mola lenghi, cbs news, florida. >>> the hand in hand benefit so far has raised $44 million. the one-hour telethon aired on several networks including kpix 5 last night. donations are still accepted. >>> people are not the only ones affected by the storms. turns out that dozens of pets were abandoned in the devastation. many people who evacuated had to leave behind their animals as the storm came in, and now, the alameda county fairgrounds is set to hold the largest pet fair in exactly. hurricane pets will be there looking for a place to call home. >> reporter: animals by the hundreds are flowing into bay area shelters from texas and now florida. >> people are saying, gosh, you know what? my home is destroyed. i can't have a place and i can't care for myself or my pet and surrender the animals. >> reporter: so 80 shelters are hosting the largest ever adoption event in california. hundreds of dogs and cats on display for adoption. evacuated from hurricane harvey and then along comes irma, and this little guy evacuated again. they will be microchipped and vaccinated. rocky is a

mola lenghi, cbs news, the white house. >>> new at noon the latest effort to repeal and replace will not pass in the senate. about an hour ago arizona senator john mccain announced his opposition to a republican healthcare bill. in a statement, he said that he could not, quote, in good conscience vote for the graham- cassidy bill. meanwhile, vermont senator bernie sanders is expected to highlight his own medicare for all plan in san francisco today. he is scheduled to speak at 1:00 at yerba buena gardens organized by the california nurses association. a couple of hours later he will go to city college to celebrate free college. >>> the death toll continues to rise in central mexico as rescuers search for survivors of the earthquake. at least 286 people are dead. manuel bojorquez says crews are making dramatic rescues from the rubble. [ ah! >> reporter: the cries of this person rang out and rescuers tried to bring her to safety. >> whoo! [ applause ] >> reporter: minutes later she was pulled from the rubble. [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: so far first responders in mexico city h

mola lenghi, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> all right. to the weather now. rain in some places, rainbows in others. and check this out. "sky drone 5", it's a divine sign because roberta is back! >> a rainbow for roberta! >> that's nice. now, you can't have any rainbows without a little rain. we certainly had our share this morning. nothing too measurable but looking out now, this is san jose. getting a little bit of a break in the cloud deck there. but as we go ahead and go and take another view around the bay area this afternoon, mostly cloudy skies. it's been a fast-moving cloud atop the mount vaca area. right now we have temperatures in the 60s and 70s. it's pushing 73 in oakland. san jose and santa rosa 64 in san francisco. it is now 65 degrees in livermore and 67 in oakland. meanwhile, let's god at this particular time that we do have a deck of stratus from santa rosa all the way to san jose. and in addition to those clouds whipping into the bay area, we have been seeing increasing winds. oakland west-southwest at 14. 12 in san francisco. we do have win

mola lenghi, cbs news, fort myers. >> a group of army special operations soldiers is recovering after an explosion during training at fort bragg in north carolina today. those soldiers were treated at the base's medical center but the extent of their injuries is unknown. it's not clear what exploded. command is investigating. >>> still ahead, a plan to crack down on fare cheats. bart considers ways to make sure people pay up. >> bad beats. the legal claim against apple headphones. >> the sun is breaking through clearing off the clouds. but that doesn't mean we're warming up very much. we'll talk about the cooler air coming up. to help crack down on fare cheats. this new ord >>> right now, bart's board of directors is considering a plan to help crackdown on fare cheats. this new ordinance would impose fines on those caught on trains or in paid areas of stations without valid fare cards. here's how it would work. officers would go on trains with an electronic device to scan everyone's ticket or clipper card to make sure they paid to enter the station. fare evaders would be issued a tick

mola lenghi shows us how we got to this point. >> south korea launched ballistic missiles and scrambled fighter jets in a show of force following north korea's largest ever nuclear test. the north claims it tested a hydrogen bomb and declared its mission a perfect success. >> it is a not only a much more powerful weapon but might also have been someone that is more miniaturized, at least be able to fit on the warhead of a long range missile. >> sunday's blast at north korea's main nuclear test site created a man made earthquake felt in china and russia. scientists believe it was potentially ten times more powerful than north korea's last nuclear test and at least five times the explosive power of the dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. >> any threat to the united states or our allies will be met with a massive military response. >> enough is enough. >> at today's emergency meeting of the u. n. security council nikki haley argued for the toughest sanctions possible. >> war is never something the united states wants. we don't want it now. but our country's patience is not unlimited. >> pre

