sacramento held the state capital yesterday. thousands of native americans gathered to celebrate their heritage. while it was a celebration of native american history, it is also about education. >> it shows those that are watching the prater spectators, the history is still very much alive today. our ancestors and the resiliency that we are able to share these songs. >> we will shine a light on critical native american issues and ensure the legacy of their ancestors. we will see you back here in 30 minutes for an hour news. local ♪ tonight, fire danger on both coasts. in the east, crews battling wild

fires in several states. one of them now deadly. the forecast that could help. while in the west, firefighters gained ground on the destructive fire north of los angeles. >> i'm elise preston in california where residents are discovering what they lost. >> also tonight, gunshots at tuskegee university's 100th homecoming. one person dead, several injured. trump transition. after his sweeping victory, the president-elect returns to the oval office this week. >> i'm natalie brand at the white house where president-elect trump and president biden will meet to talk about the path forward after a divisive campaign. massive attacks. ukraine and russia trade a record number of drone strikes. in britain princess catherine returns to royal duties as the nation honors its war dead. plus, remembering bobby

alison, one of the great all-time nascar drivers. and later we look back at the life of judith jamison. dancer, acclaimed choreographer and international star. >> we represent the african americans of america. ♪ this is "the cbs weekend news" from new york from jericka duncan. >> good evening and thank you for joining us this sunday. tonight firefighters are busy from the west to the east. wild fires have burned across new york, new jersey and pennsylvania this weekend, filling skies with smoke and claiming at least one life. in california, fire crews are making progress against the massive mountain fire north of los angeles. cbs' elise preston is in the dvastated city of camarillo. >> reporter: firefighters are getting the upper hand on the

devastating mountain fire. more than 14,000 people. families are dealing with the aftermath. in unimaginable loss, the ferocious mountain fire in california sparing little in its 32-mile path. janice lindsey is one of the many homeowners that lost everything to the inferno, including her two cats. >> we had our hands on both of them at one point, and they broke free. i'm certain they didn't get out. >> reporter: one resident assessed the damage. 3,000 firefighters are mopping up hot spots. more than 20,000 acres still burn with 26% containment. in the east, wild fires have ignited in several states. in new york, a tragic loss. 18-year-old vazquez, a state park's employee died battling the creek fire. that fire is also raging in new jersey. over 2,500 acres torched.

0% containment. dry conditions have made the garden state a tinderbox. the new jersey forest fire service responded to more than 40 fires. >> not only burning on top of the ground, but under the ground. >> reporter: in new jersey, the never-before seen fire fought by land and air. toxic air spreading through the region. back in camarillo, california, time to start over. >> along with grief, there's joy and there's hopefulness. >> reporter: cal fire says it has a dozen damage inspection teams in the field. air quality is also improving, jericko with ventura county schools set to open tuesday after the veterans day holiday. >> thank you. first a blizzard. now the big melt. in colorado, snow fell for five days, making travel treacherous. some areas got more than 30 inches. thousands lost power. new mexico was also pummelled.

these cattle, as you can see there, weathered it together. 7 more inches of snow fell after this video was shot. as for what's ahead, let's check back in with andrew kozac. >> good evening. good news for the people and the cows in this area. not only are we looking at sunshine to start the week off, 40s, 50s and 60s for these areas that received a good show. now to california. in the morning, it will not be as bad. in fact, it will help the firefighters with those fires ot there. by the afternoon, we're looking at a wind advisory with winds gusting over 25 to 35 miles an hour. it will push a lot of smoke inland, but it could also spread the fire. we're not done yet. so nice to see areas like new york and philadelphia get a soaking rain into monday morning. it is not everything we need, but it certainly helps. looking at monday at a glance. rain and snow for the higher elevations. nice, sunny and comfortable in the midwest.

after that soaking rain in the northeast, up and down 95 we're looking at a dry and sunny start to the week. >> andrew kozak, thank you so much. tonight an arrest in tuskegee, alabama where at least one person is dead and several injured after a shooting at the university's 100th homecoming. cbs' jason allen is there for us tonight with the details. jason? >> reporter: jericko, law enforcement said they arrested a 25-year-old man that they say had a handgun with a machine gun conversion advice. there is a lot of concern among students coming back to campus even as investigators are still collecting evidence. >> oh, my gosh. get down! >> reporter: a centennial celebration interrupted by panic and gunfire. >> we were having fun, and all of a sudden, i saw people running towards me before i heard gunshots.

