Management. Forest management. And later a message for travellers. Be kind and carry on. I think that people need to know that theres still kindness in this world. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening, everyone. Im Major Garrett in washington. Fires burn in the west every year but this year, they may be the most devastating in modern history. California already there. Suffering the worst fire season ever with four months to go. In oregon more than a million acres burned last week alone, double a typical year. Drought and unseasonal heat, the cull prilts. Desperate searches continue for the missing and this mornings Los Angeles Times declared Climate Change apocalypse. There was agreement Lilia Luciano leads us off tonight. Reporter the west on edge as the death toll climbs to at least 33 from the dozens of wildfires burning out of control from california to washington. In hardhits ok a temporary break in the weather allowing searchers to use cadaver dogs. More than 700 structures destroyed, including this rv park, home to this multi. What did he say . He said were going to make it through. More than a million acres have burned and left ten dead. The governoye we y oregonians w are on some level of evacuation stoirk. So these have been devastating. Reporter the governor calling them a blow torch. Its apocalyptic. Reporter tonight in Northern California there are still at least 13 people missing in the area of the north complex fire, which has burned nearly 300,000 acres. Theres not much left of the town of berry creek. I cried. I cried for a long time. Reporter the skies in california are filling the skies with hazardous smoke as homeowners prepare for another night. Lilia luciano, cbs news, los angeles. Tropical storm sally is on schedule to strike tuesday possibly as a hurricane one hurricane. Cbs news neurologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli has more. It could bring with it a storm surge of a category three. It will become a hurricane probably tomorrow afternoon, making landfall in Southeast Louisiana tomorrow night into tuesday morning, maybe a 90mileanhour storm with gusts over 100 miles an hour and it will will bring with it life threatening storm surge, piling water up. Seven to 11 feet of life threatening storm surge. The biggest impact could be rachl. Its going to be moving so slowly. Nerve the white over a feet. Some places, over two feet of rain. Major. Two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies are in Critical Condition after a shooting last night outside a train station in compton. The suspects were caught on video, firing the weapon and running off. Two deputies were watching out for the safety of the people on the train and seeing someone just walk up and start shooting on them, it pisses me off. It displays me at the same time. Theres no pretty way to say it. Reporter protesters showed up outside the hospital where the deputies were taken. Some yelled we hope they die. President trump called for the Death Penalty if the deputies pass away. The fbi is assisting with the investigation. The Sheriffs Office has posted a 100,000 reward for information leading to the suspects arrest. New cbs news polls revealght pr sustained skepticism over the president s handling of the coronavirus. Te day two of itrump. President trumps silver state swing including saturdaydown. Im here with latinos for trump. Im not wearing a mafblgt it shoetz that i trust my. Im healthy american. Roichlt a sentiment echoed at the president s kickoff event near lake tahoe where he railed against the governwho banned la gatherings. He tried to stop us help couldnt. Reporter bob woodward release his new book rage this week. I wanted to i always wanted to play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes, syrup. What would happen if the president came out and said the sky is falling. He praenltd strong and steady hand. He didnt do his job. Reporter the former Vice President remained off the trail in wilmington. Aides dends an enthusiasm gap. Were doing so safely. Reporter bidens primary rival Bernie Sanders denied reports hes been pushing for the campaign to do more to woo democrats and conservatives. I think weve got to do more as a campaign than just go after trump. Reporter Mike Bloomberg announced he will invest 100 million to help biden in florida. He this week while trump meets more in monday. Well thank you Nikole Killion. The cbs cbs overnight news will be right when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. But when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. So, when you get a check. You can deposit it from here. And you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. You can save for an emergency from here. Or pay bills from here. So when someone asks you, wheres your bank . You can tell them heres my bank. Or heres my bank. Or, heres my bank. Because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. Visit chase. Com mobile. This is the cbs overnight news. Heading into the fall flu season there is were happy to sigh some encouraging news on the virus. New infections and deaths are down nationwide. Still, more than six and a half million americans have been infected with nearly 190,000 lives lost. Here the tom hanson. Reporter the first nfl sunday of football 2020. Here we go. Reporter kicked often but with dramatic changes. 