away. and justin timberlake speaks out about his arrest. first, more than 120 million americans across 18 states are under heat alerts, major cities like new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c. breaking records. the dangerous heat index soaring past triple digits. to the west, flood warnings and travel alerts in the nation s heartland, a leave breaking near sioux city, iowa, a state of emergency declared. new details in the mass shooting in arkansas that claimed three lives and left ten people wounded. what we re learning about the suspect and the reaction from those who knew the victims. countdown to the earliest ever presidential debate, how president biden and former president trump are getting ready for the big night, the difference in their strategies. the urgent search for two teens caught in a riptide at a new york city beach, one of the parents speaking out, the incident coming days after a couple drowned in florida and dozens of people were rescued from
small puff of smoke into a full raging, all consuming fire. norah: why firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes. the fire is moving pretty quickly. it s a difficult situation and it s a rapidly changing situation. norah: the record-breaking heat wave for much of the country. cbs evening news starts now. fast-moving wildfires, record-breaking heat, and a tropical storm threat. good evening. i m norah o donnell and thank you for being with us. and the weather is where we re going to begin tonight because right now, americans are facing extreme conditions from coast-to-coast. 76 million people are suffering under oppressive heat across 24 states, as high temperatures scorch the midwest and northeast. and the worst of the heat is yet to come. down south, parts of texas are under tropical storm warnings. as we track a system in the gulf of mexico that is likely to become the first named storm of the season. and out west, dozens of wildfires are raging, includi
music legend celine dion reveals the reason she s postponing her upcoming tour. with a very rare neurological d- disorder called stiff person syndrome. reporter: it affects just 1 in a million people, causing muscles to go rigid. this stiffness will manifest most prominently as difficulties with walking. singing could certainly be affected by a disease like stiff person syndrome. reporter: last fall, the pop superstar postponed the opening of her vegas residency and a north american tour due to severe and persistent muscle spasms. celine dion, the singer of the iconic my heart will go on, came onto the scene as a teen singing sensation in her native khanna dark winning five grammys and selling more than 200 million records worldwide.
o donnell: there is breaking news tonight in texas. the state s highest criminal court halted the execution of inmate rodney reid. he was scheduled to die in five rys for a 1996 rape and murder. new evidence has raised questions about the case. taylor swift says she s being blocked from singing her old songs on tv. shake it off o donnell: the pop superstar claims her former record label has flatly denied a request to perform any music from her first six albums at the american music awards and in a new documentary. big machine records bought the rights to those songs in june. swift says she was warned that performing them would be the same as re-recording them, which she cannot do until next year. the grammy winner says the message to her is clear, be a good little girl and shut up, or you will be punished. today big machine said it was shocked by swift s claims. it said there are no restrictions on her performing live, but the company maintains
houston today, the pop superstar was honored by family, friends and fellow musicians at a church in her hometown of newark, new jersey. gregg: diplomats saying iran is on the verge of a major expansion of its nuclear program. the ground work has been laid for the addition of thousands of new sent finals that could be used to enrich uranium at a high level. a neurosurgeon testifying he saw little brain trauma in yardley love at her murder trial. her ex-boyfriend, george huguely, is accused of fatally bashing her head against a wall. gregg: we are getting new information now on a terror suspect, the f.b.i. says was planning to blow himself up inside the u.s. capitol building. peter doocy has the latest from washington. peter? the man s former landlord thought the man he was renting an apartment to before he had