more than a year n charges that she was a spy. s they will release here on $500,000 bail because of healthroblems. her lawyer met with her and says he hopes she will be freed in the next two or three days. she was naturally veryy. happy. and even the two male prisoners were glad about sarah s freedom but sarah had expected all three of them to be released. shourd and shane bouwer and josh say they mistakenly but tehran border butte ran says they were spying. i think the release idea was a prelude to ahmadinejad coming to new york the week of the sh20th. i think it was intended to show that he is a more reasonable person than some people think. and to give him a propaganda
shourd and two other americans accused of spying have been detained in iran for more than year. and in san bruno, california, some of the people driven from their homes by a natural gas explosion and fire are now returning to their neighborhood. but those whose homes were destroyed will not be allowed back in. the blast and fire killed at least four people, six others are still unaccounted for. and some kmsts comfort from are being dropped down to the trapped miners in chile, a power cord is being dropped down and they re getting cigarettes, the miners are splitting two packs a day. the miners could be stuck deep underground until christmas, since the ordeal began last month, family and friends have been keeping vigil on the surface. wanting to be close it their trapped loved ones. here s cnn s patrick upman.
announcement i think can only be taken as a sort of grand gesture by president ahmadinejad. he s given to these sorts of grand gestures, written letters to world leaders, intervened in the release of british sailors taken hostage by iran but a lot of times inside the regime this is seen by his conservative sovals as a power grab and so there was, obviously, some push back by the judiciary wch felt that he had overstepped his bounds and now looks like perhaps that s on the cusp of being resolved. what do you think is going on behind the closed doors between shourd s iranian lawyer and these judicial council executives and the president? well, the head of the judiciary in iran is a fellow whose last name is larajani. one of ahmadinejad s i i-rival is a former nuclear negotiator and speaker of the parliament. love loss fors no the president and wa probably very unhappy when he was seen to
call or click now for an agent or quote. it s msnbc sunday. i m alex witt. here are your fast five headlines. a senior iranian prosecuto now says american sarah shourd will be ee to leave the country if she can make the half million dollar bail. her attorney hopes shourd will be freed in two or three days. in san bruno, california, the death toll from that gas line explosion now up to seven. police say they still cannot account for six other people. in boulder, colorado, firefighters think they may have that huge wildfire fully contained by tomorrow night. the blaise has destroyed at least 169 homes. hurricane igor is getting stronger, and by tomorrow night, forecasters believe it could become a major hurricane. right now it s about 1200 miles east of the leewards and already
has been a change of planes. according to that agency a spokesman for mahmoud ahmadinejad says the release will not happen at all. our pentagon reporters have reminded us that iran sometimes plays games like this before releasing prisoners. iranian police grabbed shourd along with shane bowyer and joshua fattal anear the border last week. they got lost and accidently may have wandered over the border. iranian officials claim the three young americans are spies. a spokesman for sara shourd s family says that the 31-year-old has fallen ill now and has a lump in her breast. well, the department of justice just went after arizona s controversial imground invasion law and now government officials have set their sights on the states department of education. we ll show you why coming up. and just behind me the sight of a proposed islamic center that s making worldwide headlines. but across america, there are stories of similar facilities, stories you may not have heard