California tonight where at least a dozen people are now dead and thousands of homes and businesses have been incinerated in a fire season that is as devastating as it is historic. As we come on the air tonight, nearly 30 enormous and fast moving blazes are burning across the state, forcing 20,000 people to flee their homes and leaving thousands more in the danger zone. From Washington State to oregon, down through california, entire towns have now been wiped off the map, including berry creek, california, and the surrounding area, where tonight at least three people are dead and a dozen more are still missing. The deadly firestorm is now spewing so much toxic ash into the skies, the smoke trails from the blazes are visible from space and on the ground the devastation is even harder to fathom. Tonight fire crews are trying to keep pace with the flames but just cant keep up as heavy winds continue to push the flames into a tinderbox of dry brush and houses. More than 100 major fires hav
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With Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us, were going to begin with the first night of the Democratic National convention and what will be an unth docks political event brought on by an unprecedented pandemic. The Coronavirus Crisis is not only changed how tonights speeches will be given, but what they will focus on. Over the next four nights democrats will appear virtually without the pomp and sirks were used to seeing, where they will argue that joe biden and Kamala Harris uniquely qualified to take on President Trump and the pandemic. Tonight which will feature a speech by former First Lady Michelle Obama comes just as a new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows gentlemen biden leading the president among likely voters. Not only who will vote this november but how they will cast their ballot will also be front and center tonight. Todays democrats hand picked postmaster general trying to slow down mail delivery and
Enough. Putins vaccine play the russian leader say co and irey t. In ora geopolical ploy . Seetervice shootout new details on the suspect that forced the president from the Briefing Room and put the white house on high alert. Blast zone the enormous explosion in baltimore captured by a doorbell camera. As the death toll rises, what were learning about a possible cause. Held at gunpoint three teens lice treated eated them like criminals after they were threatened by a man with a knife. The growing outrage tonight. And dont give up the ship. The u. S. Sailors who lived that motto when flames threatened their vessel. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations ca brennan good evening to our viewers in the west. And thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im margaret brennan. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news. Joe biden has selected senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, an historic pick. The california senator becomes the first bla
Made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus. Volunteers all across the country including a member of our own cbs news family began getting shots today as part of the final phase of testing for an experimental vaccine being developed by the nih and the drug company moderna. Tens of thousands of americans are needed for the trial and test sites are spread out across the south and west which tonight florida now has morehvi total infections than new york, which was once the epicenter of the crisis. Among those cases, 14 members of the Miami Marlins who have now tested positive forcing two Major League Baseball games to be postponed and calling into question the season. We also learned today that the virus has once again spread into the west wing. The white house says robert obrien,