>>news updates are always on cbs sf.com. captioning sponsored by cbs an: brucing for impact. hurricane nate gandy strength and speed as it nears landfall on the gulf coast. it's already left a trail of devastation. also tonight, london on edge. a car hets a crowd outside a landmark museum. we're there with the latest. rebranding las vegas. this week's horrifying massacre has the entertainment destination rethinking its sin city image. and an unheralded n.f.l. player inspires his city with a winning drive off the field. >> i seen that it was a blessing and that i could help others. so why stop? this is the "cbs weekend news."

>> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. hurricane nate is pounding at the door of american shores. it's expected to make landfall tonight between new orleans and mobile, alabama, as a category 2, with gusts topping 100 miles per hour, perhapss biggest threat-- an overwhelming surge of sea water. nate follows a trio of more hurricanes-- harvey, irma, and maria. forecasters warn do not underestimate nate. it killed people in nicaragua and costa rica before it picked up speed and strength. michelle miller is in new orleans. >> reporter: rain from nate pelted the gulf coast saturday. but it's the threat of deadly storm surge that causes the most concern. louisiana governor john bel edward: >> we don't want people driving at night. it's especially difficult at night because it's almost impossible to gauge the depth of the water and the current. >> reporter: the national weather service said from the mouth of the mississippi river to the alabama coast could see

7-eleven feet of storm surge and a half foot of rain. >> that's different from katrina because that was an early-morning storm. >> reporter: is it worse? >> yes. night time storms always kill more people. >> reporter: rupert lacy is the emergency management director for harrison county, mississippi. when the strength of a hurricane increases at the very end before it hits landfall, how dangerous is that for you to be effective at what you do? >> it-- it-- it can kill people. we understand that. the message is don't take it lightly. you can be a fatality. >> reporter: new orleans could see storm surges of up to nine feet, and potential 100-mile-per-hour winds. those could knock out power impacting the city's pumping system. >> that's why we call it a risk-reduction system. we cannot guarantee to people that there's not going to be any loss of power for any period of time. >> reporter: on friday, new orleans mayor mitch laundrieu said 109 of the city's 120 water

pumps are working. he's confident they'll do the job but... >> if the entie system goes down, that's a catastrophic failure of epic proportions. >> reporter: officials have called for mandatory evacuations in those living in flood zones and low-lying areas. officials have said they've done everything that they can and they're simply hunkering down to brace for the storm. reena. >> ninan: michelle miller. thank you, michelle. eric fisher is our chief meteorologist at our cbs boston station, wbz. what's the latest, eric. >> reena, we've been watching nate intensify today, now a hurricane, yet another hurricane that will make landfall in the united states this evening. moving exceptionally fast, upwards of 25 miles per hour to the north. that' s very unusual for the gulf of mexico. it means that wind is going to come in very quickly, the surge as well, but it's also a little bit of a lopsided storm there's a look at wind speeds. you can see all the strongest winds are on that northeast side. so that would really push the strongest wind gusts around new orleans eastward over toward

biloxi, golfport, mobile bay, even the western part of the florida panhandle. and those winds will be at least category 1 hurricane strength reena. >> ninan: so, eric, when does this ultimately make landfall, what can we expect? >> i think the biggest impact here is storm surge. this is a part of the gulf of mexico where water can really pile up. a 7-11-foot inundation possible in southeastern louisiana, across gulfport, also biloxi area, and a 6-9-foot surge into mobile bay. still some significant surge on either side of those higher end amounts. and because it's moving so fast, those strong winds will be able to extend well inland. so we have tropical storm warnings ahead all the way up into birmingham, tropical storm watches into north georgia. where destructive winds will be possible there, power outages and down trees. if you look at the speed, by sunday morning already moving into georgia. as we head toward monday evening, it's almost exiting tennessee, and by tuesday morning, it's in canada, so we're talking about a very rapid movement. heavy rain along the path. we could see some areas of flash flooding because of that heavy rainfall, though the wind and

