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last sunday. dozens of families have lost their homes to wildfires. in oklahoma city alone, fires destroyed 25 homes just this week. and in texas, crews are still battling 14 separate wildfires. they have been making some progress, but a weather system is expected to bring high winds to texas to tomorrow. and that could turn the embers back into flames. politics and sarah palin's latest appearance in the critical early voting state of iowa. the former alaska governor and former vp candidate was a keynote speaker at a tea party rally. she didn't use the rally to declare her presid...

residents to get out or get ready. >> walking free from the hotel. christine romans. 33 journalists are out this morning and are talking after a terrifying ordeal. held at gunpoint by gadhafi loyalists growing more desperate by the second. the end of an era at am. i'm carol costello. steve jobs, creator force behind apple, resigns. what will this mean for the company? the change the way you live on this "american morning." good morning to you. it is thursday, august 25. welcome to "american morning." every day, it has been something else. something big happening. >> we want it to...

shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that's good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow's history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? >> you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. >> what they are doing is they are putting a te...

Now, there are people and there are communities that they live in areas around nuclear power plants where that is something the state health department has done. that's a case by case, based upon plans that are taking place at state and local levels around existing power plants. because of this event, we're not seeing this as a need. this is more based upon look at what happened there as far as the things you need. >> we promised everybody a simple and easy checklist that i want to show everybody, things that should be in the home in case of a disaster. we have water, food, radio, flashlig fla...