Captio Captioning Sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, International Outrage after Nine American citizens, including six children, were killed after being ambushed in mexico. A mother and her four children found inside this burntout s. U. V. , including eightmonth old twins. Four of my grandchildren are burned. Odonnell children who escaped are fighting for their lives at this hour. Also tonight, a top u. S. Diplomat changes his story in the Impeachment Inquiry after he sees the testimony of others. Caught on camera, a School Resource officer is charged with child abuse after slamming a girl to the ground. And is girls soccer on par with football when it comes to head injuries . Why soccer stars Megan Rapinoe and abby wambach have pledged their brains to science. A widows love letter to her husband. How she helped to finish his final chapter. Its something we did together, the last thing we did together. Odonnell and its Election Night across the country. Well run down the key races that
month-old faith langford. it s believed her mom cristina hid her baby s car seat just before she was gunned down. faith was found 11 hours aftere the massacre. her relatives. it was an attack on innocent families. reporter: there is nothing but shock and heartbreak. i think a lot of us are just speechless. it s horrific. it just seems like a bad dream. reporter: cbs news has learned that relatives have gathered in tucson tonight as the children are treated for gunshot wounds and the families plan nine funerals. all of the survivors were children, all of them are now without mothers. norah? o donnell: janet, thank you. house democrats want to hear from acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. he s the highest-ranking white house official investigators have called on. today they sent a letter seeking his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, but nobody is counting on him to appear. meanwhile, we learned today what
basketball fan, had never read a word of her husband s notes, but after going through his files, she decided that she would finish his book. how does it feel to hold that book in your hands now? i feel very conflicted. i feel like this is a secret between john and i, and i don t want to let it go. like it s something we did together, the last thing we did together. but i know the stories are so good, i want people to hear them and read them and know about them. reporter: all in a book that she calls a 300-page love letter to her husband of 33 years. chip reid, cbs news, silver springs, maryland. o donnell: that brings to mind a quote from mitch albom s tuesdays with morrie. death ends a life, not a relationship. that s the cbs evening news for tonight. we ll see you back here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh
it s something we did together, the last thing we did together. o donnell: and it s election night across the country. we ll run down the key races that may foreshadow what could happen in 2020. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. o donnell: good evening and thank you so much for joining us. we begin with a brazen attack on an american family leaving three women and six children dead. they were shot and their car burned. tonight a u.s. official tells cbs news one theory is the group was intentionally targeted by a drug cartel. the youngest killed were twins, just eight months old. eight other children survived, five with bullet wounds. they were part of an extended family, a religious community that long ago broke away from the mormon church. they have had run-ins with the local drug cartels before, but nothing like the vicious ambush that went down yesterday