mola lenghi reports. >> reporter: the tragedy at this nursing home in hollywood hills claimed the lives of several elderly patients ranging in age from 7 70 to 99. they were found dead in the building. others were scared out by looking dazed and confused. >> the ac unit and this place behind us under investigation were not using and they were utilized portable ac units. >> reporter: the police say those units weren't enough to combat the sweltering heat. >> what happened here is inexcusable. >> reporter: officials used vans to transport them as the senator expressed concerns for the state's seniors. >> we have so many nursing homes that do not have power, and this tragedy could be repeated. >> reporter: more than 3 million florida homes and businesses are still without power. here in naples, the countless downed trees and power lines are complicated efforts to restore electricity. it could be months before lights are back in parts of keys. >> in the rest of the keys w >> reporter: earlier governor rick scott toured the destination. >> we have plenty of food on the way. >> thank god we f

mola lenghi reports from jacksonville where it could be weeks before electricity is restored. >>> a man walked through a flooded street in the river side section of jacksonville, florida tuesday morning. causing some of the worst flooding in more than 150 years. the storm surge led to more than 300 rescues monday. >> this wasn't my job. i would have left this i wouldn't have been here for this storm. $it could take days before all the water recedes. vince coren is cleaning up after floodwaters reached his front porch. >> we were about ten inches going away from the house. but that's the weird thing, you can see water in the air ducts. >> reporter: the waters reach nearly four feet in this jacksonville neighborhood. as you can see they are receding and now less than a foot. irma also caused massive flooding in charleston, south carolina monday. the storm knocked out power to more than seven million customers in several states. in florida about two-thirds of the state began today with no electricity. in the florida keys, officials are now seeing the scope of the damage where mare barreled

cbs reporter mola lenghi is in jacksonville with a look at the damage there. mola? >> reporter: that's right, ken. here in jacksonville we saw historic flooding yesterday. today we watched as a lot of that floodwater has been receding. here in this neighborhood they saw 3 to 4 feet of floodwaters. now they're down to inches. from here it's about cleaning up trying to get back to normal, not just here in jacksonville, but throughout the entire state. a long line of evacuees inched south on u.s. 1 for a first look at irma's destruction in the florida keys. officials allowed upper keys residents back today but are keeping people out of the lower keys while they make emergency inspections and repairs. in marathon residents who stayed behind are checking on neighbors. >> a lot of them left town. the ones that are here are still alive. most of the boats, i got 1 friend that lost his boat. >> reporter: the view from above shows the island chain took a devastating hit from the category 4 storm. most of the area has no power, water, sewage or fuel. more than 400 miles away j

mola lenghi, cbs news, jacksonville, florida. >> fema estimates that 90% of the homes on the keys had damage. >>> several areas in the caribbean are shown before and after they were hit by hurricane irma. the image shows the destruction from the storm. almost every building is damaged or destroyed and 37 deaths there are blamed on the storm. >>> hundreds of people packed a houston church to honor the police sergeant killed during the hurricane harvey. officers from across the country lined up outside during the procession to pay their respects to the family of sergeant steven perez. the 60-year-old died last month while spending his final hours trying to help save flood victims. perez was driving when he got trapped in 16 feet of floodwaters and drowned. he served 34 years as a houston police officer. >>> money continues to pour in following the "hand in hand" benefit for the victims of hurricane harvey and hurricane irma. so far it raised more than $44 million. the one hour telethon aired on several networks including kpix 5 last night. feature performances and messages of hope from

correspondent mola lenghi is in fort myers with more. >> reporter: president trump and the first ladyrrived in fort myers to view irma's aftermath. >> we've seen the devastation. we're going to see some more of it now unfortunately. >> reporter: the president will also tour the damage in naples near where irma came ashore for the second time on sunday. millions of people remain without power across the state. >> they're way ahead of schedule. there are more electrical people in this state ithan ever accumulated anywhere in the world is what i read before. >> reporter: utility officials say it could be another week before power is completely restored to this part of the state because of the significant damage. in broward county, florida, another nursing home was evacuated thursday morning. it comes one day after eight patients died at a nearby facility that lost air conditioning following irma. a criminal investigation is under way. >> preliminary results show that they did have electricity at the place but the air conditioning was not working. they had brought in portable units but th

