with just 81 days to go until the election. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. several major wildfires are burning out of control this morning in california and putting tens of thousands of homes at risk. the three big fires are the chimney, clayton and the exple the blue cut burned more than 25,000 acres so far after breaking out tuesday morning. the fire is just 4% contained. and 82,000 people have been told to evacuate. tom wade of our los angeles station kcbs reports. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see behind me, there are still many hot spots burning near the town of wrightwood. here is a critical defense line for firefighters. they need to make sure these the inferno raced on for a second night in san bernardino county. fire crews are paying particular attention to the ski town of wrightwood where flames are inching closer and closer to home. >> hopefully, these guys will take care of it and then we can be safe because we got no place to go. >> reporter: the blue cut fire has already managed to scorch thousands of acres and destroyed countless homes, many in the town of this man found his dogs save and his property still standing. >> all of the house across the street are just ground. everything is burnt to the foundation, so i didn't have much hope for our place, but we were fortunate. >> reporter: despite a mandatory evacuation order in wrightwood, some homeowners have mixed feelings about leaving their property. >> it's my home. would you leave your home? >> our cars are lined up and ready to go if we have to go. >> reporter: kathy mattingly of staying behind. >> last summer we did lose some people and they refused to leave and there were lives lost. >> reporter: so far, 82,000 people have been forced to evacuate. firefighters will be working throughout the morning to protect the town of wrightwood which is just a few miles from where i'm standing. tom wait for cbs news, wrightwood, california. brazilian authorities removed two swimmers from their flight to question jack gunnben conger and gunnarz. >> investigators say they found little to support the claim and say some details in the swimmers' stories vary. poured seized says the group doesn't appear shaken up in security video obtained by "the daily mail" that was recorded shortly after the alleged robbery. conger and bentz won't be allowed to leave brazil until they answers questions. lochte is already back in the u.s. donald trump is in north carolina today holding a fund-raising rally in charlotte and hillary clinton meets with law enforcement leaders in new york. they dismissed a shake up of trump's mp change the man who is running against her. hena daniels joins us from new york. >> reporter: with it trump's second campaign shake-up in just two months, his opponent hillary clinton says voters should not be fooled by the billionaire businessman's latest attempt to revamp his candidacy. donald trump attended his first classified intelligence briefing at the fbi offices in new york wednesday. >> this is something that has to come from the top. >> reporter: he also talked about his plans to take on terrorists with advisers and tower, but trump is shaking up his campaign staff with less than 90 days until the election. stephen bannon who runs breitbart.com now joins the campaign at its ceo and kellyanne conway joins as a new campaign manager and paul man a forty will remain but a diminished role. >> you don't take a top person and push them aside as they did to paul manafort. >> reporter: hillary clinton will be trump no matter who he has running the campaign. >> he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities, and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. there is no new donald trump. this is it. >> reporter: clinton did not talk about her e-mail problems. the fbi hasn't handed over notes from its investigation of her congress. republicans are dissecting the notes to see if she perjured herself when she testified to congress. a new poll shows hillary clinton leading donald trump in several battleground states, including colorado, virginia, and ohio. meanwhile, a new poll out from monmouth university showing trump leading clinton in indiana. the storms and flooding least 13 deaths. more rain is likely today in the rage, while flood alerts continue to stretch across southern louisiana. more than 40,000 homes are damaged and thousands are waking up in shelters this morning. don champion reports from baton rouge. >> reporter: the head of homeland security will tour damage from the historic flood in south louisiana today. the fight to protect downstream communities from the water that mississippi national guard helicopters have been dropping massive sandbags to control the flow. in places with new flooding, like the town of moropaw, crews used boats to check on people still in their homes. not far away in the town of sorrento, the mayor estimated about 75% of the land in his town is under water. >> my house probably has five >> reporter: in baton rouge, where the water has already receded homeowners like deidre johnson are starting the cleanup process. she says it's overwhelming. >> i know it's material things and you can always get them back, but it crushes you because you feel like you're violate. >> reporter: for yet another night, curfews were in place in some hard-hit areas. don champion, cbs news, baton rouge, louisiana. for the first time, the united nations is admitting its outbreak in haiti. tens of thousands were sickened. the u.n. announced actions needed to respond to the crisis. more than 500 passengers and crew evacuated a burning ship in puerto rico. the caribbean fantasy caught fire about a mile off san juan yesterday. flames broke out in a ship's engine when a hose carrying fuel burst and caught fire. passengers escaped the ship republic, including dozens of school-aged athletes heading to competitions in puerto rico. you can see the burning boat at a marina in this drone footage over new york's long island. firefighters found several boats on fire. neighbors were warned to keep their windows closed due to the burning of fiberglass. three firefighters were hurt, including one who suffered carbon monoxide poison'ing. coming up on the "morning news." adele sends her regrets. and a giant leap for women. and all-american win in the 100-meter hurdles. this is the "cbs morning news." no, no, no, no, people are both soft and strong... yey! which is why our products are too. angel soft. if your sneezes are a force to be reckoned with... