Schieffer tonight, planning for a u. S. Military strike against syria. As the death toll rises, the pentagon makes preparations for action, but will the president give the goahead . David martin that has story. The fastestgrowing wildfire in the country now covers 165 square miles and it is just entered Yosemite National park. Theresa garcia is on the scene. Something is killing dolphins along the east coast. Terrell brown has the latest on the search for clues. And on the road, Steve Hartman catches motorists smiling in a nosmiling zone. Never so happy to get a ticket in my life. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Schieffer good evening,
scotts off tonight, im Bob Schieffer. Cbs news has learned that the pentagon is making the initial preparations for a Cruise Missile attack on Syrian Government forces. We say initial preparations because such an attack wont happen unless and until the president gives the green light, and it was clear during an
Weapons for any price because that was his self defense. He needed those firearms for his own sense of security. He never for any price would he have sold those guns. He doesnt have the profiler of someone who needs to sell their weapons. His first court date is next wednesday. They have shown a commitment to veterans. But new reports show the president knew about the problems years ago and did nothing. Peter doocy is live in washington with what the white house is saying now. Now the white house is saying president obama learned about the spefkt stories of the schedules at va hospital. At the same time Many Americans did when they started popping up on the news. Still, though ethe press secretary jay carney says the president has worked toward improving care for veterans for years. Candidate obama, then senator
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Allowed access to the white house. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Fair, balanced and unafraid, greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. An Al Qaeda Group ready to strike the u. S. A u. S. Intelligence officer says khorasan was operational and in the final stages of plans to attack the u. S. Homeland or europe. And last less than 24 hours ago, the u. S. Launched air strikes in syria, bombing eisis targets inside syria first, john kirby, just moments ago, we spoke with him about the latest u. S. Military action. Admiral, thank you for join being us, sir. Thanks for having me. What did khorasan have 24 hours ago that it doesnt have right now . Were still assessing the effects of the strikes that we took against the Khorasan Group in syria. We do know we hit what we were aiming at. Some of it was their weaponsmaking capabilities and commandandcontrol. Were still assessing the effectiveness, the thoroughness of those strikes, and well know probably in th
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All right, thats going to do it for this edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning look at that, willie. That is a beautiful view. Beautiful day. Its a Beautiful Day. Last couple , not so beautiful. Its thursday, august the 14th. Great to have you here with us. Along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. Yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. Did you see some of the pictures . Even out here on long island. Cars on the highways up to their roofs. Looked like a river. It was. Yeah, parts of the midatlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. The hardest appeared to be long island. Islip 13. 27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. More than the region receives in an entire summer. The rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars abandoned and a lot of people h