We are up against a fire that is burning to really strugglingp up with it. A wildfire rages out of control in california. It hit farce and with an intensity we havent seen before. I can tell you that this fire came out screaming. Trees collapsed and trees fallen. The trees actually explode from the heat. Two u. S. Olympian swimmers have been blocked from leaving rio. The swimmers along with champion ryan lochte are under made that that allege they were robbed at gun ps point. If the whole thing is made up, why . The death toll is rising in southern louisiana as floodwaters start to recede. Flood water hit the midatlantic region. I think the last days have been great for donald trump. Donald Trumps Campaign took a much different look after a big shakeup. He can hire and fire anybody this is it. A rescue seeing 500 Passengers Evacuated from a burning ship off the coast of puerto rico. A wild seen at a press conference. Conor, conor, dont throw that you guys are down and so true. Says who . The polls. Most of them. All of them. Says who . Polls. I just told you. I answered your question. Okay. Which polls . All of them. And all that matters. Hillary is campaigning with joe biden and where joe biden goes, so does his hugs. Look that. So awkward. Looks like he is holding a cat. The United States sweep in the womens 100meter hurdles. Rollins wins it and ali is second and kristi castlin. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. . Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is off. Margaret brennan is with us. More than 1,500 firefighters are struggling to battle a rapidly growing wildfire in california that is almost the size of san francisco. Flames erupted along mountains nort several homes have been gutted. But official cannot confirm how many. More than 82,000 people are under evacuation orders today. The blue cut fire has exploded to cover 40 square miles. This morning, it is only 4 contained. Carter evans is in wrightwood, that is about 40 miles outside of los angeles with the exhausting battle against these flames. Carter, good morning. Reporter good morning. You can see this fire still raging behind me. Anything like this in their careers. A wildfire growing so fast with such ferocity. There are 1,500 on the scene here and 178 engines and ten air tankers but despite this massive wildfiring effort it is grog behind me. One look at the huge wall of fire and it becomes we had to continually retreat against that advancing wall of fire and something i havent witnessed in this section ever. We have strike teams here and, remember, our priorities are life, property, and infrastructure. And lives also include firefighters lives. We cant stand in front of that wall of fire. That is selfdefeating. Reporter the fire raced through here Late Wednesday afternoon and scorching almost everything in its past, but the spot fires that remain that are still endangering homes. With home after home going up in flames and only after smoke cleared on wednesday that we could see the full extent of the sde devastation. This fire came out screaming through the section of the burnt area. Reporter the firefight continued on the ground and from the air. This wildfire now stretches more than 17 miles. Cajon boulevard to wrightwood, which remains under mandatory evacuation orders. They arend obviously, there is a very large threat there. Reporter despite the threat, some there say they are staying put. How bad would it have to get here for you to leave . It would have to be really close. This is mine reporter but Erika Nikolai isnt taking any chances. We sat up all night watching it and when they say it goes fast, it goes fast. They are not kidding. Reporter the wind is a big problem here and the hazard is p. M. Tonight. That means its going to be hot, windy, and dry. Margaret, still perfect conditions for a massive wildfire. Thank you, carter. Three American Olympic swimmers expect to meet with police again today near rio de janeiro. Two of them were taken off of a plane last night as they were headed home. They are all answering questions about ryan lochtes claim that he and the other three swimmers were robbed this past rocketee has apparently changed some of his store and the police have not confirmed those details. Ben tracy is in rio and has new details. Ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. So unlike his fellow swimmers, ryan lochte had already gotten on a plane and gotten back to the United States before the police in rio could find him to requestion him about what they say are inconsistencies in his story and as of last night, this Surveillance Video obtained by daily mail. Com apparently shows ryan lochte and three other american swimmers returning to the Olympic Village around 7 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Brazilian authorities note the men do not appear shaken and even joke around and point to conflicting accounts of the alleged mugging and why two of the swimmers gunnar bentz and jack conger were retained at rios airport wednesday night for further questioning. Initially lochte told nbc a men posing as police while riding in a taxi with his teammates. They pulled us over and they pulled out their guns and they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground and the guy pulled out his gun. He cockeed it. Reporter ryan lochte said a wednesday night, lochtes version changed again. He reportedly told nbc there were exactly two gunmen and that the gun was just pointed generally in his direction. He also said the swimmers taxi was not pull over, but instead was at a gas station when they were held up. Lochte says the mugging took place after a night during much all four swimmers went out partying and questions about the robbery from the very beginning. Olympic officials denied it had backtracked. They had it wasnt true, so this i guess the story may change. Reporter lochte, a member of the mens relay team that took gold in rio, had stood by his story all week. His Attorney Says brazilian official are just trying to deflect criticism of problems at the rio games. Now the two swimmers who were detained here in rio have now been released, but they are not allowed to leave brazil until to police later today. Charlie . Ben tracy in rio, thanks. The new top executives at donald Trumps Campaign promised to highlight their candidates strength in the weeks ahead. They were front and center yesterday at a meeting with trump before he got his First National security briefing at the republican nominee. After the staff, they say they plan to run more ads this week and pay more attention to attracting new voters. Major garrett looks at the public debut of trumps new campaign team. Reporter yesterdays meeting looked a bit like a president ial campaign session. Reporters were ushered in and hurried out as donald trump discussed National Security. Former retired general and Defense Intelligence chief Michael Flynn was the marquee adviser but trump, we are told, tapped former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani to organize task forces on ideas discussed to defeat isis. Of course, the spotlight was donald trump quietly listening held a National Security round table giving a first glimpse into his campaign under new management. His