in new york city. in new york city. i'm michelle miller. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, august 18th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." california swells to more than 25,000 acres. thousands of people have been told to leave, but some families are staying put. breaking overnight. two u.s. swimmers were pulled off a plane out of brazil, after a judge questioned ryan lochte's claim the team was robbed at gun point in rio. what the judge saw in this surveillance video that has the team in hot water. and flanked by two new faces running his campaign, donald trump meets with his national

first intelligence briefing. what the staffing shake-up means with just 81 days to go until the election. this 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 explosive blue cut. 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 phelan. homeowner ron ramirez was able to return home yesterday to find his dogs safe and his property still standing. >> all of the houses 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 properties. >> 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 cal fire has warned against

>> last summer, we did lose some people. fire behavior changed 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 back home to question them in an alleged jack conger and gunnar bentz were detained by lochte and feigen and bentz and conger said they were robbed. >> investigators say they found little to support the claim and say some details in the

the judge who ordered their passports 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 alwed to leave brazil until they answer 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. the democrat dismissed an trump's campaign says it doesn't change the man who is running against her. hena daniels joins us from new york. >> reporter: with 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

congressional leaders in trump 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. paul manafort will remain, but with a diminished role. >> you don't take a top person and push them aside as they did to paul manafort. >> reporter: hillary clinton mocked the shuffle, saying trump 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 has handed over notes from its investigation of her

republicans are dissecting the notes to see if she perjured herself when she testified to before the house select committee on benghazi. clinton maintains she told the truth to congress and the fbi. a new quinnipiac university poll 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. >> hena the storms and flooding in louisiana are now blamed for at 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

already flooded the baton rouge area has taken to the skies. 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. >> some have inches, feet. my house probably has five feet. >> we found it just like this. >> 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 violated. >> 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

outbreak in haiti. almost six years ago. at least 10,000 patients were killed and hundreds of thousands more were sickened. the u.n. also 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 the ship's engine when a hose carrying fuel burst and caught fire. passengers escaped the ship using slides. most were from the dominican 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 arrived to find 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 poisoning. coming up on the "morning news." adele sends her regrets.

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? to the olympics. it was a sweep for the stars and stripes in the women's 100-meter hurdles. american brianna rollins rocketed to the finish line winning gold. and finishing second and third, also americans. nia ali snagged silver and kristi castlin getting bronze. despite not taking home a fourth straight gold, the u.s. women's volleyball team won't be going home empty-handed. ross and walsh won. the usa basketball team is through to the gold medal game.

spain tomorrow in a rematch of the last two gold medal games. the united states continues to dominate the medal count with 93 total, 30 gold and 32 silver and 31 bronze. "harry potter" fans can look forward to new stories from hogwarts. and the search of the son of el chapo. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. "the new york times" reports that a son of the drug lord el chapo is being held captive in mexico. jesus guzman and five others were kidnapped on monday from a pacific coast resort. police think he was abducted by rivals of his father joaquin guzman who is in a mexican prison. "the washington post" reports that no prosecution of follow the manufacturer of defective helmets for u.s. troops by inmates. the army recalled more than 126,000 helmets at a cost to the government of over $19 million. investigators say the ohio company that uses prison workers made helmets from degraded armor. the minneapolis star tribune reports a suburban police chief

killed a black motorist last month. the chief in st. anthony calls the officer who shot castille level-headed. "wall street journal" says target will calm complaints about bathroom use by transgender people. the company will spend $20 million to add single-stall bathrooms. target lets shoppers and staff use the bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity. national public radio says it will discontinue the comments feature on its website. the network says only a tiny fraction of listeners respond to stories on npr.org. it says it gains listener's views through the social media "the atlantic says three new "harry potter" books will be released early next month. they will be published as ebooks. they will explore characters other than harry. author j.k. rowling had said she was ending the series when the

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ivanka trump may be on trend in the fashion industry, but one company trolled her over her father's presidential bid. ivanka trump placed an order with a indy jewelry designer lady gray and they sent the ear cuff she ordered along with a handwritten letter reading in part, the proceeds of your sale have been generously donated to the american immigration council, the every town for gun safety organization and the hillary clinton campaign. on the cbs "moneywatch" now. a new round of tech layoffs. a historic blimp has made its maiden voyage. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning. the markets finished higher on expectations that the federal reserve is not likely to raise interest rates in the near future. minutes from the fed's last meeting show that governors are split on when to raise rates. the consensus on wall street, though, is the fed is in no rush. the dow ended the day up nearly

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in a bid to better compete for advertisers. the decision puts the social book marking site following facebook, twitter and snapchat. publishers make more from video ads which gives them a chance to earn money from the marketing budgets that are meant for tv. the start-up e commerce is casper that ships mattresses directly to you is branching out to include your new best friend.ca three different sizes and the small is 125 bucks and casper says it's actually more difficult to design a dog bed because they are rougher on mattresses and have more sleep positions than humans. can the bed actually get them to stay there? my dog always sleeps with me. >> mine too, so i don't think so. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thanks a lot, jill. still to come, a baby stroller warning. we have more coming up after the

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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 hgo plane from rio with his fiance and his baby. in the meantime, swim champ 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 images. 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

single frame capturing the single moment that tells some of the most compelling stories. >> 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 to look and ooh and ah. >> reporter: 21 years ago, dr. howard schatz changed careers. the eye surgeon left one set of lenses for another, following a calling to follow athletes like boxing champ sergio rtinez. >> 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,

the oldest known sports photograph dating from 1843 to muhammad ali running under water. gayle bucklin is the curator. >> sports photographs show us the beauty of the human body in motion. 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 take human 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.

motion. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. 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.

we are waking up to rain in the valley early on this thursday morning...ian is keeping a close eye on where those storms are heading... we'll check in with him in just a second. good morning.. thanks for waking up with us...it's thursday, august 18th 2016i'm yetta gibson and... i'm heidi goitia... there's a lot going on in the valley this morning .. and we have you covered! breakiig at a pool supply store in phoenix.this is happening near 33rd street and mcdowell.right now anyone living in this area is being asked to stay indoors. our reporter just got there..and is finding out more information from investigators...we will check in with her in just a moment. and also breaking this morning..one man is dead... and another is hurt... after a fight broke out at a bar overnight.. and this morning.. witnesses say.. the men might belong to two rival biker gangs.. marc liverman is there live with more...