Navalnys condition and how his Spokesman Says it happened. And keeping students safe. College parties lead to more coronavirus outbreaks on campus. While many younger children begin school. And we asked teachers how they really feel about getting back into the classroom. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. It is truly an honor to be speaking with you. I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me. History was made as Kamala Harris became the first woman of color to accept the democratic nomination for Vice President. I did hope for the sake of our country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. But he never did. Fire crews are battling hundreds of wildfires across california. Mass evacuations are under way. With all the fires were currently seeing, were woefully short of resources period. The president criticizing colleges for sending students home. Its significantly safer for students to live with other young people than to go home and spread the virus to older americans. The president asked about the Conspiracy Group known as qanon. This belief that youre secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Is that supposed to be a bad thing . Russias most prominent opposition politician apparently poisoned. Alexei navalny was a critic of Vladimir Putin. Fire and sparks shooting from the planes belly. Deep left field. It is a grand slam to walk it off and all that matters. Dominating upsets in the nba bubble. The Dallas Mavericks even up the series with a win against the clippers. Ive got to hear it. I love it maybe were still not sure which candidate youll vote for so let me tell you about my friend, joe biden. I told you we were best friends. Barack and i are closer than two scoops in a cone except im melting a lot faster. Hit me with some sprinkles. The eye opener presented by toyota. Weve got breaking news. As you wake up in the west, we should know that right here in new york city, steve bannon, President Trumps former senior political adviser, was arrested this morning. He and three other people are accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of fundraising donors. Paula reid is at the white house with the latest information. Paula, good morning to you. What are we just learning . Good morning, gayle. Ive been reading this indictment. Weve learned the president s former chief strategist steve bannon was taken into custody this morning. Hes been charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of investors related to a fund called we build the wall. According to prosecutors, bannon and his coconspirators allegedly capitalized on raising money for the wall telling do r donors the money would be used to build the wall. Instead this money was funneled to the folks in charge of this conspiracy. According to prosecutors, bannon received hundreds of thousands of dollars and he now faces up to 20 years in prison, gayle. So paula, how does this impact the president Going Forward . Well, were going to ask the president in just a few moments. The Prime Minister of iraq will be at the white house. Well have a chance to ask the president his reaction to this news. Its significant. This is the sixth close associate of President Trump who has been criminally charged by the Trump Justice Department during this administration. While the president has tried to dismiss a lot of the investigations swirling around the white house as a hoax or some sort of democratic conspiracy, these charges would have been approved by his attorney general. These are known, being carried out by his own justice department. And as we head into november, theres a question for voters about exactly why there is so much criminal activity swirling around this white house. The administration and previously the trump campaign. It will be interesting to hear the president s response today. Paula, thank you very much. Now to last nights historymaking Democratic National convention. Senator Kamala Harris officially became the first black woman ever on a major partys president ial ticket. Formally accepting her partys nomination for Vice President. The night also saw former president barack obama delivering a sharp rebuke of President Trump. He called on all americans to vote and said democracy itself is at stake in this election. Ed okeefe is in wilmington, delaware, where harris made her speech. Ed, good morning. Reporter good morning, anthony. On what is said to be the biggest day in the political life of joe biden. Well get to that in a moment. We begin with senator harris who became just the third woman ever to accept the Vice President ial nomination. And as she did, she remembered her mother. She probably could have never imagined that i would be standing before you now and speaking these words. I accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. Reporter in an acceptance speech unlike any ever given before, california senator Kamala Harris shared her familys history, recalling her parents activism and a strollers eye view of the civil rights movement. She raised us to be proud, strong black women and she raised us to know and be proud of our indian heritage. Reporter the senator who has faced criticism for her past prosecutorial record spoke frankly about the Ongoing National reckoning on race and how minorities are disproportionately affected by the pandemic. There is no vaccine for racism. We have got to do the work. For george floyd, for breonna taylor, for the lives of too many others to name. Reporter and she pinned the blame squarely on President Trump. Donald trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job because he cant. Reporter former president barack obama delivered the most stinging rebuke of a sitting president by a former president in modern history. For close to four years now hes shown no interest in putting in the work. No interest in finding common ground. No interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. No interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Reporter speaking from the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia, he spoke about americans once marginalized because of who they were. If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work and could not work, it was those americans. Our ancestors. Reporter at times the former president almost pleaded with americans to take action. Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy. Reporter so did many of the women who spoke including nancy pelosi and mr. Trumps 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton. Who recalled what can happen when people dont turn out to vote. And dont forget, joe and kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose. Take it from me. Reporter someone who was watching closely last night, perhaps no surprise, President Trump, who fired off several angry tweets with false and misleading claims. Some democrats immediately said the president was in essence proving mr. Obamas point that hes unfit to serve. Tonight, attention turns to joe biden at the chase center on the riverfront. Looks like a home depot, but we promise this is an event center that actually can hold a Television Studio that democrats have built for the event, similar to what Kamala Harris spoke from last night. Biden has been seeking the presidency in 50 years and will accept the nomination on the third try. Of course, this isnt at all what we were expecting to cover. We were supposed to be in the battleground state of wisconsin. Biden was supposed to speak in front of thousands. Tonight hell speak from his hometown, the city that, as a senator, he came home to almost every night. Tony . Yeah, and thank you, ed. Not expecting to cover a convention quite like this one, but it is another big night. Well be watching and seeing if the sitting president is watching as well. I suspect he will be. Lets go to Northern California where the San Francisco area is surrounded by a series of wildfires that are threatening