School districts is helping student offenders instead of arresting them. How this approach is transforming kids lives. First, heres todays eye open opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The situation that we have right now is a lifethreatening situation. This came through like a jet plane really. This thing continues to grow exponentially. Dozens of wildfires threatening the west. Record heat. One day, snow the next. Denver, youll probably set a record at 29 degrees. Im worried if we have a really good vaccine, people are going to be reluctant to take it. President trump is accusing joe biden and Kamala Harris of being antiscience after they say hes politicizing the search for a vaccine. Biden and his running mate should apologize for the antivaccine rhetoric. We want people to protest peacefully. A weekend marked by more clashes between police and protesters. People calling for an end to racial injustice. Black lives matter this is a righteous protest. A lucrative netflix deal, meghan and harry. Serena williams advances to the u. S. Open quarterfinals after a hardfought win. And all that matters. Dustin johnson cruising to victory at the tour championship. How good is that . So good. Winning the Fedexcup Playoffs for the first time in his career. The prize . Just 15 million. Crack and put it in. Oh, yes. No, we dont eat thats raw egg. The 2yearolds cooking series on instagram thats going viral. You can see cade and nana attempting chocolate chip cookies. Quite the sticky fingers. Oh, my gosh, no. This mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Who is having more fun in that video. Nana or cade . I think the little guy has discovered sugar. He was going to eat her arm at one point. Thats a great memory to remember for both of them. We begin in california where a series of devastating wildfires in the west are turning towns into ruins. In california alone, more than 2 million acres have burned so far this year. That is an alltime record. Utility blackouts forced by the fires have left 172,000 homes and businesses without power at this hour. Fires are burning in more than a dozen western states. One of them destroyed around 80 of homes in a town in Eastern Washington. And smoke grounded an overnight Helicopter Mission to evacuate dozens of hikers trapped in the mountains near fresno. Jonathan vigliotti is in Alder Springs in northern california. Jonathan, the scenes around some of these fires are really frightening. Good morning to you. These are the kinds of unbelievable conditions that rescuers are facing this morning. And why they simply cant get to those campers trapped deep inside this forest. This wildfire is creating its own weather system. It is simply growing out of control, and there are not enough firefighters to hold it back. Military pilots attempted several remote rescue operations monday to try and evacuate trapped hikers and campers near fres fresno, california. But heavy smoke from the devastating creek fire stopped them at their every turn. They werent able to land several times. Several attempts throughout the day. Reporter authorities expanded evacuation orders in communities near fresno monday as the creek fire continued to burn out of control. This thick plume of smoke was seen from an airplane. The blaze decimated the town of big creek, including toby weights home. Devastation. I dont know how else to put it. It was totally devastating. Reporter this is what the community looked like before the fire. And this is after. Ground zero where the creek fire got its name, and where today several neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble and ash. The Elementary School was one of the few buildings undamaged. Wait is the principal and superintendent. The school was the focal point of the community. Its the community center. Its where we gather. And to have that still standing, that is our beacon of hope. That school still there. Reporter its still unclear what started the fire. Another blaze about 80 miles east of l. A. Forced thousands to evacuate there. Authorities say a couple using a smokegenerating pyrotechnic device for a gender reveal ignited that fire. Obviously, its going to be a traumatic experience for them. This is not what they wanted to remember their child. But it doesnt make the accident less severe. Eporter thousands of people are under a mandatory evacuation. Those orders are expected to expand today as this fire continues to expand. More than 130,000 acres and growing this morning. Back to you. Be careful, jonathan. Thank you. Just a few hundred miles east of the fire zone, its snowing right now. Cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli is watching this winter storm pushing past recordbreaking heat. How is this happening . You know, to put this into perspective, this is truly unprecedented. Ive been doing this for 25 years. Ive wanted to be a weatherman since im 3 years old. Ive never seen anything like this. So i want to start you with what fires burning out of control. Ive never seen fires burn quite as fast. We have smoke, we have dust, all coming together and feeding into a snowstorm across the west. Some pretty crazy weather. You can see it on that satellite photo right there. Extremely critical fire danger in parts of oregon, washington and down into california. And thats because we have a wicked front which means business is headed to the south. Wind gusts in utah, 97 miles an hour overnight. Thats how strong some of these winds are. Theyll gust to 40 and 60 miles an hour today making for outofcontrol wildfires. The reason for all of this, an extremely