Im just praying to the lord to protect us. Margaret plus, the candidates for president together at a 9 11 memorial. Honoring the nearly 3,000 killed 23 years ago. And shaking hands just hours after their first debate. And wildfires out west scorch more than 100,000 acres. What we are learning about a man arrested for arson in one of the states biggest blazes. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im Margaret Brennan in for norah odonnell. We begin with the breaking news. Hurricane francine just coming ashore, making landfall in louisiana, with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. Relentless Storm Surge of 510 feet is inundating the coastline and beyond, into mississippi and alabama. And the worst is still to come in the hours ahead, as the powerful storm lashes New Orleans. As much as a foot of rain may fall over the next 12 hours as the Storm Moves inland. Evacuation orders and curfews are in effect. Cbss Dave Malkoff reports from the Impact Zone in southern louisiana. Good ev
Special counsel jack smith announcing the third indictment of donald j. Trump after months of investigating the former president and his allies and their efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. This hour well have indepth coverage of the accusations against trump and the new information were learning about his attempt to stay in power from that sweeping federal investigation. And well also look at how this latest legal issue could impact the president ial campaign as he has used previous indictments to boost fundraising. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 2nd, a historic day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting it with us. And well begin this morning with history once again. Former President Donald Trump who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the United States constitution has been indicted for allegedly trying to subvert that very same document. In washington, d. C. Yesterday a federal grand jury of trumps own peers convene
latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
both planets are actually a comparable shade of greenish blue. well, to help us understand this, i mjoined by professor catherine heymans. she s the astronomer royal for scotland, and a professor of astrophysics at the university of edinburgh. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining us. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining m hello to you. thank you very much forjoining ve for “oining us. please explain, why did forjoining us. please explain, why did we think forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were these - did we think they were these different colours to begin with? these images that we are used to seeing are from the voyager two nation. it was a nasa spacecraft that was launched in the late 70s and took images of uranus and neptune in the late 80s by the time it got there. now, the way you and i see colour is we have photo re
this week, the facts finally caught up to two republican-led smear campaigns. let s start with the mess that was thursday s hearing on the so-called weaponization of federal government. for months now, chairman james jordan has promised testimony from, quote, dozens of whistleblowers on how the fbi is unfairly persecuting conservatives. and yet, just hours before jordan s promised blockbuster hearing on that very issue was set to begin, the fbi made a shocking revelation. two of the three self proclaimed whistleblowers who are set to testify have had this security clearances revoked over a question about their allegiance to the united states, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct, and their handling of sensitive information. so when the hearing began, it quickly descended into chaos. with democratic members on the subcommittee repeatedly calling out chairman jordan for violating house rules by withholding alleged evidence he had gathered. where is the whistleblower