Boston police department. He was allegedly a follower of isis and the Boston Marathon bombers. Homeland security correspondent jeff pegues is working this developing story. Reporter according to investigators, 23yearold Alexander Ciccolo was arrested on july 4th with two rifles and two handguns. An f. B. I. Search of his home found two machetes, a long curved knife and several partially constructed molotov cocktails. Court papers say he planned to use the cache of weapons in an isisinspired attack at a State University. Sources say ciccolos fathered robert, a captain in the Boston Police department, alerted authorities last fall that his estranged son had a long history of Mental Illness and had become obsessed with islam. Then in late june, investigators say ciccolo told an f. B. I. Witness his attack at a State University would focus in the College Dorms and cafeteria and would include executions of students broadcast live via the internet. He asked the witness to get him firearms. Court papers say ciccolo praised the Boston Marathon bombers, and on july 3rd purchased a Pressure Cooker at a massachusetts wal mart. The same type of device used in the marathon attacks. In a recorded conversation ciccolo called the recent terror attacks in tunisia awesome and said the gunman was impressive. And like so many other isis inspired extremists, he used social media to praise the terror group. In a statement tonight, the suspects family thanked authorities for stepping in when they did and preventing loss of life, but, scott, ciccolo did injure someone. Investigators say he stabbed and injured a nurse with a pen after his arrest. Pelley jeff pegues reporting from the Washington News room. Jeff, thanks very much. In another developing story, chicago has named him public enemy number one. Forbes calls him one of the richest men in the world. Well, tonight, drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman has a new title fugitive after breaking out of a mexican prison for a second time. Heres omar villafranca. Reporter this small two footwide hole in the ground was the exit guzman used for his great escape. Just before 9 00 p. M. Saturday he stepped into the shower in his maximum security cell and never came out. According to Mexican Police, he climbed down a 30foot ladder to enter a fivefoottall escapepl tunnel complete with lighting and ventilation and a motorcycle on rails to carry digging equipment. It extended about a mile to a construction site south of the prison. When i heard the news, i was quite frankly shocked but yet not surprised. Reporter James Dinkins former head of Homeland Security investigations, is one of the americans who helped capture guzman in february of last year. While they have a lot of information about him, he also knows what information they have about him. So theyre back to the drawing board and starting from scratch in many ways. Reporter Guzmans Sinaloa cartel is the largest in mexico, worth about 3 billion. It controls almost half of the Illegal Drugs flowing from mexico to america, from marijuana and cocaine to heroin and methamphetamines. Authorities attribute 10,000 murders to el chapos gang hundreds of those in the u. S. Guzmans use of tunnels, both as escape routes and to transport his drugs, is legendary. Very tight. Reporter Bill Whitaker took a tour of the complex system for 60 minutes. Guzman used one underneath a bathtub in a safe house just days before he was finally captured last year. As the Mexican Police and military continue their frantic search, just across the border in laredo, texas, county sheriff Martin Cuellar is on high alert today. We will not let him come on this side. If he does, hes going to get arrested. Thats the bottom line. Reporter 30 prison guards, including the prisons director have been questioned about the escape. Scott, attorney general Loretta Lynch has spoken with mexican authorities and promised the full support of the u. S. To help catch guzman. Pelley omar, thank you very much. There are important developments tonight at the talks to limit Irans Nuclear program. Our state Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan is in vienna. Margaret . Reporter scott, heres what we know about the emerging deal. Irans Nuclear Program will be frozen for at least a decade. Iran will cut its number of centrifuges from 19,000 down to around 6,000, and if iran complies, economic sanctions will be lifted. Now, the final 100page agreement has been held up by an argument over exactly when to peel back a ban on irans ability to purchase and sell weapons, including missiles. And precisely how much access weapons inspectors will get to all suspect nuclear sites, including military facilities, is still under negotiation. Pelley Margaret Brennan at the talks for us tonight. Thank you, margaret. Tonight severe storms are tearing through parts of ohio, kentucky and west virginia. Yesterday there were four tornadoes in minnesota. Thousands lost power. Bolt after bolt of lightning lit up the sky. Eric fisher is our chief meteorologist at our cbs station in boston, wbz. Eric, whats next . Well, scott, weve been watching the storms all day long, very early this morning. They rumbled through the chicago area, pretty dramatic video. A couple lightning strikes right on top of the willis tower towering over the chicago skyline there. The other threat from these storms, the humid july atmosphere, heavy rain and flash flooding. We saw that in woodstock virginia. Very quickly water stacking up and rolling through neighborhoods there. As we head into tonight, watching a setup that has a lot of heat in the middle of the country. We have ridgerunning storms over the northern end of all that heat. A lot of severe wind likely in these storms as they move off toward the south and east. We have tornado watches that include chicago. Severe thunderstorm watches further to the south and east. That will be the trend for these storms developing in illinois. They moved off to