from 2005, to 2010. incredible racer and the other big story from the race, they debuted a new car again this year, hadn t debuted a new car since 2007 and there was a lot of talk of how would the cars race. and the end and all the press conferences afterwards and they re happy with how the cars handled and excited to get more of the season underway to test the car out as well. harris. well, you talk about the rest the of the season. what we saw yesterday was the kickoff for the nationwide series. that s that final lap that ened in a crash yesterday and nascar officials had to do some work to get in race on today. oh, you said it, they ve finished repairing the fence last night around 2 a.m., but they got the fence replaced, but we didn t know last night at the time was that the car had crashed right into where there s an opening in the fence. it allows people to get onto the track before the race and after the race, maybe a little bit of after weakening spot. they were able to rep
focus. and later you can t throw a generation of kids away. an icon speaking out on some alarming statistics. we ll tell you what has the grammy winner so fired up. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 8:00 on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. out west. thanks for waking up with us. we start in colorado where firefighters are hoping for a little help from mother nature. the waldo canyon fire has destroyed nearly 350 homes so far and thousands more are threatened. firefighters have been working around the clock to protect those homes. we ll have a live report later this hour. moving to egypt now, an historic day for people there. last hour mohamed morsi was sworn in as the new president. during the inauguration he offered a salute to the people of egypt and promised to promote unity. back in the u.s., newly released e-mails showed penn state knew they had a problem with jerry sandusky long before he was ever charged with a crime. concerns date back to an incident in
verdict to their advantage. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. on the west. we start in colorado, where daylight brings new dangers along the fire lines. the waldo canyon fire has destroyed nearly 350 homes so far, and thousands more are threatened. firefighters have been working around the clock to protect those homes. cnn s rob marciano has been in colorado springs all week for us. rob, the firefighters get a bit of a break overnight with some cooler temperatures, but what s happening now? reporter: well, this time of day is when the personnel for air support begins to filter in and other support crews. they work the ground through the overnight, but this is when things really ramp up. you can see behind me, there s not a lot of smoke. at night, temperatures are cooler, the fire tends to lay down, but certainly, there are some homes and communities that they ve managed to save there. a little bit further to the south, that s
down some of the leads. we re going to try to do much more to promote people calling ip, getting the tip line out there. it s really important to us that we get help from the community. this is wrun where we have to stand toorgether with the community. we want their help, and we hope we ll get some good calls, give us some leads. we have a lot of other leads we re following up. we re going to be dedicating 30 people to this operation, officers from the various agencies, it s this is going to be a difficult investigation, identifying a lone wolf suspect who acted nmently is going to be a challenge. this department and people we re collaborating with are up to that challenge. i hope everybody will we certainly do, and i hope everybody will keep the family of the victims in their prayers as well as the survivors. i want to tell our community that we re going to do whatever it takes to bring the shooter to justice. i also want to say to the perpetrator and anybody who would a
more on barbershop politics in a minute. but first a preview on weekends with alex witt. we have violence in afghanistan. it s raising questions about the u.s. presence there. four americans have been killed in the past week. we ll go there live. on the campaign trail, you might be surprised or not by what gop candidate rick santorum said about sending your kids to college. we re going to get reaction. gas prices are ticking up daily. we ll talk to ceo of gulf oil and why the price seem to go up faster than they come down. danica patrick s chance ended at a crash yesterday. today she has another shot at it. there s more to the story. and it s not too pretty. we ll talk about that in 15, 20 minutes. melissa? thanks, i appreciate it. i m back with barber birmingham director, robin fryday, and darren armstrong, the grandson of james armstrong.