0 tonight in arizona's deadly wildfire still burning out of control. 19 bodies have now been recovered, 19 heroes now identified. the first two people to question george zimmerman take the stand for the prosecution. question once again, did strong cross-examination turn their testimony to the defense's advantaging? another compelling day in court. we'll tell you about it. and later to egypt, a leading newspaper saying egypt is on the edge of a volcano. that's what it looks like tonight. millions protesting against the government and the clock now ticking before the military steps in. we begin tonight with the breaking news. all 19 firefighters killed in the yarnell hill fire still burning out of control north of phoenix. they've all been identified and taken to the maricopa medical examiner's office in phoenix. 19 members of an elite team called hotshots, the granite mountain hotshots based in prescott, arizona. every member but one pr risched. more how it came to this terrible day. >> it began as a simple ordinary act of nature in the high desert. a lightning strike at an 5:36 friday evening igniting an 800-acre blaze. there were twin problems. scorching heat and low humidity. but that combination, the fire exloaded in into a monster devouring acres that had not burned in 40 years. first a few dozen homes. then 00 scorched. firefighters across the region including the hotshots from station 7 in prescott located 30 miles away jumped into action. the hotshots a team of 208 sent into the heart of the fire. to cut a line on the eastern flank and save other homes. >> they're highly trained, highly skilled. their situational awareness is very high. for this crew, it's very difficult to imagine what happened. >> it was sunday afternoon. the hot shot crew was behind the fire line when like most afternoons a thunderstorm blew in. but this one was different. it packed with what the fire department calls monsoon winds and the crew was trapped on the wrong side of this em. >> late in the day, a thunderstorm developed over prescott. and the wind shifts 180 degrees on these firefighters and 40 to 50-mile-per-hour gusts instead of staying out of the way, the fire blew today him. >> theydried for such a disaster. in this video they show how to deploy a protective shield a last resort move. they dove under the shelters but it wasn't enough to save them from the ferocious wildfire. all but one were killed. the remains of 19 bodies found some still in their shelters. >> we've lost 19 of our family members. it's a nightmare right now. >> 19 heros between the ages of 21 and 43. taken from the charred fields they tried to squish extinguish in a caravan after white advance, people lining the streets here and mourners lining the gate of station 7 with flags and flowers. the hot shot team's cars still parked where they pulled in three days ago. their families retrieving the uniforms of their fallen loved ones, wives, widowed in an instant. >> they're young guys. it's the top, top guys to do this. they've got to be in top shape and they knew what they were doing. something just really went wrong somewhere. >> it is an unimaginable loss. kyung lah joins me now live. do we know how the one was able to survive in. >> of he survived, anderson, because he wasn't with his crew. he's actually on the roster. it's a team of 20, but he was september to move some crew equipment. he was jockeying with that equipment. and that's why he survived because he just wasn't with them. everyone who was together in that crew perished. >> and we're going to talk to the father of one of the men who perished, 21-year-old young man. they were all so young. it's so hard to imagine so many of them first time fathers or about to become fathers. in terms of the fire now, the homes, what are we hearing about the number of homes destroyed? >> well, the last figure we're hearing is that 200 hoexs have been damaged or destroyed. the acreage is now at 8400 acres. the important thing to realize about this is that firefighters are stressing this is not a final figure. they expected it to change. >> president obama spoke by phone today with jan brewer blejing all necessary federal assistance to state and local crews, expressing his condolences the families of the fallen. their names have just been released. we're learning a little about the lives some of them led. we want to tell you what we know about these young men. you hud know their names, eric marrish, andrew ashcraft, anthony rose, chris mack ken zee, claden wittit, dustin deford, garrett zuppiger, grant mckee, jesse steed, joe thurston, john percin, robert caldwell, scott norris, sean misner, travis carter, travis it your byfill. we'd parker, billy warneke, kevin woyjeck. >> andrew ashcraft had a wife and four young children. he was 29 years old. chris mackenzie was like so many the son of a firefighter. he loved snow boarding, living life to the fullest. chris mack ken zee was 30 years old. clayton played football, knew what a ground battle looked like off and on the gridiron. dustin was 242, loved the outdoors and loved to hunt. jesse steed served in the marines before becoming a firefighter in 2000 and became a hot shot in 2002. he was 36 years old