13 games today with little to no fans in the stadiums. Another reminder that americas battle with covid is far from over. While new cases and deaths nationwide are both down by 20 colleges continue to scramble anesthesia merge hot spots. The latest, Minnesota State university, where all students are being asked to selfkwarn dean for three weeks after at least 342 positive cases. As america heads into the flu season, the race continues for a vaccine with ags tra zeneca continuing its trials after a pause. His Company Expects to dlooifr a vaccine before the end of the year. But former fda commissioner Scott Gottleib said that may be a hail mary. Mtplil not have access until 2021. Reporter some nurses in chicago are on strike over ppe shortages with their counterparts in minneapolis swills some in new york state threatening to do the same. Major. Thank you. A sheriffs deputy was fired today a video. This is disturbing. 26yearold Roderick Walker was a passenger in a ride share that was pulled over friday night for a broken taillight. Walkers attorneys say they became angry when they requested his identification as he wasnt the driver. Walker remains under arrest. The white house spent much of last night pushing back against bob booed wards book rage. Its published by simon shutter, a division of viacomcbs. Woodwards interviews took a sharp turn may 25th after georgo floyd was killed after Minneapolis Police officers. The Blacks Lives Matter Movement reignited. You think there is systemic or institutional racism in this country . I think there is wherever. Itch think probably less here than most laces or less here than many places. But is it here the way it has an impact on peoples lives . I think it is. Its unfortunate but i think it is. Woodward asked mr. Trump if a privileged life left him out of touch. And do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put you in a cave to a certain extent, as it put me, and i think a lot of white privileged people in a cave and that we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain, particularly black people kneel this country. No. Do you see you really drank the kool d koolaid, didnt you . Listen to you. Wow. I dont feel that at all. He was rid cooling me for reflecting what the whole movement after george floyd is. 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This week, as with mark 19 years since the 9 11 attacks, cbs news reveals the untold story of the raid that killed osama bin laden. Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge got access to one of the secret elements in planning the raid. The United States has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. Reporter months before the successful raid by seal team six, they zeroed in on this miftdous compound in afghanistan. Its different. Reporter he leads the Intelligence Agency that makes maps and models for highly classified mission. Why was a physical model important . Models like these are incredibly valuable for an execution of operation of this complexity and importance. Reporter this is a rare look inside the workshop where a team of four model makers contracted this model, one inch per every seven fooet feet. Now one of them is speak out. He asked us to shield hisentity. Does your flame know what you do . They know i build models but they dont know what i build models of. Reporter they create computer design before printing the 3d parks. It took six weeks to build. It had eyes in the sky and spies on the ground. Its eight times ladies and gentlemen than surrounding compounds. Other compounds they build right out to the walls. You see this. The house is centered. That tells you the persons focused on their security. Very focused on the security. With high walls to hide the 64 bin laden. Did you ever think about what lived there . We had discussion about who we thought it might have been. We joke about if were 3408ding your house, you got something coming. The did not go as planned as a helicopter was forced to make a controlled crash. As the world cheered the Al Qaeda Leaders death, the seals got a message to the model team. The navy seals passed along that they were able to count their footsteps based off of the model. You helped keep the navy seals safe that night. Yeah. 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If you watch somebodys eyes, you can kind of determine maybe that person needs a pickmeup. Perhaps more now than ever. I think people need to know reenstore love and faith andd hope in people. Reporter but in the age of covid. Have a nice day. Thank you. Reporter you cant blame heidi for being a little skeptical until the message sunk in. I was super stressed out when i get the three doids myself. That was a nice pickmeup for sure. Reporter thism actf kindness started three years ago. Coming up with up lifting images fo peo theve never met and may never see again. More than 25,000 of them so far. The note says simply youre perfect. It popped in my head and i thought someone wanted to hear that. Reporter Michael Jones needed to hear it. Hes not sure if he will have a job. It helps. I think everybodys having their own strugglingle. Reporter a small reminder were still all in this together. Kris van cleave, thbsz, washington. And thats the cbs overnight news for this sunday. Follow us online at knsd. Com and join me for my weekly podcast the takeout. Reporting from the nations capital, im Major Garrett. