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Tonight, cbs news has learned 20 truckloads full of emergency supplies and more cots are on their way from all over the country. the challenge? getting them inside downtown houston. also today, mark strassmann had sharp questions for houstons mayor about how the city prepared for harvey. >> reporter: water rescues have created daily drama in a city that has found hell and high water. but houstons mayor stands by his decision not to evacuate americas fourth largest city. mayor sylvester turner: >...

Way its turned into in the last 30 years. >> reporter: born and raised in working class chicago, he joined his first white power gang at 14 before quitting eight years later and starting a nonprofit to combat hate. this notion that white ll around us, its a very scary picture you repaint. asuprtsacis >> it is. unfortunately, its a reality.we than 900 active hate groups in the u.s., a number thats growing. >> this is a movement that is really fueled at this moment by a lot of young, angry white m...

Hearing, that mcconnell is not a man who takes to being roughed up in public well, and that hes not a man who forgets it quickly, either? >> well, those two characteristics are certainly true about mitch mcconnell. i also dont think hes a man, you know -- you talk to people around him. hes not one to take the bait here, either. so i dont imagine hes going to get in a very public back and forth with the president over this. but i do think hes going to file this away and remember it for a long tim...

Safety standard or enforcing body governing amusement rides. each state has its own rules and polices itself. >> thats dangerous in that theres no universal application of safety to protect all of us. >> reporter: attorney mark kitrick represents the family of 18-year-old tyler jarrell. he was killed after being thrun 50 feet from the ride. 50 feet from the ride. kitrick says the latest findings shocked jarrells mother. >> shes beyond outraged to find out this is a problem that seems apparently ...

The late night tornado swept through parts of tulsa with no warning. the city sirens not sounding, many residents sleeping through the disaster which struck after 1:00 in the morning. >> thats a whataburger, part is gone. >> reporter: by the time the national weather service issued a tornado warning, at least 30 people were injured. rooftops lifted off homes and businesses. tree limbs and debris scattered across the town. >> it just happened too quickly. it was just all the sudden, its there, we...

Markets, and i think we all support that. >> reporter: travis harkins traded his coal job to work in wind, a decision made with his wife, sam, and three active boys, very much in mind. >> when i was in coal, yeah, i had-- i had a concern of how i was going to provide for my family. wind generation definitely opened up a whole other avenue for me and a lot more opportunity. >> reporter: people here have long boasted about being americas biggest coal producer. now, they are learning to embrace the...

According to recruits, the average lineman is 63", 260 pounds. this rising eighth grader, bigger than that. this is for you, poppy. the fastest weaner dogs on the planet competed in the wiener schnitzel. it was 1 1/2-year-old daschund running with a trial time of 5.8 seconds. its all for a good cause z. i love seeing athletes giving back for a good cause z. >> im a little more of a retriever girl than a wiener girl but ill take it. >> coy, thank you so much. we have a lot going on this morning. ...

>> ive heard out in the yard that laudone is a room master is what they call him. so he was apparently helping them guys or showing them the best way to do this. my guess is still that they found out friday night about his crime and hes been hiding it for about two years. and i dont know how it come to life, but it did. thats why he ended up checking in the way he did. >> fox also thinks laudone might have created his problem with holloman as a way to get transferred to another prison. >> since ...

Flames leapt across highway 49, closing the road. more than 2,000 firefighters have been battling the massive blaze since sunday, but as the wind pushed the fire closer to a community of 1,500 homes late unesday, californias governor, jerry brown, declared a state of emergency. thousands were ordered to evacuate the town of mariposa. main street became a ghost town. mia glor owns the mariposa lodge. >> everybody is scared. you would never think something like this would happen in your town. po r...

The conditions were facing this year. >> reporter: the governor declared state of emergency just days after the fire broke out and exploded in size. cal fire officials say the mountain terrain is making it difficult for fire crews to control it. >> if you have a fire thats established at the bottom of the hill, that fire will race to the top. >> reporter: fire personnel say the national guard was activated and bringing in more support. thousands are left without power and hundreds of power pole ...