Hurt the secretarys credibility. No, i didnt undercut anybody ieflt dont believe in undercutting people. State department spokesperson. What is the secretarys iq . Its high. At the briefing, Sarah Sanders said it was all a joke. Insisted the president still has full confidence in the secretary of state. Anthony. Margaret brennan with the iq wars at the white house. Overseas, isis has been losing its grip on syria. Raqqa, isis socalled capital, may be liberated by u. S. Backed forces within days. And there is a surge of volunteers aching to fin, off the terror group. Holly williams reports from northern syria. As isis faces defeat in raqqa, the syrian men have volunteered to finish them off. The new recruits learned to detect explosives today, on roads. Inside houses. And detonated by a remote control. After 15 days of training they will head straight for the front line. Americas closest allies on the ground here in syria, shop keepers, truck drivers, tailors and construction workers. We asked them how many had loss family members to isis. They have killed my relatives, cousins, and neighbors, said ahmed, a butcher until he signed up. Theyre driven by revenge and hungry for american help. U. S. Special operations soldiers oversee the training. But dont want to show their faces. Without american air strikes, defeating isis would have been near impossible. But some of those now escaping isis territory say it is the strikes that are their biggest fears. The u. S. Coalition admits that more than 700 civilians have been inadd ver endly killed in syria and iraq. Others claim the number is far higher. Any one who wants to destroy isis is a friend. He told us isis falsely accused him of stealing and am pew talted his hand four years ago. A punishment, the extremists have used extensively. Why do you think they wanted to do this to you . They want to terrify people, he told us. So they can rule them. Reporter u. S. Backed forces say more than 350 civilians have managed to escape raqqa in the last three days. As they close in on isis. But that could still leave more than 1,000 people trapped in the city. Anthony. Holly williams in northern syria. Thanks, holly. Coming up next, puerto ricos struggle to recover from the hurricane. I had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. coughah i missed you then i discovered mucinex. One pill lasts 12 hours,and im good. Why take 4hour medicine . One mucinex lasts 12 hours. Lets end this. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. Mom i dropped my ball. Got it. Ewwww oh eat it lysol kills 99. 9 of bacteria on soft and hard surfaces. One more way youve got what it takes to protect. Mom,on my Car Insurance of money by switching to geico. I should take a closer look at geico. 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Inside you have everything from from potted meat as the it reads, apple sauce, crackers and candy. Theyre even handing out little mres. Folks tell us it is good. Aid is getting through. A trickle. Downed power lines and debris clog the roads making distribution agonizingly slow. In near atalaya as if the hurricane hit yesterday. Homes are destroyed. Families are collecting rain water to clean dishes and themselves. It is a nightmare, this woman says. We also went to ponce in the southern farther of the island. Here too, Grocery Stores are running low on food. Even though, people are lining up to get in. What do you want from your government . Just to show up. Daniel is a Police Officer here. And a u. S. Navy veteran. We are just asking for people to move, the gas, for people to move the food. Boots on the ground. Thats all. While the island struggles to cope, fema held a job fair, announced as good news by the was to hire 1,000 people, all most doubling its staff. Residents here wonder how many workers does fema need in order to end the emergency . Adding to the emergency is risk of a Public Health crisis. The governor of puerto rico tells cbs news, two people are believed to have died from leptocirrosis, bacterial infection and tonight five people with similar symptoms are being treated with antibiotics. Anthony. David begnaud in san juan. Thank you, david. Still ahead, the nfl commissioner takes a stand on kneeling. Breathe freely fast with vicks sinex. My congestions gone. I can breathe again i can breathe again vicks sinex. Breathe on. Why do the best things in life create so much mess tackle it all with finish® quantum. Even on the toughest messes you get an unbeatable clean. And now get 25 more loads then cascade® platinum™ switch to finish® quantum. Your toilet is germridden with mineral buildup. Clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is no match against limescale. 