Glor and good evening. Im jeff glor in miami. Anthony mason is in new york. And tonight, its a race to outrun irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic. The fury of this category 5 storm was seen in the caribbean where at least ten people were killed when irma tore through there. Here in florida, more than a million live in mandatory evacuation zones, and folks along the georgia coast have also been ordered to leave. Mason tonight, irma should pass over turks and caicos on its way to florida by sunday morning. Sustained winds are 175 miles an hour. Video from the space station shows irmas size. Hurricaneforce winds extend 70 miles from its center. We want to check in with lonnie quinn, chief weathercaster at our new york station wcbs. Lonnie, the forecast is changing. It is. The new information pushes things a little bit more to the west, and we talk about this being an ominous turn. Well, lets get right to it. We havent actually begun the turn yet. But there is a picture of irma. Its enormous. You could fit texas inside of that. The new forecast cone, from the National Hurricane center, lets display that for you. Were very much in agreement, it will continue this track from the westnorthwest. Heres where it becomes a little iffy, though. This is the iffy part. When does it start this turn to the north . And you have to notice here between these two yellow lines, anything is at play. So the west coast, east coast, of florida, both the possibility. Let me show you one possibility theyll we tend to look at pretty heavily these days because its been performing so well be the european. This, the National Hurricane centers forecast. This, right there, on the west coast of florida, is where the european model puts the storm. But even they have been waffling. Because look at where this was earlier today. 12 hours ago it was an east coast storm with the eye right over miami beach. As far as the timing goes, tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last time for you folks in south florida to get your preparations done and then you either get out of dodge or you hunker down. This is a huge storm. It is forecast to be category 4 in your area, but were talking winds 145 miles per hour, versus maybe 185, which is what they were at the strongest. But then it continues in some way, shape, or form either right up the spine of florida, up the west coast, or the east coast, still maintaining hurricane strength as it makes its way into georgia some time monday. Georgia, south carolina, even north carolina, if it wobbles a bit, your shoreline it at risk as well. Mason all right, lonnie quinn, we know when your Shirt Sleeves are rolled up, youre serious. Thanks, lonnie. Lets go to my colleagues who will be following this in the coming days. Here again is jeff glor in miami. Glor anthony, thank you very much. We have a team of correspondents covering irma, beginning with tony dokoupil, who is in puerto rico. Reporter from island to devastated island irma clobbered them with its brutal strength. In st. Martin, almost every building suffered damage. This man says he has nothing left no roof, no place to sleep, nothing. Barbuda, one of the flattest islands in the caribbean, was even worse. 95 of the buildings have been destroyed, according to Prime Minister gaston browne. This has been one of the worst days of my life. The entire country has been decimated. I have never seen anything like this before. Reporter in puerto rico, irma left thousands homeless and most of the island in the dark. It was loud. It was loud. Reporter ron robles spent a sleepless night when his roof blew off. Right here . Thats the roof. That thing blew off. Just a second, it took maybe three seconds to blow that thing off. Reporter in haiti, this poor town is prone to flooding, and the island is bracing for its turn with irma. And now, with barely a chance to breathe, another hurricane is bearing down on the caribbean. Hurricane jose could hit the very same islands that have already been so devastated. Jeff . Glor tony dokoupil, thank you very much. Miami is just a few feet above sea level and floods often in minor storms. Mark strassmann now, on how its preparing for irma. Reporter miami beachs most soughtafter sand today sat in a parking lot. Families could fill ten sandbags apiece to protect their home against irma. 16yearold Diego Oropeza was doing his part. Its got to be terrifying. Well, weve been watching the news all along, and we think its, like, this one is a big deal. Reporter in miamidade county, more than 650,000 people are now under a mandatory evacuation order. Gridlock gripped i95 all the way to orlando. By one estimate, nearly 40 of gas stations in miami and Fort Lauderdale have run dry. Cases of water are also running low. Miamidade mayor Carlos Giminez coming out of the southeast, especially, its a pretty bad scenario for miamidade county. Reporter irma is bigger and more powerful than hurricane andrew. The category 5 storm killed 61 people, destroyed 25,000 buildings, and forced florida to strengthen building codes statewide. It was a foundationtoroof tightening. Absolutely. I mean, everything. Reporter