This morning 50 points but all eyes on big tech, they took a big hit yesterday, from premarket action some investors nibbling at tech stocks at lower prices, maybe buying the dip but not that much. Now the overthetop nancy pelosi describing the tax bill as armageddon and the end of the world, tried to rally democrat opposition to the trump growth agenda hardly surprising the left does not want to go into next years elections with a strong economy. Embarrassed steny hoyer the end of the world. Political bias in the Mueller Probe sure looks like it, turns out it was an antitrump prohillary fbi agent who changed the language on the email activity, from grossly negligent which is clearly legally wrong to extre bias. Theres a reason this show is three hours, we need that much time to get it all in. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart saturday musicologists will understand why we are playing i dont want to miss a thing from the 1998 movie armageddon. Minority leader nancy pelosi on
Hurricane. This morning, hes in florida following hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have gone to the u. S. Mainland to rebuild their lives. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. These flames are brutal. Gusting winds just fueling those flames. The prospects for containment are not good. Wildfire rages through Southern California. Nerveracking to see a fire up on the canyon heading your way. Scoffing at the idea that Robert Mueller is building a case for obstruction of justice. President trump has seemed to confirm he knew Michael Flynn had lied to the fbi. Its certainly evidence that goes to obstruction of justice and i believe the president is no more above the law than any other american. Congressman john conyers is expected to announce that he will not be seeking reelection, as he faces Sexual Misconduct allegations. Its up to the people of alabama now. Alabama Senate Candidate roy moore now with the backing of President Trump as
20th century . Maybe ill settle for the greatest photographer of all time. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glore and good evening. Wildfires in Southern California are being powered tonight by very strong santa ana wind, gusting as high as 80 miles an hour. The fires in los angeles and ventura counties have already burned more than 47,000 acres. More than 27,000 people have been evacuated. More than 3500 firefighters are on the job. We have reports this evening from jamie yuccas and carter evans. And we begin with jamie. Reporter theyre some of the harshest conditions firefighters have faced in yea years, extremely dry, powerful winds errorred throw Ventura County last night. Within hours, a 50acre fire exploded, and the winds havent let up. This is what firefighters are facing. Were trying to keep this exr extending into this whole neighborhood. Reporter also hampering the fight little or no water pressure on several hillside streets. So you you just cant get water out of
Then to the political crisis in honduras. On monday night, National Police and the capital tegucigalpa, including elite u. S. Trained units, refused to impose a night time curfew ordered by the incumbent president after days of protests over allegations of fraud in the countrys disputed prpresident ial election. Endsr call is all of thisis because were not willing to come to the streets a and engage or repress the people. They make a we will go to honduras to get an update from journalists allan nairn and Sarah Kinosian and speak with Congressmember Jan Schakowsky. President trump announces what could be the largest rollback of federal Land Protections in the nations history. Sign to the i will president ial proclamations. They will modify the National Monuments designations of both bears ears and Grand Staircase escalante. Incoin plans to open them to mining, drilling, and other forms of extraction. With two guests. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracy
Comby use kpd treemly careless. He worked for special counselor, robe this is the cbs overnight news. There was a close call today at new yorks jfk airport. Transportation correspondent kris van cleave is following this developing story. Kris. Jeff, the faa made aware of this afternoons incident. Airbus a320 belonging to a mexican airline, lined up to land on a runway where a delta flight had just been cleared to take off. Youll hear that flight referred to as brickyard in the air Traffic Control recordings. Delta pilots warned air Traffic Control something seemed wrong. Yeah, i see that. Brickyard cancel takeoff plans. Make a left turn. You are lining up to the wrong runway. Go around. Turn left. Heading 100. Now you could hear in the background of the volaris recording, 400 feet. Plane advising the pilots as altitude descending. At this point we dont know how far apart the two planes were. So far, volaris has the not responded to our request for comment. Big olympic news. Russias oly