amplified jet stream. Warm air in alaska, cold air into colorado. Temperatures yesterday, 93 degrees in denver. All of a sudden today, they are trading their swim trunks, literally, for snow boots. And then tomorrow morning, we are in the 20s. Snow is falling heavy right now. Were expecting around 12 inchesplus in the mountains. And as much as six inches in denver. Tony, the bottom line here is, if we do not combat Climate Change and take it seriously, this is going to be the rule in the future, not the exception. Jeff, thank you. Glad to know youre living your little boy dream as a meteorologist. Appreciate that report. I love it. I love it every day. Very good. Labor day always a key moment in any president ial race was dominated by coronavirus concerns. Democratic nominee joe biden claims President Trump uses politics instead of science to guide the federal governments response. The president , meanwhile, says his opponent is questioning vaccine research. Paula reid is at the white house for us. Good morning to you. This is a highstakes political conversation. What else is the president saying here . Good morning, tony. Yesterday may have been a holiday for many americans, but both president ial candidates were busy trying to rally their supporters ahead of the november election. President trump held an event not too far from where im standing on the north side of the white house. It was billed as a labor Day Press Conference but sounded a lot like a campaign rally. Biden is a stupid person. You know that. Reporter President Trump used the white house as a backdrop for an abbreviated version of his Standard Campaign stump speech. Biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in congress, by the way. Not a competent person. He vilified his opponents for expressing concern about political pressure rushing the development of a vaccine. It would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever hes talking about. I will not take his word for it. Theyre going to make the vaccine into a negative. Reporter the president has repeatedly tied the vaccines timeline to the election. Well have a vaccine very soon. Maybe even before a very special date. You know what date im talking about. Reporter monday afternoon, joe biden said the president had politicized the process, but if scientists said a vaccine was safe, he would take it. If i could get a vaccine tomorrow, id do it. If it cost me the election, i would do it. Reporter meanwhile, the president continued to refute a report by the atlantic magazine alleging he canceled a visit to a cemetery near paris in 2018 because he reportedly said the cemetery was filled with losers. Only an animal would say a thing like that. Reporter the president went on to attack military leaders. Im not saying the military is in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those Wonderful Companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make Everything Else stay happy. Reporter and biden seized on the report invoking his late son beau. An iraq war veteran who died of cancer in 2015. When it comes to veterans, hes downright unamerican. Ive never said that about a president , ever, ever, ever. These are heroes. Ill tell you something. My beau wasnt a loser. Reporter President Trump heads to florida and North Carolina later today. One of the Top Republicans in the county that the president is vif visiting in North Carolina is encouraging the president to wear a mask during his visit following the governors order. He advises the president that when in rome, do as the romans do and when in North Carolina, do as the governor says. Just a moment ago, i got off the phone with a white house source who tells me the president is currently working on a list of potential Supreme Court picks. Those are people he would nominate to the high court if he got an opening, which is very likely if hes reelected. Im told that list could be released as soon as this week. Anthony . Paula, thank you. Health experts are worried the political rhetoric around a vaccine could affect peoples willingness to be inoculated. When it finally becomes available. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is following this. How close are we to a vaccine . So anthony, there are three vaccines in phase three of the Clinical Trials here in the u. S. And about 46,000 americans are participating in them. Now phase three is the final process. So determining what comes out of there, figuring out if its effective and good data, the last step would be approval. I think knowing that a vaccine is this close to being approved is really exciting and really promising. Reporter 37yearold Natalie Hayden is a mother of two from st. Louis, missouri. She is one of millions of americans with an Underlying Health condition, which means she is at higher risk to get really sick if she develops the coronavirus. Treatments for Crohns Disease have weakened her immune system. She didnt leave home for months at the start of the pandemic. She says a vaccine would be a lifeline for her and her family. Do you plan to get a vaccine when its available . Im a little apprehensive about getting the vaccine, but i think in the end, i will be getting it. Its already september. When i think about possibly having a vaccine approved by the end of the year, that seems super fast, maybe a bit rushed. I probably wouldnt take it just yet in the next few months. Reporter natalie is not alone in feeling that way. Americans are growing increasingly skeptical about a potential vaccine. The latest cbs news poll shows that just 21 say theyll get the vaccine as soon