from fires to floods, the extreme weather out west. cbs s mark strassmann has the stories of evacuees. we don t know if we even have a home. o donnell: and, biden s cancer moonshot. the president tonight channeling j.f.k., announcing new steps to fight deaths from the disease. d. this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from london. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us from just outside buckingham palace. and as we come on the air, long lines of mourners are paying their respects to the late queen. the monarch s coffin, with a 500-year-old crown atop, is lying in rest at st. giles cathedral in edinburgh. earlier, we witnessed a solemn tradition king charles iii and his three siblings stood guard. and here at buckingham palace, we saw the first changing of the king s guard in 70 years. it has been a busy day for the new king.st he said today he felt the weight of history, but today, you could almo
269 million americans, that s more than 80% of the population, likely to experience temperatures in the 90s or higher this week. that intense heat is contributing to fire weather alerts across the west. a fast-moving wildfire north of los angeles caused more than a thousand people to evacuate. red flag warnings there are up. wind gusts could reach 70 miles per hour tonight. zohreen shah from the fire zonoi out.ng the om.oting at a michigan splash nee woded, tf critonditi, includ-year-d bo it s just e incidents in a weekend of gun violence. dung star-studded hollywood fund-raiser, the president said the winner of the 2024 race will likely fill two seats on the high court, a court that he said has never been as out of kilter as it is today. overseas, israel announces a daily tactical pause in the fighting to allow crucial aid ti tom soufi burridge reports from tel aviv.the sech for one missi ef finanother ifies. the latest in a string of foreigners to go missing on the isla
familiar task of digging up the bodies of those killed by russian soldiers. the kremlin has ordered its troops to regroup on the eastern front line, but not before they ve fired off a gruesome parting gift, striking a thermal power plant that plunged much of kharkiv into darkness overnight and cut off water supplies in many areas. shelling from across the russian border still managed to hit near here today, but not even that can dim a daring new feeling rising for ukrainians hope, that the tide is finally turning in their favor. norah. o donnell: incredible to see that. debora patta, thank you so much. well, wildfires are scorching thousands of acres, from washington state to southern california, as severe rain causes dangerous mudslides. that story, in 60 seconds.
good evening. thanks for joining us on a busy thursday night. i m tom llamas, in for david. several major stories we re following tonight and we begin with that wildfire raging out of control north of los angeles. threatening homes, forcing evacuations, all of it playing out in the middle of this pandemic. the lake fire, take a look, roaring to life yesterday afternoon, within hours, scorching thousands of acres, spawning this firenado. some structures already lost. firefighters battling to save the rest. the fire still 0% contained. at this hour, crews are battling the flames, a looming heat wave, while also carrying protection against the virus. and now a new brush fire has just broken out east of l.a. abc s will carr leads us off tonight from the front line. reporter: tonight, the lake fire is threatening communities north of los angeles. the fire is out of control after exploding wednesday. the smoke cloud that this has created is absolutely enormous.
those former lawyers just yesterday. and now it s mitt romney and the rest after rick santorum says it is over. this presidential race is over for us, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today. now the main event, mitt romney about to charge full force at president obama. it was one of the most horrifying crashes ever witnessed. this, a plane dive bombing into a crowd at last year s reno air show. now there s talk of changes that might just ensure this never happens again. north korea defying the world and fueling a long range rocket. the critics say the north isn t fooling anyone with its space program. first at one minute past the hour, the trayvon martin case, a brand new twist. the legal team representing george zimmerman, the man who shot and killed the florida teenager, has quit. they say they have lost contact with zimmerman and that they can no longer speak for him. attorneys craig sonner and hal uhrig say their client went rogue, contacting