With tonights president ial debate. Final preparations are under way in cleveland where for the first time President Trump and his democratic challenger joe biden will go facetoface. They will be standing six feet away from each other to follow covid Safety Measures. Ohio which carries 18 electoral votes is currently a toss up state according g to our cbs Battleground Tracker poll. Mr. Trump is leading joe biden. Laura podesta is in cleveland. Laura, theres a lot at stake in this first debate tonight. Reporter there sure is. Good morning. 90 minutes. Six topics. No commercial breaks. The candidates are going to be trying to firm up support from decided voters and to convince undecided voters to side with them, especially here in the battleground state of ohio. Tonights president ial debate will look nothing like the debates of the past. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing organizers to limit the audience to fewer than 100 people and President Trump and joe biden wont shake hands. Are
Mandatory evacuations. The maria fire is burning north osorning. Roughly 1,800 structures are threatened. About 7,500 people were ordered to evacuate. In san bernardino, one man frantically tried to get his neighbor out of the house to escape the fires. Henry . Henry, the hills on fire come on. Get out. Get out of here. All right. Firefighters are battling more than a half dozen wildfires across california. As santa ana winds subside, firefighters hope to gain an upper hand. Chris martinez reports from san bernardino. Reporter evacuation orders have been lifted in san bernardino, and residents there are getting a firsthand look at the damage. We just all we could think was how lucky we were and how ms how does it miss one house . Reporter firefighters stamped out the last hot spots in the wreckage of this house. It was one of six homes destroyed when flames raced down the hillside here. Residents who stayed through the night fought a nightmarish scene of smoke and flames. I got my kids
we begin with america decides 2020. the first in the nation primary is under way in new hampshire. overnight the first ballot were cast in the tiny community of dixville notch. former mayor michael bloomberg won there with three write-in votes. one from a republican and two from democrats. right now the latest results from new hampshire show senator amy klobuchar leading the pack. senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are tied followed by andrew yang, pete buttigieg, and joe biden. laura podesta is in manchester, new hampshire. good morning. reporter: good morning, anne-marie. so the latest results and the recent polls show just how unsettled ththis race is. it appeared that senator bernie sanders of neighboring vermont was going to win new hampshire handedly, now it looks like voters are leaning more moderate. at midnight, the first votes of the first in the nation primary were cast in dixville notch, new hampshire. two write-in votes for mike bloomberg. repor