join cnn on a listening tour, traveling across america to talk to voters about their struggles and the slumping economy and search for solutions on this "american morning." >> go good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, june 8th. our friend, ali velshi, is off today. >> we start, though, with these wildfires that have really been growing out of control right now in eastern arizona. so far, more than 5,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes thichlts an area that borders in new mexico. an enormous wild fire scorching over 500,000 square miles of land. it is going called the second largest fire in arizona's history. it could get bigger, because the weather is not cooperating. winds are whipping up. it has remained hot and dry. the flames are heading straight for two mountain towns in new mexico. >> first, the mississippi river and then flooding across the missouri river. they are building levees and