mola lenghi is in jacksonville with the very latest. >>reporter: elderly residents were evacuated this morning from a hollywood, florida nursing home that lost power during hurricane irma. police say three patients died at the facility and two at a hospital. >> we believe at this time they may be related to the loss of power in the storm. >>reporter: police have started a criminal investigation into the deaths. they did not say whether the facility had air conditioning when paramedics were called early this morning. >> as we arrived on the scene with our fire rescue crews, we saw that there were a number of people in respiratory distress. >>reporter: across florida 4.4 million homes and businesses still have no power. florida's biggest utility lined up repair trucks this morning in the miami area. but officials say it could be more than a week before electricity is back for everyone. power outages also remain an more than 800 utility workers are trying to restore electricity to the more than 100,000 customers who woke up today with no l

mola lenghi, cbs news, naples, florida. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," we will talk with the mayor and police chief of hollywood, florida, where the nursing home was located. >>> it was a school custodian who stopped a student who opened fire at a washington state high school. the unidentified student is now in custody. the shooting began yesterday morning on the second floor of freeman high school just outside spokane. four students were shot, three are in serious condition, and one student died after he tried to stop the gunman. >> one of the weapons jammed. he went to the second weapon. the other student did confront him. that's when he lost his life. >> officials say the custodian ordered the gunman to surrender and he did. the "associated press" reports the suspect was obsessed with school shootings and that other students alerted school counselors. >>> 15 marines were hospitalized after their am fib bus assault vehicle caught fire during a training exercise in california. five were in critical condition. the marines were conducting exercises at camp pendleton north of san die

as mola lenghi reports, the president is urging reluctant republicans to get with the program. >>reporter: republicans are cautiously optimistic that they may finally be able to pass a bill to repeal and replace obamacare. >> i've never felt better about where we're at. >>reporter: republican senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy co-wrote the plan. it would eliminate the subsidize making it affordable for people under the affordable care act and give the state as lump sum of money to create their own healthcare systems. >> i believe that republicans like the idea of state-controlled healthcare versus washington d.c.- controlled healthcare. >>reporter: but the graham- cassidy bill still has provisions which some republicans object to. conservatives don't like that it would keep some of obamacare's taxes, while some moderates are oposed to the idea that people with pre- existing conditions could end up paying more for healthcare and it would end federal funding for obamacare subsidies and expansion of medicare. >> it would result in me receiving $1 billion less in federal fund

mola lenghi, cbs news, washington. >>> switzerland is trying to help mediate the crisis. jung un studied there and the country has a history of hosting international dialogue effort. >>> president trump will announce tomorrow he's ending daca. the deferred action for child hood arrival -- many brought to this country -- they said if he doesn't end daca tomorrow, they'll take the matter to court. the president is expected to dominate -- it would mark the first time an elected official held a position. he's a former navy pilot and he serves on the science space and technology committee. he'll need senate confirmation. >>> congress returns to work facing a long agenda including the aftermath of hurricane harvey. the house and senate are expected to vote quickly on a nearly $8 billion aid installment and the funds will help with the immediate recovery and rebuilding the houston area. congress will need to pass a spending plan by september 30th to avoid a government shutdown. >>> on this labor day, workers across the country are marching for higher wages. >> what do you want?

