jamie yuccas. california inferno. some calling it hell on earth, as raging wildfires burn across the state. hundreds rescued by helicopters after being trapped by flames. triple digit temperatures beating down on firefighters. >> it's cooking out there. >> also, 100 nights, portland protesters demand change as police try to keep the calm. saturday's scene declared a riot after a molotov cocktail sparks a fire ball. speaking out. jacob blake, the black man shot in the back seven times in the back by police while they tried to arrest him, why his life is now forever changed. >> not only your life, your

legs, something you need to move around and move forward in life be taken from you like this, man. >> beach bummer, concern over coronavirus as thousands crowd the shore. on summer's last big weekend. and later, the newlyweds who refused to let covid spoil their big day. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening. i'm >> good evening. i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. while marking the unofficial end to summer this labor day weekend more than 200 people at a california campground had to be rescued by military helicopters. the creek fire in central california has burned at least 46,000 acres. it's one of at least three major wildfires across the state fueled by extreme heat and high winds. jon vigliotti is on the front line near the sierra national forest.

>> reporter: an inferno raging out of control tonight in the sierra national forest. the 100-foot flames destroying homes, leaving a trail of destruction and even trapping campers. >> the roads are burned. >> california's national guard air lifting 200 people to safety. from mam of the pool reservoir. the dozens are recovering tonight, the fire burning more than 46,000 acres so far. >> the sheriff told us that we didn't have to evacuate but he was advising we do because he didn't know if the fire would jump the road and we couldn't get out. >> reporter: in san diego, the valley fire ripped through 4,000 acres, already burning ten homes and threatening more. >> we all have houses built after 2005. there's so much fuel at the base of that hill. i don't know if it will weather the storm or not. >> reporter: 100 miles east of l.a., the el dorado fire

exploding in size, now burning in rugged terrain. california's wildfires are record breaking and relentless. so far this year alone, the state has seen almost two million acres burned, fire crews are stretched thin. the military has become a more common sight and for those trapped by the increasingly erratic flames, back up arrived just before time ran out. the nachg national guard used a chinook helicopter to rescue 20 people at a time. those left behind were told to jump into the lake to escape the flames. tonight thousands of people across the state are under a mandate story evacuation as several fires continue to burn out of control and the record heat that's helping fuel these flames, expected to last through at least tomorrow. jamie. >> jonathan, thank you. please stay safe. those fires are being fueled by record breaking temperatures while other parts of the country

will face their own weather extremes this week. cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist jeff berardelli is tracking it. jeff? >> jamie, this heat wave is extraordinary. it's about as hot as it can get across california right now. we're going see a lot more heat over the next 24 hours. today through tomorrow another 100 record high is possible. a lot of them september records and some all-time heat. 123 in palm springs, fresno, 112 degrees. climate change took run of the mill heat wave and made it into a remarkable heat wave. watch this front. it's more trouble. as the front heads to the south it will cool down temperatures but infuse dry and windy weather into california. we're fighting a lot of fires right now, and as the wind winds through the canyons, we're going to see gust s of 40 and 50 miles an hour. and the possibility of out of control wildfires. look at this ridge of heat across the west. batch it break down quickly. temperatures will drop around 60

degrees in places like denver. amarillo down to 35. look at laramie, wyoming, at one degree. unbelievable. i'm going say about is 50 lows as we go through the week, and snow on top of that. several inches of snow possible in denver. in the mountains as much as a food to a foot and a half of powder. >> jeff, thank you. today president trump used the word "sick" to describe portland protests. the city erupted last night when molotov cocktails were the thrown. during a rally against police violence and racial injustice. more than 50 people were arrested. lilia luciano is there. >> reporter: on the 100th night of protests, demonstrators again gathered in a park for what started off as a lawful rally. >> black lives matter. >> but soon escalated.

portland police suspected the crowd of hundreds marching to the precinct and they called it a riot >> this remains a riot. >> reporter: a molotov cocktail was thrown. the police rushed in fast. >> the cops are rushing us. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: with tear gas and other impact weapons, anyone in their way. >> get back. we need room to work. >> some protesters lighting fires and throwing fireworks. one striking an officer's hand. >> tear gas all over the place. hundreds of people have left and now pulled back seven times. a very active scene. lots of tear gas, lots of clashes and many arrests. >> [ bleep ]. >> what's your name. >> even on the front line, protesters greeted the police. >> taxpayers pay your bill. >> he said he was there last night.