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening, everyone. Im Major Garrett in washington. Fires burn in the west every year by this year they may be the most devastated in modern history. Desperate searches continue for the missing and this mornings Los Angeles Times declared Climate Change apocalypse. There was agreement Lilia Luciano leads us off tonight. Reporter the west on edge as the death toll climbs to at least 33 from the dozens of wildfires burning out of control from california to washington. Inn vr in hardhit oregon, a temporary break in the weather allowing searchers to use cadaver dogs. More than 700 structures destroyed, including this rv park, home to this multi. What do you find . Nothing. This is the only home he knows. What did he say . He said were going to make it through. More than a million acres have burned and left ten dead. The governor kaye brown. We have many oregonians who are on some level of evacuation status, so these have been devastating. Reporter the governor calling them a blow torch. Its apocalyptic. The only moisture in Eastern Washington was the tears of people who have lost their homes. Reporter tonight in Northern California there are still at least 13 people missing in the area of the north complex fire, which has burned nearly 300,000 acres. Theres not much left of the town of berry creek. I cried. I cried for a long time. Reporter the 29 major fires in california are filling the skies hazardous air as firefighters and homeowners prepare for another night of high wind and evacuations. Lilia luciano, cbs news, los angeles. Move now from the west coast to the gulf coast, Tropical Storm sally is on schedule to strike tuesday possibly as a hurricane one hurricane. Cbs news neurologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli has more. We expect this to become a cat one hurricane but it could bring with it a surge of a category three. It will become a hurricane probably tomorrow afternoon, making landfall in Southeast Louisiana tomorrow night into tuesday morning, maybe a 90mileanhour storm with gusts over 100 miles an hour and it will bring with us life threatening storm surge, piling water up against the coast. The areas in red, seven to 11 feet of life threatening storm surge. The biggest impact could be rainfall. Its going to be moving so slowly. Everybody in the white, over a foot. Some places, over two feet of rain. Major. Two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies are in Critical Condition after a shooting last night outside a train station in compton. The suspect was caught on surveillance video, firing the weapon and running off. The two deputies were watching out for the safety of the people on the train and seeing someone just walk up and start shooting on them, it pisses me off. It displays me at the same time. Theres no pretty way to say it. Reporter protesters showed up outside the hospital where the deputies were taken. Some yelled we hope they die. President trump called for the Death Penalty if the deputies pass away. The fbi is assisting with the investigation. The Sheriffs Office has posted a 100,000 reward for information leading to the suspects arrest. New cbs news polls reveal a tight president ial race and sustained skepticism over the president s handling of the coronavirus. Our brate latest Battle Ground tracker show biden leading trump. The president will troovl arizona tomorrow. Our Nikole Killion is with trump. Reporter day two of president trumps silver state swing featured a sitdown with latinos. Im here with latinos for trump. Some supporters camped out overnight. Im not wearing a mask. It shows that i trust my president. I wont be wearing a mask. Reporter a sentiment echoed at the president s kickoff event near lake tahoe where he railed against the governor who banned large gatherings. He tried to stop us help couldnt. Reporter bob woodward release his new book rage this week. I wanted to i always wanted to play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes, syrup. I wouldnt want to create a panic. What would happen if the president came out and said the sky is falling. He presented a strong and steady hand. He didnt do his job. Reporter the former Vice President remained off the trail in wilmington. Aides denied an enthusiasm gap. Were doing so safely. Reporter bidens primary rival Bernie Sanders denied reports hes been pushing for the campaign to do more to woo liberals and la kinos. I think weve got to do more as a campaign than just go after trump. Reporter Mike Bloomberg announced he will invest 100 million to help biden in florida. Biden campaigns there this week while trump meets more in latino voters on monday. Major . Well thank you Nikole Killion. The cbs cbs overnight news will be right back. Here is tom hanson. Reporte tball 2 here we go. Reporter kicked off but with dramatic changes. 13 games today with little to no fans in the stadiums. Another reminder that americas battle with covid is far from over. While new cases and deaths nationwide are both down by 20 colleges continue to scramble as emerging hot spots. As america heads into the flu season, the race continues for a vaccine with astrazeneca continuing its trials after a pause. His Company Expects to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year. But former fda commissioner Scott Gottleib said that may be a hail mary. Most people will not have access until 2021. Meanwhile the pandemic contines to push people to the breaking point. Co you love your pet. But hate wearing their hair. Did you know that your clothes can actually attract pet hair . 