together in indignation and outrage. foreign minister javad sharif. i believe what president trump achieved was to unify iranian people. happy to see iran is more united than ever. reporter: it took two years of hard negotiating to get the nuclear deal signed in 2015. on the strength of it the moderate president was elected in a landslide. not because decades of suspicion and aggression between the u.s. and iran melted away, but because at last, there were clear rules to bind both sides. this deal its not based on trust. the nuclear agreement is based on mutual mistrust. we have very clearly defined steps that we will take. reporter: now though iran could choose to redefine the steps it takes in areas that could have a profound effect on the united states. the war in syria for example. and the government knows thanks to president trump, it can count on the support of its people. elaine. elizabeth palmer. liz, thank you. aleast 230 are dead after two truck bombs ex
announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. i m elaine quijano. one week after wildfires erupted in northern california more than 200 people are still listed as missing. the official death toll is at least 40. 75,000 remain under evacuation orders. 5,700 homes and businesses are destroyed. chris martinez is in santa rosa. once sprinting flames have slowed to a crawl, but continue to wreak havoc in snoem ma county another home was reduced to ash. thousand more are still threatened. we are not out of the woods. reporter: massive plumes of smoke blanket california s wine country as fire crews continue their relentless assault from above and on the ground. hard-hit areas like santa rosa, a lucky few are finally going home. as officials begin to lift evacuation orders. jack weaver returned to his mother s home expecting to recover the body of the family s dog izzy that ran away when the weavers fled the fire. izzy. they instead had
and we, engineers that we brought, along with our, our eod technicians swept out the field. minutes later a truck hit a mine less than a mile away. marines raced off to investigate. the driver miraculously was alive. the medic treated him for lacerations and concussion. a fighter with america s syrian allies. and said he was heading to the front line when he hit the mine. the marines found more mines and definited them. in the nearby village. they re grateful for american help. but there is very little optimism. nobody here would speak to us on camera because they still have family members living under isis control and they re frightened of retribution. offcamera they have told us they have no running water. very little food and their children are ill literal. because the the schools have been closed for five years. america s attempt to win hearts and minds in the middle east have often been troubled. after half a decade of civil war, syria s fractures may be beyond repair. h
president trump s u.n. ambassador, nikki haley told congress what u.s. intelligence has observed. they have seen activities similar to preparations of a chemical weapons attack, much like what we saw on april 4th. according to pentagon officials an aircraft center which once housed the syrian jet that carried out april chemical attack is once again in use. u.s. intelligence has also picked up increase in communications, by the syrian military unit responsible for chemical weapons. pentagon officials cautioned the intelligence does not add up to a smoking gun. still, the white house rushed out a statement. warning that if the regime of ba sheer al assad conducts another chemical attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. ambassador haley expanded that to include syria s two main allies. the goal is at this point, not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message. about the same time haley was making the statement, syria s assad was given a