It is a fight for freedom [cheers and applause] maurice after making landfall in louisiana, francine moves inland, bringing misery from flooding to hundreds of thousands of power outages. And eye on america. Meet the genealogist who helped piece together Family Histories once buried and long forgotten. I used to like detective stories. That what Family History is. You have a little piece here and a little piece there. Maurice the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah odonnell. There will be no Debate Rematch between Kamala Harris and donald trump. The former president sold himself as a winning boxer in todays announcement, writing, when a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are i want a rematch. Essentially calling harris the debates loser. But there will be several more Battleground Campaign stops over the next 54 days. Harris made two stops in North Carolina, and then she is onto pennsylvania tomorrow. The former president is in the west, speaking in Arizona Today and Las Vegas tomorrow. Cbss Nancy Cordes is in charlotte, North Carolina, where harris was riding high after her debate performance. Are we going to do this, North Carolina . Reporter Vice President harris threw down the gauntlet here in charlotte this afternoon. Two nights ago, donald trump and i had our first debate. [cheers and applause] and i believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate. Reporter but just minutes earlier, former President Trump had closed that door, posting that he would not do a third debate after doing one with harris and one with president biden. Weve done two debates and because they were successful, there will be no third debate. Its too late, anyway. The voting has already begun. Reporter the debate about debates comes as trump is still taking heat from around the world for his claim at Tuesdays Faceoff that haitian migrants are feasting on other peoples pets in ohio. In springfield, they are eating the dogs. Reporter it is a debunked allegation that he continued to reference online today. He is also under fire for traveling to Campaign Events and 9 11 commemorations this week with this woman, laura loomer, who has claimed 9 11 was an inside job and has a history of making racist comments. Just this weekend, she trotted out bigoted tropes about the Vice President s indian heritage, writing that if Kamala Harris wins, the White House will smell like curry and White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center. No leader should ever associate with someone who spreads this kind of ugliness, this kind of racist poison. Reporter new Signs Today of the power of taylor swift. More than 400,000 people visited vote. Gov in just 24 hours after she directed them to the site and endorsed harris. She repeated the message at last nights mtv Video Music awards. Please register to vote for Something Else that is very important. [cheers and applause] the president ial election. I love you all. Reporter and that was music to the harris campaigns ears because while harris is doing better with young voters then biden was before he dropped out earlier this summer, it can be hard to predict how many young voters will actually turn out in the fall. Maurice . Maurice just 54 more days. Nancy cordes in charlotte tonight, thank you. Turning now to the remnants of hurricane francine, about 300,000 customers are without Power Tonight as torrential rains move from louisiana into the midsouth, but people along the Louisiana Coast are cleaning up and coming to terms with the destruction left behind. Cbss Dave Malkoff spoke to a couple grappling with the damage after facing the sheer force of the storm. Reporter torrential Rain And Wind gusts of nearly 100 miles an hour made the streets of dulac, louisiana, look like High Seas on wednesday. Just north in thibodaux 7 inches of rain in 24 hours turned into blinding downpours. Can you rollover . Reporter during the raging storm, this is the moment when deputies in donaldsonville rescued a woman pinned under a tree. They had to use Chain Saws and jacks to lift her to safety. New orleans was inundated with three times the amount of rain in a typical month. Now crews are working to restore electricity and the cleanup has begun. Lets do this. All right. Reporter and misery is shared. Dan the Junk Man and his wife Samantha Stevens lost their Passion Product of a thrift store, selling right here in the heart of terrebonne parish. This stuff really means something to this neighborhood. Its the most affordable place to shop. But now the roof is gone, and everything is exposed to the elements. There are some really good people in this neighborhood, and a lot of them are less fortunate and they look forward to coming here. It is their favorite place. Reporter but Dan Stevens is feeling grateful. Ive been blessed my whole life so if this is the only bad thing that happens to me, im good, man. It doesnt bother me. It really doesnt. Reporter what he doesnt want is people coming inside and the overnight hours. As we go up to the drone, you can see they are in the process of putting up a temporary wall here. Beyond that, there are steel beams that were ripped in half by the hurricane, razorsharp at the head level. And maurice, the national Hurricane Center has said most of the injuries actually happen after a hurricane has passed. Maurice okay, Dave Malkoff, thank you. For more tonight on where francine is headed and what comes next, lets bring in cbss lonnie quinn. Good evening to you, lonnie. And good evening, maurice. Yeah, francine is still the story peered although it came on Shore Yesterday and rapidly weekend, came on short as a cat 1, became a cat 1, tropical storm, tropical depression as of right now. Nothing more than a remnant low, meaning it is a Rainmaker Peered Memphis recording winds around 20 miles per hour appeared still a big rainmaker. Memphis will pick up somewhere between say 35 inches of rain, so close to half a foot. Birmingham, alabama, not even going to take the bulk of the storm. But the bands have been so heavy in birmingham. Birmingham could see 58 inches of rain, and look at the picture outside right now. This is memphis, tennessee. They are getting poured on. It is going to continue to pour through in the nighttime hours. It will weaken into the Day Tomorrow and overall just a betterlooking picture by the time you get into your Day Tomorrow. But i do want to talk quickly about other activity that is brewing in the tropics. So if you go well over to the coast of africa, off the coast of africa, we have got a system, you can see it right here, this system is tropical System Number 7, possibly becoming gordon before the day is done. And for everyone who said it is a quite hurricane season, i agree with you, it has been quiet, but september gives more hurricanes and tropical storms than any other month on the calendar. Im going to leave you with that one, mo. Maurice okay, lonnie quinn, thank you so much. Well, Cooling Temperatures in the coming days could help firefighters get control of the wildfires burning in california