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news is next with news updates always on cbssf.com. captioning spons cbs .>> morgan: escaping the flames. new evacuation orders go out in northern california. the historic death toll still rising. also tonight, hostage horror: >> a brutal and sacreligious gaping of criminal miscreants. >> morgan: president trump ignites a new war of words with iran. the country's top diplomat tells cbs news mr. trump's move against the nuclear deal hurts u.s. credibility. and her tweets from a syrian war zone made her a global sensation. now, her new message to the world: >> i want peace in my world. this is the "cbs weekend news."
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>> morgan: good evening. i'm demarco morgan. strong winds prompted more wildfire evacuations today in northern california. 10,000 firefighters are battling 16 large fires a that has forced 100,000 people from their homes. since last sunday, at least 38 people have died. dozens are still not accounted for. more than 57 hundred homes and businesses are destroyed. carter evans is in santa rosa. roapt newly released body camera video shows tense moments. >> a bad spot. >> reporter: as a sonoma county sheriff's deputy drove through the fire warning residents to get out. >> this is a mandatory evacuation order. leave your homes. >> come on! >> she's disabled. >> all right, let me get her feet! >> reporter: he loaded a woman into his parole car. >> watch your leg! watch your leg! >> reporter: ...and helped direct traffic as people made a frantic escape. >> go, go, go. >> reporter: sonoma county sheriff rob giordano: >> i think it really tells the story of how dangerous and how
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difficult the event was. it is not over. stay away from the houses. >> reporter: as the wind-driven flames advance closer, thousands more have been evacuated. today, california governor jerry brown visited the area. >> this is truly one of the greatest, if not the greatest tragedy that california has ever faced. the devastation is just unbelievable. it's a horror that no one could have imagined. >> reporter: almost a week after the fires began, harrowing stories of survival continue to emerge. >> we turned down that street, and there was fire everywhere. >> reporter: santa rosa firefighter gary lopez captured this video as flames surrounded their ladder truck sunday. they were headed to evacuate a senior living facility. >> we just knew we had to get to the top of that hill to go help those people. >> reporter: engineer brian buchannan was behind the wheel. getting into this incident and realizing how dramatic it is, you didn't know at the time that some of your colleagues were losing their homes. >> knowing that their homes are probably burning and could be
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gone, they came here to save other people's homes. yeah, i mean, it's-- some of the most selfless things you can-- you'll see. >> reporter: investigators are still trying to determine the calls of the fire, but it's difficult because much of the evidence has likely been burned. so regulators are now asking power, gas, and cell phone companies to preserve any burned equipment they may find that could be relevant to the investigation. demarco. >> morgan: carter evans in santa rosa. carter, thank you. well, in a busy week, president trump took steps to dismantle two of president obama's significant achievements-- obamacare and the nuclear deal with iran. errol barnett reports on both fronts there is fallout. >> reporter: before playing golf with senator lindsey graham today, president trump beamed over cutting obamacare subsidies tweeting: republican senator susan collins feels differently. >> i will say that i'm very concerned about the president's executive order. >> reporter: many fear patients will see higher health care costs.
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the president's action eliminates $7 billion in annual payments to insurers, which was designed to bring down costs on the individual market. >> that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price. >> reporter: the nonpartisan creb warns insurers could hike rates 20% next year as a result of the move. >> we cannot and will not make this certification. >> reporter: president trump is also taking action against the iran nuclear deal, warning of decertification, unless congress comes up with new policy addressing his concerns. >> i urge our allies to join us in taking strong actions to curb iran's continued dangerous and destabilizing behavior. >> reporter: after his speech, the u.k., france, and germany issued this joint statement affirming they stand commitmented to the plan's full implementation. the presidenta only national security team confirms iran is in technical compliance and that
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the deal is work. >> i do believe the agreement to date has delayed the development of a nuclear capability by iran. >> reporter: now, the failure by congressional republicans to pass any meaningful legislation with president trump is fueling his desire to act unilaterally. in fact, today at the values voters summit, former strategist steve bannon predictedly the president's populist revolt, as he called it, would earn him re-election with 400 electoral votes. demarco. >> morgan: errol barnett at the white house. errol, thank you. mr. trump's reaction against the nuclear deal has ignited a new war of words with iran. elizabeth palmer is in tehran. >> iran is not living up. >> reporter: a day after donald trump's broadside against the nuclear deal, iranians are digesting the news and trying to figure out what it means. it is possible their country's economy will take another hit. but iran's foreign minister, jawad zarif, who sat down with cbs news today, thinks president
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trump's decertification has has, above all, damaged america's reputation. >> nobody else would trust any u.s. administration to engage in any long-term negotiation. >> reporter: in his response to donald trump, iran's president hinted his country might now expand its conventional weapons program, which would add fuel to the fiery rhetoric blazing between washington and tehran. no sooner had the deal been signed, the revolutionary guard began testing missiles. it was, at the very least, provocative. >> because the united states is selling hundreds of billions of dollars of-- worth of so-called beautiful military equipment to countries in this region. >> reporter: he means to iran's arch-enemies, especially saudi arabia. >> we need to defend our people. >> reporter: at friday prayers this week in tehran, there was
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the usual chant of "death to america." in recent years, iranians have come to see this more as a stale ritual than a real battle cry, but after donald trump's aggressive speech on friday, that could certainly change. and the u.s.-iranian relationship will get a whole lot worse fast if america decides to pull out of the nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions. so all eyes here in tehran are on the u.s. congress waiting to see what it will or maybe what it won't decide to do. demarco. >> morgan: elizabeth palmer reporting. thank you. a former hostage rescue this week from afghanistan is sharing horror stories from his five years in captivity. joshua boyle of canada says the taliban-linked haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped his american wife. >> i certainly do not intend to allow a brutal and sacreligious gang of criminal miscreants to dictate the future direction of