>> reporter: nursing student spoke to us today as she came back to the tuskegee university campus with her mother hours after a bullet hit her in the back centimeters from her spine. >> i tried to get up and run to my friend's car. that's when i got shot in my back. ended up getting hit three times, and i was on the ground. i was shot for like 40 minutes until the paramedics could get to me. >> reporter: she was one of more than a dozen people caught in the cross fire early sunday. one of them, 18-year-old johnson was killed. >> it was so chaotic. people trying to get out, trying to do everything. it was just crazy. >> reporter: johnson was not affiliated with the university, the school confirmed in a statement to cbs news. >> it is really sad we have to go through this, especially since it is our homecoming and it was the last day of homecoming. >> reporter: four more people were injured in all the chaos. but they were not shot.

the university has canceled all of its classes for tomorrow. >> scary moments. thank you. turning to politics now, where it's official. today we learned that president-elect donald trump swept all seven battleground states, which include arizona. the last state to be called. and it is one that president joe biden won back in 2020. the final electoral vote count, trump 312, vice president kamala harris 226. now donald trump is set to return to washington this week. cbs' natalie brand is at the white house with more on that. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. president biden will meet with president-elect trump here at the white house on wednesday. it is the first time they are speaking face to face since their debate back in june. and it is an invite that was not extended by trump when president biden was pretparing to take office. president biden returned to the white house today with his

administration committed to a smooth and orderly transition. >> president biden is committed to the peaceful transfer of power and to a responsible handoff from one president to the next, which is in the best tradition of our country and has been for the last 240 years. >> reporter: that presidential precedence was uphended four years ago when then president trmp contested the election results, instead spreading unfounded claims of election fraud. all of them debunked after exhaustive lawsuits and investigations. trump's sweeping comeback victory includes control of the u.s. senate and possibly the u.s. house. tonight up to ten races remain undecided, most of them in the west. that's left democrats soul searching about their losses from allies to a former biden primary challenger. >> we used condemnation of donald trump versus invitation to donald trump supporters. >> we did not have a compelling enough economic vision. the democratic party should have one simple mission, and that is to address the economic

hardships and struggles of many americans. >> reporter: republicans are eager to enact their agenda. >> i think this is a presidency that has a mandate like we haven't seen, as you mentioned, in 36 years. >> now tonight "the washington post" reports that trump talked to russian president vladimir putin late last week and told him not to escalate the war in ukraine. a spokesman for trump says he will not comment on private conversations between trump and world leaders. jericka? >> thank you. speaking of the war, ukraine and russia carried out their largest drone attacks today against each other since the start of the war. chris reports. >> reporter: the menacing buzz of an attack drone before its blown out of the sky, all part of the biggest exchange of drones between russia and ukraine since russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. ukraine fired dozens into the skies over moscow, injuring a

woman and temporarily shutting down russia's biggest airport in the kremlin's own backyard. the same night ukraine says russia fired a record 145 drones at cities like odessa, killing one and injuring dozens. with the help of north korean soldiers, russia has intensified its offensive in ukraine's east, but at a heavy cost. >> october was the worst casualty figures for russia so far. on average, over 1,500 people either killed or wounded every single day. and that is tiny increments of land. >> reporter: a pitched gun battle in ukraine's east, where a ukrainian soldier wearing a helmet camera is hit. i feel blood running down my back, he says. with arms and ammo running low, the big question is will president donald trump once in office cutoff military aid to

this key american ally as threatened. speaking to bbc radio this weekend, a trump campaign adviser offered a clue about crimea, the ukrainian peninsula russian president vladimir putin invaded and anexted in 2014. >> we have news for volodymyr zelenskyy, crimea is gone. you're on your own. that is not the priority of america. today is remembrance sunday, and britain marking the end of world war i. king charles laid the wooet in london honoring the nation's war dead. princess catherine was there returning to royal duties after chemotherapy. straight ahead on "the cbs weekend news," world leaders set to address a warming planet, which experienced its hottest year on record.

tomorrow, leaders from nearly 200 countries gather in asser bay john for annual climate discussions. and a united nations warning that 2024 could be the planet's hottest year on record. cbs's tina krause reports. >> look no further than japan's famous mt. fuji to see how record heat is changing the landscape. snow fell this week about a month late. the slowest snowfall in 130 years. >> it's beautiful with the smell, and that was kind of what our expectations were coming. >> reporter: climate scientists say 2024 is set to be the hottest ever, shattering heat records just like last year. the torrid trends come ahead of next week's cop29 united nation's climate conference. some leaders worry

president-elect donald trump's return to the white house could slow global climate action. >> we get really concerned that all the talks are now going to be what will happen in the absence of the u.s. >> reporter: trump has called climate change a hoax and is promising to boost oil drilling and production. climate experts say severe droughts, devastating hurricanes and relentless rain like the floods that hit spain last week signal more climate chaos to come. >> there is very strong evidence suggesting that many of these extreme events have become more intense because of climate change. >> reporter: climate researchers say data clearly shows cutting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is the only way to protect the planet and break the world's scorching heat streaks. tina krause, cbs news london. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, protecting priceless memories from natural disasters. "the cbs

weekend news", protecting priceless memories from natural disasters.