the surge are the biggest issues because this storm is moving so fast, the rain will have a tough time really adding up. reena. >> ninan: eric, thank you. london was a city on edge today. a car hit a crowd outside of the natural history museum. it happened in the middle of the day in the kensington neighborhood, an upscale area, always filled with tourists. police have ruled out trump. jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: police were taking no chances as they pin the driver down on the street. it happened just before 2:30 in the after outside london's natural history museum, a favorite for tourists. witnesses say the man drove his car into an information kiosk on the side of the road. 11 people were treated for minor injuries in what police later called a traffic accident. but for several hours, london was a city on edge as police closed down streets and evacuated nearby cafes. >> it looked like a stampede of people running down the street, a lot of police activity,

everyone telling them to run down. >> reporter: the u.k. has been on a heightened alert after a wave of attacks this year. just last month, a home made bomb injured several people on london's subway. but the majority of terror attacks have involved vehicles, like the car used to mow down pedestrians near parliament in the spring. and the van later used to plow through people on london bridge. police believe the driver in today's accident may have passed out behind the wheel. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. >> ninan: the f.b.i. says it's arrested three isis sympathizers who were planning attacks in new york last year. the would-be terrorists included a 19-year-old american citizen living in pakistan. authorities say that they were plotting to set off bombs in times square on subways and concert venues. they were arrested in may of 2016. officials didn't announce the plot until now, because they wanted to see if others were involved. if you know something, say something.

that's the f.b.i.'s urgent request to the people of las vegas. nearly a week after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded nearly 500 others. the motive remains a mystery. jamie yuccas is at the scene of the massacre. >> reporter: vice president mike pence came to las vegas today to show solace with the city. volunteers worked around the clock to open a healing garden friday night. it includes a remembrance wall and 58 trees for the 58 lives lost. jamie dehlem visited and struggled to make sense of the tragedy. >> you feel so heartsick when you see the wall and the lives that were lost. >> reporter: but nearly a week after the deadly shooting, investigators remain frustrated by a lack of clues as to what prompted the attack. las vegas metropolice undersheriff kevin mcmahill says his department is following up on more than 1,000 leads. >> in the past, terror attacks or mass murder incidents, motive was made very clear, very clear

in most of those cases by a note that was left, by a social media post, by a telephone call that was made, by investigators mining computer data. today, in our investigation, we don't have any of that uncovered. i wish we did. >> reporter: paddock hold up in a suite at the mandalay bay casino resort with several weapons, include ak-47s and ar-15s. sources tell cbs his arsenal would have cost more than $50,000. investigators also found paddock's car inothe h t aeln e, and at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition. cbs' john blackstone requested scd if loss at the casino table or any financial problems may have been a motive. >> i can tell you we ruled that out as one of the reasons. there's no massive loss of money, none of those things that might cause that. in fact i would say it's probably to the country. he was up.

>> reporter: he was up. >> yeah. >> reporter: the strip is very slowly starting to return to normal with people who are visiting stopping at memorials and then moving on. but, reena, i talked to one gentleman who is in las vegas this week to not only attend a work conference but a funeral fair friend who was a victim of the shooting. the tragedy is never that far away. >> ninan: jamie, thank you very much. louisiana congressman steve scalise celebrated his 52nd birthday friday night throwing out the first pitch at the national cubs play-off game. the house majority whip was badly wounded after being shot at a congressional baseball team practice in june. he used a walker to place on the field. a capitol hill police officer wounded in the shooting caught the pitch. president trump is in the battleground state of north carolina tonight, raising funds for the republican party and his re-election campaign. the president ended the week raising concerns with a cryptic remark. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: en route to a fund-raiser in north carolina, president trump spoke

enthusiastly about his embattled secretary of state rex tillerson. >> we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes i'd like him to be a little bit tougher. but other than that, we have a very good relationship. >> there's never been a consideration in my mind to leave. >> reporter: tillerson made an unprecedented move earlier in the week, addressing the media after reports he called the president a moron. >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> reporter: the nondenial fed speculation there was growing rifts between trump and tillerson as foreign policy takes center stage. today on twitter, the president criticized 25 years of american diplomacy with north korea saying, "sorry, but only one thing will work." but president trump still has not clarified his puzzling comments to the press heading into a dinner with military leaders and their spouses thursday night. press secretary sarah sanders denied any significance. >> i'm not aware of any anything specific that that was in reference to. >> reporter: the setting and timing of the remark suggests it

could be connected to the october 15 deadline for the white house to decide if iran is in compliance with its international nuclear agreement. mr. trump had pledged to pull the u.s. out but is now considering staying in while decertifying iran's compliance. a middle-ground move, which opens the door for additional sanctions from congress. now, this morning, president trump flustered congressional republicans with another cryptic message, this one about health care. the president tweeting that he called senate minority leader chuck schumer to work on a health care bill with democrats. ending that tweet with two words, "who knows?" reena. >> ninan: errol, thank you. coming up next, a massacre prompts las vegas to rebrand its sin city image.

