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from ukraine, as fears grow about retaliation. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs' janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off her preschooler's supply list. >> i would probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and it's not complete. >> it's not complete, no. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting tonight from new york city. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us, as we start a new week together. tonight, millions of americans in the southwest are under flood warnings, after monsoon rains ...

ukraine as fears grow about retaliation. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs' janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off their preschooler's supply list. >> i would probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and it's not complete. >> it's not complete, no. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, rank tonight from new york city. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight, millions of americans in the southwest are under flood warnings after monsoon rains drenched communities across parts ...

>> i was just panicking because i just wanted to get out of my car and get out of the water. >> reporter: dallas fire rescue responded to close to 200 vehicle rescues in just 24 hours. >> all of a surgeon we were stoppendi s c thoh, shd iot >> reporter:t pes androught conrebaki north texasp the trinity river in dallas. but overnight, rain pounded the area, filling up the river basin. >> the water is coming in. so i thought i was going to calm down, but the rain kept coming. >> reporter: homes were also damaged, the rain so powerful this apartment in downtown dallas quickly ended up with two fe...

About there being issues. but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter: tonight, just a six-word blunt statement from press secretary sarah sanders. "we don't comment on security clearances." but as you just heard, the president himself has said he didn't pull any strings for his son-in-law. david? >> pierre thomas tonight. pierre, thank you. now, to the storm moving across the country. we're watching that right now. and the state of emergency unfolding in california. deadly flooding, evacuations, entire communities cut off toni...

>> reporter: the early morning mudslide covering cars, damaging gas lines after sheets of rain pounded parts of northern california with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour. at least 50 homes in the area were evacuated. residents remain on aletter the weekend forecast calling for even more wind and rain. steve patterson, nbc news. >> unbelievable images. let's get a check on your weather with meteorologist bill karins. when you talked about the possibility of these torrential rain. >> two blockbuster wet years in a row. which is great. we did five years of drought before that. let me explain...