This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im maurice dubois, and this is our western edition. As the weekend is beginning in the east with a deadly storm. Hermine made landfall this morning in northern florida as a hurricane, the first to hit that state since 2005. A man was killed by a fallen tree. Tonight, hermine is a tropical with torrential rain, damaging wind and dangerous seas. We have a team on hermines trail, beginning with Omar Villafranca in port richey, florida. Reporter hurricane hermine barreled into the Sunshine State around 2 00 a. M. This morning. The deadly storm flooded entire neighborhoods. Wind gusts of up to 80 Miles Per Hour snapped trees, one of which fell on top of a homeless man, killing him. Nearly 300,000 people lost i dont know the condition of my house. D i dont know if its flooded or if it isnt. Its really, really, really bad. Like, ive never seen it thisd. Bad before. Reporter here in pasco county, florida
Firefighters was ventilating the building because there was a lot of smoke. The School President here told me hes glad his schools have an 22jim piatt, School President dan lipski, battalion chiefjp everybody handled it extremely well. We appreciate the rponse of the polie and fire dept. We energies has been outm, everyone seemed to follow protocol and do their thing. Dl when we talk about structural damage were talking about the actual framing of the building what holds the building together and the fi damage to the spces between the second floor classroom and the attic. tag the fire chief estimates the amount of damage could be around 5 thousands dollars. Happening right now, family and friends of a nun murdered in mississippi are saying their final goodbyes here in milwaukee. Milwaukee area native sister margret held were stabbed to death last thursday. This is a live look inside st. Joseph chapel on milwaukees south side where the funeral mass is winding down. Archbishop Jerome Lis
3hundred thousand people to make their way to las vegas this labor day. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens is live from the 15 and st. Rose parkway. With your Holiday Travel outlook. Good afternoon, michael . Michael Stevens kirsten. Labor day marks the unofficial end to summer. And it is one of the busiest travel holidays of the year. Trip advisor numbers show nationwide 37percent of people plan on takingoff this weekend. Last year. In order to keep everyone safe on our roads. A number of Law Enforcement agencies are teaming up to target heavily Populated Areas such as the i15 corridor between california and las vegas. On average, about 45thousand people drive this stretch per day. Adding up to about 16million cars per year. With this stretch being one of the busiest in the country. Joining forces cracking down on drivers not following the rules of the road trooper Jason Buratczuk nevada Highway Patrol last year we had three fatals on labor day weekend, just in las vegas alone which
Tell, later in the show. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im maurice dubois, and this is our western edition. As the weekend is beginning in the east with a deadly storm. Hermine made landfall this morning in northern florida as a hurricane, the first to hit that state since 2005. A man was killed by a fallen tree. Storm, churning up the coast with torrential rain, damaging wind and dangerous seas. We have a team on hermines trail, beginning with Omar Villafranca in port richey, florida. Reporter hurricane hermine barreled into the Sunshine State around 2 00 a. M. This morning. The deadly storm flooded entire neighborhoods. Wind gusts of up to 80 Miles Per Hour snapped trees, one of which fell on top of a homeless man, killing him. Power, with power lines down in most of the state. I dont know the condition of my house. D i dont know if its flooded or if it isnt. Its really, really, really bad. Like, ive never seen it thisd. Bad
Got to be top 10, top 15 type program year in and year out. And thats the thing that im most proud of with our program is that only us and alabama have had 5plus 10win seasons in a culture you have to establish in your program to have the opportunity. Thousands of firedup clemson fans whove made the crosscountry trek will be filling the stands with orange and purple tonight. Michal higdon joins us live from the field at we have made it inside the university of phoenix stadium and in several hours from now the stadium will be packed with over 63thousand people attending tonights National Championship game. The first time the team will set foot here on the field will be for warmups just before game time. Clemson is chasing their First National title since 1981. Many say this game is going to come down to clemsons offense and alabamas defense. Both teams say tonights game is going to come down to focus and giving their all. Were hours away from kick off to see who is the 2016 national cha