and leaves behind a wife and two young kids. scott norris was 28, worked at a local gunshop, known as the ideal gentleman. sean was about to become a first time dad. he was 26 years old. travis carter at 31 was thinking about retiring this year. even younger at 22, wade parker was engaged to be married in october. billy had he live wod have become a father in december. he was 25 years old. kevin was born to be a hot shot. he is the son of a firefighter. earlier tonight i spoke with his father tonight by phone. >> i'm so sorry for you and your family's loss. i can't imagine what you're going through at this point. what do you want people to know about your son, about kevin? >> my goodness, he wanted to be a firefighter like me. i come from a family of firefighters, and you know, we go to work. we foe there's a risk. and you know, you spend your whole life protecting your children and then knowingly letting him go into harm's way, i can only imagine how my parents felt when i became a firefighter. knew the risk was there, yeah. always laughing. great fisherman. always had a rod with him in his car. he loved the outdoors. you know, sleeping on the dirt was not eight big deal to him. he enjoyed it actually i think. just a great kid. not a mean bone in his body. always just you know, looking forward to become a firefighter like his dad. just words can't describe the loss that our family is feeling right now. my wife and i and pie daughter, my other son have kind of sheltered ourselves from thenent. when the time's right, we'll dig if and figure out exactly what happened. but right now, i'm happy that i have my close tight family and i'm oh blessed that my family has my fire department family. it is absolutely amazing. i feel sorry for the other 18 firefighters and their families. and just a tragic loss, you know. it's real to me. and i've never been in a position where it felt like a bad dream but my wife and i both had a sleepless night last night talking. and nightmare is the word that kept coming up. a nightmare. it hasn't sunk in yet. we're not going to get the phone call. he called me yesterday morning and said dad, we've got a fire in yarnell, arizona. i won't have service. i'll give you a call later. >> he had already accomplished an incredible amount to be 1 years old. this is a really elite unit. it's an incredibly difficult position to have. >> he wanted to be in the weeds because i started out as a firefighter, told him how hard it was. there's times if you can run, you get yourself out of trouble. if you get in that position. he worked out hard. he worked out as a cross-country runner and excelled in running till he graduated from high school because he knew the hot shot group, had you to be the best. >> there's also got to be an incredibly close bond between the family of firefighters who are together, your son and the people he's working with on that crew. >> that's correct. i -- because he just started there on april 1st, i haven't had time to really stand with his crew. you build a bond with your crew and your team when you're out in harm's way that it's not -- there's no way to describe it. if you've never been there, you can't understand it. >> captain i'm so sorry for your loss and our condolences you and your entire family. we wish you the best in the days ahead. >> thank you for taking my call. >> such a loss. so many families mourning tonight. this still a very active fire. even as firefighters are mourning trying to come to grips with the reality of this, they can't stop working. joining us now is prescott arizona fire chief of dan ffreyho. so many of them were so young. seven of them under 25 years of age. talk a little bit about the kind of people who do this work. >> these are very special people that are dedicated to do good things that are very, very physically fit. they're very dedicated. great sense of humor for the most part and just the type of people that don't mind going out into the forest and hauling 50 or 60, 70 pounds of gear, walking five or six miles, establishing fire lines or burning out areas trying to protect people. these are just outstanding people well conditioned athletic young men. >> how do you go about dealing with this loss and at the same time, you still have to fight this fire? >> well, we also have a great deal of dedicated people here in the city that despite the grief ta we're going through, despite the losses that took place and the sorrow that's extended, they're still ready to respond. the city's still covered. we're dealing with issues every day routinely. they separate their grief from their professionalism. >> i know it's very early and maybe you haven't been able to investigate this. are you any closer to understanding exactly what happened out there? >> not really. anderson, one of the things that must be understood is that that fire is about 40 or 50 miles away. it's being handled by an incident command team at the national level with the forest service or through the state agency. we send our crews wherever requested. they can be engines or hot shot crew. once we end them, beak we're out of the picture till they come back. they're redeployed or the season ends. >> and in terms of these