as one is available. That is down from 32 in july. But experts say the Science Behind the vaccine has been very sound. It has gone incredibly fast, but its been done with integrity. Reporter thats dr. Ashish jha, dean at Brown University school of public health. Hes worried that months of hard work on vaccines could be compromised by political pressure being placed on the fda and by Campaign Politics affecting peoples attitudes about vaccine safety. Our National Response to this pandemic has not been stellar on so many different levels. But the one area where weve actually done a really good job is on vaccines. I want to make sure we dont fumble at the 1 yard line here. Keep politics out of this. Do you think that folks on both sides, whether it be the biden camp and the trump camp dial it back. I would like politicians from all sides to stay out of it, not get involved, not do political meddling and really let the science drive the timeline. You know dr. Jha was clear. He said everybody involved in the vaccine process, including the white house, has done an outstanding job on vaccines. Those are his words. Now he says we could have a vaccine by october. Maybe november or december, hes thinking later in the year after the election. Even when we pass that approval process, dr. Jha says rolling this out to most americans who want to get a vaccine could go well into next year. Even the summer. But i find dr. Jha very encouraging. I think he always speaks his mind. I think he speaks very fairly. I like what he said. The vaccine has been done with integrity and let both sides dial it back. Always good to hear from him. David, good to hear from you, too, wherever you are. Thank you very much. The protests that have rocked portland for 102 Straight Days are spreading to other parts of oregon. More than 100 supporters of President Trump appeared last night in salem. Thats about 45 miles from portland. They faced off against a small number of black lives matter supporters. The confrontation got a little heated. Lilia luciano is outside the State Capitol where the two sides scuffled last night. I see it got a little dicey. What are you hearing from those rallygoers now . The supporters of the president that i heard from said they showed up here at the capitol to protect the building from people they call antifa. There was a standoff, and then violence. Video from monday afternoon shows several Trump Supporters chasing down a black lives matter protester in salem. Shooting him with bead balls and tackling him. That protester, eddie coleman, spoke to the new york times. When i stood my ground, finally, one of them pushed me to the ground and hit my face repeatedly. Reporter we spoke to people who claim the apparent attacks were instigated by members of antifa, which is not a formal organization, but an antifascist ideology. I feel that its absolutely critical that we stand our grand and say that we wont be ran off by violent insurrectionists. Reporter it came after a peaceful protrump rally in nearby oregon city. Some attendees displayed Blue Lives Matter flags. Others with dont tread on me. A revolutionary war message now associated with far right rhetoric. Were done remaining silent in the United States of america. Reporter from there a Smaller Group headed to the State Capitol building. Those supporters appeared to bld members of the proud boys, a far right wing group known for promoting violence. Several people openly carried semiautomatic weapons. We cant have people running around burning our cities down with no consequences or anything. Whats the goal of showing up with your gun . Protection. Our Second Amendment right. Whats the goal . You want to protect everybody else out here. Everything cant happen. Its just a moment of when. The people we spoke to said they were not members of the proud boys and they were within their legal right to carry those weapons. In case youre wondering, police did intervene to stop the attacks, and they also arrested a couple of people. Lilia, thank you. Human Rights Groups are condemning saudi arabia after it handed down, quote, final verdcts against eight people for the murder of Washington Post columnist jamal khashoggi. The vocal critic of the countrys crown prince was last seen two years ago entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. Five people were sentenced to 20 years in prison. One defendant was handed a tenyear sentence and two others faced seven years behind bars. A u. N. Expert who led an independent investigation into the murder called the verdicts a parody of justice and said the masterminds remain free. The cia says crown prince mohammad bin salman ordered the killing, although salman has denied any involvement and condemned the murder. Ahead, a russian Opposition Leader is awake from a coma weeks after he was apparently poisoned. How hes doing and the growing pressure on russias president announcer this announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. We have much more news hide. Covid is disrupting the lives of hundreds of millions of cool children in africa. See how students are coping with the outbreak in one country that cant rely on distance learning. Novak jock was thrown out of the u. S. Open for hitting a line judge with ball. Why hes calling on his fans to leave her alone. Youre watching cbs this morning. Bag. Simple. Done. We adapt and we change. You know, you just figure it out. Weve just been finding a way to keep on pushing. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. [grunting noise] ill take that. 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