through pitch dark southeast florida. many power outages are reported throughout the state, and already there about 2000 flight cancellations for today, many of them for orlando, tampa and jacksonville airports. it has been it has been downgraded to category one hurricane, but it s still very dangerous. the winds are slowing, but catastrophic with life-threatening flooding. we get life updates on its path and destruction. in orlando, there were estimates that as much as 20 inches of rain could have fallen, and it s been hammering the area for hours. let s go right to jesse coach who was there. i hope you re someone save, you were talking about having to go to higher ground earlier, especially the location being too dangerous. yes and at this point we are dealing with pretty consistent rainfall here. there were bands of it earlier, we continue to see gusts of intense wind. but the rain is been falling for hours. and you can see we talk to a short while ago with the wat
without power now. the winds are extremely high. and the water is rising. you can see forces of trees just clinging to i just don t know what they are they been flying through the streets. it s a center block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. no word on the back and now, and the great eye wall is coming through. we ve had some of the strongest winds here so far. good morning, i m philip mena. good to be with you at this hour, i m frances rivera. it s 3 am in the east, midnight out west. thank you for joining us for a special edition of early today as we track the devastating path of hurricane ian. here s what we know at this hour. the strong wind of even already impacting daytona beach along the western coach, as it slowly moves towards orlando. the storm has been downgraded to a category 1, but it still packing a powerful punch. ian made landfall in south must florida, in the fort myers area, where the storm surge submerged buildings. it
what it means for what you pay at the pump. cbs news exclusive: as brittney griner spends her eighth month in jail, tonight, her wife speaks, only with gayle king. how this four-legged player is stealing the show at cityfield, with the goal of helping veterans. reporter: he could change someone s life. he will change somebody s life. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. president biden just arrived back right here in washington after getting a firsthand view of the devastation in florida from hurricane ian. the president and first lady surveyed the damage, before meeting with local residents, business owners, and political rivals, including florida s governor, ron desantis. one week after the category 4 storm made landfall, residents and businesses were allowed to return to sanibel island for the first time to see what s left of their hom
plus russia meeting with allies in vienna and may announce up to 2 million barrels a day production cut. bad news for you and president biden. dana: the president visited saudi arabia this summer in hopes of convincing the kingdom to increase its oil output. that strategy now appears to have fallen flat. the white house is in damage control. when the president went to saudi arabia, he said i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. what happened? you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america s position. as i just mentioned, he took action these past several months. every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump. bill: james freeman on deck with analysis. jacque heinrich is live at the white house where we begin this brand-new hour. good morning. good morning, bill. we re seeing the first reports of these cuts could be much deeper than expected between 1.5 and 2
he is the king! case closed! how about aaron judge walks into history with a 62nd home run of this season breaking the american league record said by roger maris, and as far as you and i are concerned, willie, i m sure, breaking the single season all-time home run record. the only people that are in front of him have a massive asterisk, because they were all at the height of the roid war. all roided out themselves, but aaron judge, nome does he does he set this record. he does it with his mom in the stands and proves throughout this entire process he s really one of the, one of the good guys in he is. baseball today. i m chuckling watching that shot of his mother. that was just relief right there. she s been on the road with him. she s been, the last couple of weeks traveling show. tie the record 61. would he break it? you can just see her sort of fall back into her care, ah. finally, he did it. not a moment too soon. second to last day of the season. today last