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canyon fire in colorado. towering flames, as you can see, are sending families fleeing for their homes. the fire has destroyed 350 homes and killed two people. earlier i talked with major neil harlow about the challenges of fighting fire from the air. >> extremely high temperatures. everything is causing these fires to burn hot as they are creates big problems for us. the aircraft doesn't perform, we're flying right to the edge of the envelope. >> there's one bit of good news to tell you about. firefighters now have 100% containment over another colorado fire, the massive hyde park f...

White clouds of chemicals you see there. folks in neighboring states tell nasa they could see the clouds from some 500 miles away. a little over 3 hours from now somebody could be hundreds of millions of dollars richer. folks across our nation hit stores today to buy mega millions tickets. the jackpot tonight $363 million. the third largest mega millions jackpot ever. whoever wins could end up richer than tom cruise, elton john and jlo. fighting fire by ground and by air. crews outside denver battling rageing wildfires that have forced hundreds to. >> decided to see if the fire was close. it w...

Spending cuts out of the president. why stop now? he wants to make this a package deal. you want me to lift the debt ceiling and let the u.s. borrow more money, i want some specific spending cuts. the other complication for the president is that as a senator in 2006 he voted against lifting the debt ceiling. jay carnie will to explain that vote today and made a rare admission that it was a mistake. take a listen. >> the president, as david pluf said yesterday, regrets that vote and thins it was a mistake. he realizes now that raising the debt cre debt ceiling is so important to the health of t...

Fighting fire on the ground. >> you can see how fire creates its own weather stoked by the winds as well. this fire here moving to the grass very slow but moving very fast. you see how close it gets to the roadway. not far from the homes. what it does is basically skips across this very dry, very warm grass. the heat actually heats the grass up as well and goes towards the homes over here. it's moving extremely fast even through this low brush. and low grass. right now the temperature is about 100 trees. humidity is about 10 percent, winds are gusting to 35 miles per hour. right after we shot ...

Florida. >> mitt romney and i will protect and strengthen medicare so that the promises that were made, that people organized their retirements around like my mom will be promises that are kept. medicare was there for our family, for my grandma when we needed it then. and medicare is there for my mom while she needs it now and we have to keep that guaranty. [cheers and applause] martha: that is the heart of their message right now. chief white house correspondent ed henry is at the white house this morning. ed, bring us up to speed what happened over the weekend. >> reporter: good morning, mar...