captions by vitac www.vitac.com good mornings, everyone, i m randi kaye and thank you for starting the morning with us. we begin this hour with the h t heat. it has been so bad that 30 deaths across the united states are blame hed on the heat wave. we get more from melissa rainy. reporter: saturday brought another day of blistering heat and in some areas that is more triple temperatures. people are looking for relief wherever they can find it. it feels great. it feels so wonderful. it beats the heat for sure. reporter: in chicago, the heat buckled roadways and some residents gave up and fled the city. in chicago, it was 105 and felt like 112, so we came up here to escape the heat. reporter: but a cold front is expect ed expected in the coming days. looking forward to the 80 degree weather and even 89 sounds great. reporter: forecasters say that cooler air will move across the upper midwest and into the great lakes and the northeast which brings some comfor
it is very disappointing. a triple crown shocker before any horse even reaching the belmont starting gate. i ll have another is out. also i ve never had trouble finding work before. out of work more than six months. long-term unemployment. for millions, jobless benefits of running out. tips how you can get back to work. oh, yeah. you recognize that song. bob ip back. sue ellen running for office and j.r., as conniving as ever. this is the next generation, still battles over control of south fork. wait until you see what the cast told me in our sit-down interview. good morning. i m randi kaye. thanks for joining us. sharing a story of a little boy we can all be pretty darn proud of. i m sure you felt that sense of pride when your kid hit the homer, or an a on a history test agonized over. it s impossible not to be proud of a child. imagine the pride you would feel if your child, just 15, helped save an entire neighborhood from a fire? he ran door to door warning ne
murderer. he was in danger only in his mind. he used that law as an excuse to shoot someone. thanks for starting your morning with us. much more ahead on cnn saturday morning which starts right now. it is very disappointing a. triple crown shocker before any horse even reaches the belmont starting gate. i ll have another is out and will never run again. we ll tell you bip also there s a federal investigation underway and it s targeting the highest levels of government. the fbi and department of justice now looking into three cases of state secrets possibly leaked to the public. new details, plus it s been frustrating. frustrating because i ve never had a problem finding work before. 5 million. that s the number of americans out of work more than six months. long-term unemployment in focus. for millions, jobless benefits are running out. tips on how you can get back to work. and in entertainment little people, irate over snow white. get ready to pony up mor
police firing tear gas to try to discourage occupy oakland. the police say they cracked down after the protesters threw paint and rocks at them. at the same time this was going on, atlanta police moved in on the wall street protesters camped in a downtown park. there were more than 100 arrests last night combined in both oakland and atlanta. and rescuers pulled two more people out of collapsed buildings in eastern turkey today. the number of people killed in sunday s powerful earthquake has climbed now to 461. turkey is asking for tents and prefabricated homes of prefab homes, the ones essentially built elsewhere and bring them in and construct them on site. police say that people are homeless and spending the nights outdoors and freezing temperatures there now. and people are jamming the square in the heart of damascus today to show support for syrian president bashar al assad, and the rally comes as the arab league ministers visit damascus. they want to mediate talks be
member of the dog pound coming up next. but here s the top of the hour. what would you say if you had just 20 minutes to defend your life? that is the question of american student amanda knox and she will have to answer that question because tomorrow she s on. she takes the stand in her own defense with her freedom hanging in the balance. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has been watching this appeal trial for us from perugia and matthew, i said there people here appeal and take the stand to defend yourself, this is not going to go like a normal case in the united states where someone takes the stand and they re going to be asked questions. no. they call it the pleas of innocence here. both amanda knox and her co-accused accused and convicted already of course of murdering meredith kercher in 2007 will get about 15 minutes each. it s not been confirmed that rafaela will make a speech but definitely amanda knox, tomorrow morning, is going to be sta