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>> carter evans with the heart breaking story there. carter, thanks. >>> the hot and dry weather is hampering efforts by firefighters to fight the flames. craig herera of our los angeles station k cbs, has more on the conditions they are facing. >> reporter: well, elaine, up to the north we have those hot dry conditions overnight and into monday. red flag warnings posted near the carr fire as well. humidity overnight only at about 35% and monday only 10%. temperatures monday afternoon approaching 110 degrees. it's important to note this fire is not a wind driven fire. however, there is a whole lot of acres that are burning. this air is rising creating its own weather pattern. and down at the surface, the sustained winds are 30 miles per hour. but because it's creating its own wind you could see gusts closer to 50 to 60 miles per hour. southern california is not experiencing any watches, warnings or advisories. however, we have humidity over southern california. the monsoon coming up from baja will keep humidity at 55% overnight. monday

carter evans is on the big island with more. >> reporter: tourists can be heard screaming in this videoe moment a huge explosion of molten rock and ash blasted hundreds of feet into the air, landing on a tour boat called the hotspot. the lee family was hit. >> we were pelted with the rocks. like it's embedded in your scalp and everything, and the heat and theam, c. >> reporter: passengers said one lava bomb was the size of a basketball, smashing right through the metal roof of the boat. ristopr li's leg was severely burned when he fell to the deck. >> i got covered in hot rocks. it stayed there for two or three seconds. third-degree burns on my legs. >> you were trying to dodge the lava rocks that were raining down on the boat? >> yeah, pretty much. >> reporter: it destroyed more than 700 homes. at night you can really see the orange glow from the eruption behind me through the trees. that's where all of this lava is coming from as it makes its way miles down to the ocean. the boat operators, lava ocean tour, had a special permit to take tourists within 165 feet of the coastline, but cb

cbs reporter carter evans talks to one struggling ucla student. >> i truly believe that i'm going to a different school than my parents are. they have houses right up the hill, they had everything they need. that's not the ucla that guy to. >> reporter: while 23-year-old alejandro reyes may blend in perfectly on campus, he is keeping a secret for most of his classmates. he's homeless. his school locker is his closet. he brushes his teeth in a public restroom, and at times, he sleeps on this sofa inside a 24-hour campus library. >> my first quarter here, i actually lived inside my car. that's where i had all my clothes, everything i needed for the day. >> after the car was totaled in an accident, a homeless shelter a few miles away from campus was his only option. according to the u.s. department of education, there were at least 32,000 homeless college students in 2017. alejandro is hoping to attend medical school. >> i want to be an orthopedic surgeon. >> reporter: alejandro's yearly tuition at ucla at ucla is about $13,000, which is covered by student aid, a job on campus. after fo

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. >> cbs reporter carter evans is in redding with more on the fires' impact and the efforts to contain it. >> reporter: firefighters are struggling to contain the massive car wildfire in northern california. the deadly blaze has scorched more than 500 buildings in less than a week. thousands more are threatened. the fire is still growing just not as quickly as before. >> we are feeling a lot more optimistic today as we are starting to gain some ground rather than being in the defensive mode on this fire all the time. we are starting to make some good progress out. there >> reporter: the one thing that has helped out in the last couple of days, you might be able to see some of the haze behind me. that is filtering in the sunlight as well, which has kept the temperatures down just a little bit. the fire broke out on monday, but it is loaded on thursday. ed bledsoe left his home while the fire was still miles away. then he got a frantic call from his 5-year-old great grandson. >> he was saying grandpa, please. you need to come in and help with us the fire at the back door. i said i'm righ

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carter evans is here now with their story. carter?reporter: jeff, this man's story is absolutely heartbreaking. he said he just left his home for a few minutes when he got a frantic call from his wife that the fire was already at their back door. he says he had no idea it was so close. the towering flames were bearing down on the city of redding. evacuation orders in place for several neighborhoods, but ed bledsoe says he didn't hear any. did you get any sort of evacuation warning? >> nothing. absolutely not a word. >> reporter: the fire was far away at that point. >> it was plumb across the river. that's two or three miles from my place. >> reporter: bledsoe's wife melody was there with their great grandchildren, five-year- old james and four-year-old emily. ed said he needed to run a quick errand. >> they wanted to go with me but i didn't take them with me because i didn't have air conditioning in my damn truck. i said, "no, it was so hot out there," i say, "stay here, grandpa will be right back." i was only gone for 15 minutes when