>> we have a constitutional right to assemble on public property and as long as they're able to declare it a riot because they don't want us somewhere, we'll keep showing up. >> reporter: this is the area where most of the clashes took place last night. in the daytime there's kids playing, riding their bikes. except for some left over paint it looks like nothing ever happened. tonight protesters are set to head to the streets, and tomorrow portland expected a big trump caravan with a thousand people in attendance. jamie? >> kwlal, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." after four nights of unlawful unrest, the mayor of rochester, new york, says tonight a group of church elders will serve as a buffer between protesters and police. saturday more than a thousand protester converged. that's when the peaceful march turned chaotic with some demonstrators throwing water bottles at law enforcement who then responded with pepper balls and tear gas. all this is in response to the death of daniel prude, a black man who died in police custody in march. protesters are demanding the officers involved be charged. meanwhile, in kenosha,

wisconsin, where jacob blake, the black man shot in the back by police last month spoke publicly for the first time in video shared by his attorney. >> every 24 hours it's pain, its hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep. it hurts to move from side to side. it hurts to eat. blake remains hospitalized, paralyzed from the waist down. the white house is on t defense as more inflammatory stories by a memoir leaked. they got together for an increasingly rare bipartisan agreement. we've agreed that neither one of us want a shutdown. >> reporter: ahead of congress heading back to work this week, treasury secretary steve mnuchin and nancy pelosi formally agreed to a continuing resolution to provide funding for criminal

services and federal programs. they're still at odds over specifics for stimulus checks and the budget for the next coronavirus relief package. >> we have to make sure the public knows how we can stop this and why the administration is standing in the way of crushing the virus. >> so whether it's one trillion or one and a half trillion, again, let's not get caught on a number. let's agree on things. >> reporter: after spending much of the last three days fighting off accusations he disparaged veterans, the form er trump insider plans to release a memoir tuesday. cohen makes several allegations in t book, including that trump made overt and covert attempts to get russia to interfere in the 2016 election and calls trump a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a

con man. in 2018, cohen pleaded guilty to financial and campaign finance crimes and lying to congress about his involvement in an effort to build a trump tower in moscow during the last presidential campaign. the white house is calling cohen's book fan fiction and says cohen has lost all credibility. campaign 2020 continues on as both candidates will visit shanksville, pennsylvania, on friday to mark the anniversary of september 11. no word yet if their passengers passengers will overlap. jamie? >> thank you. a frightening moment in the skies over honolulu saturday night. >> declaring a emergency. 85, 85, engine failure. we're returning to the field. >> hear that boom. witnesses heard loud booms while they saw flashes of light. apparently coming from a chartered military flight. the boeing 767 landed safely. no one was injured.

this week infectious disease experts warned of a cold weather surge in new coronavirus cases. the long-feared second wave may be just weeks away. this as the death toll closes in on 190,000 lives lost in the last six months. here's tom hanson. >> reporter: the long weekend stoked fears of another holiday surge in covid with packed beaches from california to florida while hundreds of trump supporters hit the potomac for the flotilla boat parade. for the trump-tilla boat parade. few masks in sight. >> this is for trump 2020. whoo! >> reporter: as new cases continue to rise in at least 27 states, so does the pressure to find a viable vaccine where america's toughest season just ahead. >> we're headed into the winter when we would expect a pathogen like this to spread more aggressively. >> reporter: on face the nation irks former fda commissioner

scott gottleib says scientists will not be hindered to expedite a vaccine before the election. >> the likelihood that we're going to have a vaccine for widespread use in 2020 is extremely low. i think we need to think it's a largely a 2021 event. >> but public confidence is another issue. a new cbs news poll shows americans are growing more skeptical. just 21% of voters in the united states say they would take a vaccine as soon as possible. more than half say they would wait to see what happens and another 21% say they would never take a vaccine. another interesting thing about this poll is when a vaccine is developed, an overwhelming 75% of americans say that they believe the next president should take it publicly to prove that it's safe. jamie. >> that is interesting, tom. thank you. next, what the u.s. hopes to learn from japan. plus, from kitchen on the community. the idea that's keeping restaurants and hearts open during the pandemic. keeping restaurants and hearts open during the pandemic.

