at the worst possible time for dinosaurs. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> reporter: on the other side of the country wildfires force hundreds of people from their homes and a deadly lightning strike on a southern california beach. we have a series of reports on extreme weather beginning with vincente arenas. >> oh, my god! >> this was the first time a tornado touched down in this part of massachusetts since recordkeeping began in 1950. winds blew more than 111 miles per hour here. dozens of trees were knocked down and streets were flooded. derek castle lost the roof to his house. >> the winds pretty much picked up out of nowhere. it kind of went crazy. the winds were just all over the place. >> reporter: same system destroyed ten homes in eastern tennessee, where the storm dumped hail and caused power lines to explode. and wind gusts reaching 70 miles per hour knocked out electricity for 200,000 homes near detroit. that cold front that's been causing all the problems in the east has also been lowering temperatures in the region and, james, here in new york, only three times this summer have temperatures risen above 90 degrees. >> vicente, thank you so much. to the lightning strike in california, it happened at the beach that came without warning. one man was killed. teri okita was there. >> this video was taken moments after the lightning hit, the lek electricity surged through the water, injuring seven and killing a college student nick fagano. joe duro was on the beach. >> i looked up and it was a bolt of lightning shooting across the sky. >> reporter: as many as 20,000 people were on venice beach. some said they could feel a jolt of electricity as they scattered in the sand. there was little warning on a day when skies were mostly clear. paul blacked out in the ocean. >> this side ofo my face was numb afterwards. >> reporter: do you feel lucky to be alive? >> i do feel lucky to be alive. >> reporter: the west coast has the lowest rate of lightning strikes in the nation. seems the odds of getting hit in coastal california are long, one and 7.5 million. >> teri okita, in venice beach, california. thank you. in northern california, hot, dry weather continues to feed two major wildfires. john blackstone has the latest on stopping them. >> reporter: a wildfire in yosemite national park covered 2600 acres. tankers and helicopters battled the fire since saturday. 100 miles north of yosemite, another fire burned across 4,000 acres in the sierra nevada foothills destroying homes, growing quickly in dry forest and grassland, but 2,000 firefighters from across the state now have it largely contained. ron oatman is with cal fire. you can't relax. >> there is lot of work to be done. no flame or activity, that's great news. but all it contains is an ember. >> so far, wildfires burned 129 square miles in, slightly above average, but the fire risk remains extreme. >> john blackstone at the fire command center. the second biggest ever fine for southwest airlines. jeff pegues tells us the issue is safety. >> reporter: today, the f.a.a. accused southwest airlines of failing to follow procedure when it repaired 44 boeing 747s beginning in 2006. the f.a.a. says southwest put the planes back into service carrying passengers on another 30,000 flights before getting f.a.a. approval. according to the documents, the repairs were supposed to address cracking of fuselage lap joints which could result in sudden decompression of the aircraft, something that could be catastrophic in flight. three years ago, southwest ground its entire fleet of 737s after one of the jets made an emergency landing from a flight in phoenix to sacramento. a nearly 5-foot hole in the plane's fuselage led to a sudden drop in cabin pressure. southwest faced f.a.a. penalties before. in 2009 it agreed to pay a penalty of $7.5 million for not properly inspecting dozens of planes. in response to today's $12 million proposed fine, the company said the repairs were made years ago, and the f.a.a.'s action does not affect aircraft currently being operated by southwest airlines. safety is paramount, and we always strive for full compliance. the airline has 30 days to respond to the lowest proposed fine. they don't believe passengers were in danger were technically, according to f.a.a. standards, the planes were not air worthy when southwest put them back in service. >> jeff, thank you so much. the centers for disease control and prevention center sent a health alert to doctors by the ebolaoutbreak in -- the ebola outbreak in west africa. more 672 people have died. dr. jon lapook tells us two americans are now infected. >> dr. kent brantley from fort worth texas and nancy writebol, an aid worker from charlotte, north carolina, are both in isolation and in serious condition. since march the outbreak had been confined to three west african countries, but friday a man died from ebola after taking a commercial flight from liberia to lagos, nigeria. today the c.d.c. said lack of confidence in foreign doctors is serious issue. two years ago, a brother and sister were treated in south africa but too late. >> despite aggressive efforts to bring them back, we weren't successful and they died. >> reporter: the incubation period is from two to 21 days. the c.d.c. says little risk to the american public but we're to consider the virus when encountering flights from other countries. fischer is shaken by the experience. >> typically, when we're sick, we're surrounded by loved ones. with ebola, patients usually die in a treatment facility without friends or family or even the comfort of a human hand. >> the c.d.c. says the family of dr. brantley left liberia before he developed symptoms. >> with efforts to work out a cease fire going nowhere, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned his country to prepare for a "prolonged conflict in gaza." more than 1,000 palestinian killed in nearly three weeks, the vast majority civilians. 51 israelis died, all but three soldiers. >> reporter: mortar fire from gaza killed five and wound several more. the soldiers also battled soldiers who infiltrated tunnels. israel's prime minister warned the war would not be over while the threat remained. "we will not stop without eliminating terror tunnels. the only goal is to kill families and children and this was made clear again today ." four hours particularity a projectile hit a playground killing ten and a gaza hospital. the israeli difference force said "a short while ago a hospital was hit by a rocket attack lamped by terror organizations. the israel pointed to a bombing of a school they say provision the courtyard were urpty when a single mortar hit contradicting numerous eyewitnesses. and hamas also upped the ante on its aerial assault earlier today. it launched several longer-ranged rockets well into israel, as far north as 100 miles from gaza. and now sounds of heavy fighting in northern gaza. >> don dahler, tel aviv, thank you. israel says its air strikes are meant to take out hamas' ability to attack. hamas has fired thousands of rockets toward