I have a film degree. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. After 11 weeks in office, President Trump just had his best 24 hours. His Supreme Court nominee was confirmed by the senate, he wrapped a summit meeting with his most important counterpart, and he pulled off a military strike in syria without going to war with russia. Well start with syria. Mr. Trump fired his first shots in anger over a moral outrage. The syrian dictatorships use of an outlawed nerve gas to kill more than 80 civilians. Throughout syrias sixyearold civil war, no country has taken military action against bashar alassads war crimes, but, today, most World Leaders applauded Americas Limited naval bombardment. David martin tells us about the target. Reporter u. S. Officials iatimate 20 russianmade aircraft belonging to the Syrian Air Force were reduced to scrap metal. Satellite photos show 59 cruise missiles, each with a 1,000 pound warhead, hit ammo dumps, d orage sit
Rico and gives his administration a plus for relief efforts. Is the president seeing the real story of the misery there. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the the lead. Im jake tapper. Well start with the National Lead. Any moment well see from las vegas that will brief the nation about the horrific massacre that left so many dead and injured. We are just now getting our first look into the assailants hotel suite at mandalay bay and what experts say is a one of 23 guns found in the room. This there remains so much we dont know about the horrific tragedy. Primarily the motive. What made him want to kill. How did he get 23 guns into his suite without anyone noticing. And why target the people at this country festival . They are trying to look at the motive of the divorced twice. President trump will visit tomorrow. Today hes in puerto rico after hurricane maria. Well go there live after the show. But first lets go top cnn hes near the shooting scene. And martin, the images they give us
Good morning. Its wednesday, october 17th. We begin with the latest in the disappearance of Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi who walked into the saudi arabias consulate in turkey. And has not been seen since. That parts had been just repainted. They plan to search the home of the consulate attorney general. That person suddenly left in several vehicles. This shows the vehicles planning to the residence shortly after khashoggi entered the consulate. This as they provided nbc news with photos and bio pages of members belong thing to 15person Saudi Hit Team they believe is responsible. They identified one of the suspects, claiming hes been a frequent companion of the crown prince seen with him in madrid and around the United States. And link three others to the crown princes security it tail and others said to hold senior officials at least nine of the 15 worked for the saudi government. And the president of the United States appears to be defending the office side. President tr
As they hunt for isis in the caves, the mountains, the villages of iraq. And we take you inside the refugee camp in syria where isis fighters are living. The children dancing around the isis flag. Here at home tonight, the major fire at an historic synagogue. Was it arson . What authorities just revealed. The american city, a portion of it on lockdown for hours. The mystery van loaded with fuel and a suspicious device. The tesla driver appearing to be asleep at the wheel at 60 miles an hour on the highway. And the famous face and the big return tonight. And not a moment too soon. Good evening and its great to start another week with all of you at home. And we do begin tonight with that Daring Rescue of four sailors trapped inside a massive cargo ship that went aground off the u. S. Coast. The ship toppling onto its side off the coast of georgia, catching fire. They had rescued 20 before, but were turned back because of fire. The four sailors were feared lost and then today, sounds hear
Now run for office purposely spreading lies to force the tech giant to reverse course. He will join us live. We begin with what could very well be the most damning testimony yet in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Right now house investigators are hearing from a Current White House official, Army Lieutenant colonel alex vindman. Vindman was on the july 25th call between President Trump and president zelensky, and according to a statement received by cnn, he was so alarmed by what he heard that he alerted his superiors twice. He wrote, i was concerned by the call. I did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen, and i was warned about the implications for the u. S. Governments support of ukraine. I realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. Th