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Marshals and the secret service all providing assistance to the baltimore police department. and we know the atf is helping by checking firearms and shell casings, collecting evidence to crack these cases. we should see what the roles of the other federal agencies will be later today. there's a press briefing scheduled for this afternoon. some things to look for, how long this effort will last and what the ultimate goal, what success will be defined as. fred? >> boris, i think a natural question is, is there a connection between the rising homicide rate in baltimore and what happened in the da...

The worst of them dubbed the rocky fire, 100 miles north of san francisco and it's only 5% contained. it's already destroyed two dozen homes and it's threatening thousands more. cnn's stephanie elam is live for us now in california with the latest. stephanie? >> hi, fred. yes, we are out here pretty much at a good intersection to take a look at what is happening here. you can see behind us we have cal fire trucks here. this is a staging area coming in from the fireline, some about to head out. this is a 24 hour production out here where they are constantly battling these flames because you can...

Being used specifically. without federal funding, can planned parenthood sustain itself? >> it would be very difficult for them, at least $500 million goes into the planned parenthood coffers every year and, of course, the question is how is that money spent? planned parenthood says only about 3% of the services it provides actually go to abortions. planned parenthood does a lot of other things, including contracepti contraception, fred, so there's that. >> joe johns, keep it posted. thank you so much. so the anti-abortion group center for medical progress had planned to release more controver...

This sterile coming in for analysis over the next few days and weeks. how much will have something to do with the flight is another question. fredricka? >> all right. jim bittermann, thank you so much. david, quickly before i let you go, are owe encouraged by this find? are you feeling optimistic? >> it's hard to be optimistic about this type of tragedy nonetheless it is optimistic that we have information now. we can rule out these wild theories and things like that so i think it's a good thing, yesterda fred. >> jim bittermann, david soucie, appreciate it. if you have questions and you wan...

With bfed. we know federal law enforcement partners bring tools to bear that we necessarily don't enjoy. federal assets and other federal investigative techniques we think will help us close more homicide cases. >> i'm joined by boris johnson and cedric alexander. good to see both of you. i should note two more people were killed in baltimore in the first two days of august now and we're also understanding that this bfed actually entails a lot. help explain. >> it does, fred, you mentioned two people killed in august. that doesn't account 11 others that were shot in total. the numbers eye-popp...