Man Confesses to Killing 30 Across America; Zimmerman Trial Jury Selection Resumes; Reputed Boston Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger Standing Trial
MALVEAUX: The biggest wildfire in Colorado has now grown even bigger and more destructive. The numbers, they are staggering. Just take a look at this. The black forest fire near Colorado Springs has burned down 360 homes so far. 15,000 acres are scorched and evacuation area is now affecting 38,000 people. We are following breaking news. A burning chemical plant, this is near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, now something caused an explosion a couple of hours ago. This was at the Williams Olefins Plant. This is in the town of Geismar. The fire, it is still burning. We are told at least seven people are hurt. We are told that no one has been killed from this. We are going to get more details as we follow the breaking news story. In four days now, the jury selection process. This is George Zimmerman's murder trial out of Sanford, Florida. Now, Attorneys, they are trying to find folks, who can hear the case against him without being prejudice. They have been questioning potential jurors about their knowledge of this of course this high profile case. The "Orlando Sentinel" says the last juror called for questioning this morning was the most opinionated so far. The potential juror is quoted as saying, "She believes that Zimmerman is innocent." She thinks he was just defending himself when he shot Trayvon Martin last year and proceeded to give a detailed list of possible evidence in the case to justify her beliefs. The man who allegedly ran the Irish mob in Boston for almost 20 years, he is now on trial. Many people say, "It is about time." Prosecutor say, James "Whitey" Bulger was hands on killer who preferred to do his own dirty work. Now, he is charged with murdering 19 people. The trial officially is now under way. Our Debra Ferrick is in Boston.</s>DEBRA FERRICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He grew up on the mid street of Boston. And, by the time he was a man, everyone in south Boston or Southy knew what he had become. Three words that describe Whitey Bulger.</s>TOM FUENTES, FORMER FBI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Stone cold killer.</s>FERRICK: James Bulger, an Irish mobster, so feared, so ruthless. Some relatives of the 19 people he is accused of killing decades ago still Harbor a vivid hatred of the man known to everyone as "Whitey."</s>TOMMY DONAHUE, VICTIM'S SON: I said it before, I describe him as a scumbag. I think he is the lowest of the low. He is a mass murder like i said before. He has destroyed hundreds of families. He doesn't give a crap about anybody, no one but himself.</s>FERRICK: For more than two decades from the '70s to the early '90s nothing happened in Boston's criminal under world without Bulger getting a piece of it. He is accused of shaking down gamblers, loan sharks, drug traffickers as well as legitimate businessman. John Shea, nicknamed Red, ran his drug operations.</s>JOHN "RED" SHEA, WORKED FOR WHITEY BULGER: That guy, he wanted to be as strong and as powerful and as rich as he could be. He made tough guys shake.</s>FERRICK: There was something else about Bulger, something that made him even more lethal. He cut a deal with another Southy from the same projects. John Connelly, an FBI agent who recruited him as an informant. Their deadly alliance would ultimately tarnish generations of federal agents.</s>GERARD O'NEILL, CRIME REPORTER: 1976 Connelly tipped him off about a rival and Bulger killed him. So, Connelly had to realize right away how serious and deadly this arrangement was.</s>FERRICK: Bulger was supposed to be ratting out the Italian mafia, but he used his FBI contacts to gain information that he allegedly used to kill 19 mob rivals, possible informants and others.</s>FUENTES: He would personally get involved in cutting the fingers or hands of the victims and extracting their teeth.