homes and blanketing the region with dangerous smoke. There is more hot weather likely today that could make conditions even harder for firefighters there. The fires are burning out of control all over california including around a dozen of a thousand acres or more. Those are very large fires. Carter evans is in vacaville. What are you seeing now . Well, ill tell you. When the fire came through here, it was so hot, is incinerated everything. You see this melted aluminum on the ground. That came from the rim of this car. Everything on this property was leveled. California governor gavin newsom says there are about 360 fires burning in the state right now. They generated it happened during a storm that generated about 11,000 lightning strikes. And all of this during a recordbreaking heat wave. Fastmoving flames forced our cbs sacramento affiliate to flee with seconds to spare. About ten minutes south, firefighters worked to contain the growing wildfire in nearby fairfield. It forced emergency evacuations at nearby Travis Air Force base and shut down a busy interstate. So you can see what firefighters are dealing with as the wind picks up here blowing this smoke sideways across the road. Theyre trying to keep the fire from jumping right now but its not just the flames. The smoke is so thick its hard to see. Late last night, flames tore through this Santa Cruz Mountain south of San Francisco, part of whats known as the czu lightning complex fires. At least three of californias wildfires are each now greater than the size of 20,000 football fields as many areas swelter under recordbreaking tripledigit temperatures. This Mobile Home Park in vacaville was destroyed among at least 60 structures consumed by flames as the socalled lnu lightning fire tore through the community. I woke up, and the whole hill was on fire. I mean, the entire thing was on fire. Reporter farm owner rhonda says she and her family narrowly escaped but much of her livestock was lost. I went outside. It was the roar of the fire that i never heard anything like that before in my life. What did it sound like . Like a locomotive. It was freaky scary. Reporter well, there are reports now that this covid is making these fires harder to fight and thats because inmate crews normally help out with the firefight but there are reports right now that those have been severely cut back to cut down the spread of the coronavirus. Roar of the fire so loud it sounded like a locomotive. You dont forget that, carter. Thank you. Breaking news overnight from russia where president putins most prominent critic is fighting for his life this morning after a suspected poisoning. Roxana saberi is following the story in london. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A spokeswoman says Alexei Navalny is in a coma after drinking a cup of poisoned tea. He drank the tea at an airport in siberia and then lost consciousness after boarding. This video appears to show scenes inside the plane when paramedics arrived with navalny heard moaning. He started feeling unwell. Other unconfirmed clips show navalny lying motionless, being wheeled into an ambulance. Hes now in stable condition but his life is still at risk. One chief doctor says theyre looking into various diagnoses, including poisoning. Navalny has been a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin for more than a decade. The activist has been detained several times for organizing antigovernment protests. Last year, he was hospitalized with what his doctor said could be the result of poisoning. Naval navalnys spokeswoman is pointing the finger at russias president for todays incident but the kremlin says its wishing navalny a speedy recovery. Gayle . Boy, thank you very much, roxana. Teachers unions in two of the biggest u. S. Cities are threatening walkouts over returning to school during the coronavirus pandemic. New york city teachers will not return to class if their health and safety demands are not met. Teachers in detroit have authorized a potential strike there. Colleges in the u. S. Now report more than 1,000 coronavirus cases. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is tracking this story for us. David, so what are they doing to control these outbreaks . Good morning to you. Gayle, good morning. You have some universities postponing inperson learning. Others are canceling it altogether and moving strictly toward virtual Online Learning. And then you have some universities that are actually punishing students for putting their peers at risk. It was this video of students partying inside the university of Connecticut Student housing that led to several students being evicted from their campus residences. Iowa State University released party smart guidelines for its student body this week after crowds of students were seen partying over the weekend. This video shared online apparently shows some of those parties. In tennessee, the State Government is allowing School Districts to declare teachers as essential workers which would get them back into the classroom, even if theyve been exposed to the virus. We spoke with the States Education commissioner penny schwenn. If youre going to do that at the lovely level we want to make sure you do everything to keep those students safe. Reporter many are worried local leaders are not adequately protecting them, their students and their families. In new york city, the Teachers Union is suggesting it may take legal action if schools reopen without what theyre calling essential precautions like mandatory testing and tracing. This city went through hell and came back, and we are not going back to hell because of sho shortsighted political agendas. In florida, the states largest Teachers Union is suing over a statewide inperson learning mandate. At wednesdays Virtual Court hearing, one teacher was overcome with emotion. Ive chosen my kids, my students over so many difficult things, but i cant put my family at risk. Reporter were talking about young people. Theres a new study published in the journal of pediatrics about Research Done at massachusetts general hospital. They looked at about 200 kids infected with coronavirus and found that 50 of them had higher levels of coronavirus in their airway than some adults in the icu at the hospital. What does that mean . It means that kids may be even more active when it comes to actually contributing to the spread of coronavirus in the community, even if they dont get as sick as some of those adults in the hospital. Thats so scary. Makes me grateful that my favorite son, favorite daughter of 30something are potty trained and employed. Id be terrified if we had a child going back. This weekend were going. Hes worried, too. And weve got a panel of teachers, theyre all worried as well. But im not worried about nick mason. I saw a disturbing interview with a kid saying, i think this is all a hoax. Nick does not think he knows its serious. You know when you get to school. You have friends, things happen and people make bad choices. So its just theres just so much that is uncertain and there hasnt been a lot of planning for this. I know. Its a very uncertain time. But they have those Party Guidelines safely. How about no parties . I like that best of all. No parties. Ahead, a Major New Development in flint, michigan. Sixyear fight over tainted tapwater. Adriana diaz who has covered this story for all those years will tell us about a huge financial se ahead, why President Trump is welcoming support from qanon. Plus, how the mayor of los angeles tried to punish a home thats become Party Central in the middle of the pandemic. Youre watching cbs this morning. Still fresh. Unstopables inwash scent booster downy unstopables hold on one second. Sure. Okay. Okay safe drivers save 40 guys guys check it out. Safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 thats safe drivers save 40 . It is, thats safe drivers save 40 . Hes right there. 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