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"cnn saturday morning" continues right now. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye in boston. a windy boston this morning. it's 10:00 here on the east coast. 7:00 a.m. out west. we're glad you're with us this morning. ahead this hour, tracing the calls of the boston bombing suspects. the fbi says it is easier than you think even if their phones weren't tapped. plus, they call it the most exciting two minutes in sports. today's kentucky derby. has the boston bombings put a downer on churchill downs. 200,000 acres torched so far. firefighters race to control this california inferno. we begin in los angeles right now firefighters are battling a raging wildfire and brutally dry weather to save thousands of homes from burning to the ground. in less than two days, 28,000 acres have gone up in smoke in ventura county area. the so-called springs fire is only 20% contained and 4,000 homes are under threat. cnn's stephanie elem is in newberry park, california, where we have seen a lot of smoke there. firefighters -- we'll check in with alexandra steele first and then we'll get to stephanie. can you tell us certainly they are in desperate need of some rain. how is it looking for them? >> certainly things are looking much better. no question about that. what we've seen just incredible amounts of very strong wind. we're going to see a big change coming. that is the good news. here's a look at what it looks like right now. we have clear skies and 57 degrees. humidity is up. that is the good news. and the winds are down. look at that. 5-mile-per-hour winds. much less than we've seen. the good news, those very hot, strong, dry offshore winds now have switched direction and we have an onshore flow. all the moisture from the water is being brought inland. that's good news. rain showers between sunday and tuesday. best chance for any rain is really on monday. not a lot of rain mind you but it's more of the change in the wind direction and increasing humidity that will change dynamics of the weather pattern. bad news rain will be light and the thundershowers we could see could have some lightning with them and with that lightning potentially all of that brush is so dry it could spark another fire and also with the thundershowers could see a movement of the winds and shifting of the winds. here's a look at the forecast. this is really the key. this is kind of on monday morning. this is the forecast radar. the bull's eye for some rain. you can see rain coming in monday morning. not heavy rain. that's for sure. moisture coming in and changing the weather pattern and that's really been the biggest news. it's not so much the amount of rain. since january 1st they'll only had 1.9 inches of rain. places like st. louis had two inches of rain in two days. it's not the amount. it's just the increased humidity and a change in the wind direction now coming in off the water. >> all right. appreciate that. now, we got cnn's stephanie elem back on the line with us. we've been seeing a lot of smoke in your area. firefighters have been setting controlled blazes in the area. does that seem to be helping? >> reporter: one thing that helped about doing that is keeps the fire from coming into places where they don't want. i can tell you a lot of mandatory evacuations happened along this road. it's people not in their house along the street. what they're doing with big smoke pile you see behind me, that's a controlled fire. they want to make sure they burn down all of that dry brush so that there isn't any kindle here to get the fire coming across the street and affecting these homes. that's one thing they're doing a lot. we can see from here way out people are out there digging a line making sure the fire doesn't go any further. i also want to tell you we got an update from cal fire and they're saying now this fire is 30% contained and they are keeping the acreage burned at 28,000 acres. that's good news along with the fact that it's also a lot -- there's more moisture in the air today and that's one thing that will help firefighters. >> what about those 4,000 homes that we mentioned that are still under threat? anything immediate happening to save those? >> reporter: well, they look -- it's a lot calmer out here today compared to yesterday. let me put that out there first. definitely the fact that there are only 15 homes affected by damage is huge and no homes have been destroyed. that's why they have controlled fires. as a precaution to make sure that everything is better, they're not letting those people back in their homes just yet. that's something that could happen later on today. >> what about you? can you feel a change in the wind? does it seem to be dying down for you? >> reporter: the last couple of days have been so windy, randi. taking a look now, it's so much calmer. it's much more still. that's helping and you can feel the moisture in the air. that's helping. the other issue has been air quality. while some of these people didn't need to leave their homes, they did because the air quality just got so bad. it was hard to see. it would burn your eyes. yesterday it would give me a headache so i would wear my mask in between live hits on television. it's better today. you feel the smoke but it's not as oppressive as it was yesterday afternoon, randi. >> stephanie elam, thank you very much. stay safe. new this morning, five u.s. soldiers have been killed by a bomb in southern afghanistan. there's no word on precisely where they were stationed. the taliban launched its annual spring offensive with attacks aimed at foreign military bases and diplomatic areas. earlier this week a roadside bomb killed three british troops. also new this morning, israel now confirming that it conducted an air strike friday in syria. israeli official tells reuters that the strike targeted a shipment of missiles bound for hezbollah and lebanon. israeli officials have long vowed to strike targets they think are being used to transfer weapons to hezbollah or other terrorist groups. israeli defense official tells cnn, "we'll do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from syria top terrorist organizations." now the latest developments in the boston bombings. a death certificate confirms the violent final moments of tamerlan tsarnaev's life. the owner of the funeral home handling the suspected bomber's burial read the document to cnn and shows that tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds of torso and blunt trauma to the head and torso. tsarnaev's body sits in this funeral parlor as four cemeteries have refuseded to bury the body. investigators found explosive residue inside the cambridge, massachusetts, apartment of tsarnaev where he lived with his wife and young daughter. plus, investigators say dzhokhar, the younger brother, has revealed their initial target was the 4th of july celebration in boston. finally, the latest on the victims of the 260 hurt in the attack. 