>> golodryga: carter evans, thank you. first atlantic hurricane of the season is heading toward the caribbean. beryl is expected to gain strength in the hours ahead, then weaken late sunday or way. ovnight,he fir shots were fired in what may turn into an all-out trade war with china. the u.s. placed a 25% tax on $34 billion worth of goods imported from china, including auto parts and medical devices. china hit back with tariffs on u.s.-made products, including beef, pork, soybeans and cars. one state that could be caught in the squeeze is wisconsin. the u.s. chamber of commerce warns the tariffs could slice $1 billion off wisconsin's exports-- most notably, cheese. gre's dean reynolds. >> hi, girls. epors go. >> reporter: stacy limberg's family owns a small dairy farm with 75 cows and a lot of anxiety. >> we don't make a lot of money. and we're not really making any t ney at this point in time. e reporter: while a glut of milk in the u.s. has driven down u.s. dairy prices for the last few years, president trump's tariff ti

carter evans, thank you very much. fire tornadoes just mentioned in carter's report are a scientific phenomenon. these intense fires can whip up these towering spirals. here to explain more about the extreme fire behavior is lonnie quinn of our new york flagship station, wcbs, lonnie. >> reporter: good evening jeff and everyone. the pictures you're looking at here, okay, this is your fire tornado. but what is the science behind it? look at that twist, okay? it's all about heat. now, i put together a little explainer. you've got a lot of heat being generated right now around this carr fire, and it's all from the fire itself, but there's a second source. the ambient air temperature, you said close to triple digits... close to 110 degrees actually, so that air is super-fast rising into the atmosphere and you need to think of this as the air being a solid and if you're taking a chunk of that air, super heating it, and rising into the air, it leaves a void below it. that gets filled in by air from all different angles and t

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>> quijano: carter evans with the heartbreaking story there. carter, thanks.he hot and dry weather is hampering efforts by firefighters to fight the flames. craig herrera of our los angeles station kcbs has more on the conditions they are facing. >> reporter: well, elaine, up to the north we have those hot, dry conditions overnight and into monday. red flag warnings posted near the carr fire, as well. humidity overnight is only at about 35%, and monday only 10%. temperatures monday afternoon approaching 110 degrees. it's important to note, this fire is not a wind-driven fire, however, there is a whole lot of acres that are burning. this air is rising, creating its own weather pattern, and down at the surface, the sustained winds are 30mph, but because it's creating its own wind, you could see some gusts closer to 50 to 60mph. southern california is not experiencing any watch, warnings, or advisories. however, we have humidity over southern california. the monsoon coming up from baja will keep humidity at 55% overnight. monday, 45%. temperatures on monday after

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carter evans has more. good morning. >> reporter: when the fire blew through, here witnesses say it was ferocious. it wiped out just about everything you can seechlt you could see home after home after home just burn to the ground. >> it's like a war zone. it's like a bomb hit each house and exploded. >> flames in redd having scorched homes, prompted mass evacuations, and reduced an entire neighborhood to rubble. the carr fire was started by a broken down vehicle but high temperatures and winds sent embers into redding overnight thursday. and what began as a small wildfire has now erupted into a letti inting hellscape. >> there was fire on both sides of the road, houses coming down. to me it looked like an apocalyptic horror film. it was crazy. >> reporter: cal fire division chief kelly says his team is preparing for the worst. >> to fight fire in rugged country, we're used to doing that. but when it blows into a whole community or city, it's a whole different element. >> reporter: at least three people are