but first, cbs reporter mola lenghi is live at the white house. mola. >> reporter: michelle, this is a devastating blow to about 800,000 people. a decision not being received well here in washington and really throughout the country as you mentioned but the trump administration insists that this is about law and order and about pushing congress to do their jobs. the trump administration is canceling a program which allowed illegal immigrants brought to america as children to stay and work legally. >> the department of homeland security should begin an orderly lawful wind-down including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program. >> reporter: an estimated 800,000 people are given work permits which last for two years. the administration will phase out the program by allowing current permits to expire, requests for new permits which have already been submitted will be considered on a case- by-case basis. >> it also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs. >> reporter: p

mola lenghi, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> senator lindsay gram, the co-sponsor of the bill, and very close friend of senator john mccain, tweeted that he disagrees with mccain's decision but says his friends ship is based on the type of person mccain is, not how he votes. >> also at the rally last night, president trump continued his war of words with north korean leader kim jong un, president tweeted tweeted kim have jong un, mad man who doesn't mind starving or killing his people will be tested like never before n response the sanctions overeats nuclear and missile testing north korea threatened to test hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean. last night the president said i'll deal with kim jong un. >> the devastating earthquake has climbed to at least 295 people. one survival story is giving hope to families of the missing. rescuers pulled a woman from the rubble of a building yesterday after six hours of working. her name is pauline a gomez, the human resources worker was at her office when the earthquake struck on tuesday. she managed not only -- not to suffer any major injurie

mola lenghi, cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> well, celebrities doing their part to help with the victims of irma, and harvey, beyonce, george clooney, open, a dave matthews along with many others appear in a prime time fundraiser tonight called hand-in-hand, benefit for hurricane relief. you can see tonight at 8:00 right here on cbs-3. >> and, irma is thankfully no longer packing the same punch, but the system still bringing rain to part of the country. meteorologist, katie fehlinger tracking where things stands now, so katie, could we be feeling any of irma's impact any time noon. >> yes, you know, even as early as tomorrow here jim, some showers start to move n talking the most glancing of blows out of the storm system for our area, by comparison to what this has done, across the sunshine state, across the caribbean nations, this really just is not a big deal for us. may be little bit after prolonged event granted when we start things off in a look at wide zoom for you here, on storm scan3, i have to zoom it pretty far out just to show you the expands of the granted much weaker system,

reporter mola lenghi is live at the white house with the very latest on the relief effort. >> reporter: liz, the president has defended the white house's response to puerto rico, but people on the island and in the halls of congress here in washington are calling on the white house to do more. hurricane maria was the third strongest storm to ever make landfall in the u.s. and its neighboring territories. scene days later the mayor of san juan says basic knepp sis it is like food and water are -- necessities like food and water are scarce and there's no gasoline to run hospital life support systems. >> this is the time for action. let's not talk about the debt, the fricking debt. >> reporter: monday night president trump tweeted texas and florida are doing great, but puerto rico which was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt is in deep trouble. today at the white house mr. trump was briefed by puerto rico's governor. >> massive effort is underway and we have been really treated very, very nicely by the governor and by everybody else. they know how hard we're wor

cbs reporter mola lenghi is in jacksonville with the latest look at the destruction for us. nola >> reporter: after historic -- >> reporter: after historic flooding in jacksonville, we've seen waters recede significantly today. now begins the long road ahead of recovery, cleaning up and trying to get back to normal,en just in jacksonville but throughout the entire state. a long line of evacuees inched south on u.s. 1 for a first look at irma's destruction in the florida keys. officials allowed upper keys residents back today but are keeping people out of the mother keys while they make emergency inspection -- lower keys while they make emergency inspections and repairs. residents are checking on neighbors. >> a lot of them left town. the ones here are still alive. i've got one friend that lost his goat. >> reporter: the view from above shows the island chain took a devastating hit from the category 4 storm. most of the area has no power, water, sewage or fuel. more than 400 miles away jacksonville is trying to dry out. irma swamped the city with record flooding. more than 35

let's get the latest from naples now and mola lenghi from cbs news is there for us.lk about this story at the old people's home. the tragedy was it was 15 feet away from a hospital that had full air conditioning across the road? yeah. that's right. a fully functioning hospital, it seems like it could have taken care of these folks could have prevented this tragedy from happening. this tragedy is really a product of the overall devastation and the recovery effort that we are seeing here. the power outages are still lingering. that nursing home was affected by that. when the storm passed through it knocked out about 12—14 million — knocked out power to 14 million people and businesses. progress has been made in restoring power, down to three million. those are three million people without power, without air conditioning. florida never loses its summer. it's about 90 degrees. 32 celsius. sweltering heat. you are talking about elderly folks, a lot who are maybe not in the greatest health to begin with, services are being laking, air conditioning, electricity. a very diff