domenic and patricia murphy the founder of jane politics and contributory the daily beast. welcome to you both. that s a big drop for gun control legislation. why do you suppose people are losing interest and passion for the issue, patricia? well, i think that, really the issue, and you can just feel it when you read the newspaper, you can feel it when you watch tv, the issue has lost momentum. there was such searing pain in the country after the newtown country. and then the country tends to move on from politics like that. you see that senators in congress are getting more focused on immigration reform. and there s a lot of talk about gay marriage and equality. once this is off the front, it reverts to being another issue where both sides really go back to their own corners. and because democrats were not able to move quickly on this issue, i think their legislation is going to be in trouble because they don t have the momentum on their side anymore.
0 twilight, the new movie makes its debut. jake abel and max irons, two stars will talk about the moving. cnn newsroom with carol costello begins right now. good morning. thank you for being with me. we begin in washington state. a dozen homeowners on whidbey island watch helpfully as their homes inch closer to dis ser and their homes tumble into puget sound. sounded like an earthquake. i heard something really loud. looked out the master bedroom and noticed 20 tall trees were gone. got out there with a flashlight and kept hearing rumbling and watch more and more of it fall in. unbelievable this landslide. let s go to the waterfront town of coupeville on whidbey island. dan simon joins us from there. is it likely to get worse? reporter: there will be geologists out here. at this point, they think two homes in imminent danger. a lot of people allowed to return to their homes. a voluntary evacuation. they would like people to stay away. some people are coming back. carol, l
after four years in prison. knox arrived at the airport with her family and spoke last night. they re reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me who has defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family is the most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so, thank you for being there for me. cnn s drew griffin was there. this was a very emotional moment for her and her supporters wasn t it, drew? yeah, it was. i think, you know, after hearing that statement again, fred, you could hear in her voice just how unprepared she is, perhaps, to handle the emotions of what s going on right now and certainly the pressures that the media would like to put on her to hear her story. it was an incredible moment of n
i m really overwhelmed right now. interviewing the pilot to try to i was looking down from the get some answers about what airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. happened yesterday. jason carroll, thanks so much. the woman who died, that was to what s important for me to say be a part of her 40th birthday is just thank you to everyone celebration who has believed in me who has still ahead a wisconsin man trying to figure out why governor rick perry s office defended me, who has supported my family. deletes its e-mails after 70 days. he s wondering if perry s got secrets. i just want my family is the my name is robin. most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so, thank you for being there for me. cnn s drew griffin was there. this was a very emotional moment for her and her supporters wasn t it, drew? yeah, it was. i think, you know, after hearing that statement again, fred, you could hear in her voice just how unprepar
arizona. at this hour, relentless wildfires spreading across the west. seven states i repeat, seven states on fire right now. thousands are fleeing from their homes. hundreds of thousands of acres burneded. firefighters are stretching themselves to the limit. red flag warnings are up in parts of arizona, utah, colorado, texas, oklahoma, kansas and new mexico. high heat, low humidity and strong winds are turning the region into a tinder box. dozens of wildfires are burning as we speak. kgun reports from arizona which is seeing the worst of it. down here on the right side we ve got another thick black cloud of smoke going up. we have a lot of people here looking. we have people evacuating the area south of camino principal. we have people turning around. it is a chaotic situation once again. this is what the firefighters feared most that with 50 miles per hour winds, the monument fire would make a run and indeed it is. this is how it breaks down. more than 3 million acres