president biden seeks to strengthen economic ties with other asian nations. diaz: plus, battle for ukraine. imtiaz tyab in odesa where russia s war in ukraine is having an impact on foot supplies around the world. diaz: later, johnny cash s hometown springs an unfortunate leak. it s like he s peeing. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening, it is a weekend of weather extremes. more than 100 million americans are impacted in much of the lower 48 states. late today a suspected tornado ripped through arkansas. no word yet on damages or injuries. in colorado today, it feels and looks like winter. but across a swath of the country, it s more like summer. several cities are roasting and setting new heat records, and it s not even memorial day. cbs s michael george is in a muggy new york city. michael. reporter: adriana, good evening. it s near 90 degrees today in central park. add the humidity, feels more like 100. across th
The man who prevented an Accidental Nuclear war. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. The Atlantic Ocean tonight is an alphabet soup of storms j, l, and m. Hurricane jose, tropical depression lee, and hurricane maria. Maria is the one posing the biggest threat. A category 4 hurricane, its aiming for caribbean islands that took a beating earlier this month from hurricane irma. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station wbz. How is it looking, err eric . Reporter well start with the storm weve been tracking for two weeks, which is jose. It looks like a noreaster. Its starting to lose some of the tropical characteristics. The track keeps it just off shore, but this will produce a lot of surf, rip current risk, not a worstcame storm here. The storm that has gone under rapid intensification these last 24 hours is maria. It was a Tropical Storm yesterday afternoon. Now its a category 4 hurricane, and we can look right in that eye. It cleared out this
57 news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Im anne marie green. Hurricane maria is a category 4 storm with sustained winds of nearly 155 Miles Per Hour and its expected to get even stronger. This morning maria is moving over the North Eastern caribbean approaching the Virgin Islands. A direct hit on puerto rico is looking more and more likely tomorrow. There is rationing of basic supplies and nearly 70,000 Puerto Ricans remain without power from the last hurricane. Last night it hit the islands of dominica. The winds are merciless and weve lost everything. He said roofs were being torn off houses including his own. Derrick fisher is following the storm. Well, the tropics still very active. Jose, the one closest to the u. S. Mainland, this is a system thats going to bring a grazing impact as it tracks offshore on tuesday and wednesday and stalls out. This will produce a lot of surf and heavy rip currents. But the big story really is maria. This is a storm that rapidly inten
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Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im anne marie green. Hurricane maria is a category 4 storm with sustained winds of nearly 155 Miles Per Hour and its expected to get even stronger. This morning maria is moving over the North Eastern caribbean approaching the Virgin Islands. A direct hit on puerto rico is looking more and more likely tomorrow. There is rationing of basic supplies and nearly 70,000 Puerto Ricans remain without power from the last hurricane. It hit the islands of dominica. The Prime Minister wrote on social media that the winds are merciless and weve lost everything. He said roofs were being torn off houses including his own. Derrick fisher is following the storm. This is a storm that rapidly intensified, made landfall last night. Now its traveling off to the north and west in a very dangerous storm system. Late tuesday into wednesday morning tracking very close to or right over st. Croix and the eastern end of puerto rico so this could be the first tim