>> carter evans up close for us in goleta, california.ople are hoping for dryer conditions to aid the rescue of 12 youth soccer players and their coach who are trapped right now in av ka. authority says if rains continue, it will hamper rescue efforts and potentially raise dangerous carbon monoxide levels inside the cave. divers carried messages from the team to their families. the coach who led the team into the caves has apologized to the children's parents. an operation to get the team out could begin this weekend. >>> and just after midnight friday, the threat of a trade war between the u.s. and china moved from rhetoric to reality. the trump administration imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of chinese goods. china immediately retaliated. >> here to tell us how it can affect consumers and business, derek thompson, senior editor at "the atlantic." welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> what's the latest? that's a good question. i don't know. there are two poblts. on the one hand there's the economic reason. the other is the polit

here's carter evans. >> i truly believe that i'm going to a different school than my peers are.hey have houses right up the hill. they have everything they need. that's not the ucla i go to. >> reporter: while 23-year-old alejandro reyes may blend in perfectly on campus, he's keeping a secret from most of his classmates. he's homeless. his school locker is his closet. he brushes his teeth in a public rest room and at times he sleeps on this sofa inside a 24-hour campus library. >> my first quarter here i actually lived inside of my car. that's where i had all my clothes, everything i needed for the day. >> reporter: but after the car was totaled in an accident, a homeless shelter a few miles way from the campus was his only option. according to the u.s. department of education, there were at least 32,000 homeless college students in 2017. alejandro is hoping to attend medical school. >> i want to be an orthopedic surgeon. >> reporter: alejandro's yearly tuition at ucla is about $13,000, which is covered by financial aid, student loans and a job on campus. but after books and foo

carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >>> still to come, riots on the streets of portland as left and right wing protesters meet in the middle and the man at the center of it has a history here in the bay area as well. >> plus the growing call for a recall over a northern california city leader's comments about the lgbtq community. >>> a massive riot on the streets of portland as members of the right wing patriot prayer organization clashed with antifa groups yesterday. eggs, water bottles and fireworks were thrown into the crowd. police fired back with canisters of tear gas before revoking patriot prayer's permit to rally in a nearby park. >> we have too many people that are scared. so we're going to really talk about courage today. >> a lot of people are saying transgender and queers and all these people are being oppressed in america. no. they have their festival. three days are dedicated for them, their pride festival. nobody is oppressing them. they're walking in the street freely, but when you say you're a conservative in front of people, it's like people look at you like you're

here's carter evan. >> with massive wildfireses like this one in northern california, burning out of control, there's a growing concern about the trouble this could cause on the fourth of july. now, it a precaution towns like carefree arizona have cancelled their fireworks show. >> safety is our overriding concern. >> but carefree's mayor found a way to make the show go on, lighting the sky with drones. >> they described it and sent us a video and we said, let do it. >> call it fireworks without the fire. dazzling displaying, thanks to hundreds of tiny drones carrying l.e.d. lights. >> made out of foam and plastic. it's light. 2/3 of a poupd. >> natalie chung helped to put on super bowl's halftime drone show in 2017 with lady georgia with lady gaga. >> they are following a pre--planned pattern in the sky. >> yeah, we know what will happen with our drones at every second. >> that technology found i.ts wy to the olympics and during wild fire season in the west, they are being used as an alternative to fourth of july fireworks that last year, sparked 869 wildfires in california. the hig

. >> ninan: carter evans in california.eorologist craig setzer is keeping an eye on the weather in the west as well as developments off the carolinas. hi, craig. >> hi, yes. the problems in the west will continue as the heat wave continues. dry conditions, persistent drought and high pressure creating strong winds across the area, creating high red flag conditions or red flag warnings over many of the areas meaning the fire danger will continue unfortunately, the pattern is not changing in the next several days. temperatures tomorrow once again well above 100 in many locations including southern california, even up to the pacific northwest, and the wind will stay up as well. we did have our first hurricane of the season, hurricane beryl, but now has weakened to a tropical storm. it's lost its thunderstorm, so the weakening trend is expected to continue as it moves towards the eastern caribbean there. problem is, even with the tropical storm, the islands were hit so hard last year they are especially susceptible, including p