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Im Major Garrett reporting from the cbs news room here in washington. America marked 19 years since the september 11 attacks last week. For the families of many of those killed that day, the pain still lingers, especially since five accused plotters of those faced justice. Catherine herridge has the story. This is peter. His first time holding the baby. Reporter Eunice Hanson and her husband lee never recovered after losing their son peter and his young family. Its like your heart was crushed by a rock. Roichlt on september 11, 2001, peter, his wife sue kim and their daughter christine were headed to california to visit family and disneyland. But at 8 52 tam hansons got an alarming calm. It was just six minutes after a jet crashed into the World Trade Centers north tower. Peter said, dad, the plane has been hijacked. And i dont know what theyre going to do, where were going to go. The young family was on United Airlines flight 175. At 9 00 a. M. Peter made one last dual his father. He said dad, itsoi quick,ont n thee oh, my god, oh, guy god. Three minutes later their plane slammed into the World Trade Centers south tower. We saw it on television at the same time. That was the horror of it. Reporter was your husband ever the same after the phone call . No, he was never the same. Reporter Christine Hanson was the youngest of eight children. Here peter rabbit and other keepsakes are in the 9 11 museum. She would be 21 today. You lost a lot on that day on 9 11 . I lost most of my family. I had lost my husband at that date, too. Christine lee hanson. 19 years later, Eunice Hanson is one of many still waiting for the five suspects, including the selfdescribed architect of the attack to be prosecuted at the Guantanamo Bay cuba military base. What explains the delay of 19 years . Its inexplicable to me. Reporter 24 attorney represent represented him at the military court. They have no ability to put on a complicated death case involving multiple defendants. Theyve never reporter the Bush Administration held them in cia secret prisons where they were interrogated using extreme tactics that critics call torture. The very reason these defendants were taken in gadget mow in the first place is because the cia wanted to protect these secrets at all costs. The department of justice will pursue prosecution in ferk. Reporter the obama administrations effort to transfer the suspects to new york city to stand trial failed after mountsing political pressure and security concerns. You want to give him a stage in that federal courthouse. Reporter in 2017, lee hanson shared his story with military investigators. He said, all i wanted to do was get the story out. Thats all i wanted. And i want to see justice. Reporter but he died the following year. Did lee expect to see justice in his lifetime . He hoped to see justice. But he thought he thought all along he never ary spokesperson told cbs news the 9 11 case is complex and the goal is to afford fairness. Due to covid19, the trials january start date is unlikely. Eunice often visits the connecticut cemetery where her husband lees ashes were sbernld with peter sue kim and christine. I accept the fact that my family has gone home to god, and that gives me peace, but i dont think i will have peace, total peace myself until the trial. Honey honey . New nyquil severe honey is maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honeylicious taste. Nyquil honey. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever best sleep with a cold medicine. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. 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Reporter for once i found myself in someone elses interview chair. I dont know if youre interviewing you. Hopefully well never know because it will be an unguarded respectful conversation. Please welcome berube. Reporter Drew Barrymore is all about conversation these days. Oh, my god. Reporter shell be doing a lot of it. Debuting her very own talk show on cbs. Here we go, everybody. Reporter in a studio just down the flaul ours. Welcome to our set, lee. This is three sets. Woemp a little envy owls. Her studio is aotggsh en has he. Reporter are you a cook, though . I am but im not cute and sexy and cool. Im like [ jinnerish ] reporter for guests who cant sit withdrew in person thanks to the magic of television they can appear to be sitting there anyway in 3d from a studio on the other side of the country. I never knew we would be launching a talk show tamtd no one will come out to go a talk show. Reporter oddly, all the challenges she says just might have made the show better. Shes not hiding from this awful year. Instead shes meeting it head on with optimism. Im not a poly an aichlt i know theres a huge divide. Id rather see the things we have in common rather than harp on our differences. Its in her wheelhouse. Ive been waiting all my life to meet you. Your whole life. Reporter first appearance was at age seven on the p tonight show starring johnny carson. It would be easier to talk without my teeth. What are you talk about . Oh. Reporter as she grew, so did her talk show acumen. She always knew how to make the stage her own. David letterman still hasnt forget enl that. I think if theres one thing ive learned in a long life in front of people, there is a line, there is tmi, and i kind