individual, i apologize, i don't know the correct term, but they're basically kind of individual little tents that are fire resistant, can you explain how those work and i mean, how strong are those? what kind of flames -- do they actually resist direct fire? >> well, what they do is they reflect the heat. when somebody has to deploy a shelter like that is an absolutely there are no other options. we try to get as close ot ground as we can. they're silt in such a way to where our hands and feet feet in them. we try to tuck them in as close as we can and have the fire go over the top. if it's a fairly fast moving fire, your survivability is greater. if it's a slower moving or dense area, it woimz much more serious. deploying the shelter is a very, very last risk mode that people take when there's no other options. >> one of the firefighters sent word all the men were deploying the shelters. was anything else said in that message that you can say? >> i'm sorry. i didn't understand your question. >> did you receive any other kind of communication from the cell about what was going on? >> the only thing i know was that the crew had said that they're deploying the shelters and then there was a long period of silence to where the incident commanders could not did not get information. >> chief, again, our condolences for your loss and our thoughts are with all of you still battling the blazes. thank you. >> thank you for your concern and for allowing us to talk about thissing >> thank you very much. we'll be talking about this story on twitter on the commercial break. follow me @anderson cooper tweeting throughout the night. just ahead, george zimmer pan's own words took center stage on day six of had his murder trial. today's key testimony ahead. plus our legal panel. later, take a look at the heart of cairo, egypt. a very ominous night. hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. the offices of the ruling muslim brotherhood have been overrun. the military issued an order that some are saying amounts to a ticking time bomb. we'll take you there. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. 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>> i said, we don't know who he is. and he said, he's dead? and i said, i thought you knew that. i thought you knew he was dead. and he kind of slung his head and shook it. >> in a recording of that interview, zimmerman again repeats the line prosecutors say went to his state of mind. >> there were a few times where i've seen a suspicious person in the neighborhood. we call the police, the nonemergency line, and these guys always get away. >> the state contends zimmerman instantly profiled martin that night. pointing to his written statement, in which zimmerman repeatedly described martin as the suspect. and prosecutors attempted to show how zimmerman's account changed. changed with each retelling. in his first interview, zimmerman said martin attacked him after jumping out of the bushes. >> i was walking back through to where my car was. and he jumped out from the bushes. and he, what the [ bleep ] is your problem, homie? >> in the re-enactment, zimmerman makes no mention of martin jumping out from bushes. >> that's right about here, he yelled from behind me. he said, yo, you got a problem? i turned around and said, no, i don't have a problem, man. >> where was he at? >> he was about there, but he was walking toward me. >> coming from this direction here? >> yes, sir. like i said, an i was already past that. so i didn't see exactly where he came from. >> the state entered into evidence another police interview, in which investigators challenged zimmerman's account of events. >> but your account is that you don't see him at this point. here's the pavement. directly looking down that way, that passage. where were you at? >> once he told me not to follow him -- i wasn't following him, i was going in the same direction he was. once they -- >> that's following >> but each time on cross-examination, defense attorney park o'mara always came back to the same point, that both investigators found zimmerman credible. >> were there any questions that you asked him or any changes in his story along the way that caused you concern? >> not significantly, no. >> you think he was telling the truth? >> yes. >> martin savidge, cnn, sanford, florida. >> martin's going to join us in a little bit to talk about what went on in the courtroom today. i want to get our legal panel's take. joining me is senior legal analyst jeffr toobin and sunny hostin. on the defense side, criminal defense attorneys danny au ser ral los and mark geragos author of "mistrial." i want to throw this question out to all four of you, do any of you believe that the prosecution ha a particularly good day today? does anybody believe that the prosecution is a step closer to proving their case? mark, go ahead. >> anderson, i have a theory about this. i think that was has happened here, this is -- and, jeff, i have no evidence of this, so i'll say that as a disclaimer, but i think when the police did not arrest him as mark o'mara elicited, they found him to be credible. they thought that they weren't going to file. i think that what has happened