and good morning, everybody. good to see you, i m terrell brown in for betty nguyen. we begin with mother nature and a swarm of stubborn wildfires that just won t quit. wildfires big and small are burning from east texas all the way to southern california, one of the worst is the monument fire near sierra vista in southern arizona. authorities ordered another 1,700 homes to evacuate sunday as high winds wlipd the flames out of control, forcing fire crews to fall back and regroup. the monument fire had already burned 44 homes and many more are in jeopardy. at least 7,000 residents have been forced to flee, many into local shelters. this is how we stay until we get the news good or bad. reporter: in new mexico the small town of lieu in a is now in changer. president the wallow fire jumped over the arizona border last week and has gaining ground ever since and already torched nearly 800 square miles. east texas is the latest area to burn. a grass fire that started friday s
wildfires that just won t quit. wildfires big and small are burning from east texas all the way to southern california, one of the worst is the monument fire near sierra vista in southern arizona. authorities ordered another 1,700 homes to evacuate sunday as high winds wlipd the flames out of control, forcing fire crews to fall back and regroup. the monument fire had already burned 44 homes and many more are in jeopardy. at least 7,000 residents have been forced to flee, many into local shelters. this is how we stay until we get the news good or bad. reporter: in new mexico the small town of lieu in a is now in changer. president the wallow fire jumped over the arizona border last week and has gaining ground ever since and already torched nearly 800 square miles. east texas is the latest area to burn. a grass fire that started friday spread over the weekend into the fourth largest in state history. at least two homes have been destroyed. we ain t moving until the fire s
this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with a conflict in libya where many in congress believe the 90 day deadline has been reached to seek aful po for military action under the war powers act. the main rebel stronghold in the west. well in irthe eastern stronghold rebels said today they had run out of money. and late today nato acknowledged that one of its air strikes went off course last night in tripoli and maybe to blame for civilian casualties. allen pizzey is in tripoli tonight and begins our coverage. reporter: what almost certainly was a tragic blunder by nato at first looked like it might be another propaganda attempt bit libyan authorities. just after 2:00 sunday morning journalists were brought to this site. the neighborhood known as souk al-juma has been a focal point of protests against the regime of moammar qaddafi but for once politics took second place to a rescue effort conducted with little organizat
mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with a conflict in libya where many in congress believe the 90 day deadline has been reached to seek aful po for military action under the war powers act. the main rebel stronghold in the west. well in irthe eastern stronghold rebels said today they had run out of money. and late today nato acknowledged that one of its air strikes went off course last night in tripoli and maybe to blame for civilian casualties. allen pizzey is in tripoli tonight and begins our coverage. reporter: what almost certainly was a tragic blunder by nato at first looked like it might be another propaganda attempt bit libyan authorities. just after 2:00 sunday morning journalists were brought to this site. the neighborhood known as souk al-juma has been a focal point of protests against the regime of moammar qaddafi but for once politics took second place to a rescue effort conducted with little organization and the lot of brute force. this was said to be
> mitchell: good evening, the white house tonight is accused of syrian government of creating a humanitarian crisis after yet another bloody, tense day of fighting. troops loyal to bashar assad are cracking down on antigovernment demonstrators and others try to escape to turkey. we have the latest. a warning now: some of the pictures burr to see are graphic reporter: video gradually surfacing online shows the defiance of antigovernment demonstrators is escalating along with the government s resolve to crush them. yesterday in a suburb of damascus protesters were baiting syrian security forces. at first the troops seemed to hold back but not for long. the gunmen get into position, some of them neiling and kneeling and open fire. [gun fire] up in syria s north there are fewer pictures of violent crackdown this weekend, but there s other evidence. a tide of refugees streaming into turkey. he told us just yesterday he was at a protest 20 miles away on the syrian side of the