Looks like one massive smoke and flames. You can see it working its way up the hill. Get clear! major: hundreds of firefighters are battling the blazing fires while residents face destruction and loss. There is nothing to look at. It s the foundation. That s all that s left. Major: the cbs evening news starts now. I m major garrett in for norah o donnell. California s largest wildfire of the year is 0% contained and tearing across the northern part of the state at a ferocious speed, driven by unpredictable winds. At this time on wednesday, the park fire had burned about two square miles. 48 hours later, it has exploded, burning more than 250 square miles. That s five times the size of san francisco. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as the flames allegedly sparked by an arsonist, ripped through homes, buildings, and cars be at fires are burning across the west and into canada, where a monster wildfire there has destroyed about a third of the structures in the resort town
Good tuesday morning. I m erica hill. The united states passing another covid milestone. 40 million cases in the united states and there is currently no sign of that number slowing down. And just to put it in perspective, more than 4 million of those cases were reported in just the last four weeks. The sevenday average of new coronavirus cases, 300% higher than it was at this same time labor day. After last year. Tomorrow president biden we are learning is set to deliver a major speech in the next phase of the pandemic recovery. According to sources, he ll layout key steps on what the white house and the federal government can take, key steps that can be taken next in the fight against the virus. The speech will also contain multiple components related to schools, private companies and federal employees. Let s get straight to the white house, cnn correspondent phil mattingly is standing by. Phil, the president set to tour damage in the northeast. What more do we know, though, about thi
Can this is a reasonable question to ask. I wonder how you defend that point. Sure, this was raised by a group of doctors in texas, one of the states that is seeing very heavy use of their i. C. U. Beds, about the role of the vaccination should play. It shouldn t be ever the only factor, but it should be one factor because we know that if you re unvaccinated, the chance of severe infection and death is higher, that that is one of the ingredients in making triage decisions. But even when they published this idea of maybe considering vaccination status as one of the factors, there was a lot of blowback, including from other doctors and care givers about what it would do to the doctor/patient relationship if you started having asking patients as they come to the hospital to give them your status as a reason to treat them or not. Fair enough. I mean, listen, the data is clear. Vaccination saves lives, keeps you out of those hospital beds. But the fact is in health care, for instance, you k
Beloved member of the nbc family al roker s tribute to the legendary willard scott. Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. I m tom llamas in for lester tonight growing questions about how so many died from the powerful remnants of hurricane ida, and the new images coming in what police were up against when they tried to rescue a family trapped in a basement apartment water everywhere children s toys floating on the surface, and zero visibility underwater. The family, like so many in basement apartments here, did not make it out alive. And there are new fears right now in the south. A new flash flood watch issued in and around new orleans with some areas facing up to 4 inches of more rain half a million residents there are still without power in the scorching heat all of this as the death toll continues to climb, especially in the northeast where president biden is set to visit and it s where we start tonight with gabe gutierrez in queens, new york reporter:
Time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. It was dead back in may. It was dea in june. It was dead in july again. All i ve heard is how it s dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. New polling from the washington post and abc news shows vaccine hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the delta surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. Just about half of what it was in january. It also comes as president biden s approval rating has dropped. That s down about 10 points since june. Senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. We re not worried about poll number numbers. We re worried about the people in louisiana and new york and nj nmg. This has never been a president who worried about himself. He really worries about the country. Let s go to heidi at the white house for us. Heidi, welcome to you. Is the white house concerned that when extended unemployment benefits end, it will hurt the economy? report