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their three-year-old daughter. they were there during her third round victory. you can see her as she mouths mama in the stands. with no other fans in the stands, williams was asked what her daughter saw while watching her play. williams responded i hope she saw her mama fighting. fought for that win. many kids older than serena's daughter will be back at their desks this week. there's great concern for those who will be inside the class room for the first time since the pandemic shut down schools. it's something japanese educators have done with great success. lucy craft shows us how. >> reporter: just like always, students at tokyo's east elementary arrive at 8:00, remove shoes and head to class. and just like generations before them, they bow in the day's studies. but there's nothing usual about school now. masks are mandatory. desks are bare indicated in vinyl. hand washing has become a careful ritual. lunchtime, usually a highlight

of the day where kids dress up and serve each other has become a struggle. to keep them spaced and as quiet as possible. >> they think this is normal. it's hard to teach a regular class while keeping everyone safe. >> compounding things are crowded class rooms. regulations here allow up to 40 children per class. double what experts say is optimal during a pandemic. with physical fitness declining and kids putting on extra weight, teachers have had to get creative about gym class. sid the health instructor. >> games and close contact are out. we try to keep them all facing one direction and avoid shouting. >> reporter: stickers are a constant reminder to socially distance. stay far apart physically but close spiritually. they read. but total compliance by six-year-olds, the principal concedes, is futile.

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win-win-win's that's -- it's really worthy. >> john katz is the chairman of audible, the book company that has spearheaded fund raising for the program. taking in seven figures itself. >> since april and 400,000 meals and 25 restaurants and 10,000 residents needing food, getting touched by it. >> a humbling experience -- >> reporter: celebrity chevy chef marcus samuellson owns a restaurant. he said it should be done nationwide. >> we need private, public, and small businesses to work together. it's just the right thing to do. >> reporter: that makes perfect sense to walter green. >> so many people aren't able to work and now they're able to get a hot meal in their body to keep them going, so it keeps them with some type of faith that they can get through this. >> reporter: a recipe to cook up what we all could use right now, faith and hope. jim axlerod, cbs news, newark, new jersey.

>> faith and hope. always the best ingredients. jim, thank you. next, wedding day disruption. how one couple's ruined

finally tonight, an ohio couple's big day didn't go as planned but turned out better than they expected. when melanie and tyler's wedding reception was canceled because of coronavirus, it didn't stop them from spreading the love. >> i was like let's donate the food. >> after a scaled-down backyard ceremony with a canine best man, the bride and groom, still clad

in tux and gown, headed to a cleveland area shelter. >> you could just donate the food. why dress up? >> they felt like they were at a special event that day. >> reporter: their wedding night dinner wasn't glamorous. >> most of the kids wanted big bowls of mac and cheese. i don't blame them. >> it was delicious. >> reporter: but the donation was enough to feed their special guests for another five days. did you learn a lesson in this? >> that even in hard times, you can give back. >> you think you'll redo and have a big wedding? >> i love the way things unfolded. >> and there's a little boy with cup cake all over his face and that picture made it all worth it. >> how's that for something blue. >> isn't that best? i love the something old, something new. they want to turn this into an anniversary tradition. and that's the overnight news for this monday.

good evening. i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. while marking the unofficial end to summer this labor day weekend more than 200 people at a california catch ground had to be rescued by military helicopters. the creek fire in central california has burned at least 46,000 acres. it's one of at least three major wildfires across the state fueled by extreme heat and high winds. jon vigliotti is on the 90s near the sierra national forest.

>> reporter: 100 foot flames destroying homes, leaving a trail of destruction. and even trapping campers. >> all the roads are burned. >> reporter: california's nascar air lifting more than 250 people to safety. dozens of injured are recovering. the creek fire burning more than 46,000 acres so far. >> the sheriff came and told us that we didn't have to evacuate but he was advising we do because he didn't know whether the fire would zwrump road and we couldn't get out. >> reporter: the fire ripping through 4,000 acres, already burning ten homes and threatening more. >> we all have houses built after 2005. there's so much fuel at the base of that hill, i don't know if it will weather the storm or not. >> reporter: and the el dorado fire scorching more than 3,000

acres, now burning in rugged terrain. california's wildfires are record breaking and relentless. so far this year alone the state has seen almost 2 million acres burned, a key driver, climate change, causing more frequent and longer lasting infernos. the military has become a common sight and back up arrived just before time ran out. the national guard used a chinook helicopter to rescue 20 people at a time. those left behind to wait their turn were told to jump into the lake to escape the flames. tonight thousands of people across the straight are under manattorney evaluation as fires continue to gunner out of control. the record heat expected to last at least through tomorrow. jamie? >> jonathan, thank you. please stay safe. those fires are being fueled by record breaking temperatures. other parts of the country will