trip toomme viaeglsas have be.ed to miss. with the now-famous tag line "what happens here, stays here," las vegas bills itself as a playground. ( sirens ) but after what happened here last sunday, advertising for las vegas had to change. >> we pulled all the ads right away. >> reporter: billy vassiliadis is c.e.o. of r&r partners, the ad agency behind the vegas campaign. why was it so important to pull all those ads right away? >> tonality. being in context. i mean, people are-- are-- are in grief. they're in shock. >> reporter: they now had to determine what message las vegas should send to the world. >> our message was that, that las vegas needs to take care of what happened. >> reporter: rossi rallenkotter, president of the las vegas convention and visitors authority, says it

became clear the day after the attack, with the outpouring of support. >> our customers talked to us, and so social media started saying, "vegas strong." and it-- it just is resinating with all of us. >> reporter: i like this one here. >> yeah, "when things get dark, las vegas shines." >> reporter: yanick dalhouse runs the vegas account at r&r partners. her team spent days trying to put what happened here into words. >> it's hard to sort of separate the human emotion from it. i mean, some of the words that our creative team has come up to describe. there are times when we all have a moment and we just cry and we have to. >> strength is first responders. >> reporter: this ad is voiced by andre agasie, a native of las vegas. >> and strength is our promise for tomorrow. >> reporter: and this one is silent but powerful by pointing out that what happened here is not going to stop us. what do you want the world to know about las vegas today? >> that we're strong. that-- that we will get through

this as a community. >> reporter: will we see what happens in vegas again? >> you will. it's the most successful campaign in the travel repter: e back. >> and it will be back. >> reporter: but not until those affected by what happened here begin to heal. carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. >> ninan: up next, a crisis in puerto rico. the death toll more than doubled two weeks after the storm.

>> ninan: shortly after president trump praised puerto ricans this week for the relatively low death toll for hurricane maria, it more than doubled to 34. dr. jon lapook took an aerial tour of the island and saw the overwhelming challenges that still remain. >> there is misery all over this

island. >> reporter: for two weeks, resident nick prouty has been flying almost daily runs to pick up the sick and drop off supplies. >> the roads seem impanel up here. even now, it's hard to measure the staggering toll of the hurricane. >> where do these people go? there's absolutely nothing left. >> reporter: these houses are absolutely destroyed. they're in splinters. many of the new deaths are from the island's rural interior, where most people are still without water, without power, and aid is arriving very slowly. estimates are iestimates are ite months to restore electricity. >> flash lights, you don't need them anymore! >> reporter: that's at odds with the president's upbeat remark about power to a selective crowd in a church. further inland, we landed near a community hospital in utuado. do the respirators work? with dwindling supplies, dr. jose villafane is struggling to get help for his sickest patients. >> as we stabilize them and try to transfer them to another

hospital, they are dying in the other settings. >> reporter: so they end up dying either on the way to the hospital elsewhere or in san juan? >> that's true. >> there are people who we haven't recovered yet who are dead in their houses. >> reporter: as prouty looks down, he knows there is more suffering than he can see. >> we don't see it because we can't get to those people. finding out who is in there, who's missing. literally, it has to happen to a door-to-door basis. >> reporter: puerto rico's governor told me the rising toll includes drownings and deaths from mudslides that had not been reported previously. three deaths were from loss of oxygen when the power went off. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> ninan: still ahead, the trial of the lone suspect in the attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya.

