Shes looking for. Good evening. And we begin tonight with the severe storm watch right now in the east, and the emergency playing out in the south at this hour. First, 65 million americans in some major east coast cities are bracing right now for heavy rain and high winds. From virginia, up through new england, d. C. , baltimore, philly, pittsburgh and new york, all in the potential path of storms. Its a brought several reported tornadoes, at least seven confirmed twisters now. This one in howard county, indiana. And in the south right now, a slow motion disaster. A state of emergency in louisiana, as more rain comes down and tonight, the urgent effort right there to put down sandbags in lake arthur. Meteorologist rob marciano, leading us off. Reporter tonight across louisiana, the rivers and bayous and we are seeing unprecedented levels as the waters move south. Reporter south of baton rouge in ascension parish, new evacuations and rescues. At least 11 are dead. And more than 30,000 p
This is e cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley more than 8,000 fifighters are battling eight large wildfires in california, and auspect has been arrested for allegedly starting one of the fires that destroyed 175 homes and businesses north of san francisco. Carter evanss on the the scene of another fire in Southern California reporter i less than four hour a fiveacre fire became 5500acre monster, trapping firefighters. Weve had a run over. I need you to start one a. L. S. Ambulance for a fireman injury. Reporter cbs news has confird at least two firefighters were injur. The fastmoving fs have destroyed bldings, paralyzed rail traic, including this eight train, shut downhe t main highway linking los angeles to las vegas, and threatened power lines near the desert when this srted, it just took off. Yes, thats correct. Its spence. Its very you grueling and very demanding on the ground. Reporter its this gusty wind, the hot temperatures, and the extremely dry conditions that are driv
Have so many problems on the roads because of that very heavy rain, and there is a lot of slowmoving traffic on the manger art ris around Greater Cleveland so if youre expecting folks home, they will have to take their time around the area. We do have another round of storms coming tomorrow and even heavy rain potential in weekend forecast. Ill have details on that in just a little bit. See you soon. At this hour thousands remain without power at northeast dont know the exact number. After storms earlier this week, our colleague is on the east side with a look at damage in Cleveland Heights which took the brunt of this storm on tuesday. We go to you. Were talking a lot about storms happening right now. There have been a rough couple of days for local communities. This part of Cleveland Heights was hit hard tuesday night. The power lines have been down for almost 48 hours and are feeling the effects of recent storms as well [ horn blaring ] in parma crews have to cut off the bottom of t
Shes looking for. Good evening. And we begin tonight with the severe storm watch right now in the east, and the emergency playing out in the south at this hour. First, 65 million americans in some major east coast cities are bracing right now for heavy rain and high winds. From virginia, up through new england, d. C. , baltimore, philly, pittsburgh and new york, all in the potential path of storms. Its a system that already brought several reported tornadoes, at least seven confirmed twisters now. This one in howard county, indiana. And in the south right now, a slow motion disaster. A state of emergency in louisiana, as more rain comes down and tonight, the urgent effort right there to put down sandbags in lake arthur. Meteorologist rob marciano, leading us off. Reporter tonight across louisiana, the rivers and bayous are still rising. This is historic. Its unprecedented. And we are seeing unprecedented levels as the waters move south. Reporter south of baton rouge in ascension parish
Their job to come in and do this. Im not sure that they want to have a clean investigation. And so they did ask us to stand down a third party investigator, but i know the superintendent has expressed his dismay to me about how hes worried about the time for that. So we agree. Okay. Well, in the case of mr. Wayne, there were no allegations against him. There were no allegations, to my knowledge, that he knew and looked the other way. What about the case where that is not true. What about the case where the superintendent of a National Park is implicated, how do you deal with that situation. Its very important that we have somebody from the outside managing that process so that you dont have any problems, if you will, tainting an investigation, right. So our policies to develop in one example we have a different region, an eeo director from a different Regional Office of the other park to direct the investigation and to work with the Regional Office. In our chain we have seven regions t