face their own weather extremes. jeff berardelli is tracking it all. jeff? >> this heat wave is extraordinary. it's about as hot as it can physically get across california right now. we're going to see a lot more heat over the next 24 hours. from today through tomorrow another 100 record highs are possible. some are all time record he'd. 123 in palm springs. fresno, 112 degrees. climate change made ron of the mill heat wave and turned it into a remarkable heat wave. as the front heads south it will cool down gimts infuse dry and windy weather into california. we're fighting a lot of fires. we're going to see gusts to 40 to 50 miles an hour and a possibility of out of control wildfires. look at this ridge of heat across the west. watch it break down quickly temperatures will drop in 18 hours in places like denver.

even amarillo down to 39. look at laramie, wyoming, at one degree. unbelievable. about 150 record lows we'll see as this happens. snow on top of that. several inches possible in denver. in the mountains as much as a foot to a foot and a half of powder. >> jeff, thank you. today president trump used the word "sick" to cry the protests. the city erupted last night when molotov was h cocktails were thrown. more than 50 were arrested. lilia luciano is there. the police expected the crowd of hundreds matching to the precinct and they called it a riot.

>> this remains a riot. >> reporter: a molotov cocktail was thrown. the police rushed in fast. >> the cops are rushing us. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: with tear gas and other impact weapons, anyone in their way. sme protesters lighting fires and throwing fireworks. one striking an officer's hand. >> tear gas all over the place. hundreds of people have left and now pulled back seven times. a very active scene. lots of tear gas, lots of clashes and many arrests. >> [ bleep ]. >> hands off of me! >> what's your name. >> even on the front line, protesters. >> we pay your bills. >> he said he was there last night. >> we have a constitutional right to assemble on public

property and as long as they're able to declare it a riot because they don't want us somewhere, we'll keep showing up. >> reporter: this is the area where most of the clashes took place last night. in the daytime there's kids playing, riding their bikes. except for some left over paint it looks like nothing ever happened. tomorrow portland expected a big pro trump caravan with a thousand people in attendance. >> thank you. after four nights of unlawful unrest, the rochester mayor says tonight a group of church elders will serve as a buffer between protesters and police. saturday more than a thousand protesters converged. that's when the peaceful march turned chaotic with some throwing water bottles at police. all this is in response to the

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this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. thanks so much for staying with us. six months after the first coronavirus lockdowns were ordered in the united states, millions of americans continue to work from home. some have been told to expect to work remotely at least until the end of the year but some companies are now taking extraordinary steps to prove offices can be modernized to reopen safely. brook silva braga has the story. >> welcome. >> good to be here. >> reporter: even if the ceo is

your host, a visit to ten grand central starts with a temperature check. entry to the building is now controlled by an app. i don't have to touch anything. >> through your app -- >> reporter: it's beeping. what is it like with the real estate? >> to allow for separation. >> as he showed us what he'd come up with we notice the changes fall in two buckets. the first focussing on the air, starting with the ventilation system. >> behind there we change all the filters to be more robust filtering occurring here and behind the filter is a uv light. >> and we believe that's killing the virus? >> we believe it's killing the virus. >> reporter: patios have been re-arranged as conference rooms. >> to the extent you can be outside, that's what people are

doing. >> you'll touch almost none of the surfaces. the bath door opens. now it's touchless. we're looking into having our coffee makers cappuccino makers be touchless as well. >> really? >> we've not had much success with that? >> we found one it's about $20,000. that's expensive cappuccino. >> reporter: and there's an office, even one like this, really safe. in rochester, minnesota, a team of scientists is working to figure that out, not only in the petry dish but also in a unusual kind of laboratory. looks like an office. >> it looks exactly like an office you but this actually is a lab with over 700 different sensors. >> reporter: the well living lab was to measure changes in to environment.

