I dont care if i get impeached in the congress, ive got to get this done. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for thursday, august 22nd, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im an marie green. Opponents of Syrian Government Bashar Al Assad say they attacked rebel held positions near damascus this morning. This follows yesterdays chemical attack. Scores appear to be killed but its impossible to get an accurate toll. The Syrian Government denies using chemical weapons, but video appears to show people in the aftermath suffering from telltale signs of a chemical attack. Were warning, some of the images we are about to show you are graphic and they are disturbing. Jurica duncan has our report. Reporter syrian claim the g bombed the same areas where an alleged chemical weapons attack took place yesterday. The grisly images posted to youtube yesterday showed men, women, children either dying or alreay dead. Rebels say chemical weapons killed as many as 1300. Cbs news ca
Hundreds by some estimates, more than a thousand are dead tonight in syria, and Syrian Rebels say they are victims of a poison gas attack that the Syrian Government launched on the suburbs of damascus. The government strongly denies it, but the pictures coming out of syria tonight tell a horror story even worse than what weve seen before from there victims young and old, dead, but with no marks on their bodies. The u. N. Security council held an emergency meeting this afternoon, white house officials expressed concern, and the president is warned before that widespread use of chemical weapons would cross a red line. Holly williams has our report, and we warn you some of it is difficult to watch. Reporter the videos show nightmarish scenes. Rows of lifeless bodies, many of them small children. Others appear to be dying. They are shown writhing in agony and in the grip of seizures. The Syrian Opposition claims this is the aftermath of a chemical attack on a residential neighborhood on th
Respond. Today two people were killed in jerusalem and what Police Called a terror attack. They say man from an arab area ran to a construction excavator into a bus. John wlab can you tell us about what happened in jerusalem today . Reporter that was 1 of 2 attacks. Police say a guy got into that excavator, rammed the bus several times, knocking it over, flipping it over. Several people inside, along with the bus driver, were injured. Not hearing that they were severely injured but a pedestrian was run over by that construction vehicle and killed before police opened fire on the guy behind the wheel there who was in that construction vehicle shooting him several times, as you probably hear in that video. That was the first attack. A short time later police say a guy on a motorcycle rolled up to an israeli soldier and opened fire on that soldier hitting the soldier several times. The last we heard that soldier is in Critical Condition right now in the hospital. The motorcycle rider got
Director, or deputy directorur Andrew Mccabe failed to specify which portion of the dossier the fbi claims to have corroborated. There is also a report that mccabe plans to retire in 2018 amid mounting criticism from congress. Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz weighing in on the scandal, saying that maybe mccabe should have recused himself from any clintonrelated investigations, given his conflict of interest. Watch this. First of all, everybody tells me who knows mccabe and has worked in the fbi, hes a very decent guy and was an excellent deputy director. Having said that, he should have recused himself immediately from any investigation involving Hillary Clinton because of his wifes connection to Hillary Clinton. When you are investigating a president ial candidate, whether it be Hillary Clinton or President Trump, you have to be caesars wife, above reproach, you have to make sure, not only there are no conflicts, but there are no perceived conflicts. Not only is there no bia
Congressional testimony, fbi director, or Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe failed to specify which portion of the dossier the fbi claims to have cooperated. There is also a report that mccabe plans to retire in 2018 amid mounting criticism from congress. Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz weighing in on the scandal, seeing that maybe mccabe should have recused himself from any clintonrelated investigations, given his conflict of interest. Watch this. First of all, everybody tells me who knows a mccabe and has worked in the fbi, hes a very decent guy and was an excellent Deputy Director. Having said that, he should have recused himself immediately from any investigation involving Hillary Clinton because of his wifes connection to Hillary Clinton. When you are investigating a president ial candidate, whether it be Hillary Clinton are President Trump, you have to be caesars wife, above reproach, you have to make sure, not only there are no conflicts, but there are no perceived conflic