at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening captioning sponsored by cbs .>> mason: up in flames. >> armageddon. it's just gone. >> mason: thousands of california homes and businesses wiped out as wildfires burn out of control. >> it looks like chaos here, you know, like somebody dropped a bomb or something. >> mason: devastation in wine country. >> the entire 2017 harvest is no longer. >> mason: and the death toll rises. also tonight, harvey weinstein on tape. more alleged victims come forward, and the accusations now include rape. the las vegas massacre timeline changes, raising new questions about how it unfolded. and an i.q. match-up between the

president and the secretary of state. the president says he knows who'd win. this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. the fires are spreading, and the toll is rising. reinforts are coming in for the battle against 17 major wildfires burning out of control in california. at least 15 people have been killed, as many as 2,000 homes and businesses destroyed. well over 100,000 acres have been burned by flames fanned by powerful winds. john blackstone is in sonoma county. >> reporter: with some neighborhoods still burning and others already reduced to ashes,s can row is a city franz formed by fire. michael everidge lost his home. >> armageddon. it's just gone. everything's gone. >> reporter: the flames consumed mobile home parks and comfortable hilltop

subdivisions, luxury hotels and fast food restaurants. in all, some 1500 buildings have been destroyed in and around this city of 175,000. jim jimmy hendrik could barely recognize the street he lived on. >> nothing but chimneys standing block after block after block after block, nothing. all just down on the ground. just black. the whole damn neighborhood is black. >> reporter: all that is left of lisa wahnon's home is cement slabs with imprints of her son's hands besides hers. what remains so shocking here is how quickly it all happened. >> four structures on fire, residents trapped. >> reporter: first responders were stretched with so many fires suddenly burning so ferociously across much of northern california's wine country. cal fire chief berry beerman: >> during those conditions of high winds, you know, a lot of things happened. >> reporter: even as victims needed care, fire was bearing down on santa rosa's two main hospitals. >> the hospital was filled with

smoke, and it was at that time that the police department came in and said, "drop everything. go now." >> reporter: nurse julayne smithson was among those who helped push patients from intensive care to ambulances. as she was tending to others, her own home was on fire. >> well, one of the nurses came up to me and put her armand me and said, i'm sorry, jail an but your home is gone. >> reporter: you could see your home from the hospital. >> yes. >> reporter: around 200 people are still missing in the northern california fires. in napa county, among those confirmed dead are charles and sarah rippy, married 75 years ago. he was 100. she was 98. with fire still active around santa rosa and so many place where's embers are still smoldering, there's a fear that winds are just now beginning to pick up that they could spread this destruction even further. anthony. >> mason: john blackstone in the rubble in santa rosa. thank you, john. weather conditions in california

could not be better for the worst kind of fire disaster. our coverage continues now with mark strassmann. >> reporter: in 24 hours, much of california became scorched earth. october traditionally is peak fire season in the golden state when the ground is driest and the winds are strongest. flames broke out across the state this week because of the perfect firestorm called diablo winds in northern california, and santa ana winds in the south. those winds can gust up to near-hurricane strength, raising downslope from the mountain and can sen embers a half mile, igniting dry brush all over. what made the fires this week so catastrophic wasn't that it hit but where it hit. 70-mile-per-hour gusts in northern california's densely populated wine country fanned flames that left swaths of communities like santa rosa in ruins. jonathan cox is a battalion

chief with cal fire. >> the sheer size and scope of these fires right now is massive. >> reporter: wildfires since monday morning in southern california have followed a similar pattern. in anaheim hills, south of los angeles, anion heights drive lost five homes in three hours. even today, firefighters and homeowners battled hot spots. but these deadly and destructive fires could have been much worse. the winds died down today. derran wyatt. it is the randomness of which homes got it and which homes were spared strike you? >> it is. >> reporter: for firefighters in northern california, this forecast will get worse tomorrow night, high winds, low humidity. anthony, this fire season has just begun here in california, and it's off to a scary start. >> mason: mark strassmann in anaheim. thanks. and later in the broadcast, we'll show you the impact of the fires on the california wine industry. what started as a trickle of

allegations against movie mogul harvey weinstein has now become a flood. today "the new york times" reported actresses gweneth paltrow and angelina jolie say weinstein sexually harassed them. hillary clinton said he was "shocked and appalled" by the allegations. and the "new yorker" magazine says the allegations now include rape. >> reporter: the "new yorker" reports in 2015, model ambra battilana gutierrez told police she was groped by harvey weinstein. police asked guttierez to awarea wire. >> reporter: the conversation happened in the hallway of the try becca grand hotel.

