear weather tomorrow, we will start to warm up to saturday. , excuse me i mean sunday. we will see the morning fog on sunday as

we could see our first hurricane, albeit briefly, forming in the western gulf of mexico, and it couldact us here in the bay area. i'll explain why in just a second. first, here is tropical storm arlene. we'll track into eastern mexico, possibly as a weak hurricane, maybe a category 1 briefly before it weakens, heading across mexico, but look at the path of the system. what's left of the low will likely track back across the west coast of mexico and all of that leftover moisture may stream up to arizona and southern california, so that by the early part of next week, some of the leftover moisture may find a home in the southern sierra, which we'll have to watch next week in terms of fire danger. low clouds and mist for the morning, sunny and warmer tomorrow. but still we're talkings? and 80s. no 90s in the forecast for thursday. but if be add another 5 to 10 degrees to the temperatures come friday, now you're getting close to 90 degrees around san jose. 80s likely for san francisco. maybe not on friday, but certainly by the time we get into the weekend. saturday and sunday we'll see th

the fire scorched more than 733 square miles in eastern arizona and western new mexico. >>> finally intlanta, a telephone unit truck crashes into a pool filled with 12 swimmers. luckily, no one was hurt. police say the driver lost control of the truck after slipping into a diabetic coma. ♪ >>> all right. this is a scary thought. a stranger taking a picture of your child uploading the photo and then using facial recognition technology to learn personal details about his or her life. well, you wouldn't even know about it. here is how it works. if you facebook, you tag photos. makes it easier to find pictures of you and your friends and takes time so that is why facial technology was introduced. as you can imagine, not everyone is very happy about this. now advocacy groups have filed a complaint with the ftc over the use of this technology, actually asking facebook to stop. congressman ed markie of massachusetts is also concerned. congressman, talk about why you are backing this complaint. >> well, i think that your privacy is the most important thing that you have and for facebook just t

humidity again will fire up the storms, fire up the fire storms across eastern arizona and also western new mexico worst day of the week but today could be a really, really dangerous day. >> we'll keep our eyes on it. chad, check out this story i have for you. >> what's that? >> this is a legendary stuntman. this is nick wolenda doing a high-wire act with his mom. it is the same high-wire walk that killed his great grandmother carl back in 1978. >> that's the exact same spot. those are the two exact buildings. >> it is 100 feet high, 300 feet long. no safety net. they performed this walk together to honor carl's memory. wallenda says he's been haunted by the way his great grandfather died since he was a kid. >> he was on a wire since he was 2 years old. well, with nets. right? but -- wow, what an amazing feat. that happened over the weekend. >> no safety net there. pretty incredible. >> don't look down. >> i could never do something like that. all right, thanks, chad. >>> politicians say a lot of things they expect us to accept as fact. right? well, it is our job to call them on it. truth-o-meter

our weather pattern is really allowing a lot of smoke to filter over into western parts of new mexicore air quality alerts into albuquerque as well as santa fay. you can smell the smoke from the fires so far away. the wind pattern not changing over the next couple days. an area of low pressure stuck over california. that's not going to move in and help clean out any of your air at all. the heat, that's the other big story here across the u.s. today, heat indices pushing 100 degrees in places like st. louis towards memphis. tomorrow we're talking above 100. it's going to feel like up to 105 for some of you. take it easy this weekend. stay in the ac if you can. hurricane season started this week, believe it or not. already have an area we're watching in the western caribbean that has a medium chance of developing into something in the next couple dals. it's not going to be moving a lot. we or worried about flooding in places like jamaica, haiti and the dominican republic. >> thanks, jacqui. >>> look out below. it's the giant watermelon drop, an annual tradition at the university of cali

right now, no rain and you can see the pop up thunderstorms that are firing nup the western portion of the staste new mexicostrike you will see a new wildfires spark up. there is a storm system off of the coast of california. it is going to head northeast ward. we'll see the winds picking up and they will be gusting up to 45 miles per hour and that rain will head montana and dacotas where we don't need to see additional prep prepp. they are areas that are dealing with flooding x. number of flooding in effect. and flash flood watches in the missouri river. we are seeing water levels high up. when the storm moves in the direction over the next several days . we'll see the precipitation falling in areas that don't need the rain . bulk in western parts of montana and harris and dacotas and missouri river. you don't need it see the additional rainfall here. >> maria thank you very much. more weather to talk about now. a deadly storm system ripped over indiana and mound state park in indianapolis . look at the damage, one tree. it crushed a van with four people inside killing one and injurying the others. fallen

