captioning sponsored by cbs >> a mass shooting in texas. a gunman randomly opening fire killing five people. 21 others are reported injured. >> get down get down. >> hurricane dorian now a dangerous category 4 storm. as dorian's intensity grows, so does anxiety over where and when it'll strike. we have the very latest. also tonight, fiery protests, chaos again on the streets of hong kong. protesters set fire to their own barricade as china ramps up its response. outrage at the 911 dispatcher who scolded a drowning woman making this desperate call: >> ninan: the high-tech solution

and in our "eye on earth" series, the joshua tree: are soaring temperatures killing off a national treasure? this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: i'm reena ninan. it happened in odes da sa where a white male in his 30s went on a rampage, being pulled overren in a traffic stop between the cities of midland and odessa. severalty are shot and hurt, several police officers. kenneth craig has the latist. >> reporter: witnesses captured police rushing to the scene after the report of an active shooter on the roads of odessa.

are troopers tried to stop a man in his mid 30s in a gold honda. >> he was shot by the occupant of the car. >> reporter: police say the traffic stop erupted in gun fire when the suspect shot the trooper and took off. >> at some point, the subject stole a mail truck. ditched his car. and there were other victims after that. >> reporter: odessa police reported the shooting started in midland, making its way to odessa, shooting on the highway, be video shows shattered window windows. authorities confirm 21 victims were left in the shooter's trail and five were killed. as the frantic several for suspect unnoilded. >> we probably need to get off the air. >> reporter: anchors from our affiliate kosa were forced to leave the set while on air then evacuate the music city mall

where the shooting was located. police say they shot and killed the suspect at a nearby entertainment complexity. >> he hit the barrier! reporter: but still unclear what motivated the man to carry out the horrific attack. rynneth craig, cbs news, new york. >> hurricane dorian is groafg in rmrength. and becoming a growing threat for millions of americans. ri space, you can see the massive category 4 storm, now more than 200 miles wide. sorian is expected to devastate the bahamas tomorrow while south eastern florida is now under a tropical storm watch. dill, dorian's path remains hard to predict. jeff berardelli joins us now. jeff, why is it so hard to predict? t> reporter: because the steering winds are not very strong. in fact, they are so weak that they are hard to predict, and any small change in the atmosphere makes the very vulnerable to changes in its track. and that's what we are seeing. here is the latest advisory. if we zoom in, we will show you how strong the system is. it is literally a classic textbook storm, perfectly circular.

it's almost a cat 5, but not quite. we'll put the stats up for you. mnds 150 miles an hour, moving fairly slowly at eight miles an hour. it is going to slow down to a crawl. we'll put the national hurricane center track up, and, as you notice, it really slows down over the bahamas and because of it they are asking people to evacuate the northern bahamas. we're going to see a couple of days of really bad conditions, creeps up the eastern say board, hurricane force winds probably remain offshore t is a close rll. but tropical storm force wind gusts are likely on the kertheast coast of florida. then, the system heads towards the carolinas. where does it go exactly? e're not sure, but it could very well make landfall imewhere in south or especially north carolina near the coastline. so, let's sum it up now. y'day's news model stayed the course from the earlier model today. the storm's going to stall and then turn northward up the coast. what we know for sure: huge gettering waves, very rough surf, the possibility of coastal flooding. some of the waves offshore could

be as much as 50 feet high. >> ninan: that's incredibly high. jeff berardelli, thank you very much for joining us. well, tonight, florida, georgia and south carolina have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm. along florida's east coast, people are busy filling sandbags in anticipation of flash flooding. mireya villarreal reports tonight from cocoa beach. >> reporter: businesses are shutting down and families are packing up. state and local leaders are all giving the same message... .> don't take down your shutters, not just yet. >> reporter: ...to people living all along the southeastern allantic coast. >> we want to ensure that there is no lost lives or, you know, casualties as a part of this storm or any storm coming in. >> reporter: don't let your guard down. >> we are not out of the woods ott. >> reporter: there is still a ssibibility the massive storm could hit beachfront communities nike cocoa beach. it's supposed to be one of their busiest weekends of the year. city manager jim mcknight is working closely with first responders to secure the town. >> the businesses and, more importantly, the service industry, those in hospitality,