she gave us a tour. >> we can monitor air quality. >> reporter: in the time of coronavirus, like him, they're focused on surfaces and air. >> this is called a bland nebulizer. >> reporter: he'll track how changes to the office layout and ventilation change how droplets travel. they're dispersing throughout the room. hogan said he know sitting near the fresh air of a ventilation duct might help but learn two things about your office. how often all the air is recycles, something called the air change rate. should be about seven times an hour. and the efficiency of the air filters, measured by their merv rating, hopefully a 14 or higher. >> do we want to have the windows open? >> i would consult the

engineers. >> if that sounds like a contradiction, it could be because so many covid questions still await clear answers. >> everything lighting up is the virus. >> reporter: she's testing howe a virus like covid-19 spreads on different types of surfaces and how well different types of disinfect ent work but those experiences are still just being set up. >> we've got millions and millions of infections and we've got experiments that are just starting. that seems frustrating. >> it is frustrating but as an infectious disease doctor, i will say the information we have probably took five to ten years, if not longer, to get that knowledge from hiv. we want answers now but science doesn't work that way. >> real estate moves faster. >> we have a -- >> reporter: with yin perfect knowledge he's welcoming back

tenants but admits there may never be as many occupied desks as there once were. in this new space he's building out, half the workers will have their own enclosed office. before, it would have been nearly all cubicles. you were going to fit 30. now i can only fit 15. is the rent the same? >> the rent's the same. people are just using the space differently. >> reporter: will they use it? >> about 20% of workers came. he says he expects more next week. brook silva braga, new york. >> gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency, trying to head off power outages as the state deals with raging wildfires and a sweltering heat wave. 3,000 miles away, the people of maine are dealing with record temperatures but in the waters of the atlantic. how is that a problem? jeff glor asked the experts.

>> reporter: it's become america's newest hot spot. as families have flocked to maine for summer road trips during the pandemic, something else is on the rise as well. water temperatures in the gulf of maine. stretching from cape cod to nova scotia are warming faster than anywhere else in the lower 48. >> things are changing and they're changing false. >> so far this institute has measured more than 100 heat wave days in gulf of maine waters this year. >> it's a new term. the idea is just like a heat wave on land we're trying to capture the idea of conditions that are abnormally warm and that are persistent. >> reporter: over the next 30 years, a new report put together by 11 democratic senators says the u.s. needs to spend $400 billion every year to fight

warming waters and the effects of climate change. >> i think we're a little past saying climate change is real, the arctic is melting. >> reporter: shelton whitehouse is one of the athers. >> if you're having trouble putting the next meal on trouble. >> yeah. >> do you think you can convince them that more trillions will be spent? >> more than trillions will be saved. climate denial and the fight we're having over addressing climate change is truly not a partisan issue. when i got to the senate in 07, 08, 09, it was perfectly bipartisan. >> reporter: the goal should be to create 10 million new jobs in clean energy and development. >> one of the troubling things we've started to notice is some big changes at the base of the food web in the gulf of maine.

we're losing some of our subpolar suppose sees like cod, like shrimp. >> he believes on the current course, the numbers will eventually plummet. >> we have done a projection that looks at how temperature impacts lobster. our projection says if we get our carbon emissions under control, the gulf of maine holds on. if not, maine won't be a lobster state anymore. >> it's hard to imagine maine without lobster. >> it definitely is. it's a hard thing to get your head around but that's the challenge we all face. you think of other classic species or trees or animals that are associated with the place, all those things are moving across the map as we're warming the planet

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like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered theaters from coast to coast since match but some kper prizing theater groups are managing to put on shows in a very socially distant fashion. jamie wax that is the story. >> reporter: the music "godspell" has been performed since 1971 but never quite like this. ♪ day by day >> reporter: it's the only live musical in the country with a professional union cast. ♪ what's going on here in

massachusetts is captivated the artistic community's attention. could this be the new normal for going to the theater in a pandemic. >> every measure you can manage is probably being done. >> i need phone numbers for contact tracing. >> reporter: everything is designed to optimize safety. >> in a way, because of the restrictions, this production has turned out to be much more inventive. >> reporter: the director and choreographer have staged the show under a whole new set of rules. >> you have to be six feet apart if you're speaking. you have to be ten feet apart if you're singing. >> clear vinyl screens serve as barriers. props and musical instruments are san tyced constantly. the front row is 75 feet from the stage. while the cast must socially

distance on stage, they're close off stage. >> the cast lives together. they work together. they're literally not allowed to even converse with peoe out of eir bubble. roicht it's a level of dedication they're willing to make at a time when broadway's shutdown that is left 10s of thousands unemployed. >> we know has to work. we also know what it means for the future of musical theater and theater in general. >> bring back culture and art. >> i'm so excited to be back in the theater. ♪ >> reporter: high stakes for high art, creative director kate mcguire on opening night. >> there we were, all socially distanced and as separate as asu could possibly be, but at least we were still all together seeing live theater. at the end, the feeling was

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