from school. o donnell: deadly shark attack. a pennsylvania woman on a cruise killed while snorkeling in the bahamas. and the obamas return to the white house. let me thank my husband, first of all, for such spicy remarks. ( laughter ) this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight, wildfires are leaving a trail of destruction amid record-breaking heat in the west. the california heat wave is screching into its eighth straight day with seven states under warnings and advisories. the temperatures are record breaking. salt lake city and fresno, california, had their hottest september days ever. the brutal heat is straining california s power grid and power companies are pleading with the public to conserve energy. the governor there sending out rare text alerts to avoid rolling blackouts. the dry weather has caused more than a dozen wildfires
returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
downing street just down the road. but prime minister boris johnson will make a final speech before lustrous her era. we will bring all to you as it happens. good to have you with us, the u.s. justice department is considering its next move hours after losing a legal battle with former president donald trump. a federal judge appointed by trump granted his request for a so-called special master to review documents seized from mar-a-lago. a cnn s sara murray explains, the throws a wrench into the justice department s investigation into potentially mishandled materials. a judge today granted tom trump s request for a special master to review the materials the fbi seized from the extraordinary search at mar-a-lago. judge writing because of trump s role as a former president, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a lead of its own. a future indictment based on any degree of property that we are trying to do assault in a reputation ilham of a decidedly differen
election. let s reassure people and get to the polls and elections. the sooner we get rid of this conservative government, the better. they re letting people down, taking people for granted. and i think it s all about boris johnson, it s about getting rid of the conservative party. have you concerned about the state of british politics? there have been four prime ministers in six years. people seem to checked out of politics to some extent because they feel detached, and very tthey have so many of their own party. the conservative leaders have gotten the kwcountry into the ms that they re in. that s why people don t want to listen to these people. in the bielections, liberal democrats beat the conservatives. and we found, talking to people that life-long conservatives were saying no more. we re not going to put up with this conservative party anymore. they don t listen to us. they re taking us for granted, and we want a change. so we ve already got quite a lot of e
4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and 9:00 a.m. here in london where a new leader is set to takeover today. liz truss ready to take over as prime minister. just a short while ago, outgoing prime minister boris johnson urged the entire country to get behind truss. he delivered some final remarks as prime minister outside 10 downing street. on the subject of bouncing around in future careers, let me say that i am now like one of those booster rockets that is fulfilled its function and i will now be gently reentering the atmosphere and i will be splashing down in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific. and i am returning to my plan. and i will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support. truss will be facing a number of major challenges she needs the support she can get, promising a plan to cut taxes, build growth and tackle the energy crisis. we ll get more details when she s appointed prime minister, heads back to london and gives her outline of