whatever you have, those people will suffer. and that really is something that is concerning. and so, it's very disappointing for those people. and i know the community always steps up and helps as much as they can. >> reporter: across florida, food and supplies are running low as the lines to fuel up continue to grow. homeowners are hunkering down even if they don't take a direct tt. >> all kinds of damage, windows broken, you know, trees down. so, you really... you never know. >> reporter: normally, this beach would be packed on the , turday afternoon on labor day boekend. but, you know, thousands have already left the island. the county was actually planning to issue a mandatory evacuation starting sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. but you know what, reena? rat has been delayed just like hurricane dorian's arrival. >> ninan: mireya villarreal. yoank you very much, mireya. and we want to remind you, you can keep track of hurricane nerian all weekend long with our

cbs news app, or you can also log on to cbsnews.com. mass protesters took to the streets in hong kong today in koat some are calling the most intense fighting of the summer- long battle. protesters set fires and threw gas bombs at police who not only fought back but used undercover officers to make arrests. ramy inocencio was in the middle of all the chaos. ( gunfire ) >> reporter: throwing fire bombs and bricks, hong kong's protesters took their most icious fight yet to the city's government headquarters, demanding the repeal of a hated extradition bill and the right to vote for their chief executives. e gunfire ) police aiming at the crowd shot round after round of tear gas to try to repel them and fired water canons with blue dye to identify people later.

the day did start peacefully but illegally, with protesters ignoring a police ban. people vented their anger at the arrests of nine pro-democracy legislators and activists just the day before, and railed against the party itself. as night wore on, protesters lit barricades on fire outside police headquarters. police raided a subway station, pepper spraying protesters, infiltrated protester ranks to make arrests, but were discovered and beaten away and fired more warning gunshots at these protesters. hong kong's government has ruled rt making any compromise with ote protest movement and today put down hopes of political teform, saying it would further eolarize society-- all but ensuring these protests will continue. ramy inocencio, cbs news, hong kong.

>> ninan: the latest salvo in voesident trump's trade war, a new round of tariffs go into effect at midnight. there will be a 15% tariff on $112 billion of chinese goods. consumers can expect to feel the impact on everything from milk to diapers to sports equipment. the nation's largest bank, j.p. morgan chase, says it could cost the average american $1,000 a year. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: at classic toys in los angeles, owner don queen is spending labor day weekend stocking up, hoping to soften w e blow of new tariffs. >> i'm buying as much items as i can right now before it does happen. and i'm even working harder and longer hours to make up for it. >> reporter: toys are among the thousands of products caught up in the u.s.-china trade war. t the additional tariffs come in two rounds. ie first, starting tomorrow, could hit consumers directly. >> reporter: as the trade war ,scalates, there's the risk of more pain being felt by gmericans. mevid french, with the national retail federation, says the 15%

tariffs will raise prices for american families and hurt the economy. >> we're talking, you know, about the potential for millions of lost jobs, less investments, t,ower g.d.p. growth, unemployment, higher prices. this is the perfect storm. rf reporter: president trump is standing firm on tariffs. >> no, they're on. they're on. >> well, i've gotten about six ntices from my suppliers already warning me that the prices will be going up. >> reporter: toys are part of the second wave of tariffs, delayed until december 15. that may keep prices from rising for holiday shopping, but not utrever. >> so, i'm holding off as long as i can, in regards to raising prices. ic reporter: so far, new tariffs eave mostly impacted big industries. but now, consumers and small businesses are on the trade wars' front lines. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> ninan: outrage in arkansas tonight after the death of a 47-year-old woman who drowned

while delivering newspapers. the woman called 911 after accidentally driving into high water. but the dispatcher who took her call offered little sympathy. well, the defense department has identified an army soldier killed in america's longest war. sergeant first class dustin b. od died from wounds sustained in combat operations in zabul province afghanistan, two days ago. sergeant ard, a green beret from hyde park, utah, was 31 years md. a u.s. missile strike today reportedly killed at least 40 jihadists. the attack is said to have targeted a meeting of jihadist leaders in the syrian province of idlib. holly williams reports on the unending violence in that war- torn land.

