The childrens show announces a major deal with a cable network. This is the cbs morning news this is the cbs morning news for friday, august 14th, 2015. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The United States now believes reports that isis used chemical weapons again Kurdish Forces in iraq are credible. Kurdish Officials Say their troops were attacked wednesday not far from erbil in northern iraq. We have more from london. Good morning, jonathan. Reporter good morning. A Senior Pentagon official tells cbs news that reports isis used mustard gas against the kurds appear credible. Its not clear where isis may have obtained the gas maybe from leftover Saddam Hussein stockpiles or, more likely, syria. The chemical weapon surfaced in july. The kurds say the peshmerga had been training when they were attacked. Some 60 surrender issue fighters suffered breathing difficulty. A sign of chemical weapons use. Mustard gas, which dates back to world war i,
Into the bus companys safety record. Reporter a surveillance camera captured the school bus slamming into the liquor store on springfield avenue after colliding with an suv. The bus was coming down stanford avenue but the driver told witnesses and police the brakes failed before she could stop at the busy intersection. She was saying, oh, my god, my brakes went off on me. And that was it. And i thought, thats okay. Its going to be fine, you know,. Reporter this bodega owner was among all the people you can see here rushing to help the children, the smallest only 3. I tried to come back here. I grabbed a few bottles of water and tried to give it to the little kids because they were scared. Even the ones that they were okay, they were scared. And they were crying. So i tried to help out. Reporter officials here say the 11 children, the bus driver, chaperone and suv driver were all alert and conscious with scrapes, bruises and broken bones. We take injuries to be evaluated. You dont think
Sprinting down the highway to help save a driver on fire. Tonight we talk to the out of towners who found themselves in the middle of an explosion on the new jersey turnpike and ran to a strangers rescue. Good evening. Im kristine johnson. Maurice has the night off. At this time last night the fiery crash had traffic cbs 2s jessica schnedier live in East Brunswick where crews are back on the scene tonight. That fiery scene left repair crews a lot of work out here near exit 9 on the turnpike. Tonight while one of the drivers, one of the tractortrailers, recovers at the hospital, the people who rushed to his rescue are sharing their incredible video. Reporter thats Jackie Wilson shouting and racing to truck driver dale miller whos running across the turnpike with his pants literally on fire. I was saying get his pants down. Which just caused a big stir back home. Theyre saying here she is yelling at a truck driver to get his pants down. Reporter wilson and her husband were visiting her b
Has a record of getting things done. Clintons email controversy wont go away. Now two of her key aides may be facing questioning. Reporter two of Hillary Clintons top aides say they wont delete any of their workrelated documents or emails. Lawyer for huma abidin and cheryl mills say the pledge comes after an order last week from a federal judge that they preserve their records. On wednesday, the fbi took possession of clintons private email server. Its trying to determine whether the former secretary of states personal email account could have been compromised. I am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. Reporter a lawyer for platte river network, the i. T. Company that manages the clintons email system, said the server of moved to its new jersey facility when the clintons upgraded their system after clinton left the state department. Lawyers said the old server is now blank and likely does not contain usable i
The phone that he was giving up. There was a threeminute incounter i would say. They said they loved each other and at that point mr. Tyree said he was going to surrender, his words, to come out. Reporter but just before noon six hours after the standoff began, he came out shooting. It appears given the way the man chose to die that what happened here may have been a matter of death by cop. Steve langford, cbs 2 news. Garland tyree has a long criminal history. According to investigators, he has 18 prior arrests and had been in and out of prison. He had been on probation since last summer. A newspaper clip he posted on instagram shows he was arrested in the 1990s for the shooting death of a neighborhood rival but was convicted on a lesser charge. And that firefighter injured in the shooting is recovering at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island. Thats where cbs 2s Christine Sloan joins us live. Christine. Reporter thats right. The lieutenant firefighter is here at this hos