captioning sponsored by cbs >> fleeing the flames. tens of thousands of californians are forced to evacuate as wildfires destroy hundreds of homes and threaten many more. >> this is the stuff you have nightmares about. >> also tonight, this is how you get to the front line at breakneck speed to avoid isis snipers. >> an american in the war against isis. >> mike hogan from phoenix, arizona, who was a waiter before he came here six months ago. >> a chinese farm product that needs plenty of sun but not a drop of water. >> i've been taking my time. ♪ i feel like i made up my niend. ♪. >> and the song that is triking a cord with people in crisis.

>> it was so moving, it was very powerful. >> this is this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening, anthony mason is on assignment, i'm elaine quijano. much of california is on fire tonight, or at risk of going up in flames. red flag warnings meaning conditions are ripe for wildfires are up all over the state. more than 20 major fires are burning. 15 of them started in just the past 24 hours. and they are moving quickly, fueled by strong winds. they have already burned more than 70,000 acres, destroyed 1500 homes and commercialing whethers,-- buildings and forced 20,000 people to evacuate. the fairs are blamed for at least one death, here's mireya villarreal. >> in southern california this afternoon several hillside homes went up in flames pushed by strong santa ana winds. firefighters are making a desperate stand to save others

that are burning. it is just one of several wildfires that is overwhelming the state. the worst in northern california's wine country which broke out late last night, home after home completely engulfed. some burning to the ground before firefighters could even arrive. >> i am i just saw flames up on the hill behind my house. >> the fire was fanned by nearly 50 mile per hour winds an raged through several towns in napa and sonoma counties. it was well after midnight when many homeowners got the urgent call. they had just minutes to get out. >> i want to evacuate. >> parybts from two hospitals were also evacuated as flames grew close. and this is what a lista-- alyssa o'gorman saw as she fled her home. >> it is just my neighborhood in flames, completely in flames. >> by day break the extent of the damage became painfully

clear. entire neighborhoods overrun, little left but the smoldering remains of hundreds of homes, block after block reduced to rubble. today as the fire kept growing, it threatened even more communities. residents like david tried to salvage whatever co, just seconds after he fled, his home caught fire. yet another total loss. several homes and businesses are on fire right now in the santa rosa area. we were trying to get to another neighborhood, turned the corner and we saw this building on fire right behind us am a couple of guys walking down the stret trying to to put it out with extinguishers, i asked the firefighter who had trucks here why they weren't trying to put this out. he said right now with their resources it's all about risk versus reward. elaine. >> quijano: dangerous situation, mireya, thank you. in las vegas today people who survived the massacre began retrieving the personal items

they dropped as they ran for their lives. and the sheriff gave us an update on the investigation of the shooting that left 58 dead and nearly 500 wounded. jamie yuccas is in las vegas. >> reporter: las vegas sheriff joseph lombardo said today the shooter stephen paddock shot hotel security guard jesus campos before he started his assault. >> he was injured prior to the mass volume of shooting. >> stephen paddock can be seen in 242011 incident at the cosmopolitan hotel where he slipped and fell and later failed a lawsuit against that hotel. for the first time we hear the gunman in his own words in a deposition obtained by cnn. paddock said he gambleed all night and slept all day. sometimes wagering up to a million dollars a night at various nevada casinos. he took valium for anxiety. at one point he calls himself the biggest video poker player in the world. the 64 year old gunman has been described as quirky and a narcissist. officials say that he nettic lusly planned the shooting.

on "60 minutes" sergeant joshua bitsko, officer david newton and detective matthew donaldson were the first to arrive on the 32nd floor using the stairwell. >> he had screwed shut the door with a piece of metal and some screws. >> in the stairwell yns in the stairwell out to the hallway by his door. >> he knee knew we would be coming out that dr to gain entry into his door. so he tried to barricade it as best he could. >> reporter: we've also learned that law enforcement sources are looking too whether paddock practiced shooting just two days before the attack at an informal shooting site near miss quit, nevada, only 90 minutes from las vegas. >> quijano: jaim ye, thank you. president trump failed campaign to repeal and replace obamacare has shown he can't afford to lose a single republican vote if he is to get his agenda through congress. but that didn't stop him from picking a fight with a key member of his own party. here's margaret brennan. >> a great friend of mine