power lines that supply much of the western portions of texas and southern new mexico would power remainardy. a wind shift could drive the planes into the mexico. residents in the small town of le are preparing to evacuate. >> the plane from the miracle on the hudson is on the move this morning on its way into a north carolina museum. here it is live on the road. the plane is on its way to a museum in north carolina. capt sully's cylinder who landed the plane on the hudson river and all 155 people on the plane survived and they are expected to be at a reception at the museum in charlotte once the plane gets there. the kron 4 morning news will be right back. >> 8:46 a.m., thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral for to san francisco firefighters killed in the line of duty. funeral services begin at 12:30 p.m.. lt. vincent perez and paramedic anthony valerio died while fighting a fire in the diamond heights district last week. we want to remind you that kron 4 will provide live coverage of the funeral services that get under way at 12:40 p.m.. that is live on the air as well

standards is outrageous, excessive, mexico is a country where less collective or associative participation than any country in latin america, let alone the united states or western europe. we're a country that's terrible at team sports. we have never won anything as team sports, though we're good at individuals. boxers, runners, bullfighters, golfers. we're a country where people don't like to live in high-rises because they don't believe it's their home. they want their home on the ground level. which means the cities stretch out endlessly and cost a fortune. we're a country where there are no collective action suits, the notion itself doesn't exist. we're a country of leaders of movements. [speaking spanish] >> uprising commander 15 years ago. we're not a country of movements. now being so individualistic is great expect when 60% of your society is middle class. then it doesn't work anymore. >> senior castaneda, how would you describe the current relationship between mexico and the united states? >> what i try to do in this book when you have a long devoted both to the relationship with the united states and the mexicoen national character of obsession with th

mexico mountain home located across the state line is now in danger. >> eric: ash from a volcano in chile continued to disrupt air travel all the way to western coast of australia. carriers have suspended all flights in and out of perth because the ash cloud is too low. it's deny arise erupted go australian air travel for four days and grounded flights in chile and other south american counties since it begin erupting on june 4th. >> carolyn: the amount of sleep you get could have an impact on the quality of your marriage. a study finds that those that reported difficult to fall asleep reported difficult with relations with their had husband had. >> that study is still ongoing. what say you about that. >> eric: i say the results, that the way it works. >> another bay area wonder goes public. how a company that has never made a profit will suddenly be words billions of dollars. >> a bay area man gave the robber what he wanted but he was still shot. i'm amy hollyfield. details coming up. >> and a chicken coop lawsuit is ear and damage it's done to homeless residents trying to make a new life.

what they do in new mexico and the western states is they simply take them out and turn them loose. right now we're struggling with an economy, an economy that is having difficulties in every area. too often it says it's the problem of the economy. we don't break it down to its individual components. one of the components in new mexico is that we've completely eliminated sheep from new mexico. new mexico used to be a large area of sheep production. that piece of the economy is simply gone because of regulations that we in washington and in the states have put into place. new mexico also used to have a vibrant apple population, apple economy. that's now gone because we've given favorable treatment to overseas' products. this is another element of an economy that has simply disappeared. new mexico used to have a vibrant horse trade. prices were how. now -- prices were high. people are doing away with the horse market. so we find that we in congress are causing the economic decay of our entire nation and this lady's amendment says let's study the effect, let's understand what we are ca

mexico wins, putting them in the world federation cup. >> earthquakes fought to a scoreless tie with the western event leading l.a. galaxy.ive losses, five ties. >> the field at wimbledon is starting to get down to man anable numbers as the top seeds rise to the top through three rounds. this is definitely what you call making a statement when it comes to the all england call. second seeded -- advanced into the 4th round, but not without a battle. this is him in the near court battling. they split the first two sets. >> raphael nidal, the top seed. mueller going the wrong way as nidal buries this shot. nidal a winner in three sets. 6-0 in the first set, also winning. third seeded roger fedderrer. >>> for the women, the comeback of corona williams, going strong. williams in the far court made straight sets of the player from russia. map point here, she will go down in similar fashion. >>> top seed, carolina and fifth seed -- is. >>> still to come tonight on "sports wrap" we'll see if the amateur who led at the half court poin . >> >> drivers have one more practice day under their belts. brad kozolowski. joey earned the pol

