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>> tonight a southeast soaking, erika no longer a tropical storm but wide spread flash flood watches are up flew the morning. a wind storm in the northwest leaves two dead and hundreds of thousands without power. a 62-year-old woman who was hiking in a california forest is found alive nine days after she went missing. >> after rising for years, airfares are actually going down. and a man who explored the

mind in magical ways, remember the life of oliver saches. >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: hi, everyone, i'm jeff glor. it never became a hurricane, it is still making for a messy weekend across much of florida. this is what is left of the disorganized storm that was known as erika. flash flood watches will stay in place through tomorrow morning. more on the forecast in a moment but we begin with david begnaud in miami, david? >> reporter: jeff, good evening from south florida. it may not look very ominous behind me but nearly the entire state of florida is under a flood watch. everyone from the northern part, southward saw rain today. on the western side from name els north toward tampa is where we could see some. most significant rainfall and potential flooding over the next 24 to 48 hours. tampa had heavy flooding within the last couple of months since forecasters say they are especially

vulnerable to flooding. here in south florida the rain is actually helping to ease the drought they've been dealing with. that is the good news. jeff, despite the fact that tropical storm erika has broken apart, the state's emergency activation center remains in operation tonight. >> glor: david begnaud, thank you. for more on all of this rewith join the by eric fisher chief meteorologist in our boston station wbz. eric, what are you looking at? >> reporter: we're watching this trp call moisture from what was erika streaming northward. though it is not organized, a lot of that moisture meeting up with a frontal boundary focus the tropical moisture into heavy rainfall. flash mooding-- flash flooding. the main issue across florida, southeastern georgia and through south carolina. local totals could be over five inches of rain and that is why we are concerned with those areas. in the pas civic something never observed before. we saw three major hurricanes all spinning at once east of the "dateline", only impact here rough surf for hawaii, especially the northern shore. so good news on that front.

meanwhile on the lower 48, this week is about the heat. some are holding on 80s, 90s, for much of the midwest, northeast, 90s. new york city, jeff, looks like this will go all the way through the labor day weekend. >> glor: eric fisher, thank you very much. in the northwest a powerful winter-like storm is being blamed for at least two deaths and plenty of damage. hurricane force winds brought down trees and power lines in washington state causing wide spread power outages. here's maria villa real. >> powerful wind gusts some nearly 90 mights per hour came without warning. >> we didn't hear t just went-- just so fast. >> reporter: luis and rossa say they watched in horror as a tree branch snapped off at a birthday party south of seattle killing a ten-year-old girl. >> they were all just here playing. and she is gone. it's sad, a little girl's life is gone. >> reporter: in woodenville, north of seattle -- >> you got 911. >> reporter: a very close call for a family caught

inside this car during the storm. all made it out safely. falling tree limbs also injured four people at a triathlon on an army base south of tacoma. at the peak of the storm nearly half a million were without power, all from winds that took many residents hear by surprise. >> it was just right and all of a sudden boom. >> this was the scene on a bridge spanning the usually tranquil lake washington. forecasters say they expected rain just nothing this severe. and while the rare summer storm has helped those on the lines of the massive okanogan complex fire, officials say that fire won't be completely out until the first snow. cbs news, los angeles. >> glor: smoke from california wildfires hampered the search for a hiker who had been missing in the sierra national forest for nine days. despite a broken leg and no foot, a 62-year-old survived. john blackstone has her

story. >> reporter: the intense search for miyuki harwood began when the experienced hiker disappeared after being separated from the group she was with. >> searchers found misharwood injured but alive. >> reporter: fresno county sheriff says harwood had almost no supplies when she set out on what was to be a day hike in the heavily forested sierra range north of fresno. >> they found her in a very remote area of the sierra neff never mountains on a very rocky location. >> reporter: she had broken her left leg. california highway patrol paramedic rusty hodgekiss. >> she basically crawled from where she was injured down to a creek, took her about two days to do that. she was able to drink from the creek with the water to day is a live. >> reporter: she was there more than a week while teams searched from the air and on the ground. a search hampered by smoke from one of california's many wildfires. finally early saturday, searchers heard harwood blowing a faint whistle for

help. she was flown to a hospital a hundred miles away. >> she was conscious, she was talking. she was very, very grateful that she was found. >> lieutenant cathy curtis delivered the news to harwood's family. >> beyond excited. they couldn't stop screaming and crying and yelling amongst themselves rts her family says what she wants now is uninterrupted rest. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> glor: the white house says north america's tallest mountain is being renamed. a lack-- a laz ca mountain mckinley will officially be called denali. president obama will observationly make it tomorrow. the name was given by a prospecter in 1896 after the future president won his party's nomination. a new poll shows donald trump is gaining ground on his rivals in the race for the republican nomination or increasing his league, lead. he also appears to have the staying power many in his party were betting against. here's julianna goldman.

