here's ben tracy. >> there goes the bed.: this is what it's like to stare a monster hurricane straight in the eye. oh! >> reporter: some team members from the national oceanic and atmospheric association say ian was the roughest flight they ever experienced. >> we're good. >> reporter: for decades now the government has been flying hurricane-hunting aircraft in and around some of the fiercest storms on the planet. they dropped sensors to measure a hurricane's strength and help forecasters on the ground predict where it's headed. but there is one place where even battle-tested airplanes and barf bag-proof scientists can't go. the so-called boundary layer, below 3,000 feet, where the air and the ocean meet. a violent, churning cauldron of wind and salt water. >> we still need to get down there. that's the thing. we can't avoid it. oh, it's too dangerous, can he wbt we can't go down there. well, we as humans maybe can't go down there but we can bring our technology down there and send that data back so it can be used. >> report

and cbs's ben tracy got a first hand look. >> this drone can literally go fly around the insides of acane? >> yes. this is a special edition of the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. reporting tonight from fort myers. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. and as we come on its air tonight, ian has regained hurricane strength as it moves into the atlantic. taking aim at georgia and the carolinas. but what it left behind here in florida is unimaginable in scale and historic in reach. the president saying tonight, this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida's history. we witnessed the trail of destruction this category 4 storm left. florida governor desantis said today this is a once-in-500-year flooding event. the hurricane-force winds and record storm surge caused widespread damage to entire communities and cities, washing away roads and bridges, and knocking out power to millions. tonight, more than 2.6 million customers are without electricity, and officials warn it could be days or even weeks before power is fully restored. tonight, the states of georg

cbs' ben tracy is in los angeles. good evening. >> adriana, good evening, from a cloudy and much cooler southern california, this is welcomed relief from folks here after a scorching heat wave and a rare storm that dropped much needed rain. it's weather whiplash on the west coast, from raging wildfires to storms. tropical storm force winds kicked up rough surf and downed trees. >> this is all too much at once. >> hurricane kay pummelled mexico's baja peninsula but turned out to be friend rather than foe. it dropped several inch of rare september rain on southern california, giving firefighters battling a deadly blaze east of los angeles the upper hand. but massive fires in northern california and oregon are still burning. the explosive mosquito fire north of sacramento is now the largest in the state, sending a plume of smoke and ash 40,000 feet in the air and forcing more evacuations. >> terrified because everything i have is my home. i'm retired, disabled. everything i ever worked for is up there, everything. >> rep

cbs correspondent ben tracy tels us why the fight to save the planet could be coming to a kitn near you. >> reporter: at derrick rose nes new orleans grill -- >> you have your fresh catfish. >> reporter: you can count on a warm welcome, a hot fire, and the signature blue flame burninn the stovetop. >> we have always used gas. allf these recipes are gas related. >> reporter: norwood clark jr. has been cooking with gas for decades. he is worried that a gg number of bans on gas appliances in california could impact hiss to open a new restaurant near ls angeles' the ball stadium. >> this will put a major ranch in the plans. when you change your cooking style, you change the product. i can't see any legitimate chef turning to electric. i don't see it. back about 80 local governments haved laws requiring or encouraging new homes and businesses to use electric rather than natural gas gas appliances. burning naturals appliances. burning natural gas in the settings accounts for abt settings accounts for about 13% of u.s. greenhouse gas emissions , the largest component of it is is methane, which

in tonight's eye on america cbs's ben tracy takes on an historic first of its kind, flight into the eye of hurricane ian. >> holy cow. >> this is what it was like flying straight into the eye of hurricane ian. it was one of the roughest flights the team from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration has ever experienced. and it was also historic. >> before taking off they loaded on their new secret weapon, a three and a half toot tube containing a hurricane hunting drone. >> so this drone can literally go fly around the inside of a hurricane. >> yes, what we want to do is fly in and around those highest winds. >> it is called the altius 600 it weighs about 25 pounds and can fly for nearly four hours t is deployed out the bottom of the plane and its mission is to go where no aircraft or scientist can go. the so called boundary layer where the air in the ocean violently meet, below 3,000 feet. >> so when these systems make landfall, we want to know what is going on in that very critical area, so we can help forecasters an emergency managers make the decisions they need to make.

ben tracy has that story. >> reporter: at darrow's new orleans grill in carson, california -- >> you've your fresh catfish fried. >> reporter: -- you can count on a warm welcome. >> this is what you've been waiting for all week. >> reporter: a hot fryer. and that signature blue flame burning on the stovetop. >> we've always used gas. all these recipes are gas-related. >> reporter: norwood clark jr. has been cooking with gas for decades. he's worried that a growing number of bans on gas appliances in california could impact his plans to open a new restaurant near los angeles's football stadium. >> this is going to put a major, major wrench in those plans. when you change the cooking style, you change the makeup of the product itself. i can't see any legitimate chef out there turning to electric. i don't see it. >> really? >> i don't see it, ben. >> reporter: about 80 local governments have passed laws requiring or encouraging new homes and businesses to use electric rather than natural gas appliances. burning natural gas in these settings accounts for about 13% of u.s. greenhouse gas emi

. >> ben tracy, cbs news. >> from ride-share to buying a new ride, prices for new used vehicles are finally down. other other experts think they will continue to go down. rising interest rates caused some consumers to kind of dump the brakes. >> at the height, as soon as we would get a vehicle come in you would have three or four people to look at that vehicle. cars wouldn't sit here more than a couple days at most. we are seeing that start to take a little bit longer. >> all right. so, if you were shopping for a new car, outlook is not as good. data from the labor statistic shows up 10.1% in august over last august. higher interest rates, we understand, are intentioned and could drive down new car prices eventually, but we are watching it closely. > >> now for our first alert weatr alert weather forecast with our meteorologist, darren peck, in for paul. >> the numbers went up to a 50% 50% chance of rain, whereas our degree of confidence in that, the numbers are very different. we are not looking at the full-scale that goes up to 90%. and look for sunday lands now, when we put those blue ba

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ben tracy tells what's this could mean for an already strained fishing industry. >> reporter: in newbster rolls. but now the billion dollar lobster industry is reeling from essentially being blacklisted. >> new england is lobster. there is no question about that. it would have a huge, huge detrimental effect on this area. >> reporter: fred penny has been catching lobster off the coast of massachusetts for more than 50 years. he's angry that 14 fisheries are now labeled red by seafood watch, a widely respected world leader in seafood rankingsing, meaning consumers and businesses are being advised to avoid them. besides lobster, this includes all east coast snow crab and several species of flounder and atlantic cod. the designation doesn't actually ban eating or selling the fish, but can lead restaurants and grocery stores to drop them from menus or label them unsustainable. >> if the restaurants put up a sign that says don't eat lobster, people are not going to come in and eat lob centers. that's my concern. >> reporter: the problem isn't the fish. it's the fishing gear. seafood watch

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