>> ninan: on the night of september 11, 2012, islamist militants staged a deadly attack

on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya. five years later, the only suspect charged in the attack, a 46-year-old libyan, is on trial in washington, d.c. here's justice reporter paula reid. >> reporter: the wave of assaults lasted through the night. by the next morning, four americans were dead: ambassador christopher stevens, sean smith, tyrone woods, and glen doherty. an f.b.i. investigation zeroed in on ahmed abu khatallah, the leader of the extremist militia group who carried out the deadly attack. he was captured in libya three years ago by u.s. special forces and whisked aboard a u.s. naval warship where he was questioned by the f.b.i. and u.s. intelligence. 13 days after he was aphepped, he arrived washington under heavy security. abu khatallah's lawyers have raised objections to the jury hearing what he said during hez interrogation, but the judge in the case has ruled that his

treatment was humane and he voluntarily waived his right to remain silent. defense attorney edward macmahon represented 9/11 coconspirator zacarias moussaoui. he said the first challenge for defense attorneys will be finding jurors with an open mind. >> you don't have to be an empty vessel to be a juror in a terrorism case. you just have to say that, "i'm willing to be fair and impartial." >prosecutors allege abu khatallh planned the attack to kill americans. he has entered a plea of not guilty to all charges. for the last week, the jury has been coming here to federal court in washington where they hear testimony from witnesses, including some who were there the night of the attack. the trial is expected to last at least six weeks. >> ninan: paula reid reporting. and when we return, an n.f.l. player's winning drive off the field.

>> ninan: we end tonight in tampa, florida, home of the n.f.l.'s buccaneers.

brook silva-braga has the story of an unheralded player who inspired his city with a winning drive. >> reporter: not long ago, the neegz that bernard reedy's office would be an n.f.l. locker room seemed far fetched. >> you know, it's still surreal to me. sometimes i still can't believe it. >> reporter: reedy was a star receiver at the university of toledo but then failed to make an n.f.l. team. he moved back home to tampa, unemployed. >> across the street i seen somebody putting an elderly in the truck. and i was like, "i mean, i could do that." >> reporter: and like that, he went from running routes to driving routes for a company called care ride that transports clients with limited mobility. >> i thank you very, very much. >> reporter: it paid $11 an hour, and reedy, seen here last summer, didn't seem to mind. >> i seen that it was a blessing and that i could help others. so why stop? >> reporter: he kept driving, even when the buccaneers invited him to camp, only stopping when, in a surprise, he made the team. his first n.f.l. game was scheduled for september 10. it turned out to be the same day

hurricane irma would hit. >> this is serious stuff and you will die. >> reporter: care ride was called on to help in the evacuation of tampa, but reedy's old boss, doug johnson, had a problem-- many of his drivers were evacuating themselveses. so johnson called reedy. >> i said, "you got any ability to work this afternoon in? and he goes, "i'll get right back at you." >> reporter: an hour later, reedy was helping evacuate his home town. >> you know, they were just happy i was there to pick them up and get them-- you know, get them hope. >> but he didn't have to come to work that day. he's making more money than i'm ever going to make. >> reporter: nearly half a million dollars this season, so some may be surprised to hear bernard still plans to drive. you'll goack this off season? >> yes, i'll be back. >> reporter: never forget where you started, he said. brook silva-braga, cbs news, tampa. >> ninan: and that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. later on cbs "48 hours." i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night.

weekend for fleet week.. and a sic festival. the steps more than a million people expected in san francisco this week and that's why. not only fleet week, but a major music festival. the steps police are taking to keep the crowds safe. plus, a san jose middle school teacher is under arrest accused of exploiting a 13-year- old student for sex. but first, breaking news in the north bay where a charity bike race has taken a terrifying turn. good evening, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm juliette goodrich. tonight the chp is searching for the driver who put four elite cyclists in the hospital. witnesses say a blue pickup was traveling westbound on point reyes petaluma road this afternoon when the driver appeared to intentionally swerve and hit the cyclists. one victim was flown to santa rosa memorial and critical condition. the other three were taken to

marin general hospital. the victims were all men. participating in the charity bike ride. >> we as cyclists are just -- we're your community members who happen to be riding bikes own a given day. that's it. we are just bicycle riders who are fathers and mothers and kids. >> witnesses say the driver was a white male in his 20s or early 30s and again he was driving an old dodge ram pickup blue in color. anyone with information is asked to call marin chp. well, surf is up. so is the danger level at bay area beaches. ocean beach in san francisco for example. earlier this morning, a fire crew raced out onto the beach. the high surf driven by winds got somebody in trouble in the water and they were successfully rescued. no surprise for the second day in a row the weather service issued a heads-up for rip currents, sneaker waves and big breakers at bay area beaches so headed out to ocean beach, just be aware and we're gog