Rain Pounded News Today

from ukraine, as fears grow about retaliation. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off her preschoolers supply list. >> i would probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and its not complete. >> its not complete, no. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah odonnell, reporting tonight from new york city. >> odonnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us, as we start a new week together. ...

ukraine as fears grow about retaliation. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off their preschoolers supply list. >> i would probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and its not complete. >> its not complete, no. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah odonnell, rank tonight from new york city. >> odonnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight, millions of americans in...

>> i was just panicking because i just wanted to get out of my car and get out of the water. >> reporter: dallas fire rescue responded to close to 200 vehicle rescues in just 24 hours. >> all of a surgeon we were stoppendi s c thoh, shd iot >> reporter:t pes androught conrebaki north texasp the trinity river in dallas. but overnight, rain pounded the area, filling up the river basin. >> the water is coming in. so i thought i was going to calm down, but the rain kept coming. >> reporter: homes we...

About there being issues. but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance, zero. >> reporter: tonight, just a six-word blunt statement from press secretary sarah sanders. "we dont comment on security clearances." but as you just heard, the president himself has said he didnt pull any strings for his son-in-law. david? >> pierre thomas tonight. pierre, thank you. now, to the storm moving across the country. were watching that right now. and the state of ...

>> reporter: the early morning mudslide covering cars, damaging gas lines after sheets of rain pounded parts of northern california with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour. at least 50 homes in the area were evacuated. residents remain on aletter the weekend forecast calling for even more wind and rain. steve patterson, nbc news. >> unbelievable images. lets get a check on your weather with meteorologist bill karins. when you talked about the possibility of these torrential rain. >> two block...

Trucked in. everybody in the state has been directed to strictly conserve water. state and city ordinances have upped the fines for people found wasting water. and its been like this for a long while now. this has been a very severe drought and a very long one. finally this week, they are getting a bit of relief in the golden state. but im not sure this is the kind of relief anyone wanted. this was san franciscos embarcadero this morning. water already crashing over the sea wall there. enough to...

Golden state. but im not sure this is the kind of relief anyone wanted. this was san franciscos embarcadaro this morning. water already crashing over the sea wall there. enough to close streets and knock out power, even four hours before high tide. that was just the beginning. rain pounded the bay area all day. hurricane force winds, flash flooding led to blackouts in more than 200,000 homes today. heavy downpours affected the commute in a major way. big highway connecting san francisco and san ...

The statue of liberty is reopened to visitors. >> the island took quite a beating from hurricane sandy. just in time for the fourth of july, shes all cleaned up and ready to welcome the public. abcs john donvan has details in our "favorite story of the day." i missed it. >> reporter: she stood there when sapd sandy hit, when the clouds lowered and the rain pounded in. holding her ground, hour after hour. empty, of course, of tourists. the day before sandy had been up inside her first time in a y...

40,000 people remain without power here in the state of oklahoma. for blocks and blocks here there are now no homes to send power to. the city of moore, where i am standing saw the worst of it. the skies have not yet cleared. more rain pounded the area today. it felt almost like hail at times. this is one of the times when words really fail to capture the scope of the damage as survivors look upon the twisted metal and the snapped wood and smashed brick that used to be their homes and their busi...

Suggests that the reliability of any north korean nuclear weapon would be low. and, remember, this is a military assessment. it remains to be seen if u.s. intelligence agencies have come to the same conclusion. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. >> as a destructive storm heads east, people across the south waking up to ripped up trees and damaged homes. powerful winds and torrential rain pounded areas from missouri to the carolinas. at least three people died as the storm crossed the united stat...