mexico. >> overseas tonight, the uprising against syria's government took another deadly turn today as protests across the country were met with a fierce response from a regime determined to hang on to power. western reporters are banned from syria, but john ray made his way to the border with turkey and filed this report. >> reporter: defiance despite all attempts to crush their uprising. tens of thousands went to the streets. new internet video not emptily verified appeared to show the response, a fierce crackdown. much of it too graphic to broadcast. scenes of government forces brutalizing civilians near the capital. dead and wounded in cities across the country today. here in the suburbs of the capital damascus, pictures show stones being thrown at police. this town was abandoned ahead of the biggest military crackdown killi killing 120 police and soldiers earlier this week. tanks and troops were destroying entire boavillages. and now people are swelling. among them, aman who fled his home. he's too scared to reveal his name or face. if they catch me, they will kill me, he says. we are paefrl, but the army comes and shoots and kicks down doors. syria's refugees are housed behinds iron fences.

mexico. in some areas evacuations have now been ordered. >>> smoke from the western fires is affecting air quality in reynolds wolf for more on that. it looks like you get worst weather conditions. >> what they need is to get rainfall. unfortunately, you have a surplus of rain in some areas, and then not enough in others. you have seen the video here. smoke everywhere. as suzanne was mentioning moments ago, some of the smoke is moving to other places in new mexico, and some areas in colorado. in the high mountain passes, the winds could be stronger in excess of 40 or 50 miles per hour. when you have the classic clouds that travel around parts of the globe, the same rule applies here. you have smoke being picked up and moving in parts of the central plains, and of course people that are susceptible to all kinds of airborne illnesses or have weak systems in terms of the respiratory tracks, they will have some issues. now, no relief expected anytime soon. low humidity and high winds will keep things troubled in the southwest. on the other side of this, expect the heavy rain to continue in the eastern

mexico mountain town located across the state lines is danger. >> eric: ash from a volcano in chile continues to disrupt air travel all the way to the western coastralia. carriers have suspended all flights in and out of perth because the ash cloud could damage jet engines. it's been disrupting australian air travel for four days and grounded flights in chile and other south american countries. >> carolyn: here is something to talk about the water cooler at work today. the amount of sleep you get could have an impact on the quality of your marriage, a study at the university of pittsburgh finds that wives who took longer to fall asleep the night before prortd poor interaction with their husbands the next day. they were crabby. husbands confirmed it. when husbands got less sleep it boosted their marital bliss. the effects are unknown at this point and that study is still ongoing. >> eric: ongoing, they'll get a much different result from mike. >> state budget deadline is just about 18 hours away. democrats in sacramento are rushing to work out a deal that can be passed on a majority vote without republican support. >> reporter: a man was shot in h

new challenges for firefighters in the western part of the country as intense heat and high winds are whipping up a blaze along the new mexico border with colorado. meantime in arizona, crews have now contained 33% of the largest fire in state history, but forecasted high winds this weekend threaten to undo their progress. >>> a hastily built levee in rural iowa is holding up against the powerful surge of the missouri river. the makeshift barrier was assembled after the swollen waters burst through the primary levee. >>> secretary robert gates used his final press briefing as defense chief thursday to deliver a warning to al qaeda's new leader. gates said the u.s. is as determined to hunt down the terror network's new chief, ayman al zawahiri, as it was to find his predecessor, osama bin laden. he also expressed doubts about zawahiri's ability to lead al qaeda. >>> republican presidential front runner mitt romney is now under fire from democrats after telling a group of people without jobs that, quote, i'm also unemployed. the multimillionaire made that joke at a florida coffee shop thursday while on the campaign trail and w

mexico. a new book attempts to separate fact from fiction as molly wood from cnet reports. >> -- desert of westernabout top secret military base in north america, area 51. for six decades it operated in total secrecy. even the government denied its existence. but it became home to conspiracy theories involving aliens, flying saucers and high level coverups. newly declassified documents finally give a glimpse into this mysterious place and its essential role in the space race and the cold war. >> area 51 was set up to push military science and technology faster and further than any other nation. >> reporter: journalist annie jacobsen wrote "area 5" it chronicles what happened on the base in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. she spent years interviewing those who worked there. >> they're a fraternity of formerly secret spies and scientists and spy pilots and engineers all of whom know one another. >> reporter: they spent most of their lives hiding what they did at work every day. now these veterans are finally able to talk about what went on inside the base. >> we went with code names. i was thunder. we wer

