Rare session today and tackling history. Washington hires the first black president of an nfl franchise. Well talk to him about the challenges of changing the team name, cleaning up the culture, and now a Cancer Battle from their from their brandnew head coach. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. My concern is that the valley will not be here. Everythings burned down as far as i can see. This is going to be the long haul as we keep saying. Reporter devastating wildfires burning and spreading out of control in northern california. Reporter cal fires been around 0, 120 this t realess bg for the gulf of mexico. Tropical storm marco and Tropical Storm lauer a. Look at that. Unheard of making a landfall so close to one another. Faced tough questi demandinghi delivery. The Postal Service is committed to delivering the election mail securely and on time. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people employed, you have to fix the virus. You have to deal with the virus. So if the Scientists Say shut it down i would shut it down. Actress Lori Loughlin has been sentenced to two months in prison for her role in the College Admissions scandal. Reporter the Smithsonians National zoo welcomed a new member, giant panda mei xiang delivered a cub. Tt and mak tct upheen and that would hurt, too. And all that matters joe biden accepted the nomination this week in a high school library. Oh it gets worse an old lady came out and shushed him. On cbs this Morning Saturday. Its a play you can barely stand to watch this story doesnt have an unbearable ending. The as are happying ing tto re despite being stuffy made protocol and was ready for the night. You want to give him a big bear hug, dont you . Hes not your average bear jeff smith was grinning during the entire time no more. No more. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. I have been there. Been clocked by a line drive at yankee stadium. What can i say . Po i thithough remember. Yeah, oh, yeah. Lapookho res. Welcome to the weekend, everyone, im Michelle Miller along with Dana Jacobson and jeff glor. If the year 2020 has you wishing you could leave the planet for a little bit, we have a way to do that. Of course, just in your mind. This morning we are going to take you to an outer space auction where you can buy media rights, space gems, and even an actual piece of the moon. Before you get your hopes up, well tell you theres some astronomical prices associated with those goodies. Then at a time when many of us are trying to pay it forward, one man is pushing it forward with a simple act. Hear how his job loss made him turn to one that doesnt pay him a dime. We will explain. Then its the weekend, so how about pizza courtesy of the youninirchef. Chef Marc Forgione is as talented as they come, and hes come to us for a special summer feast later in the dish. We begin this morning with the massive firefighting effort in california as hundreds of wildfires burn across the state. At least five people are dead, tens of thousands forced out of their homes. The fires began with lightning strikes and more are expected tomorrow. Reinforcements are arriving fromternstat fromtefro frfrom from ten states but say thats not enough. People are urged to leave the firefighting to the professionals. Two of the largest fires have charred through more than es ini halfway between Sacramento Air with the heat is creating poor air quality for most of california right now. Carter evans reports from one of the two biggest fire areas. Reporter california remains under assault as nearlyrsstatid. The flames already scorching an area nearly three times the size of los angeles and killing at least five people. The governor says resources are stretched thin. Weve been on the phone with governors, trying to reach out as far as the east coast to see if we could get resources here into the state of california. Ha reporter more than 12,000 burned in more than a century, even threatening the ancient red woods. More than 60,000 residents cant return how many. As a mask wall of flames approached bill jannisses home i need help reporter there were no firefighters in sight. He tried to cut his own fire break, but it wasnt enough. When the forwardlooking statements reached his wood shop flames reached his wood shop, he scrambled to save his motorcycle. It fel on top of my leg. I couldnt get it off me. Iemember screaming but knowing no one was here. Reporter what were you thinking . I dont want and caentes livd gone. He was pun pin pinned under a harley, about 1,000 pounds. Firefighters are concerned because this weekend there is more lightning in the forecast. Cbs this Morning Saturday, carter evans, vacaville, california. Incredible. Millions of people who live along the u. S. Gulf coast could face the threat of two Tropical Storms early next week. Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli is checking both systems this morning, and we have to say this is history in the making. Jeff . It is. You know, extreme Weather Coast to coast. And with two systems in the gulf of mexico at the same time, if we have seen that, weve never seen it before. Thats Tropical Stormropical st. We see a blowup at the British Virgin islands. Even marco has become bigger formed. Both are moving west northwest. Marco moving into the gulf of mexico. That makes landfall first. Lauras more complicated because it will ride the spine of the Greater Antilles and could be utilize highoctane fuel, extraordinarily warm water temperatures will probably make this a hurricane before landfall. About 24 hours apart, marco makes landfall around texas probably tuesday, and then it looks like probably on wednesday lau lauras going to make landfall around louisiana. Give or take, could be anywhere. Big dome of High Pressure in the west. The heat wave continues. Its not as bad as it was come is good news. Look at that moisture flow into california, dry lightning is certainly possible as we head through the weekend. And the air quality is horrible. Look at all that smoke, especially trapped in the valleys. Believe it or not, it goes coast to coast in the east. Be you may see haze in the atmosphere. Ill leave you with the as we continue to warm the climate, fires are getting bigger and bigger. We have burned as many acres this week in california as they typically see in an average season in one week. Wow, jeff. Nobody can get a break in 2020 seems like. Thank you. Exactly. Now to the political firestorm over proposed changes at the cashstrapped u. S. Postal servi service. Members of congress are expected to return to capitol hill today for a rare saturday session. House democrats are forcing a vote on their bill to provide 25 billion in emergency funding for the agency. Embattled postmaster general louis dejoy is due to testify before a House Oversight and Reform Committee on monday. During a Senate Hearing friday, cuttingil not hcriticized hamper mailin ballots for the upcoming election. President trump claims mailin votes will cause chaos. Ben tracy is at the white house with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. So President Trump is continuing his unfounded attacks on mailin voting, despite the fact that his own handpicked postmaster general says that hes voted by mail for years. He also says he feels confident the postal serandl what is expected to be a Record Number of mailin ballots because of the pandemic. The poeflstal service is committed to delivering the election mail securely and on time. Reporter postmaster general louis dejoy told the Senate HomelandSecurity Committee friday that even ballots sent close to election day will be delivered on time. We will scour every each night leading up to election day. Very, veryident. Orter ey, a rublican who t poerhasmpnted sere ngufs such removing machines and slashing overtime which have led to undelivered mail piling up around the country. Delays that come at a time when people depend on Reliable Service now more than ever. Reporter dejoy says hes not intentionally slowing down mail to impact the election and has never discussed Postal Service operations with President Trump. And the the insinuation is, frankly, outrageous. Reporter dejoy claims hes now suspending further changes until after the election but wont replace machines and mailboxes that have already been removed. The democrats bill, expected to pass the house today, would force him to reversos changes. I dont know whats going to happenme happen. Reporter friday in front of a packed room and not much social distancing, President Trump said this could be chaos. There could be one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of our country, thats how serious it is. And they think im trying to steal an election just the opposite. I want the fair results of an election. Reporter the Postal Service board of governors is now ee to Postal Services votebymail process. They want to make sure all the ballots are delivered on time. Jeff . Thank you so much. Protesters against the Republican National convention in charlotte, north carolina, clashed with police in charlotte overnight. The conventionep spray to keep officers away as they were Public Safety keep people away as the oapolice wer making arrests. Now more on the pandemic. Ed okeefe with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. As the president prepares to address voters next week during his convention, his opponent, joe biden, is coming off an unprecedented and unusual convention of his own. Now officially the nominee, biden is trying to explain to voters how he would handle the coronavirus differently. I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. Reporter in a new interview, former Vice President joe biden says hed shut down the country coronavirus and flu winter. Tf of t administrations thinkingeh in ophe c running and m twind people , th virus. You have to deal with the virus. Reporter his running mate, senator kamala harris, spoke out on their first full official day as the democratic ticket and after a convention unlike any other. It turns out going virtual didnt hurt democrats. At least when it comes to la laysing raising money. The convention resbeming a starstudded telethon helped the Biden Campaign raise 70 million. Democrats say the convention was seen by more than 80 million tv viewers with segments seen on line hundreds of millions of times. In addition to bidens direct appeal to voters while ill be a democratic in repeedly warnedut pote cllenithn is. O of nee ajo i wo mure ued. F youre planning to request need to know about mailin ballots, your polling place, even just am i registered, text vote to 30330. 