i m gonna call. i m calling. i m calling. i m calling. call today and make the switch to the aarp auto insurance program from the hartford. why wait? bill: we have new reaction from the city proves cot, arizona, to a request to give full benefits to the families of 13 seasonal firefighters who died in the line of duty. the city now says that was not only illegal but unaffordable. saying it would amount to $50 million over 60 years and lead to cuts in vital services. listen. that is roughly three times of the cost of the entire prescott fire department. financially they re pretty much, tremendous tax increase or
took part in a conspiracy with publishers to team up against amazon and fix the price of e-book. apple denies any conspiracy and was trying to break amazon s publishing monopoly. apple is expected to appeal. in arizona, flagpole now marks the spot where 19 members of an elite fire fighting squad died last month. it is visible for anyone driving on u.s. highway 89 north of phoenix. the 19 were members of the prescott fire department s elite granite mountain hot shots wildfire crew. they died june 30th when a wind shift blew the fire back over them. to see how you can help support the families of the fallen fire fighters. go to our impact your world website at cnn.com/impact. and police in muskegon, michigan asking for help tracking down the driver whose minivan backed into a woman and stroller. the van dragged the stroller a
half as you can imagine. there has been a memorial set up across from the prescott fire department. that memorial has continued to get bigger and bigger. we ran into people who had come from across the country. some from california and some have come from australia and remember these guys and mourn the loss of their lives and celebrate exactly the type of men they were and remember them for the firefighters and the family members that they were. gregg: will, thank you very much. martha: it s getting heated down in texas. a key vote set for today on a bill that would impose some of the toughest restrictions on atbhoargs this country. thousands of demonstrators on both sides squaring off. gregg: a new poll out from
determine what went wrong, the firefighters blame the extraordinary conditions. a perfect storm of a wildfire. for the deaths. basically the wind changed. you had a thunderstorm that was above. they have a tendency to push winds around. just because of the dynamics of nature and the way they work. and that s what occurred during that time period. reporter: firefighters say there was nothing mcdonough could do to save his brothers. this is going to be tough. i mean, it s he lost his crew, you know. and he s i don t really know what to i couldn t put myself in his shoes. i couldn t. i couldn t even i couldn t do it. kyung la, cnn, prescott, arizona. coming up, we ll speak live with a member of the prescott fire department. i will ask him how brendan mcdonough is doing today. also how the nearby communities are coming to the fire department s aid. don t miss this.
underway in arizona against a massive wildfire that killed 19 firefighters. authorities now say it is 45% contained, nearly 700 crews are fighting the flames on the ground. at least 129 homes and other structures have already been destroyed. meanwhile, a memorial service has been scheduled for the fallen firefighters. the community remembering them as heroes. will carr is live in prescott, arizona. will? reporter: and as you can imagine, this has been a pretty gut-wrenching fourth of july for this community. now, i m standing right next to the prescott fire department. a memorial has been set up, and throughout the day and really throughout the past couple of days people walk up, they leave items here, they pay silent tributes to these firefighters. yesterday we actually saw a long procession to honor the 19 men who were killed on sunday. crews got into the vehicles that the hot shots had been using up until the day that they died, and they drove those vehicles all throughout the com