cbs evening news starts now. tonight, 62 million americans are under threat of severe weather from alabama to new york. good evening and thank you for being with us on this memorial day. i am maurice dubois in for norah o donnell. tonight, storms a part of the same system that brought deadly tornadoes to the central u.s. this weekend. this is valley view, texas, where tornadoes bulldozed through, turning homes into unrecognizable piles of lumber and metal. at least 23 people have been killed, including two children, in texas, arkansas, oklahoma, kentucky, and virginia. the force of the winds clear from the sheer scale of the damage tonight. now that system is drenching parts of the northeast, slowing down returning travelers, more than 5,000 flights have been delayed, and major hubs like atlanta, chicago, new york, with alerts posted up and down the east coast. cbs s meg oliver starts us off with more on these catastrophic storms. reporter: shattered homes and eve
very candid discussion with a man who once had it all. i m sweating up in here. jason williams on his rise, his fall, and why he says prison saved his life. good evening, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. hundreds of thousands of people are spending tonight in oppressive darkness caused bay brutal heatwave and widespread power outages. crews are working overtime trying to restore electricity in ohio, virginia, and several other states. more on the record breaking heat in a moment here on cnn. in colorado, families are getting their first look at what remains of their homes after a deadly wildfire tore through the neighborhoods of colorado springs. on cnn s state of the union, the colorado governor described what he saw as he flew over the pike national forest. take a listen. it was like your worst nig nightmare of a movie set, trying to show what the apocalypse would look like. we flew a helicopter in. this was as the fire was going on. ther
always get something new out of these and we certainly did last night. you won t see another one of these for another two weeks. so, we got quite a treat last night. we ll break down what we saw in that showdown, which was over national security and foreign policy. and these candidates, yes, they re all in the same party. it is clear, though, they are not on the same page. you see who will join me, our foreign affairs correspondent, she is jill dougherty. always good to have her. and deputy political director paul steinhauser. newt gingrich may have hurt himself last night. we ll start with a look at how far apart the candidates are on the issues of afghanistan, pakistan, homeland security and jill is breaking that down for us in this report. with eight republicans on stage, president barack obama got a few knicks. . if you love what president obama has done to our economy, you ll love what he has done to the national security. the candidates had the knives out for each