anymore fatalities, look for any bodies. they hope obviously that they don't find anymore, but these fires have been very massive. we're talking these fires are 30% contained. that honestly is a big step from what we've seen in the last few days because over the last two or three day, each day it's been sooe 0% contained. so 30% is a big step. an i think officials attribute that to the weather. the wind yesterday was a lot less fierce than it was two days ago and officials are hoping that holds out today so they can make more progress on the fire. >> give me some sense of where it starts to threaten urban areas. obviously this is something that they've had fires in texas for several months now. they've had this drought. but at this point, they're getting very close to urban areas. >> they basically surround austin. they're not getting close to city center, but here in bastrop county which is several miles east of austin, the city of bastrop itself has several subdivisions where homes are clustered together. this is not just a rural area where you have one home say every few acres, every mile or so. there are areas where there are lots of homes. as it spreads, it's going further south getting in to areas that are less populated. officials i guess that's one thing they're thankful for, but still these are very serious fires that aren't letting up anytime soon. >> we'll stay on top of the story. thanks for joining us. those fires are so big you can see them from space. the winds calmed down a little bit on tuesday and was a big help. let's go over to rob marciano. what's going on, do we have weather conditions that are help these firefighters? >> we won't get any rain, so that's one thing. winds today, maybe a little bit stronger than yesterday, but humidity levels will be about the same. and it will remain relatively cool. want to show you this picture. this is where austin sky lean there in the foreground looking into the south and east towards that fire, about 20, 30 miles away and it just gives you an idea the scope of this thing. wind blowing away from austin it, that's the good news. so air quality, although it's bad east of the fire, austin should be okay. 95 in austin, 89 in dallas. this is believe it or not much cooler than it has been the past couple of weeks. so they will take it. east coast going to see some storms today. speaking of storm, here is katia. category 1 strength right now. and the forecast is for to turn off towards the north and east. big time waves and rip currents still an issue across the east coast. so if you're tempted to go out there, the weather is kind of nasty. don't tip the toes in the water unless you know what you're doing. tropical depression number 14 continues to look promising and taking a track similar to katia. but lower. and that's not good. that means it may have a better chance next week sometime to make it closer to the u.s. and this thing right here, 40% chance of seeing it develop, it's in the southern gulf of mexico, probably going to fly a hurricane hunter aircraft later on today tomodels bring it to t. this weekend or beginning of next week. could turn out to be another lee which sprung up real quick and then made a quick attack on the gulf coast and we're still feeling the effects right now. >> all right, rob. good to see you, my friend. let me give you a quick round up of other news starting with the mass shooting at an ihop in carson city, nevada. a fourth person has how died. three of the dead were members of the nevada national guard, another a female civilian. several other people were rounded. police say the gunman was 32-year-old eduardo sension eflt. he was deliberately targeting guards men. >> i just started hearing it sounded like machine guns or firecrackers or something. >> we seen people running out of the building. i asked the people running out what happened, what happened. there was people hiding under cars. >> authorities have not said anything about about a motive, but the fbi says it doesn't appear to be connected to terrorism. beg news happening right now in india. bomb blast outside the deli oig high court. the bomb exploded during a busy day. it's not clear yet who is responsible, but there was a blast outside the same court complex in may. no one was hurt in that one. and we're hearing more about the future of u.s. troops in iraq. a senior pent gone official says one option is to keep just 3,000 forces there starting next year. the official stresses that no final decisions have been made. defense secretary leon panetta says the number depends on the iraqis. right now more than 40,000 u.s. troops are in iraq. and they're all supposed to be out by the end of the year. and speaking of the iraq invasion back in 2003, does dick cheney have any regrets about about it? >> i think bashir a a schs sad g is on his way out. he's one of the least popular leaders. it's the the middle east. stuff happens in the middle east. i don't think you can make the case that the world would be better off today in saddam hussein were still in power. >> so no regret ps iraq? >> i think we made the right decision. >> john edwards' lawyers are trying to get the charges expense him tossed out. they filed the motions to that end. the former senator and democratic presidential canned cat is accused of breaking campaign contribution law. the attorneys say the charges are vague. and politically moelt straighted. they also say edwards should not have been indicted. as we get closer to election year, debate, speeches and attempts get more fired up and comedians are taking the opportunity to bash those who are making particularly fiery claims. >> james hoffa jr., sure, no relation, took the stage to warm up the crowd. >> everybody here if we keep the eye on the prize, let's take these so that of a bitches out and give america back to america where we belong. >> and don't touch my microphone plp b [ bleep ] that's a union job. if hoff's goal was to get theme hollering, he succeeded. >> it is call to go take us out. what exactly does he mean by take us out? 