My heart because you got me four grammys. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Were beginning the broadcast tonight with a fullblown civil rights battle in alabama. Today most county offices there defied a federal court order allowing samesex marriage. Many couples were turned away, some marriage license offices simply did not open. Last night alabamas chief justice banned samesex marriage licenses. His ruling also in defiance of the federal court. Alabama would be the 37th state where samesex marriage is permitted, and counties today, the licenses were granted. Chip reid is sorting all of this out for us in montgomery. Reporter billy clark and kerry perez, both 26, have been waiting to get married for four years. Today they did it after an alabama judge issued their license. It feels really good to have people recognize what weve always known to be true. Uhhuh. I love you. Reporter last month a federal judge struck down alaba
Good evenings on this friday night. More on the frozen nation, and the new storm coming in right behind it. But first, planes tracking cell phone data and locations. Authorities saying its for catching criminals, but are they tracking you, too . Pierre thomas leads us off. Reporter tonight, new questions about whether the government is scooping up the personal cell phone data from thousands of innocent americans. An investigation by the wall street journal uncovering a secret Program Designed to track down fugitives, suspected killers, rapists, and other criminals. That allows u. S. Marshals to pinpoint the location of your phone from the sky, without you knowing its happening. Heres how it works. The marshals launch a small plane carrying a device called a dirtbox, which acts like a mini cell tower. Over a populated area, it picks up identifying pings from thousands of phones below, until it finds its suspect. Pinpointing that persons location within a threeyard radius, even in a spec
On playing an American Hero and taking the subway like anybody else. Good evening. We begin tonight with a dramatic terror authorityies taking down an imminent attack. This time in belgium. This was the raid. You can hear the shouting the gunfire, and the blaze as they moved in. We have a team on the ground there. And here at home this evening an abc news exclusive. That white car pulling up. The black suv in a quarry in West Virginia. A terrorist pulling explosives possibly from that trunk. More on that in a moment. But first, Alex Marquardt is in belgium. Reporter as night fell dozens of gunshots descentde descended on this building in verviers. And trying to serve warrants to terror suspects that had recently returned from syria. Certain suspects immediately opened fire with weapons at special forces of the police. Reporter by the end, two suspects were dead. A third, arrested. That assault, one of at least ten operations across belgium tonight. Authorities say they were prepareing
For joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with details of a little girls survival walking away from a plane crash that took the lives of her entire family. Sheer she is showing the spunk that helped her climb out of the wrikage and find help. Tonight, the plane, just pieces scattered in the woods under lying the miracle her life was spared. Gio benitez starts off off. Reporter we learn about the survival story. Tonight, images from above adds ntsb investigators comb through the wreckage. The little second grader, surviving, in the woods at night. 7yearold sailer gutzler, one point trying but failing to light a stick that would guide the way. Hoping that get help for her parents, her sister and cousin who were all killed in the crash. She was hopeful they were only sleeping. Reporter e we now know that the plane took off from key west, florida, dad and the family taking off for ill. Just before 6 00, he reported engine problems. The plane crashing down landing upside down.
Announcer from abc news world headquarters, this is abc world news tonight. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. We begin with an American Family like millions of others on this Holiday Weekend returning home from vacation. The gutzlers were flying back to illinois from florida. The dad, piloting the small plane when it crashed. The lone survivor, a 7yearold girl. Disoriented she walks away from the wreckage deep in the kentucky woods somehow making her way in the dark to this remote home for help. That little girls survival tonight being called a miracle. Abcs Gloria Riviera starts us off. Reporter today in rural kentucky investigators sifting through the crash site looking for answers. It all started last night just before 7 00 p. M. The gutzler family flying back from the holidays making an emergency call to air Traffic Control reporting engine problems. The pilot looking for the closest airport but then silence, contact lost over memphis, tennessee