wow, where is will smith when you really need him, huh in. [laughter] howard: two thumbs down, but the congresswoman has filed a police report over this threat of violence, seriously. tiger woods decided to play. i love competing, and i feel like if i can still compete at the highest level, i m going to. howard: kudos to tiger who s back in the pack today. remember, he nearly lost a leg in that awful car accident, so just playing through is a victory. victory for me. oh, and the academy has barred will smith from the oscars for 10 years over the slap heard round the world. about time. should have been a life sentence. that s it for this edition of mediabuzz. i m howard kurtz. we hope you ll like our facebook page and continue the conversation on twitter. check out my podcast, media buzz meter. the traffic is up, so some of you are listening. you can subscribe at apple itunes, a lot of places.
welcome back. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. the wildfires in california, the death toll is up to 31 with more than 200 people unaccounted for. the fires are destroying everything in their path, showing no sign of slowing down. and most of the town of paradise in northern california is gone. the fast-moving flames gave people who live there little warning. i want you to listen to this father and child as they try to escape. we re okay, we re okay. we ve just got to go. it s everywhere. yeah. we ll be okay. please, help us, lord. everything s going to be gone. huh in. everything s going to be
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incarceration nation in the station. we have someone here wants to just say hello to everybody and actually he wants to say good-bye. rick, how long you been here? i ve been here 24 years. i ve been here ever since it was 1984, been locked up 27 years. rick, you ve been saying all awhile you were innocent, huh in. yeah, i said it from the first day. they tried to get me to say i was guilty and give any ten years but i couldn t lie. i couldn t say i did something i didn t do. i got to depart. out of here. i got cut loose today. dna cut me loose. i just want to say good-bye to inmate population. everybody at camp f., camp d., camp c. keep your head up. don t lose hope. and one day it will be you walking out of these gates.