A troubling forecast that could make the situation worse. Parting students spread the virus. Frustrating administers and fueling campus anxiety. Belarus on the brink. Protesters try to out europes last dictatodictator. And later, a family project with a new twist on story time. Were interested in stories that connect kids to some sense of magic and wonder. Good evening. Hurricane marco is barreling toward the gulf coast. Marco is expected to make landfall tomorrow along louisianas coast as a category 1 hurricane. Just days later and only miles away laura completes the onetwo punch as a stronger storm. Janet shamlian is in R New Orleans where the president approved an emergency declaration. Reporter this is dangerous and unprecedented situation for a wide swath of the gulf coast. Tonight they are getting ready by ordering mandatory evacuations in some of the most vulnerable low lying areas. Oil producers are cleaning rains and pumping drainage canals. Authorities like the louisiana gove
Louisiana governor requesting immediate federal help. These storms pose a challenge that quite frankly weve not seen before. Course in consequence. Partying students spread the virus, frustrating administrators and fueling campus anxiety. Belarus on the brink, protestors try to oust europes last dictator. Cbs news is there. And later, a Family Reading project that puts a new twist on story time. Were interested in stories that connect kids to some sense of magic and wonder. This is the cbs weekend news. Yuccas good evening, im jamie yuccas in los angeles. The situation is desperate, the second and Third Largest fires in state history are expected to grow as new thunderstorms produce dry lightning and gusty winds. Jonathan vigliotti is on the fire lines in healdsburg, north of san francisco. Reporter california is under a historic fire siege with more lightning expected tonight. Nearly 1. 3 million acres charred and counting as more than 14,000 exhausted firefighters battle nonstop flam
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ago, i watched as several fire trucks just came to zooming down this road, im on west side road in a Dry Creek Valley that is just west of healdsburg and most folks if you live on this road you were ordered to evacuate here west of highway one oh one and now as i mentioned several
Keeping firefighters busy today. Talk about turtle power its wednesday, july 22nd. Early today starts now glad youre with us. Im Frances Rivera im fill mphillip mena protests continue in places like portland, oregon where the city is on edge. Demonstrators protesting Excessive Police force continue to clash with federal agents who have arrived without the consent of leaders something that portlands leaders are saying is escalating the chaos reporter tensions escalated as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with federal agents, anger boiling over as some of the crowd set e federal courthouse President Trump calling the protesters anarchists. They were ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it while many of the protests have been peaceful theres also been violence, and looting the presence of federal agents is fuelling the tension. The protests were calming down and that the presence of federal troops here, trumps troops here in the streets of portland has substantially exace
People caught trespassing get a warning but their names go into a database and if they are caught again they can be cited and fined. We have 3 1 2 times the sheriffs presence than we have here on the coast, so a lot more than usually. Reporter still, some are skeptical. This shows people at surfers beach, ignoring signs and lifting children over the barriers. I think crowds are going to come anyway. They have done it in the past. They park where they want and do what they want. Reporter many businesses downtown expect to lose customers but some are glad beaches are closed because the crowds keep getting bigger. It has been packed everywhere. You cant go anywhere. It is like the pumpkin festival every weekend. Reporter does that concern your health wise . Yes. Reporter it is a tough situation for everyone involved, especially with the sunny weather expected this weekend. But town leaders say thats the way it has to be and hope the public feels the same way. In Half Moon Bay, robert hand