some 400 firefighters battling a huge blaze in colorado. this blaze doubled in size overnight. thousands of people were forced from their homes. i cannot imagine that my house is there as close as the fire was, and now i won t have a home. i have no place to go. so far the fires have gone through nearly 37,000 acres, a massive blaze. now the commerce secretary cited in two car accidents over the weekend suffered a seizure. that is the word today from a spokeswoman from the commerce department about the investigation into the accidents involving secretary john bryson are ongoing. brianna keilar joining us live with the latest. brianna, do we know when he had the seizure in relation to when the accidents happened? no, michael, we don t know that. it seems like the implication is that the seizures somehow caused the accident, but the statement coming from the commerce department doesn t exact ly mak that clear. it just says that he was involved in the traffic accidents, an
and the bottom line on the iowa and the bottom line on the iowa caucus it is the country s first contest and let s just say it s getting ugly. let s go outfront. hi there, and good evening. i m brooke bolduan sitting outfront with erin burnett. five days, we re five days away in the contest for the gop nomination, and as i mentioned a moment ago, i know it s following. newt going after romney and perry going after santorum and everyone going after paul and bachmann is fighting very publicly with her now former iowa chief, but romney, he seems to be riding pretty high after a new cnn poll shows he has broken out of his dead heat and has first place pretty much all to himself. let s go straight to the ground there to our cnn political correspondent jim acosta. i know you spent the day following around mitt romney, his campaign, and you know, if i may, it looks like mitt romney has a little extra pep in his step. reporter: i would say so, brooke. he has a spring in his