sloughed off. reporter: a bone dry fuel load that experts say makes the fires more volatile. one official says on sunday the fire went from 40 acres in size to 84 acres in minutes. it was the sudden shift in wind directions on sunday that caught the hot shots in a deadly trap. what caused the winds to shift so fast? it sounds like a thunderstorm changed the direction of the fire and pushed fire in the wrong direction. reporter: once trapped officials say the hot shots deployed shelters. demonstrating the procedure for us firefighter lance cole got into one in about 15 seconds. it took me a little longer. pull it over you. when you are underneath the fire shelter you have to seal it like this to trap breathable air
there is a contradiction here. i tend to go forward with amy s conclusion because the bullet had a penetrate two layers of clothing before it hit the body. i think she s probably closer to the truth. the that good or bad for the prosecution in this case? it doesn t make a lot of difference. it points to the fact there s a struggle as opposed to a distance shot which wouldn t go along with george zimmerman s hypothesis. he acknowledges he did fire that bullet into trayvon martin s heart. indeed. there s no question about that. the question is was it part of a struggle? did trayvon martin go for the gun? there s no dna evidence on the gun from trayvon martin. you really can t draw a conclusion. we really haven t heard
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this picture of crew makes. the last known picture of the hot shots before the fire suddenly blew up killing 19 of them. the anatomy of this fire, the specific events causing that tragedy are still under investigation. officials believe the fire started the afternoon of friday june 28 with a lightning strike near yarnell. because livestock has been limited once that lightning bolt struck there were plenty of fuels like this on the ground that would have enabled the fire to spread so quickly. what are those fuels? shelby erickson who has battled about 400 fires says fires in this area feed off dry grass, shrubbery. needle and leaf accumulation. the top layer is the needles and leaves that have just been
underneath. make sure you have your water with you. then ride it out. erickson was careful not to comment on the actions of the hot shots. he says if the fire is that violent and enough fuel near you. if it is that incredible and that dry it may be so hot that this won t provide that radiant heat blockage. so far it appears between the fuel on the ground and the fact that the fire changed direction so quickly and moved so fast at that moment that the shelters deployed couldn t protect those 19 men. this is cnn breaking news. and we have just received a statement from president obama on the historic developments in egypt today, the removal of the egyptian president mohamed morsi. it is a carefully written out statement. i am going to read it to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. the statement from the president