almost half-a-million acres have been burned, and carter evans reports thousands have been forced toe their homes. >> reporter: video from a security camera in southern colorado shows just how quickly flames move in and engulf a home. this is the spring fire, and thousands are under evacuation. >> by the time we came out, it was already coming over the mountain. mo reporter: it's unclear how r ny have homes burned. ehe fire's scorched more than 38,000 acres so far, burning out of control since wednesday. with hot, windy weather in california, authorities are concerned about more fast moving grass fires like this one in concord. people were evacuated, but no homes burned. investigators believe the fire was started by a pickup truck. >> he was having some troubles and was spitting out sparks out of an exhaust pipe. >> reporter: back in colorado, the 416 fire has burned more than 47,000 acres near durango since the first of the month. this bear cub was found in the fire zone, separated from her mother. >> she has been burned on all the of her feet, particularly arr toes. ep >> medical t

carter evans just returned from the big island and reports it's getting even bigger. >> reporter: kilauea's latest eruption has lasted nearly three months. and while most of the lava is now following a predictable path, it can also explode without warning. this video from a tour boat this week captured the moment a huge explosion blasted lava and steam hundreds of feet into the air. molten rocks rained down on the boat and its passengers, including one the size of a basketball which tore right through the metal roof. christopher li dove to the ground for cover. >> i stayed there for maybe two seconds and third degree blistering burns on my legs. >> reporter: could you see, like, glowing rocks on your legs? >> i had my eyes closed the entire time, thinking, "let this be a dream," or more like a nightmare. it wasn't. it was real life. >> reporter: at night, you can really see the orange glow from the eruption behind me through those trees. that's where all of this lava is coming from as it makes it's way miles down to the ocean. the constant flow of lava has now covered about 13 square miles

carter evans is in pahoa, hawaii, where the lava is creating hundreds of miles of new land where themorning. it is literally changing the outline of the island itself and it continues to do so every day as lava threatened even more of the coastline. the continuous lava flow has increased the size of the island, destroying more than 700 homes and still threatened many more. >> there's an ever present immediate danger. sulphur dioxide levels, wind shift, lava. >> reporter: lasha has been pouring into the ocean for eight weeks now. this is new coastline. before this new eruption started in early may, a map of hawaii's southeast region looked like this, but then lava filled the area expanding the coastline farther and farther into the bay. it was rising till it reached above s michael is one of a reported 1,500 ee jackees. capture d the swallowing his car. he's in a temporary housing. >> are you going to stay? >> i'm going to stay. for years i wanted to be here. i could go rent an apartment, but, i don't know. this is my home. >> his property like so many others is full of blackrock. the

carter evans is here with their story. >> this man's story is absolutely heartbreaking.d oh just left his home for a few minutes when he got a frantic call from his wife that the fire was already at their back door. he had no idea it was so close. the towering flames were wearing down on the city of redding. evacuation orders in place for several neighborhoods, but ed bledsoe says he didn't hear any. did you get any sort of evacuation warning? >> nothing. absolutely not a word. >> reporter: the fire was far away at that point? >> it was plum across the river. that's two or three miles from my place. >> reporter: bledsoe's wife was there with their great-grandchildren, 5-year-old james and 4-year-old emily. ed said he needed to run a quick errand. >> i didn't take them with me because i didn't have air-conditioning in my damn struck. i said it's so hot out there. i was only gone about 15 minutes when my wife called me and said you got to get here. the fire is coming up the hill. >> reporter: he tried to race back, but the roads were blocked. bledsoe felt helpless. >> i wa

carter evans has the story from pahoa. >> reporter: good morning.he eruption behind me here is what's pushing this massive river of molten lava on an eight-mile journey to the ocean. it is literally changing the outline of the island itself, and it continues to do so every day as lava threatens even more of the coastline. the continuous lava flow has now covered about 12 1/2 square miles of hawaii's big island. about half the size of manhattan. destroying more than 700 homes and still threatening many more. >> we're here in the mandatory evacuation area. there's an ever-present immediate danger. sulfur dioxide levels, wind shift. the immediate threat from the lava. >> reporter: lava has been pouring into the ocean for more than eight weeks now. this is new coastline. the island has grown by nearly 700 acres, the equivalent of more than 500 football fields. before this new eruption started in early may, a map of hawaii's southeast region looked like this but then lava filled kapoho bay, expanding the coastline farther and farther into the sea. at one