the south and east down into kentucky. Tomorrow that threat will move farther east. Scott, all the while, heat indices in the middle of the country up to 115 degrees. Pelley eric fisher, wbz, thanks, eric. Tonight, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is announcing that he will run for the republican president ial nomination. He may be late to the party. He moves near the head of the line. A recent poll shows him leading in iowa where the first votes will be cast next year. Dean reynolds has been covering walker for years. Reporter in his new campaign video, scott walker explains whys he thinks he stands out from the pack. In the republican field there are some who are good fighters. They havent won those battles. There are others who have won elections but havent consistently taken on the big fights, ive showed i can do both. Reporter it has seemed as though walkers time in office has been one fight after another. He aroused huge opposition to limiting the Bargaining Power of unions but won the battle. In response the unions forced a recall, and he won that fight, too and became a republican hero. In all hes won election as governor three times in this traditionally democratic state. Voters are serious when they say they want their leaders to take on tough decisions. Reporter hes signed tougher voter i. D. Laws, rejected Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care act and is now pushing for a constitutional amendment to give states the right to ban samesex marriage. One potential foe took note of walkers candidacy, hillary clinton, today. Republican governors like scott walker have made their names stomping on workers rights. Reporter wisconsin ranked 35th in the nation in private sector job creation in walkers first term. His promise of 250,000 new jobs was about 50 off. Took the power out of the hands of the Big Government special interests and put them firmly into the hands of the hardworking taxpayers. Walks, own words occasionally got him in trouble. Reporter now, walkers own words have occasionally got him into trouble, like the time he compared Union Protesters to isis terrorists. But tonight he has a very supportive crowd as he kicks off his campaign and prepares to head off to the important early voting states, including iowa, which is vital to his hopes. Pelley Dean Reynolds at the walker announcement in waukesha. Dean, thanks very much. Today the boy scouts of America Executive Committee Voted Unanimously to end the nationwide ban on gay adult leaders. But individual scouting troops would still be allowed to make their own decision. Final approval is expected later this month. Today greece reached a preliminary deal with its creditors for its third financial bailout in five years. Greece would get 96 billion but the government had to agree to tax increases and pension cuts that voters rejected overwhelmingly just a week ago. Heres Holly Williams. Reporter greece has once again dodged bankruptcy, but at the cost of a humiliating backdown. Greeces radical leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had likened the terms imposed by foreign creditors to blackmail. But just days away from literally running out of money greece was forced to capitulate to another round of tax hikes and public spending cuts. And theres a new demand that it sell off stateowned assets worth 50 billion, including airports and a Power Company to help pay down greeces debt. Iannis barbetakis earns around 7 a day scavenging garbage. Do you feel that greeces foreign creditors now have too much power over your country . Whoever has money has power, he told us. And since they have the money nobody can stop them. A quarter of the greek workforce is unemployed. The countrys economy is in tatters. And its the very poor here. Who are suffering the most. Unfortunately this is not a good deal. Reporter Haris Theoharis used to be greeces chief tax collector, and told us tax evasion costs the countrys economy up to 12 billion a year, but he Still Believes greeces creditors have been too harsh. Theyre actually pushing us to the limit. This is too much. We have to see each other as partners, and we shouldnt face demands that are plainly wrong. Reporter greeces banks, which have been shut for two weeks now, will probably stay closed for several days to come. And, scott, though greeces mountain of debt will now be around 400 billion, it did not win any immediate debt relief from its creditors. Pelley Holly Williams outside parliament in athens for us tonight. Holly, thank you. Food is running short for many of the 11 Million People who have lost their homes in syria. After four years of civil war, more than 300,000 are dead. Some of the survivors are reaching the capital damascus, and Elizabeth Palmer has a rare look. Reporter every ration card is a life line for families who escaped with their lives from the fighting in western syria. They are relatively safe here in damascus but destitute. The u. N. World food Program Gives them basic staples, but as International Donations dwindle, so do the rations. What used to be a months worth now has to last for two. And then theres water. The refugees forced to squat in unfinished buildings have none. So unicef works to bring them the minimum for washing and drinking, but its scarce. Rebel fighters who have seized syrias fresh water sources in the countryside sometimes turn off the taps. Atif deib is a civil engineer. Reporter water is being used as a weapon of war. Yes. From time to time we have water from big cities like aleppo, damascus, daraa. Reporter there are so many internal refugees that damascus is overflowing. How many of the people in this crowd are refugees . Some can afford a room in one of the citys cheap hotels. Others are on the streets. Fighting drove barcel msheinish from his home three years ago along with his 80yearold father ahmad, who was once a doorman at the damascus sheraton hotel. Hello, ahmad. Im elizabeth. Where are you living now . Now garden. Reporter ahmad lost his place in an overcrowded hostel. Now, like so many others, he sleeps in the park on a square of cardboard. Im sorry. Crushed by a war he didnt ask for and is powerless to stop. Da Elizabeth Palmer, cbs news damascus. Pelley an accidental discovery has led to a new test for cancer. And, what filled the eyes of a child with joy . Well show you when the cbs evening news continues. S evening news continues. When i started at the shelter, i noticed benny right away. I just had to adopt him. Hes older so he needs my help all day. 