senator bob corker. >> reporter: president trump and tennessee republican bob corker were once on friend letter terms but yesterday the president lashed out claiming the retiring senator had begged for his endorsement and did not have the guts to run for re-election. the president falsely said corker was responsible for the horrendous iran deal, corker shot back, it is a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center, someone obviously missed their shift this morning. that appeared to refer to chief of staff john kelly whom corker had praised for bringing order to the white house. >> secretary secretary tillerson, secretary mattis be and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. >> reporter: the feud comes as the president is set to announce his new iran strategy and will need the buy-in of corker, chair of the senate foreign relations committee. in a phone interview late yesterday with "the new york times," corker said mr. trump acts like he is on a reality show. >> we could be heading towards

world war iii with the comments that he is making. >> reporter: corker added that the president had urged him not to retire. the senator has criticized mr. trump before, particularly after he quif kateed on white supremacist violence in charlottesville. >> the president has in the yet been able to demonstrate the ability-- that he needs to demonstrate. >> reporter: the vice president defended president trump today against what he called empty rhetoric and baseless attacks. but elaine, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell struck a very different tone calling corker a valuable team member who will be key in upcoming budget negotiations. >> quijano: margaret brennan, margaret, thank you. the head of the environmental protection agency declared today the war on coal is over. scott pruitt told an audience in kentucky he plans to repeal an obama-era rule that limits carbon emissions from power

plants that burn coal. china on the other hand is doing the opposite. ben tracy reports coal is on the way out, solar power is coming in. >> reporter: on a farm in northern china they are planting a new crop. nearly 200,000 solar panels in the heart of coal country. in the south china just flipped a switch on the world's largest floating solar installation. built on top of a lake created by an abandoned coal mine. projects like these help china double its solar capacity last year. it is now twice as big as the u.s. capacity. >> nearly half of all the new solar installations in the world are now happening here in china. and they're doing it quickly. green peace says they are installing the equivalent of a soccer field full of solar powers every hour of every day. >> we have 28 solar power plants in operation in china. and three more are under construction. >> reporter: maggie qiu is executive president of panda

green energy. it has installed enough solar panels to power more than 40 million homes. >> why are you building so many solar farms. >> we intent-- intend to bring the better future to our next generation by using such clean energy, reducing the air pollution. >> reporter: it's also the government's mission. it's spending hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize renewable energy as china tries to wean itself off coal. still its dominant power source. and the reason for it's not oriously toxic air. but china now produces two thirds of the world's solar panels and has become a major competitor for the u.s. sl ar industry which employs a quarter million american workers. ben tracy, cbs news, datong, china. >> quijano: one of the most talked about plays during sunday football was sented in by president trump executed by his vice president.

the president says he asked mike pence to leave the colt's 49ers game in indianapolis if any players kneeled during the national anthem. they did. and he did. here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: more than a dozen san francisco 49ers again took a knee prompting vice president mike pence to leave after the national anthem and immediately send tweets that seemedtied up for a hasty exit, even with prepared graphics like this. i stand with president trump, i stand with our soldiers and i will always stand for our flag and our national anthem. simultaneously the president was tweeting that he asked mr. pence to leave if any players kneeled. but there was hardly an if yesterday. nfl players protesting racial injustice by taking a knee originated with the 49ers former quarterback kol inkaepernick, press traveling with the vice president were kept in vans instead of accompanying him into the game as they normally would have if he were planning to stay. >> it appears that the entire trip to attend the game was

designed in order for vice president pence to walk out. >> reporter: critics like john woenderlich say taxpayers bother the cost including at least 120,000 dollars for air force 2, las vegas to indianapolis, to los angeles, but that's only a fraction. secret service agents swept everyone at the stadium what magnetomoeters teams needed hotel rooms and transportation. >> when there are issues so serious, it seems to strange for presidential attention and public funds to be used to weigh in on the actions of private citizens in the nfl. >> reporter: we spoke to one republican involved in past presidential travel who said this likely cost more than a million dollars. the white house says mr. pence had been planning to go to the game for weeks and claimed he actually saved flying costs by not going back to d.c. in between las vegas and l.a., elaine. >> quijano: julianna goldman,

julianna, thank you. u.s.-backed forces maybe just days away from victory in raqqa, the syrian city that isis considers its capitol. the terror group once ruled over large porings of iraq and syria, the area's in green. after three years of fierce battles, isis control has dwind eled to the areas in red. holly williams got a rare look inside raqqa. >> reporter: under the gate to raqqa's old city the bodies of five dead isis fighters rot in the desert heat. they were killed a week ago according to these american-backed militiamen, one of them still wearing a suicide belt. the stench of death is everywhere in raqqa, and so is fear. this is how you get to the front line, at break neck speed to avoid isis snipers. there is this thud of u.s. coalition air strikes. but we saw only spore addic fighting because isis with as