30330. That would be the president s golf score if he didnt cheat. A little veep there. You cant mix hollywood and politics better than that. Ed, the house votes on post Office Funding today, but will this issue get sorted out before the election . Reporter much like theyre having problems sorting the thisne oeryeasily going to sort is i r saty n a 25 billion res plan for the Postal Service. More interestingly, michelle, it would stop the Postal Service, at leastrom removing mail boxes, as weve seen in parts of the country, from moving around those sorting machines at distribution centers. This is exactly everything President Trump says he doesnt want to see happen, that his postmaster general doesnt want to see happen. While they may pass it today in the house, it wont pass in the exposes a decadelong issue at the Postal Service. Its losing money as it starts delivering different kind of things through the mail. More packages than firstclass mail. And you know, less mail more often. So you know, you lay that against the pandemic and the upcoming election, and theres a lot of concern. This has been a long simmering problem the white house has put off for years. There was polling going into the democratic National Convention that people wanted to hear more from biden and harris about what they would be doing with their administration, less about President Trump. How did they do it reaching those expectations . Reporter it depends on who you ask, dana. Look, biden himself you know details in his remarks about what he would do, but he did outline broadly that he would do things like a natio lonr dependent on china or countries around the world for ppe and issues like that. Talked broadly about taxes and preserving social security. Beyond that, over the course of the week, little pick i mention of what exactly democrats little specific mention of what exactly democrats would do in the white house and in the congress. Well see if that affects the standings not only for biden but congressional candidates across the country. Theyre enjoying a lead right now, partly because joe biden simply isnt President Trump. That may be good enough for democrats. Well see with about 73 days to go. Okay. Same question now t rn t focusng to be m presidenelieves canpen heur yeasr joe biden . ,it ape good question. We actually dont know very much about what exactly will go on next week. The republicans are still scrambling to put together what was supposed to be an inperson event in jacksonville, remember, that will be held similarly to the democrats from multiple cities including the south lawn of the white house where the president will accept the nomination again thursday night. The president has struggled over the last several months to explain what exactly he wants to do should he be reelected. Much of the focus instead has been on biden and what he calls the radical left and how treovkc over four nig if theres anythi specific the president says about what hed like to do should he win another term. Obviously this is a virtual convention, what the republicans will also have starting on monday. How has the connection been with voters, not having it in person . Reporter you know, this is a really interesting moment i think not only in politics but in how we consume television or video. Look, ratings were down overa lineup, and you talked to democrats across the country, as i did in recent days, they said, look, given what we were handed, the situation we were given, we did a pretty good job, they c nk. Te, ed it two things will be repeated. That virtual roll call where they went from every state and place in the country to tally it up, and each state did it differently. Then they held an interesting almost real housewives reunion show of all of the candidates who lost to joe biden. That is something i think they should require of all the vanquished opponents every four years. Im a watcher of that show. Thats what it was. Ment and and and will calamari and rhode island is what we know. There is startling news from the centers for Disease Control this morning. The agency says as many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the u. S. During the first seven months of the year. It suggests the number of lives lost to the tn the official toll. A review of the data by the a. P. And the death toll from covid19 exceeds 175,000. The pandemic is forcing schools to adjust and readjust their plans to reopen for the fall semester. Michael george is in brooklyn, new york, this morning. Michael, good morning. Reporter dana, good morning. Schools just reopened, but already were seeing outbreaks at multiple campuses across the country. Now a lot of parents, teachers, and students are anxious to a return to the classroom. Moving into college may quickly become moving out thanks to unsanctioned gatherings by students. Many putting fun over tyd soci media frustrated Health Professionals and fellow students. I hoped that as College Students we could have been responsible enough to maybe keep this from happening. Reporter 17 students were suspended at st. Olafs college in minnesota for partying off campus. President David Anderson wrote students and parents, this is the kind of reckless behavior that will put an end to our inperson semester, and it must stop. Eight students have tested antined. Sypeed nt the causd this. Not dam i indiana, confirmed covid cases were reported leading to a plea in the Student Newspaper dont make us write obituaries. But the debate over safety isnt limited to universities. Before takeoff, jetblue passengers in orlando, florida, had their own bumpy ride as a Flight Attendant told the mother of a 2yearold to put a mask on the child. Not reporter though she and her six children did not continue on to newark, others who flew were delayed 53 minutes. Jetblue said its policy i forf and sks hard to spot at this Alabama High SchoolFootball Game are required. Were telling the people if theres an outbreak, there wont be high school football. Reporter this as americans are warned to get flu shots. This year more than ever. Schools here in new york are set to reopen in three weeks, ev