here, is that when the state's attorney filed this case, they feel like the police were thrown under the bus. and i think the police are now engaging in payback, and when those questions that o'meara asked to get those answers out of the officers, to me is stunning. and anderson, i assume your question was almost a hypothetical, because, no, they're not -- they're not a step closer, this was a disastrous day. >> go ahead. jeff >> for the first time in history, i can agree completely with what mark said. i had a feeling that the cops were really going out of their way to be sympathetic to zimmerman today. you know, of course -- he didn't ask for a lawyer. he -- he immediately talked to us, he was truthful, honest. we tried our special investigative techniques. they even asked him about the inconsistencies and he said, i didn't think they were really such big inconsistencies, everybody tells a story somewhat different. they sounded like defense attorneys. >> let me play one more piece of an interview with the female police officer talking about whether george zimmerman exhibited any ill will or malice. let's take a listen. >> did he evidence that he was angry with trayvon martin? >> no. >> that he had hatred for him? >> no. >> spite or ill will? >> no. >> that he had anything that would suggest to you some type of bad attitude toward trayvon martin? >> no. >> rather he seemed to be affected by the fact that he realized that trayvon martin had passed? >> he seemed affected by that. >> that's a state's witness. >> this is brilliant. it's so nuanced. what mark o'mara is doing is literally reading out of the statute. the statute defines -- the state the has the burden to prove depraved heart. what is that? they have to prove three separate things, one of those is ill will, evil hatred, that's where those questions come from. he's literally getting his closing argument prepared by asking about that evil or ill will. so now he's establishing that at least one witness is going to negate that ill will, if you negate one, this is a giant jenga game. if you negate one of those elements, the entire case fails. and it is florida law that an impulsive overreaction to a fight or an attack is not ill will or evil. ? unsunny hostin, did you see anything different there? anything positive there for the prosecution? >> yeah, i did. i'm going to agree with mark as well. certainly, you have to remember that these are the same police officers that the investigation was taken from, and their power was usurped, i'm sure they were a little bit upset about it, some of that came across on the witness stand. when you look at george zimmerman's statements, he did call trayvon martin repeatedly a suspect. he also said these guys always get away. i think something that's very interesting to take away, as well is that he talked about serino said he didn't feel george zimmerman's injuries were life threatening. he also said he didn't believe george zimmerman went down with a single punch. i think what's most important is we got out those inconsistencies when it talks about who was the first aggressor. that's going to be the most important issue here, i think it was clear that at first he said, well -- he told singleton, i got out of the car to get an address. you know, there are only three streets at this retreat at twin lakes. so the fact that the neighborhood watch coordinator didn't know one of three streets incredible. he finally admitted sort of, that listen, he got out and was following him. and i think that when you look at it all in context, yes, maybe his statements were consistent, they are his statements, his self-serving statements, there was a lot for the prosecution to work with, given those statements. >> very briefly, is it possible -- i mean, second degree murder is what he's charged with. is it possible for the jury on their own to say, we don't think it's second degree murder, but maybe it should be manslaughter? is that within the power of the jury to -- >> if the jury has to go with what's called a lesser included, they get a jury instruction. if they give lessers, the jury can, they have to work from top to bottom, but if they acquit on second degree and they get a lesser of manslaughter, yes, they can find him guilty or not guilty of that. >> you will find prosecutors who believe that you should always charge the absolute most you can and let the jury compromise to something you could live with. >> doesn't that make the closing argument in the prosecution's case harder to argue? >> that's what other prosecutors think, which is if you overcharge, you wind up discrediting your entire case. you can argue either way. the problem here is, they're not establishing any kind of case at least on a day like today as far as i can tell. but again, i don't think we should overemphasize one day. there's a lot of evidence in this case. >> just ahead, mof of george zimmerman in his words. do all of his statements and interviews match up? sunny talked about some inconsistencies. we'll show you what he said and plus we'll take you inside the dangerous world of the granite hadn't hotshots. what it takes to join their ranks. 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