emerge. rob will be anchoring our coverage here. it s great to have you here. this is the precursor to the big events to come, but we have seen the drama, especially from the ladies on the track field. always drama and controversy. it s usually during the games and not during the trials women had some this week during the trials. the big issue was the women s 100 meter final. that ended up in a third place dead heat tie. third place determines the last athlete to go to the olympics. allyson felix and jeneba tarmoh tied exactly. they were not able to come up with any distance between the two. what are you going to do to break this tie? this never happened before. they didn t have a procedure to fix it. what they offered was a chance for a run off. literally. a run off where they run one on one against each other yesterday and tarmoh decided she didn t
410,000 customers in west virginia didn t have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behind you there. do people there have electricity? i m guessing not. reporter: not in this neighborhood, brook, it s been four days since the violent storm swept through this region. you can still see the devastation left behind. the power lines have downed because these toppled trees ripped the power lines from the tell phone poles and crushing car and struing debris about. this violent storm swept through this neighborhood. this area is without power as are tens of thousands of people sufferin
boot camp for suri? overnight reports that katie holmes didn t want her 6-year-old daughter in an intense religious training program. so was scientology to blame for her split with tom cruise? newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for being with us today. we begin this hour with the western wildfires, growing in size and claiming more lives. so far, 1.9 million acres have burned. that s equivalent to an incredible 3,000 square miles. to give you an idea of just how huge that is, it s roughly the size of delaware and rhode island combined. and then there s the human toll. two crew members are confirmed dead in the weekend crash of an air tanker in south dakota. cnn affiliates say two other firefighters aboard that c-130 were also killed. one family member spoke to wbtv just before the doomed flight. it s very exciting. i mean, you know, adrenalin is flowing. we re ready to go. hopefully when we get there, we ll be ready
violently mauled by two chimps in south africa. ahead, the horrifying details of the attack. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. these numbers just coming in. let s go to the battle for the white house. a brand new cnn o.r.c. poll is just being released right now. take a look at just how tight the race is. among registered voters nationally, nationally. 49% say they are for president obama versus 46% for mitt romney. that s with a 2.5% samplining err error. despite the landmark ruling, there s been no change in the number for either candidate since the last poll that came out in may. look at this, when it comes to voters in the so-called battleground states, about 15 of them, the numbers aren t so close. let s go straight to cnn s joe johns. he s breaking the numbers for us. he s in des moines, iowa, right now. tell our viewers what we re seeing, joe. reporter: wolf, there s certainly a lot more to this than meets the eye. the main takeaway is mitt romney is r
for you. good morning to you, welcome to early start on this monday morning. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m ashlee. it s the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. it s incredible, but look how many states are now dealing with miserable conditions in ohio, 425,000 people are now without power. that s as of 10:00 p.m. last night. it s the same story in virginia and maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are just waiting for the power to come back on. just a whiff of ac in these extraordinary temperatures. the problem there doesn t seem to be much of a let-up in sight. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings. and now a state of emergency has been declared by the gove