Have never seen a fire move this fast. In just five hours over this past weekend, 20,000 acres burned in california through brush baked hard by four years of drought. Thousands of people have evacuated. The rocky fire is the largest of more than two dozen wildfires tonight out west. Carter evans went to the front lines in lake port, california. Reporter the wildfire burning northwest of sacramento exploded over the weekend, scorching 94 square miles, an area larger than the city of seattle. Dozens of air tankers and National Guard helicopters areng giving support to 3,000te firefighters below. On the ground, theyre lighting backfires to burn out dry brush ahead of approaching flames that threaten thousands of homes. But huge columns of smoke as high as 35,000 feet are making this fire fight especially challenging, says battaliong, chief jeff ohs. Once the energy reaches that level, the column collapses. Thats a big, big problem because then we dont have onee direction the fire is going
Television will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Hello im jake tapper in washington, d. C. , where the state of our union is up for debate. Just four days from now, the republican president ial field will have its first chance to engage in facetoface rhetorical combat. The top ten contenders as decided by poll also line up on stage for the first debate. We are still waiting to see who will make the final cut. And then the big question, of course, how will they handle donald trump . Will the leading candidate bring his flair for, shall we call it, drama, to the debate stage . No one knows what and how the billionaire, who has never debated will respond to a challenge such as this. Theres no denying, of course, his growing lead among the republican pack. And if the other candidates want the partys nod, trump is now the one they need to take down. First among them, perhaps, governor Chris Christie. Whose strength at the end of last year was undeniable, and whose support trum
Good morning. We want to begin with breaking news in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. This metal object of interest is how its being characterized. Its been found on reunion island. There is the picture. There are some markings that are being examined. This is the first image that weve getting of that object. And cnn is continuing to get information from a alimony Government Official there. But a source tells us the origin of this debris is what still needs to be verified. But take a look there. Everybody im sure has an opinion about what they think it could be. As we zoom in there you could see some markings that could help identify it. A piece of an aircraft wing that washed up on the island has officially been identified as part of a boeing triple 7 aircra aircraft. This is the flaperon. That idea is coming from french authorities. Mh370 disappeared 17 months ago and was a triple 7 aircraft. The debris arrived yesterday in toulouse. You see it here under police guard. We
Im christine romans. Im john berman. There can be only ten on one stage. By this evening, we will know which ten make the cut for the first republican president ial debate. A new cnn poll shows who is most likely to make it on the stage in cleveland on thursday night. The frontrunner donald trump out in front at 22 then scott walker and jeb bush. John kasich out of nowhere. That means rick perry will not make the stage. Overnight, voters across the country had the chance to see most of the republican field together. Not in a debate but one at a time candidate for up hosted by the New Hampshire union leader. A big forum. Cnns athena jones has the latest. Reporter this forum was the chance for you to hear from the candidates. There was no cutoff, so any so candidate could show up. It was aimed at the voters and airing on stations in the states. There were three no shows. One was donald trump who happens to be leading in the polls and leading in the latest wmer poll here in the state of N
A citizen used the officers radio to call for help. Bolton was found at the scene. He died later at the hospital. The memphis mayor spoke about the challenges faced by his officers. This again evidence the fact that there are so many guns on our streets in the wrong hands. Thats the key thing. And the men and women in blue have certain rules of engagement that they have to follow. But at any given minute in a 24hour day, theyre dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement. It is unclear what could have led to the shooting. Lets talk about it with tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director also formerly a Police Officer himself. The first thing that comes to mind, a citizen saw what had happened in the aftermath, used the officers radio in his car to call in the shooting. Does this mean that this officer had no partner with him, no backup . I would assume he had no partner. As far as the backup usually when a traffic stop is made at night, the law officer radios in the license pla