israel. charlie rose flew to qatar to interview leader of hamas khaled meshaal to get a sense of what hamas is seeking. >> it's one thing to say you want to co-exist with the jews, another thing to say you want to co-exist with the state of israel. do you want to co-exist with the state of israel? do you want to recognize israel as a jewish state? >> no. i said i do not want to live with a state of occupiers. >> the complete interview with hamas leader khaled meshaal will air on "charlie rose" show tonight on pbs. israel and hamas are once again blaming each other for the deadly explosion in a gaza park. there is no mistake who is suffering. barry petersen is in washington and some of what you're about to see is graphic. >> reporter: outside the morgue, last goodbyes. other parents hoped, begged that their children had survived. but many did not. inside, two boys, side by side, as they had been playing. and here, jamal eli yan, his father saleh was a driver for cbs news, this was his day off. jamal was ten. he liked soccer,is winsome. some children were playing with toy guns in the cool of the afternoon. you can see still the smoldering hours later. right here, there was a man selling chips and snacks to the kids and over here you can't even see it anymore was a swing set where the kids were playing. from the morgue, "oh, god, god," saleh said. friends and family brought jamal home. it was too much for jamal's mother awar. too much for ahzees. all afternoon, there were funeral processions, one after another after another. this one was for jamal. some children couldn't even watch as their friends went by. at the mosque, prayers over small bodies. saleh began the day as a proud father of a strong son. tonight, grief and one terrible thing more that, when a parent loses a child, the tears will never end. barry petersen, cbs news, gaza. >> we'll step aside to take a break now and when we come back the f.b.i. says it's caught the man who mailed out hundreds of threatening letters filled with white powder. at's right for you. ...like centrum. select products are now just $9.99 with card. at the corner of happy and healthy. your eyes. even 10 miles away... they can see the light of a single candle. look after them... with centrum silver. multivitamins for your eyes, heart and brain. now with a new easy-to-swallow coating. doctors have been prescribingdecade, nexium to patients just like you. for many, prescription nexium helps heal acid-related erosions in the lining of the esophagus. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. if you have persistent diarrhea, contact your doctor right away. other serious stomach conditions may exist. avoid if you take clopidogrel. nexium 40 mg is only available by prescription. talk to your doctor. for free home delivery, enroll in nexium direct today. one of our favorite things to do is going to the dog park together. sometimes my copd makes it hard to breathe. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better. come on, boy! 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reporter: mrs. sterling removed her husband as a are you trustee after rawlings determined he was mentally inca passty. but sterling's attorney said sterling had been deceived as part of what he called a scheme to strip sterling of his rights. the controversy stems from a racist conversation sterling had with his then girlfriend that came to light as the clippers started the playoff runs earlier this year. the nba banned sterling for the comments for life. he's vowed to fight as long as he can. james, this is just a tentative ruling. both sides have ten days to decide if they want to file objections, but the judge said even if sterling decides to appeal, they don't want it held up in legal challenges, all of this as spring training is set to get underway in early october. >> brown: lee, thank you so much. in his line of work, president obama does a healthy amount of handshaking but a study out today says high fives will be more h hygienic. they transfer only about half as many bacteria fist bumps are even better, spreading only 10% of the germs of a handshake. but maybe the president obama had the best idea of all right here, leave the hands out, entirely. it wasn't bacteria that did in the dinosaur. a new theory next. i got my foot map and my custom number. i'm a 440. i'm a 210. 340. that number matched the dr.scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with just the right support to help relieve stress on my feet. i'm a believer. go to drscholls.com for locations and save $10 >> brown: finally tonight, there is no good final for an asteroid to hit, but scientists are now telling us an asteroid hit the earth at an especially bad time for dinosaurs. otherwise, they say, they would still be here and we might not. here's dean reynolds. >> $66 million was a lousy time to be a dinosaur. volcanoes seemed to be erupted all the time, great seas died up and the planet's temperature fluctuated wildly. hard on the plants and the dinosaurs that at a time the plants and hard on the dinosaurs that ate the dinosaurs thattated the plants. if that wasn't bad enough, along came a six-mile-wide asteroid that smashed into the earth. >> the asteroid hit at the worst time for dinosaurs when they were specially vulnerable. >> we interviewed steve brusatte one of the authors at the field museum. >> if dinosaurs had had a few more years to cover that adversity, they may have been better equipped to deal with the astroid, maybe they would have survived and maybe mammals wouldn't have gotten their chance and we wouldn't be talking. >> brown: no time to gloat. a new study released last week that the earth is undergoing the sixth mass extension in history. don't look to the heavens to blame for this one. scientists say it's on us. while human population is rising, climate change and reckless land management have wiped out habitats for other animals and decimated their numbers. the new studies say various species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than before we showed up. >> dinosaurs tell us the groups that have been dominant for millions and millions of years can suddenly disappear when times go bad and i think there's a lesson in there for all of us. >> brown: if we're willing to learn it from those here before us. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> brown: and that's the "cbs evening news" for scott pelley, i'm james brown in new york, thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs have you seen tom corbett's negative ad with this actress. it's just not true. and more of the same from corbett. tom wolf's company is headquartered and files taxes right here in pennsylvania. and it's tom wolf who'll be the governor we need. he'll make the gas companies pay up to fund our schools. build a 21st century infrastructure. and restore manufacturing for the jobs we need today. take a look at his plan for yourself. tom wolf. a fresh start for pennsylvania. batman ben affleck part of some big star surprises and 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