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believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. it's southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, you know, they asked everybody to evacuate yesterday in the hardest hit areas. this fire continues ...

it's got to be stopped and i know better than most. and that's it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in "the situation room." donna brazill is with us. let's get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. you're a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. they're pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a page being very different than the page that the president of the united states is on. >> south c...

an affair and pay his mistress. edwards' attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, you've been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? >> reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, illegal campaign contributions, a number of counts on that. there's a conspiracy count and the other...

When he hit the brick wall. >> just getting to the wall was an amazing victory. dr. sanjay gupta has his story in the human factory. growing up, i wanted to race professionally. i wanted to race in the indianapolis 500. >> he is 10.9 seconds behind the race leader. this year, charlie kimball finally fulfilled his dream. in order to get here, he had to overcome a big hurdle. you see, four years ago, he was told he had diabetes. so kimball took time to figure out how to cope with his diagnosis and figure out if he could race with diabetes, something indy car officials said was a first. he had ...

low in the 20 largest labor day -- metropolitan areas. >> memorial day. according to the "new york times" the standard & poor's you said labor day too. case-shiller index will show >> start all over. home prices dipped below the >> good thing it's taped. lows reached two years ago. the "l.a. times" reporting >> why don't you take it over. >> amazing video we have to show americans last year put $9 you. billion into government-run >> from mexico. >> truly an example of courage college savings plans, known as under fire. here's a look. 529 plans. that's up from $5 billion in 2008. ex...