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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the first hurricane of the season is on a collision course with the east coast. here's the view from space. irene looks like an organized storm around a well-defined eye. this is the track over the past 12 hours. the hurricane has grown to a category 3, 120-mile-per-hour winds and heavy rain have damaged homes, knocked out power, and touched off flooding on the caribbean islands. irene is on track to hit the east coast this weekend from north carolina to new york. we have correspond...

8:00 last night. this earthquake was felt from georgia to canada and out as far as chicago. experts say the quake was felt for miles because the east coast is older, colder, and more intact than the west coast. some government buildings are closed today. in d.c. the department of health and human services hubert humphrey building, the department of labor's frances perkins building are closed. so are the independent u.s. government offices at the national building museum and the national endowment for the arts at the old post office. >> the agriculture south building and the departm...

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the first hurricane of the season is on a collision course with the east coast. here's the view from space. irene looks like an organized storm around a well-defined eye. this is the track the past 12 hours. the hurricane has grown to a category 3, 120-mile-per-hour winds and heavy rain have damaged homes, knocked out power, and touched off flooding o caribbean islands. irene is on track to hit the east coast this weekend from north carolina to new york. we have correspondents in th...

more scared no hotel would take her dog, zack, so she's staying put at her home in wilmington. >> i won't go. that's my-- that's my dog. he's the only thing i got here. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations for 3,000 tourists started today on ocracoke island, off north carolina's outer banks, acessible only by boat. melanie gordon and patrice parks put up no fight. >> mandatory. we didn't have a choice. we had to go. >> no charge for the ferry, though, back. >> that was cool. >> reporter: edna mckelvey headed in the opposite direction, back to ocracoke to pick up her mother. >> it's man...

this issue. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> eric canter pulled out of budget talks today. because he didn't get his way. >> mr. canter has made it clear that these conversations could continue if they take the tax hikes out of the conversation. >> now it's up to president obama and speaker boehner to make a deal. for the first time ever most american babies are nonwhite. according to the census. wait until the right wing finds out minorities are becoming the new majority. and in psycho talk tonight, rush limbaugh. >> a brilliant guy. now he's a brilliant military strateg...