carter evans is in manhattan beach, which is under an excessive heat warning. rter, good morning to you. >> reporter: goord morning. temperatures are expected to be in the 80s and 90s up and down the coast today and people may not fare too much better cooling off in the water. the remnants ofri fabio are exppde at creating the perfect storm of some miserable weather. as southernalor l for rief at r in splash pads, they're getting ready for what could be a record shattering weekend. >> find shade definitely and drink as much water as you can. that's the biggest thing. >> reporter: at least 11 areas in southern california are expected to have temperatures climb past their own record heat by double digits. >> this is historical. this is absolutely historical. >> reporter: evelyn taft is a meteorologist at cbs in los angeles. >> some of the records that we're expecting are breaking records by a good 10 degrees because we have this kind of heat and offshore conditions. and say you have a little bit of dry lightning that comes in. that's it. that's a recipe for a fire

carter evans is in redding, north of sacramento, where he spoke with bledsoe's husband, carter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this man's story is absolutely heartbreaking. he tells me he only left his home not far from here on thursday night for a few minutes. it was then that he got a call from his wife that the fire was at his back door. >> i was only gone about 15 minutes. when my wife called me and said you got to get here. the fire's coming up the hill. >> reporter: ed bledsoe said he had no idea his home was in danger when he left his wife melody with their two great-grandchildren, ages 4 and 5. >> i was talking to my little grandson on the phone. he's saying, grandpa, please, you got to come and help us, the fire's at the back door. i said -- i said i'm right by you, honey, just hold on, grand grandpa's coming. >> reporter: he said the road was blocked with cars and the flames stopped him from returning on foot. >> i'd have died right there with them, they're that important to me. >> reporter: fire officials near redding expanded their evacuation orders sunday. more

carter evans is in poao, hawaii and shows us the risk from the reruption that started in may. >> reporter: we're so close to this lava flow we have our safety gear ready. you can see that molten river as it makes it way down to the sea, it's causing big problems for people in surrounding communities, but also when that hot lava hits the cold ocean it can be very dangerous for people in the water. video from the tour boat captures the chaos on board during the explosion. >> the explosion looked like a gigantic firework right off the side of the boat. >> reporter: passenger kirk olsen says the sight seeing boat was about 100 yards off the coast when a basketball sized lava bomb crashed through the roof. >> it was suddenly bedlam. there was screaming. you look on the floor and there were hot lava rocks glowing. >> reporter: the boat that was hit is run by lava ocean tours, one of several companies that takes visitors to see kilauea's lava pouring into the ocean. viewers nearby could see the thick plume of hot ash in the sky. >> it exploded at the boat. we could hear the rocks hit and people

carter page, were republicans. >> yeah, we're going to dig into that in just a little bit. but evan, the sad thing about this is that republicans are probably going to cherry-pick this, and as we're hearing, also democrats, as well. but when you look at marco rubio saying that there seem to have been enough grounds for the carter page -- more than the steele dossier and lindsey graham saying all of this was based on the steele dossier, how do you parse these two positions coming out of the republican party? what are republicans going to say about this? loo >> look, i think some republicans, like marco rubio, are being grounded in facts. their commentary being led by the facts. you have others including the president, of course, who really don't care what the facts are. the president views this as the release of this application, the public releases of this application as a messaging opportunity for him to say whatever he wants about it and his base and perhaps more people to varying degrees will sort of believe. okay, well, maybe there was some wrongdoing here. and that's what he do

as carter evans explains, the sixth body was found today but there are little details about the victim. >> reporter: as the carr fire continues to burn through seemingly endless amounts of dry brush near redding, more than 3400 firefighters are racing to contain it. and today, where flames have already scorched entire neighborhoods, authorities are searching through the rubble for those who are still missing. >> did you hear any evacuation orders? >> none. >> nothing at all? >> i was at the house until -- i was gone about 15 minutes. when my wife called me and said, you've got to get here. the fire is coming up the hill. >> reporter: ed bledsoe got the devastating news that his wife and great-grandchildren, ages four and five, perished in the fire. they were trapped in homes surrounded by flames. ed says he was stuck at a roadblock. to keep them calm, he talked with them on the phone until the end. >> i was talking to my little grandson on the phone. he was saying, grandpa, please, you've got to come and help us. the fire is at the back door. come and get us. i said i'm trying to get i