peter dyga is president of the associated builders and contractors in south florida. We met him at this Hotel Project where workers were installing impactresistant windows, which are lab tested to withstand a 2 x 4 hitting them at a force of 140 miles per hour. The real challenge in a hurricane is the window not being hit once but being hit over and over and over. Reporter we have had hurricanes come and go in this area. This is the moment of truth . I mean, this is the real big test. Mother nature is going to win in the end. And weve just got to hope and pray for the best. Reporter miami beach has set up three sandbagging stations like this one, which have given away almost 30,000 bags of sand over the last couple of days. So much sand, jeff, the city has run out of bags. People have been bringing their own bags and in some cases, pillowcases. Glor Mark Strassmann with us here in miami. Mark, thank you very much. Potential danger from irma extends throughout the florida keys, which stretch 120 miles into the sea. Elaine quijano is in key largo. Reporter the fishermen of the florida keys have begun a longestablished tradition searching the mangroves, hoping to shelter dozens of boats from the storm. Whats the strategy here for tying up the boat . To keep her in the middle of the canal because the tides going to go up and down. Reporter so what is your fear with the amount of wind that theyre talking about with this storm . Its scary. If we get the backside of it, well get about 100, 100 somethingmileperhour wind. That wont be too bad. Reporter gary sands is a commercial fisherman, like his father and grandfather before him. What would it do to your bottom line if you lost your boats . I would be out of business. Because you cant go to a five and dime and buy one. This is the heart of the operation. You lose that, youre out. Reporter it was in 1960, ahead of hurricane donna, that sands first secured a fishing boat in these mangroves. Back then it was his fathers vessel, and now his fellow fishermen are helping him protect his. Feels kind of like a family out here. Thats a lot of friends. I have a lot of friends here. I have charter boat friends. I have lobster friends. This is a nice community. Its really nice where we live. Everybody sticks together. Reporter gary sands and some other boaters are not evacuating and say they plan on staying near their boats here in key largo. Jeff, in the hours before irma hits, these mangroves will likely be filled with dozens more boat owners seeking safe harbor for their vessels. Glor elaine, thank you. The florida peninsula has more than 1,300 miles of coastline. Millions are extremely vulnerable to the surge of sea water a hurricane like irma can unleash. And the best way to understand the threat to lowlying areas is to see them from above, so i took a ride with pilot paul barth. There are about 2. 5 billion homes in florida in hazard zones. That is more than three times as many as any other states. This is a low area here. Not very much, but two or three feet above sea level. So, if we have a strong storm surge, theres not much to protect it from the coastline. Glor so theres nothing stopping the surge from coming in. Theres nothing stopping the wind. Right, theres no Barrier Island on this side on key biscayne here. Its wide open to the atlantic ocean. Glor so if youre living in this area, what do you do . You better evacuate. Glor so right now, miami is directly behind us. You can see all these lowlying areas. This is some of the most vulnerable area. If irma comes in, it could bring that storm surge in ten feet or more, and it could stretch miles inland. Do you get the sense that people are appreciating what might happen . I think the people that were here in andrew and people who understand the power of a hurricane, who have watched other hurricanes, like in texas now, houston, those people now have seen so much and they finally realize. Glor the biggest threat here in miami is not the rain. As you saw in houston, with harvey, it is the wind speed and the storm surge, and the storm surge is the most difficult thing to predict. Farther up the coast where irma could hit early next week, states of emergency have already been declared in georgia and the carolinas. And don dahler tonight is outside savannah. Reporter georgias governor nathan deal is taking no chances, ordering a mandatory evacuation for savannah, as well as other coastal areas. That order takes effect on saturday. Residents began boarding up and sandbagging houses and businesses in anticipation of the storms arrival late monday or tuesday. Even if it makes a glancing blow, savannah, a historic jewel of the south, could suffer considerable damage. Last october, Hurricane Matthew did not make a direct hit here, and yet still caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. Savannah has been fortunate when it comes to major storms. Only three have made a direct landing here in over 100 years. The governor has activated 5,000 national guardsmen, both to protect life and property, as well as assist in rescues. Jeff. Glor don dahler in georgia. Now lets go back to Anthony Mason in new york. Mason thanks, jeff. The Senate Overwhelmingly approved an aid package for victims of Hurricane Harvey today, about 15. 