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america. we will begin this hour in greece where the voters have spoken in parliment,le bailout, the leader has two more days to form a coalition government. investors around the world are now relieves that greece has not decided to scrap the euro, ditch the bailouts, but what it has decided is anything but clear, unfortunately. but kristine rollins has been watching europe. let's talk about the election and the impact on us right now. >> i can't overstate the importance of greece to the american economy. it comes at a time when it looks like growth is softening a bit, and greece is ...

putin, and the two are at odds of how to end the bloodshed in syria and the international response to iran's nuclear program. in colorado wildfires are spreading. crews fighting the fire in the pike national forest are getting help now. firefighters from california heading there and the other big fire in colorado has burned more than 58,000 acres. national weather service says that the fire risk in six western states today is critical. i want to get to the big election in greece over the weekend. it looks like crisis averted at least for now, and everybody was holding their breat...

>> reporter: from what we understand, rodney king's fiancee called police shortly after 5:00 this morning. she heard a splash in the pool. before that they had been talking. she called the paramedics. police arrived and took rodney king out of the pool and did everything they could to revive rodney king. cpr failed. they took him to a local hospital. all their efforts did not pan out. rodney king was not revived. we do know rodney king was an avid swimmer. it was part of his physical therapy. we talked to him at cnn recently and he explained how he went into the pool and kind of used...

they arrived. and they found rodney king at the bottom of his swimming pool. the officers jumped into the pool and removed him and began cpr with mr. king. mr. king was unresponsive. rialto fire department paramedics arrived on scene and immediately transported him to the arrowhead regional medical center where he was later pronounced dead at about 6:11 this morning. >> we are joined on the phone now by "los angeles times" columnist pat morrison. pat, thanks for joining us. basically, this was a californian who was clocked by police as speeding. they tried to pull him over. it led to...

>> reporter: well, we did talk to police here in rialto. by all accounts this was an accidental drowning. there were no signs of foul play. basically this morning around 5:00 p.m. a 11 call came in from rodney king's fiancee. she heard a splash, went out and rodney king was at the bottom of the pool. police responded. they were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead later at a local hospital. rodney king made swimming a daily part of his life. it was a ritual. as we've been told rodney king was swimming in many ways because of the therapy he sustained during his injuries, ph...