Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, june 14th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. well, this morning colorado firefighters are battling the most destructive wildfire in colorado history. the black forest fire burning northeast of colorado springs has killed at least two people and destroyed at least 360 homes. it s one of three major forest fires burning in colorado. some 40,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and it was the first evacuation order issued within the colorado springs city limits. the monster fire is so intense firefighters were pulled out. valerie castro of our denver station kcnc is in colorado springs. reporter: the black forest fire has now claimed two lives. the bodies were discovered inside the burn area thursday. their location near a car at a home indicates they were trying to leave their home for safety but the flames quickly moved in. another sad day. reporter: on day three of th