Third Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway sat next to his second, Paul Manafort. To their left, steve bannon who was named the campaigns new chief executive. You need to add talent and more people. Its a busy time getting to the last 12 weeks of the campaign. Reporter her key role is to travel with trump and providing a voice on politic he respects. Something missingce sacked his first Campaign Manager corey lewandowski. Several sources say manaforts role is diminished and acknowledges trump has lost ground since the gop convention. Conway denied those claims. Paul has the exact same title today he had yesterday and many of those responsibilities. Reporter in a memo to staff obtained by cbs news, manafort said he will continue to provide the big picture, longrange campaign vision. State organizations are only now developing and many lack the resources and guidance to compete in the fall. Despite the corporate sounding title bannon was once called the most dangerous political operative in america. Bannons expertise, his brass knuckl knuckl knuckled advocacy. He will provide attacks on Hillary Clinton and this june interview with trump is just one example. Over the weekend, she would not say do you believe she could stand up with scrutiny with what her track record is . I dont think she is. She is very weak and i think a person doesnt have what it takes. Reporter we are told that all three spoke freely during the National Security conversation and no awkwardness was present. Hours late, trump received his first classified intelligence briefing as the gop nominee. Kellyanne conway will be with us the next hour. She talks about her role and the expectations for the candidate. That is ahead on cbs this morning. In the latest polls in three important swing states show that Hillary Clinton is ahead. The quinnipiac poll finds she has doubledigit advantages in colorado and virginia. Clinton lead in iowa by three points. A different poll gives donald trump an 11point edge in indiana. Nancy cordes reports on how clinton is trying to downplay her recent surge. G reporter good morning. So lets face it. Its not the worst problem in the world. But leading by a lot in the polls does come with its own set of challenges. First and foremost, how do you keep your supporters and volunteers and donors from assuming the race is over . Dont be complacent, my friend. Reporter one way to do is by insisting that the race is a lot closer than they think. Im the underdog until they call me the winner. Reporter its a tough case to make now that clinton is leading in most of the recent polls show her up by 12 points in virginia and 11 in pennsylvania. Ask everybody you know to register. Reporter that didnt stop clinton to try to enlist new volunteers in philadelphia this week. We have packets for you at the door so you can also canvass. Reporter it is true that anything can happen. In 1988 one poll showed Michael Dukakis leading then president george h. W. Bush by 17 points in late july. Points. There are just 83 days left in this election. Reporter as clinton counts down the days, her Campaign Strategy is to play it safe. She has not had an official press conference in 258 days. Her last Network Interview was nearly three weeks ago where she got tripped up again answering questions about her emails. Director comey said my answers were truthful. Reporter her running mate is doing a series of interviews and assertion in 2002 that president clinton should have resigned after the lewinsky scandal. I was disappointed like a lot of folks but no reason to reiterate problems 20 years ago and what americans want to talk about what do we do today and tomorrow. Reporter clinton has seen firsthand that voter complacency can have confidence. She ended up losing early because felt she didnt need that to come out and vote. Her campaign wants to prevent that from happening in november. Historic flooding in louisiana could lead to the states biggest housing crisis since hurricane katrina. The disaster has led to at least 13 deaths, tens of thousands of homes are affected, forcing many people to stay in shelters. 20 louisiana parish have been declared disaster areas. Many of them are still under flash flood warnings today. With the expensive cleanup effort. Reporter good morning. The power is still on here at the post office but thousands of other residents havent had electricity in days. 40,000 homes were damaged in the flood and its clear parts of southern louisiana will never be the same. Days after record rain triggered catastrophic flooding, parts of southern louisiana are still inup dated with water. Continued search and rescue mission. Parts of Livingston Parish are only accessible by boat. We ran along with National Guard troops still checking on people still hunkered down in their homes. Are you good right now . Ya. Reporter the National Guard looks for two things. Barking dogs and boats. People here dont leave their dogs behind and if there is a boat tied to the house, chances total loss. Overall, an estimated 40,000 are damaged. And cleanup could be costly. Less than 21 of Residential Properties in louisiana have flood insurance. We actually lost everything in katrina. Came here. And ten years later, lost everything again. Reporter from the ground and from the air, sandbags are being piled up as areas prepare for the possibility of more flooding kitchen. We found it just like this. Reporter the damage has already been done to deidre johnsons baton rouge home. I know its material things and you can always get them back, but it crushes you because you feel like youre violated. Reporter baton rouge saw another 3 1 2 inches of rain on wednesday and, charlie, more scattered thunderstorms in the forecast for today. Omar, thanks. The coast guard this morning puerto rico. More than 500 people yesterday evacuated the burning vessel but they escaped on emergency slides. Michelle miller shows us the ships reportedly trouble history with inspections. Reporter good morning. The ship named the caribbean fantasy runs several times every week between puerto rico and the dominican republic. But, yesterday, this routine trip turned into a nightmare for when a fire reportedly broke out in the engine room. From the shore, smoke could be seen rising from the ship. A closer look shows an army of boats and choppers surrounding it, as passengers wearing life vests rode down the emergency slides to rescue boats. The u. S. Coast guard assisted in bringing the passengers and crew to san juan harbor. The ship with a lot of smoke. Six to eight feet swell, maybe. Was carried out successfully. Reporter more than 100 people were treated for minor injuries like heat stroke, shock, and dehydration. At least two dozen others were taken on the hospital with more serious injuries. One person can be seen taken away on a stretcher. The passengers, mostly dominican, included dozens of schoolaged children headed to athletic competitions in puerto rico, exactly what started the fire remains under investigation. According to a report, the. S deficiencies during 63 sncket i inspections including the following. Now the coast guard says the ship ran aground more than 3,000 feet off the shore. 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