few as 250 fighters remaining in the city is pinned down. >> we're about less than a hundred yards from the hospital. >> that is what is left of the main hospital and other buildings close by. and they have human shields. in this broken city, it's thought there are still around 2,000 civilians. america's allies on the ground are out for revenge. many have lost family members to isis. and with them is an american volunteer, mike hogan from phoenix, arizona, who was a waiter before he came here six months ago. have you killed any isis fighters during the action that you have seen? >> no, between you and me, i'm hoping to. i have had friends die here. i want to get even before i get out of here. >> reporter: they've already retaken clock tower circle where isis acted out its perverted interpretation of islam.

this place used to be a landmark in a peaceful city. then isis turned it into a killing field. hasan is a taxi driver who just escaped from the city. he told us about the yazidi women captured by isis as sex slaves ang auctioned off in the middle of the city. they would shout $100 for this one, he told us. they did it to terrify us, to show they could do it to us if we didn't obey them. there have been 75 u.s. coalition air strikes in the last two days alone. according to a senior u.s. official. preparing the ground for a final assault on raqqa, elaine? >> quijano: holly williams in syria tonight, holly, thanks. coming up next on the cbs evening news, once his biggest condemning harvey weinstein.

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i didn't get anything that read he was dangerous until we got downstairs. >> reporter: and what happened. >> he tried to kiss me. and i pushed him off, politely. and that is when he seemed to get angry or annoyed. and told me to just stand there and be quiet. he basically pleasured himself and when he finished, i said to him are we done here, can i leave. he said yes, let's both leave. and he walked me back through the kitchen and that's where i met up with a friend. and i got out of there. >> reporter: if he is listening right now, what would you want to say to him today. >> i hope that he knows that you cannot go around treating women the way you did for as long as you did, and never pay a price for it.

you know. you reap what you s ow. >> reporter: we reached out to weinstein's attorney mult tell-- multiple times and have not heard back. she said the last time she heard from weinstein was the day after the dinner party. she claims weinstein called the tv station, asked her out on a date and elaine, she says she thriend. >> quijano: disturbing allegation, jericka duncan, thank you. coming up next, one mrs. trumpe versus three mrs. trump. it's having the confidence to create the future that's most meaningful to you. it's protection for generations of families, and 150 years of strength and stability. and when you're able to harness all of that, that's the power of pacific. ask a financial advisor about pacific life.

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>> quijano: we end tonight with a song's unlikely rise to the top of the charts. unlikely because the lyrics include, i just want to die today, i just want to die. but don't let that fool you. it is really a song about hope. here's michelle miller. i've been running low. ♪ taking my time. ♪ive feel like i made up my mind. ♪. >> a song about a desperate caller con tell plating suicide is resonating with millions of listeners. ♪ i just want to die. ♪. >> 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 entertainment. >> logic, a rapper and songwriter originally from gaithersburg, maryland, came up with the single's concept, a person in despair reaching out to the hotline for help. i just want to die. ♪. >> in an upcoming segment for cbs sunday morning, logic told us he's never thought about committing suicide but he has experienced first hand what it's like to feel hopeless. you said that you struggled with anxiety. >> yeah, for sure, 100 percent. i was in the worst place of my life. i was happily married and yet i was unhappy. >> suicide prevention center crisis line. >> since the single's release back in april, calls are up 33% at crisis hotline centers around the country. john draper is the director of lifeline. >> if you show people positively coping through suicidal moments, researchers show that that can actually save lives and reduce the suicide rate.

my life don't even matter, i know it, i know i'm hurting 2k50e7 down. ♪. >> lifeline's call volume soared even higher after logic's recent performance at the m tv video awards, he shared the stage with dozens of people personally affected by suicide, rosie chin was among them, chin's ex-boyfriend committed suicide two years ago and she struggled with thoughts of taking her own life. >> it was so moving. it was very powerful. he just couldn't stop crying. >> i just wanted them to know that they weren't really alone. >> i want to feel like. >> michelle miller, cbs news, los angeles. >> quijano: powerful and important message. that is the cbs evening news, i'm elaine quijano in new york. i'll see you tonight on our streaming news network, cbsn. good night.

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