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Memo to team o goodell said he believes players should stand during the anthem but wants to give them a platform for expressing themselves on socialer use. The players say their protesting racial injustice. Team owners meet next week to discuss the matter. We end as we began with the wildfires in california. They have taken a heavy toll in wine country. Mireya villarreal is there. These tanks are full. At Paradise Ridge winery the scent of singed wine overpowers the charred wood. For the family the smells are a lingering reminder of how much they lost in a matter of hours. The entire 2017 harvest is, its, no longer. Two years of work and nearly 100,000 bottles of wine destroyed sunday night. Before they lost power, surveillance cameras from inside the wedding venue caught the fire creeping closer. The family has been growing grapes and making wine here for nearly 40 years. The Wine Industry in sonoma and napa valley employs more than 50,000 people and at least six other wineries in the area have burned to the ground. Its a business not a house. A lot of people lost their house and lost everything. So i think, we can rebuild this. The golden hills of smoema county are colored black. Every single building on this property was burned. We are supposed to receiving an award tonight for best wedding venue in sonoma county. But the sweetest part of their business, rows of grapevines were left behind. Looking at what i am looking at. Next year we should be able to harvest grapes. That is a silver lining. You got to find something. It they at something that is helping them move forward. I am amazed the vineyards are still here. Mireya villarreal, cbs news, santa rosa, california. Thats the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im anthony mason. Thank you for watching. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Hi, welcome to the overnight news. Im demarco morgan. Wildfires rage out of control up and down the spine of california. 15 major blazes from ak anything in the south to the wine country north of san francisco. At least 15 people have been killed. More than 2,000 homes and businesses, have been destroyed. Hundreds of firefighters have joined the lines. The fires are nowhere near under control. John blackstone begins our coverage. Neighborhood burning and others reporter with some neighborhood burning and others already reduced to ashes, santa rosa is a city transformed by fire. Michael everett lost his home. Armageddon, it is just gone. Everything is gone. Reporter the flames consume mobile home parks and comfortable hill top subdivisions. Luxury hotels and fast food restaurants. In all, some 1,500 buildings destroyed in and around this city of 175,000. Jimi hendrix could barely recognize the street he lived on. Nothing but chimneys standing. Block after block after block after block. Nothing. All just down on the ground. Just black. The whole damn neighborhood is black. All that is left of lisa weilands home a cement slab with imprints of her sons hand beside hers. What remains shocking is how quickly it all happened. Four structures on fire. Residents trapped. First responders were stretched, with so many fires, suddenly burning so ferociously. Across much of Northern Californias wine country. Cal fire chief, barry bierman. During conditions of high wind. A lot of things happen. Reporter as victims needed care, fire was bearing down on santa rosas two main hospitals. The hospital was filled with smoke. At that time the Police Department came in. Said, drop everything go now. This nurse was among those who helped push patients from intensive care to ambulances. As she was tending to others her own home was on fire. One of the nurses put her arm around me. She said, sorry, julieann, your home is gone. Everything that point was engulfed. You could see your home from the hospital . Yes. Reporter around 200 people are missing in the Northern California fires. In napa county, among those confirmed dead are charles and sarah ripey, married 75 years ago. He was 100. She was 98. With fires still active around santa rosa and places where embers are smoldering, a fear that went now just beginning to pick up that they could spread this destruction even further. In 24 hours much of california became scorched earth. October is peak fire season in the golden state when the grounds are driest and winds strongest. Flames broke out across the state this week because of the perfect firestorm, called diablo winds in Northern California. California, and santa ana winds in the south. The winds can gust up to near hurricane strength. Racing downslope from the mountains and can send embers a half mile. Igniting dry brush all over. What made the fires this week, so catastrophic, wasnt that it hit, but where it hilt. 70 mile per hour gusts in Northern Californias densely populated wine country fanned flames that left swaths of communities like santa rosa in ruins. Jonathan cox is a battalion chief with cal fire. The sheer size and scope of the fires right now is massive. Wildfires since monday morning in southern california, have