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cbs elise preston is in jakson, mississippi, pressing the mayor for answers as the water crisis there moves in to day five. how does a city with a black mayor and black leadership fail its black residents? cordes: and cbs steve hartman is on the road as a community of strangers steps up. it makes me so happy. it mak this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. cordes: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this busy friday night. i m nancy cordes. norah o donnell is on assignment. tonight, the labor day travel rush is in full swing as americans take to the road and the skies for one final getaway of the summer. a.a.a. expects it to be the busiest labor day travel weekend in three years, bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.81. that s down $1.21 cents from the peak in june. airports are also crowded with passengers after a frustrating summ
classified, but had nothing inside. cbs elise preston is in jackson, mississippi, pressing the mayor for answers as the water crisis there moves in to day five. how does a city with a black mayor and black leadership fail its black residents? cordes: and cbs steve hartman is on the road as a community of strangers steps up. it makes me so happy. reporting from the nation s capital. cordes: good evening and thank you for joining us on this busy friday night. i m nancy cordes. norah o donnell is on assignment. tonight, the labor day travel rush is in full swing as americans take to the road and the skies for one final getaway of the summer. a.a.a. expects it to be the busiest labor day travel weekend in three years, bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.81. that s down $1.21 cents from the peak in june. airports are also crowded with passengers after a frustrating summer. since memorial day, nearly 48,000 u.s. fligh
and heat across the southwest is going to be building across the central states and the east. this is going to build through the rest of the week and just get hotter. for places like des moines, minneapolis, into cincinnati and into the mid-atlantic and northeast as well. record highs to be expected. it will be the hottest temperatures we have seen so far of the year. in fact while temperatures on the thermometer will likely get into the upper 90s, a lot of us will be experiencing feels like temperatures that will be in the triple digits. now as for the southwest, yes, we are still going to stay hot there, but the worst of the heat to likely peeking, but this already the hottest july on record with an average temperature of over 102, major. major garrett: jackie jeras, thank you. scorching temperatures have engulfed europe fueling dozens of wildfires in greece flames have displaced more than 30,000 people. chris livesay and hathe late latest. reporter: and escape from paradise.
veteran s memorial. rene is standing by. reporter: good morning. we are here at the u.s. marine corps war memorial. we have been here all morning. it s a stunning memorial to see in person. we have seen parents bringing their children here, and we have seen veterans themselves here, just taking a moment, a moment of silence to remember or remember those who have fallen and who have died for our country, and this memorial is right outside of arlington national cemetery, and we spoke to a couple of people today where they were headed from here and headed over to the cemetery for today s ceremony. we do expect momentarily that the president will arrive there at arlington national cemetery along with the first lady. he laid that wreath, and we were told around 11:00 this morning, and that will be followed by remarks as well. but today is not the only day for the celebrations. we have seen them throughout the weekend. we had the rolling thunder that has been here in the nation s