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>> huge. the public conundrum wouldn't have ended there. they still have the option of missing both political events and watching ghosts caught on tape on the biography channel. >> i wonder if we'll do that. time for your political ticker. tim far sli hofarley, host of m briefing. what is going on there, do you have a black shirt and white tie with dots on it on? >> i've got my whole outfit all picked out just for you, ali. i heard you were coming back this morning. >> good to see you. that's my welcome back outfit. tim, president obama is going to unveil his big jobs plan tomorrow. mitt romney laid out his yesterday. let's listen. >> president obama's strategy is a pay phone strategy and we're in a smart phone world. and so we're going to have to change. what he's doing is taking quarters and stuffing them in to the pay phone and thinking can't figure out why it's not working. it's not connected anymore, mr. president. >> i have to tell you, the president does it, too. i hate these oversimplified analyses with jobs, although i have to give to mitt romney, he put out a very long jobs plan, 59 points. and i'm hoping the president -- the business guy in me hopes that the president has some good meat and detail in his plan, as well. >> 161 pages, it's all available on kindle. so he's getting a little high tech with this, too. i think what we're talking about is when the president -- there is no way he can live up to any expectations. we're already seeing $300 billion worth of things that he's really already been talking about including payroll tax extensions and maybe some investment in infrastructure. here's where the battle is shaping up. it's still in the middle on those independent voters. and increasingly democrats will start painting more republican candidates as extreme, rick perry for example, sarah palin. mitt romney trying to come across as the reasonable one and laying this out, he'll have something to refer to whenever he gets out on the campaign trail. look at my jobs plan. if the economy is still in the tank a year from how, the president will have a difficult time beating almost anyone, but certainly he'll have a tougher time against a so-called reasonable candidate. >> we journalists enjoy plans, something to sink our teeth into. and at least point in some direction. so it's a long and detailed one. this is troubling. there is a video game out that targets tea party favorites like sarah palin, michele bachmann in a video game where you can simulate killing them. >> yeah, tea party zombies must die, this is done by a group called -- well, a company called starving eyes.com. it shouldn't come as a big surprise. they did something called kung fu election in 2008. what's interesting to me about this is that the tea party has become a sim billion for something and you can just slap that label i guess on whichever politician you want to. but that aside from the fact that this is very graphic, the owner of the company is quoted as saying that this is a personal project, i'm not worried about it affecting business because they do have mainstream clients like hotels.com, for example, but it's in the sage of viral video and it's getting noticed on shows like this this morning. >> yeah, i suspect this will come back and bite them a little bit. it goes a little far, the idea that it's more than just candidates as understand. they have journalists on there, all sorts of people who are -- >> and there's uzis and swords. it's graphic. >> tim, good to see you, as always. keep well. >> thanks. >> tim farley host of the morning briefing on sirius xm. before with we go, today is national day of neither rain nor snow. really doesn't have anything to do with the weather. it actually celebrates the opening of the new york "post" office building back in 1914. the inscription on the side of the building reads net snow nor rain nor heat more gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. mail is still processed in that building. the jacob farley building. to this day. r my very first year as a teacher, setting that goal to become a principal. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? 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[ engine revs, tires screech ] mom? ♪ that's a beautiful picture of l.a.x. love the pillars lit up. beautiful flying in early in the morning. a strong warning on capitol hill yesterday from the u.s. postmaster general. he says the u.s. postal service will not be able to pay $5.5 billion in health benefits that come due at the end of the month. let's go to carter evans. he's live in new york. one of the things the postmaster general wants to do is be able to lay off 120,000 employees. and the postal service is heavily populated with minorities, with african-americans, with veterans. a lot of people saying this will give the middle class yet another hit that it didn't need. >> it certainly will hurt a lot of people. this is a terrible time to begin to layoff 120,000 people, a terrible time in our economy. but it's going to especially hit a couple of classes. let's talk about african-americans. for one, they make up 21% of the work force at the u.s. postal servi service. veterans make up 22%. the postal service has said it will try to spare veterans as muches as possible, but critics are saying if you're going to shut down a plant entirely for a region, everybody there is going to lose their job unless they can relocate somewhere else. so you can't pick and choose because the post office is looking at 3700 facilities to close down right now. >> and he doesn't have the authority to do this, but he's asking congress for it. i'll be talking to him later on, as well. let's talk about yahoo!. the ceo gets fired quite suddenly yesterday and the stock actually shoots up as a result. what do we know about this? >> yeah, so this is carol bartz. she's been ceo for a little more than two years. she took over when jerry yang stepped down after the microsoft debacle. carol bartz has been controversial during her reign at yahoo!. she's had a whole lot of critics and the stock price while her being ceo was essentially flat. but the nasdaq composite during that i'm is up about 60%. so a lot of people are looking at yahoo! plus the exodus of management and saying something has to change. that happened yesterday. and she wrote an e-mail to employees explaining that she was fired over the phone and she sent that e-mail from our icht ipad. >> let me bring you up to speed in the world of sports. the nba and locked out players will be back at the negotiating table today, this will be their third meeting since the labor dispute started on july 1st. the commissioner says there's time to get the dispute settled before training camp opens next month. and if you're planning to buy a super bowl ad with the $3.5 million you have lying around, you better do it soon. nbc says there are only five 30 second spots left. not too shabby considering the regular season doesn't start until toll. and you're about to see the nicest out ever. brandon phillips heads for home. is not going to make. gets tagged out by 30 feet from home plate. phillips gives soto a hug. wouldn't the world be a nicer place if there were more outs like this? look at that. and will date in history back in 1979, the espn debuted on cable tv. it's still going strong to this day. according to their website, up to 115 million viewers catch sports center every month. 