followed a similar pattern. In Anaheim Hills south of los angeles, Canyon Heights drive lost five homes in three hours. Even today, Fire Fighters and homeowners, battled hot spots. Deadly, destructive fires could have been much worse. The winds died done today. Darren whyacht is with anaheim fire and rescue. The randomness of which home has the get, which homes were spared strike you inn. It does. But very random to the fact that we have been able to save as many as we have is remarkable. This fire season has begun in california and off to a scary start. Weeks after the devastation of puerto rico it remains a humanitarian disaster. Paul ryan will lead a group of lawmakers to puerto rico friday to see firsthand the wreckage. As david begn. Al as David Begnaud reports, he went have to look hard. Reporter amid the misery, there is finally hope. This is in yasco, western side of the island. For the last week the parking lot has been a distribution center. Families drive up and get a single box of supplies. Inside you have everything from from potted meat as the it reads, apple sauce, crackers and candy. Theyre even handing out little mres. Folks tell us it is good. Aid is getting through. A trickle. Downed power lines and debris clog the roads making distribution agonizingly slow. In near atalaya as if the hurricane hit yesterday. Homes are destroyed. Families are collecting rain water to clean dishes and themselves. It is a nightmare, this woman says. We also went to ponce in the southern farther of the island. Here too, Grocery Stores are running low on food. Even though, people are lining up to get in. What do you want from your government . Just to show up. Daniel is a Police Officer here. And a u. S. Navy veteran. We are just asking for people to move, the gas, for people to move the food. Boots on the ground. Thats all. While the island struggles to cope, fema held a job fair, announced as good news by the white house to hire 1,000 people, all most doubling its staff. Residents here wonder how many workers does fema need in order to end the emergency . As President Trump continues twitter war with bob corker, he took time out to try to mend fences with secretary of state rex tillerson. Margaret brennan reports. Reporter in an Early Morning tweet, President Trump referred to the Tennessee Republican as little bob corker. And said he was made to sound a fool by a the New York Times reporter who recorded their conversation. Yet in this audio clip, the senator clearly consents to being taped. I know theyre recording it. And i hope you are too. Yeah, i am. In the interview, corker said mr. Trump may be headed toward world war iii. Today, Sarah Sanders weighed in. Senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion but not entitled to his own facts. She repeated claim that he supported the nuclear deal though he voted against it. He allowed the deal to happen he gave it credibility. The iran deal is a source of tension with secretary of state. Last week, it was revealed tillerson called the president a moron in a private meeting. I guarantee you might iq is much higher than theirs, all right. During the campaign the president bragged about his intelligence. Regarding tillerson, the president told Forbes Magazine a comment he later denied hurt the secretarys credibility. No, i didnt undercut anybody ieflt dont believe in undercutting people. State department spokesperson. What is the secretarys iq . 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President trump has twitter feuds with host of gop leaders recently senator bob corker. Is the president torpedoing his own agenda. Former house speaker, newt gingrich, and in his book discussed it all on cbs this morning. Were a week away from a effort that is crucial. How does it help the effort . It doesnt. Im not going to sit here. I think trump is a remarkable figure, historic figure, probably the biggest change agent since Andrew Jackson in the 1820s and 130s. I do think there are things he doesnt understand about the american system. Bannon has the same problem. We dont have parliamentary system. We dont get elected to march in like step. House members, Senate Members win, president s win. They got to learn to work together. Thats been probably the biggest weakness is not finding a we to work together. The truth its the president will not get his major things done, without bob corker. Do you believe what corker said it could be leading to world war iii, the behavior the president reflects and rhetoric he uses. We are in an extraordinarily dangerous time. If you look at north korea, which has rejected bill clinton, rejected george w. Bush, rejected barack obama, we have had over, almost 30 years now North Koreans saying we are going to build Nuclear Weapon that will reach the u. S. Weapons, missiles that can reach the united states. Thats not donald trump. That is the cull mintionminatio. Thats part of wh