morning. good morning, soledad, new video into cnn, homes entirely up in flames overnight in colorado, colorado springs. 32,000 people are on the run. the fire now roaring and unchecked and spread to 6200 acres and only 5% contained. the largest of the fires in that state is the high park fire, burning since june 9th. that fire has destroyed 257 homes, just epic fires in colorado. the only way back home by boat, debby now downgraded to a tropical depression, but still dumping a dangerous amount of rain over florida. 25 inches has come down in some areas around the coast. people are starting to come back to homes that are a total loss. the water was up this high. on the doors, everything inside the garage was floating. everything there was a walkway in the center and everything was stacked on the side. the water came up to crash down in on itself. the storm is expected to bring rains for another day as it heads to the atlantic. rob marciano has the latest on the storm.
here s what john edwards had to say after the trial. i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was ever doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. the federal government still has the option of a retrial, that doesn t seem very likely at this point. joining me to talk about all of that, senior legal analyst jeff toobin and david peril managing ed tord of radaronline.com and former editor-in-chief of the national enquirer which first broke the john edwards pregnancy scandal. jeff, are you surprised by this verdict? not at all. this was a weak, weak case, but john edwards was a deeply unappealing person to the jury, so you can see how the jury was pushed in different directions and i think in a way, a mostly hung jury is sort of appropriate resolution of this case because you wouldn t want to see john edwards given how he lived his life walking out of ther
two days. i feel so guilty because i did not do that. he did not care. john fugelsang, nothing from you hereto, not even a phone call. mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university. i really did send flowers. you sent nothing, you lie. this is what i got from my colleagues, nothing. he came in thinking you d be here. oh, blah, blah, blah. i m not going to talk to you for the entire morning. kidding. let s get right to our starting point this morning. we have a major development to talk about that could complicate george zimmerman s case and could get his attorney into trouble. mark o mara will let the judge know while he was originally pleading poverty in order to get george zimmerman out on bail and a relatively low bail it turns out his client has raised more than $200,000, that is exactly how much he s raised, $204,000 is exactly what he s raised in donations from a now defunct website he helped set up to pay his legal expenses, a major revelation beca
we have our panel with us this morning. will cain is back. over here, he s usually there. he s there this morning. he s a columnist, of course, for theblaze.com. michelle is joining us, contributor to newsweek and daily beast. and also oh with have new is eight book? kingdom come ? first book. they have like five pages on you. and the means of reproduction, sex, power, and future of the world. my second book. where are your books? contributor and democratic strategist joining us as well. welcome to all of you. our starting point this morning is some very big dwobmentes happening in afghanistan. also fwhn deadly suicide car bombing. also an attempt by the taliban to try to poison the food of nato troops. it s all confirmed that food was contaminated at foreign operating base near the afghanistan/pakistan border. they found traces of bleach in fruit and coffee. no one got sick or even hurt. overnight there was a suicide car bomber who was able to kill 9 peopl