Hours now for a rare visit to a muslim country. A welcome ceremony awaits him in the capital. Then he will head to the president ial palace. For more, we have arwa damon with more. What are the issues he will address there, arwa . Reporter max, there are a key number of issues when it comes to speaking to the Christian Community in the region. There are two key purposes in this visit by pope francis. The first of which, although it perhaps takes a backseat to the other one. The first is continuing to build and solidify the bridges with sister churches. He will be over the weekend meeting with the turkish president and Prime Minister and also the minister for religious affairs. One of the main issues in all of this is going to be trying to somehow build that deep, deep divide between christians and muslims in the region. Christianity is facing a threat unlike any it has faced in the last few decades when it comes to its existence in the region. The emergence of al qaeda in iraq, then th
Filing claims. Cars destroyed. What some may not know about their car insurance. And the jet headed to new york city when flames shoot from the engine. The Emergency Landing. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin with that monster hurricane gaining strength in the atlantic and tracking toward florida tonight. The strongest hurricane since wilma in more than a decade in the atlantic. At this hour, irma is already approaching the caribbean islands before heading toward the u. S. Mainland. Right now, a powerful category 5 storm. Winds 185 miles an hour. The storm you can see right there, the eye perfectly formed nearly every model tonight showing it headed toward florida and several states to the north. This evening, florida is already in a state of emergency. Families preparing for a potentially catastrophic storm. Some evacuations already under way. And so first up tonight, chief meteorologist, ginger zee, with the newest track out, and gi
But now i see this is the cbs evening news. Good evening, im Margaret Brennan at cbs news headquarters in new york. Morgan and im Demarco Morgan in houston. As the Flood Disaster here enters a seventh night, rescuers are now going house to house to check on the welfare of anyone who might be inside. The death toll is up to at least 29. More than 19,000 people and than 1,000 pets have been rescued. In one sign of improvement, Power Outages in texas have fallen from 300,000 to 200,000. More than 33,000 people spent last night in shelters, and the red cross has now served a quarter of a million meals and snacks. Morgan the latest estimate is that harveys reign of terror totaled 27 trillion gallons of water, enough to supply new york city for nearly 69 years. We begin our coverage tonight with anna werner in port arthur, texas. Reporter helicopters from the coast guard to the National Guard pulled residents up and out to safety. A baby in beaumont. In west houston, a father and son. Boats
Like they did back in the golden days of radio. Theyre not gathering around necessarily an old radio set but it might be listening around a laptop together. This is the cbs weekend news. Quijano good evening. Im elaine quijano. This is our western edition. It could be a nuclear gamechanger. Today, north korea said it successfully set off a thermonuclear weapon, a Hydrogen Bomb. The undergroundblast triggered a magnitude 6. 3 earthquake near north Koreas Nuclear testing site deep in the mountains. The physics of Hydrogen Bombs or hbombs make them far more destructive than the atomic weapons north korea is believed to have tested in the past. Todays test, though not verified, sent shockwaves around the world. Ben tracy begins our coverage. Reporter state television said north korea carried out what it called a perfect test of a Hydrogen Bomb. In a statement it said the test allowed north korea to confirm the power control technology and internal Structural Design newly introduced into ma
Their car insurance. And the jet headed to new york city when flames shoot from the engine. The Emergency Landing. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin with that monster hurricane gaining strength in the atlantic and tracking toward florida tonight. The strongest hurricane since wilma in more than a decade in the atlantic. At this hour, irma is already approaching the caribbean islands before heading toward the u. S. Mainland. Right now, a powerful category 5 storm. Winds 185 miles an hour. The storm you can see right there, the eye perfectly formed nearly every model tonight showing it headed toward florida and several states to the north. This evening, florida is already in a state of emergency. Families preparing for a potentially catastrophic storm. Some evacuations already under way. And so first up tonight, chief meteorologist, ginger zee, with the newest track out, and ginger, where is irma now . Reporter this is just a buzz saw o