Taken to hospital. Lightning strikes do happen here we do have a man who was struck in an oilfield near fresno. It does happen but very rare. Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has destroyed ten homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Officials say the sand fire has burned about 3,800 acres in amador and el dorado counties since friday. About 500 homes have been evacuated near plymouth in amador countys winegrowing region. A calfire Spokesman Says the fire could continue to grow this evening. As firefighters brace for high wind and triple digit heat. We have a quick round of heavy showers and thunderstorms making for the injuries and fatalities earlier. We even had a few showers here in the bay area earlier this morning. Around sunrise. Just a trace amounts of rain, meaning less than one onehundredth of an inch. Temperatures actually got pretty hot today if, especially in and. For 100 degrees in antioch. There will be a chance of showers la
Didnt realise i was not allowed to. The optics of arresting somebody pregnant is terrible. President trump visited kenosha wisconsin on tuesday. Nowjoe biden is doing the same. Pictures coming in from wisconsin at moment. Hes met with the family of jacob blake who was shot seven times by Police Last Month when unarmed. That meeting took place in private. Butjoe biden is now at an event on camera, Meeting Community leaders. Lets listen in for a moment. It is considered the worst place in the next day for people of colour. 34 of African Americans live in poverty. 24 of hispanics, 20 of native americans indians and 18 of people who are of asian descent. The point being made tojoe biden and of course we will listen across at the discussions he is having. When donald trump was in kenosha, he didnt meetjacob blakes family. Instead he met with Law Enforcement officials. The debate over Police Violence and unrest on the streets is at the forefront of the campaign. And today, we got another rem
Reid the final stretch, biden, harris and penc in key swing states, and what the president said about a vaccine by election day. Large labor day gatherings, thousands celebrate the holiday, many ignoring social distancing as america sees the most air travel since the start of the pandemic. Putins fiercest critic, who was poisoned, is out of a coma tonight, the latest on his condition. And finally, acts of kindness from a frequent flier making people smile when they need it most. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Reid good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im chip reid. Were going to begin tonight with those fires raging out of control in california. Firefighters are scrambling to contain at least two dozen large fires in the middle of a historic heat wave. More than two million acres have burned so far this year, making it the worst on record in california, and thats before the usu
Senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler who face democrat chargers and reverend Rafael Warnock in those runoffs. Both sides leaving nothing to chance pouring money and other resources into the peach state lets go to Griff Jenkins live with more. Griff. Hi arthel good afternoon andless than about 30 minutes were going see the president , first lady depart the white house and marine one, air force base down to georgia for post election rally and you see people here behind me filling in, it is not on that crowd because weave been hearing all day chants of stop this steal and expect the president to talk about what he thinks is a rigged election and as you mentioned, senators perdue and love the her will be in attendance one who will not be here republican Governor Brian Kemp who has been a frequent recent target of the president s including this tweet just a few hours ago. Where the president tweets, i will easily and we cannily win georgia if Governor Brian Kemp or the secretary of stat
A deal on cleaning green exports. Moscow says the moon is in retaliation for a drone attack on its navy. Ah, thank you for joining us. Pulling stations have now closed in brazil after divisive president ial run off between far right and comp jerbill scenario and has left us rival luis in us. Youll love to silva, opinion polls show lula, was the slight favor going into the election. But also nora performed better than expected in the 1st round. And the race is seen as to close to call. New law is hoping to return to the president ial palace. The charismatic politician who is credited with lifting millions of brazilians out of poverty while he was president , is now looking to make a political comeback. Though what would that be . To day our people are deciding which life model they want for their future. What if thats why this is the most important day of my life . I am confident that brazilians will vote for our project democracy or the project head of the people. Your fear of this is