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my family. >> morgan: now, boyle arrived in toronto last night with his wife, caitlan coleman, of pennsylvania, and three other children born in captivity. the couple was abducted in 2012 while hiking. there were more tributes today for the victims of the las vegas massacre. 58 were killed in the attack. 45 are still in the hospital, some in critical condition. here's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: las vegas is mourning nearly two weeks after the deadly shooting rampage at a country concert. 500 volunteers created a two-mile-long woven lei to honor the victims. it was presented at two memorial sites today. >> excuse me for my emotion. >> reporter: through tears, sheriff joseph lombardo praised his officers' response at a press conference on friday. >> no matter what his personal vendetta is against the police or not, but he chose to fire upon the police vehicles roemer lombardo also offered new insight into the changing timeline. >> i still stand by the time of
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21:59. mr. campos received his wounds in close proximity to 22.05. >> reporter: at 9:59 p.m., hotel security guard jesus campos went to investigate an alarm on the 32nd floor but was likely not shot until closer to 10:05 p.m. that's when he used his radio and his cell phone to report that he'd been shot. within seconds, stephen paddock then turned his gunfire to concertgoers below his windows and the aviation fuel tanks about 100 yards past the concert crowd. at 10:17 p.m., police arrived outside his room, 12 minutes after the shooting began. campos has not shared his story with the media, but his union released these pictures of him getting an award for his bravery. new court documents show during the raid agents looked for medications, explosives, guns, and concert tickets when they went to paddock's mesquite home.
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>> morgan: all right jamie reporting from las vegas. the death toll in puerto rico continues to climb. at least 48 are dead in the american territory. about 85% of homes and businesses are still without electric service. and more than 35% of the island does not have running water. coming up next, members of the movie industry call an emergency meeting to address the harvey weinstein scandal.
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>> morgan: the academy of motion picture arts and sciences voted today to expel harvey weinstein. more than 30 women have accused the movie titan of sexual harassment or assault. the academy is calling for an end to the industry's "shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior." here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: harvey weinstein's spectacular plunge from hollywood glory...
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>> thank you, harvey weinstein. >> especially harvey. >> reporter: ...to national shame. >> i remember one of the first stories you heard about him involved inappropriate sexual misconduct. >> reporter: ...hit a new low on saturday. the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, a group of the leading artists and executives in the movie business, voted to revoke harvey weinstein's membership. the emergency decision came after dozens of women accused the mogul of sordid sexual misconduct stretching back decades. at a luncheon friday, gweneth paltrow, one of weinstein's accusers, described a feeling of unity among women in the wake of the scandal. >> i'm very honored, you know, after many, many decades-- what feels like many decades in this industry-- to have felt the support and the coming together of everybody this week. >> reporter: weinstein's expulsion comes after weinstein's own company fired him. his wife left him, and some of the biggest names in hollywood lined up to denounce him. on saturday, harvey weinstein's brother and business partner,
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bob, signaled support for harvey's expulsion from the entire industry. "harvey should never be allowed back, ever," he told the "hollywood reporter." "i mean, give me a break." weinstein's fall may force the academy to review the bedroom behavior of other members, notably bill cosby and roman polanski. but many in hollywood are hoping weinstein's ultimate legacy is spelled n-o. harvey weinstein maintains all the relationships he had were cob sensual. his brother denied reports that the weinstein company was exploring a sale or shutdown. but, demarco, he did acknowledge they are looking for a new company name, admitting this time it won't involve weinstein. >> morgan: up next, a new lawsuit aimed at banieral
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>> morgan: charlottesville, virginia launched a lawsuit aimed at preventing the hateful demonstrations that resulted in deadly violence this summer. here's justice reporter paula reid. >> reporter: they marched in formation down the streets of charlottesville, carrying shields and wearing combat gear. >> all in favor of the resolution? >> reporter: on thursday, city officials voted to file a lawsuit. >> it carries 4-0. >> reporter: ...alleging the white supremacists who ascended on the city in august remember acting as an illegal militia. virginia law prohibits militias or private military organizations from operating without government supervision. if the city wins, it would be able to block or strictly limit similar demonstrations. >> it was not a normal protest. when we saw was really militaries invading charlottesville. >> reporter: mary mccord is a former head of the justice department's national security division and now works at georgetown law. she filed the lawsuit one behalf of the city. >> the right to peacefully
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assemble and express view viewss protected by the first amendment. the right to assemble as a military organization engaged in paramilitary behavior is not protected freedom of expression, and it's really as simple as that. >> reporter: there are 22 defendants named in the lawsuit. jason kessler is named for his role in coordinating the august protest. he tweeted: at least 40 other states have laws that could be used to block similar protests from groups across the ideological spectrum. >> a group that comes organized and acting like a military unit, whether they're on the left, the right, or have no ideology at all, we think would violate these anti-paramilitary activity statutes. >> reporter: here at the estate of shows violent protests in august, the statue of robert e. lee is covered in a black shroud while a judge decides whether it can stay in the park. reid, cbs news,
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charlottesville. >> morgan: the syrian girl who captured the world's attention tweeting from a war zone is now sharing her story in a book.
