This is the cbs morning news for monday, august 3rd, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Wildfires are forcing thousands of families from their homes in california this morning. Crews are battling 21 large wildfires throughout the state. The largest is the rocky fire raging near lower lake, about 100 miles north of san francisco. That wild fire exploded in size sunday growing to at least 84 square miles. Air tankers are dousing the flames from above. Lamore abrams of our sacramento affiliate kobr reports. Reporter fastmoving flames continues raging through thousands of acres of dry brush. Tripling in size in just two days. Just how much more the rocky fire will burn is a question no one has an answer to. The fire behavior that were seeing because of the dry vegetation is its historic. Reporter Steve Kaufman is one of more than 2,000 firefighters from around the state on the fire line, but even with the Constant Water drops overhead, it just keeps raging. We hav
Its crazy. Massive wildfires in california threaten thousands. Crews are battling 21 large wildfires throughout the state. The fire behavior that were seeing, its historic. Severe weather is wreaking havoc across the midwest. The tornado ripping through a field in iowa. Look at this. Oh, wow. A deadly tent collapse during a thunderstorm outside chicago. One person was killed. More than a dozen were injured. Into the sky and we heard screaming and crying. A massive manhunt for the suspect accused of killing a Police Officer in tennessee. He is considered to be armed and dangerous. In kansas, 9yearold Kaiser Carlile has died after he was accidentally hit with a bat during a baseball game. Saturday afternoon. I think the email scandal is going to be a devastating blow for hillary. Growing fallout over Hillary Clintons emails released by the state department. Theres a big story of what shes hiding, why shes not being transparent and following the rules. President obama calling for Carbon P
Nonunion employees in case Union Members walk off the job. A number of buildings that tested positive for legionella. A fourth person now died and 675 gotten sick. However, were told that all of the people who died did have underlying medical conditions that had weakened their immune systems. On saturday, Health Officials revealed that the bacteria turned up in two additional bronx buildings. Steam Line Plastics on park avenue and a Verizon Office Building on 167th street. News 4s Michael George as the latest. Reporter infections on the rise. Now four people have died and 65 are sick in the outbreak of legionnaires disease in the bronx. Its got a lot of people who live here worried about their own health. Try to avoid this area as much as i can. Not much i can do. Its caught when people breathe in an airborne bacteria. Thats been traced to cooling towers on the roofs of buildings. Shopping center a plastics business and now a verizon office. I am concerned. There are a lot of Old Build
They said they do not have anyone under arrest or suspects that have been identified. Were live from east new york, peisze cheng, today in new york. Well continue to follow the story as the day progresses. The midnight deadline for thousands of verizon workers to strike has passed. The workers remain on the job at least for now. Workers rallied in rye where negotiations are still going. But a deal looks elusive. The union offered the company a deal with retiree cost savings and health care. Verizon cam back with a new proposal thats unfair. Theyre a rich corporation, its time that verizon take some of that money and return it to their most important assets, their employees. In all honesty, theres a lot of work to be done. A lot of issues to be resolved. But theres a lot of talking going on. Thats also a good thing. Verizon says the strike would have minimal impact on customers. Theyve trained 15,000 nonunion employees in case Union Members walk off the job ziefrnl the number of buildin
Candidate ted cruz railed against the decision yesterday. Speaking before conservatives headed up by industrialists and charles and david koh kh. Senator cruz, is the president exaggerating . Is there a different word than exaggerating that i might use. Here are the facts. If you look it the satellite data in the last 18 years, theres been zero recorded warming. Just two weeks ago being, the american meter orologists said this is the second warmest year on global warming. There are reports that beau biden was encouraging his dad to run for president before he died of brain cancer. Now josh alcorn will play the groundwork for a potential president ial bid as the biggest week for the 2016 so far gets started tomorrow night with a republican debate. Tracie potts is with us now. It is crunch time and a lot of jockeying for the last few spots. Reporter exactly. A new nbc news wall street journal poll that says when you average all of the national polls, the cutoff for that is 5 00 tomorrow