appeared they have torched more than 110,000 acres combined and destroyed thousands of homes. Cbss Ben Tracy spoke with a homeowner who did everything he could to fight the flames himself. It came up this side here and then just caught the thing on fire, and im telling you it was hot, hot, hot. Reporter when the flames arrived at robert Lucas Door in Lake Elsinore tuesday night, he said it felt like a war zone. Its Pitch Black and fire is coming over the top of me. I cant see. Its hot. And i dont know where im going. Reporter as the Airport Fire exploded to more than 20,000 acres, lucas fought off the flames with a hose for more than 12 hours. You bought a Water Truck thinking someday you are going to need this. Not someday. Its going to happen. There is no question. It is not a house, its a home. I built it. Myself. Thats why i stayed, to try to save it. Reporter three major fires are still burning within 100 miles of los angeles. The largest is the bridge fire, which has charred more than 51,000 acres. Today, officials investigating the socalled Line Fire charged Justin Halstenberg with nine counts, including aggravated arson. They say evidence was found inside the 34yearolds Home and truck, and that he allegedly started to other fires the same day. Arson is just one of those crimes that is, to me, unbelievably despicable because it is a headscratcher. Reporter despite having now survived three fires, Robert Lucas has no second thoughts. Does it give you any pause about living here . Oh, absolutely not. This is a great place to live. Im at the age, i dont want to rebuild this, i want to save it. Finally getting the weather they need to get the upper hand on these blazes, including lower temperatures and less wind. But, maurice, it could still be several more days until people are let back into areas like this one to see what theyve lost. Maurice so difficult. Ben tracy for us tonight in southern california, thank you. There is fresh Turmoil Tonight for the new York City mayor and his inner circle. His police commissioner, edward caban, resigning just days after Federal Agents raided his home. His Twin Brother is also under investigation. Cbss Mark Strassmann reports on the latest twist in this case. Reporter new York City hall is in chaos and about to lose its top cop. Resigning under pressure, Nypd Commissioner Edward caban, the first casualty in a series of federal corruption investigations rocking the administration of democratic mayor eric adams. Edward caban, he concluded that this is the best decision at this time. Reporter Cabans Resignation comes just days after real trouble. Federal agents raided his home and seized his Cell Phone. Why is unclear. Cbs new York Sources report the feds are probing possible corruption in the citys nightclub enforcement. They have also seized the phone of commissioner cabans Twin Brother, James Caban, who owns a nightclub security business. Their focus, whether James Caban worked as a fixer for nightclubs and restaurants to skirt say regulations with Special Treatment by nypd cops. Four separate criminal investigations, including raids and Cell Phone seizures now target highranking officials in americas largest city. All of them for now have their jobs. Caban is out. He says to avoid being a distraction for the police department. But the chaos keeps climbing toward mayor eric adams, a former cop. He defended himself last week. Why do they keep targeting You And Members of your administration . It is like a constant drip, drip, drip. Those are questions i can answer. I know what im going to do. And this information that is needed to show i have always followed the law, we are going to give that information. Reporter at this point, No One has been charged with anything. Lawyers for both caban brothers say their clients did nothing wrong. Maurice . Maurice Mark Strassmann in Lower Manhattan tonight, thank you. The head of a troubled Hospital Chain was supposed to testify on Capitol Hill today, but he was a noshow, so now the steward Health Care Chief is facing a Contempt Of Congress vote, and he is under fire for profiting off Community Hospitals at the expense of patient care. Cbs News Chief medical correspondent dr. Jon lapook has been reporting on this for years and brings us todays powerful testimony. Reporter for nearly two years, Cbs News has documented how private equity investors and steward Health Care Ceo dr. Ralph De La Torre extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from struggling hospitals. The executives of steward Health Group are Health Care terrorists. They are killing our patients. Reporter today on Capitol Hill, medical workers and local government officials testified about the damage done by the company, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. Steward didnt pay the vendor and there werent any bereavement Boxes Beard and nurses were forced to put babies remains in Cardboard Shipping boxes. These nurses put their own money together and went to amazon. Reporter missing at the hearing, dr. De La Torre himself, who requested his testimony be postponed after he received the subpoena. Dr. De La Torre is a coward. Reporter between 2010 and 2021, steward bought up more than 30 hospitals across nine states, but a Cbs News investigation found that by early last year, unpaid bills had led to shortages of lifesaving supplies. In boston last october, a new mother died after a medical device that might have saved her life was repossessed weeks earlier because steward hadnt paid its bills. Steward Health Care systematically extracted every possible dollar that they could get out of our hospital until It Led to its closure 12 days ago. Reporter a key finding of our investigation, privateequitybacked companies Like Steward have sold off hospital Real Estate and instead of putting that money back into care, they have pocketed a large chunk of it. We found evidence of lavish spending, including this 7 Million Texas Horse Ranch dr. De La Torre purchased in 2022. Two corporate jets and this yacht valued at an estimated 40 Million. What would you have done with the 40 Million . We would have beds for patients. We would have stretchers. We would have food, diapers, staff. The most all roads lead to staffing. Reporter in a statement, the spokesperson for dr. De La Torre told Cbs News he has done everything in his power to help steward overcome numerous Industry Headwinds and challenges and has invested more into the company than he has taken out. Maurice . Maurice outrage across the board tonight, jon, thank you. The pilot of a Passenger Jet slams on the brakes to avoid potentially hitting another plane on the runway. Well have the details next. Runway. Well have the details next. The virus that causes shingles is sleeping. In 99 of people over 50. Its lying dormant, waiting. And could reactivate. Shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks. And it could wake at any time. Think youre not at risk for shingles . Its time to wake up. Because shingles could wake up in you. 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