With scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Once again, an american president is weighing military options in iraq, this time to try to preserve a democratic created at the cost of thousands of american lives and billions of american tax dollars. Islamic extremists have seized large parts of iraq. Theyre getting closer to baghdad this evening. And the government there is pleading with president obama for help. Today, the president responded. We will not be sending u. S. Troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my National Security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraq Security forces, and ill be reviewing those options in the days ahead. Pelley hes confronting a war between two branches of islam, the sunnis and the shia. The democratically elected Iraqi Government, backed by the u. S. , is dominated by the shia, the attacking force is sunni. That force calls itself the Islamic State of iraq and syria. Isis, for short, now holds parts of both of thos
Pelley good evening. Today, nearly a week after a white Police Officer shot an unarmed black man to death in the suburbs of st. Louis, we learned a lot more about both men. The Ferguson Police release video they say shows 18yearold Michael Brown stealing cigars from a Convenience Store minutes before he was shot by the officer a few blocks away. The officer was identified today as 28yearold darren wilson. Hes been a cop for six years. They did not release his picture. The Ferguson Police chief described him today as a gentle, quiet man, and an excellent officer who never intended for request of this to happen. Wilson is on leave while the investigations continue. Vladimir duthiers is in ferguson. Reporter the video was recorded less than 15 minutes before Michael Brown was killed. Ferguson police say the man in the red cap appears to be brown. He shoved the clerk, who tried to stop him from leaving without paying for a 48 box of cigars. Police dispatch records indicate a description of
Stranger. I cried. I cried. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Today, nearly a week after a white Police Officer shot an unarmed black man to death in the suburbs of st. Louis, we learned a lot more about both men. The Ferguson Police release video they say shows 18yearold Michael Brown stealing cigars from a Convenience Store minutes before he was shot by the officer a few blocks away. The officer was identified today as 28yearold darren wilson. Hes been a cop for six years. They did not release his picture. The Ferguson Police chief described him today as a gentle, quiet man and an excellent officer who never intended for request of this to happen. Wilson is on leave while the investigations continue. Vladimir duthiers is in ferguson. Reporter the video was recorded less than 15 minutes before Michael Brown was killed. Ferguson police say the man in the red cap appears to be brown. He shoved the clerk who tried to stop him
Health care, where some vets died before they got treatment and hospital officials hid those long delays on secret wait lists. The Administration Says thousands of doctors and nurses have now been hired nationwide and those wait times are improving. But the president , who vowed nearly a year ago to fix the v. A. , acknowledged there is still a lot more to do. Heres Wyatt Andrews. Ar reporter brian gibbs, an iraq war veteran, said two ge months from now he will finallyph get to see a v. A. Surgeon in phoenix for a blood clot condition in his legs. You can get appointments now but it takes forever. It just never ends. Theres never ending the questions are never answered. Ost reporter almost a year aftercr the secret wait lists were revealed, the president came to phoenix, report card in hand. 4,000 veterans have been calledin for appointments, includingts everyone on those secret lists. Een 30,000 appointments have been arranged outside the v. A. Andof a 94 of all appointments are made
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just got thrown under the bus in that traffic jam scandal that has jeopardized his president ial ambitions. Today, the former Bridge Authority official accused of helping to engineer the traffic jam said the governor knows more about it than he is telling. The huge traffic tieup in fort lee, new jersey, was created by closing lanes leading to a bridge that links new jersey to new york city. It was allegedly political revenge cooked up by christies allies. The target . Fort lees democratic mayor who had declined to endorse republican christie for reelection. Heres elaine quijano. Reporter governor Chris Christie has always denied that he knew about the lane closures leading to the George Washington bridge that snarled traffic for four days in fort lee last september either before or while they were occurring. I dont know what else to say except to tell them that i had no knowledge of this, of the planning, the execution or anything about it. And that i