>> reporter: the district attorney's office declined to prosecute the case because it said they could not establish criminal intent. in a 10-month-long investigation, ronan farrow, a contributor to "new yorker," says he spoke to 13 women, all claiming that between the 1990s and 2015, weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them. according to farrow, three women called it rape, including italian actress asia argento, who tweeted out a scene from a 1999 movie she wrote and directed she says was loosely based on the weinstein alleged assault. >> if you give me a massage. >> reporter: today a spokesperson for weinstein tells cbs news, "any allegations of nonconsensual sex are unequivocally denied by mr. weinstein who has begun counseling and is hoping that if

he makes enough progress he will be given a second chance." do you think your reporting will change anything? >> they have done something that sends a message about accountability, and if that is all that results from it, then, that's an important thing. >> reporter: today, i spoke to an attorney representing irwin reiter. he's an executive vice president at the weinstein company and referred to one of the harassment claims as "all part of weinstein's serial misconduct." anthony. >> mason: jericka duncan. thanks, jericka. in tennessee today, there was a funeral for a hero. sonny melton died shielding his wife from gunfire during the las vegas massacre. in the investigation, law enforcement tells cbs news they're getting a very good response to billboards asking the public for help. but jamie yuccas tells us there is growing confusion about when the hotel security guard was shot and what happened next. >> reporter: today on nevada public radio, undersheriff kevin

mcmahill tried to clarify the shift in timeline proited by police but only raised more questions when he said a maintenance worker was also on the 32nd floor when stephen paddock fired first shots. >> reporter: mcmay hill wouldn't talk on camera but discussed the response time by hotel security and police. >> reporter: officials also now say paddock checked into mandalay bay three days earlier than originally thought. >> this was a remarkable effort by a brave and remarkable man. >> reporter: just last friday, mcmahill hailed the guard as a hero for interrupting the shooterrer several minutes into the attack. >> we believe that he was shooting into the crowd and then the security officer was shot

during that event. >> reporter: investigators tell cbs they visited this shooting range just outside mesquite, nevada, believes paddock may have taken target practice two days before he carried out his attack in las vegas. law enforcement sources also tell cbs paddock may have used a freight elevator at mandalay bay before the shooting. las vegas security consultant tommy burns: >> he could easily have been thought to be that-- ventioneer, news media, anything of that sort. >> reporter: we tried contacting m.g.m., the owners of mandalay bay. they have not returned our calls for comment. anthony, security expert says guards do not usually carry guns inside the casino, but they do carry radios, so they can quickly get to hotel management in an emergency. >> mason: jamie yuccas in las vegas. thanks. now to the latest episode of the republican family feud, pitting president trump against senator bob corker. here's white house correspondent margaret brennan. >> reporter: in an

early-morning tweet, president trump referred to the tennessee republican as "liddle bob corker and was said made to sound a fool boy a "new york times" reporter who recorded the conversation. >> yeah, i am. >> reporter: in that interview, corker said mr. trump may be headed towards world war iii. today, white house spokespublish sarah sanders weighed in. >> senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts. >> reporter: she then repeated the erroneous claim that coark supported the iran nuclear deal. >> we have concerns. >> reporter: even though he voted against it. >> he may have voted again the deal ultimately, but he not only allowed the deal to happen. he gave it credibility. >> reporter: the iran deal is also a source of tension with secretary of state rex tillerson. last week, it was revealed that tillerson called the president a moron in a private meeting. >> i guarantee you, my i.q. is much higher than theirs, all