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec? for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec? is different than claritin?. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec?. muddle no more?. today you can do everything in just one click, even keep your toilet clean and 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"academic pediatrics" not so many are careful. that is about two children every hour. topping the list of the most common injuries are children falling from the stroller or carrier, followed by the product tipping. >> these products are generally safe, however, injuries do occur and these injuries can be serious. >> reporter: traumatic brain injury. >> we know that traumatic brain injuries and concussions could have long-term complications on development so we want to make sure children are taking the steps they can to prevent these injuries from occurring on their children. >> reporter: the nationwide hospital association says always bubbling buckle up the children and lock the wheels ian don't hang heavy stroller. make sure you use your lock. >> reporter: so for 6-week-old baby to stay safe and doesn't become a statistic. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." introducing lysol click gel. click it in to enjoy clean freshness with every flush. lysol. start healthing. ? yeah, click ? quilted northern works so well people can forget their bathroom experience. but these birds see all and forget nothing. except this one, who has an outlet for a face. an unprecedented natural outburst seems to have taken over the country. we'll bring you more as soon as new updates come in. this house was literally invaded minutes after the mom came back from a grocery run. hi , i'm stuck in an elevator with a cow. a what ? we have a situation. everything alright in there ? all natural, non gmo ingredients with vitamin d and whole milk. olympic swimming star michael phelps is back home. he had a low-key homecoming yesterday when he arrived in phoenix. he asked for privacy from reporters as he got offhe plane from rio with his fiance and his baby. katie ledecky was greeted by fans and took pictures and she wore her five olympic medals, four gold and one silver. the rio games have produced some memorable imagines. a new exhibit looks at sports photography and its place in history. jim axelrod spoke with one of the artists featured. >> reporter: as usain bolt's smile remind us, it is the single frame capturing the >> now tense and turn. >> reporter: that is no surprise for howard shack capturing those moments is his day job. how hard is it to get brian scott to pose like this? >> it wasn't hard because i spent a half an hour interviewing him. >> reporter: schatz is one of the world's great sports photographers. >> i wanted it to be heroic and fantastic and magnificent and i want to bring throngs of people to look and >> reporter: 21 years ago, dr. howard schatz changed career. the eye surgeon left one set of lenses for another, following the calling to follow athletes like boxing champ sergio martinez. >> i had never knew anything like it. >> reporter: you knew you nailed it? >> i did. >> reporter: he shot sports at new york's brooklyn museum, which includes everything from the ole known sports photograph running under water. gayle bucklynn is the curator. >> they show us the passion, the sacrifice, and the victory. >> reporter: 230 images, some iconic, some last seen in a long forgotten daily paper, document the narrow slice of humanity where excellence dwells. >> these people t potential as far as they possible can. >> reporter: no, it may not be the way most of us are following the olympics, but there is something about the richness of one still image that can move us in ways video cannot. howard schatz has built a career on that. >> i shoot to surprise and delight myself. truly. >> reporter: just one of many here who celebrate human movement by the way they stop coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more from rio and the investigation into swimmer ryan lochte's robbery allegations. plus, we will go to kiev as donald trump's campaign chairman paul manafort faces new questions about his ties to pro-russia groups in ukraine. that is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. in new light & fit yogurt. but we'd rather talk about what's not in it. like no artificial colors or preservative ingredients. and with 70 calories... maybe we're kind of bragging? konger. breaking news right now at 4:32. olympic swimmers from the u.s. detained in rio. the pair pulled perfect a plane as investigators question their account of a robbery. >> women on alert if bake bay over reports of a peeping tom on the loose who police are looking for. >> and developing news, a this morning as raging flames move close to their homes. . good morning to you. thanks so much for waking up with us. >> it's thursday, august 18th, and daniel el yes myles is here with your forecast. a break in the humidity. >> it feels pretty good. the humidity is going to stay low during the course of the day

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