been very fortunate. all right. the matchup is just nearby. tom brady versus matt ryan. going to be an incredible matchup. can t wait to see how it all plays out downtown houston, super bowl li, it s almost time and the fans are ready. it s going to be a great game. it is. it s going to be a tough game for the falcons, but fingers crossed. that s all we have time for right now. i m lynda kinkade. i m michael holmes. another hour of newsroom starts with robin ker now and cyril vanier. thanks for your company these past few hours. and now, i help people find discounts,
converge on south africa. you see there president and mrs. obama boarding air force one. they took off from andrews air force base in maryland. several hours ago now. they re well on their way and former president george w. bush and his wife and former first lady laura bush are en route to johannesburg. tomorrow when the official memorial service is going to take place, it s the city s soccer stadium. we want to go live to robin ker now outside of the mandela home. set the scene for us, the mood. this is day four of a ten-day mourning period. and i spoke to somebody close to mandela. they said it wasn t enough to not only say good-bye to such a great man but it wasn t enough to organize all of this. just imagine trying to organize more than 90 heads of state, plus more than 80,000 to 90,000 people in that stadium just for
as people were basically protesting investment in south africa. he spoke to us. he s quite the character, that s for sure. one of the people closest to any son mandela is his personal assistant, zelda la grange. she spoke with robin ker now and tells us about her last visit with mandela. it s obviously sad. the sadness in the house but there is also i have to say an undertone of a celebration almost i want to say. people are celebrating madiba s life. they are grateful. people are coming together, people who haven t seen each other for years. that s the incredible thing about madiba, he s bringing people again together in his death. he was suffering quite a lot in those last few months. is there a sense of relief is perhaps the wrong word that he s at least free from that? yes, well, you know, the family made sure that wasn t in any pain through the doctors, of course, and he wasn t suffering,
to the australia. this is where more than a dozen wildfires are now burning. there are 63 separate fires that are threatening communities. this is near sydney. scorching an area that is larger than new york city. more than 200 homes have now been damaged or destroyed. and officials are now warning that the dry, windy conditions have the potential 0 create what they believe is a megafire. volunteer firefighter shot the video while making a harrowing drive through the fire lines. he tells cnn that a last second wind shift spared his home from the flames. these terrifying images were shot from a helmet cam. cs from the mount victoria fire brigade trying topect homes and property. robin ker now has the very latest from ca too many ba. we re at the bush fire control center. it s from here that many of these operations are being coordinated. this is an around the clock
months. looking ahead to the second half of the program we have an interview with imf chief in the face of a falling euro, she is confident the currency will stay afloat. i have no doubt in my mind that the euro partners be determined to keep it alive and to keep it solid. with a different architecture than two or three years ago. and there s much more of that. cnn s robin ker now has that later in the show. thanks very much for that. nina? drew, it s try to focus on some of the other top business stories. u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner is in asia this week. part of the discussions will include encouraging both countries, china and japan, in putting financial pressure on iran to stop its nuclear weapons program. wall street journal is