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>> morgan: a young syrian refugee became a social media sensation last year posting on the war in her country. now living in turkey, she and her mother have wren a book about their harrowing experiences. reena ninan met them in new york. >> reporter: bana alabed has spent most of her life in war. >> reporter: she claims she can identify certain bombs by their sounds alone. >> reporter: one of those bombs, she says, killed her best friend, yazmine. >> we saw a car crash. our street.
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>> reporter: bana was afraid the world had forgotten syria, so she started tweeting. her first tweet, "i need peace." through videos, photos, and messages, she became the little girl who helped the world pay more attention to the war in syria. >> reporter: and you're going to make it to the statue of liberty? >> yes. >> reporter: bana says twitter helped their family survive. now she hopes her book will inspire others. so your favorite part it says, "i was born with-- >> i was born with a smile on my face. >> reporter: she is as confident as she is clever. to distract her little brothers from the bomedz, she built a playground in their living room, including a makeshift see saw. bana's mother, fatemah, managed bana's twitter account. the book includes her story.
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how does a mother protect her children in a war zone? >> reporter: you say in the book, "for me, optimism was a weapon against fear and despair." how so? >> reporter: that courage helped give bana the strength to tell her story. what is the future for bana? >> morgan: what a brave little girl there. that, again, was reena ninan reporting.
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when we return, the hit song with the message that's saving lives.
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. >> morgan: we end tonight with an international hit song that's making a big difference in people's lives. michelle miller sat down with the rapper, logic. ♪ i've been on the low i been taking my time i feel like i'm out of my mind it feel like my life ain't mine ♪ >> reporter: a song about a desperate caller contemplating suicide is resonating with millions of listeners. ♪ i just want to die today i just want to die ♪ >> reporter: and saving lives. that's because the song's title "1-800-273-8255", is also the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline. >> this is about so much more than-- than entertainment. >> reporter: logic, a rapper and songwriter originally from
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gaithersburg, maryland, came up with the single's concept, a person in despair reaching out to the hot line for help. in an upcoming segment for "cbs sunday morning," logic told us he has never thought about committing suicide but he has experienced firsthand what it's like to feel hopeless. you said that you struggled with anxiety. >> yeah, for sure, 100%. i was in the worst place of my life. i had made more money than i could have ever dreamed of. i bought this home that we're in right now. i was happily married, and, yet, i was unhappy. >> suicide prevention center cries line. >> reporter: since the single's release back in april, calls are up 33% at crisis hot line centers around the country. >> this is the second highest call volume that we have ever seen. >> reporter: john draper is the director of lifeline. >> if you show people positively coping through suicidal moments, research has shown that that can
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actually save lives and reduce the suicide rate. >> i know i'm hurting deep down but can't show it ♪ >> reporter: lifeline's call volume soared even higher after logic's recent performance at the mtv video music awards. he shared the stage with dozens of people personally affected by suicide. rosy chen was among them. >.>> it was so moving. it was very powerful. >> reporter: chen's ex-boyfriend committed suicide two years ago, and she struggled with thoughts of taking her own life. >> so many people are suffering, but people don't talk about it. >> i just wanted them to know that they really weren't alone >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, los angeles. ♪ i finally wannabe alive >> morgan: you are not alone. that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." i'm north new york.
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live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 at news. a fierce firefight on two fronts in sonoma county. overnight winds whip up the nuns fire forcing more people to flee their homes. here's the view from chopper five is the wine country wildfires rage tonight. altogether they have burned nearly 222 square miles across sonoma, celano, and napa valley. the size of tucson arizona. biggest area of concern is the nuns fire burning in eastern sonoma county. >> it blew up on two fronts overnight as winds pushed toward the eastern edge of sonoma. santa rosa's oakmont neighborhood to the north. that is where katie nielsen is now. >> reporter: we are actually on
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highway 12. if you look behind me you can still see the smoke coming off of what is now being called the sugarloaf incident. what this was was a spot fire that started early this morning when the winds were picking up. this was caused by the nuns fire. this is hood mountain regional park pushing down the hill towards some of the homes. we are being told by cal fire that they have resources in place. helicopters were making airdrops earlier today. there are crews and trucks back there trying to make sure they are able to protect all of these homes and structures that are right up next to the edge of this fire. here's what cal fire had to say. >> the first priority is the coolest thing down kogut th

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