we ve heard from a lot of them ourselves, our interviews out there. police got more harrowing stories. one person described the chaos said she thought bullets were raining down from a helicopter. another said that she thought they were fireworks. another woman said she refused to leave her friend that was killed until a group of guys got her to safety. somebody else said that she was playing dead after seeing somebody shot next to her. a lot of harrowing store rows out there. shepard: dan springer live. thanks. breaking news coming to us from capitol hill. let s go to our senior producer, chad pergram who is leave there. is it a done deal? it s not quite a done deal but gina has spell will be the next cia director. they re waiting for one senator. the vote is 53-45. it should turn out to be 54 to 45. two republican nos, jeff flake and rand paul.
it 112 and say it will go higher. and they are quick to remind us that it s not the number that s important but the human toll behind each one. it s really not just the list of numbers. these are stories. each one of these represents a family that s been displaced from their home that may have lost some family heirlooms. photos, possessions, kids toys, what have you. meantime, a massive effort to save 500 other homes from a spot fire. the cost of this fight now over $7 million. and growing by several million dollars each day and the weather is only going to get worst. predicting winds up to 50 miles per hour come monday. shep? shepard: dan springer live, fort collins, colorado tonight. hitchhike his or her claimed somebody shot him earlier this week now admits he shot himself. he is apparently working on a memoir called kindness in america and he told cops he was trying to get a ride along a montana highway when a driver opened fire and hit him in the arm.
called the fifth column is responsible. they condemned it as an act of terrorism. the big question is this the start of an insurgency that will try to spread fear. also today, nato voted to extend its mission in libya, another three months. that will mean a lot more air strikes in tripoli. the stated goal is not regime change but, rather, enforcing a no-fly zone, enforcing arms embargo and protecting citizens. the new deadline is the end of september. and, finally, another high level defection from the libyan government again today. the oil minister said he wanted out. he left the country, we think, for italy. shep? shepard: dan springer live. benghazi, libya. thanks. the transportation department officials say they were about to shut down a discount bus line right before one of its buses was in a deadly crash. it happened yesterday on i-9 a in virginia. four people killed. more than 50 others expwrured. after the bus reportedly swerved off the road and overturned. the feds say they
when you burn the wood, you are emitting dangerous carbon. true, like at coal plants. and while the trees store carbon it takes decades to grow a tree, but, just minutes to burn one. carbon is carbon is carbon. that is really the basic question here. the environment doesn t care, molecule of co2 comes from wide biomass or coal. we will not proceed with a project of producing 30 megawatts of power, we consider very, very creditably green, if we are not considered green power, and it doesn t make any sense to do it. reporter: the biomass industry insists that if the logging is done responsibly it is carbon-neutral and good for the environment. 63 members of congress agreed and signed the letter to the epa, urging the epa to reverse its ruling. juliet? juliet: dan springer live, in seattle, thanks. bill: and, they climb up the cliff and they jump off with the