this morning, we are keeping tabs on a western wild fire the size of new york city and threatening to get bigger. more than 5,000 people in arizona and new mexico forced to leave their homes to get out of its path. >>> a dangerously hot day shaping up for much of the east. it will feel like 100 plus in some places. this summer heat wave is baking in areas from texas to new england. the fallout from the congressman wiener's scandal, this just in to cnn, former democratic national chair, tim kaine, now calling for his resignation. more on that in just a minute. >>> first, we begin this hour with the war in afghanistan and the future of u.s. troops there. just a short time ago, congress released a two-year investigation into the longest war in the nation's history and its findings unfortunately are not good. >> by us killing osama bin laden, getting al qaeda back on its heels, stabilizing much of the country in afghanistan so the taliban can't take it over. it is now time for us to recognize that we have accomplished a big chunk of our mission and that it is time for the afghans to take more responsibilities. >> this is no surprise. the majority o

mexico is a country with less collective or associative participation than any country in latin america, let alone the united states or western europe. we are a country at terrible in sports. winner what anything in team sports, though we are good at individual, boxers, runners, walkers, bullfighters, golfers. we are a country where people don't like to live in high rises because they don't believe it's their home. they want their home on the ground level, which means cities stretch out endlessly and cost a fortune. we are a country where there are no collective action suits. the notion itself doesn't exist. we're a country of leaders of movements, the uprising from 15 years ago. we are not a of movement of processes. so individualistic is great except when 60% of your society is middle-class. then it doesn't work anymore. >> how would you describe the current relationship between mexico and the united states? >> what i tried to do in this book when i have a long chapter devoted both with the relationship of the united states and the mexican national character of the intersection, obsession with the past, fear of the foreign,

western states. in arizona, more than seven of the 33 square miles have burned since memorial days. new mexico senator jeff bingaman is the chairman of the energy and national resources here -- committing. -- committee. >> it has been a dynamic year of severe weather. intense tornadoes, flooding throughout much of the united states, extreme drought and wildfire activity in the southwest, and in much of the south. the overall trend of increasing drought and wildfire in the west and southwest have been attributed by numerous scientific reports to climate change, including a recent report of our national academy of sciences. "america's climate choices." since climate change will continue into the future, we can expect the incidence of severe weather and further drying out of the already carried regions of the west to continue as well. -- arid regions of the west to continue as well. drought's will be more frequent in the southwest, and it will last longer than they have in the past. in the news this past week, we have seen the kind of challenges that we face. federal land management agencies are

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mexico and we're looking for a windy conditions also in this area. we do have an area of thunderstorms that's moving across the great lakes, towards the northern ohio and western pa and western new york. this may become severe as it crosses there and we'll watch that for potentially damaging winds moving into that area. be do have high pressure that's in control. that means it will stay hot and dry. folks out in the sierra, seeing snow, though. that's the cool spot. just to kind of try to cool your soul, guys. they are putting the chains over the mountain passes in the sierra nevada. so there is a couple of cool spots in the country to kind of, you know, get you thinking about next winter. we haven't gotten into summer officially yet. >> slushy -- >> rob cannot hide the ski bum in him. >> they're going to be skiing in aspen until july. >> he told us you'll see snow in june and we have snow in june. >> sounds good. >> stunning images from chile where more than 3,000 people have been forced to evacuate after a volcanic eruption over the weekend. >> that's incredible. >> the volcano sent a towering plume of smoke six miles into the sky coating the country side in

western seafood co. -- he is from freeport, texas. he is a developmental in fishing apparatus. he has been quite involved in that. mike is from motivate seafood in louisiana. one of the gulf of mexico's largest oyster harvesting and processing companies. are your oysters been served tonight? taste have a chance to his oysters in the food hall when we are done. i'm delightful that he is here. you have already heard from the doctor. let me start by turning to don. ok, it has been one year since the oil spill. how does it look? when we saw those videos, it brought back memories of how horrible everything looked a year ago. how is the gulf? >> nature is a wonderful thing. it treated oil as an organic some strain. a lot of things grew. for the most part, it is no longer there. there are a number of issues that we need to resolve about lingering effects. she also indicated there's a natural resources damage assessment to carefully quantify the impact. there are a lot of ongoing studies to see the degree to which those impacts happened. i think this was handled remarkably well, specifically with respect to -- as a scientist, when it this spill was happening and all this concern about the co