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.
lines with the fire fighters who is battling the waldo canyon fire right near pike s peak. hey, jim. 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. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 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 diff
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. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 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. plus
accident. police finding key evidence in the instructor s stomach? and also caught on tape. a scary armed robbery at a dunkin donuts, a customer trying to be a hero but ends up unconscious. how this all went down, all in matter of seconds. up first this morning, big new developments with the chinese activist smack-dab in the middle of a political firestorm. hillary clinton is scheduled to speak about chen guangcheng in about an hour. we learned that chen can apply to study abroad according to a chinese state-run news agency. u.s. officials also say they just spoke by phone today with chen and met with his wife in person. they re expected to meet with chen in a hospital sometime this morning. the blind activist says he doesn t feel safe in china and wants to come to the u.s. he even interrupted a capitol hill hearing yesterday to request a meeting with the secretary of state. translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. the
[ male announcer ] stop the uh-oh fast with kao. some other breaking news we re following at cnn. right back to fredericka whitfield. another shooting elsewhere around the country, fred? what s going on? that s right. this time in omaha, nebraska. we understand there s been a shooting that took place at a high school. millard south high school. the school is in lockdown as are some of the schools in the nearest vicinity. no information is being released at this point about the suspects, what may have happened, why this shooting took place. but right now lock down at millard south high school in omaha, nebraska. meantime, there s also another shooting that took place this time at a shopping mall in phoenix, arizona. and right now that mall, you re looking at images from ktvk. that mall has been evacuated,