0 updates throughout the afternoon into this evening into night. information is power captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight we re following several breaking news stories including the state of emergency just declared this california as a dangerous storm forces mass evacuations. plus we ve got the latest on the drcaolt ri hn he gop fails to pick a speaker. widespread flooding forces residents to leave homes. drivers stranded with more rain on the way. republican chaos. vote after vote after vote. and kevin mccarthy defeated again. so what happens now? plus president biden weighs in. i just think it say little embarrassing it is taking so long. o donnell: signs of improvement, new information tonight on the condition of buffalo bills 24 year old safety. new video tonight. of the first time the quadruple murder suspect was pulled over after allegedly stabbing four college students just one month earlier. tonight he is on his way to idaho to face multiple charges. a cb
Northern California is about to get a new area code. The California Public Utilities Commission has approved a new area code for the area stretching from
have progressed. we keep seeing these large wildfires. i think i was there for the thomas fire and others that have happened over the past couple of years. are you actually seeing these temperatures get hotter, the fires burn stronger and more fiercely and bigger, is that what is actually happening with the climate changing? what we re seeing is a result of that extended drought we had in california that was probably in excess of ten years. what that left us with was a huge amount of dead fuel in california. all these fires now have receptive fuel beds to burn. now when it gets started t has that opportunity for exponential growth because everything is tinder dry and there s such amount of dead fuel basically from san diego to the oregon border. it s such a hard job, what you all do with these wildfires. they create their own weather. you know, i ve been alongside
top stories. more than 700 thousand people are out of their homes when the wildfires swept california. dozens of homes burned to the ground in a small town not too far from the oregon border. it comes as a heat wave scorches the west, many areas seeing triple digit temperatures for nearly a week, now. water situation improving slightly in jackson, mississippi, where city officials say that there should not be water pressure. who is in florida and georgia are preparing to restore safe water access to for nearly a. we classes at jackson state university are now virtual as students in the dorm say they have no access to toilets, showers, or running water. u.s. customs officials are warning people not to cross the rio grande after unusually heavy rains have flooded the river.
wildfires are forces residents in three northern california towns to run for their lives. two fires started friday just south of the california, oregon border. video on social media showing flames consuming house after house around the town of weed. the fires have burned more than 7,000 a 7,000 acres. dozens of buildings gone. thousands of residents are under mandatory evacuation orders. california s governor has claimed a state of emergency room for the affected areas. at the start of the pandemic, many restaurant workers lost their jobs as restaurants started to shutter and in an industry in which people typically work paycheck to paycheck and don t qualify for unemployment, there is no safety net to fall back on. that s where this cnn hero stepped in. i had a choice to either sit here in my house and be overwhelmed or i can do whatever it is that i could possibly do without thinking about whether it s going to work or not.