Than 30 hostages at a high school. We can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, theres been enough already. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. For 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. We find the defendant
while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles. Police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. Fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of Exxon Corporation is missing from his home. His wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. They had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7 30. Miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. Friends say riso is just like the house they live in, solid. If youre a cynic
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. It is the winter that will not quit. Right now the storm is delivering a second round of snow, iand freezing rain to much of the east coast. Bayville, new york, on long island, got more than 14 inches of snow. Westminster, maryland, 16 inches. Warnings, watches, and advisories are up tonight in 20 states from South Carolina to maine. The storm is blamed for at least 15 deaths, most of them in highway accidents. Travel is difficult throughout the region. Thousands more flights were canceled today. And more than 750,000 homes and businesses have no electricity tonight. It is all testing the grit of millions of americans. We have a team of correspondents in the storm zone. First, were going to go to don dahler in new york city. Don . Cott, half a dozen storms in as many weeks have left this city battered. Snow totals in this area are now at 51 inches. Normally this
Good evening, everyone. Im kate baldwin in for erin burnett. Breaking news. An important new clue for investigators searching for mh370. A second identifying number has been found on the piece of debris discovered in the indian ocean. Sources tell cnn this number is also consistent with a boeing 777. This as malaysian officials are increasingly confident tonight the debris say piece of the missing plane. One malaysian official saying today that it most certainly belongs to a boeing 777. We know mh370 is the only boeing 777 unaccounted for in the world. Right now, this piece of debris a planes flaperon is expected to arrive in france shortly for analysis. We will begin our coverage with rene marsh. You broke this story. A second identifying number on this flaperon it seems very little doubt now that this is in fact mh370. Reporter thats right. We are waiting for the official confirmation. A source is telling me in photos boeing engineers spotted a number 11 digits long. Its consistent w
Eight people have been shot, including at least four students. We can only make an appeal to the gunman. Stop. Theres been enough already. An all white jury acquitted four White Police Officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. I was scared. I was scared for my life. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. It was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged Police Brutality. For 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant, lawrence m. Powell, not guilty. After the beating in this videotape shocked the world, the officers were found not guilty on every count except the one where no decision was reached. And a number of black leaders who gathered today to watch the verdict were in tears. When that decision came down, i got so sick. I
A gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at the high school. Eight people had been shot and including at least four students. There is been enough already. An all wide jury acquitted the four white officers of assault of the beating of king. I was scared for my life. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. Officers struck him with baton between 53 and 56 times. It was one of the first cases where there was video of a case of an alleged brutality. 13 months, the city of los angeles, has been a pressure cooker, building up to the robbie king tris trial. We the jury find the defendant, not guilty. After the beating of this video taken, shocked the world, the officer were found not guilty on every count except the one where no decision was reached. Among black leaders who gathered to watch the verdict today were tee tae tears. My Immediate Reaction is we are letting it out and back to la and start to have peaceful demonstrations. Before i could not make arrangements to go