more than three million americans are displaced by natural disasters every year. for many, the trauma does not end when a wild fire is storm is gone or when communities and homes are rebuilt. cbs shows us how technology is helping to preserve memories. >> this bookcase is filled with wonderful memories. >> reporter: matt azner lives in the foothills that catch fire in the city that gave its name to the 6.7 north ridge earthquake. you may know his father. >> this is what i remember when

i remember my dad. >> reporter: cbs legend died three years ago. it was up to his son to save family history from the kind of disaster that's become more common as our earth heats up. >> this is from his cbs dinner. mary tyler moore was his big break. this is my dad and larry fine from "the three stooges". >> how do you protect this many paper photos? >> reporter: it digitizes about a thousand pictures in under five minutes. >> reporter: this is mitch goldstone. he owns one of many companies that will do the scanning for you. >> there's been an urgency, a race to have everything scanned for you. >> reporter: and it is not just family memories. even governments are looking to save history. these boxes are full of photos that have just been gathering dust. >> we realized at that point in

time that this wasn't storage. this was history. >> reporter: jackie doke found them at the newspaper building where she works on the cayman islands. >> reporter: they sent all these boxes here? >> right. they really had great timing because then the hurricane hit, and they had everything digitized. >> reporter: the cayman islands' project was massive. we're talking 347,000 images. these are photos and negatives inside these boxes all had to be scanned. this is just one of those photos. for one family, it was an astounding find. >> and she came up and put a message that said, oh, my gosh. that is my mother when she was a child, and we don't have any photos because we lost them in ivan. >> you always see the news stories where people are crying about what they lost. they're not talking about their couch. >> reporter: they're actually talking about the person that used to sit there, a memory now

preserved. cbs news in north ridge, california. well, next on the cbs weekend news, after years of sweeping the clouds away, a look at how we got to sesame street. weekend news", after years of sweeping the clouds away, a look at how we got to sesame street.

♪ how to get to sesame street. >> today sesame street turns 55. they made its debut on what's now known as cbs. sesame street was one of the first children's programming aimed at filling the educational

gap. oscar the grouch wasn't always green. he was orange that year. one thing that's still the same, oscar loves trash. and i love elmo. he's my favorite. when we return, remembering two remarkable american lives.

and the winner of the 30th annual great american race, bobby allison. >> tonight nascar fans are remembering one of the sport's all-time greats. bobby allison, a three-time daytona 500 winner died at home in north carolina. he was a founding member of racing's alabama game. he was 86 years old. also tonight, we pay tribute to trail blazer and international star judith jamison. the dancer and choreographer died saturday at age 81.

here's chanel. >> at 5'10", it was hard not to notice a young judith jamison on stage. born in philadelphia, pennsylvania, she began dancing at the age of 6. joining the american dance theater in 1965 when black dancers were rare in ballet. >> we represent the african americanism of america. >> reporter: she became one of the company's most famous dancers before taking over as artistic director in 1989. during her 20-year tenure, jamison became a kennedy center ho honoree and turned it into one of the most diverse dancing companies in the world. >> he wanted his dancers to be a reflection of his audience. >> reporter: sylvia waters worked with jamison for decades. what was it like to dance with

her? >> it was totally inspiring. she was such a force. >> reporter: a visionary who moved to make a difference and did. cbs news new york. finally, tonight marks 249 years since the u.s. marine corps was established to support naval forces in the revo revolutionary war. as we prepare to honor our nation's veterans tomorrow, we thank you for your service. that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. i'm jericka duncan in new york. have a great night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition.

>> faith [ inaudible ] >> nancy pelosi shows up to say that tomorrow is another day. deep blue in a frat deposit deep loop democrats are very blue after the election. and the latest on the transition back to power. also, changes are coming for the streets of san francisco. what happens if drivers violate a new parking lot? live from the cbs studios in san francisco, we begin with, house speaker nancy pelosi. she attended her first public event since the general election, this after laming biden for contributing to the democrats losing the white house, big time. she was at glide memorial church to have a look at the construction going on, and to assure democrats that life will go on. we have that story. >> no way to