Three americans and three afghans were wounded. Margaret brennan reports tonight from the pentagon. Reporter the American Service members were stopped at a local Meeting Point while on patrol with Afghan Forces when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into the group. The taliban took credit for the attack, which happened nearby bagram air field, the largest remaining u. S. Military base in afghanistan. The pentagon has warned that the insurgents have been gaining strength since the end of the u. S. Combat mission. The taliban has seized control of the strategic Helmand Province in the south as well as getting closer to important cities. National security analyst Michael Ohanlon just returned from afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. There have also been two including 35yearold aid
3 once the snow stops this morning, look for overcast skies and highs that will only reach the lower 20s. Skies will slowly clear and that means tonight will get quite cold with temperatures falling into the single digits. Look for a very cold day on thursday with partly cloudy skies and a high in the teens. We will see some sunshine but it will stay cold. The rest of the week into the weekend will see sunny skies, but temperatures will remain mostly in the 20s for highs with single digit lows. 3 3 3 millions of people in thiriren states along the Rising Mississippi River are getting ready for historic and dangerous floods. After days of downpours. The unusual weather pattern hit missouri hard. C b s news correspondent don champion shows us how much of the state is under water. 3 sot gov. Jay Nixon D Missouri missouri is in the dangerous flooding event. Missouri governor jay nixon called in the National Guard as the state grapples with deadly flooding. Volunteers throughout saint louis
An lt is apple is the biggest and Richest Company in the world. Theres a battle over the encryption used in apple products. The debate over companies hiding profits overseas and the challenges of doing business in china. Apple is also notoriously seseetive. But charlie rose was invited into apple headquarters for 60 minutes. Go. Tha you. Thank you. Its been an incredible year for apple. Tim cook has been running apple for the past four years. Before that we had some real revolutionary products. Reporter the stage belonged to apples late cofounder steve jobs. Were going to make history together today. Reporter he transformed the computererrom a a cumbersome machine into the most sleek Consumer Product of alltime. The iphone is 12,000 times more powerful than the original mcintosh and next year it will have sold 1 billion units. Following steve jobs was one of the most challenging successions imaginable. A daunting responsible for the man he hand picked, tim cook. I have never met anyone
Ordeal is far from over. Reporter aisha musa has been living in a crowded refugee camp for seven months. She survives by selling corn meal at the local market. Musa was kidnapped by boko haram militants. They killed her family and forced her at gunpoint to become a jihadi bride. They show you a gun, she said, and then whatever they say, you have to follow their commands. She told us her captor would lock her in during the day. At night he would rape her. He would go on operations and kill people, she said, and then come home and force me to be with him. Musa was rescued by the cameroon military, but the worst of her ordeal was finding out she was pregnant by her rapist. She told us, i am not enjoying that i have a baby from a boko haram man. But she is resigned and there are moments of tenderness. Her story is not unusual. Boko haram has captured hundreds of girls, the most infamous the over 200 chibok schoolgirls kidnapped more than 18 months ago. Musa never saw the chibok girls but o
Bomber not far from their base in the north. Three americans and three afghans were wounded. Margaret brennan reports tonight from the pentagon. Reporter the American Service members were stopped at a local Meeting Point while on patrol with Afghan Forces when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into the group. The taliban took credit for the attack, which happened nearby bagram air field, the largest remaining u. S. Military base in afghanistan. The pentagon has warned that the insurgents have been grange strength since the end of the u. S. Combat mission. The taliban has seized control of the strategic Helmand Province in the south as well as getting closer to important cities. National security analyst Michael Ohanlon just returned from afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. Ther