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fm the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your "cnn sunday morning" it is 6:00 a.m. where i sit here at cnn headquarters, it is 1:00 p.m. in baghdad. wherever you may be, thank you for being here. i'm t.j. holmes. want to welcome as always our troops watching on the armed forces network in iraq, afghanistan and around the world. thank you for what you do and thank you for being here.t leme tell you what else is coming up over the next 90 minutes of this "cnn sunday morning." a prison break in mexico, but not just any prison break. 85 inmates get out. this happened in the border ...

so far, at least four people are dead. more than 50 are injured. dozens of homes are gone. the fire is about 75% contained right now. it's been burning for more than 12 hours. san bruno is just north of san francisco, only a few miles away from the san francisco international airport. explosion happened about 6:30 p.m. thursday evening. local time. the heat was so intense, it melted car tail lights. it sent chunks of concrete flying. pacific gas and electric says a gas transmission line, not the kind that goes to your house. this is the one that -- it's a bigger line. it ruptured, it...

An american man fascinated with fictional mobsters and nonfixal fascists is in jail accused of killing ten people in a resort town in panama. raphael romo has a story that reads like a movie. the man's name is william holbert. he targeted people who owned property in this tourist area, friending folks and finding a way to worm into their lives and befriend them, take their property and kill them. >> reporter: the lead prosecutor says they were in panama, and they will look for the bodies of some of the people who may have been killed by womenial holbert. the prosecutor says holbert confessed t...

Marine life you probably did not know about. all the details there at cnn.com/tech. >> all right, josh, thank you. now let's get started with our lead story. disturbing similarities between mexican drug cartels and al qaeda. an fbi web page quotes an agent calling the cartels more violent than the terrorist organization. if that surprises you, well, consider this. a grenade attack sunday on police in juarez, mexico. the drug cartels are known for gunning down police, conduct executions, beheadings, kidnappings, and even a suspected car bombing. cnn senior latin affairs editor rafael romo joi...

Across the border. something has to be done on both sides of the border to stop this chaos, and i attribute it to the drugs and the illegal immigration problem. everybody forgets the human smuggling. that's a cause for a lot of violence, too. it's not just the drugs. >> again, sheriff arpaio talking this morning on "american morning." he calls himself the toughest sheriff in america and he has put a lot of guys behind bars in arizona who are known pratt actives of the mexican drug cartels. so that probably explains the reason why. >> he doesn't seem the least bit fazed by this. i think this gu...