( explosion ) >> reporter: in idlib today, the warplanes rained down death. more than three million people live in this corner of syria, and, after eight years of civil war, many have nowhere left to run. in this dank bunker, we found children hiding from the insanity above. so, this family has dug out a cave by hand, an air shelter underneath their own home. and when there are syrian regime or russian jets or helicopters in the air, the children come down here and take shelter. toddlers clutching their teddy bears taking cover from the bombs of their own government. rtrts of idlib are now eerily quiet, like the town of maarat nl numan, abandoned by tens of thousands of its residents after air strikes targeted a busy srket last month. 50 were killed, by some reports,

a massacre in cold blood. the derwish family, who farm olives and cherries on the vetskirts of town, have hung on until today, but now they've packed a few possessions and are reading to a camp. they told us their children are terrified by the bombing raids. do they understand what this war is about? "they are kids," jeama told us. "they see the jets and the bombs, but they don't understand." the syrian regime and its russian backers are apparently trying to make idlib unlivable, and they're succeeding. holly williams, cbs news, idlib, syria. >> ninan: supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg appeared today at the national book festival in washington promoting her memoir, and she addressed concerns about her bout with a utncreatic tumor as only the notorious r.b.g. can. >> this audience can see that i am a alive.

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it shows by the end of the century, even with our best efforts to reduce greenhouse gas, 80% of joshua trees will be wiped out. if no action is taken, the species will become nearly extinct. joshua tree national park is the only place you will find the species. s.ere are nearly a million throughout the mojave desert. they survive because their deep roots find ground water and store it. but rising temperatures are making it almost impossible for them to grow and reproduce. huese joshua trees have the best chance of survival because they're at higher elevation within the park. but scientists warn there's a secondary threat. non-native grasses have inundated the area, and, along with the high temperatures, are increasing the risk of devastating wildfires. >> we are currently working right now to remove non-native vevasive grasses. if we didn't have these grasses inlling in these inner spaces here, there wouldn't be a continuous fuel bed.

>> reporter: three million siople visit the park each year. jane volunteers and hopes to inspire others to take action. >> i want the kids to see what i can see today. i want them to be able to go out and enjoy all this beautiful land and not have some, like, barren savannah. >> reporter: mara say their visit opened a whole new world. w> is this place worth saving? >> yes. >> why? >> they only live in this place. you won't see them anywhere else except the internet and stuff. >> reporter: the trees' life or death is now up to these future generations. jamie yuccas, cbs news, joshua tree national park. >> ninan: next on the "cbs weekend news," the all-female crew flying high over hurricane dorian. over hurricane dorian. (clown 1) sorry about that... (clown 2) apologies. (clown 1) ...didn't mean it. (clown 3) whoops. (stilts) sorry!

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hurricane. >> that means that there's more women getting interested in flying. and it's also fun to have that amaraderie because, to be honest, it's been a male- dominated field. domihere's a little bit of people think you're a little bit nuts. but then, when you tell him this thisy we're going out and doing this, collecting all of this really important data, then people are usually really grateful for what you're doing. >> reporter: it's images like this one the crew hopes will help inspire future female ts.ots. >> to let them know this is certainly a possibility for ssem, and they don't have to feel intimidated or in anyway think that they cannot do it. >> ninan: that was beau zimmer reporting. and just a reminder: you can continue to track hurricane dorian all weekend long on our ou-hour streaming network cbsn and our cbs news app. ou can download the cbs news spp or follow us on cbsnews.com. thisaturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." i'm reena ninan in new york. for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and od

live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. now at 6:00, toxic fumes spread through an upscale san jose hotel sending at least nine people to the hospital. the grim discovery at the center of the investigation. a landmark deal to cap the increases across the state. i'll tell you why many tenants are not happy about it. >> and california disaster crews are headed across the country tonight. to answer florida's call for help. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. we begin with the hotel hazmat situation in san jose. at this hour, one floor of the fairmont is still off limit and nine people are being treated for exposure to toxic fumes. it stems from an apparent suicide in one of the rooms.

>> katie is still live more. >> reporter: they don't know how and why the one woman died. earlier today, at least nine people were sickened by toxic fumes that were spreading through the hotel, two hotel guests and seven workers were taken to the hospital. >> 170 south market street, chemical suicide. >> a note in the room that said the subject committed suicide by poisonous gas. >> reporter: that was the call that went out to san jose firefighters about 10:00 this morning. they found one woman dead inside a room on the 19th floor and a strong chemical smell coming from inside. >> sounds like a chemical exposure. >> reporter: a handful of hotel staff members were already feeling sick. >> some of them were init