3 billion tied to raising the nations debt limit. The house votes on this tomorrow. Tens of thousands are living in temporary shelters and hotel rooms in texas. At least 63 people were killed by harveys winds and floodwaters. Today, education secretary betsy devos announced big changes in how colleges should handle allegations of Sexual Assault on campus, rolling back obamaera policies. Jan crawford spoke to devos. The truth is that the system established by the Prior Administration has failed too many students. Reporter education secretary betsy devos said her department would soon begin the process of undoing the obamaera guidelines. There must be a better way forward. Every survivor of Sexual Misconduct must be taken seriously. Every student accused of Sexual Misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined. Betsy devos has got to go reporter protesters chanting outside said the 2011 guidelines protected victims of college Sexual Assault. They lowered the standard of proof for Sexual Assault cases and often denied the accused a right to crossexamine witnesses or hear evidence against them. Opponents say they have created another class of victims innocent students wrongly punished. Devos spoke to cbs news after her speech. So youll be rescinding those guidelines, today, the near future . Thats the intention. Some time in the near future. And in the interim period, during the rulemaking process, we will come alongside institutions to ensure they are meeting their obligation under title ix. Reporter but you are not going to level enforcement action against universities that dont follow the obama guidelines as of today . The intention is to withdraw that letter, but the facts remain that schools need to take their title ix obligations seriously. Reporter now, devos will solicit Public Comment in developing new rules. She mentioned a series of proposals by Harvard Law School professors who have been highly critical of the obama guidelines as one possible way to restore fairness and due process. Anthony. Mason jan crawford. Thank you, jan. 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Well, Mitch Mcconnell, when we first met him, he was, he said, i think in one of the first meetings in trump tower with the president , as were wrapping up, he says, i dont want to hear any more of this drain the swamp talk. Flat out. He goes, a guy on capitol hill cant buy a coke unless it has to be reported. He says i cant hire smart people because people are on him for reporting requirements and the pay, et cetera, and the scrutiny. You have to back off from that. The drain the swamp thing, Mitch Mcconnell, from day one, did not want us to go there, and wanted us to back off. Reporter you are attacking, on many fronts, people who you need to help you, to get things done. Theyre not going to help you unless theyre put on notice theyre going to be held accountable if they do not support the president of the United States. Right now there is no accountability. They have totally they do not support the president s program. Its an open secret on capitol hill. 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To now know that we have a next crop, the next generation, if you will, that are under 25, that can perhaps be at the top of their games for the next five, 10 years, thats huge for us because we want our kids to get into the sport. Reporter and theres another headline at this years u. S. Open. Three of the four women in the semifinals are women of color, and thats never happened before. One of those emerging stars, stephens, was just four years old when her opponent tonight, Venus Williams, debuted here as a 17yearold back in 1997. It is extremely important for all youth to see themselves in the game. And what i mean by that is that they see people that look like them, maybe walk like them or talk like them, so they can say, hey, i can do that, too. Reporter which could be a sign that the best is yet to come. Jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. Mason a starspangled semifinal. Thats the cbs evening news. Im Anthony Mason in new york. Glor and im jeff glor in miami, where we keep watching irma. Remember, this storm, unlike andrew in miami 25 years ago, which cut east to west straight through, this is going to be over florida and the southeast, it looks like for a long time. We will be watching and have the latest tomorrow on cbs this morning, and right back here for the cbs evening news tomorrow night. Good night from miami. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org California School kids skipping their shots. Parents opposed to vaccines are getting around a tough, new law. Good evening, kpix5 news begins with California School kids skipping their shots, parents opposed to vaccines getting around a tough new law. Good evening. Im veronica de la cruz. Im ken bastida in for allen tonight. California got rid of the personal belief excuse for school vaccinations, but parents may have found another way around this. 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