>> reporter: jamie wax, new york. it's monday, september 7th, .2020 this is "cbs morning news." out-of-control wildfire. massive flames trap more than 200 people in a popular area of california. the desperate measures some campers took to escape the fast-moving flames. marching for justice. demonstrators hit the streets on both sides of the country following the deaths of black people at the hands of police. how one maended up ofire during one of the protests. fresh attacks. president trump is facing startling allegations. this time from his former lawyer this time from his former lawyer in a new book. captioning funded by cbs good morning, thanks for being with us. i'm nancy chen in for anne-marie green. we begin with a frightening

experience for hundreds of campers who got trapped by an out-of-control fire in california. the creek fire has burned more than 73,000 acres since friday evening in the sierra national forest. the only road out of a popular recreation area threatening the lives of more than 200 people. military helicopters got there in time, taking everyone to safety. cbs news spoke to one man who says he barely escaped. >> we're all in the water and we just -- we keep going down into the water to protect us from the embers. some of the embers the size of golf balls. wind's blowing 40, 50, 60 mile-per-hour in some cases, some of the gusts. we keep going under and under and under. in my mind i'm going, are we going to die from the fire or from drowning? >> 20 people had injuries ranging from burns to broken bones. more coming up ahead on "cbs this morning." a gender reveal party is to

blame for a wildfire east of los angeles. cal fire authorities said the el do fra generating pyrotechnic device used during the party. so far it has scorched more than 7,000 acres sie saturday morning. it is 5% contained. overnight, demonstrators gathered near a police precinct in portland to protest police brutality. in rochester, new york, demonstrators erupted for a fifth straight day for daniel prude, a black man who allegedly suffocated as police was taking him into custody. elise preston with more. were there signs of violence in rochester? matly peeful.yat protest a change from what we've seen the last several nights. ♪ we shall overcome >> reporter: protesters hit the streets of rochester, new york, for the fifth straight night with church members and community elders at the forefront to keep the peace.

>> i don't want the police to spray the young people. i don't want the young people to throw rocks. >> reporter: 70-year-old shirley thompson has a history of foriv. ghe s athe mch o ting wafishington in 1963. >> we're trying to appeal to the moral conscience of our authority figures in the city. >> reporter: demonstrations erupted last week after video was released showing daniel prude's fatal encounter with police back in march. >> if we want better, we got to make it better. >> reporter: yesterday, mayor lovely warren promised reforms are coming. >> we are doubling the availability of mental health professionals. we will take our family crisis intervention team out of the police department. >> reporter: the first four days of protests saw some violence break out.oue agators. ofal on the other side of the country, protests in portland continued for the 100th night over the weekend sparked by the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor, and others. [ chants ]

on saturday, a peaceful rally turned violent when protesters lit fireworks and threw molotov cocktails. one set a man's feet on fire. police used teargas to disperse the crowd. 59 people were arrested. and according to police records, of those 59 arrested, the majority of them are from the portland area. a few suspects are from out of state. nanc >> elise preston joining us in new york. thank you. meantime, we are now hearing from jacob blake for the first time since a court hearing last week. he is a black man who was shot in the back in kenosha. he spoke publicly in a video shared by his attorney. >> every 24 hours, it's pain -- it's numbing pain. it hurts to breathe. it hurts tsleep. it hurts to move from side to side. it hurts to eat. >> blake remains hospitalized,

now to the presidential race. a new cbs news poll finds former vice president joe biden beating president trump nationally. among likely vots, biden has a ten-point lead over mr. trump. 52% to 42%. the surveys were conducted last week and are based on nearly 2,500 registered voters. the white house remains on the defense today. more inflammatory allegations from a soon-to-be released memoir by a trump insider were leaked to the press. this as democratic leaders and the administration reached an increasingly rare bipartisan agreement. i think the good news is the speaker and i have agreed that neither one of us want a government shutdown. >> reporter: ahead of congress returning back to session this week, treasury secretary steve mnuchin and nancy pelosi already informally agreed to a clean continuing resolution to provide funding for critical services and federal programs. t they're still at odds over

coronavirus relief package. >> we have to ma sure the public knows how we can solve this and why the administration is standing in the way of crushing the virus. so whher it $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion, again, let's not get caught on .'s ree this.a nuer >> reporter: after spending mu of the last three days fending off reports he disparaged veterans, the president is now facing attacks from one of his former lawyers, michael cohen. the former trump insider plans to release a memoir about his work for the president tuesday. cohen makes several allegations in the book, obtained by cbs news, 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 id cn. the white house is calling cohen's book "fan fiction" and says cohen has lost all credibility. and campaign 2020 continues on as both candidates will visit shanksville, pennsylvania, friday to mark the anniversary of september 11th. no word yet if their appearances will overlap. cbs news, the white house. from co e packed bars and beaches this labor day weekend with some ignoring urgent warnings from top health officials to help curb the pandemic. yesterday more than 31,000 new covid-19 infections were reported. as of friday, more than two dozen states showed an increase in average new cases. and take a look here. this is what it looked like in miami. some people were spotted without wearing masks or practicing

social distancing. and check out the crowds of people. this is in downtown nashville. despite it all, one man says he felt safe. >> i try to keep my own distance. we keep our distance from the crowds. we always keep our masks on. so we're fine. >> most people complied with the mask mandate. and 29 students at west virginia university are suspended and banned from class for violating coronavirus guidelines. the university says a fraternity member who contracted the virus and had been ordered to isolate attended a party at the frat house on friday. students living at that frat house had previously been warned by the school to quarantine due to confirmed infections. coming up on the "cbs morning news," parts of rnia break heat wave records as temperatures soar into triple digits.cali and why online retailer amazon is baing seeds from foreign sellers. this is the "cbs morning news." news."

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looking into a possible link between covid-19 and an increase in cases of type-one diabetes in children. rylee carlson has details. >> reporter: this spring, flint perfectly healthy 13-yea d to being admitted to the hospital. >> he started to get progressively worse. brrd beuscaece he i got really skinny. he still felt fatigued. he started having some tummy troubles. >> reporter: doctors diagnosed him with type-one diabetes but also wanted to know if he'd had covid-19. were you surprised? >> yeah. i mean, i had never heard any of that before at all. imperial college london decided to look into the possible links after some hospitals reported about double the number of type-one diabetes cases at the height of the pandemic compared to the same time period in previous years. >> the viruses have always been thought to play a role in

susceptible. we feel that covid-19 may be behaving in a similar manner. >> reporter: some of the kids tested had active covid infections. others, like flint, had antibodies. the next step for researchers will be to analyze a larger number of cases to see if they can prove a direct link. >> we really don't want to alarm parents, but i think it's great if the awareness of early features of diabetes are out there in the public. >> reporter: parents should watch children for four symptoms -- constant thirst, frequent restroom visits, tiredness, and weight loss. help get kids like flint back to leading a healthy life. rylee carlson, cbs news, london. coming up on "cbs this morning," college football kicked off its season but uncertainty remains amid the coronavirus pandemic. we'll look at the big cost of canceling college football. plus, analysis of the presidential race and what the candidates should be doing as they enter the final months of campaigning.

and only on "cbs this morning," elmo from "sesame street" tells us about his new book for kids to help ease their rerries abin tuou t> g thtoatrnhe t he "cbs news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm nancy chen, have a great day.day. ♪

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