everyone, he doesn t have to focus on recent hess in the congress, which not everyone is worried about day to day, but connecting, as you say, with the support that s out there. yeah. and it will force us out of this box too of measuring whether he is successful in getting bipartisan policies through by looking to where the support is coming from. and if you have support from republican governors and you have support from republican mayors and you have support, i think more than 50% of republicans in the country support this package, then it s impossible to deny him the accomplishment of governing in a bipartisan way. yeah, all great points. i was curious what s on your mind going into this. nice to see you, my friend. thank you. thank you. i want to welcome everyone to the beat. i am ari melber. we have a special show planned for you tonight. a live interview right here on the beat with white house secretary jen psaki. that s coming up tonight. meanwhile, joe
reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. it s advancing 10,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad.
what is the very latest? it s a university where there are students apparently learning the art of acupuncture, we know of five people we were killed her. what we do not know is was that shooter connected to the university? you can take a look at the active situation, we have a big perimeter set up. we do understand that the oakland police have now detained and that is the word they are using, is detained, one person who they believe may be responsible for this shooting. it is not being considered an arrest yet and oakland police are not saying if there was a second person involved or more. unconfirmed reports, five people dead, we did see some of those people being brought out and put on the ground and tarps being put on their body. a very sad day in oakland. mark, what do we know about this person detained for questioning? a student faculty, a stranger to the school, do we know anything about this person? that is the question we all have is who is this potential sh
a high court is nearing the end of a remarkable six hours of arguments on four separate issues arising from the affordable care act of 2010. the session that began last hour is due to wrap up 45 minutes from now. soon after that the final health care arguments will center on the power of the feds to compel states to broaden medicaid coverage. we don t expect any decisions until june at the earliest, but our jeff toobin and kate baldwin will step out of the courthouse to bring us up to speed when the what if arguments are over today at the u.s. supreme court. the facts surrounding trayvon martin s death are getting more complicated by the day. so far there have been conflicting reports as to what exactly happened and whether george zimmerman was really acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon martin in the chest. now shocking new evidence that sanford police were taking steps to arrest zimmerman early in the investigation. the miami herald reports the police incident re
cnn saturday morning. it s sart, march 24. george zimmerman s attorney. he speaks out. 100 years after the titanic disaster, thousands of items salvaged from the wreckage are up for grabs. and in the race for supremacy, which political party comes out on top, democrats or gop. the 2012 tweet states right now in the cnn newsroom. big day in louisiana. 20 delegates eight stake. rick santorum is ahead. santorum and gingrich are addressing a leadership conference. the former not will attend a couple of rallies later in the day. we ll now show you a video showing rick santorum shooting a rifle as part of his campaign stop. listen carefully to what somebody is saying in the background. all right. it might not have been very clear for you but the woman is in the background heard saying pretend it s obama. rick santorum was quick to slam that comment. no. we re nothing that s a horrible, terrible remark. i m glad i didn t hear it. the secret service has confirmed it and i