california. how much progress are they making there, dan? reporter: well, bill, they are making some progress overnight it s now at 35% containment. yesterday it was at 5%. today is a critical day because we are in a red flag warning up until 9:00 tonight. they are expecting winds coming out of the southwest, gusts up to 35 miles per hour. they have really beefed up the manpower, almost 1900 firefighters, that s several hundred more than the number that just contained seven wildfires in san diego county. this fire as you mentioned has destroyed seven homes since it was started by a lightning strike on saturday and is threatening 3500 more. residents in the small towns under siege are grateful for the effort. the amount of help everybody is giving is just absolutely amazing. if i could find if i could find the crew that saved my
force behind the mission to takeout osama bin laden was not president obama. that s the claim. the only cabinet member with a weekly meeting with the president usually on thursday mornings, and she used that regular meeting, that direct contact to build trust and to drive the agenda. bill: we will tell you who convinced the president according to that book. plus the staff member responsible for delaying that mission as reported. martha: an arizona congressman locked in a tough primary battle fighting back against allegations from his opponent that he took part in inappropriate behavior during the visit to the sea of gallilee. congressman ben quayle has a very different story about his motivations when he was there. he will tel story. bill: also devastating wildfires destroying homes in california with others burning in at least your other states. an update on the conditions today, and the victims as they try to cope with their loss. everybody is worrying, and nobody knows really wh
start digging up my wife, it ain t happening, not in this century. martha: wow, interesting conflict there. it s alabama by the way, we said arizona at the top. this is in alabama. the city s attorney says that davis buried his wife illegally after councilmembers denied his application. they argue that the front yard grave hurts property values in the area. no word yet on when the appeals court will make a ruling. bill: it s novel. martha: yeah, i mean it s a difficult one to iron out. it s his property. it was his wife s wishess to be buried there. you can see how the neighbors might feel about it. bill: we ll see how that turns out too. we know where he stands on it. a marine veteran arrested for writing controversial posts on facebook. he s getting a lot of support for exercising his right to free speech. but did he go too far? our panel takes on that. martha: two big sides to that one too. we ll take that one. trouble staying afloat. a devastating drought closing parts of the might
are worried about the future and where we re going. the government spending seems to be going out of control. we really need to reign that in. reporter: and so essentially people here are excited to hear from mitt romney s running mate. this part of the state critical for the republican chances in november. also the lehigh valley in eastern pennsylvania where elvis ihe will visit today also critical. he ll see if he can tighten up the polls where recent polls suggest president obama is leading. a lot of buzz that paul ryan is the running mate and trying to tighten up that gap. bill: thank you for that. on the board behind us check out the billboard from 2008. pennsylvania has been blue for democrats going back to 1988. it was the same way in 2008 when then senator obama beat senator mccain by 11 points. the area mike was talking about in the eastern part of the state it went all blue, all for senator obama. you get out here to the western part of the state where mike is
this regard has credibility because of what they did in 2008. they have a record here. that said the number of voters that they have registered has not, they have not had the kind of advantage that one might have expected them to see or certainly that they had in 2008. the quote i think for the romney campaign, is the saturation question, if he has been defined the way the obama campaign defined him and i think they did a reasonably good job at that, will he be able to undo this by carpet bombing the airwaves in the last several weeks of the campaign in an effort to change the way people are viewing him when, you know, in places like cincinnati or toledo or some of these other swing states they have seen so many ads, at what point do voters tune this out and say enough already? bill: watch the way the money goes in the last 77 days. doesn t that really tell you which key states are more critical than others? perhaps you re gaining ground in some parts of the country and losing it in