right. >> reporter: during the campaign, the president often bragged about his intelligence. regarding tillerson, the president told "forbes" magazine, "i guess we'll have to compare i.q. tests and i can tell you who is going to win" a comment he later denied hurt the secretary's credibility. >> i didn't undercut anybody. >> reporter: state police spokesperson heather nauert. >> what is the secretary's i.q.? >> it's high. >> reporter: at the briefing, sarah sanders said it was all a joke, and insisted that the president still has full confidence in the secretary of state. anthony. >> mason: margaret brennan with the i.q. wars at the white house. thanks. overseas, isis has been losing its grip on syria. raqqa, isis' so-called capital, may be liberated by u.s. backed forces within days, and there is a surge of volunteers aching to finish off the terror group. holly williams reports from northern syria. >> reporter: as isis faces defeat in raqqa, the syrian men

have volunteered to finish them off. the new recruits learned to detect explosives today on roads, inside houses, and detonated by a remote control. after just 15 days of training, they'll head straight for the front line. america's closest allies on the ground here in syria are shopkeepers, truck drivers, tailors, and construction workers. we asked them how many had lost family members to isis. "they've killed my relatives, cousins and neighbors." they're driven by revenge and hungry for american help. u.s. special operations soldiers oversee the training but don't want to show their faces. without american air strikes defeating isis would have been near impossible. but some of those now escaping

isis territory say it's the strikes that are their biggest fear. the u.s. coalition admits that more than 700 civilians have been inadvertently killed in syria and iraq. others claim the number is far higher. for renas halep, though, anyone who wants to destroy isis say friend. he told us isis falsely accused him of stealing and amputated his hand four years ago. it's a punishment the extremists have used extensively. why do you think they wanted to do this to you? "they want to terrify people," he told us, "so they can rule them." u.s.-backed forces say more than 350 civilians have managed to escape raqqa in the last three days as they close in on isis. but that could still leave more than 1,000 people trapped in the city. anthony. >> mason: holly williams in northern syria. thanks, holly. coming up next on the cbs

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apple sauce, crackers, and candy. they're even handing out little m.r.e.s. folks tell us it's actually good. aid is getting through but it's a trickle. downed power lines and debris still block the roads. in nearby atlaya, it's as if the hurricane hit yesterday. homes are destroyed. families are collecting rainwater to clean dishes and themselves. >> reporter: it's a nightmare" this woman said. we also went to ponce, in the southern part of the island. here, too, grocery stores are running low on food. even so, people are lining up to get in. what do you want from your government? >> just to show up. >> reporter: pacheco is a police officer here and a u.s. navy veteran. >> asking for people to move the gas, for people to move the food. >> reporter: boots on the ground. >> that's all. >> next person. >> reporter: while the island struggles to cope, fema held a job fair today, announced as

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>> mason: we end tonight as we began with the wildfires in california. they've taken a heavy toll in wine tri. mireya villarreal is there. >> these tanks were all full. >> reporter: at the paradise ridge winery, the skept of singed wine overpowers the stench of charred wood. >> the door is completely melted. >> reporter: for the family, the smell is a lingering reminder of how much they lost an hour. >> the entire 2017 harvest is no longer. >> reporter: two years of work and nearly 100,000 bottles of wine were destroyed sunday night. before they lost power, surveillance cameras from inside the winery's wedding venue caught the fire creeping closer. the family has been growing grapes and make wine here for nearly 40 years. the wine industry in sonoma and napa valley employs nearly 50,000 people and at least six other wineries in this area have burned to the ground. >> it's our business. it's not our house.

and i think that, you know, a lot of people lost their house and lost everything. so we can rebuild this. >> reporter: the golden hills of sonoma county are now colored black. every single building on this property was burned... >> we're supposed to be here receiving an award tonight for best wedding venue in sonoma county. >> reporter: but the sweetest part of their business-- rows of grape vines-- were left behind. >> looking at what i'm looking at, i want to say next year we should be able to harvest grapes. >> reporter: that is a silver lining. >> yeah, you gotta find something. >> reporter: and it's that "something" that's helping them move forward. >> i'm amazed that the vineyards are still here. >> reporter: mireya villarreal, cbs news, santa rosa, california. >> mason: so much devastation in california. that's the cbs evening news. i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgb

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