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Was there a little battle between the two . The physician side was skeptical. What about the patient side . The patient side was freaking out. This is the cancer right here. There was a large tumor in her colon. She was 15 weeks pregnant when the carnes was surgically removed with no signs of spread. The test analyzes fetal dna fragments circulating in the mothers blood but it also picks up the mothers dna. Todays study found ten cases of cancer in the mother out of 125,000 fetal tests. Dr. Diane bionicky of the Tufts Medical Center is the studys coauthor. The carnes, the tumor is shedding dna into the mothers blood as well. And that is what is accounting for this imbalance. Reporter sevenmonthold baby ben is now healthy and happy. So is his mother. Im sure i would have been diagnosed eventually, but i might not have been diagnosed until, say, the cancer spread to my lymph nodes. Reporter so getting pregnant the second time delivered a new life into the world, but it may also have saved your life . It probably saved my life. Reporter scott, this is the kind of accidental discovery that can lead to a major advance. Right now this type of genetic for testing is not ready for widespread cancer screening, but as technology improves, this approach may well become a way of screening for many types of cancer with a simple blood test. Pelley jon, thanks very much. Coming next, closing in on a mysterious world. Guess what your Insurance Company will only give you 37thousand to replace it. Depreciation they claim. How can my car depreciate before its first oil change . You ask. Maybe the better question is why do you have that Insurance Company . With Liberty Mutual new car replacement, well replace the full value of your car. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. If you have moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis like me. 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Heres michelle miller. Reporter as book sellers prepare for the midnight release of go set a watchman, fans of harper lees first work, to kill a mockingbird, are shocked. I dont want to read the book. Reporter on twitter, theyre saying, i just cant deal with the idea of a racist Atticus Finch. The Atticus Finch we know is now a very different man. Is there any other way to go . Reporter played by gregory peck in the movie, finch defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. What happened to you on the evening of august 21st of last year . Reporter Atticus Finch is considered one of the greatest literary heroes in history, but now in watchman, a bombshell revealed by his daughter, a grownup scout, 20 years later, Atticus Finch is a segregationist with ties to the ku klux klan. Atticus broke scouts hart. Hes breaking all our hearts. The story of diane mcwhorten understands the disappointment but she wants you to understand lee an alabama native wrote the watchman before to kill a mockingbird. Mocking bird was asked to revise it, and in so doing made Atticus Finch a more palatable heroic character. He was a symbol for so many white people of what is possible, of a course that was different, but in the end, was that a good thing . Did that just allow us to feel good about ourselves without putting anything on the line . Reporter mcwhorter says this book shows he was a complicated figure, more reflective of the era in which he lived. We tend to look at these issues as good versus evil. Atticus was not evil. He was totally normal for his time. He was acting just like everybody else. Reporter the success of the book wont be determined for some time, but the new Atticus Finch may forever change the way we read a beloved american classic. Michelle miller, cbs news, new york. Pelley and thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org movie. What police once called a hoax is now being called a kidnapping. Tonight the twists that led to the suspect. Developing news in the case thats like something out of a movie. What was once called a hoax is now being called a kidnapping. Plan to bring coal in to oakland by train. First the city said no way but only on 5 were learning why there may be a change of heart. Taking action after the balcony collapse that killed six students. The new safety requirements coming to every balcony in berkeley. Good evening. Im veronica de la cruz. Im ken bastida. Tonight a kidnapping case cracked wide open. The suspect, a harvard graduate attorney. Joe vazquez is in vallejo with details from a sworn affidavit just unsealed. The Vallejo Police department owes an apology to ms. Huskins and quinn. More importantly, they owe an apology to the public. Reporter they held hands silently. Their attorneys say they dont want them to speak because they dont want to hurt the fbis case against the kidnapper. At this point an apology is no good. Apologies dont do anything. What we want to see is some real action. Reporter the fbi announced today that matthew muller, a harvard law graduate who was a practicing attorney till he was recently disbarred is now in jail. He was arrested last month in orangevale near lake tahoe for an attempted kidnapping in dublin. According to Court Documents the fbi says muller is also responsible for kidnapping denise from her boyfriends home here in vallejo in mark. Weve learned that denise reported she
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