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This is part of history. terry happily allowed a reporter. >> put it on there. >> the opportunity to turn the bridge himself. >> its going to be hard to top this. >> its fun to do once. any more than that makes it a job. >> youre really good at this. >> a job terry loves. >> this is awesome. nobody in their right mind would say there was a bad job. >> when the new bridge will be installed, shell still be here to open and close the safety gates and push the button to make the bridge turn. >> i gu...

Retirement is on the horizon, but he is a little worried. >> i should have planned a lot sooner. you know, when i was 20. life gets in the way. >> reporter: in the early 90s, neighbarger contributed to his companys 401(k) for a few years but then stopped for more than a bucade. he finally decided to get serious and restarted contributions in 2014. over by the ice cream sandwich assembly line, 27-year-old machine operator ryan bickle could do just as his older coworkers suggest. >> the hardest pa...

A federal military contract oar for the army and navy, partnered with the figg bridge engineers, which has contracted with the kennedy space center and nasa. >> on friday morning, we closed 8th street and there was no bridge. and on monday morning, the bridge will be in place. >> reporter: m.c.m.s president, jorge munilla, was full of pride saturday about the quick installation of the span, but just 10 days ago, the company was sued in south florida by a t.s.a. employee hurt at the fort lauderda...

Only expected to get stronger. >> glor: carter thank you. minnesota democrat al franken took to the senate floor today, and nancy cordes tells us he made the announcement he could no longer avoid. >> i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. >> reporter: senator franken bowed to pressure today but did not bow to his accusers. >> some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others, i remember very differently. >> reporter: if anything, franken suggested, he is the vi...

Of the busiest freeways in america. the worst of it, as we saw, in faria beach. you really get a sense of the intensity of the winds up in the air. and keep in mind when the gusts really move through, they can pick up embers from one fire and start a new one. those embers can be carried for miles. the thomas fire is one of six major fires. the latest in san diego spread quickly. rich macklin is with the ventura county fire department. >> anytime we have erratic winds like this, were never out of...

Thick with smoke. officials say the air has not reached toxic levels yet, but ash was making it extremely difficult to breathe. >> broke out today north of san diego, quickly spread to 2500 acres. at least 20 homes have burned in a retirement community. governor jerry brown tonight declared a state of emergency in san diego county, and carter evans is there. carter. >> reporter: were in northern san diego county where the fires been raging for hours, and it has exploded. you can see where its bu...

Welfare for unrepresented animals. thanks for watching tonight at 5:00. >> al and veronica right back here in 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: somethings fishy. thats what congressional critics are saying about the no- bid contract awarded the whitefish energy company to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. also tonight... >> we have great unity. >> mason: the president denies his party is divided. >> i called it a lovefest. >> mason: the postman always rings twice, but the ama...

>> why are you building so many solar farms. >> we intend to bring the better future to our next generation by using such clean energy, reducing the air pollution. thats the companys mission. >> reporter: its also the governments mission. its spending hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize renewable energy as china tries to wean itself off coal, still its dominant power source. and the reason for its notoriously toxic air. but china now produces two thirds of the worlds solar panels and ha...

>> reporter: irma is bigger and more powerful than hurricane andrew. the category 5 storm killed 61 people, destroyed 25,000 buildings, and forced florida to strengthen building codes statewide. it was a foundation-to-roof tightening. >> absolutely. i mean, everything. >> reporter: peter dyga is president of the associated builders and contractors in south florida. we met him at this hotel project where workers were installing impact-resistant windows, which are lab tested to withstand a 2 x 4 h...

Ca ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: the forecast takes an ominous turn. >> this is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. >> glor: more than a million have been told to evacuate as florida braces for a direct hit from irma. >> mother nature is going to win in the end. we just have to hope and pray for the best. >> glor: the strongest atlantic hurricane on record has already left a trail of destruction through the caribbean. >> the entire country has been decimated. >> ma...