Guilty pleas stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks lead our other headlines.

Defense Department officials say Kaliz Sheikh Mohammed and two of his accomplices have agreed to plead guilty to charges related to the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.

The men have been in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades.

They're expected to enter their pleas as soon as next week.

In Colorado, authorities say one person has been killed in a wildfire north of the town of

Lions.

The Stone Canyon Fire erupted yesterday afternoon.

Earlier today it was listed as 0% contained

as 150 firefighters battle the blaze.

To the north, the larger Alexander Mountain Fire is also spreading.

They are among the nearly 100 large fires burning across the Western U.S.

Meantime in California, some people return to their scorched communities after the

massive park fire barreled through that includes the town of co-hasit which is

now unrecognizable. This community is going to need a lot of support and a lot of aid.

There are people that live up here with little to no means and they just lost kind of everything that they owned or everything that they ever had.

In the northeast, it's a very different picture. More storms are in the

forecast in northern Vermont as residents clean up the mess left by

debilitating rain and flooding. The state's governor said today that crews are still rebuilding after severe flooding. The state's governor said today that crews are still rebuilding after

severe flooding hit earlier this month.

Seeing all the progress they've made since the flooding three weeks ago

being washed away again, it probably feels much worse than a punch or a kick.

It's simply demoralizing.

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