immediately a smile on your face. i know when i went on it. it s so much fun. it is. the airlines will take them on an airplane. they re having fire problems with them. you can t bring them on airplanes. i have one. i m worried about my house burning down all the time. oh god. thanks, andy. thank you, andy scholes, this morning, 27 minutes past the hour. the death toll rising, historic winter storms. parts of the mid-west under water, folks, it will only get worse. we ll tell you where next.
a 17-year-old, jennifer, job just earned a scholarship. the more filed the lawsuit and said her daughter would have been the first to go to college. fedex released a statement saying we remain focused on providing support for those affected and authorities as they continue the investigation. this is not the time to discuss potential litigation. this woman says fedex knew their trucks were in trouble. exactly. this is something they have to prove when this case goes to trial or gathering evidence. let me tell you something, this is not going to be the only lawsuit. you will see many more come out and sue fedex in the situation. not only fedex but the bus company as well, something about emergency exits. snow they did not have emergency exit doors. that s very serious. you wonder, the burden of proof on something like this, that fedex had fire problems
communication radio, control heads, and transponder on that center panel right below throttles, if there was an electrical fire or problem in that area, we would lose that information from the airplane. doesn t mean they manually shut the switches off. it means what we know for sure the time line and time things quit talking to everybody. we ll never know for sure what happened. at this point, you believe it s just as likely there was a mass event on this plane that had nothing to do with human intervention? absolutely. i don t see anything here that tells me i m a security guy by training. i ve been doing this 25 years. i typically say this has got to be a terrorist event. everything here i m seeing is typical of other electrical fire problems. the sequence of events we re seeing we ve seen happen before
people driving away from home as smoke and flames engulf nearly everything. listen to evacuees tell what they managed to escape with. everything else can be replaced, but my babies can t be replaced. they just can t. it s my mom s mom s and and these were real important to her, my sister s wedding dress in the back. i have oklahoma s governor on the phone right now. mary fallon who just finished touring some of the hardest-hit areas. what s the toughest challenge that you re incurring right now? well, the toughest challenge, rob, right now is that it s still very, very hot outside. your state was up to 115 in some areas of the state. we, of course, are in the middle of a big drought in our state. we need rain and cool temperatures desperately, but we have all of the resources out working very, very hard. we re coordinating fire command centers, but i don t have a total estimate on the number of acres left, but from what i can best guess we re probably about 60,000 acr
more from the moment she was found unconscious in the bathtub. ann romney responding to a democratic strategist who said this about her. his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. the mother of five is fuming over that comment. hearing a cry from the morgue? they are calling her the miracle baby. a newborn baby found alive at the morgue 12 hours after being declared stillborn. that is a crazy story. stay tuned for that. actually nailed into a coffin. that s incredible. just incredible. one minute past 5:00 on the east coast. george zimmerman waking up behind bars this morning. the man who shot 17-year-old trayvon martin is now charged with second degree murder. zimmerman turned himself in to police yesterday, his arrest coming after weeks of protest in florida and right across the country, demanding justice for trayvon. a special prosecutor says none of that went into her decision to charge zimmerman. let me emphasize that we do not prosecute by