of know what that line is. Its a ceiling. Reporter have you talked to letterman or fallon or how do you do this . All of the boef,y. Reporter is there a thread of advice . They all say pace yourself. Ive been working sings i was 11 months old, you dont even know my work ethic. Reporter tv commercials came before she could even talk, but it was a scream that got her noticed. [ screaming ] her role as gerdy opposite the worlds cutest alien made her a sensation. E. T. , phone home. Problem was she was just as cute as e. T. Himself and for a little while thats all anyone wanted to talk about. Is there one thing youve never been asked about e. T. . Its been a while since anybody brought up e. T. All of a sudden its 38 years ago. Ermt t. Reporter she was no longer that innocent little girl. Drew largely skipped childhood, turning to drugs, drinking, reharks evening an attempted suicide. She lived a lifetime before she was 14. When she was legally emancipated from her abusive alcoholic father and her troubled manager multi. When you look back on those days in court when you were emancipated, do you see an adult there . I see someone who knew i probably was orre going to go the way of the cliche, they say. Reporter if you believe blood lines carry a story line, too. The barre irmoors were famous. All with reputations that drew knew all too well. Come on kchlt i get ah glass of mill, honey . Im a barrie moore. Get me a drink and make it a double. I pushed the limits a lot. Many dirchlts times in my life. And im very lucky. I know that. I tested. I pushed. Probably too far. Many a time. You always came back to the center somewhere. I at least tried to meet that blessing with having learned something. Reporter she rebounded, starring in film after film. Why do you want to know my name . I want no know who im looking at. Reporter about one a year, sometimes two. I think im doomed to wander the planet alone forever. Kind of like the incredible humming, huh . Yeah. Reporter comedy was her specialty. Good morning. [ screaming. Reporter when she was only 20 she founded flower films. Good morning, angels. Good morning, charlie. Reporter which soon has her starring in and producing films like charles angels. She dove into business, twoorks a successful cosmetics lierngs flower beauty, and more recently a clothing line as well. If that doesnt give you some perspective for every job you get, nothing will. I am like i am working this is amazing. Reporter automatic of it while raising olive and frankie whom she had with exhusband copeland. I want to be about decore up. Find my way here. So yeah ive lived a lot of different lives. This is whats born to me now. My kids have inspired me to be the best person i investor been in my life and i thank them every single day for that. Reporter she knows daytime is a crowded time slot. Talk shows come and go, after all. If theres anything shes proven, its that her super power is her staying power. I know im making the show for other people. Whether theyre right here in this room or on friday, 19 years to the day after the 9 11 attacks a hero of the Afghanistan War received the nations highest militaries award. The medal of honor. David martin has the story of Sergeant MajorPatrick Payne and his extraordinary courage. Reporter Sergeant MajorPatrick Payne was a senior in high school on 9 11. Did younlse o11 eporte heonor for his actions ia daring hostage rescue in 2014. As were flying the target, the pilot passes that oneminute call back and thats when joking stops and thats when but make the transition from soldier to warrior. Reporter the elite force stormed a compound. You can hear the firefight going on outside as they herd the prisoners out of their cells bill more were trapped in a second building, which was on fire and in danger of collapse. Payne ran inside with a pair of bolt cutters to cut the locks. How many times did you go back in that building . Think a total of four or fiv. Reporter four or five times. On fire. In danger of collapsing, enemy fire. It was our duty to bring those men home. Reporter more than 70 hostages about to die instead freed from their cells and flown to freedom. They realized they were being liberated and thats when it hit me. Im like what did we just do. Reporter one thing he did was bring honor on the 9 11 generation. David martinez, cbs news, the pentagon. In an additional gesture of on hor, they named theiron after another hero,hero, Master Sergeant josh whee a fellow soldier who died in that rescue mission in afghanistan. Thats the overnight news for this monday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back later for cbs news this morning. Follow us on line at cbsnews. Com and join us for our weekly podcast, the takeout. Reporting from the nations capital, im Major Garrett. Its monday, september 14th, 2020. This is the cbs morning news. Deadly wildfires burn out of control on the west coast forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and decimating communities. Gunman on the loose. Two California Police officers survive an ambush attack. Now the search is on for the suspect. Indoor campaign rally. President trump openly defies nevadas coronavirus regulations and his own administrations and his own administrations guidelines. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We are going to begin this morning with the battle against explosive wildfires ravaging the west. High winds today are expected to