This is the cbs evening news. Im jim axelrod. We begin with breaking news. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at the age of 79. Scalia was the longest serving justice of the Current Supreme Court and its conservative. Paula reid is in washington with the latest tonight. Good evening, paula. Reporter i cant hear the broadcast. Has it started . Axelrod were having a little trouble with paula right now. This evening, chief Justice John Roberts released a statement saying scalia was an extraordinary individual and jurist who was admired and treasured by his colleagues. Roberts added, scalias passing is a great loss to the court and to the country he served. Among Justice Scalias most crucial vote in bush v. Gore the case, of course, that made george w. Bush president in 2000, despite his ideological opposition to the perspectives of colleagues like justices ginsberg, and kagan, he was held in high esteem by them. We will pring in our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford right now
Scalia was the longest serving justice of the Current Supreme Court and its conservative. Paula reid is in washington with the latest tonight. Good evening, paula. Reporter i cant hear the broadcast. Has it started . Axelrod were having a little trouble with paula right now. This evening, chief Justice John Roberts released a statement saying scalia was an extraordinary individual and jurist who was admired and treasured by his colleagues. Roberts added, scalias passing is a great loss to the court and to the country he served. Among Justice Scalias most important decisions, he cast a crucial vote in bush v. Gore the case, of course, that made george w. Bush president in 2000, despite his ideological opposition to the perspectives of ginsberg, and kagan, he was held in high esteem by them. We will pring in our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford right now. Jan, the Supreme Court is scheduled to go back into session a week from monday, so how does the court move forward . Reporter i
David has weather. Reporter we have showers coming in, most of the roads will be dry this morning. Theres a fair amount of cloud cover to start out. Once the shower activity breaks apart well return sun into play early this morning and overall were looking at a mix of sun and clouds today. 66 degrees still on the mild side. 57 in allentown. 58 in trenton. 61 in reading. 66 in philadelphia. Down the shore, cooler, 55. Wind not that strong up to 12 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. I did see trash blowing around on the roads on the way in. It has been blustery overnight. It will get more so as the day goes on. Mainly cloudy and breezy with the temperatures on the bus stop. We could drop to 59 by 8 00. As we turn the temperatures around they will not go as high as the last couple of days. 66 degrees is the high this afternoon, again no worlds than a mix of sun and clouds, might even see bright sunshine coming back. 66, 15 degrees above average, not the 82 we got yesterday. Reporter it was n
Bridges met the victim at the mall and the two exchanged information and were in contact on social media. He likes minors, people just dont do this crime once shs this is not his first time doing this. The pair later agreed at the mall on march 6th and then bridges got the teenager to follow him into the woods behind the Shopping Plaza and sexually violated her. Does it have to be at a knife or gun point and he has to con her or scare her, i know what i would do with him. Parentses are urged to talk to their kids about the danger of social media. Parents take a few minutes to go over every night if you have to to, scare the pants off your kids. Let them know there is evil in the world and they have to deal with the evil. Police stress they believe there are more victims out there. If you know more about this 21yearold suspect are you urged to cant police. Jim back to you. Thank you gray. Police have arrested a suspect wanted for a shooting inside of a fast food restaurant. Police found
Terrorists. The notorious isis executioner known as jihadi john was targeted in syria. Heres more. Reporter a u. S. Official tells cbs news that they are almost certain a u. S. Strike killed isis terrorist mohamed emwazi. A u. S. Drone was tracking him, known as jihadi john, since wednesday, waiting for a clear shot. A missile was fired thursday night as emwazi entered a vehicle in syria. Britains Prime Minister praised the u. S. Mission. He was intent on murdering many more people. Reporter emwazi is believed to us about be responsible for hostages, including american journalists james foley and steven sotlo if, f and american aid worker peter kassig in syria in 2013. The gruesome videos he was in presented the world a terrifying image of a Islamic State and more propaganda tools for the islamic group. Emwazi, a british citizens, believed to us about be in his mid20s was born in kuwait and raised in london. He had a degree in Computer Programming and disappeared from the londons famil