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[ female announcer ] only from aveeno. it's wednesday, september the 7th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i'm ali velshi in for karl coca costello. let's go around the world with zain verjee live in london. we have breaking news out of india. a briefcase bomb explodeded outside the delhi high court. what do we know? >> we know that at least nine people have been killed and 61 injured, that according to police and officials on the scene. right now pore ren sicks experts, firefighters, as well as security forces are at the high court. what we believe happened was that this briefcase bomb exploded outside one of the main entrances into the court complex. this was gate number five. it's known for having litigate tors and lawyers coming in, mostly through that specific entrance. it's not clear who is responsible for this, but the court has been targeted in the past. there was a car bomb about four months or so ago and this is obviously a target according to one of the senior ministers in the indian government. the city is on high alert and so are other major cities in the country. >> and that last one that bombed several months ago, nobody was injured or killed in that one, but we do have injuries and some deaths. in egypt, there was a beg fight thbroke out at a soccer game. what happened? >> it was an awful situation. the fans started chanting toward the riot police and basically insulted jose mubarak and then they started to ensuggeinsult t police. and the police lashed out. there was about 130 people injured and taken to hospital. but that was the crux of it. it was the insults thrown back and forth. they're calling them provocative shouts. >> and while the military has always had a better relationship with the populous in egypt, there has always been tension between the police and populous. so we're seeing that flare up here. good to see you as always. i'll talk to you later on american morning. you'll hear a lot about those enormous fires burning near austin, texas. they are so big you can see them from the sky. this is the view from the international space station 200 miles above earth. the wind died down a bit yesterday. it helped firefighters for a change. let's go to rob marciano in our weather center. what are conditions looking like today? >> similar to yesterday. wind may be a little bit stronger. want to show you a vivid picture here of the fires as seen from kind of the northwest side of austin with austin in the foreground looking to the south and east. and you can see how the smoke from this thing hangs low to the ground. high pressure overhead. that's what's bringing the dry air. but poor air quality east of the fire, that's not where austin is, but folks who live down wind obviously will be dealing with smoke for quite some time. temperatures about where they were yesterday. the east coast will see some storms and some rain, leftovers from lee. and meanwhile fall-like temperatures across the western great lakes down to the gulf of mexico. will we get some of this rain in the tropics to texas. of 40% chance of this storm developing. computer models all over the place as far as where that will go. so stay tuned. meanwhile hurricane katia, it's a category 1 storm. it will split the difference between bermuda and cape hatteras. and then feel off to sea. big tides, big waves and big rip currents. stay out of the water on the east coast until it passes. depression number 14 meanwhile is gathering intensity. way out there in the atlantic. we don't have to worry about this for a week or so, but we may have to worry about this one more than we worried about katia. getting this to the height of hurricane season. september 11th the peak. mother nature acting accordingly. >> when do we decide to name that tropical storm? >> the experts at the national hurricane center will look at their satellite imagery and they have a way that they determine whether or not it's become strong must have to become a tropical storm. and the thing in the gulf may be a tropical depression or have a name later today, as well. >> all right, we'll talk to you center. a fourth person has died in that restaurant shooting in carson city, nevada. three of the dead were members of the national guard. another was a female civilian. several other people were wounded. police say the gunman was eduardo sencion. they believe he was can deliberately targeting guards men. >> i started hearing machine guns or firecrackers or something. >> we seen people running out of the building. i asked the people running out what happened, what happened, there was people hiding under cars. >> and we're hearing more about the future of u.s. troops in iraq. a senior pentagon official says one option is to have just 3,000 forces there starting next year. the official stresses that no file decisions have been made. right now more than 40,000 u.s. troops are in iraq. but they're supposed to be out by the end of the year. and speaking of iraq, does former vice president dick cheney have any regrets about the decision to invade iraq back in 2003? here's what he told wolf blitzer. >> i don't think you you can make the case that the world would be better off today if hussein was still in power. i think we made the right decisions. >> that's of course part of his new book. check out the word of the dead by the way. nsa i.d.s. find out what it means after the short break. 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