thanks to dry brush and strong win winds. so far, dozens of structures have been burned, but there are hundreds more homes that are threatened this morning. one of the worst of the fires burning right now is in luther, oklahoma. investigators there are looking into the possibility that the fire was deliberately set by a man allegedly throwing burning wads of paper into a pasture. more extreme weather now and tropical storm ernesto is moving west toward jamaica. people in southern jamaica are being warned that the storm is coming. it already swept past the windward islands with heavy rain and 60-mile-per-hour winds. ernesto is expected to strengthen into a hurricane some time tomorrow, but the latest tracks don t have it reaching the u.s. and right behind ernesto is a brand-new named storm, tropical storm florence with winds at 40 miles per hour. relatives of former penn state coach joe paterno are fighting for the school and his legacy. paterno s family says they plan to
ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. starting point begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, america s new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did you know if you rearrange the letters of gabby douglas s sir name, what does it spell, but usa gold. and this really is where the next chapter of her life begins. she is now up in the a list of superstars as the morning after, night before, media commitments have started. she s been retweeting the incredible tweets these had from people like oprah nicki minaj and michael phelps. she finished with that fantastic floor performance with that techno music. it became like club gabby. we can still ge
the latest. you ve learned some information about the alleged shooter and it concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. anderson in the first ten days of june, i ll give you a number of things that were going on to set the scene. on june 7th the suspect was to take an exam. he took this oral exam, it was a preliminary oral exam, and he didn t do well on it at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor. we re told it was unclear he could find a mentor. on the 7th, the same day that he basically failed the test, he went out in the afternoon and bought a ar 15 assault rifle. it was in that afternoon that we know that he was around that period he was certainly talking to his psychiatrist, dr. fenton. we don t know what those conversations were, but we know during that period, something that he said to his psychiatrist caused her to contact the university of colorado threat assessment team. now, that threat assessment team was formed in part with her help and she s on that te
as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. we re talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2nd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the labor department. here s the letter. oates writes, quote, the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including in the defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2, 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes. the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly. because after all this was sent out and they declined to make anyone available to interview this tonight. of course this was a manna from heaven for the republicans. the president doesn t want people readin
right now mitt romney s on his way home from an overseas trip his campaign is calling a great success even though it generated embarrassing headlines at every stop. latest came today in poland when one of romney s top aides cursed at reporters asking questions. one of them was our jim acosta, who joins us from warsaw. jim, what happened today that the romney team sounds upbeat despite all that s been going on? reporter: well, joe, a senior romney advisor told reporters here in warsaw that mistakes do happen out on the campaign trail. but when asked what mistakes were made on this overseas trip, that advisor couldn t name any. instead the campaign says the world got to hear from a candidate who they say speaks from the heart. it s the image mitt romney has wanted voters to see for the last week. the gop contender walking tall on the world stage here visiting poland s tomb of the unknown soldier and later praising the soviet black country for escaping the iron curtain. i an