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North carolina. Here tonight headlines. Track and the urgent situation of dangerous storms, strong winds and excessive heat as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. You details after helicopters collide with firefighters responding to a brush fire. Although this was a tragic death, we are also thankful today that it was not worse. Terms lawyers push back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is in effect asking the court to cr his political speech. Reporter Ukrainian Authority is her saying they have thwarted an Assassination Plot ...

just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that's just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. ...

Delayed and more than 1400 canceled. airports from atlanta to new york experience ground stops this afternoon forcing the faa to reroute flights around the storms. more than 30 million americans in nearly a dozen states are under a tornado watch is from north carolina to new york. and tennessee downed trees like this outside the city of maryville that left tens of thousands without power. meanwhile in the south, unrelenting heat is scorching residents from coast-to-coast. cbs's meg oliver will start us off tonight from reading, pennsylvania. good evening, meg. >> reporter: major, good evening....

You've got to get in this trailer." and i had to make a choice between never seeing fia again and getting ally out. so i turned her loose and i said to thomas, "turn 'em loose, turn 'em loose. it's the only chance they have." and i didn't look back. you would think mother nature had a watch because right at midnight, the wind hit, and it hit hard. and it just -- the fire exploded. and that was when i could hear it. it sounded like the roar of a freight train. i looked up past the trailer to look at the mountains and where it had just been an orange glow, i could see flame. >> it was literally ...

They're starting to get jumpy, and they're starting to get dangerous. they're 1,000, you know, 1,100 pounds of muscle, and they're starting to jump around a little. >> when i heard that the fire was going to start moving at 60 miles an hour, i knew it was time to get the horses out of here, so i came down and i opened the trailer and i started to load them. the first horse loaded right in no problem. and then it was time to load fia, and she didn't want to go in. she knew i was upset, and she was getting more and more upset herself. and she's 1,800 pounds and she would put one foot in and back...