chris warren from the weather channel. thanks so much. today the hurricane threat prompted nasa to call off tuesday s launch of its artemis rocket. for now the rocket will stay on the pad but could be rolled back to the building for safety. to ukraine. russia pressed ahead with referendums in four occupied territories but condoned in the west as a sham. we re? kyiv. reporter: election officials comb the streets urging residents to come outside and vote. nobody responds. others traipsing up flights of stairs knocking on doors to find voters, papers on soldiers by their side. this is democracy, russian-style. russia news outlets key to show enthusiastic voters, but the referendums take place in the ruins of cities that have been pounded by vladimir putin s
0 next. see you in tonight double trouble. it s the fury of fiona. deserve stating and deadly from the maritimes to puerto rico. in florida, state of emergency with ian threatening to be a major hurricane. a rush to get ready. we ll have the latest forecast. also tonight ukraine referendums. russian soldiers go door to door for votes. russia holding elections in occupied territories to push through a vote to annex it. plus, stock markets fall as americans feel the pitch. i m michael george on wall street with impact on the cost of food, homes and travel. and later a seal saga. schubert turns himself s in after evading capture and captivating a community. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. captioning funded by cbs good evening. with begin with breaking news or two fronts. the second storm, ian a threat to the mainland but we begin in canada. what was hurricane fiona roared through five provinces with drenching rains and powerf
and these unofficial networks will not stop trying to save these afghans, even after the military pulls out. they re pleading with the administration to muster all available resources to help get afghan allies out to safety. david? martha raddatz and ian pannell with me every night of the week here. thanks to you both. our coverage of afghanistan here tonight. but we move on this evening to the major hurricane threat we re now tracking tonight, hurricane ida heading over the very warm waters of the gulf, set to grow even stronger. and authorities now say possibly growing to a category 4 storm before slamming into louisiana, potentially new orleans. winds up to 140 miles per hour. 16 years to the day after katrina, which is just extraordinary. rob marciano, you and i both remember very well reporting from the ground in katrina. what are we looking at now tonight? reporter: that was such a horrific experience. this is a different track from katri katrina. unfortunately could be a m
was a miami pool boy. the world s fastest man revealing he s tested positive for covid-19. and america strong tonight. we cannot forget the work of the firefighters. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. and we bght. and we begin tonight with that major hurricane threat. forecasters say what could be a major category 3 hurricane is about to hit the u.s. more than a half million people ordered to evacuate in texas and in louisiana. tonight, hurricane laura is mexicocted to slam ashore f as that cat 3. 115-mile-an-hour winds. the urgent call tonight to leave galveston, causing very slow-moving traffic. families all going one way to get out. a line of cars heading out of businesses areing do and i n t ofarm s way.inewrlea g, too. 15 years after katrina now, and
acknowledge he got something wrong. the white house could have just said, made a mistake, and move on. but instead, they re trying to take punitive actions against people, public servants, for doing their jobs and, you know to susan s point, this is a public safety issue. this is how as we have seen time and again the president views his administration, he believes that all these departments and agencies are there to service him, not to service the american public and to punish people, because they didn t toe the white house line. that is a creep toward authoritarianism. it sends a horrible message to career professionals, experts at the weather service, trying to make sure people in alabama know what s going open, not what might have happened a few days ago in an assessment, but in that particular moment, they wanted to reassure people in alabama, don t worry no hurricane threat facing you right now, irrespective of what the president might say. these experts that were thrown unde