Now, to a grim reality. That the new president will face right away. His first Foreign Policy challenge is likely to be syria. Tonight, the syrian dictatorship and its russian allies say they have broken the rebellion in the countrys largest city, aleppo. Rebels are evacuating now after years of siege, starvation, and devastating air strikes. Last night, thousand protested at the russian consulate in istanbul turkey demanding an end to the bloodbath. Aleppo once held 2 million residenre residents and treasures of ancient civilization. Nothing like civilization there today. Debora patta reports. Reporter the situation today was described by the United Nations as a complete the u. N. Said it had evidence that pro government militias massacred 82 civilians, some in their homes, others as they tried to run away. 11 women and 13 children were among them. Eyewitnesses describe streets lined with body. People too scared to collect their loved ones for fear of being shot. Activists in eastern
It looks like this arctic air just simply wo bntack wndo. Very cold air down the Northern Tier of the u. S. And the coldest so far. Freezing cold temperasture blanket millions. The big arctic blast heading through areas of the great lakes and northeast. Its 9 in detroit right now 9 what were we thinking move to dret detroit . Rex is one of the skilled and Global Leaders of all time. President elect on his thank you tour praising Rex Tillerson, his pick for secretary of state. It is a very different thing toe negotngiati deals for oil and gas company than it is to be standing up for american interests. The United Nations says massachares eeve bn carried out in eastern aleppo and that leaves a complete meltdown of humanity. Alan thicke, one of the americas favorite tv dads has died. In later in life president obama signs a sweeping billion that invests billions in cancer research. Ail truck up in flames with holiday packages inside. The driver was able to save most of the packages all th
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley theres breaking news in the terror attack in london. We have just received word that a fourth innocent person was killed in that attack today. Just as the british were on guard for a possible attack in the sky, they were struck on the ground in the heart of london. A driver plowed a car into a group of pedestrians, then stabbed a police officer. At least four people, including the officer, were killed. 20 others were wounded. The attacker was shot to death by the police. Elizabeth palmer is in london. There has been a terror attack. Reporter in only seconds, a car speeding along the sidewalk left a trail of broken and bleeding bodies strewn across one of londons busiest bridges. Seconds later the car had crashed into the railings around parliament, setting off a panicked rush. In the chaos, shots rang out. [gunfire] it turned out the driver had shoved past security into parliaments grounds and started to stab a policeman until he w
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. In the chaos, shots rang out. [gunfire] it turned out the driver had shoved past security into parliaments grounds and started to stab a policeman until he was fatally shot by another officer. The attack began in early afternoon when parliament was in session, but astonished politicians were suddenly told it was in lockdown. I am going to suspend the sitting of the house. This house is suspended, but please wait here. Reporter british Prime Minister theresa may was whisked to safety while on the nearby bridge paramedics helped the injured and fought to save the dying. Suntita and bobby nagi, tourists from india, saw the whole attack unfold. He was speeding on the pavement and he was knocking off people walking by. Reporter one after the other . One after the other. Reporter suntita ran. Bobby started filming. One victim flung under a bus, another lying still in the middle of the road surrounded by shocked bystanders. I immediately told my
I cant imagine a better group of panelists, so steve bright over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know, in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years, you know, traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight, he had a big win in the Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago which maybe he will tell you a little bit about. He has been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993, which those of you who saw, that was the first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was a marvelous and inspirational figure and a delight to be here with him. Texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of criminal Justice System and making a case, conservative case for limits, on things like mandatory minimums, over the criminalization, not on a defendant centered rights as much as return of investment. He graduated from the university of texas with all sorts of honors, clerked for a very