s be on tonight the Assault Charges after a massive brawl breaks out at a dock in alabama what police are saying tonight about whether or not the fight was racially motivated. Here are tonights headlines. The violent altercation caught on video. What sparked the fight, and why more charges are expected. This is not indicative of who we are as a city. The city of montgomery is much better than that. We want take it anymore. Reporter 11,000 city workers are walking off the job in los angeles demanding higher pay and benefits. Reporter members of the Union Representing these employees are accusing the city on refusing agreements on unfair labor practices. Major deadly storms sweep through the east coast causing mayhem on the road and in the sky. This tree slice through the home trapping the homeowner inside under a pile of debris. Reporter the nations airlines are in recovery mode after the storm canceled more than 1700 flights and delayed nearly 8,000 more. Major breaking news, a divided
city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
electricity. major. major: meg oliver, thank you. for more in the storms and the brutal heat, let s bring a our partners at the weatherfrom- channel. chris, good evening. reporter: good evening, major. as meg showed us, trees are extremely dangerous when there are storms around when you are outside or even in your home coming and there were a lot of strong winds creating a lot of damage. more than 600 storm reports widespread across the southeast all the way up to new england and the mid-atlantic. heat still a big concern across the southern plains and continuing to expand as well across the gulf coast. and around the gulf coast you have a lot more access to humidity, so temperatures while we are going to see readings into the triple digits, you get close to the gulf and florida, some areas it s going to feel like it is 110 plus. major: chris warren, we thank you. swimmers kept out of the water today at a popular new york city
major: cars might fly one day, but we hope not like this. a home in central pennsylvania was damaged when a car crashed into the second floor. you can see how here they got wedged upstairs. police say the driver intentionally launched the car into the house and not surprisingly will face criminal charges. no one inside was injured. dangerous currents were no match for the impressive teamwor displayed by a group of lifeguards in flagler beach florida. drum video shot last weekend shows the lifeguards forming a perfectly choreographed human chain. connecting themselves with ropes and buoys to rescue a man on a boogie board who apparently ended up too far from shore. they got him back on dry land in no time. we remember the man behind the popular dance craze cha cha slide. that is next. announcer: if you can t watch the cbs evening news, you
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