>> donald trump is the first choice among 23% of likely republican caucus-goers, jumping from 4% in may. in a surprising surge to second retired neurosurgeon ben carson gets 18%. republican voters are recall withing to trump's unconventional and confrontational style. the favor ability numbers among iowa republicans are up 35 points since january. and even some of his critics concede he's becoming a better candidate. >> this is a movement, folks this is not like even maybe about me. i don't want it to be about me. this is about common sense. it's about doing the right thing. >> reporter: the surprising staying power of trump's candidacy has left bush, cruz, rubio and walker struggling to a da. all are polling near the bottom in iowa. bush is trying a new line of attack hitting trump on specific policies like the front-runner's immigration

plan. >> it's not practical and it's not conservative. >> trump has agreed to rule out running independently if he didn't get the nominationment but yesterday in nashville he seemed less concerned with a plan b. >> the republican party has-- all i ask is fairness. i am leading in every poll by a lot. i'm leading in every state by a lot. it would certainly be the best path. >> reporter: one top republican say the key for candidates as they take on trump is to avoid questioning his legitimacy while having a long-term plan to deal with him because jeff, it is looking like the summer of trump could stretch well into the fall. >> glor: thank you very much. a community near houston is remembering a sheriff's deputy murdered this weekend. darren gofort was shot in cold blood at a gas station. now police are looking at the accused gunman's past and coming up with more questions. here's jericka duncan. >> reporter: police say ballistics tests indicate a gun they found when they arrested shannon miles is a

match with the gun used at the crime scene. the 30-year-old has a criminal record that dates back to 2005. miles went from committing misdemeanors like disorderly conduct with a firearm to now being charged with capital murder. the motive remains a mystery. police say just after 8:00 friday night miles approached sheriff deputy goforth at this station and shot him multiple times. in a statement to the media cathleen goforth said my husband was an intricate bled of toughness and again tillity. >> our father who art in heaven. >> reporter: saturday evens hundreds gathered at the gas station where police say the 47-year-old was murdered. his childhood friend -- >> most of us are out here are here to help. we're here, we really are out here to do good. >> reporter: harris county sheriff ron hickman added another complex layer to the tragedy when he said this.

>> we have heard black lives matter. all lives matter. cops' lives matter too. so why don't we just drop the qualifier and just say lives matter. >> reporter: democrat texas state representative garnet coleman finds the comment inappropriate. >> so it seems as if because the shooter was black, it's the black lives movement that caused it. this is the kind of thing that ramps up the animosity between police officers and others. >> reporter: despite the shooting being captured on surveillance video, miles's mother says her son is innocent. jeff miles is expected to appear in court tomorrow. >> glor: jericka, thank you. the relationship between police in some communities has been strained following a string of controversial deaths. mark straussman spoke to police and residents at the site of one incidentses, north charleston, south carolina, about what is being done to bridge the divide. >> reporter: all summer police in north charleston have ticketed children for

doing something good like picking up litter. that ticket is actually a voucher for something fun like snacks or zoo tickets. community outreach. deputy chief scott deck ard says. >> the community is part of us. and we need them as much as they need us. >> this is a period of introspection for the department? >> i think it has to be. >> reporter: here's why. this cell phone video last april. a white north charleston cop shot a fleeing black resident from behind. walter scott was unarmed. officer michael slager was indicted for murder. >> you never hear bay white police shooting a white guy running away. >> reporter: anthony smith, submitty to everyone here, says racial profiling by police has cost his barber shop customers. >> the guy with a suit and tie coming to get a haircut, and you know, they pull them over. >> reporter: scott was pulled over because his third brake light was out. roughly four miles from this barber shop. >> there's got to be driving while building black-- being

black. >> reporter: how long has then this been going on? >> come on, man? are you serious? >> reporter: building trust takes time. and north charleston police began some community programs nearly 20 years ago. eight cops here work full-time on community relations. deputy chief deck ard would not talk about the scott case but admitted. >> it's awkward to go in some of these places and start a general conversation without having something extra there to maintain the conversations. >> reporter: local activist aj davis suggests talking about walter scott. >> what you didn't have is any true discussion between the police department and various community groups, especially those that are targeted on how they could improve the image of the police department within the community. >> reporter: they do discuss it. so far just not with each other. mark straussman, cbs news,

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>> adams scans an copies actual skulls. and gives the 3d printed replicas to students. crime-scene evidence can help determine the victim's sex, race and hair color but little else. so the skulls dictate the details. the size of their eyes, the structure of their cheeks and nose. susan taylor created one of the 11 sculptures. >> did you feel any pressure in working on this project? >> yes, i was enormous amount of pressure, responsibility. it was a very daunting task. >> reporter: john volk is the academy's director of continuing education. he says forensic sculpting is more science than art. you told art students to check their creative licence at the door. >> right. they were told they could not be creative at all in this project. >> reporter: sounds like a radical depar ture i'm sure. >> it was, it was difficult for them. >> reporter: the images are now in a national database and the sculptures are on

public display. forensic facial reconstruction has proven to be skuk sesful. it helped identify 14-year-old terra ease pos-- es positieso. her remains were left unidentified for more than a year until this skrupt ture was created. >> the biggest hope that we have is that we might be able to give someone their identity back. they might have a name to go with that face now. and bring closure to victims and family members. that is a big thing. >> reporter: victims finally brought out of the shadows for everyone to see. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> glor: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, of 0 mince. i'm jeff glor in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

>> ♪ >> i'm diana rocco. next on "eyewitness news," breaking news. an off duty police officer is struck and killed by a hit and run driver. we've got the very latest from the scene. justin. >> and get ready for a hot and humid week setting up all across the delaware valley. i'll let you know how hot the temperatures go in the seven-day forecast. >> and a hiker is rescued after more than a week stranded in the wild. th

>> ♪ >> breaking news right now on "eyewitness news." an off duty police officer has died after a hit and run. good evening everyone, i'm day. natasha brown has the night off. this happened in the oxford circle neighborhood. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson is live at the scene tonight with the very latest on this. steve. >> reporter: and,