Players home. And he goes flying. All that governor jan brewer spent part of her birthday honoring the tuskegee airmen. And then this. Tuskegee. Tuskegee. And all that matters. Throwing his last pitch at Yankee Stadium. Number 42, Mariano Rivera. And derek jeters and Andy Pettitte came to the mound. Somebody watched the twitter post between jimmy kimmel and kanye west. Most of went on there we cannot repeat. I dont know. I dont understand it. Finally im in a rap feud. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs only for days left until the government could shut down. Welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning, charlie. Lots to talk about. Thousands of employees will learn today if theyll be sent home next week. Some may have to stay on the job without a paycheck. They still dont agree how to end the stalemate and Senate Republicans cant agree with one another. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Nancy, good mornin
It is my duty, my responsibility to take care of her. Its not its not somebody elses responsibility. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Fire and water are causing major problems on opposite sides of the country tonight. The storm system that brought tornadoes to the south and the midwest earlier this week have now caused torrential rain and flooding in the northeast. This is philadelphia. Flooding in the Florida Panhandle is suspected as the possible cause of a deadly gas explosion at a jailhouse. And heat, drought, and strong winds are feeding a wildfire in southern california. We have a team of correspondents covering the extreme weather. Reporter more than 700 firefighters have built containment lines to protect the homes along the foothills east of l. A. Smoldering brush could reignite at any time so captain louis delarosa and his team are digging them up and dousing them with water. Id say w
Pelley this is our western edition. For five years, the world has been witness to the horrors of syrias civil war. More than a quarter Million People killed, more than 11 million have lost their homes. But the greatest treasure lost was the ancient city of palmyra, a World Heritage site. This week, the assad dictatorship retook palmyra from isis, the bad guys taking it from the worse guys, if you will. Elizabeth palmer reached palmyra today, the First American journalist to enter the city. Heres what she found. Reporter after 10 months under isis control, who would have believed palmyra could look so good . But up close, there are monumental gaps. For 2,000 years, a roman triumphal arch spanned the entrance. Now the arch is gone, brought down by isis explosives, and the Syrian Army Tells us we cant venture any further into the ruins because the whole place is laced with mines and dynamite. So is the town next to the ruins. A group has come here today to honor the syrian soldiers who de