Get worse, spread all the way down here.

Tonight, go now the message for thousands in New Mexico as wildfires burn out of control.

This thing turned from a very small puff of smoke into a full raging, all-consuming fire fed by the winds.

Why firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes.

Of course, the fire is moving pretty quickly.

It's a difficult situation, and it's a rapidly changing situation.

Plus the record-breaking heat wave for much of the country.

The CBS Evening News starts now.

Fast-moving wildfires, record-breaking heat, and a tropical storm threat.

Good evening.

I'm Nora O'Donnellan.

Thank you for being with us.

And the weather is where we're going to begin tonight, because right now, Americans are

facing extreme conditions from coast to coast.

76 million people are suffering under oppressive heat across 24 states

as high temperatures scorch the Midwest and Northeast.

And the worst of the heat is yet to come.

Down south, parts of Texas are under tropical storm warnings.

As we track a system in the Gulf of Mexico that is likely to become the first named storm of the season.

And out west, dozens of wildfires are raging, including these two look converging in New Mexico.

We have team coverage of all these dangerous conditions, and we will start with CBS's Omar Via Franca in New Mexico, where the governor has just declared

a state of emergency.

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