good morning. i m john muller. and i m diana perez. here are some of the top headlines we are following on world news now. the wildfire burning near colorado springs has now killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes. the most destructive in colorado s history. 40,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders. and the fire is 5% contained. the florida jury in the george zimmerman murder trial will be sequestered after all. the judge changed her mind after a potential juror lied in court about his knowledge of the case. dozens of people were hurt when the patio deck of a miami sports bar collapsed into the shallow waters of biscayne bay. basketball fans had packed the bar to watch the nba finals when the accident happened. miami s big three dominated the san antonio spurs there in game 4 of the nba finals last night. lebron james, dwyane wade, chris
shic himself. his ability to get elton john was his love story. elton john is an openly gay singer. rush limbaugh was in hawaii in december on acceleration. he had some health problems. even found elton john was staying directly above him. rush limbaugh, according to him, he said he would go out on his patio deck and singรง up at elt john s room elton john songs. finally elton john be sent a note down saying i hope your surgery or your hospital visit went well. it turns out rush limbaugh said great now that i got a letter from elton john his fiancee loved elton john, sent a note, elton john to the surprise of his agent said, elton you don t want do this.
elton said no, it s better to build bridges than be apart. of course the money didn t hurt. i m sure. i think we have a clip of rush telling some of the story. let s play it if we got it. i went out on our little patio deck because his right above. i started singing elton john songs. hoping he would hear. i m singing little jeanne. got back from the hospital after a couple of three days there and the general manager of the hotel says elton john was asking about you. i said is he hoping i didn t survive? no,, no no. he wanted to kpurp okay because he knew you were staying okay. a light bulb went off and i said cathrine, write him a note. so that s how it happened. apparent lie this was rush s fiancee now wife. this was her enduring wish to have elton john play. if that description is straight out of high fidelity.
florida. cnn has also learned that residents were facing steep repair costs. $15 million worth following a tw 2018 report which warned how leaking water was leading to deteriorating concrete. and just two days before the collapse, a pool contractor spotted what appears to be serious signs of damage in the garage sharing these photos with the miami herald. and joining me now is sarah bl bl blaskey, tell me what the contractor told you, what was there? the contractor said aboveground everything looked okay, but once you went to the basement, he started noticing things that didn t look right to him. the first thing he noticed was standing water, a lot of it in the garage area, right under that patio deck that we have heard called into question by 2018 report, and as he went into the pool equipment room on the south side of the building, he saw serious corrosion of rebar that had been exposed from