lines with the fire fighters who is battling the waldo canyon fire right near pike s peak. hey, jim. reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more diff
yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad. plus
an important story just into cnn. the still unidentified u.s. soldier blamed for this week s deadly massacre in afghanistan now has a high powered lawyer. the prominent seattle attorney john henry brown who once representeded serial killer ted bundy. he spoke to tracy wyann. it s a tragedy all the way around. no question about that. i think it s of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplariry record, decorated soldier, who was injured in iraq to his brain and to his body, and then despite that was sent back. i think that s an issue. i think it s a concern. i think the message for the public in general is that he s one of our boys. we need to treat him fairly. casey wian from pierce county, washington. casey, listening to the attorney there he didn t say my client didn t do it. he seemed to say his defense would be this soldier never, because of his injuries in iraq in 2010, should have been sent back to the battlefield. reporter: well, he did not say that defi
ideas, where the republican field arguably has 59 point plans. isn t that, andrea, a given, with the the g.o.p. base, that the lower taxes, will be attractive to that base? so he needs to show that he has something more, for example, prove governor policy intellect or experience? yes, he has to prove all of those things and that s a good point, jamie, if i were herman cain, i would be rolling out every week a different plan on energy, not just tax reform to do. he did tax reform and do energy and do a number of different things, foreign policy and come out and give a big speech every week to get get earned media, the media you don t pay for and to prove that he knows his stuff. but his message, i have to say is one of the best out there. it is a message that resonates with everybody in this country that hard work, if you work hard, if you have no excuses like he did. you don t harbor bitterness and i just put your nose to the grind stone, you can be a success in this country and th
you can bring people together. if we have to cut, maybe we wouldn t be so determined that you can t cut one nickel out of military around the world. near the democrats or the republicans want to cut that. if you want to cut you have to put the militaryism on the table as well. [ applause ] bret: mr. cain, we know you have a four point economic plan. one specific thing, what one specific thing would president cain do first to restart the economic engine? again with the caveat that one thing would have to get through a divided congress. make the tax rates permanent. that s one of the four point plans. the business sector is the economic engine. you have a group that is is talking about spending. you have a group talking about cutting. i represent growth. it starts with the business sector putting fuel in the engine. in addition to that one thing that you asked know identify, we must have a maximum tax