40. The mogul is out and his brother calls him sick and depraved. Plus nasas project to fly you across the country in just three hours. Only on cbs this morning jeff glor takes off on a jet designed to break the sound bare yore without a winner doughbreaking sonic boom. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. People heard their house shaking. There was a loud explosion. Flames are being seen in the sky. Rescue efforts are under way after an oil rig explodes. The rig burning for hours in lake ponchartrain north of new orleans clearly visible for miles across the huge lake. Were engaging this thing, were taking it by the horns, were going to take it until the job is done. Fire Officials Say they finally feel like theyre getting the upper hand on the wildfires devastating Northern California. Were not out of the woods yet but were making tremendous progress out there. The death toll in somalia rises. Its the singest deadliest attack in somalias history.
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Damage in Sonoma County alone could top 3 billion. The largest fire is the atlas fire, it grie by 7acres overnight. Containment went up from 65 to 68 . The nuns fire has burned through 48,000acres some its 47 contained. The tubbs fire in calistoga has burned 45,000acres and its 60 contained. 20 of the fire deaths happened in Sonoma County, the coroner identified four more victims including sharon robinson. Lee mcroger as well. Some people are allowed to go back to the burned areas in the north bay, many other areas are still off limits. We are live in kenwood the latest information from als ex. Reporter this is one of the areas of concern for firefighters this morning, we have the fire burning up in the hills just east of conwood. We were watching some flare ups on the ridge there, quite a bit of smoke as well. We are on adoby canyon road just east of highway 12. What you are looking at here is one of the flangs of the nuns fire, the nuns fire is only 40 contained so there are a lot of
Is it true . We have made great progress on a number of fronts. Weather has been cooperating lately. With the winds that we saw a week ago , have died down. Hotter temperatures in the where humidity than yesterday. It is better than what it was. That is good news. The main focus right now, can you talk about that . The areas of most concern. We are continuing to focus on the oakmont area, just east of santa rosa. That is where we have seen a number of flareups and hotspots. Over the past 24 hours. As progress has been made on a number of other fronts, we have been able to lift a number of evacuations this afternoon. A number of the communities along highway 12 corridor in Sonoma County, glenn allen, boyd hot springs and sonoma. They have returned home. We have listed an evacuation advisory up in middletown and lake county. As the numbers increase, that has allowed us to lift a number of evacuations. The weather is finally cooperating. You had a wind situation friday through saturday. I
Every day. Mason and the call for a 2016 rerun. Hillary, please run again. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Among the nearly 13 Million People watching 60 minutes last night was President Trump, and what he saw has him taking a second look at his nominee for drug czar, pennsylvania congressman tom marino. In that report, former dea insiderturned whistle blower Joseph Rannazzisi accused drug distributors aided by congress and lobbyist, of fueling the oil open epidemic. Have a look. This map shows Drug Overdose deaths in 1999. And this 16 years later in 2015, when opioid deaths alone topped 33,000. Bill whitaker has more now from this joint investigation by 60 minutes and the washington post. This is an industry thats out of control, that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. Reporter one example, pharmacy in kermit, West Virgin