Largest evacuation in north america in decades. Fire hasnt threatened an entire city on this scale since the San Francisco earthquake 100 years ago. The fire has grown explosively since sunday. Fort mcmurray, alberta, a city of 88,000, has been evacuated. The price of oil rose worldwide because of the catastrophe in Canadas Oil Sands region. At least 90,000 people are refugees, hundreds of homes, whole neighborhoods, are gone. Ben tracy is there. Reporter parts of alberta are literally hell on earth. 49 fires are raging, at least irven burning out of control. Senior wildfire prevention manager chad morrison. Let me be clear air tankers are not going to stop this fire. This fire is an extreme fire event. I can feel the heat here. Ais is insane. Reporter after the fire tore through the town of fort mcmurray, this is what it looked like, not only burned out, but nmbed out. Theres nothing there. Theres nothing left. Eperes so many homes gone. Le reporter exhausted firefighters sprawled on
This hatred. Stop, darnell brennan abducted on camera. Surveillance video captures a woman screaming as she is grabbed and dragged away. Tonight, what police are calling a break in the case. Wildfire catastrophe tourists run towards the ocean as fire spreads across australia. Why some people are aiming their anger at the Prime Minister. Youre not welcome here, you bleep brennan doctor versus machine could a computer do a better job of diagnosing you with Breast Cancer . Plus mighty mo. This athlete is spending her golden years racking up gold medals. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nationals capital. Brennan good evening to our viewers in the west. Norah is off tonight. Im margaret brennan. We begin with a breaking and Major Development in the middle east. The u. S. Military has launched a missile strike in iraq. The strike appears to be retaliation for an attack against the u. S. Embassy in baghdad on tuesday. Tonight, an iraqi official tells cbs n
It comes after defense secretary mark esper told reporters today that, the game has changed. He said iran and its allies are aanning new attacks after the one this week at the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. Right now, 750 Army Paratroopers are headed to kuwait, as many as 5,000 more paratroopers and arrines are expected to be sent to the persian gulf in the edming days. We are covering the story from baghdad to the president s resort in florida. David martin leads us off tonight from the pentagon. David, whats the latest . Reporter margaret, tonight, the Iraqi Government says three rockets have hit the baghdad airport. Video on social media shows vehicles on fire, and the iraqis say there are civilian casualties. As of now, a u. S. Official says there are no reports of american casualties. This is the damage done by what u. S. Officials call an iranian backed mob to the American Embassy in baghdad, and defense secretary mark esper, speaking to reporters off camera, says there are indication
To take this move. Reporter yeah. Good morning to you, poppy. Just as uaw and gm are meeting behind closed doors this hour, we are seeing tens of thousands of gm workers out on the picket lines this morning, about 50,000 across 9 different states. Now, this issue is really because of a Contract Negotiation that they cannot come to an agreement on. Gm saying that they provided a fair and strong contract. But uaw saying this is not going far enough, they Want Better Health benefits, a better starting salary for their employees and they want job security. Now, this plan is particularly interesting because this is one of a couple that are slated to close at the end of 2020. Part of this Contract Negotiation is trying to get another vehicle inside this plant for workers to work on. We have also heard from a lot of the people you see walking just over here that this is a generational career, a lot of their fathers and grandfathers have worked here and their children and particularly concerne
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