shaking up idol. ellen degeneres quits. kara diogaurdi is fired. we will judge the impact of all the changes early this friday morning, july 30th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs it is a gorgeousfriday morning here in the big town. good morning, everybody. i m harry smith. i m erica hill. perfect way to kick off the end of week. a lot happen thing morning and a lot happening tomorrow. chelsea clinton getting married. we will get you the latest. you see there a live shot of rhinebeck, new york, hotel where we are told several wedding guests reportedly are staying. latest from rhinebeck this morning. we have a lot of news coming out of california. breaking news. this morning in los angeles, wildfires overnight and threaten at least 2 thousand home. happening just north of l.a. palmdale, california. that s where we find hattie kaufmann this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning. i m standing here at the frontline in terms of protecting homes from this fire.
provided intelligence to the u.s. their lives are now in danger. and their exposure will send a chill through anyone else thinking of helping will people whose lives are on the line trust us to keep their identity secret? reporter: the documents also provide a road map to the american military s tactics. this, for instance, is a moment-by-moment log of what u.s. troops did after specialist bowe bergdahl was captured by the taliban. the damage could get worse. it could be a substantial, additional number of document oodz and we have no idea what their content is, either. reporter: add sang is still free to hold press conferences, but bradley manning, the 22-year-old private suspected of providing the documents to wikileaks is being moved from a prison in kuwait to the brig at quantico, virginia, while investigators ready more charges against him. assange has vowed to release 15,000 more documents, but investigators believe manning downlooked liked even more than that.
couric: good evening, everyone. the obama administration has been saying there s nothing much new in those field reports from the afghan war, but posting some 76,000 of them on the internet, that s a whole other matter. the military said today the leak may have already cost the lives of american soldiers and their allies. and the f.b.i. has been called in now to help track down whoever gave the documents to the whistleblower web site wicky leaks. national security correspondent david martin has the story. reporter: the damage caused by the hemorrhage of classified documents is worse than originally thought. today, pentagon officials in effect accused wikileaks and its source within the u.s. military of murder. the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an afghan family. reporter: in what appears to be an attempt to build a criminal case against julian assange, the head of wikileaks, secretary gates asked the directo