all the pomp but none of the pressure. want to know the best job in the country? we ll have one comedian s take. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. thank you for starting your morning with us. we begin in syria where rebels are braces for what could be a final showdown with the government military. the government troops are advancing on the city of aleppo. warplanes and tanks have been pounding the commercial hub relentlessly. opposition fighters say they have surrounded aleppo s highest point, where regime forces are already holed up. senior international correspondent ben wideman is in syria. reporter: clearly, the syrians far outgun the rebels. and the concern is that we are really on the verge of a major government counteroffensive to win back control of aleppo, syria s biggest city, and its commercial hub. of course the concern among syrian officials in damascus is that if aleppo falls, that s really the end of the game the fighting is forcing a surprise move
atlanta georgia. in all, more than two dozen victims. most of them strangled. by may, 1981, the police and f.b.i. were hiding in the brush beside and below theiver bridges. this was toe be the last niekt. almost the last hour. i heard the splash. reporter: bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet. i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering water. he looked up at the bridge. and i saw brake lights of a car. i saw red lights. the car started slowly moving away from me across the bridge. reporter: campbell radioed the other team members up above him. i asked did a car stop on the bridge. i couldn t believe what i saw. and each person told me they didn t see it. reporter: then, a policeman in a chase car hidden on the other side came on the radio. he just said the car is pulling in the parking lot. they re turning around in front of me and started coming back across the bridge. reporter: this is that white station wagon. police followed i
temperatures desperately. at least 120 homes or buildings had been destroyed. live report from oklahoma straight ahead here on cnn. [ gunfire ] this is aleppo, the biggest city in syria. it is a battlefield now, but it soon might be the scene of an all-out warfare. rebels fighting for their, fighting there think syrian forces are getting ready to launch a major military offensive against them, it could happen any day now. tens of thousands of civilians have already fled the city. health workers in uganda say they re still trying to confirm more suspected cases of the deadly ebola virus. they want to make sure they re not overlooking any cases in the effort to contain an outbreak in the western part of the country, at least 16 people have died. the secretary of state hillary clinton touched down in nairobi, kenya. kenya is the fourth of six countries she is visiting. clinton plans meeting with kenya s president and prime minister during her stay. we re getting result
it is saturday, august 4th. good morning and glad you are with us. i am randi kaye. we start with wildfires in oklahoma. 100 homes are being threatened. the fires are being pushed by strong winds. the worst is in cleveland county south of oklahoma city. joining me is kelly cain for the oklahoma department of emergency management. good morning. are evacuations being ordered at this hour? we haven t had new evacuations overnight which is good news, but we are definitely still watching these fires. they were so dangerous yesterday and we had a couple of small fires that popped up overnight. we are keeping a good eye on things and have been looking in the morning at what resources are needed. we are looking at the incredible video of the fires burning. how many fires are you dealing with? do you have any idea? more than 12 fires were reported to our office yesterday. we know there additional fires that were not reported. we had about probably six large fires that we were
ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. starting point begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, america s new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did you know if you rearrange the letters of gabby douglas s sir name, what does it spell, but usa gold. and this really is where the next chapter of her life begins. she is now up in the a list of superstars as the morning after, night before, media commitments have started. she s been retweeting the incredible tweets these had from people like oprah nicki minaj and michael phelps. she finished with that fantastic floor performance with that techno music. it became like club gabby. we can still ge