2 1/2 weeks ago. 12 people remain in the hospital. he took an oath to never turn away a customer. now a funeral director from worster, massachusetts, is living up to it in ways he probably never expected having to advocate for the burial of one of probably the most hated men in america right now suspected boston bomber tamerlan tsarnaev. he's on the phone with me to talk about this. sir, thank you for speaking to us this morning. how many cemeteries have you called asking if tamerlan tsarnaev could be buried there? >> we have mentioned it to all of them and most of them have declined to do this. i think basically some fear of reprisal. as i have told some of them, at the immediate moment you may feel that but later on when things calm down people will resent you because i didn't do it. we're having a problem locating a burial spot. we will find something on monday because i said if i have to go to the higher authorities, this is a bad situation, national security situation, they're going to have to do something which i'm sure they will. >> how many -- when you say all of them, how many have you called and what are they telling you? >> there are three that would fit into what we're trying to do. as i say, they don't want to do it. i can understand to a point of view but as i said, my view is that we have to do something. we have to bury the person and this is what we do in a civilized society regardless of the circumstances. i separate the sinner from the sins. i can't pick and choose what i do. in this country, we bury the dead as i mentioned many times. we buried the mcveighs, the dahmers, the bundys. >> why did you accept tsarnaevs as a client? >> i've been in this business for many years. i handle many, many poor people and i basically take everybody. we do well so money is not the big issue. it's only paper sometimes and it's only good for what good it will do. i can sit here with a pocket full of money and maybe no conscience. you have to help some of the people that don't do as well. i often said -- >> how long can you keep -- how long can you keep tamerlan tsarnaev's body as you wait to find a burial place? >> well, the point is that we are not going to go -- it's not a question of how long we can wait. the thing is they are going to do things that muslim people will wash his body which is a religious obligation. that has to be done regardless of the circumstances. and once that's done, long before then, i will be on the phone with people that have to do something to effect the burial. it's not a question of giving people three and four days to make a decision. that's not going to happen. >> under the muslim faith, what are the specifics for burying tamerlan tsarnaev? >> in a true islamic cemetery, the body is washed and wrapped and the body is buried the same way. there's no casket. and of course a mound is built on top of the grave and reason for that being so nobody walks on it. we have very few of those cemeteries. most of the cemeteries have a section set aside for muslim people. it's a nonsectarian cemetery but they have a separate area. that's how it's done. some require a plain box. that's how it's done. >> i asked you earlier -- i want to get back to what they're saying to you when you ask them to take the body and bury the body. you said they just don't want to. can you be more specific in terms of what their reasoning is? >> they have declined to do it. most of these graves here are owned by individual mosques in the cemetery. it's a section that's reserved in that cemetery for muslim burials. now, the cemetery has control of the lots but they are basically reserved for muslim people. it's their option to say we don't want to handle this. >> what about the fact that the family wants an autopsy? does that delay what you're trying to do here? >> that's not going to delay anything. more or less we insisted it all be done this weekend. we think more than enough time has gone by to effect the other things. this is not uncommon. sometimes in accident cases or homicide cases, defense attorneys many times will ask for an independent autopsy. that's nothing unusual. >> what about the cost of this? if the family doesn't pay, you're willing to? >> i will do whatever i have to do. i have done it many times. on some occasions i have someone come in here that's $100 short to do something and i wouldn't deprive someone the opportunity to see their loved one for $100. i would just do it. the age old expression is that money isn't everything. you get enough to get by. i try to avoid the level of greed if i can. >> understood. thank you again for speaking with us this morning. investigators in boston found residue from explosives inside the apartment that slain bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev shared with his wife and child. tamerlan's brother dzhokhar told investigators that the pair built the homes at tamerlan's home but tamerlan's katherine claims she knew nothing about it. has there been any sign of katherine russell in recent days? >> reporter: randi, yes, there has. we haven't seen her this morning but we've seen her almost every day the past week. as you might remember the week before she spent most of her days just inside and didn't leave but in the past week she's been meeting with investigators at her attorney's office in downtown providence and the other thing i can tell you is that she's been out in the community doing some errands. we saw her go to the verizon store this week and went to lunch yesterday. she's getting out a little bit more than she was before. >> now that the bomb residue has been found in her home in the kitchen and bathroom, do investigators believe she may have known more about the plot than she might be letting on and than her lawyers may be letting on? >> reporter: investigators certainly want to get to the bottom of that. what i can tell you about that is we're seeing a big federal presence of unmarked fbi vehicles outside her parents' house and vehicles trail her when she leaves. there are big reasons why if she didn't know, they can explain why and those are one this young couple, katherine russell was the bread winner working 75 to 80 hours a week outside of their home and that's a lot of time of course and she might not have known anything about it. the other thing is that this very young couple also has a 2 1/2-year-old daughter that katherine russell was caring for. two big reasons she may not have known about them if in fact she didn't. >> erin mcpike, thank you for that. seven acres of guns, gear and controversy. we're live in texas for the latest on the nra's big annual meeting. hollywood star's late-night encounter with police that ended in a mug shot and public apology. find out what reese witherspoon said to police and it's all caught on tape. serving up sneezes... 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